Football Manager 2008

[gazzae]

New version of Football Manager is out on Friday week. Can't wait, haven't played FM for ages so looking forward to getting back into it.


Some new features are...

Transfer Center - A new way of managing all current transfer and loan bids for your club, both incoming and outgoing, making it easier to compare bids and reject or accept them.

Finance Revamp - Sports Interactive have updated the finance area of Football Manager 2008 to better reflect the ever-changing modern football world. More information is available to the manager too, including, but not limited to, corporate matchday income, season ticket news, investment funds, improved sponsorships, collective win bonuses and the ability to move around funds from the wage budget and transfer budget (and vice versa) at any point to help you in your quest for the ideal squad.

International Management - The international management gameplay has been completely revamped for Football Manager 2008, including, but not limited to, media improvements, international retirements, player interaction, international scouting, improved national pool selection, captain selection and a separation of international and club morale for players.

Match Flow - The largest change to matchdays in a Sports Interactive game since the introduction of the 2D match engine. Match flow brings more atmosphere to matchdays with match previews, team talks, opposition player instructions, the match itself, half time and post match now seamlessly following on from one another. There's no more pausing to make tactical changes and you'll find a mini-radar pitch whilst making those tactical changes to keep you in touch with what's going on in the match.

Confidence - You can now easily tell what your board and supporters think about your performance in the game through the new confidence section. This gives you feedback not just on your current progress in competitions, but also your financial management and signings.

Easier to Use - A much cleaner skin, a brand new advisor system to help you through various areas of the game, a new notes and notebook system, better button positioning for simpler navigation and an updated tutorial and manual. Also, coach reports to make taking over a new team easier and a new calendar system - which lists all important dates throughout the season - help to make Football Manager 2008 the easiest Sports Interactive game to use yet.

Fan Days - The board can now arrange fan days to boost ailing attendances, or for matches that are likely to attract a low crowd, with a long-term affect to attendances if all goes well.

Awards Overhaul - A full overhaul of the awards system inside the game, which is not only more accurate but also includes new awards, such as the European golden boot and a 'best eleven', which shows the all-time (in-game) best XI for all teams and nations.

Match Engine Improvements - A greatly improved match engine, once again utilizing the footballing brain of Ray Houghton and other tools used by real-life managers, to make the most accurate simulation of football in a computer game even more like-life than ever before. Oh, and the ability to change the pitch dimensions at the start of the season to suit your style of play better.

Expanded Media - More media and feedback than ever before, plus more detail in existing media, and a new competition news section to find out what major things are going on in all league competitions.

Regenerated Player Photos - All in-game regenerated players now have pictures using FaceGen technology to give each player more personality. This gives the ability for players to be seen to mature and grow-up looks-wise in front of your eyes as the game is going on.

Speedyfastier - Saving and loading is now significantly faster, with network gaming quicker and smoother to play, as well as tactical changes and match reports being faster than ever before

http://fm08.footballmanager.net

[Damien]

Finance Revamp - Sports Interactive have updated the finance area of Football Manager 2008 to better reflect the ever-changing modern football world. More information is available to the manager too, including, but not limited to, corporate matchday income, season ticket news, investment funds, improved sponsorships, collective win bonuses and the ability to move around funds from the wage budget and transfer budget (and vice versa) at any point to help you in your quest for the ideal squad.

International Management - The international management gameplay has been completely revamped for Football Manager 2008, including, but not limited to, media improvements, international retirements, player interaction, international scouting, improved national pool selection, captain selection and a separation of international and club morale for players.

Expanded Media - More media and feedback than ever before, plus more detail in existing media, and a new competition news section to find out what major things are going on in all league competitions.

Speedyfastier - Saving and loading is now significantly faster, with network gaming quicker and smoother to play, as well as tactical changes and match reports being faster than ever before

All these are great improvements IMO. I have already pre-ordered it and paid for it so yay

[Mr_love_monkey]

Do they still have the little stick men scoring goals in it?

[Shadow Demon UK]

Downloaded the Gold demo and finshed it in one night

Goodbye life

[SB_07]

Probably put off buying this for a while and continue my 2007 one with Arsenal =)

PES2008 is about to take over my life lol.

[ginge51]

I'll be getting this one too
Always enjoyed playing fm

[milkshake_561]

I absolutely love the trailer for this.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOwybu4IhR0

[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by Shadow Demon UK

Downloaded the Gold demo and finshed it in one night

Goodbye life

Get it here obviously

[wwe]

whats the best players to buy on football manager

[TheDaddy]

Try some of these, all 'wonder kids' or youngsters with massive potential, you might need the 'large database' on if you want to find all of them

Argentina:

Ever Banega
Brian Sarmiento
Mateo Musacchio
Emiliano Insua
Maximiliano Oliva
Angel di Maria
Pablo Piatti
Jonathan Cristaldo
Diego Buonanotte
Jose san Roman
Lucas Trecarichi
Yoel Goldstein
Marco Ruben
Maximiliano Moralez
Alejandro Gomez
Oscar Ustari
Neri Cardozo
Matias Cahais
Mauro Zarate
Sebastian Leto

Australia:
Dean Bouzanis

Belarus:
Anton Putilo
Yegor Filipenko

Bosnia:
Miralem Pjanic

Brazil:
Cassio (PSV)
Marcelo Grohe
Mauricio (Fluminense)
Guilherme (Vasco)
Carlos Eduardo (Hoffenheim)
Bruno Formigoni
Rafinha (Cruzeiro)
Anselmo Ramon
Alan Kardec
Alex (Vasco- AM RLC F)
Thiago (barca)
Leyrielton (Goais)
Sidnei (Internacional)
Bruno Mezenga
Welliton
Rafael Forster
Fabio (Fluminense D/WB/AM L)
Lulinha
Alan (Guaranin S)
Alexandre Pato
David (Palmeras DC)
Felipe (Santos)
Guilherme (Cruzeiro)
Breno (Sao Paulo)
Sergio Mota
Roberto (Atl. Paranaense)
Choco (Atl. Para.)
Celsinho (Lokomotiv Moscow)
Eduardo Ratinho (Corinthians)
Willian (Shakhtar)
Kerlon
Denilson (Arsenal)
Anderson (Man UTD)
Joao Carlos (Atl. Para.)
Ramon (CSKA Moscow)
Thiago (Sao Paulo)

Canada:
Asmir Begovic

Chile:
Nicolas Milian
Arturo Vidal

Colombia:
Cesar Lindado
Cristian Nazarith
Juan Pablo Pino
Yessu Cabrera

Congo:
Fabrice N'Guessi

Costa Rica:
Angulo Marvin

Croatia:
Ivan Rakitic

Denmark:
Kasper Schmeichel
Nicklas Bendtner

England:
Nedum Onuoha
Michael Mancienne
Danny Welbeck
Nathan Delfouneso
Scott Sinclair
Fabrice Muamba
Krystian Pearce
Jack Hobbs
Michael Woods
Andy Carroll
Michael Johnson
Theo Walcott
Jose Baxter
Preston Edwards
Giles Barnes

Finland:
Jukka Lehtovaara
Patrik Lomski
Lauri Dalla Valle

France:
Riou Remy
Bacundji Ca
Karim El-mourabet
Vincent Acapandie
Garry Bocaly
Kevin Monnet-Paquet
Gabriel Obertan
Loic Abenzoar
Leo Schewechlen
Armand Traore
Anthony Scibe
Steven Thicot
Benoit Costil
Distel Zola
Pierre Ducasse
Damien Le Tallec
Matthieu Saunier
Adel Taarabt
Frederic Duplus
Omar Benzerga
Joris Delle
Mamadou Sakho
Aurelien Teaudors
Henri Saivet
Serge Gakpe
Dorian Dervite

Germany:
Marko Marin
Toni Kroos
Manuel Fishcher
Kevin-Prince Boateng
Serdar Tasci
Sami Khedira

Greece:
Sotiris Ninis

Netherlands:
Genero Zeefuik
Ryan Babel
Georginio Wijnaldum

Israel:
Guy Asulin
Ben Sahar
Maor Bozaglo
Oded Gavish
Yuval Gogelman
Dor Malul
Toto Tamuz

Italy:
Fernando Forestieri
Simone Esposito
Marco Davide Faraoni
Francesco Bolzoni
Alessandro Tula
Andrea Russotto
Andrea Consigli
Sebastian Giovinco
Fabiano Santacroce
Davide Di Gennaro

Japan:
Takayuki Morimoto

Mexico:
Hector Moreno
Alfonso Blanco
Ever Guzman
Edgar Andrade
Cesar Villaluz
Sergio Arias
Patricio Araujo
Omar Esparza
Christian Sanchez
Carlos Vela
Miguel Angel Fraga
Andres Guardado
Giovani Dos Santos
Jose Rafael Alamo

North Ireland:
Jonathan Evans
Craigh Cathcart

Nigeria:
John Obi Mikel

Peru:
Omar Andrade
Reimond Manco

Portugal:
Adrien (Sporting)
Helder Barbosa

Romania:
Bogdan Stancu (Unirea Urziceni)
Eric Bicfalvi
Gabriel Torje
Stefan Radu

Russia:
Anton Sosnin
Alexandr Prudnikov

Spain:
Antonio Adan
Emillio Nsue
Antonio Barragan
Cristian Portilla
Adrian (Deport.)
Sunny
Francisco Merida
Marc Crosas
Victor Diaz
Iriome
Aaron
Carlos Saez
Samuel (Rayo)
Alberto Bueno
Juan Manuel Mata
Victor Merchan
David Moreno
Bojan
Adrian Murcia
Ignacio Camacho
Iago
Oier Olazabal
David de Gea
Aquino
Pichu Atienza
Edu Valle
Obama (Murcia)
Daniel Pacheco
David Rochela
Javi Garcia (Osasuna)

Switzerland:
Johan Djourou
Charles-Andre Doudin

Turkey:
Turan Arda
Parlak Ilhan
Karadeniz Batuhan
Tevfik Kose
Sultan Cem

US:
Freddy Adu
Jozy Altidore

Wales:
Max Noble

By position

GK:
Sergio Arias
Oier Olazabal
Costil Benoit
Antonio Adan
Dean Bouzanis
Oscar Ustari
Miguel Fraga
Jose Rafael Alamo
Felipe (Santos)
Asmir Begovic
Preston Edwards
Adrian Murcia
Joao Carlos (Alt. Para.)
Anthony Scribe
Jukka Lehtovaara
Joris Delle
Alfonso Blanco
Cassio (PSV)
David De Gea
Marcelo Grohe
Andrea Consigli

Defenders: SW-R-L-C

Leo Schwechlen
Arturo Vidal
Steven Thicot
Oded Gavish
Yuval Fogelman
Patricio Araujo

Mateo Musacchio
Christian Sanchez
Victor Diaz
Michael Mancienne
Matthieu Saunier
Frederic Duplus
Nedum Onuoha
Loic Abenzoar
Garry Bocaly
Dor Malul
Eduardo Ratinho
Antonio Barragan
Jose San Roman
Armand Traore
Leyrielton (Goias)
Marvin Angulo
Micah Richards
Lorenzo De Silvestri

Emiliano Insua
Matias Cahias
Mamadou Sakho
Stefan Radu
Maximilliano Oliva
Omar Esparza
Fabio (Flumiense)
Andres Guardado
Domenico Criscito

Breno (Sao Paulo)
Obama (Murcia)
Krystian Pearce
Jack Hobbs
Sidnei (Internacional)
Dorian Dervite
Marco Davide Faraoni
Hector Moreno
Rafael Forster
Craig Cathcart
Jonathan Evans
Aurelien Teaudors
Alessandro Tula
David Rochela
Fabiano Santacroce
Karim El-Mourabet
David (Palmeras)
Serdar Tasci
Johan Djouru
Pichu Atienza
Yegor Filipenko
Cristian Zapata
Defensive Midfielder:
Pierre Ducasse
Sunny
Denilson
Sami Khedira
Javi Garcia (Osasuna)
Ever Banega
Distel Zola
Roberto (Alt. Para)
Omar Benzerga
John Obi Mikel
Marc Crosas
Fabrice Muamba
Francesco Bolzoni
Ignacio Camacho
Bruno Formigoni
Bocundji Ca
Lucas (Liverpool)

Midfielder Centre
Edgar Andrade
Thiago
Adrien (Sporting CP)
Michael Woods
Michael Johnson
Eric Bicfalvi
Francesc Fabregas

Attacking Midfielder: R-L-C

Lionel Messi
Aaron Lennon
Jeremy Menez
Guy Asulin
Maximiliano Moralez (FC Moscow)
Turan Arda
Giles Barnes
Georginio Wijnaldum
Sotiris Ninis
Fabrice N'guessi
Simone Esposito
Serge Gakpe
Neri Cardozo
Vitor Merchan
Iriome
Cesar Villaluz
Anton Putilo
Reimond Manco
Nicolas Millian
Theo Walcott
Celsinho
Ryan Babel
Yessu Cabrera
Juan Pablo Pino
Henri Saivet
Alex (Vasco)
Gabriel Obertan
Danny Welbeck
Takayuki Moritomo
Gabriel Torje
Patrik Lomski
Davide Di Gennaro

Hatem Ben Arfa
Freddy Adu
Helder Barbosa
Juan Manuel Mata
Sebastian Leto
Giovanni Dos Santos
Francisco Merida
Angel Di Maria
Sergio Mota
Iago
Damian Escudero
David Moreno
Lucas Trecarichi
Brian Sarmiento
Carlos Eduardo (Hoffenheim)
Sebastian Giovinco
Kevin Monnet-Paquet
Scott Sinclair
Mauricio (Flumiense)
Aquino (Murcia)

Samir Nasri
Giuseppe Rossi
Sergio Aguero
Max Noble
Yoel Goldstein
Lulinha
Alejandro Gomez
Marko Marin
Samuel (Rayo)
Cristian Portilla
Willian (Shakhtar)
Maor Bozaglo
Pablo Platti
Adel Taarabt
Diego Buonanotte
Miralem Pjasnic
Anton Sosnin
Anderson (Man)
Kevin-Price Boateng
Toni Kroos
Rafinha (Cruzeiro)
Ivan Rakitic
Carlos Saez
Fernando Forestieri
Jose Baxter
Damien Le Tallec
Kerlon
Welliton (Moscow)
Lauri Dalla Valle
Eden Hazard
Aaron
Alberto Bueno
Guilherme
Carlos Vela
Choco (Alt. Para.)
Ramon (CSKA Moscow)

Forward/Striker:
Cristian Nazarith
Parlak Ilhan
Cesar Lindado
Jonathan Cristaldo
Oscar Trejo
Edu Valle
Alexandre Pato
Bogdan Stancu
Alexandr Prudnikov
Jozy Altidore
Bojan
Nicklas Bendtner
Bruno Mezenga
Thiago (Sao Paulo)
Emilio Nsue
Alan Gardec
Karadeniz Batuhan
Toto Tamuz
Alan (Guarani)
Andy Carroll
Marco Ruben
Sultan Cem
Andrea Russotto
Omar Andrade
Adrian (Deport.)
Vincent Acapandie
Tevfik Kose
Nathan Delfouneso
Ramon Anselmo
Charles-Andre Doudin
Ever Guzman
Ben Sahar
Manuel Fischer
Mauro Zarate
Genero Zeefuik
Daniel Pacheco
Karim Benzema
Eduson Cavani
Aaritalo

[nffc]

Nice list, but I can't think many of them would come and join me at Forest... :S

[Uncle Peter]

Some of them might come in handy for my Ajax team. Squad was in a right mess when I took over: a load of wing back and wingers with nobody up the centre. Definitely need a couple of hard working central midfielders and a centre half to replace Stam who is about 90.

[Shadow Demon UK]

Gerard Pique and Kevin Doyle are both very good players.

[wwe]

any 1 got any tips on football manger

[Mr_love_monkey]

Originally Posted by wwe

any 1 got any tips on football manger

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