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"Football Manager '05"

Is dangerously addictive, almost impossibly deep, and is a truly marvellous management spectacle.

It is also frustrating beyond words, often truly ridiculous and is a cause of premature mental instability.







I love Football Manager '05

Half way through the season and still mid table with Boston in the Championship, not bought any new players so the new tactics of getting forward and attacking are working wonders.

Started a new game as Liverpool.

Who are the best free transfers at the start?

Felt like having a real challenge so i've moved to West Brom who are expecting to fight relegation...but with a few of my genius managerial tactics i'll hopefully get them in the top half of the table.

Ah crap, all of the top teams are taking the players I need. Celtic made an offer for Mark Wilson which got accepted, so im sure he'll go there rather than West Brom, and Real Madrid have now made an offer for Delgado.

Wood AFC wrote:
> Hey, does anyone know any good sites with FAQs on making Skins for
> Football Manager or does anyone know how to make them?
>
> Half way through the first season of my own 'masters league'. sitting
> in the first divison with inter at the moment...but things arnt going
> to well lol.

www.sortitoutsi.com

Hehe, just finished second season. I won the Premiership with four games left, having overtaken Arsenal with 23 games played and running on not to lose a match in 55 (and counting) games. Lost 1 game in the league, and that was the second match.

I also won the Champions League, demolishing Levurkusen 9-1 on aggregate (2-1 away, 7-0 at home) and then Milan 4-0. And then the League and Super cup. Awesome.

Two of my three Dutch signings have turned to gold, Sneijder (£9.5M) and van der Vaart (£7.25M) are both awesome. Bommel just isn't playing CM, as Vaart is doing so well. Gerard, my free signing from Barcalona (not Gerrard) is doing great at DMC, even though he is listed as a AM C. Trying to retrain Bommel there as well.

This summer's transfer target: Julio Baptista. And maybe some more defenders, DCs mainly.

Not started too badly with Boston in the Championship for the second season - won 2 of my first 6 games, drew 2 and lost 2 so am mid-table at the minute.

Hey, does anyone know any good sites with FAQs on making Skins for Football Manager or does anyone know how to make them?

Half way through the first season of my own 'masters league'. sitting in the first divison with inter at the moment...but things arnt going to well lol.

Just qualified for the knock out stages of the Champions League with Spurs, and confirmed the signing of van Persie for £1M and Andy Reid.

Congrats on staying up. Im trying to get Guily from Barcelona at the moment, after the board raised my transfer funds to £30M!

Woo!

While doing that, im also trying to get a different job, I want to manage a crap team and lead them to success, but im not guaranteed to get the job so it probably wont be accepted.

Managed to survive in the Championship with Boston but next season is looking tough!

No cash to spend unless I sell and I've got no decent players to offload to raise some transfer funds.

Ah well I'll try and make the best of a bad situation.

I am in the 2008 - 2009 season i have spent 60 million on 5 decent players

Diego
Adu
De Jong
Heitinga
Robinho

I won the community shield against Arseanl and the European Super Cup on pens against Roma.

My top scorers are Van Nistelrooy with 15 goals and Rossi with 9