The FIFA Thread

[Rubber bullets 1,183]

I think Rooney has a contract with EA that puts hin on each UK cover until it runs out.

[Peace. 4,352]

Fuck fifa, lampard should be on the cover again.

United only won the carling cup last season for fuck sake.

We got to deal with this... It's always the same ol' thing. EA does business, and unfortunatly Roonney makes more sales than Lampard...

[TrueChelseaBlue 105]

My First Team Squad

(used editor before i started this save to get Ramires and Benayoun. and to have Delac join first season)

Goalkeepers:

Cech

Delac

Turnbull

Defenders:

Bosingwa

Ivanovic

Alex

Terry

Bruma

A.Cole

Midfielders:

Zhirkov

Essien

Ramires

Mikel

Benayoun

Lampard

Malouda

Kakuta

Kalou

Forwards:

Drogba

Sturridge

Anelka

Lukaku

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I've signed (Alphonse Areola, Mats Rits and Arsenio Valpoort) for my U18's.

Also got Neymar joining at the end of the season from Santos.

And Joe Hart joining from Manchester City.

My transfer dealings:

Arsenio Valpoort - £1Million compensation

Romelu Lukaku - £9Million, plus future incentives.

Mats Rits - £1Million plus future incentives.

Also, loaned out alot of my youngsters to aid there development and there confidence. Also to give them more match time.

You may think 'them transfers are cheap' Well, yes. they are..i like to develop players.

Another way to get players on the cheap is to:

Praise that players clubs manager stating you have a 'Great friendship' keep doing it, you'll eventually bep ut on there 'favoured personnel'

Praise the player your interested in. See what feedback they give you. Like with all my dealings at the moment, i'm on all there 'favoured personnel' which gives me the advantage of securing the transfer with minimal fuss and gets me thinking 'i'm confident of signing this player'.

Publicly state your interest in the player.

Make the player feel wanted.

Unsettle the player at the current Club.

A good way to develop players is to:

Send them out on loan.

Tutor them with you first team players. as i'm currently doing with Drogba tutoring Lukaku, Zhirkov tutoring Kalou and Essien tutoring Ramires.

Give them match time - eg: Bruma, Kakuta, Conor Clifford, Hutchinson in the Carling/FA Cup.

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Delac, Lukaku, Kakuta & Bruma play Reserve Football to aid development aswell as First Team.

* I listed Kalou under midfielders as i prefer to use him on the left wing rather than a main striker. He's handy if Malouda or Zhirkov are injured. Also plays very well as a substitute

[Joe Cool 388]

Lol you don't need to follow what the club is doing in real life (Ramires and Benayoun), you're the manager after all! (especially in the case of Benayoun). Zhirkov is fucking quality in FM, one of my best players. I forgot to give Kakuta a contract offer so he was snatched by Real Madrid

How good are Neymar and Lukaku in FM? And also I'm not too much into developing players as you can see from my squad, although my squad's average age is 21, I just don't have to patience to tell my players to tutor etc.

[TrueChelseaBlue 105]

Lol you don't need to follow what the club is doing in real life (Ramires and Benayoun), you're the manager after all! (especially in the case of Benayoun). Zhirkov is fucking quality in FM, one of my best players. I forgot to give Kakuta a contract offer so he was snatched by Real Madrid

How good are Neymar and Lukaku in FM? And also I'm not too much into developing players as you can see from my squad, although my squad's average age is 21, I just don't have to patience to tell my players to tutor etc.

Lukaku is awesome if you let him play reserves aswell as 1at team in FM. Neymar's not bad either. but he n Hart don't join until next season Kakuta went to Real? Nooooooo he develops into a top notch player!! lol

Nah i know alot of people that don't like developing players. but ive always liked it

And i agree Zhirkov is brilliant on FM, by far my best and most consistant player.

[Joe Cool 388]

Yeah I guess developing players is necessary though. My squad is well too small due to my lack of care for the reserves and also due to the fact that I have to sell to buy, because my club finances are only at ok, not rich

[TrueChelseaBlue 105]

Yeah I guess developing players is necessary though. My squad is well too small due to my lack of care for the reserves and also due to the fact that I have to sell to buy, because my club finances are only at ok, not rich

Yeah, as with any Manager, your reserves are the future of your Club so it is necessary.. especially seinf as your finances are only, 'okay'... how on earth did you manage that btw? lol

[Joe Cool 388]

Yeah, as with any Manager, your reserves are the future of your Club so it is necessary.. especially seinf as your finances are only, 'okay'... how on earth did you manage that btw? lol

I dunno, my wage bill is only 1.55 million quid a week, they said it was from using up the transfer budget of 68 million quid the first season, which is ridiculous because they wouldn't have given me the funds if it put the club's finances in such a position (which it wouldn't even in real life). Second season they gave me only 10 million for transfer funds for the goal of title winner, and then 30 million the season after.

[TrueChelseaBlue 105]

I dunno, my wage bill is only 1.55 million quid a week, they said it was from using up the transfer budget of 68 million quid the first season, which is ridiculous because they wouldn't have given me the funds if it put the club's finances in such a position (which it wouldn't even in real life). Second season they gave me only 10 million for transfer funds for the goal of title winner, and then 30 million the season after.

lol thats a tad strange!

Would love it if SI would put the option of 'player-manager' into FM. would be cool.

[Joe Cool 388]

lol thats a tad strange!

Would love it if SI would put the option of 'player-manager' into FM. would be cool.

There are already player-managers in the game (but you can't be one), but yeah, that would be cool if you could be a player manager.

[AlexRO 1]

I played with Chelsea FM 2010 many seasons, but is something... my game didn't work very well, I mean, I scored very hard, concede to many goals...

Now I'm at Manchester City (I know, money are the devil's eye) and the game is working very well, just 2 minutes ago I defeat Manchester United with 2 - 0.

The squad is the normal one (July 2009) + Lukaku, Milner + other young players (Ryan Bertrand, Nacer Barazite, Gai Assulin - all are at loan).

At Chelsea Lampard worked very well for me like Advanced Playmaker Attack, but at the middle, not in the back of strikers. Ballack is Box-to-box and he's shot is incredible strong and can score from 30 yards very easy

At Manchester City I like that you recive a lot of money and you can do what you want, at Chelsea... well... the club has a name and you can't mess the things around...

[Fulham Broadway 17,305]

"Assign customized chants for every team and league. Set your home club’s anthems and chants to play during player introductions, halftime, and after goals. Even hear your name echo in the stands of Old Trafford or San Siro with customized chants for your Virtual Pro. Plus, play music from your hard drive in game."

''Harry Redknapp is a cunt, a cunt, a cunt''

or ''race you back to London'' at Old Trafforf -and ''Just like watching Shameless''

[Kez 2,727]

"Assign customized chants for every team and league. Set your home club's anthems and chants to play during player introductions, halftime, and after goals. Even hear your name echo in the stands of Old Trafford or San Siro with customized chants for your Virtual Pro. Plus, play music from your hard drive in game."

''Harry Redknapp is a cunt, a cunt, a cunt''

or ''race you back to London'' at Old Trafforf -and ''Just like watching Shameless''

Amazing! I love the little details.

[Kostas 1,468]

Found how some of our boys will look in FIFA 11

John Terry

Super Frank Lampard

Fabio Borini

Danny Sturridge

Didier Drogba

Branislav Ivanovic

John Obi Mikel

Nemanja Matic

Florent Malouda

Nicolas Anelka

Petr Cech

Alex

Yuri Zhirkov

Ashley Cole

Michael Essien

Jeffrey Bruma

Josh McEachran

Gokhan Tore

Salomon Kalou

And last but not least(A wankfest for some )

Gaël Kakuta

[ZanSnake 1,211]

FABIO BORINI LOOKS AWESOME!

STURRIDGE BROKE MY CAPS LOCK!