Football Manager 2010 SG talk

[Twinkletoes89]

Stop making the game too easy, TT

On a more serious comment, you really found a lot of very good players. We can climb a few divisions with the potential of these guys. I'll make some similar searches today (yesterday was a too busy day). It seems that is not against the SG to pass some time in the save to see if the players are good or not, so I'll do it too.

I'll try to look in another countries to find good players. Of course, only from communitary nationalities, since I don't think we'd be able to get a work permit being in the division that we are.

I try my best - I was staggered with what my searches came up with.

In terms of what I did - nearly all of these guys had nearly all their critical attributes unmasked so I only moved further on to see if they could be signed & negotiated down, rather than sign players with fully masked attributes & got lucky.

Sorting by attributes on the player search screen is my friend and it always comes up a treat. Makes it so much easier!

I would be surprised if you found many others on the player search unless they are relatively well masked - plus I think I've found enough players to break our budget - though they are completely worth it!

I'm just waiting to see Brian's reaction to these players - I nearly fell of my chair!

[Ichabod]

It definetely seems to be a side effect of the non real players option.

Compared to our current squad, these guys are indeed amazingly good. Ciaran O'Neill, Bryan Patterson and Steven MacDonald are unbelievable players to have in such a low division team like ours.

Bah, Steven MacDonald will score so much. Good pace, finishing and composure. Only thing he lacks is aereal ability, but I was expecting to see players lacking in everything but aereal ability, so it's definetely good!

Nice job, TT

[Twinkletoes89]

MacDonald will be a goal machine I agree - He's also great at free kicks!

McInnes will score a lot too I reckon - his mental stats are good & high potential.

Scott Stewart has amazing stats for a young goal keeper - look at one on ones!

Ciaran O'Neill is just obscene though - completely scary.

With Angus & Patterson having leading premiership potential too its crazy.

I must play with fake players more often at this rate!

I recommend signing as many of these as possible - they will either take our team miles up the leagues by their performances or by their eventual transfer fees!

[Gustaran]

It definetely seems to be a side effect of the non real players option.

I thought you started with non-real players to make it more difficult

[Jkaen]

So how many people do you think from the current wimbledon team will actually end up making the first 11?

[Brian Shanahan]

I think this describes my reaction best.

The reason why I didn't change the budgets was because I haven't given the board my club expectations yet. I assume we're ok with current defaults.

[Twinkletoes89]

I like keeping it as is simply so we have as much leeway as possible in case of an injury crisis/long time for team to gel.

We can go the whole hog and maybe get a couple of grand more after rejiggering the budgets but then we put ourselves under more pressure.

Also, if we exceed expectations it will probably cover for them being a little annoyed at going over budget.

Here's my final list of players I would like us to sign:

Must Buys

Steven MacDonald
Shaun McInnes
Bryan Patterson
Graham Angus
Scott Stewart
Ciaran O'Neill
Monde Zwane
Brian Fox
Alex White
Mike Benjamin
Andy Ratten (if we can negotiate down to ~£500 - will cover right wing)
Jason Hines
Gerard Duvalier

Mathys Henry (Loan from Sunderland)

Nice Extras

Ian McIntosh
Derek McLaughlin
Liam Thomas
Mark Mulcahy
Simon Bah
Niall Bell
Emmanuel Noah
Alan Williams

Mario Alomar (Loan from Fulham)

[Brian Shanahan]

Ok I like your list TT, so I'll play the first month and see what we can get.

Oh and the last thing I did last night was to slot in a few friendlies against the Blades, Wigan, Derby, and Crystal Palace @ c. £35k a match. Hopefully they'll accept.

[Twinkletoes89]

Excellent - make sure you are quick off the ball with the youngsters especially! Make offers straight away & we'll have them signed, sealed & delivered before any bigger clubs notice! Also, they all start turning 17 pretty quickly (a month or so in I think - so get it sorted). Don't worry if it warns you about compensation - we don't have to pay it as long as we offer the clubs £0 as a transfer fee rather than simply 'Approach to Sign'.

I am really looking forward to the 2nd half of the season when I get a hold of them! MacDonald on poacher will score bucketloads!

[Brian Shanahan]

Ok I went for all the Must Buy players, have gotten some to agree even lower than you did, by offering signing on fees (@£5k). I also offered a contract to Noah (£400pw+£5k signing on) and he refused flat out, so I'm saying at least £2k pw basic which is out of our range. Bah's agent wants £1,600 pw plus a lot of add-ons we can't afford at the moment, but I haven't refused yet.

Contracts so far plus contract offers to Wynter and Jones at the club:

Thats £1,770 of our wage budget if we get them all, which will give us £9,887 of a budget of £10,500 spent.

I'll write up about my tactics in five minutes. The (mostly) Scottish lads on the £0 transfers I offered to the clubs, no response yet.