Football Manager 2009 & Football Manager Handheld

Anyone else picking up Football Manager Live at the end of the month?

At 1am last night I achieved one of the greatest deals I have ever had in Football Manager...

How's everyone doing then?

I won the Champions League and F.A Cup in my first season, both against Chelsea in the final. Second in the league to United by 5 points and lost in the League Cup with my kids in the semi-finals to Liverpool.

Second season now and it's going good... improved my squad big time and am strolling through most teams at the moment. Here's my squad...

I absolutely rinsed FM2008, winning everything with Nottingham Forest for 5 years in a row, but 2009 is much harder.

Does anyone have any sound tactics they can share?

So is FM 2009 definitely one to go for i used to love the old FM's, i played a few of the old Fifa Managers when they used to be club manager i think due to i enjoyed having power over clubfacilities and things like upgrading the stadium, but FM always felt far better on the footballing side.

I started off unemployed, and took the first offer which came my way, which was Bury in the first November. The first season was a struggle - the squad was awful, and the previous manager wasted most of the loans on rubbish. It took a while to rebuild the squad but by the end of the second season I'd managed to mould my own team. Only Paul Scott and David Buchanan remain from the original group.

Season summaries

Current stats

Games played: 249
Games won: 108
Games drawn: 69
Games lost: 72

Players bought/signed: 32 (total spend: £400k)
Players sold: 19 (total income: £1.4m)
Players released: 48

Current squad, very multinational as you can see. My domestic bias is 64% compared to a league average of 90%. Thanks to my wide scouting network. 8-)

And my latest result was my finest yet:

EDIT: City have spent a total of £419m in six seasons, have gone through four managers, and are yet to have a single trophy to show for it. :arrow:

This site's got a lot of valuable information about tactics and whatnot:

http://www.fm-britain.co.uk/strategyguides

I'll probably attempt what Spinny has been up to soon but for the moment...

My all conquering Man Utd side, my 2nd season. Spent 15million on Akinfeev, 24million on activating David Siva's release clause. First season I used a diamond formation with wingers, this season I've pushed them right up with the attacking midfielder, it's been working well beat Chelsea twice (in the Community Shield and Super Cup) and my 2nd XI beat Derby 4-0. I actually have nothing left for any more transfers, I've got 90k left on wages should I need to fiddle about with players deals.

Patch 9.3.0 (with January update) is out for FM 09: http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php?t=106355

I signed Messi for Real Madrid. 8-)

It is the opening day of the 2014/15 season. Carlisle vs. Bury (me). We're in the 95th minute and it's still 0-0.

Carlisle are in blue, Bury are in white. Carlisle's number 32 has just cleared the ball. Note the location of my keeper. Guess what happens next. :fp:

Spindash wrote:It is the opening day of the 2014/15 season. Carlisle vs. Bury (me). We're in the 95th minute and it's still 0-0.

Carlisle are in blue, Bury are in white. Carlisle's number 32 has just cleared the ball. Note the location of my keeper. Guess what happens next.

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Football Manager 2009 & Football Manager Handheld

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