I'm starting this because I've gotten to that point I think every FM player gets to when they start up a game, play about 30 minutes and then just quit because for whatever reason it isn't fun. So therefore if anyone ever gets in that situation, they can ask the fellow members what team they should be and you can give certain aspects you look for in a team, for example you want to sign unlimited foreigners (Holland & Belgium) or have a generous chairman (Chelsea/Real Madrid) or whatever. Maybe you have a division or nation you like to play in, but just can't find the right team, come here and ask!

I'll go first ;)

I LOVE the power to sign whoever I want, so I want money, top flight football, and lenient foreign player restrictions. I don't really care what league I play in, I'll try anything from Albania to Uruguay, but I want the ability to go out and sign a superstar if I desire it. One of my most favorite games was Olympiakos in CM 01/02, but usually I stick with Bayern my favorite team. Also, I don't want to be Real Madrid, Barcelona, AC Milan, Juventus, or Chelsea. Just don't. Any suggestions????

Valencia. You still have that annoying foreign players rule, but cash you will have. Plenty.


If you really want to have zero concerns over foreign players, and cash is less important, Ajax is the way to go. Piss easy league, but not a lot of earnings, unless you do well in Europe.

id say go for a samll team with average to bad players, that has possibility for exapnding their stadium and with the ability to provide with enough money when/if the team ever get good. Hard to find i know! :P

Alex, go for Villarreal. They are small and their only superstar is an on-loan Riquelme. They can expand their stadium and you might get generous amounts to spend if you do well.

Club America or Cruz Azul

AS Monaco, Lyon or PSG...

They all got quite alot of money to spend. And the foreign rules in France are cool only players from another continent are considered to be foreign players and french colonies like Morocco, Algeria and Tunesia don't count as foreign(not sure of that though)

France is filthy ass rich. Even Caen has the rich status. How come they're so stupidly rich :(

well, if you are looking for teams that have great foundations but aren't in the best position in the world, wheather it be because of piss poor leagues or debt or something like that. I suggest Ajax, Parma or Valancia. Ajax has a great team to start out with, in all honesty if you don't change a thing you can easily win the league with De Jong, Heitinga, Maxwell, vaart and sneijder as the base. You will get mauled in europe though. Parma is way into debt but only need a little bit of extra "spice" to do something in the league. Valencia of course, is great, you don't need to sign anybody...but they are still outclassed by the other teams in the league.

I just started as Lyon (nice suggestion by the way) and I'm having some fun, so that's great. Sold Nilmar for 4 Million (WAY under his value) so I could buy Robinho and it's proven to be a great move. Also bought Kompany from Anderlecht (but after he had played 2 champions league games GOD DAMMIT) and then signed Vanden Borre the day before his 17th birthday. Nice squad, but Juninho might be the worst conditioned player I've ever seen, and it's really frustrating considering he's the best player on my team. After him it's Robinho and Kompany (GREAT signings)

I also started as Lyon, board wanted me to make high profile signing, I said OK and went for famous Lukas Podolski.. One week before the transfer window closes, Chairman of club said that I didn't took his advise on signing high profile signings and he'll be taking matters in his own hands.. a week later, I had both Hasan Sas and Raul Tamudo with a 67M-Dollars debt :kader: ..

I have always thought that chairmans' should NOT be involved in transfers.. :)

I agree the Chairman should not be involved in transfers, but the manager's job isn't the club's finances. If he wants to lose money, that's his problem. But yeah, I hope I don't wind up with Tamundo and Hasan Sas, not that they're bad players, but they are just maybe a bit too expensive. Plus I brought Adu over and there's also Govou and Essien, so I'm fine at AMC for the future.

Aberdeen (H)

I hate the chairman implementation, that's why I still stick with 5.0.2. There weren't enough big changes in the new patch, and no changes in the match engine.

hey guys,

i'm looking for a mid-table club with a few decent players with the potential to push higher up the league with a transfer budget between £5-10mill. Preferably not in the Spanish or Italian leagues.

Anyone know of any?

cheers

Daz

Middlesbrough
HSV
AZ (?)

I tend to get bored quite quickly with top teams where you can sign anybody that you want. It's fun for about a season for me, mainly due to the ability (as Nimreitz mentioned) to buy anybody. That soon wears off though. Soon the '30 games without conceeding' or whatever it is soon sets in, watching matches is pretty dull cause you know you'll win and within five years you've won so much that you've made Bob Paisley look like Graham Souness on heroin. Dull.

I prefer an utterly crap team and the challenges that come along with it. You really have to hunt around the grass roots level to find players that A) will play for you and B) you can afford. Discovering a lower league version of Tevez or Cavenaghi becomes so rewarding then.

You also have to really work on your tactics to get results. The tactics that I built which won me everything with Liverpool and Valencia were utterly hopeless in my current game at the mighty Torquay, as were tactics from others which I downloaded to experiment with. A tactic that saw Nimreitz utterly dominate at Bayern saw my side thrashed more times than an S&M junkie.
It has taken me two seasons to build a decent team and a tactic which works for it and takes into account the full scale of it's feebleness. I am now finally top of the table and looking almost certain to get promoted in my third season in charge. That is so much more realistic and rewarding IMO than buying the same 'supersquad' as everybody else does and winning a Champions League final 5-0 in your first season. To summarise, in choosing a team I look for a team with:

1. A chairman that makes Scrooge look like Roman Abramovich.
2. A team full of retards or failing that ex-Rotherham players. (just kiddin' Tom.)
3. No Money
4. Poor reputation
5. Long odds for Promotion and/or an expectation to be relegated.
6. A pretty coloured kit.

After that inspirational speech i've decided to take control of my local team Crawley in the Conference :p

6 is always important.

yep I love it, though I do need to find a new girlfriend. Oh.....you said six :$

Bayern are my favorite team, usually when I take control of Chelsea, Real Madrid, Barcelona, AC Milan, or whatever I just can't even last a month. Bayern is different though, that's my team.

at last someone that comes close to my taste. Tho i still havent found any of the supposed to be "fm maniacs" in here that also like having career-like games. You know, when you just dont start a new game every time it gets boring, but u stay for a while with your current team (or till the season ends) b4 u finaly leave for another team, preferably an ex-good historic team, or a small team with enough potential to allow you win someting with some luck in a few seasons.

my longest games have always been with my beloved manchester united because they are the club i have supported since i was very young. But i'll often set challenges for myself by selling star players for cheap etc. and trying to get back to the top. i also find it fun to take control of a struggling team in the middle of the 2010 after qutting United.

I have only had one save and I have played it much. I started with Rosenborg sometime in December and I'm still playing on the same save (now in 2012). I played 10 mins with Bayern München, but it got boring already then, so I went back to my old game. It's so much more fun to play with my local team that I have followed since I were a little kid.

im guessing. Its all about fun. I cant have phun with fav teams because they are good teams, so i havent started a game with em since CM4 (that means no play with CM00/04 and FM05) Im not trying to sound like tha dude that does the rite thing and the rest that play with big clubs sak or anything. I just cant have fun with good clubs.

Kop Kid: try Assyriska in the Swedish 1st Division (H) based around my people, the Assyrians :rockman:

Hi Rony. :ewan: Long time no see. I'll have a look at Assyriska when I'm done with my Torquay game, though I'll be playing that for a while yet. They had better suck though or there'll be trouble. Oh by the way, how did you enjoy Istanbul? :p ;)

What was funny is I started with Bayern and was happy to finally have my favorite player Michael Ballack on my team for the first time..... and then Chelsea offered 50 Million Euros for him in my first week on the job and I accepted.

at last someone that comes close to my taste. Tho i still havent found any of the supposed to be "fm maniacs" in here that also like having career-like games. You know, when you just dont start a new game every time it gets boring, but u stay for a while with your current team (or till the season ends) b4 u finaly leave for another team, preferably an ex-good historic team, or a small team with enough potential to allow you win someting with some luck in a few seasons.


haha thats a bit like what i've done in one of my games (H) Manchester United to Wallsal (took them up to league 1)l to Plymouth (took them into the premiership) to Cambridge (couple of days (H) ) to Leeds (took them into Europe ) to Real Madrid (Rebuilt their squad and restored them to spains number 1 team rather than 6 or 7th) and finally to roma (18th upto 2nd) And thats where i am now (H), 2018

I like to have career games :( I just like to take control of a mid table/relegation battle team and make them a title challenger, and then move on.

I do like the odd 20 years at 1 team game though (H) Dont have time for it on Fm though, did it on 03/04 though

My computer isn't really able to do 'career' games because if I run more then 2 leagues from 2 diffrent nation it runs slow etc. and if I'd ever move in a game to another club it will always be in another nation since I don't want to play against my own made star team...

France is filthy ass rich. Even Caen has the rich status. How come they're so stupidly rich :(

Haha i remember Pau had some money (H)

My computer isn't really able to do 'career' games because if I run more then 2 leagues from 2 diffrent nation it runs slow etc. and if I'd ever move in a game to another club it will always be in another nation since I don't want to play against my own made star team...

exactly, on the game i was running i only have Italy England and Spain selected, so i'm snookered now :(

Alright so I want to be an Italian or Spanish club in the lowest league(Serie C or Spanish Third Division) but the club must have some potential to promote.

What team should I be?

Extremadura in Segunda B4, or Ancona in Serie C2/B. Extremadura have a better team, I think, but they do have B teams to conquer.

Alright so I want to be an Italian or Spanish club in the lowest league(Serie C or Spanish Third Division) but the club must have some potential to promote.

What team should I be?

Napoli, Serie C1, a huge stadium, good money.

A bit off topic, but I don't think that that KKK link belongs on here pal. I realise by the 'puke face' symbol that it is not a view that you subscribe to, but having it there still provides the f*ckers with free advertising. Statistically speaking if 1000 people click on the link a certain portion will read some of their hateful sh*te and a portion of those will buy into it. Just my opinion like.

I swear fellas, I have the attention span of a 4 year old; i just quit my Lyon game after 2 seasons (2 D1 Titles, 2 miserable failures in Europe). But NOW I have a fantastic and exciting challenge, CSKA Moscow!!! The Red Army will conquer Europe by 2008!!

Im extremely bored with every game I start with FM at the moment. In the past 3 days Ive started games with PSV, Vitesse, RKC, Sparta Prague, Rosenborg, Nantes, Rennes and Sevilla. I quit all mostly after 10 minutes :(

I do want to play Fm, but I cant really play a long term game now, because Im getting more RAM in a week (then Im starting a big career game with more leagues than I can playnow)

Im really enjoing my Motherwell game :) I came 3rd behind....guess who? Celtic then Rangers in my first season but i was happy as i qualified for Uefa Cup action. Im doing ok, into the group phase after beating Tampere Utd in Quals and Servette FC in the 1st Round. Although i face a tough task in the group stage against Parma, Werder Bremen, and two other tough side who i cant remember atm.. :fool:
Although im really eyeing off trying Avellino in Italy. C1 Division, 36000 stadium and a cool team logo of a Wolf (they must be Roman).

i have been the Indian bank or something in india ... there are ok i manged to take 3 players from england there from league 2 Ronnie Bull, Efe Echanomin and Sos Yao ended up winning the league 3 years in a row ... well boring winning them all

I do want to play Fm, but I cant really play a long term game now, because Im getting more RAM in a week (then Im starting a big career game with more leagues than I can playnow)

I wouldn't start a new game if I were you and wait until you have the RAM.

Why not continue our network game? :)

Since I have gotten FM, I have not finished a single season, never once. I started out with Everton, but I got bored, same deal with AC Milan. I tryed Ajax, but the piss poor league ruined it for me. I then went to Real Sociedad, no europe, solid team and some money, the problem? No spanish players allowed when it seemed all the best players were on sale. I am at Parma now, not sure if I will finish, I wanted to, but, after reading this thread, I am not happy with the super team I built there, maybe it is back to Everton...any help would be nice. I am much like Nim...

Never play with Sociedad or Bilbao because you can only buy "Basque" players. It's impossible.

My most fun games since 99/00 have been with these teams.... Parma, Olympiakos, Liverpool, Rushden and Diamonds, Bayern, and of course ruining Real Madrid last summer (http://www.soccergaming.tv/showthread.php?t=107823).

I just started a new game with Man Utd. It should be fun, lots of pressure, little money and the need(i feel) for a ton of new players I can't buy.

Man Utd little money!?!?!?!?!?

:rofl:

7.5 mill....not too much when you really only have 4 solid mids and are expected to win all the trophies.

Yeah but around the transfer window in December they give you a big boost in cash (well they did in my game :( )

i have been the Indian bank or something in india ... there are ok i manged to take 3 players from england there from league 2 Ronnie Bull, Efe Echanomin and Sos Yao ended up winning the league 3 years in a row ... well boring winning them all

i'm playing with mahindra united, three years into the game and im won everything there is... ah renedy singh :hump:

I've never managed Manchester United in the actual game before to be honest. But I did in the demo.

Man U got a high balance I think though

I started a game with Borussia Crapmund, quit 2 minutes after. I think FM has got boring, at least for me, thankfully I have PES4, WE8, and WE8LE to fall back on.

Borussia Dortmund isnt crap, one of the best teams available on FM

Refering to real life :p

FM has not been as fun for me as CM...don't know why....maybe 2006 will be better. btw, I quit Man utd. I was having fun in the pre-season, but the fact that I would most likely be taking them to the CL finals just made me feel so dirty, so I turned off the game and took a shower. I am back at Everton now...

Looking for a club (not in european competition, preferably) with a transfer kitty of around £1-2m in a competitive league...any suggestions, please?

Argentina:
Boca Juniors, River Plate.

Brazil:
Botafogo, Criciúma, Figuerense, Goiás, Guarani, Juventude, Paraná, Paysandu, Santos, São Caetano.

Colombia:
América de Cali, Atlético Nacional, Deportivo Cali, Medellín.

Mexico:
Atlas, Chivas, Culiacán, Jaguares, Necaxa, Pachuca, Puebla, Pumas, Tecos.

Uruguay:
Nacional, Peñarol

Nice selection (H)

Sorry if I didn't make it clear but when I meant not in european competition, I meant the UCL, UEFA cup or Intertoto...I'd like to play in a European league ideally because I just finished a game with Boca.

Oh...

:crazyboy:

I'll have another look :fool:

Heh, thanks Ruud...I might try out some of the teams you mentioned in later games though (Y)

Germany:
Borussia Mönchengladbach, Hannover 96, Hertha BSC, 1. FC Nürnberg, SC Freiburg.

Italy:
Atalanta, Bologna, Brescia, Cagliari, Lecce, Livorno, Messina, Reggina, Siena.


One of these maybe?

Hertha looks quite good...some quality players like Basturk and Marcelinho...I'll give them a try, thanks again, Ruud :jap:

Play as 1. FC Koln, you start with Lukas Podolski in the Bundesliga 2, but promotion should be GUARANTEED in the first season, and you can probably get at least 15M Euros for Podolski when you decide to sell.

Koln indeed is a very nice team to play with, 2 huge talents, the biggest of Germany: Podolski and a very good DC, who can make the NT in a few years: Sinckewicz or something. Promoting is easy the fisrt year, but it can be a really tough job getting a good performance in the bundesliga after that. I definitely recommend Koln

Haha Koln hasn't won a match since they got promoted(together with my Aachen team) and it's february at the moment.

:rofl:

Should be quite a challenge.
I'd rather say something like Blackburn a bit easier IMO.

Well, if you are in control its considerably easier. Ai managers tend to suck

I play with my team since I was born. Sporting Lisbon. it is a team full of potential that with the right transfers can became great. It already has Ricardo, Rogerio, Rochemback, Liedson, Beto, Hugo Viana...just needs to get some wingers...and...it becames an awesome team.

Ricardo in an awesome team? hehe

Man, I need a club with which I can have fun until FM 2006 comes out. Anything would be fine really, as long as it has some quality players and not a big gun or something just something that can entertain me a bit...

Maybe something in the west... Mexico/Brazil/Argentina?

Pachuca, or Independiente, or Fluminense?

Bolton. :D

I've been playing with Blackburn recently which has been pretty decent (Y).

I've been playing with Royal Antwerp. fun fun fun! No nationality restrictions, so I'm mining as much young talent as I can from all over the world!

reminds me of the fun i used to have in serie a in CM03 :( As many players as i want from any nationality. now this stupid 1 (or is it 2) non eu player per season makes serie a the worse league for noneu players

well I actually like the Italy rules more than for example the English or the Spanish ones cause the rule doesn't apply for foreign players who already play in Italy only for players outside Italy that are non-eu players.

Anyway I decided to go for Ruud's advice(well part of it that is) and play with Colon de Santa Fe in Argentina. Now can anyone explain to me how this competition works? With this season open and season close and so on...

NIDOKING and I covered it.

http://www.soccergaming.tv/showthread.php?t=124578

Thanks, better get going than... :) (Y)

I think i should take some credit there too Varun :(

Hey, I want to be a team that has some nice money and at least one or two superstars. The league doesn't really matter although I prefer Europe. I have fun winning right away, so lower league is out of the question. Oh, and I don't really enjoy Spain that much.

Olympique Marseille should fit you pretty good, and Ligue 1 is a nice championship aswell.

Brondby, FC Kobenhavn.

What superstars are on Brondby and FC Kobenhavn? I was thinking along the lines of Shaktar or Dinamo Kiev, but the league might get a little boring.

yeh Dan, Shaktar and Dinamo Kiev, all you'll be living for is Europe. You'll win the championship repeatedly with both teams.

Try going for a SLIGHTLY more competetive league, something like a mid/european placed club from Belgium or Portugal maybe?

What superstars are on Brondby and FC Kobenhavn? I was thinking along the lines of Shaktar or Dinamo Kiev, but the league might get a little boring.

Basically Brondby and Kobenhavn have the best Danish (and Scandinavian talents)

To name some of their best players:

Brondby:
Kasper Lorentzen (big FM talent)
Johan Elmander (ex Feyenoord)
Daniel Agger (depending on update, if you have an updated DB he will be at Liverpool)
Kim Christensen (ex. HSV and FC Twente)
Johan Absalonsen (big FM talent)
Martin Retov (very good MC)

Kobenhavn:
Marcus Allbäck (you know him, was at the WC)
Tobias Linderoth (another player who was at the WC for Sweden, very very good DMC in the game)
Razak Pimpong (played for Ghana at WC)

Scandinavia has some talented players btw, so you could build them to a European force in a few seasons.

Pro's of the Danish league:
- No Non-EU rules
- An extra European competition: The Royal League, the 4 best teams from Norway, Sweden and Denmark in a league.

yeh Dan, Shaktar and Dinamo Kiev, all you'll be living for is Europe. You'll win the championship repeatedly with both teams.

Try going for a SLIGHTLY more competetive league, something like a mid/european placed club from Belgium or Portugal maybe?

I started up a game with Shakhtar and quit after 20 minutes, I had flashbacks to my CSKA Moscow game where I just couldn't improve the squad for Europe because no one wanted to come to Russia. By the way, did you guys know how rich Shakhtar is? 102M Euro balance!!!! I had 42M to spend, and the Chairman was like "if you can get a big name, go over as long as you don't put us in the red." WOW! Unfortunately no one wanted to come to Ukraine despite the fact that I was offering 100k+ per week. I offered to double Shevchenko's contract and he was just like "I can't go to a Ukrainian team". Guys in Mexico were saying that.

I'm thinking Anderlecht maybe. Otherwise if that sucks I'll check out a Danish team. I don't think it would be so bad for those leagues would it? Like, I could probably sign someone out of Brazil wouldn't I?

Try something in Argentina or Brasil. You have these upcoming stars there. Right now for example I'm trying a game with Independiente, they have Sergio Aguero in their squad. (Y)

Try Once Caldas...I have played with them and I won the copa libertadores and the Intercotinental Cup. :p

I started up a game with Shakhtar and quit after 20 minutes, I had flashbacks to my CSKA Moscow game where I just couldn't improve the squad for Europe because no one wanted to come to Russia. By the way, did you guys know how rich Shakhtar is? 102M Euro balance!!!! I had 42M to spend, and the Chairman was like "if you can get a big name, go over as long as you don't put us in the red." WOW! Unfortunately no one wanted to come to Ukraine despite the fact that I was offering 100k+ per week. I offered to double Shevchenko's contract and he was just like "I can't go to a Ukrainian team". Guys in Mexico were saying that.

I'm thinking Anderlecht maybe. Otherwise if that sucks I'll check out a Danish team. I don't think it would be so bad for those leagues would it? Like, I could probably sign someone out of Brazil wouldn't I?

totally spot on, once managed Shakhtar and i quit after a month of management, bored me having to wait for the CL, only to promptly be beaten by the stronger European sides. Anderlecht are a great choice, but i have a feeling you might win things VERY quickly with them, maybe someone even crapper than them. You'd be fine in Belgium for signing players, and as you said, in Denmark you'd still get dodgy south American players (H)