Football Manager 2008 - Page 2

**Russ B** · 05-01-2008, 16:28

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Originally Posted by Mr_love_monkey

yeah, get the best players, and then consistently score more goals than the other team(s)

A mate of mine always sets up 2 profiles, one for himself and the other he uses to take over rich clubs with. He then spends all their millions on his reserve players then gets their star players to sign for him - classic cheating but no challenge then.

Uncle Peter · 05-01-2008, 16:57

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Originally Posted by Russ B

A mate of mine always sets up 2 profiles, one for himself and the other he uses to take over rich clubs with. He then spends all their millions on his reserve players then gets their star players to sign for him - classic cheating but no challenge then.

Ah that old Chestnut, the one where Man U end up with a squad of 32 goalkeepers from the conference

Shadow Demon UK · 05-01-2008, 20:10

This game is great but the one thing that is really annoying is when the board force you to accept an offer for your best players, which just happened to me

wwe · 08-02-2008, 00:02

hi how do u use the network play

wwe · 15-04-2008, 01:07

hi ppl just been on football manager and wanted to check if there is any updates i pressed the button and it saids this on there web site

Check for update 801

New version available
We've detected that a newer version is available from the Sports Interactive website.

However, we are unable to find the download in our database currently. Please try later!

does anyone know where else i can get the update

Uncle Peter · 15-04-2008, 01:20

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Originally Posted by wwe

hi ppl just been on football manager and wanted to check if there is any updates i pressed the button and it saids this on there web site

Check for update 801

New version available
We've detected that a newer version is available from the Sports Interactive website.

However, we are unable to find the download in our database currently. Please try later!

does anyone know where else i can get the update

http://community.sigames.com/eve/for...1/m/3342088083

wwe · 15-04-2008, 01:23

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Originally Posted by Uncle Peter

http://community.sigames.com/eve/for...1/m/3342088083

thank u 4 that

sherer · 15-04-2008, 12:46

i've been playing this as Bromley Town. Managed to get them promoted to League 2 which took me a few years and after just scraping through with my relegation fight last season, we won 4 of our last 5 games, I am now established in mid table and mathmatically in with a shout of the play offs but don't think we can string that run together.

Only annoying thing is I signed a load of players last summer, 16 in fact, that my assistant said were great, then when they actually signed he told me not to play them as only really used a squad of 15 players really. Am losing money each week and just need to finish as high up the league as I can to get more cash.

Only annoying this was when I played as Man U all the players I knew from the old version, Seigey Kisley and others don't seem to be in this one.

Not a fan of the new scouting system either even playing as Man U i never get many recommendations for players to sign

**Russ B** · 27-04-2008, 23:07

Anyone else find the latest patch to be well dodgy? I installed it on thursday and have been playing a bit over the weekend and since then 9 of my first team players are out with injuries

TheDaddy · 03-05-2008, 11:48

Anyone know why the updates manager isn't working?

Uncle Peter · 03-05-2008, 11:56

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Originally Posted by TheDaddy

Anyone know why the updates manager isn't working?

Looks like SI have stopped hosting the patch for some reason so the only way to get it seems to be manually via a torrent or mirror.

TheDaddy · 11-06-2008, 17:37

Just got sent this, a couple made me chuckle, btw the ones with a * aren't my favs, they are some one elses

Your girlfriend turns 29 and you eagerly start scouting around for a replacement.

When you see players playing on tele and you go "He's good on football manager..."

*You suddenly realise that your friends and family have abandoned you, and you're sitting at home in the dark staring at a glowing screen in a growing puddle of your own urine.

When you stop fapping in front of your computer, 'cause you're too busy with FM

You dream about it.
Then at 4:17am for the 5th time in a row, you wake up, get your dressing gown on, treading quietly so not to wake the mrs and the kids (Its a game FFs, not heroin) then you sit there for 5 and a half hours till it is time for work. Then you call in sick, get rid of the Mrs and the kids

You go to put a bet on who will win the premiership next season and complain to the guy behind the desk at the betting shop that Wigan were relegated in 2013.

...then you put a bet on Blackburn because they were taken over by American business tycoons and are the holders with the best squad in the league.

when IRL someone signs a player u got on FM, if they pay more you start to think "i'm a negotiation genius" or if they pay less, u start going on about the fact that "you made that offer and it was rejected".

*You know you've been playing too much Football Manager when you're team in real life is losing so you switch off the television in anger and turning it on expecting to be able to continue from the start of the game

you start suggesting players to your mates for example Millan and they have never played the games and then you look at them with disgust when they dont know who your on about.

*Also, when you are watching MOTD of the day and you have to think twice to remember that KAKA hasn;t gone to Chelsea,Owen is still a Newcastle player and not back at Liverpool, SHevchenko is actually rubbish and that Gerrard,Lampard,Rio and Cole are in their prime and not 35 year old wasters.

*You really really really need a pee, but you hold it because your on a winning streak and think you might curse it if you go "relieve" yourself

*you throw something at your little sister because schalke ended your 90 match unbeaten run with a jammy late goal

*You hear the final whistle blow on TV. Your team has lost the FA Cup Final against their arch rivals. You sit in silence for a minute before turning your head slightly to your left, see "The final whistle blows! Manchester United have won the FA Cup !!!" on a red bar on a computer screen and start running

You see Cristiano Ronaldo sprinting down the flank really, really fast and think "wow, he's fast for a thirty-five year-old!" before realizing that you're NOT in 2022 and that he's still a twenty-two year-old.

*When a girl asks you:
"How you doing?"
and then you reply:
"Really well, just got to the semi's of the FA Cup and just Chelsea 3-2 with Sunderland "

The ones with a * are my favourite

Shadow Demon UK · 11-06-2008, 18:55

When you see players playing on tele and you go "He's good on football manager..."

I must say i do that one often lol

TheDaddy · 11-06-2008, 19:12

you start suggesting players to your mates for example Millan and they have never played the games and then you look at them with disgust when they dont know who your on about.

I do that one lol

Ezenden · 11-06-2008, 19:20

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Originally Posted by Shadow Demon UK

When you see players playing on tele and you go "He's good on football manager..."

I must say i do that one often lol

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheDaddy

you start suggesting players to your mates for example Millan and they have never played the games and then you look at them with disgust when they dont know who your on about.

I do that one lol

Same here. Lorik Cana has been a great player in my Champions League/Serie A winning Palermo side, so you can imagine my delight at the rumours of him signing for my favourite team, Arsenal. Same with Breno, and then he signed for Bayern Munich.