Get rid of the missus - Football Manager 2008!

Have you seen the year its in everyones dead :

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Got sacked form Tenerife Now i'm with Elche and had an English tour before the season. Lost to Liverpool 3-1 which is a great effort, lost 5-2 to Fulham but their last 3 came in the 85th onwards and lost 1-0 to a star studded Bolton (Somehow they have some big names). I was proud.

Got some young French talent in the window, they were all available as their contracts were expiring so i landed some big-uns.

Got sacked form Tenerife Now I'm with Elche and had an English tour before the season. Lost to Liverpool 3-1 which is a great effort, lost 5-2 to Fulham but their last 3 came in the 85th onwards and lost 1-0 to a star studded Bolton (Somehow they have some big names). I was proud.

Got some young French talent in the window, they were all available as their contracts were expiring so I landed some big-uns.

Am i correct in saying rafa started at teneriefe?

I started playing my other game now were i change clubs every year, im at roma now after being at spurs for a year, my team is rather awsome

My Team 1st Season:

Reina

Warnock - Carra - Agger - Rafinha

Downing - Mascherano - Alonso - Gerrard
   
            Baptista

            Torres

Subs:  Cavialeri, Skrtel, Onewyu, Babel, Kuyt

Keane is injured btw and my signings were these:

Stephen Warnock (4m)
Steven Defour (4m)
Rafinha (12m)
Bojan (Loan)
Stewart Downing (12m)
Oguchi Onewyu (2m)
Julio Baptista (Loan)

Im 5th in the league sadly but im top of the my CL group with 12 points out 12, Just beat Everton 3-1 in the Carling Cup but lost to Chelsea 1-0 in the prem, Fat Frank getting the goal for them. Julio Baptista is proving to be an amazing signing getting loads of goals and assists, Onewyu is proving to be an amazing backup, Defour is the biggest flopn ever and the fans hate him, Rafinha has been nothing short of magical, I terminated Bojan's loan and Downing is playing average. Torres and Gerrard are playing amsxing though, Torres has like 17 in 18 and a few assists and Gerrard has around 11 goals and 14 assists. So all is good i just hope i can improve my league position but there's still a long way to go until the end of the season.

I started at Blackburn, took them to the Euro Cup and asked for more tranfer money, gave them the ultimatum and got the sack.

Next up, I signed for Valencia. Came second in my first season behind Real by one point. The next season I won but I bought Diego on a free and he became world player of the year 2 seasons in a row averaging 8.1 over 3 seasons

My third season and I had secured the signing of Balotelli on a free, Mertesacker on a free, Casillas for 5 million (bargain!) and Messi for 28 million (pounds this is).

I still had a left back, left wing and centre mid problem. I needed more cash so I asked for more and again the ultimatum (the club was bloody loaded) and then again got sacked.

Now I'm at Milan and after 30 games I'm 25-2-3 and 4 points clear at the top. I have about 7 centre mid's all good enogh to play but because Alonso and Montolivo are injured every bloody second and then Lyberopoulous (fake wonderkid) gets a few niggles I'm forced to put 17 year olds out. Fortunately that 80% of Milan's youngsters are guns I can handle it.

Now I'll go show up Rafa and show him how its done.

Ah yes, my team (largely inherited by Tony Adams):

                                  Ustari

  Corluka          Zapata             Kompany            Jaffre

 
                    Montollivo            Alonso


Di Gennaro            Mati Fernandez            Carlos Eduardo

                                Adams

Subs: Joe Cole, Obafemi Martins, Connsoni, Lyberopoulous, Johnsen, Bruno Alfano, Gabby Millito.

I have brought in Cole and Alfano on loan as i only had one one winger. I bought Mati Fernandez because every team of mine has to have him. Adams was a 8 mill signing from Liverpool, absolute gun kid with strong two feet, doesnt miss a chance in the box and is only 19. Connsoni is a starlet centre mid.

On my radar is wingers. Bloody Adams used only Eduardo so i brought Di Gennaro up from the reserves and the two loanees.             

Im glad we share a liking for Mati. All you need now is to sign Higuain and Pato and you will have my team . Im onto 09 now, well getting full game on monday. But here is my 08 team


                                                                 Ochoa

Alves                                      Veloso                           Ramos                                    Vidal


Ronaldo (sorry )                 Kruger(generic WK)            Lulinha                                 Fernandez


                                              Pato                              Vela

However, no matter all the success i have had, none of this felt as good as this:

I had one better, they got docked 15 points and got relegated

I just finished the season with Milan and it automatically said my expectation was to win the Serie A, they would give me 34.5 million pounds to spend with a 3 million pound wage bill. Initially i was very much ok with it but for some reason i never got the money nor the wage bill, not happy! I had to sell to buy but fortunately i picked up 2 very good wingers on free transfers (Ben Arfa and a generic).

On a lighter note, i'm ranked the 5th best ever Brazilian manager as i always put my nationality as Brazil. This was after winning Serie A, the Champions League (came back from 2-0 down to Arsenal to equalise all after 35 minutes) the Super Cup by beating Bayern in a penalty shoot out and the Italian Cup against Palermo in a shoot out also.

Well I may go back to FM08, but im the greasest manager ever on my game

Well I may go back to FM08, but im the greasest manager ever on my game

What year were you in before you switched to 09? If I add all my careers together it'd be 2036

My Milan one though is 2017.

My Liverpool game is in 2019 I think

My Liverpool game is in 2019 I think

Someone played it alot :

Someone played it alot :

You have no idea, once you start you dont stop untill your finger is suffering from tendonitis.

Must check what my addictivness rating is one that one actually

Must check what my addictivness rating is one that one actually

Its definately 'I'm now a football manager expert.' Usually is once you hit 10 days playing time on one career.

Had to uninstall FM09 the other day and now for some reason won't reinstall so I've gone back to 08.

I reckon it's one of the best footy managers, probably better than 09 an all.

Had to uninstall FM09 the other day and now for some reason won't reinstall so I've gone back to 08.

I reckon it's one of the best footy managers, probably better than 09 an all.

I'd have to agree.
08 I think is marginally better than 09. Just don't like the feel of the new one..

You lot kidding? It doesnt take 40 shots to score in this. Much more realistic game play but yeah of course, some annoying glitches.

Football manager 08 is one of the best maneging games ive ever played but the best is still 01 02 champ manager im in 2024 cant get the new one to work so it whent out the window and the 35 squid i paid for it

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Best even Champ Man/Footy Manager was Champ Man 4. That was pure quality and I built me best ever lower league side on that game with Blackpool