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FM 2009: Official FC Girondins de Bordeaux Thread: Les Girondins


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Club Information

Full name: Football Club des Girondins de Bordeaux

Nickname: Les Girondins or Bordeaux

Founded: 1881

Ground: Stade Chaban-Delmas

Capacity: 37,198 all-seater

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Finances: Rich

Estimated Value: £83m

Chairman: Jean-Louis Triaud

Manager: Laurent Blanc

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Transfer Budget

Media prediction: 3rd

Continental qualification: £4.8m

Title challenge: £5.75m

Winner: £6.25m

First-Team Squad:

Goalkeepers

Ulrich Ramé

Mathieu Valverde

Kévin Olimpa

Defenders:

Carlos Henrique

Mathieu Chalmé

Franck Jurietti

Diego Placente

Souleymane Diawara

Marc Planus

Midfielders:

Fernando

Gregory Sertic

Alou Diarra

Wendel

Gabriel Obertan

Jussiê

Yoann Gourcuff (on loan from A.C. Milan)

Strikers:

Marouane Chamakh

Yoan Gouffran

Fernando Cavenaghi

David Bellion

Star Player - Yoann Gourcuff

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Yoann Gourcuff (born July 11, 1986) is a French footballer who is presently playing with Bordeaux on loan from Milan. Gourcuff was born in Ploemeur, Morbihan, Brittany. Having started out with FC Lorient (then managed by his father, Christian) at a young age, Gourcuff signed a youth contract with Stade Rennais in 2001, followed by a professional contract two years later.

Having been linked with a host of big name European clubs such as Ajax Amsterdam, Valencia CF and Arsenal F.C., at the end of the 2006 season, Gourcuff moved to A.C. Milan signing a contract to the 2010-11 season. He started his Milan career by scoring a goal in Milan's first UEFA Champions League match against AEK Athens. On May 31, 2008, Adriano Galliani revealed Milan would loan Gourcuff to FC Girondins de Bordeaux for the 2008-09 season, to allow him more playing time.

Gourcuff has been one of the best players in Ligue 1 this season, producing moments of sheer brilliance such as this and this and has been dubbed "The Next Zidane" for quite a few years. Unfortunately, during my save he didn’t want to stay after his loan for me but he was absolutely brilliant and won Players’ Player of the Season.

He has been capped for France at schoolboy level and was part of the winning French team at the 2005 European Under-19 Football Championship. He made his debut for the France national team on 2008-08-20 against Sweden.On October 11, 2008 he scored his first goal for the France national football team against Romania.

Promising Youth Players(in order of their potential ability):

Henri Saivet

Gabriel Obertan

Pierre Ducasse

Gregory Sertic

Matthieu Saunier

Abdou Traore

Team Analysis

I'm not going to analyse the team for you, players you need to get rid of and/or recommend what players you should sign as that spoils the fun but I will tell you the positions you need to improve below.

Areas to improve (in order of importance):

LB

CM/AMC

RB/CB

ST

Why should you start a game with Bordeaux?

-Good challenge to end the dominance of Olympique Lyonnais in France over the last few years. In real life, they're in 2nd place in Ligue 1, only 1 point behind Lyon!

-Champions League football...how far can you get them in Europe?

-The foundations for success are already there with promising youngsters such as Obertan, Gouffran, Saivet, Seric, Ducasse, Saunier, Traore, etc.

That's all, fellas. I got some of the information from Wikipedia but there's a lot of my opinions in there as well. Hope you enjoyed it and start a game with Bordeaux!

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  • 4 months later...

What do you guys think of Vincent Muratori from monaco 20 year old left back ? was also looking at mathieu iknow highly rated through out the lyon thread & possibly rod fanni for left back ? other people looking at are samba from blackburn , loric perrin & feghouli , going to try keep the team as french (includes french as 2nd nationality ) as possible maybe with the odd exeption with one or 2 players .

also who is rubbish in this squad got around 17million to spend from budget changes ...

hopey or purefun should reply usually do the french guru's ;)

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Rod Fanni is a right back? :p

Vincent Muratori is fairly decent and he can do a job, not going to be a world beater. If you want another cheap MC who has French as his second nationality look at Adrien from Sporting. Meanwhile you should try and get Moussa Sissoko as he turns out very good and look at Cabaye as-well.

Check out Dabo as-well, not sure if he was upgraded on 9.3.0 though to be honest. Chrétien should have French as his second nationality also.

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i got the samba deal down to 6.4 now .. think stuttgart want 9mill for delpiere to . just signed feghouli :)

Edit again lol what about jeremy sorbon at stade caen ? i had him on a previous game and seemed quite good and cheap ,

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will sign him :) Chrétien's club are so stubborn they want 10million !!! trying to get the RB dabo think he most important to sign then maybe samba im not sure on a keeper to get :/ i wont have that much money

Thanks for help hopey XD

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I'm going to start this game again on the new patch.

Sorry I've kind of neglected this thread but been extremely busy with exams! Now I've got the next 3/4 months off to find a job aka play FM09. ;)

Will keep you posted!

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Just thought I would do an update-

Transfers for the first season-

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First season was great, won the Ligue 1 and more importantly, THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE. It was very very much by fluke, I had to beat Shalke (which I did, on away goals), then Liverpool (again, on away goals). United was my enemy in the semi's (Im a United fan so it hurt), but I thrashed them 3-1 at home and loss 1-0 away.

Fair to say I was very, very shocked I made it this far.

Fiorentina was my enemy in the final and I beat them 2-1.

Epic win, got a hell of alot of money from it too.

Unforunatly, I did not do well in the Cups, but hopefully that will change this season.

My team for the second season-

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First team-

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Transfers-

I was given a budget of £25M and got to getting rid of some of the more stagnant players.

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I'm currently working on a deal to get Sakho for £26.5M, looks to be done now.

Milan is a regen goalkeeper that my scouts are raving about. He will be first team in 2 years (Currently he is 16 lol!)

Any comments? I want a french, quality team :).

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Hey Hopey!

I dont really want to buy any strikers, Chamakh came through the ranks at Bordeaux and he scored 24 goals last season (top scorer in the League). Cavenaghi can step up at any time and Lavezzi and Gourffran are quality. Not to mention I have the little Saviet waiting to break through :).

I do agree that my strikeforce is the least "french" part of my team however :D.

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Hey Hopey!

I dont really want to buy any strikers, Chamakh came through the ranks at Bordeaux and he scored 24 goals last season (top scorer in the League). Cavenaghi can step up at any time and Lavezzi and Gourffran are quality. Not to mention I have the little Saviet waiting to break through :).

I do agree that my strikeforce is the least "french" part of my team however :D.

That's fine, I like Chamakh so I wasn't meaning him more Gourffran I don't think he's that good in my opinion, anyway your choice. :)

All the best though!

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Hey Noni congratulations on winning the CL!

I'm still in Pre-season, not sure what players to get. Clearing a lot of deadwood. Palermo and Rat have come in. More to come in - hopefully Defour/Witsel. Plus a RB.

Will post screenshots in the coming days.

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How much did you pay for Witsel?

£5.25m. Would have prefered to buy Defour as well but Standard Liege want too much for him. Unfortunately at the start of the season I made a lot of panic buys...Martin Palermo especially. Here are my transfers for the seasons - including the January transfer window. Robbed Lyon with Planus!

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Here's how I'm doing in the league. Surprised by how poorly Lyon and Marseille are doing:

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Won the league just about with 6 draws and 1 loss in my final 15 games. Unfortunately made early exits in the cup but I have bought Mathieu and Capoue for next season to provide me with more power.

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Transfer window time now. Will keep you posted!

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Hey guys!

I'm starting a game as Bordeaux on the latest WeeGiE update(12.06.2009) at the moment,

so does anyone have any suggestions for tactics, buy/sell and other things?

Thanks in advance!

how much are you given in fm weegie update?

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Okay so I started a game with Bordeaux. Sadly, I've suffered 3 big injuries: Chamakh (5-7 weeks), Wendel (4-5 weeks), and Rame (3 months) :( The Rame one is huge. But so for I've gotten Pandev on loan, trying to get Marquinhos, trying to get Ivan Ivanov (good cheap CB), and I got Albin Ekdal for CM, but the transfer goes through July 1st 2009!!! I had no idea it was going to go through next year, I'm guessing it's on his contract at Juve that he can only leave after 2009 or something. I'll post all of my transfers when the season begins and they're all finalized. HoPey, I'm playing your Lyon formation that I stole when I read the Inter thread. But I'm having a tough time getting Gourcuff to play well. I know he creates chances for others more so than for himself, so I have him like this: FWR mixed, RWB often, LS mixed, TB often, CB mixed, free role, high CF, and a high attacking mentality. But he just isn't doing so well. Any advice?

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Okay so I started a game with Bordeaux. Sadly, I've suffered 3 big injuries: Chamakh (5-7 weeks), Wendel (4-5 weeks), and Rame (3 months) The Rame one is huge. But so for I've gotten Pandev on loan, trying to get Marquinhos, trying to get Ivan Ivanov (good cheap CB), and I got Albin Ekdal for CM, but the transfer goes through July 1st 2009!!! I had no idea it was going to go through next year, I'm guessing it's on his contract at Juve that he can only leave after 2009 or something. I'll post all of my transfers when the season begins and they're all finalized. HoPey, I'm playing your Lyon formation that I stole when I read the Inter thread. But I'm having a tough time getting Gourcuff to play well. I know he creates chances for others more so than for himself, so I have him like this: FWR mixed, RWB often, LS mixed, TB often, CB mixed, free role, high CF, and a high attacking mentality. But he just isn't doing so well. Any advice?

You can't play my Lyon formation as Bordeaux, it's just wrong! :D

Have you ticked free role? Which position are you using Gourcuff?

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Thanks, here's an update

Transfers

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I know I already have Pandev on loan, but I wanted to bring in Laurito for after this season. I wanted a better AMR, so I brought in Buonanotte because he's going to be cutting in and hopefully scoring more than he is crossing. Ivanov was just a great deal. Only 825k and he has a PA of

160

. A big improvement over Henrique.

Squad/Tactic

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Buonanotte will eventually be in the AMR position. Saivet will sub for him, Jussie (who is usually in the ML position), and Pandev. Buonanotte will also be my only back up for Gourcuff, as will Pandev. I'm going to mostly rotate between Pandev and Laurito. I just need to find a way to get Pandev the ball more often...

I know I spent a lot of money on transfers, but I kind of had to. But I'll end up winning Ligue 1, and I'm fairly confident I can get pretty far into the CL (Semis). I play Valeciennes my first game, so I'll update you guys regularly.

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