I picked him up on a free and lol'd all the way to the bank.

Lucky

Mata was all but signed for me, until Barcalona came along with an offer triple the amount of money i offered and got him, so angry

Should have praised him while he was thinking about the contract. Works quite well if you're the first team to make an offer for him.

Oh yeah cheers ill keep that in mind

Yeah what afro said, I had a contract offer going for Moutinho and then City came in with more so I praised him ALOt and he took my offer. Mata can be brought pretty cheap in FM, I got him for 5 mil the two times I have signed him and he is well worth it

Start of Man City 2nd season and Robinho has requested a transfer, should I let him go and sign a replacement?

No point him hanging around and being unhappy and hurting team morale. You'd probably get some decent coin depending how long his contract has to go.

Who is a good replacement?

Tales \:d/

Has anyone used Insua from Liverpool, thinking of signing him but just wanted to check how he goes

Striker or AM. IIRC Robinho can play both?
Try Aguero, Laurito, Vela off the top of my head.

Well...if you can get good dosh for him, yeah. But being Man City yourself, you don't have man city to suck in to paying too much for him.

In terms of replacements, look at Balotelli, Vela, Laurito (highly recommended), Giovinco, Mata or Di Maria depending on what position you use Robinho in most.

He's alright if you're buying to sell. If you want quality, Omar Eparza, Vargas @ Fiorentina, Bale, Antonio Lopez and Lahm are choice left backs.

After signing Laurito on a free has broke his leg and tore his calf three times. Shame seeing as he has been fantastic in the few matches he's played.

Once a player tears a calf muscle a second time, I sell him. Torn calf muscle is an 'old mans injury' and if they get two they're going to get more.

:lol: Choice.

Probably gonna get back into FM now. Got over it cause I was playing it waaay too much. Overplayed.

Wait for FM10 to come out Friday.

My money is going towards FIFA and MW2. :lol:

He just turned 21. I don't want to sell him because he is a perfect impact/bench player when fit and he doesn't seem to mind that at all

He does mind being a bench player with me at Reading marconi but at the moment Doyle and Gignac are far beter and are averaging high sevens to nines

Luckily I havnt had any players at Plymouth having a cry about not having enough game time.

Haris Medunjanin, after a horrible start, has turned into the signing of the season! Highest rating in the CCC, and 8 goals in 15 games from midfield.

Good thing too, he was my record signing at 500k.

I hate it when players that are being used in a rotation bitch about not getting enough game time. Especially when their squad status is set to 'rotation'.

Even worse when you SIGN them on a rotation or backup contract and they still bitch. They knew what they were signed for but they still complain.

Finished my second season in the EPL with Leeds, finished 8th and im very happy with that. Scott Carson got player of the year with an average rating of 8.1, yet he still cant make the England squad. Thinking about signing Vincent Kompany to strengthen my defence

I know afro mentioned he pre ordered FM10, anyon else got it? How is it?

For those that didn't download the FM10 demo, it comes with the latest FFT magazine.

Sweet as

Excellent

Started playing FM10 briefly last night and this morning, I have started a game with Barnet in the English League 2, I am going to try and work them back up to the EPL like I did on 09 before my computer died on me. Started with a 40K (AUD) transfer budget have signed 6 players and still have a 40K budget.... Gotta love free transfers at this level... :) MEdia prediction is 19th am yet to play a game but I have strengthened my squad considerably so relegation shouldnt be an issue (I hope!!!)

Yeah i bought FM2010 yesterday, its pretty cool, A-League seems a bit better but still a little wacky. It acknowledges who your marquee is this time round, i think the squad size is supposed to cover your youth team too but it seems a little weird, also some random players set as transfer-listed, eg at Victory Kemp, Celeski and Pondeljak are listed. Got Dario Vidosic in for 16K pounds, i think thats a must buy for this league. Ill have to really play it a bit more after cricket tonight before i can say for sure whats better/worse.