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Benny the Ball
07:16 / 14.08.05
I'm a big fan of using Football Manager 2005 as a means of killing time and partaking in one of my favourite past-times/playing out a favourite fantasy - namely that of being a football manager. From the people that bought us Championship Manager, Football Manager 2005 is fantastic.

Anyone else playing? Or anyone willing to counter argue that CM is still where it's at?

I usually opt for Forest (something fun about being in charge of an under achieving team with decent young players and a massive debt). Going for a counter-attacking 4-1-3-2 foramtion with a defensive midfielder anchoring between defence and three failry attacking mid's (the centre of the three being an out and out attacking mid) and then try and put a pacey forward alongside a tall target man.

As for tips - Lee Trundle from Cardiff and Sam Parking (who I think is at Swindon in the game) are both fantastic lower division attackers who, especially Parking, can perform very well in the Premiership - plus a young Dane called Marcus Berg seems to be very good. Of course Freddy Adu, the wunderkint of football, is a great signing and gets better each year, and for those with money Dede and Victor Kompany are both fantastic defensive players (Kompany playing as that anchor man).

I'm quite a few seasons in, in the Premiership, defending my title, trying to get the elusive FA Cup and going for the Champions League, I've also been asked to manage England (winning 8-0 in my first game in charge! - only a friendly, but still....)

Anyone?
 
 
COG
18:46 / 05.09.05
I've always thought that a management game would be ideal for a gameboy or other portable. Are there any? A little bit of formation tinkering would fill those bus trips perfectly.
 
 
Benny the Ball
11:30 / 22.11.06
Bump -

Football Manager 2007 is available on PSP. I've never played it in this format, nor in consol format so not sure how it translates.

Anyway - FM 2007 is out. So far it's not too bad - a little irritating in the player interaction sections of the game, the players egos are getting bigger and dealing with them is becoming a full time job (a friend tells me that the next update will see the WAGS getting involved, not sure about this). But it's still got everything that makes it good there.

So - as these threads haven't been greatly successful - anyone playing? Any recommended players? Anyone?

I've played around with Forest, who are great in their league, have a good wage budget and don't require much in the way of strengthening (Tyson is awsome in L1 also) - and had a look at Everton - kind of flimsy by Johnson is by and far the best goalscorer that I've played with on the game.

One interesting new feature is the inclusion of starting unemployed and going for job interviews (effectively) although, I say this is new as this is the first time that I've done it, so it might be an old feature.

Okay, threads on again, same rules apply...
 
  
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