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Have a look at this and see what you think...

http://www.soccermanager.com/index.php

It looks awesome imo, and noticed THM Forum had started a custom league.  We could do the same if we got 20 people interested.  Would be excellent banter imo.  Small set-up charge that I don't mind paying if there is interest.

Have a look and post any interest in this thread.

TEAMS AND THEIR MANAGERS

BLACKBURN ROVERS - scotty2hatty
CHELSEA - Rookie
BARCELONA - TightEnd
NEWCASTLE UNITED - mondatoo
DERBY COUNTY - pokerram
ARSENAL - Pelham Boy
LEEDS UNITED - Horneris
PSV - boldie
MANCHESTER UNITED - AndrewT
TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR - Colchester Kev
ABERDEEN - rossfourfive
RUSHDEN & DIAMONDS - inthebelly
CHARLTON TOWN - gatso
NORWICH CITY - Longy
GRIMSBY TOWN - DUNK619
MANCHESTER CITY - ChipRich
LIVERPOOL - TheBaron
FIORENTINA - Silo Graham
WIGAN ATHLETIC - Nakor
EVERTON - dino1980
READING - Newportlad
ASTON VILLA - Josedinho
CRYSTAL PALACE - Matt50
PORTSMOUTH - Steelio
WBA - Acidmouse
CARDIFF - jizzemm
WEST HAM - Linux
SUNDERLAND - LeKnave
MIDDLESBOROUGH - Ismene
IPSWICH TOWN - Sunday8pm
WOLVES - Suited Jock
FULHAM - Shieldsy

my kids joined this and got me to join a league with them

very good fun.

Interested.

Oh FFS another management game...You do realise that my boss will complain about me playing games all day sooner or later, no?

I'm interested.

good stuff, keep em coming

Lets do this!

I'd be up for this - count me in.

go on then

Also interested.

count me in

What is Soccer Manager?

SoccerManager.com is free of charge. You manage your team using your web browser. Matches are played at least twice a week.

You can log on at any time to check the status of your squad, check results and fixtures, make player transfers or just have a chat with the rapidly expanding SoccerManager.com community!

That is 10 people already - if we get a few more I'll rattle up our custom league.

Also, say what team you want cos if they aint a Premiership team I can move them there it seems.

Chelsea obv, get it sorted! ;D

Manchester United


if you do a European league, which would be good, Barcelona pls

Im in (although i havent even looked at it yet its a footy game so im there)

Newcastle for me obviously

ill join derby if u can

As soon as everyone tells me what teams they want to be I'll get on to it!

Blackburn Rovers for me! FTW!

team choices added to op.

One good thing about this is that it also uses real life for player ratings so if u know a player is about to burst onto the scene then u can snap him up and let his rating improve.

also the better the team u start with obv the better chance u have of doing well at the start.

Ill go for Arsenal.

I'll have a crack.

Charlton for me please

Yea i'll take Aberdeen

Aye go on then, can we have Norwich moved to the premier league, best chance we have of promotion in the foreseeable future.

I'll be QPR.


Er, will I be able to start the game with £12 billion to spend on players?

14 in

ll have derby oops bottom again neverends

already got u down as Derby

rossfourfive has chosen Aberdeen, think they might be the worst so far.

I'll have Chelsea

Oi! Just you wait we'll be the dark horse of this league. I smell a title challenge

dagenham& redbridge for me please (2 teams you see im not silly  ;D )

Just waiting on the people who have said they are in to choose a team.  And hopefully a few more want to play so I can fill the Premiership.

serious?

by the way scotty top marks for organising this  :)up

yep!

chelsea are my first team and some lanky unimaginative streak of piss has already chosen them so will have to be the daggers as who are my 2nd team

Leeds plz Scott.

ChipRich will probs want in too. Give him Grimsby if UTM isnt playing.

You would think.  Clearly glory hunting imo.

ChipRich doesn't support Grimsby does he?

That's 15 in - boldie and Kev to decide on their teams.  And hopefully 5 more managers.

No one has chose Liverpool yet.  Or Rangers.  Or Celtic.

no problem - should be a good laugh

ill have grimsby if chip rich doesnt want them seen as i support them and he jumped ship 2 dirty leeds

Lets see if Rich will take a different team.....

Spurs FTW

Liverpool pls

if he wants 2 stick with the mariners ill have everton

I'll get this set up later tonight - I'll leave it a bit to see if Boldie replies with the team he'd like and let others express an interest cos still a few places left to fill up the 20.

let us know when we sign up m8. x for organising

sure, as soon as it is set up I'll let u know to reg and give u password for joining our game etc.

Count me in, I take it I can't have Arsenal too

I'm with Fiorentina

Won't know if European clubs are an option until I set it up.  If not, do you have a British alternate?

18 managers now - scoooop - 2 more please

Will the teams all have real-life skill levels, or will we all start with a level playing field (ie is inthebelly fked?)

inthebelly is fucked

but i'm led to believe that we all start with similar cash so can raid the European markets and find some gems!

Could I change my team to Brazil 1970 then?

I'll have West Ham as an alternative.

Seeing as I want to have a chance of winning can I actually change my team to Aston Villa?

Yeah, no problem.

It's just a case of me knowing which teams to put in the league, and when you join the league you select the team you'd like.

So I can yet steal Man Utd if I log in before Tightend?

Technically yes. But that's why I asked everyone for their choices so everyone knows who their team is.

If Barcelona is an option for Tighty will I stick Man Utd in for you?

Boldie is getting stung with Rangers or Celtic if he doesn't respond. Which?

Yeah, OK.

Can I play?

Wigan if I may please.

sure

1 place left, anyone???

Where's Kin? Surely he'd want the last place.

Put kin in and give him Tranmere :)

Sorry for not responding earlier..I was doing the housewifery duties tonight. out of the Scottish clubs it has to be Hibs (assuming PSV is not an option :)

Put kin in and lets gogogogogogogogogogogogogogogogogogogogogogo (im bored lol)

Hopefully PSV are an option. If not Hibs for you, although there are a number of English Premiership teams still available.

Any changes let me know before The Apprentice ends.

Setting the game up after The Apprentice.

Good man TOON TOON BLACK AND WHITE ARMY !!!

Sorry but I am set to turn Blackburn Rovers into Premiership contenders!

So here's how it is going down - I set it up and they are creating it - it's ready at 05.30am tomorrow. 

Everyone register through the website (link in OP) some time soon.  After 5.30am tomorrow, you are looking for the 'Blonde Poker Forum Championship'.  The password is fkourlives - you need this to join the game. I'm going to win.  There is one team left in the Premier League in the shape of Man City.

When you find the game you need to take control of the team you selected in this thread:

BLACKBURN ROVERS - scotty2hatty
CHELSEA                 - Rookie
BARCELONA             - TightEnd
NEWCASTLE UTD     - mondatoo
DERBY COUNTY       - pokerram
ARSENAL                - PelhamBoy
LEEDS UTD             - Horneris
PSV                       - boldie
MAN UTD               - AndrewT
SPURS                   - Colchester Kev
ABERDEEN             - rossfourfive
RUSHDEN & DIAMONDS  - inthebelly
CHARLTON            - gatso
NORWICH              - Longy
GRIMSBY               - ChipRich
EVERTON              - DUNK619
LIVERPOOL            - TheBaron
FIORENTINA           - SiloGraham
WIGAN                  - Nakor
MAN CITY              -

Can i still Join, ill be Man City?

Nakor Wenger takes over at Wigan Ath.

Form an orderly queue to sign Titus.

Cheers for setting this up Scott looks good.

Horneris put you down as Grimsby - so you're Grimsby.

For some reason I have to work today so I'll be back online tonight for some transfer action hopefully.

Unless DUNK619 wants to take Grimsby and then you'd have the option of Everton or Man City?

ok I'm managing PSV....now to look for some tasty players :)

Kev Shepherd takes control of Tottenham Hotspur. The chairman and fans expect a long and successful era under your guidance!


First game against Chelsea ... fk my life !

am in,

I am in the process of bringing an old PSV friend back to us before the game against Everton :)

Thanks a lot for this Scotty! (Though I will sue you if I get the sack)

I am thick as fuk and cant find it  ;grr; ;grr; ;grr; Where is it ?

Mond ... fuck off, i aint selling Berbatov :D

31 players in my squad, but only 1 keeper ... Robinson !!

I am currently involved in the market for a decent keeper ;)

Yeh i think DUNK said he wanted to be Grimsby. So ill be Man City and let him be the fishy boys.

That k?

I'll take that nice young man you aren't using on loan please, Kev...:)

Rejected ... GFY, we are Tottenham ffs, we aint a selling club and we certainly aint loaning players to the tulip munchers ... good day sir !

Sigh..what about if I throw a goalie in? my nr2 is very talented :)

Quite right too - you wanna hear some of the stuff he has said about Robinson in the last year - he definitely doesn't deserve him!

I don't want Robinson..I have Gomez! I wanted O Hara that young wingback that we saw last year..

 Leeds United have made an offer to Tottenham Hotspur for Aaron LENNON  of £11,550,000

Sigh ... NO !!!

Let him come HOME!

You are getting no one, and you can keep that gomez clown.

the lad outgrew "Home" a long time ago.

    Tottenham Hotspur have made an offer to Fiorentina for Sebastien FREY  of £12,500,000


Come on silo ... let the lad further his career, dont hold him back for petty personal reasons ;)

Just wait until I get Scholes on loan!...and sign Ronaldo again :)..now to bring in Leto from Liverpool  :)

05th Jun  Player Daniel STURRIDGE has put pen to paper and signed a new 5 year contract.

This is sooooooooo huge, guna be a big star.

wtf??? rushden and diamonds???? i chose dagenham and redbridge ffs!

rushden and diamonds still 2 teams i suppose lol

lol

LOL Did u miss that a put alan smith in for e/x surely u must have or ud snap my hand off this game looks mint av been at work since 8 probably done bout 20mins work lol.1 thing i found i dont like is you can only bid for 1 player per club dont understand why they've done this bit of a nuisance.Does anyone no how long its meant to take to get a reply from a non-playing club about a transfer.


Damn he's quality on fm i was guna try to buy him

My 1st gane is aberdeen away

Never ever in my career as manager of Fiorentina, will a player leave us for spurs.

keep your hands off

Not quite sure how I ended up with Barcelona when I asked for Man U first,but hey no bother

signed up anyway


First game Norwich!

Boldie, sell that guy to me plz. my squad is shit.

come on people I need the guys who manage Liverpool/Chelsea and ManU to accept my offers!

Offer accepted mate..good player you got there and he'll do you proud :)

Patience Boldie - your offer will be discussed at the next board meeting.

why should they?

tip, from someone who plays this a lot

search for players at unmanaged clubs, as long as you offer fair value the player offer will be accepted


eg players like Philip Lahm 93 at both full back positions, or Gomez or Huntelaar up front...or from any of the Italian clubs


will save you waiting around for managers to decide and reject?

lol, you rejected it didnt you? submitting again.

He probs rejected us tbh.

Some of your bids might get cancelled boldie i put bid in for a certain barcelona player but then it got cancelled when they got new manager grr now accept the bid tighty u no it makes sense

absolute fking joke. I go to transfer list Marcus Bent and he's not on my squad list, find him at Wigan. he's only on loan there ffs, I demand you all club together and give me 3 million in unmarked notes to make up for it

no mate I accepted it..it said offer accepted and will be completed shortly

Lol, negotiations.

You not wanna take superstar striker/midfielder alan"mr leeds"smith home instead surely u must

oh are you the Leeds manager?..yeah lol..accepted now ..good luck with that mug ;) I thought you had Juventus ..need to print off the owner list and keep an eye on who manages who ...will take a while to get that in to my thick skull.

OK who manages Man City?..Feck off I saw him first! :)

Me!

Saw who? which 1?

SWP.

Lol, let him come home imo

Ive accepted ur bid for MB though

Thanks mate :)

Rookie will never sell him to you..just because it's you and hecan say "FK your life!" :)

Has anyone had a bid accepted from a club that one of us isnt guna manage ?

This game is quality, reckon i must be prime candidates for relegation though. Does everyone start with the same trasnfer fund?

Have put in bids to clubs in other leagues but they haven't accepted anything yet

they will be routinely accepted if you bid the required price


really guys you are far better off searching unmanaged clubs than trying to buy off managed clubs.


put the offer in, and the next day its accepted.


beware...buying old players you are likely to get rating decreases........you want to spot players who you think will see a rise in rating, thus making them more valuable when you sell them on


On on eof my teams I bought Pogrebnayk from Zenit for £6m rated 87..he scored all the way through thre UEFA Cup and is now rated 91 worth £12m..this is the essence of managing the game, away from gameday team selection and tactics

No.

also stadium size and sponsorship is vital

at the end of every season your budget rises from rpize money and chairman adding funds

So any bid put in to a non playing club wont get accepted til tmoro at earliest ?

Where do i find the league!?!

correct, the servers do their updating early hours of the next morning

bid the correct price and it will be accepted

save yourself a lot of time, go for players from unmanaged clubs

once you have signed up go to
Add new club

then the section "private password protected"

its near the top

like Chelsea?

no slagging Rookie!...atleast not untill he sells SWP to me.

like the big Italian clubs, Bayern, Real Madrid and any UK Prem teams not taken by us

It's at the bottom ;)

But thanks, found it.

And those who wanted WrightPhillips and Malouda need to rebid as offers fell through coz I took over.

He's prob gna sell him to me tbh.

for example Ashley young, agbonlahor, david wheater, dean ashton all in div 2 of our set up unmanaged ..each £10m or so and almost guaranteed to rise in rating as they are all young and improving.

Rookie now wants 10M for SWP..I'll take him on loan :)

I can't afford many at 10m a pop. I'm going bargain basement

I seem to have my bids refused.  Do you have to bid the chairmans estimate rather than the much lower other figure?  For example, the German guy you posted earlier is valued at 9m but the chairman wants 26m and so my bid of 9.5m was rejected.

you have to bid the chairman's estimate.

you have to meet chairman's estimate

search well, find those where the valuation is not excessive

thanks

Note for everyone bidding on my players - there seems to be loads of you at the moment

HANDS OFF!!

if you get the right bid I would definitely sell if I were you..

LOL Aberdeen just bid for Malbranque ... NO !!!

You're very protective aren't ya Kev?

How much for Robbie Keane?

Transfer The offer for Shaun WRIGHT-PHILLIPS of Chelsea from PSV has been accepted.The transfer will be completed shortly
 

wooohoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo..come to PSV my friend :)

If only we could afford players like this in RL.

Cmon tighty u no thats a fair deal

Why?  Who are you after?  Kevs after my world class goalie and some else wants my captain

I thought u would've accepted my kuzmanovic offer but i have someone much better lined up instead he will be unveiled at a press conference at 12.00 tmoro along with a certain chelsea boy

are there transfer windows or can we buy/sell all through the season?

all through

just Cacia mate...I'll take him on loan and improve him for you as well if you want.

Giovanni Dos Santos is a GEORDIE dos santos is a GEORDIE lalalalalalalalalalaalalalala

What happens when you've got about 50 bids in for players and all the transfers try to go thru at the same time does it just cancel them all think i need to review my transfer policy tonight.

it puts the first ones through, and then refuses the rest

any more gloating and I recall him off loan

loans can be recalled at any time!

Tis a good offer, as was Kevs, but they are key men in my side and I'm not selling anyone in my potential first team before we kick off the season.

Boldie, I've negotiated for Cacia, but would also be willing to loan him if you'd rather.

LOL

Fook i need to go and cancel about 70 transers now lol (im not overexaggerating neither) does a player just automatically sign 4 u then when a bid is accepted can the player not say no to a deal

very occasionally a player says no (eg Ronaldinho to Darlington ), but the vast majority will go through

also only one deal between two teams at one time

loan would be good mate...can't pay 4 mill for this one.

Is there anyway to see what every1 else in the league is doing offerswise etc..?

no, but If you see the blue box INT on a player click the player and you'll see who has bid for him

there is no central list of offers though

Have accepted now if you still want to do it. 

LOOK ... im not loaning anyone !!

Chimbonda and Malbranque are for sale at the right price though :)

2p?

for both or each ?

both obv
LOL

Lol yeah @ 2p each indeed ..rip off merchant!

I will stop buying/making offers for today..need to have a close look to see what I will need after tonights transfers come through. Offers for players will also be listened to though :)

grrrr@ Leeds backing out of a done deal...

Whoever is Aberdeen - make that bid for a Man U player again. I rejected it by accident...

I totally fail at this already.

Are friendlies worth playing?

Who's Derbys manager?

pokerram m8

Cool, good luck tonight, we've got a match!

lol Boldie, i realised that unmanaged foreign teams have better players for the same price.

I hope this dosent affect our business relationship in the future.

exactly, anyone buying from a managed team is a mug!

remember, you put players on the transfer list and the SM application will get a team from somewhere around the world to buy them within 10-14 days

That depends..any winners for tomorrorw? ;)

Geordie Pricks.

Apologies to those who i have had to cancel deals with didnt realise that u could buy anyone u wanted Silo if ur interested in any my players let me  no we could sort summit out for kuzman

Er Newcastle, bidding £10m for a player, having it accepted, then withdrawing the offer and bidding £8.5m is not on.

nope

mondatoo is a right royal pain in the backside, it's official

Doh,  I only want the money thanks, I've identified another target :D

LOL soz m8 that was the 1 a had most difficulty deciding over cancelling, loan me him if he's any good all defo buy him off u next season 4 10mil (so be paying extra mil for loaning him 1st)
Uh oh sorry guys like a say didnt realise how the game worked he's only valued at 8 1/2 though. No ban plz ( i cancelled a deal with tighty so am fukd, nice knowing u all) Sorry lads.

That's kind of why I accepted the bid of £10m...

How many seasons does this last for Tighty?

Just one to start with and can be extended?

depends how it was set up but a number of seasons

there is no off-season, once a season finishes its straight into the next

I am in one championship with 80 managers, season 6. With a youth squad of 30 players, all 16-21 year olds from barca, milan etc


very addictive.

I didnt expect you to want to sell him i negotiate terribly apologies for that.Ur man utd anyway whats 11/2mil to u ur rich we are penny pinching thieves. :blonde:

lol hard at that. Used to play Football Manager i think?

Guna be very addictive, even harder when trying to play poker.

Some1 buy some of my players plz, Petrov and Benjani available as well as others.

LOL Spot on rich ive started exactly how i play football manager but its nowt like that.My mistake apologies again.

Tighty is barca andrew is man u and rookie is chelsea i think i picked the wrong ppl to cancel tranfers with dont think there'll be any squad rotation when they play me i look forward to the poundings lol.

I'm Loving this. i cant wait for my first game.

Same here..if I get one or two tranfers through I'll be laughing :)

fyp

shuttit Chippy boy, loaning a player I wanted on loan out to feckin Leeds?

Obv, i want Leeds to do well.

Been on a little scouting mission for them too.

You can have some of my other players anyway Boldie

remember if soft play deals are done between managers, SM will refuse them "chairman is unhappy with the deal"

its a right pisser!

Won't be any soft deals, dnt worry. just thought my loaned palyer would get more opportunites at Leeds. lol

     Dimitar BERBATOV has put pen to paper and signed a new 5 year contract.

Oh happy days

lol its irrelevant, at the end of contracts you can automatically renew, there's no free agency on SM

that must be some tip Horneris has for you! :)

can see some teams spending more than they bring in here. busto on a fm game too neverends

managers are sacked if they go into significant debt.  transfers if money is not avaialble are not permitted.

Im the kindest manager in the league IMO

So i can loan malouda then lol  ;)

Ok Horneris..you got one of my boy-wonders on loan..take good care of the fella, OK?

boldie, cordoba..great spot!


bargain at that price and rating (hint to everyone else with £11m spare)

Thankyou, i will develop him for you whilst hes not quite worth a starting berth at your club :)

Hes quite young though.

Ivan Cordoba, Inter

Yeh i no.

11m for hims a bit ridic though

31yo, not exactly young

Rooks I will give you 30 bob for that cheating twat Drogba

see how many 90+ defenders are attainable....

Who has Man City ?

Me, why?

Don't want me 2 sign Pato??

I cant afford anymore really, Chelsea or Barca can hopefully get him though.

Some1 else get him plz.lol.

you just gay raised my transfer bid :D

Barca, Man U and Chelsea 3 of my first 4 fixtures, sigh. I'm off to Eastern Europe for some bargains imo.

When I say 'bid again' I mean 'transfer bid for money' again rather than 'loan deal'. I can't buy other players with a loan deal.

Cordoba is exactly the sort of player I need and well..I could say more but then others would bid :)

Can't really afford him now have splashed my money on other players. Will take him on loan if you don't want him though.

Spent all my money lol

Would anyone like to buy Ronaldinho?

would accept cash plus players?

or straight cash?

or player(s) swap?


open to all offers. 

I will do if I my bid for another RM is accepted.

I would pay £1 to see him eat an apple through a letterbox.

Wouldn't need to buy him - we could just leave a trail of pies and he would follow it.

lol. all serious offers considered.

possible discounts for any team not Spurs, Leeds or Chelsea  ;D

Question ... if a club accepts my bid for a player, do I have to take him ? I have a few bids out and if they all get accepted I will be busto LOL

yes. you need to assume, if the prices are all meeting chairman's values and are from unmanaged clubs, that they will all go through. Therefore best to get the calculator out and cancel whatever required now....or place players on the transfer list to balance the books

FK MY LIFE ... Sorry Pato, North London aint for you old son !

what team am i and what do i need 2 do

LOL Man City bottle a friendly against the mighty Spurs !!

ill give u a friendly

shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit - sorry - there is going to be one team spare, maybe you can take them?

i don't know if anyone has answered this yet cos i have pages and pages to read but i set it so we can buy throughout the season

and sorry Tighty, was sure you said Barca first choice. fk me.

lol not even a game played and loads of people nearly busto :D

Stop apologising ... we are all grateful you have set this up.

exactly.

next time leave mondatoo out though. please.sir. thanks.

How much does this cost to setup?

Might see if some of my mates fancy having one! ;)

£19.99 for gold membership and custom setup.

Arsenal, Everton and Liverpool are still to be taken by their managers.

Also, I'm pretty sure if there is more interest then people can join as teams in the lower leagues.

LOL I should get Jane to take @rsenal and get the fuckers relegated :)

ANY SPACES LEFT IN THIS LEAGUE?

:redcard:

there are 4 divisions,all teams outside the top division are available to take over including villa, west ham etc

Some good teams in the league below - few premiership sides had to be relegated to make way for the Euro sides.

PelhamBoy is Arsenal - just waiting on him to take over.

Anyone want a friendly against Aberdeen?

who is Arsenal? £20m bid for Arshavin!!!!

 ;)

i'm trying to think of potential stars of Euro 2008 cos their rating will go up.  Struggling though.

£22m burning a hole in my pocket!

I've got a nice easy first game,Leeds!!! Eboue on the list,any takers??

Only if you throw in Fabrigas as part of the deal ;)

LOL not sure if your serious or not like but lol anyho

Surely someone wants a bit of practice for their strikers in a friendly before the season starts?

ok challenge PSV and I'll play ya.

done.

Shevchenko snapped up - straight into the team to play Charlton.

Every second player I search for seems to be wanted by Leeds!

Just waiting on TheBaron to take control of Liverpool.

And I think Everton in the top league are untaken so far iirc.

Darren bent is available chaps

tempted to bring him home, bit short of funds though

30 bob and a mars bar tempt you ?

ive got rushden first match could be a wooden spoon match

I bid Kev.

i want more than you offered, i sent a revised price

seems a bit pricey!

The loan offer for Darren FLETCHER of Manchester United has been rejected.

Gutted, do you reeeeallly need him? How much to buy him?

AndrewT ... Puts Ben Foster up for sale, then rejects my offer of OVER asking price .... sigh.

Think I may have snapped up Owen Hargreaves.

nh

Younes KABOUL has been re-called by Tottenham Hotspur from Manchester City

Whyyyyyyyyyyy? ;nemesis;

lol, ul.

Horneris crying to me on msn cos we're going for the same players.  Offered him the option of being my feeder club.

Hes on msn?? Must be blocked.lol.

This was an hour or so ago.

Benni McCarthy, a 90-rated striker, has been made available for transfer.

lol, thats k then.

anyone know what time the transfers go through tonight?

1-2am usually

Seems I have just paid my wages - £600k!

How healthy is everyone's balances?  I had £22.2m at start.

Two huge tips for you guys then

1 Finances, your wage bill has to be exceeded by your gate recepits for a home game by a factor of two. This is because you will pay the wage bill weekly (eg £5,000 per turn=per week) and cup draws aside you will only have one home game in each 10-14 day period. If you do not follow this you will soon find your finances suffering


2. Condition. If a player falls below 65 on conditioning they are classed as Not match fit. Try and play players as close as possible to peak conditiioning ie 100. After each match the players conditioning falls and if you ask him to play 2 games in 3 days say then injuries are more likley, so squad size and squad rotation becomes important. Look at the schedule when selecting your match team under tactics, to plan ahead foir which players will be needed when

cool, it's like waiting for christmas. can't wait to see who I get

Spite obv ... you screwed me with matey boy, so i thought fuck ya LOL.

lol, when? who? You cancelled the loan!

Can have him back if u want.

My transfers didn't go through last night...that's not right, is it?

Do you get money for friendlies and do they have any impact on the game play other than seeing how players perform?

I cancelled the loan cos I had Sturridge on loan from you, and you said I could buy him ... so i cancelled the loan and bid asking price for him for a perma move.  You refused, so I thought bollocks to ya and recalled Kaboul.

Its like proper real this aint it LOL :)

I want the money from seliing him to spend on other players - I'm going to be close to transfer busto soon.

This guy stole every single youngster i was going for.

and then had the nerve to sprout this BS:

TheHat sent 05/06/2008 22:16:
u want me to let u have them?
TheHat sent 05/06/2008 22:16:
we can negotiate some deal where i have an option to buy them if they become awesome
TheHat sent 05/06/2008 22:18:
u can be my feeder club
Brent says:
leeds united are not and never will be, a feeder club
Brent says:
especially to a nothing club like Blackburn Rovers

His SM value is £5.3m - you offer £4m. Even at £5m you'll be getting a bargain.

No you're not allowed to cancel a deal once you've put a bid in  ;)

I think i may have the best young defender on the game he's the dogs.Frenandez is also going to be world class looking forward to my 1st game now.Do we always all play on the same day or will it vary.

that's not quite the way it works lol

yes you get money but no don't play them..the first games are Sunday night.....if you play players twice in thrree days they will soon lose conditioning and injuries will increase in frequency

depends also what your chairman's value is. the "correct" price is usally nearer what your club's valuation is..ie what he is worth to your chairman

Cheers Tighty.  Arranged a friendly last night for tonight, doh!

Better put a reserve team in I guess.

same here.

I will put a reserve team in as soon as I can figure out how to do that...do I just have to change my starting eleven for each game? (so can't play 2 or 3 games ahead?) Also..did everyones transfers go through last night? I still have the player that i sold and haven't got players I bought.

edit* players are in now..only 3 mill left..yikes :)

OK.

Kev may have a deal then if he resubmits.

Unless anyone else wants an 87 keeper?

on the tactics tab you need to select your team, formation, subs, style etc before each game

Becks has completed his move to the Valley and goes straight into the team to face Blackburn, £2m well spent I feel.

I can probs afford his wages for about 2 weeks

Things that you'll never hear on Sky Sports News

I have 3 mill left in the kitty..have all the attacking players I could possibly want (my strike force will be frightening against everton..just have to work out how to best play them)..solid enough in defense and a couple of nice youngsters that will be massive in the future ..overall delighted with my side :) ..so that means I'll probably get humped every game :)

All my transfers went through which is good and bad. Only 1.4m left - lets hope income>expenses - can you check if this is going to be the case or do you just have to wait until after the first match? Anyone spotted a star player they fancy bidding 10m for at Aberdeen?

Oops sorry boldie for convincing you into the friendly, reserve squad it is!

No worries mate..I wantto give my reserves a shot every now and again just to see how good they are anyways :) and I REALLY wanted to play a game ASAP...can't wait three days to play one...actually quite excited about this game and my team :).

No way i can afford him now - i'm also far too close to transfer busto.

Tell young Fletch he's always welcome at Aberdeen if he fancies a loan deal

Haha yea i'm well up for it too, just hoping i don't get pumped. Luckily i now have the excuse that it's just my reserve team so if i do get hammered its okay.

How do the games work? Is it real time or do you just get a quick simulation and a match report?

match report and written description, ratings by player

I love this game :).

Tighty, what did you say bout ppl bidding for your players.

Ive put all my terrible players on the transfer list, coz Ken wont let me release them, but they are annoying me, being there in my squad.

Are the Rushden & Aberdeen managers looking for any 75-80 rated players for cheap?

I think all of us are going to be transfer busto before the first game.

Just signed up but cannot find Daniel Agger anywhere?

Leeds United have just secured the signings of 16 year old John Bostock (300,000), 21 year old Yohann Gourcuff (4m) and 25 year old Brazillian superstar Dagoberto (5.25m).

put a player on the transfer list

if no real players want them then SM will find a buyer for you from some obscure team

usually your chairman's value is < the SM value. the offer price will be between the two but closer to your chairman's value.

will take up to 10-14 days for an offer to come through.


If you are looking to buy say a player worth £4m from an unmanged team, then a way round it is to offer part of the fee in cash and the rest in player swaps, depending on their value

good way of getting unwanteds quickly off the books

I did one yesterday Dani Alves from Seville for £24m plus Sylvinho and Pique to make total value £31m which Seville's chairman required to approve the deal

Man city bought him from you.

06th Jun  Transfer Andriy SHEVCHENKO has completed his move to Blackburn Rovers from Chelsea for £3,750,000
 
 
06th Jun  Transfer Mario BALOTELLI has completed his move to Chelsea from Internazionale for £3,600,000
 
 
06th Jun  Transfer Ángel JAVIER BALBOA has completed his move to Chelsea from Real Madrid for £3,700,000
 
 
06th Jun  Transfer Lukas PODOLSKI has completed his move to Chelsea from Bayern Munchen for £13,000,000
 
 
06th Jun  Transfer Mesut OZIL has completed his move to Chelsea from Werder Bremen for £6,800,000
 
 
06th Jun  Transfer Shaun WRIGHT-PHILLIPS has completed his move to PSV from Chelsea for £8,475,000



And still £10m in the bank ;)

I hadnt even signed up yet! Bad form!

I agree, think thats pretty crap really as the list of managers clearly said Liverpool were taken

Daniel AGGER has completed his move to Manchester City from Liverpool for £9,100,000

waheyyyyyyyyyyyy, wiiiiiiiiii. U got decent enuf $$ for him.

Man Utd Transfer news

In

Zambrotta from Milan (£11m) and Maxi Rodriguez from Athletico Madrid (£18.8m)

Out

Wes Brown to Arsenal (£7m) and Owen Hargreaves to Blackburn (£8.5m)

I'd rather have the choice thanks.

No he didn't, not if he wanted to keep him.

bad form.

Bad form?

you knew Liverpool was taken, the list was published on the thread and just awaiting manager to take control

why nick his player?


really off tbh.

ok well

 1) i havent even looked at the list of teams and whos got who.
 2) i really needed a defender, so i offered for best i could afford.

You think if Mourinho wants Essien, or Lampard at Inter hes guna wait till Chelsea get a new boss ' to give him the choice'?

I took Leto from Liverpool..didn't even realise Baron hadn't taken it yet..sorry about that mate. I will of course get him back to you for the same money..if you want him back.

that's not the point.


this is a sim game, it would have been polite to wait for another player to take control of his team. After all, no one else was prepared to go to sharp practices and bid for Torres or Gerrard, quite rightly

NP mate - he wasnt part of my plans.

I take it when someone leaves an unmanaged club it's at the selling chairman's price?

I bid a bit more for him than that I think...as I really hadn't a clue what I was doing lmao

I agree - transfer back imo

If you werent to know then fair enough. Apologies for sounding harsh if I did.

Wouldnt mind buying him back if you are ok with that?

Np, yeh thats fine. As i said i didnt no until today.

Reallllllllllly need a CB/LB and my defence is complete.

alls fair in love and football, he should have got on and signed up earlier to protect his squad imo

Rich should grim baron imo.

Much appreciated.

Do you have him as unavailable? Dont seem to be able to bid for him.

Should be able to now.

you can have Thatcher on loan if you want

If any poor teams fancy loaning anyone, i have a couple of players in the 80's i wouldnt mind loaning out. Including a couple of my new signings.

Anyone bar Leed's and Man City that is.

Agger may be banned from transfering until 15th August.

he is, baron's been stuffed lol

You can't transfer players back - isn't there a transfer ban until August once a player has signed?

yes

-   BALOTELLI, Mario   FF R 17 84 98 Excellent £4.5M £3.6M 15 Aug 0.00 0(0) 0 5 yrs £12,450 0 0 0 0
-   DI SANTO, Franco   FF R 19 85 99 Okay £4.9M £4.2M -  0.00 0(0) 0 1 yrs £17,000 0 0 0 0
-   JAVIER BALBOA, Ángel  RM-WRM/W R 23 86 93 V.Good £5.0M £3.5M 15 Aug 0.00 0(0) 0 3 yrs £20,750 0 0 0 0
-   OZIL, Mesut   LM-AMLM/AM L 19 87 90 Superb £6.3M £6.0M 15 Aug 0.00 0(0) 0 4 yrs £21,250 0 0 0 0
-   BEN HAIM, Tal  CBCB R 26 88 100 Average £5.7M £4.2M -  0.00 0(0) 0 4 yrs £17,600 0 0 0 0
-   PIZARRO, Claudio  CFCF R 29 88 100 Average £4.5M £3.2M -  0.00 0(0) 0 5 yrs £17,000 0 0 0 0
-   BELLETTI, Juliano  RBRB R 31 89 100 Average £4.2M £3.3M -  0.00 0(0) 0 1 yrs £17,400 0 0 0 0

Ahh ok coolio - ty for the offer of sending him back anyways.

Only just seen this thread, if there's any space left i'd like in. Brings back memories of the old play by mail games.

Sorry mate. As i said i really didnt no anyone was Liverpool until i woke up this morn and saw you were.

Can have him back on Aug 15th i guess..?

Everton only team in top league available - get in there!

and get humped in your first game! :)

Baron wont sell me Insua even tho he will never make their team.

I wish id bought him yesterday.

classic lol

Ok Everton it is tyty.

Nah it's cool mate. ty tho.

Chelsea v Spurs and Man Utd v Liverpool in the first week - crackers!

Remember and select your team some time before the game.

Cant believe i missed out on this!!!

If i register now can i join a team in the Championship or is it only set up for the Prem?

You sure? Just seen you have bid for a player i was looking at.

Wont bid for him tho, ty. Hope you get him.

yes, all teams in nthe three other divisions available

Right i am in as Crystal Palace - looking for Promotion and to challenge the big boys!!!!

Not happy that someone has nicked Bostock though!

Lets get some more Blondes in this league as well

Agreed - some good teams in Championship.  Fulham, Aston Villa and WHU - best hurry though before we steal all their players.  Was gutted to miss out on Gareth Barry.

Does anyone want to loan Cristian Vieri?  He's 34 now and isn't going to get a game  in my side, but I feel guilty selling him.  Rating of 88 if anyone is interested.

Feeling sorry for computer representation of multi-milliionaire footballer.

Graham = soft touch.

John Bostock is LEEDS and hes proud of it!!!

lol. Will have Vieri as supersub.

lol Shite - should have said yes - just realised player ratings go up by their real life performances! Agger is definately one of the hottest young defenders about.

No worries though man - will hunt for some bargain - more fun I think.

Don't care, he's a legend


No worries

Bear in mind that no ratings updates will happen until August - no player's rating from one of the main leagues will change until then.

City and Palace interested in Vieri, who needs him most - will he get a game at Palace?  He'd like to play if possible

Palace obv

Me too how do i do it

go to link on page 1 of thread, join the blonde league with the password which is in the thread somewhere, pick your crappy Championship team.

He will certainly get match time at Palace - should be cracking in the Championship IMO

Vieri's at Palace

You must be gutted to have lost Moses and Bostock?

And straight into the starting line up for the first game against Cardiff - am hoping he is a better option than Scowcroft!!!!

God this game is addictive!

Yeah, signed up too late to keep them i suppose - will just have to raid other clubs for quality youngsters

I am in 2nd div as West BROM

SUPER RAMS PRESS RELEASE
The rams have gone back to the days of ravanelli. exciting times but prob asking for financial ruin. there 4 signings are
david james, luis figo, ayalaa, and del pierro. come on YOU RAMS

I abs love your signings! Del Piero will be a legend imo.

who is Villa?

Sorry i'm Villa

Champions of Europe and all that..

I have a, er, hypothetical question.

What happens if you spend all your money and then lose money during the week to end up with a minus balance?

Whats the password?

I'm also very interested in the answer to this question...purely out of curiousity of course

hypothetically, you carry on with a minus balance for a while

keep it for too long and you get a message from SMFA saying "sort it or get sacked" parenthetically.

TheBaron/ChipRich - Loan deals can still be completed involving a player who has just been transfered so you can loan Agger back? Or something.

Just taken over as pompey, anyone get any decent youngsters for loan?
I noticed someone bought the pensioner James off me for 1.4 cheers

Anyone else not really have a clue what they are doing but going for some stars of world football?

ty steelio better tan what i had

nope

value for money is the name of the game

Sure there is a getting started guide somewhere

Beat: This Game has ruined my life.
Brag: My Life.

Wouldnt be fair on Rich.

He'd be 9.1 mil out of pocket until August whilst I get to keep the player.

What happens when a game is taking place.

Are you kept updated of what is happening?  Able to make subs etc, or are you just given the full time score?

you select substitutions on one of the tabs under tactics pre game, as well as formation, team style, player assignments

ie if losing after 6o mins x on and y off


then you are given the score by message c 2 hours after kick off time

You make a good point sir.  Sell me Gerrard.

Tonight's friendlies:

Aberdeen - PSV
Fiorentina - Arsenal

Should be interesting to see how match engine works etc.

I should have been playing Leeds Utd but Horneris was scared that the ensuing heavy defeat would lower his side's morale for the upcoming league fixtures.

I will sell Gerrard. All I ask for is Messi and Ronaldo in return if you could acquire them?

Deal!!!!

This better go on for like 5 seasons im signings loads of 16 year olds.

good strategy, buy young and cheap and in later years play em and sell em. at a profit..rinse and repeat


i will pm you some I have in my other leagues

I am the man who will take LEEDS UNITED back to the heighest level of European Football.

Relegated imo

Every young player i find you've already bid for them!

I thought the transfer list was to get rid of players not to overprice them?

why did i pick grimsby im busto b4 i started

you can quit the team and choose a bigger club. say birmingham or West ham?

the game is far easier to play if your club has a big ground capacity to keep revenue coming in


though in one I am 2 seasons into taking Shrewsbury to champions league glory its a constant battle with the finances

Ive only bidded for 5, lol.

can someone tell me how you make offers undisclosed? When i've been making bids i've been ticking the 'hide amount' box, yet on the news ticker thing it's coming up with the amount i've bid and so i've been out bid for one of the players i'm after.

dunno, should come up as "undisclosed"

email support

Tighty nice doing business with you - should Barcelona feel the need to loan any of my Crystal Palace players then you only need to ask lol

noticed this too, but i think it might be undisclosed for everyone else.

tell me a player u have bid for and i will check?

lolol. "its messi to Eto'o who crosses for Scowcroft and GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL"

think not, at this stage

guti

This could be an option if you don't like Grimsby - still some good clubs in the 2nd Division and there are 4 or 5 blondes in there too now.

Your bid is undisclosed.

Villa's isn't though!

lol blackburn and portsmouth are outbidding me on all my youngsters - i found them first, they're mine!

Anyone fancy a friendly on the 13th? Want a chance to stick my new youngsters out.

lol, too late to stop victor moses defecting across south london. he will flourish at the valley imo

lollol are these the youngsters i want? I don't think i can afford to get into a bidding war as the bank balance is very low, can we come to an agreement about who gets which ones? ;)

Scotty, you loan me Jason Roberts or Matt Derbyshire for 10 games and i will play you in a friendly on the 13th.

I've already purchased like 10 youngsters.  Youth squad is flourishing!

I've just been checking it out. Definitely good buy with John Fleck, Rangers started playing him in the first team towards the end of last season so his rating is only going to soar.

Fancy letting me keep the defender and you can have the keeper, then we can fight it out for the striker?

Can you see all goings on for our league or only by going to individual clubs pages?

I'll have the defender and you can have the other two?

Individual club pages

Thanks to TheBaron for the loan deal!

Hmm... okay, i'll find myself a better defender!

Do you new youth players constantly get added to the game?

I bid for 2 players and they have been accepted when do u get the players?

they are from clubs outside the league.

1-2am i think, thats when they all went through for yesterdays transfers

Yeah, they happen overnight.

Ok cheers 15m for a player, jeez he better be worth it or  West Brom be busto!

lol, who'd u get?

You should know, hes probably on your shortlist

Erm some striker from a russian team, don't counter outbid me!

u think they would accept my last 5er for him?

I still have 3 mill..need 700k for wages...think I'll spend 2 ill on some youngsters over the weekend...and sell off some older players..don't want my squad to be too big.

challenged to friendly 13th scotty if not already taken

why is it you have 5 subs but you can only set up 3 sub options? does that mean only the 3 you pick would ever get on?

i assume in cases of injury it would try to make a like-for-like substitution.

lol, tighty, I was trying to decide on whether or not to make the same offer earlier!

Matt (Palace Manager), i accepted your loan deal for Nugent, but you are not allowed to play him against me

I accepted for Sidwell but you couldnt have him as you already have 3 on loan.

Fk My Life - 1 day away and you lot have done 30 pages.

What will it be like when I catch up tomorrow.

I think I have made fatal errors already, I am so behind.

no it doesn't you just have to pick 3 subs max in advance

eg you are losing after 60, taske off full back bring on striker etc etc

thought it was an interesting one, pretty even at the outset..maybe the rating of both will fall a little from here

useful to know if you are going away..use holiday mode

If you are a new manager to the game and you are participating in a Custom Setup like the blonde champswhere you are required to log in once every 7 days

Your default log in period would be 14 days due to you being new to the game. Therefore the following would apply:

Custom Setup - required to log in once every 7 days or you would lose your club.

If you enable holiday mode the above would change to:

Custom Setup - required to log in once within 21 days or you would lose your club.

Also the AI would manage your starting XI on your behalf swapping injured, suspended or NMF players out of your starting line-up for the first 14 days.

Rookie, how can you afford Kaka - do you have Roman's money at Chelsea?

I haven't got him yet! ;)

Arsenal stuffed Fiorentina 4-0!  They played full strength (I think) against my reserves, couple of nice performances from my youngsters though, very encouraging.

Can you actually set it up so it does that, or do you have to be online during the game?

You can set up 3 subs with various options to come on, it's in the subs section (funny enough) in Tactics

Aberdeen 1 - 1 PSV

Both teams playing reserves. Aberdeen - 19 shots on goal 15 on target...really need to work on goal scoring with my squad i think.

phillip cocu is a grimsby player on loan.  thanks 4 the loanage boldie he will fit in well at blundell park lol

Im the saddest person in the world.

Its Friday night.

Ive just spend 2 hours scouting 16-20 year olds and put bids in for 11.

My lifes so shit if this disbands after like 3 weeks or 1 season.

Leeds will be Top 4 in 7 seasons. I guarantee this. Please can we still have it going then. ty thx.

Cocu is very cool :)

Yeah one of my reserves didn't play very well...high hopes for my first string this weekend though..and i'll change the system this weekend...this 433 malarky didn't really work...though i did have 58% possesion.

I hope the internet dating works out for you.

Reading the match report for the Arsenal Fiorentina match and it says:

5:   Goal GOAL!! - A cross from the right is headed home by Manuel ALMUNIA!

None of the goalscorers in the report tally up with the goalscorers under the score.

Yea not sure what's happened there - maybe the game is trying to tell us almunia has potential as a stiker. Its okay for the dons psv game

lol!!  I must have been playing an attacking formation!

lol, i feel ya, only been signed up since today and already i'm hooked.

Yeah no problem, although you might just want to remind me before the game - or are you able to set it as a default?

Just looked at the match reports - quite annoying that the report claims one person has scored yet the goal is credited to another person.  Never mind.

Encouraging draw for Aberdeen?

Carson starts at Villa?

That sucks. 8-10 mil down from the off.

Yep pleased with that, that was my second string aswell. Dark horses im telling you - get your bets on Aberdeen now.

can you view the match reports of the other teams in your league?

Dunno for competitive games but for the friendlies go into setup - friendlies - results

 :)up

wiiii deals gone through.

Vincent KOMPANY has completed his move to Manchester City
Gonzalo HIGUAIN has completed his move to Manchester City
Miralem SULEJMANI has completed his move to Manchester City
Eren DERDIYOK has completed his move to Manchester City
Abolhassan JAFARI has completed his move to Manchester City
James HOLLAND has completed his move to Manchester City

Shame someones deal for Martin Petrov didnt go through, leaving me absolutely busto: Balance £227k

The deal for Martin PETROV has collapsed as Aston Villa have insufficient funds to complete the deal.

Whos Villa? ;nemesis;

And Boldie stole Paloschi, so fkin sick. Hes guna be a star, gl.

Those are all pretty irrelevant when you see Rookie signed Kaka!!!!!

Transfer Hatem BEN ARFA has completed his move to Liverpool from Lyon
Transfer Giuseppe ROSSI has completed his move to Liverpool from Villarreal
Transfer Gabriel HEINZE has completed his move to Liverpool from Real Madrid
Transfer Franck RIBERY has completed his move to Liverpool from Bayern Munchen

was gonna save up for Rossi :'(

Sorry! He just looks too good a prospect.

Some great cheap signings I think. Players like Flamini and Robben will always have great ratings at the clubs they're at.

Villa are broke!

I thought i'd make a few offers for players and then see which were successful before deciding who to sign.
Ended up with 2 RM's, no Petrov and no Thuram.

Randy needs to pump some more money in!

Offered for him, then about 4 seconds later Baron makes an offer. So i obv withdrew knowing my chances of getting him were 0%.

Plus i got Agger, so only fair.

Villa dicked me around

meant that my deal to buy Banega collapsed

oh, and sorry Rooks. Seems like my chairman over-rates the drunkard from Brazil



The deal involving Barcelona and Chelsea regarding Didier DROGBA has been stopped by the Barcelona chairman who is unhappy with deal and does not want to swap Assis Moreira RONALDINHO in this deal. [?]   
   
07th Jun    Transfer   The deal for Ever BANEGA has collapsed as Barcelona have insufficient funds to complete the deal.

Villa dicked everyone around. Apologies.
Clubs all over Europe are asking me why i haven't paid up.

I'm going to hide from my financial crisis at the test match. COME ON JIMMY!

Alberto PALOSCHI has completed his move to PSV from Milan

SHIP!!! I expected everyone to be going for this guy :)

Perhaps strangely I've never heard of him!

Ship KAKA!

Respeck.

To be honest it was him or the RB. Realised I only had two up top now so had to go for him over the RB. I wasn't stalking your shortlist I promise!

Well done!

Ruud VAN NISTELROOY has completed his move to Manchester United from Real Madrid  for £18,500,000 plus  Louis SAHA

Damm..were do you guys get all the dosh from?

Can see Ruud banging a few past my defence this season unless I get it strengthened - not too many options for me atm.  Maldini is obv just a short term measure.

Delighted to have snapped up McGeady and Robben!

does anyone want a friendly against grimsby u will hammer us and it will give ure team a confidence boost

Friendlies are not a grand idea apparently...or so Tighty says.

Ok bought one player and sorted my tactics for the 1st match tommorrow. Big game vs STOKE!

07th Jun  Transfer Felício JI-PARANÁ has completed his move to Leeds United from Internacional for £350,000 - 19yo
 
07th Jun  Transfer Alexandre FABIO COENTRAO has completed his move to Leeds United from Nacional da Madeira for £1,450,000 plus David LUCAS and Jonathan DOUGLAS - 20yo
 
07th Jun  Transfer Alfonso BLANCO has completed his move to Leeds United from Pachuca for £450,000 plus Dougie FREEDMAN and Alan THOMPSON - 19yo  
 
07th Jun  Transfer Cristopher TOSELLI has completed his move to Leeds United from Universidad Catolica for £0 plus Sebastien CAROLE and Peter SWEENEY - 19yo
 
07th Jun  Transfer Dumitru COPIL has completed his move to Leeds United from Hearts for £300,000 -18yo  

07th Jun  Transfer James MCCARTHY has completed his move to Leeds United from Hamilton Academical for £200,000 plus Neil KILKENNY - 17yo
 
07th Jun  Transfer Toni KROOS has completed his move to Leeds United from Bayern Munchen for £1,275,000 plus David PRUTTON and Andy HUGHES - 18yo

07th Jun  Transfer Nicolás MILLAN has completed his move to Leeds United from Colo Colo for £250,000 - 16yo
 
07th Jun  Transfer Mamadou SAKHO has completed his move to Leeds United from Paris Saint-Germain for £1,350,000 plus Stephen O'HALLORAN and Tresor KANDOL - 18yo
 
07th Jun  Transfer Havard NORDTVEIT has completed his move to Leeds United from Arsenal for £350,000 - 17yo

is it possible to improve your ground on this game?

Where are Skalidis, Madeira, Tsigalko, West, N'Diaye, Kerr, Costanzo and Duff?

Now that's how you put a cheap team together!

You like them young?

I was in love with To Maderia for a while. And the Paralta brothers.

And never forget the might of Northamptons Justin Georcelin. OR Johnny Lunden!

You know how if you put a player on the transfer list SM will find a buyer for them after a week or so, does the same apply for players on the loan list?

I bought 15 youth players last night, just searching for young'uns and bidding for them, turns out i now have 5 keepers. oops.

Oh my life Jonas Junden! What a player. Always sold him on when Moukoko got old enough though. 15 yr old Georcelin! lol

Skalidis was king though. He was only on version 1 of the game (not that I'm a champ freak or anything), played for a greek side Chania and cost 10k from the off, had about eight 20's and was unstoppable. They replaced him with Madeira in the later games because he was just too obvious as a gem.

I'm having withdrawl. Need to buy someone now dammit.

no, loans have to happen to managed clubs

not if you want to keep players in good condition

no, though it is a forthcoming enhancement to give successful small teams a chance to invest in ground improvements as they rise the leagues

its quite realistic, bigger the club the bigger the sponsorship, tv, gate receipts etc

What happened to the list on pg1 of who's managing who ? nice one whoever is rushden manager hadn't noticed anyone mention ramsey nh gg wp

WTF how are lot getting ppl for so cheap kompany for 250k he's valued at 14million ben arfe 4 1.2mil when hes valued at 10mil or summit am i missing something ????

18.5m for a 31 year old.

You might aswell jus burn your money!

that's because everyone was keeping quiet about it. there was a bidding war between Rushden, Blackburn and Charlton.

in the end he went for quite a bit over his initial valuation, should still be a good buy though

I paid nearly ten for Ben Arfa including the part exchange.

AHH was thinkin it was that just doesnt say who u p/x just that u bought him for 1,2 or woteva it was great buy imo he's guna be quality in future

Dipped into Jocksville and got artur from celtic and Robert Green from west ham ... robinson is going onthe list :D

Picked up Kyle Lafferty from Burnley too

Scrap that ... Didnt get Green .... But Boruc starts against Chelsea !!!

norrrr, these were all so sick.

Abs incred ;tightend;

RAMS NEWS
7 new signings today all on the young side with potential
ekdal    juve
fatic     inter
guerci   milan
oliva      river plate
camacho    athlectico   (keep eye on this one)
tobio      val   sar
rabiola     porto (the next ronaldo)
hopefully more to follow and we wave goodbye to eddie lewis

Do you still want Ben Foster? If not I'll flog him to someone else.

Flog the mug ... im keeping Robinson.

Hmm this kids not on the game was guna buy him" Everton are trying to sign Bristol City's Wales Under-21 right-back Christian Ribeiro for £500,000. (Daily Mirror)" from bbc gossip.

Cheers for park andrew m8  ;)

had to send a player I had on loan back as he never would have played for me.

should be close to broke after today..but reckon there are a few very tasty deals out there.

Just joined this as Reading.
No idea what i'm doing yet, but i'll soon get the hang of it.

I want to accept a bid from an unmanaged club but I've deleted the message.

Anyone know how to accept it now?

Thanks

Yikes, not got a clue - maybe get onto support.

Nice one, gl - should make Division 2 more interesting now.

Post any questions here cos everyone will help out.

Just noticed this - I have a friendly already arranged but you can have Derbyshire on loan if you like?

Added it back to OP so you can see who is who.  Let me know if I have missed anyone out.

 Sabrosa SIMAO has completed his move to Fiorentina
   Mathieu FLAMINI has completed his move to Fiorentina
     Muhammet DEMIR has completed his move to Fiorentina
     Néstor DUARTE has completed his move to Fiorentina

shib

The deal reported to be worth £2,000,000 involving Ricardo KAKA of Milan and Chelsea has been accepted.
eh??  £2m for Kaka?  how?

    Daniele CACIA has been sent back to Fiorentina by PSV - why Boldie?

Probably about 4/5 chelsea boysare now milan players lol doesn't tell u bout p/x's

this is the other way round though, £2m for Kaka is a steal, he was one of the highest value players in the game valued at aroudn 45m

Setup > Transfers > All Transfers

It was £2m plus Lampard and Alex.

He would've paid 2mil + players that equal the 45mil amount

ah I see, is Alex really worth that much :D

Rookie was trying to flog him to me initially as he was after Bentley!

Yep can't believe he was worth like £18m.

Why an earth have you recalled all your loans Rookie. I was building my team around Mikel.

My team iz terriblez without him in CM/DM.

Filipe JOAO MOUTINHO has completed his move to PSV from Sporting

Welcome indeed..and just before the match against Everton :) This boy is going to be massive during the European championships :)

He was another I was interested in, but couldn't sort out a deal due to low fundage!

Very good buy.

How much u pay for him boldie ?

I got rid of a decent'ish striker that I wouldn't use and a lesser player as well as 2 mill.

Total about 19mill worth

Van Buyten signs on at Ewood and Charlton are going down tonight!!!

I'm drowning in strikers mate and he just wouldn't get a game unfortunately.

Big news at Rams. we say a fair fondwell to carroll mooore mills and prob the best young player weve ever had giles barnes. coming in are c panucci, n hoffs, and hakan suker. looking forward to game against fiorantina but could get a bit of a pasting

How does it work when you're playing a game can you check the score during the game or do u have to wiat til afterwards.

afterwards


team changes up til 8pm

then tactics is locked, though you can access site


result up about 9.30pm

Ok cheers.

Vincenzo IAQUINTA has completed his move to Chelsea from Juventus

Shib, seconds before the transfer deadline last night, in the squad for tonights game.

In the screenshots bit of the site there's one of what looks like a live score update thing with a vidiprinter of all the scores. Can you not get into this?

http://www.soccermanager.com/images/screenshots/large/live-scores.png

but its a waste of time, happens real time so if you have two hours spare to keep refreshing fine..but most just check in at the end

its not as if you can change subs, formation etc real time

Ah i see thanks. If the Germany Poland game isn't up to scratch i'll settle for a live update of Aberdeen v Newcastle ;)

Yeah, this is actually pretty sweet - will prob have it on in the background whilst watching football.

do u know where to find the score centre Tighty?

whos fiorantina manager

i've never used it real time

on my other leagues its only visible when the result comes through, under schedule or last match report (bottom right on overview)

Silo Graham

Doubt it - James, Pannuci, Ayala, Figo, Del Piero, Sukur are all very good signings for the short-term and you should cause most teams problems.

though in 3 years time they wil be appearing in the beach football soccer manager league!

lol

Anyone want to loan me a striker, won't be first choice but will compete with Marlon for a place on the bench?

I bid for Bent Kevin, you gonna accept 7m? think him and Philips will get me promoted this season.

james vaughn available he's an 85

Yakubu binned I see. I assume you have a big name striker lined up as replacement? Please tell.

yeah i've got a shortlist of three :-) only one of whom is actually on my in game shortlist

AndrewT - gogogogogogogo with my loan deal please - want to play him tonight

:hello:

Looking forward to the game, be interesting to see how the guys do.

Exciting stuff!

Fk sake, will it just be 9.30 already.

Me 2 quite important game 4 me i feel if i can get off 2 a good start today aberdeen (A) i have 4 games after that that with confidence in the team could have a decent start.

I'm guna have a peak everynow and then to see how the games coming on HAWAY THE LADS HAWAY THE LADS !!!!!!

gl silo

22 mins to kick off gl all

Ive just sent my troops out for there for the final warm up while i prepare my final team talk for them on there return i'm thinkin; run like leknave and we can win this whole league ONE TIME BOYS.

yep looking forward to the big game, everton and psv pretty evenly matched IMO

simple team talk here. stop them scoring and then give the ball to del pierro   GGGGGGGGGGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

I'm going to pwn Everton tonight :)

Is the game "live" or do we just get the result and the match report afterwards?

Team sheets have now been submitted for tonight's games to the SMFA.
You cannot change your tactics, release players or deal with loans/loaned players until your results are in.
Apart from this the site is fully open and accessible.
All results are in by 9:30pm (GMT) and will be ready when this message disappears.

Has anyone managed to get the live scored viviprinter on i cant find it anywhere ???