zoopaloola Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 Although this doesn't really (or even partially) relate to FM09 but nonetheless, I went back to playing the wonderful cm 03/04 recently and noticed that at the start of the game Chelsea have a player in their youth team called John Obi Mikel from Nigeria who has no previous history but I'm pretty sure it's meant to be the same guy. I know there was some issues with his transfer to Chelsea in the first place but still, he wasn't anywhere near the club in 2003 was he? He was only like 15 then anyway...how weird. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pnefc22 Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 Any chance of a screenshot? It's got to be him Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakeo_06 Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 hmm strange, man united didnt 'own' him until april 29th 2005 and Chelsea didn't buy him until June 2006. source: Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_obi_mikel Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dicko99 Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 he agreed to join united from lyn in 2005 so hell knows why hes in the chelsea squad on cm03/04 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
williamshankley Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 He didn't sign for them until June 2006 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavenagh Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 He did have training sessions with Chelsea in 2004, but wasn't a member of the squad. This was before he joined Lyn. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoopaloola Posted March 31, 2009 Author Share Posted March 31, 2009 He did have training sessions with Chelsea in 2004, but wasn't a member of the squad. This was before he joined Lyn. so that must be the reason, although he starts with them in 2003 thanks for the explanation! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Costly Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 Maybe you have an updated/edited database? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivera Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 Is he any good? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Box Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 He's not on my O3/04 game at Chelsea, I played it last week fully patched. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoopaloola Posted April 1, 2009 Author Share Posted April 1, 2009 that's very odd because I am fully patched as well and have no edited db, i'll check again, I recently re-added the patches so maybe I noticed him on one of the other two patches but he was definately there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raware Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 It seems to me that researchers do a great job and tend to get a lot of upcoming players right. I remember the original cm in 1992/93 and a certain young striker named Alessandro Del Piero, he turned out to be 'ok'. I've played every carnation of cm/fm and have seen a lot of young players IRL fulifilling their 'FM' potential. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmfarey Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 It seems to me that researchers do a great job and tend to get a lot of upcoming players right. I remember the original cm in 1992/93 and a certain young striker named Alessandro Del Piero, he turned out to be 'ok'. I've played every carnation of cm/fm and have seen a lot of young players IRL fulifilling their 'FM' potential. Very True. Aguero, Saviola being recent one's that i can remember off the top of my head. Signed both as 16/17 year olds and they were quality! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Box Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 It seems to me that researchers do a great job and tend to get a lot of upcoming players right. I remember the original cm in 1992/93 and a certain young striker named Alessandro Del Piero, he turned out to be 'ok'. I've played every carnation of cm/fm and have seen a lot of young players IRL fulifilling their 'FM' potential. That's cos Del Piero was already an established or semi-established player for Juventus. Other players Like Totti and Tachinardi were youngsters I "discovered" on CM Italia 93. Both went on to be very successful IRL. Also found a young Pisa player called Antonio Vitiello, who was amazing in the game but didnt hear anythign about him IRL. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmfarey Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 That's cos Del Piero was already an established or semi-established player for Juventus. Other players Like Totti and Tachinardi were youngsters I "discovered" on CM Italia 93. Both went on to be very successful IRL. Also found a young Pisa player called Antonio Vitiello, who was amazing in the game but didnt hear anythign about him IRL. Yeah he was just breaking into the team in 93/94 so it still would of been a good pick from the researchers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bucket Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 John Obi Mikel was on trial at Chelsea at that time i believe along with a few other Africans. But i think that the researcher had him at Chelsea on a full time basis Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScouseFromTheSouth Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 If Cherno Samba had fufilled his FM potential, I don't think England would've failed to qualify for Euro 2008. Probably would've won it in fact. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nubei Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 Tonton Moukoko Zola anyone? lol Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
small Mac Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 Lots of S Americans i heard of on CM before real life; Saviola, Riquelme, Ronaldinho, Kaka, Diego, Robinho. But also a few not so greats such as Tsigalko and Sigporsson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindset Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 Evandro Roncatoo was amazing in FM 2005, now he's in Belenenses and doesn't get many goals. He didn't fulfill his FM potential >_> Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raware Posted April 2, 2009 Share Posted April 2, 2009 That's cos Del Piero was already an established or semi-established player for Juventus. Other players Like Totti and Tachinardi were youngsters I "discovered" on CM Italia 93. Both went on to be very successful IRL. Also found a young Pisa player called Antonio Vitiello, who was amazing in the game but didnt hear anythign about him IRL. Del Piero wasn't an established player on the first cm. He had only just signed from Padova and hadn't played a single game for Juve. When he did play for Juve the following season he only made 11 league apps, so for the researchers to correctly get his potential right was very good. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Box Posted April 2, 2009 Share Posted April 2, 2009 Del Piero wasn't an established player on the first cm. He had only just signed from Padova and hadn't played a single game for Juve. When he did play for Juve the following season he only made 11 league apps, so for the researchers to correctly get his potential right was very good. Del Piero wasn't on the first CM. CM 1 only had regens. CM 93/94, a seasonal update a year later, had real players in which he may have appeared on the "foreign" transfer list. IF the researchers had spotted him - this would have been good research, I can't say off the top of my head though it's been years since i played CM93, but I'm pretty sure he wasn't. In CM93/94 Italia he was at Juve and had already been touted around as a top class young player. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris2403 Posted April 2, 2009 Share Posted April 2, 2009 mikel did a lot of training with chelski, not on trial as such but whenever he had time he was at stamford bridge training with them. wether he had the blessing of the lyn management or not i dont know but thats why chelsea kicked up a stink when he joined utd....well initially anyway Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris2403 Posted April 2, 2009 Share Posted April 2, 2009 Evandro Roncatoo was amazing in FM 2005, now he's in Belenenses and doesn't get many goals. He didn't fulfill his FM potential >_> i remember this guy i always used to sign him at the start of the for about 2mill iirc. always managed to sign him in league 1 (i used give my-self 3-4mill for transfers:D) anyway he was quality banged in goal left right and centre for me Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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