FM 09 General chat

New season, selling Adriano to Fiorentina for €20M, not bad for a 29 year old.

EDIT

Selling Boruc to Bolton for €12.5M

And I've offered Caldwell for 5M, I wonder if anyone will take me up on that offer!

 

Caldwell agreed a deal to go to Fullham on a free! So I took him off all training schedules, put him in the reserves and made him learn how to be a striker, that will learn him, the *.

 

* thats exactly what i do only I set their training schedule to goalkeeper, too

 

*, thats genius. Ill do that too

 

My current team this season

Sold Boruc - 12M
Caldwell - 5M
Adriano 20M
Schaars - 6.5M
Citro - 1M

And still no starting place for Van der Vaart!!

Signed a couple of young gems for * all, they have serious attributes!!

Finished upgrading Lennoxtown to 'state of the art' :icon_mrgreen:

 

Is Park a good assistant?

 

I trust him 100%, his tactical knowledge is only 10 in my game so he's abit slow to pick up on stuff during matches

 

Just bought the game guys and finished installing it!

I'll let yas know how i get on! :icon_mrgreen:

 

5 goals in extra time of the league cup with a 2nd string team out :icon_mrgreen:

 

Van der vaart & fletcher... "2nd string"

lucky you

 

See above team report for my strongest lineup

 

Guys can you recommend a formation to use for Celtic? I've tried an attacking 4-4-2 and a variation of an attacking 4-5-1 but I don't seem to get a lot goals, and everytime the opposition go forward it's heart in mouth time for me (despite having closing down on own half)

Current team -

Boruc

Hinkel
McManus
(Thiago) Silva
(Razvan)Rat

McGeady
(Michael)Morton
Brown
Nakamura

JVOH
Ronaldo

I'm in work right now so I apologise for lack of screenies, I do struggle away a lot and sometimes at home especially against f*cking Hearts for some reason, limping towards the end of the season and I'm top clear by 3 points from Dundee united (Hearts 3rd Rangers joint 4th with ICT).

My Top Goal scorer is JVOH with 11, Maloney with 8, McGeady & Ronaldo with 6 (Sold McDonald to Man City for 6.5mill).

MyChampions League group this season - Arsenal, Werder Bremen & Fiorentina. I Got owned seriously, finishing bottom, and the fans still hate me for losing 2-1 to Partizan Belgrade in a friendly at the start of the season!

Any assistance on a formation would be appreciated.

 

i'm the same wolf tone. i give my team an attacking formation but i never score and awlways concede. i acctually can't rememeber the last time i won a match it's that bad

 

It's the chances I miss that make me bang my head of the desk mate, unbelievable absolutely ridicolous chances I'm missing, and yet they amount of 30-45 yard screamers the opposition score whilst Boruc is rooted to the spot just * me off no end.

I nearly smashed my keyboard when Arsenal were 3 -0 up after 12 minutes in the first CL game.

 

mate i got beat 6-2 in a friendly match against olympiakos

 

Just had Celtic expanded by 15000, If I am correct, then it's bigger than Old Trafford.

EDIT: *, 1000 seats off

 

My biggest result to date is 4-0 against St.Mirren. Maloney scored 1 then St. Mirren conceded 3 own goals, the best one being the Saints keeper time wasting bringing the ball out of his own area and blootering it off the * of his own defender only for it to lob him and roll into the net

But seriously It's a rare day when I score more than one goal in any given match. Don't get me wrong I'll take a scrappy backs to the wall 1-0 victory any day but it's now the common theme and becomig a bit tedious, and it doesn't seem to matter what I say or do it doesn't change I also very rarely get a player that plays above a 6.5 av rating!

Still I've beat them three times albeit all 1-0 victories! the Green & Whitewash is on.

My Biggest defaet was the Arsenal game lost it 5-0 eventually not even a sniff of the goal.

 

What is your tactic?

 

Currently playing an attacking 4-4-2 as I don't seem to concede a lot of goals with that formation over a 4-5-1 -

----------Boruc---------
------------------------
---------x----- x--------
---------' ------'--------
---------' ------'--------
Hinkel McManus Silva Rat
------------------------
---------x--------------
---------'---------------
---------'---------------
-------Morton Brown
Naka----------------McGeady
--' -------------------'
--'--------------------'
--x-------------------x
------------------------
------Ronaldo JVOH----------

Can't remember if I have brown going forward or not.

Fat Ronnie & JVOH as target men (mixed delivery to them) play counter attack. Closing down own half only (which they don't but that might be down to zonal marking?!?) normal tackling.