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Just finished my first season as Man Utd..

Not too bad, could of been better, could have been worse i guess haha..

Won the FA Cup, beating Chelsea 5-4 on penalties icon_smile.gif

Finished second to Arsenal in the Premiership by a point icon_frown.gif And was knocked out of the Champions League in the semi-finals on away goals by Real Madrid icon_frown.gif

Looking to make some new transfers..

Current team:

GK: Hugo Lloris (£14m)

DL: Marcelo (5.5m)

DR: Gary Neville

DC: Ezequiel Garay (15.75m Transfer listed half way through first season)

DC: Rio Ferdinand

ML: Nani/Ryan Giggs

MR: Cristiano Ronaldo

MC: OWen Heagreaves

MC: Paul Scholes/Anderson

ST: Michael Owen (9m)

ST: Wayne Rooney

OTHER TRANSFERS IN:

H. Saivet - About 700k

V. Kompany - 5m (transfer listed)

TRANSFERS OUT -

N. Vidic - 19m - A.C. Milan

P. Evra - 18m - Inter

C. Tevez - 25m A.C. Milan

Im just wondering if anyone has any ideas on new possible signing? icon_smile.gif

Im not too sure about Nani for a full season on the wing because og Giggsys age

He did well coming off the bench at times but im looking for something better?

Around 25million to spend icon_smile.gif

And any other comments would be appreciated on anywhere ive gone wrong or anything i could do to improve my team? icon_smile.gif

Thanks in advance icon_smile.gif

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Originally posted by Sir frosinone:

Adonis you interested in a fiorentina game no?

Not at the moment mate but will no doubt be starting a new AC Milan game in the near future. I only ever play 3 save games Barcelona, AC Milan and Man Utd. Don't get much playing time has before. icon_frown.gif

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Originally posted by neil123000:

At the end of August so I need a quick reply...Should I sell Anderson to Real Madrid for £30 million + 30% of his next sale.. and who should I replace him with at AMC or AML..I would have £40-50million but Messi and Silvawont join

Messi and Silva probably the best. How about Marcelo? If in your first season should cost £5.5m. Ben Arfa can play on both wings and in the middle.

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Originally posted by neil123000:

Guardado moved to Liverpool and Marcelo has gone to Milan.Might get Ben Arfa or Navas has a £24 million release clause and Kuzmanovitc from Fiorentina looks good.

Be wary of Navas he can be injury proned have a look at Rosina should be at Torino he can play both wings and freekick specialist.

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Well I'm halfway through my second season at Man Utd and have decided to do a little review of how my first season went and how this season is going. First season was one of my best ever on any FM, won every single competition I entered, with Rooney scoring 56 goals in all competitions, 40 in the league. Only made a few signings for the future, including Saivet, Kroos and Sunny. I loaned all my younglings out to gain experience. Only sold one player, which was Owen Hargreaves, to a stupid Italian team named Fiorentina. After only playing about 10 games from August to January, Fiorentina offered a staggering £22.5 million for the hit and miss midfielder. It was a no-brainer really!

So that's it for season one, now onto season two.

This season I made quite a few signings and sales, some for the future and some for the present. The most notable outs were Michael Carrick, who went to Newcastle for £12.5 million, Darren Fletcher to Blackburn for £7.5 million, and John O'Shea to Blackburn for £5 million. I also loaned Nani to Juventus as I forgot how old Giggs actually was and thought he could play one more season, how wrong I was lol.

I brought in a few regens for the future, and both Zaccardo and Pander for free, both of which are really good signings. To replace Carrick I brought in Miguel Veloso for £8.25 million. To replace Nani I signed Matias Fernandez from Villarreal for £10.75 million and I must say, I think he will keep Nani out of the first team when he comes back! And the last major signing I made was that of Lorenzo De Silvestri for £27 million, I know it sounds expensive, but most of it was over 24 months, so it ain't that bad.

As for competitions, it's going amazing once again, however I did get knocked out in the League Cup semi-final by Chelsea after extra time icon_frown.gif In the league my record is Played 20 Won 19 Drew 1 Scored 59 Conceded 14.

So overall I think my team is good enough to dominate English, and hopefully European, football for many years to come icon_biggrin.gif

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Not at the moment mate but will no doubt be starting a new AC Milan game in the near future. I only ever play 3 save games Barcelona, AC Milan and Man Utd. Don't get much playing time has before.

mayb try a Fiorentina one is a really fun game as good as Milan even more of a challange.

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season 07/08

players in

Barkroth 350k

Kardel 5.25m

Sakho 800k

players out

none

2nd in the prem 82pts 11pts behind chelsea

champ league winners 3-1 over liverpool

FA cup lost final to chelsea 1-3

League cup lost QF

Community Shield lost on pens to chelsea

bring on next season...

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season 08/09

players in

Ramos 32m

Downing 7.5m

Guilherme 19m

Saivet 3.5m

+ loads of youth players

players out

Rio 14m inter

Fletcher 5m + 50% to portsmouth

Simpson 2.9 + 50% to sunderland

Park 2.1m celta

Silvestre 950k to portsmouth

+ loads of youth players

League champions 87pts clear winners

Champions league lost QF to Arsenal 5-4

World club champions

Euro super cup champions

FA cup lost semi final

League cup winners 2-1 vs everton

community shield lost 4-2 to chelsea

another good season bring it on

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Originally posted by M1K3:

My team 2009/2010 with United 8.02

GK: Gordon - VDS/Jeferson

RB: Alves - Torres/Brown/Neville

LB: Evra - Bale/Torres/Sahko

CB: Ferdinand - Pique/Brown/Evans/Sahko

CB: Vidic - Pique/Brown/Evans/Sahko

RM: Ronaldo - Nani/Alves/Ronaldinho/Quagliarella

LM: Ronaldinho - Nani/Bale/Ronaldinho/Quagliarella/Giggs

CM: Hargreaves - Carrick/Gibson/Pique

CM: Anderson - Ronaldinho/Carrick/Scholes

ST: Berbatov - Henry/Quagliarella/Etock

ST: Rooney - Henry/Quagliarella/Etock

1st Season - Won The Premiership, FA Cup, Champions League and Community Shield

2nd Season - Won Premiership, Champions League, Community Shield, World Club Championship and Super Cup

Going for all the trophies this season icon_cool.gif

Originally posted by Canabary:

I just have to ask.. How could you afford:

HENRY, RONALINHO. ALVES, BALE, BERBATOV and QUAGLIARELLA?!?!

Collective worth is surely around 200m.

Originally posted by Vynal Seven:

He cheated, obviously.

Woah woah woah! I didn't cheat. Jeez that's a claim and a false one at that

1st Season sold Tevez for £32m and bought Quagliarella for £12.75m - he wasn't wanted much then.

2nd Season since I won the Treble I got a budget of £67m. I bought Thierry Henry for £17.5m as he was out of favour at Barcelona and Bale for £16m. I then bought Craig Gordon for £12.5m in January since Sunderland were in the Championship then Berbatov had requested a transfer so the asking price was only £12.75m which was a deal and a half I have to say!

Third season I got £60m transfer budget and bought Ronaldinho for £32m because he'd fallen out with Rijkaard. Then I sold Foster for £9m to Portsmouth (you can always fleece them for a lot) and Campbell for £6.5m which led me to get Alves for £34m.

So calm down with the accusations yeah! I can screenshot my transfers if need be. I've been fortunate with players like Berbatov and Ronaldinho but I'm never willing to pay £50m odd for a player each time anyway, so I tend to go for the unhappy big name players or just someone else.

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Originally posted by jonin:

Is a swap of Pique for Marcelo a good idea or not?

If Marcelo is at Real Madrid then no, as he will have a release clause of 5.5m and Pique is worth much more than that.

Sold him for 20m at the end of the first season on my Man United save.

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Coming to the end of the January transfer window won't be making any signings only have £7m left unless I get a £30m+ bid for Pique with clubs sniffing around him.

Due to play AC MIlan in the 1st knockout round of CL.

Beat Man City 5-1 in the home leg of Carling Cup SF. Also have Bolton to play in FA Cup 4th rnd.

Some noticeable results:

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Rooney's fine form got him the FIFA World Player of the Year and also the World Footballer of the Year award currently 35 goals in 25 games.

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Originally posted by Evon:

I'm confused. Which one is he and who did he score for and was it an own goal?

Isn't it number 20 in the black? If so what the hell is he doing that far out when the ball hasn't even't hit the back of the net? icon_confused.gif

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Does anyone have any experience with Cech and how much does he cost?

Or does anyone know of a better alternative.

I need a new keeper and have 70 million to spend at the start of 09/10 season.

Will update later tonight.

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Ok I am going to bring in Messi for his 44 million pounds release clause to replace Nani who I sold for 30 million after he failed to impress me in the first two seasons.

Then I will probably buy Casillas for 50 million?

Should I try to replace Hargreaves with Toulalan for about 26 million.I think I can sell hargreaves for about the same?

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Originally posted by R-dizzle:

Ronaldo seems to be a total dissapointment for me now. The latest patch has screwed him over big time

Yes having the same problem playing him as AMR never manages to get a cross in, well and truly screwed. Off the ball 14? Decision making 10? You don't scored 30 goals in 30 games having a poor decision stat!!!!!

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Originally posted by baz1:

Should I try to replace Hargreaves with Toulalan for about 26 million.I think I can sell hargreaves for about the same?

Toulalan is good have a look at Marchisio on at Empoli from Juve he has a very high PA. I am getting him at the end of the 1st season for a bargain £5m.

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Originally posted by baz1:

End of season 08/09 review

I won everything apart from the Carling Cup in which I lost to Man City.

Tactic

Here are my transfers 1 and 2

Here are the competitions I won

Premiership

Community Shield

FA Cup

Super Cup

Champions League

Club World Championship

Can you put up a link to your tactic please? or send me a link via pm? icon14.gif

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Hello all, I am new here. Thought I should introduce myself before giving a review of my side.

I am now in the summer having just passed the three season mark.

Achievements:

Premier League - 2006/07, 2007/08, 2008/09.

Champions League - 2007/08, 2008/09.

FA Cup - 2006/07, 2008/09.

Carling Cup - 2007/08.

I have also won the Community Shield twice and European Super Cup and World Club Championship once and twice respectively.

Here is my first team squad at this current time:

Ben Foster

Robert Green

Iker Casillas

Fabio

Rafael

Evra

Massimo Oddo

Rio Ferdinand

Nemandja Vidic

Daniel Agger

Vincent Kompany

Michael Mancienne

Curtis Davies

Anderson

Michael Carrick

Daniel De Rossi

Diego

Samir Nasri

Nani

Cristiano Ronaldo

Mancini

Joe Cole

Harry Harrison (a youth product)

Wayne Rooney

Carlos Tevez

Gabriel Agbonlahor

Manucho

Sergio Aguero

I am currently in negotiations with Fernando Torres, whom I see as the final piece in my jigsaw. Liverpool accepted my final offer of £40.5m for him, alot of cash and the chunk of my budget (£50m) but he scored 64 goals in fourty four matches for Liverpool last season in all competitions last campaign, and not only am I getting my main rivals' goal grabber but thus hopefully decreasing their chances of fighting with my team for more titles this season.

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Originally posted by T.R.F.C:

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by baz1:

Then I will probably buy Casillas for 50 million?

50 million thats a lot, i am not to sure why no one has mentioned oscar ustari he is amazing for me </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Ustari has been toned down a lot for the new patch.

I know its a lot but he is a quality player so I am about to confirm for 55 million.It took him a lot of contract offers but he finally accepted one and I still have 20 million left to spend.

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Edwards just accepted a 40 million pound bid for Rio Ferdinand from Arsenal.I didn't want to sell him and if I had to my last choice would have been Arsenal but unfortunately Rio accepted the contract and will leave in January.

Who would be a good replacement or will I use Ramos as a center back and play Zaccardo on the right?

I can also get Vincent Kompany for his 13.25 million release clause at Valencia.

Should I try and get him?

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Originally posted by baz1:

Edwards just accepted a 40 million pound bid for Rio Ferdinand from Arsenal.I didn't want to sell him and if I had to my last choice would have been Arsenal but unfortunately Rio accepted the contract and will leave in January.

Who would be a good replacement or will I use Ramos as a center back and play Zaccardo on the right?

I can also get Vincent Kompany for his 13.25 million release clause at Valencia.

Should I try and get him?

Zaacardo is best has RB nyway, Ramos can do a job at CB but doesn't have the best ctats for tackling and making.

Kompany I don't rate anyway with his bad positioning stat. Where's Zapata and Breno? Also Raul Albiol a pacey CB at Valencia.

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