The_Joker Posted February 7, 2009 Share Posted February 7, 2009 FM09: Spartak Moscow – The Russian Revive Name: Football Club Spartak Moscow Founded: 1922 Nickname(s): Myaso(Meat) & Krasno-Belye(Red Whites) Stadium: Luzhniki Stadium // Capacity: 78,000 Kits: Home – Red & White // Away - White Russian Rivalries At present, Spartak's arch rival is CSKA Moscow. One of the most celebrated rivalries is "Spartak-Dinamo", with neighbours Dinamo Moscow. However, this has faded somewhat due to Dinamo's poor performances. Matches against Lokomotiv Moscow and Zenit St.Petersburg attract thousands of people as well, almost always resulting in packed stadiums. Another rivalry was lost with the collapse of the Soviet Union. This was with Dynamo Kyiv, one of the leaders of the USSR championship; Home Advantage Spartak has never had its own stadium and the team has played in various Moscow stadiums throughout its history and even once an exhibition match on Red Square. Currently, the club's home ground is the 5-star Luzhniki Stadium which officially belongs to another Moscow club, Torpedo. However, the club's new board has recently declared that "Spartak will soon play on their own stadium". The federal government has agreed to give land for the stadium near the Tushino air field. The construction will begin in 2007 and is expected to end in 2009. The People That Make It Work President: Leonid Fedun Executive director: Valery Karpin Manager: Michael Laudrup Assistant manager: Sergey Rodionov Goalkeeping coach: Gintaras Staučė Reserves team coaches: Dmitry Gun'ko and Andrey Shiryayev Physios: Vladimir Zotkin, Yury Vasilkov and Liu Hungsheng History Of Achievements Winners League – 2001 Russian Cup – 2003 CIS Champions Cup – 2001 Runners – Up Russian Super Cup – 2004, 2006, 2007 2008/2009 Season Title Challenge; Transfer Funds = £7.05 million // Wage Budget = 156k Starting 11 = 4–4-2 GK – Pletikosa LB – Fathi RB – Rodriguez CB – Jiranek CB – Shishkin LM – Maidana RM – Bystrov CM – Mozart CM – Pavlenko ST – Welliton ST – Prudnikov Substitutes = 7 named – Maximum of 3 used GK - Djanaev DF – Sranzl DF – Luanov MF – Saenko MF – Kovalchuk ST – Dzyuba ST - Bazhenov Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Joker Posted February 7, 2009 Author Share Posted February 7, 2009 Has anyone been these before? Any transfer targets? ---- ---- ---- ---- If it helps it's the 9.2.0 + I've done a fair few of the January transfers. That does mean I've lost, probably, my best player to West Ham on loan (Radoslav Kovac) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Joker Posted February 8, 2009 Author Share Posted February 8, 2009 So far I've brought in; Smertin - Free Fiore - Free Renan - Bortafogo - £1m Gerkov - Dinamo - £4.4m Chicharin - 110k Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mista T Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 looks interesting, but the foreigners rule for russia would drive me insane I'm always buying brazillians in my games Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
yankee_ram Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 I played Spartak in FM 07 and loved it. Ended up managing 27 seasons with them, won everything in Russia, the CL but couldnt get the darn UEFA Cup. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purefun Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 What about the foreign rule? Are europeans considerd foreign? Good youth? Other great russian prospects? And do you move stadium in the game? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe The Tiger Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 FM09: Spartak Moscow – The Russian ReviveName: Football Club Spartak Moscow Founded: 1922 Nickname(s): Myaso(Meat) & Krasno-Belye(Red Whites) Stadium: Luzhniki Stadium // Capacity: 78,000 Kits: Home – Red & White // Away - White Russian Rivalries At present, Spartak's arch rival is CSKA Moscow. One of the most celebrated rivalries is "Spartak-Dinamo", with neighbours Dinamo Moscow. However, this has faded somewhat due to Dinamo's poor performances. Matches against Lokomotiv Moscow and Zenit St.Petersburg attract thousands of people as well, almost always resulting in packed stadiums. Another rivalry was lost with the collapse of the Soviet Union. This was with Dynamo Kyiv, one of the leaders of the USSR championship; Home Advantage Spartak has never had its own stadium and the team has played in various Moscow stadiums throughout its history and even once an exhibition match on Red Square. Currently, the club's home ground is the 5-star Luzhniki Stadium which officially belongs to another Moscow club, Torpedo. However, the club's new board has recently declared that "Spartak will soon play on their own stadium". The federal government has agreed to give land for the stadium near the Tushino air field. The construction will begin in 2007 and is expected to end in 2009. The People That Make It Work President: Leonid Fedun Executive director: Valery Karpin Manager: Michael Laudrup Assistant manager: Sergey Rodionov Goalkeeping coach: Gintaras Staučė Reserves team coaches: Dmitry Gun'ko and Andrey Shiryayev Physios: Vladimir Zotkin, Yury Vasilkov and Liu Hungsheng History Of Achievements Winners League – 2001 Russian Cup – 2003 CIS Champions Cup – 2001 Runners – Up Russian Super Cup – 2004, 2006, 2007 2008/2009 Season Title Challenge; Transfer Funds = £7.05 million // Wage Budget = 156k Starting 11 = 4–4-2 GK – Pletikosa LB – Fathi RB – Rodriguez CB – Jiranek CB – Shishkin LM – Maidana RM – Bystrov CM – Mozart CM – Pavlenko ST – Welliton ST – Prudnikov Substitutes = 7 named – Maximum of 3 used GK - Djanaev DF – Sranzl DF – Luanov MF – Saenko MF – Kovalchuk ST – Dzyuba ST - Bazhenov To make the thread better why don't you add some squad anyalsis? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Joker Posted February 8, 2009 Author Share Posted February 8, 2009 Will do at some point, thanks for the advice ---- ---- ---- ---- Not too sure if I'll bring anyone else in now. The main positions I wanted were; Cover for Pletikosa - Brought young Brazilian Renan A striker - Gerkov from rivals Dinamo Central Midfielder for a year while Kovac is at West Ham - Smertin on a free Then added Fiore and Chicharin Still have around £2million to spend.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Joker Posted February 9, 2009 Author Share Posted February 9, 2009 You can have a maximum of 7 foreign players, by foreign it means anyone not Russian. Which is killing me so far! Mozart & Genkov are out for between 3 weeks - a month Currently 2nd in the table after 8 games, unbeaten. CSKA are top having won all of their games - I play them in two games time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
thefox69 Posted February 9, 2009 Share Posted February 9, 2009 What are Mozart & Welliton like on the game, would they be good signings for any team in the more challenging european leagues?? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Joker Posted February 9, 2009 Author Share Posted February 9, 2009 Welliton has been in great from so far, netting 5 goals in 7 games. Pacey, strong, Brazilian and not afraid to hit them! I'd definatly say he's worth trying out in bigger leagues. Mozart hasn't been that impressive for me, buut I think that MIGHT be because I play him along side Smertin, two very similar players. If he's with a more attacking player, with someone like Pavlenko for me, he seemed to come out a lot more with his tackles. If you want a hard-hitting player then he is worth a shot but I'd say he needs a player who's the complete opposite to him. Sorry I don't know their values at the minute. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Joker Posted February 9, 2009 Author Share Posted February 9, 2009 Thought Id give people an update; Sold; Stranzl to Fulham for £3.6m Kovalchuk to Monaco for £2.1m Brought; Alexey Popov from Rubin for £2.1 Dzyuba - 7 goals in 13 games - £5.25m value Welliton - 7 goals in 15 games - £5m value Pletikosa has been sensational in ever game! A must buy 'keeper! Mozart has picked up is performances of late, up to £4.1m and picking up a lot of interest. Byshov is wanted by a host of European clubs, worht £5m After 15/16 games 1st - CSKA - 36 points 2nd - Saturn - 33 points 3rd - Zenit - 32 points 4th - Lokomotiv - 31 points 5th - Spartak - 30 points Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Joker Posted February 10, 2009 Author Share Posted February 10, 2009 Dropped to 6th in the league, picking up injuries all over the place! Managed to qualify for the group stage of the Champions League Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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