Post all the good players and coaches you discover here and together we can compile a list of good buys. I'll sort out the players and coaches according to their respective positions and jobs.

Strictly no use or mention of FM Genie please.

Link to download FM09 Demo:

http://www.footballmanager.com/

First!

so far,only bought 2 youngsters.sakho and saivet.i bet u guys know them already since fm08.
for youngsters i've scouted and got 4 stars in rating:
mourelien cheretien(i cant remember his exact name but he's a french),AMC
eden hazard(belgian),AMC
sankhare(i cant remember his name as well),DM,AMLC

all three of them playing in french league.im managing arsenal.u know what arsenal scouts do best.scout youngsters in france.lol.

bugs..reserve it for the official game.

izzit younosse sankhare??

Possible bugs:

1. Too many injuries.
2. Typing interface is buggy. Really annoying.

u got it right there,mate!

there's another youngster in lyon.a bosnian AMRC.i cant remember his name.huhu..

i don't know if it's a bug or not, but im getting alot of offside goals. averaging at 2 goals per match..

mine are not offside goals
but freekick goals

tevez and rooney easily score freekicks from anywhere in the game

Erm... I know this is the 09 thread but the 08 thread is as good as dead I think so I'll just post here.

As far as I know, nobody mentioned about Luis Jiminez (on-loan at Inter, from Ternana in 08) as a bargain buy. That guy has God-like stats for a 23 yr old, and you can get him for around 3 million quids. Magnificent.

If you're looking for a real fox in the box, I think Salvador Cabanas is the man you're looking for. That guy has a 20 for his finishing. Though he's already 27 years old

Luis Jiminez may have nice stats but he's just a decent performer for me, nothing special. Just found the 'second' Bojan, in the from of Mario Bolotolli from Inter. Only 19 years old, cost me 19 million. Plays as a ST and on both wings, absolutely awesome.

my demo can't even start a match

bolotolli?oh yeah.i remember him in fm2008,chelsea bought him but turns out to become worst spending of the season.lol.how bout zrdravko kuzmanovic?this guy is crazy in fm2008 but in 2009 i can't afford to buy him. his price is around 20m i think.

Try Axel Witsel from Standard Liege (AMRLC) and Alberto Paloschi from Parma (ST). Both are young but already have marvelous attributes in my game.

u r rite man. freekick is very annoying. hope all this bug is gone in the full version

i never score from freekick.dammit.

The full version isn't even out yet and you fellas are talking about bugs?

Erm I've got a question here. Why is it that there are some players that you can't do anything about in FM08? Like when you're viewing their profiles there are no options for you to make an offer, scout the player and so on. It's blank.

Frank Stephan, 16 years old, French under-19, looking for a club. I'm dying to sign him.

he's retiring?

the bloody injury bug is killing me
already 3 times I used all my substitutions in a match until I play with 10 men !!

That's because he's a generated player if I am not mistaken.

Both the demo and the full version have the same bugs as the demo is only derived when FM09 goes Gold.

You know, it is better to report the bugs to SI to improve the game, rather than just post it here and do nothing

At least we forumers will know whether a certain event, eg: too many injuries is caused by a bug or too much workload on our players during training.

I guess, I've to report this bugs here. I don't know whether this is because of my Vista running PC, or its because of the Demo game itself. Last Tuesday, when I played the game, the game crashed. Luckily, it still can be played, but have to start to where I last saved it.
Then, on Wednesday, everything was smooth. No problems/bugs encountered at all. Suddenly, yesterday night, the same thing happened again. The game crashed out of nowhere! WTH!

Anyone encountered this when playing the Strawberry Demo? Hopefully, it is not because of Vista.

scouted and verified by players in other forum

davide santon
sebastian giovinco
vincenzo fiorillo
zoran tosic
john fleck
diego buonanotte
pablo osvaldo
john bostock
frederico fazio
mario balotelli
axel witsel
gonzalo higuan

also marcelo is on transfer for just 4.4M, WHAT A STEAL!

marcelo is not very good in my game
at least not at ML
but ok at DL

when is official launch date for this game? is it in november or december?

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Added on November 9, 2008, 10:56 ami got it .. 14/11 . ..

SI promises to fix the bug by the time the game comes out so let's see. Probably a patch like all the previous version.

diego buonanotte

hahahaha....Maradona's son....he is my top AMC in 2008...whichever club i managed, i will sure sign him on loan or bring him over...

i needed more wingers so he had to play there, not bad
i think he scored after a crazy run from midfield for me

I'm hoping for a patch on release date, the injury bug is making my game almost unplayable.

yup...i encountered...once..

as for play injuries bug...
OMG...one game one player....

I play like 6 pre-seasons...

now almost half first team players gone!

I wonder how if I continue till start of the season for the first 10 games...

hey beck_ken, my team's away form is always horrible. Draws... Losses... Rarely a win. Any tips on tactics or team talks for me to win regularly away from home

The patch should be out tomorrow, the game is already available in some shops here.

Wah so fast.. Ori or jack sparrow edition?

Original version (I think the pirates are going to have a tough time cracking FM09 with the online activation system, they took 2 weeks to crack Red Alert 3), the servers should be up and running in 2 hours time at 6am, I'm getting my copy tomorrow at 10am when the shops open.

Seriously someone help me I can't get a win away from home.

Jack Sparrow already worked their magic this time lol. I saw it on their forum before I came to office today

We can't stop Jack Sparrow for sure but SI has won the battle atm in my opinion as their main purpose of this activation was to make sure original DVD owner play it first than the pirate version owner.

hmmm... oredy able to dl lol...

tmr gona drop by sg.wang see got or not... hopefully the price rm140...

so that means that "ehem" version is on their way,izit??

its oredy in lulz...

btw ts shud edit le...

full game is out!!...

injuries are very common.. but after reducing the training, its fine.. btw, sorry *i know i sound jakun* but whats the fm genie?

van der vaart, *loan with 10m clause to buy
rossi - 9.25 m *release clause
marcelo - 3 m (sold to arsenal for 20M)
zapata

Osvaldo (2.5m) from Fiorentina
Leonardo (1.3m) from Ajax

any nice DC in the game for cheaps... Vidic in my game suffered and slipped disc and is gone for 3 months.

use j.evans lar....

ya jonny evans can replace r.ferdinand / n.vidic anytime. or use j.o'shea / w.brown ? manu got a lot of defensive players. even in the reserves

Anyone know how to edit the malaysian super league so that they can allow foreign players ? i use data editor but hv no idea how to edit it

any good player for lower league.
i'm playing Reading in CocaCola Championship League..
only have a minimum transfer kit..need to scout someone good.

check them out dude! all talant youngster in the game!!!

Sofiane Feghouli
Ricardo Verduguez
Lewis McGugan
Carlos Vela
Vaclav Kadlec
Nordin Amrabat
Fabian Delph
Toni Kroos
Lucas Viatri
Jo Inge Berget
Nicolas Desenclos
martin galvan
Krisztian Nemeth
Jack Cork
Ignacio Camacho
Diego Buonanotte
Jonjo Shelvey
David De Gea
Georginio Wijnaldum
Mamadou Sakho
Kyriakos Papadopoulos
Fraser Forster
Jo Sondre Aas
Hernanes
Miralem Pjanic
Martin Zeman
Marko Marin
Sekou Cisse
Jose Baxter

i noticed if you manage a LL club in England, you will get invited to England Trial Day, dunno if Championship club got invited too
there you can scout for cheap and young good player