eastley Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 Hi guys.. Just some general buying/selling mistakes chat, lol. Ever made a big mistake it ruined your season? I am in my second season with Birmingham, made 11th last season, bought in Shelvery, Welback, Gary Cahill, C Wood, Schneiderlin and a few others off my 20m transfer budget in the first season, all was well. End of season I let quite a few poorer players go as well. So I just strengthened my midfield, got a 1 good defender in and I thought all was good, transfer budget gone. BUT!!! I forgot I have no keeper, missing a Left Back, and OMG! Now I got no one in those positions, losing badly at the moment too. How would it be possible to get out of this position? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
css_matt Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 Do some emergency loans from the top clubs. Arsenal for the defender perhaps, but i wouldnt trust there keepers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purefun Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 This more for GD. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devutrix Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 I made a mistake once signing the wrong Beto. Was 7th season in and there were 2 regens, same position, same club, same name. One was absolutely terrible the other was godlike. I did a bit of enquiring and some testing bids and found the godlike one could be bought for £18m. Thought it was on the pricey side so went looking for alternatives. Only to come back and bid £18m on the rubbish one by mistake went all the way through with the transfer and saved the game only to find out I'd signed the crap one and wasted £18m. DUH ME MORON! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayahr Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 I made a mistake once signing the wrong Beto.Was 7th season in and there were 2 regens, same position, same club, same name. One was absolutely terrible the other was godlike. I did a bit of enquiring and some testing bids and found the godlike one could be bought for £18m. Thought it was on the pricey side so went looking for alternatives. Only to come back and bid £18m on the rubbish one by mistake went all the way through with the transfer and saved the game only to find out I'd signed the crap one and wasted £18m. DUH ME MORON! Hilarious. That has happened irl as well though so you are not alone Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
james170288 Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 I remember a few years back SI changed the position of confirm and cancel transfer buttons. All summer long I negotiated with Chelsea to get Gallas to Barcelona and because I had played the previous version so much I was in auto pilot and clicked cancel, thinking it was confirm, gutted. They eventually let me have him, but it cost an extra £5 million. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesterfan2 Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 Drinking as much as I did last night. Now that was a mistake. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAYUK24 Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 I left Rooney out of my squad for the Euro Finals in 2012. He was injured for a friendly prior to the finals so didnt pick him but forgot to put him back in.... oops! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SynysterGates17 Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 3nd season at united foster and van der sar had long term injurys so i signed rene alder but 4got to register him for my UCL squad Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintToon Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 Signing defenders on the basis of height and speed so that they could catch up with the attack and they could get rid of the crossed balls, this was when I started out on FM games, I wasn't looking at the important stats like Marking, Heading, Tackling, Positioning and Jumping. Doh! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoopy1888 Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 i was celtic and needed a striker so i bought adriano thought he was going to be amzing but no he played about 30 games only scoreing 8 what a waste of 9.5 mil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevoRobbo Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 I spent nearly all of my transfer budget on a young Brazilian player who would have been amazing for me in my first season in the Premier League. Transfer went through and then I find out I wont get him for a year due to him not being 18. No more money left for players. Safe to say I was relegated. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dezeman Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 First time i played FM when i was about 14 or so, well it was still CM then, years ago anyway. Played with Inter and had lots of money a few seasons into the game, so i spent 150 million to buy Figo from Real Madrid, dumbest thing i ever did. He wasn't that bad, but i don't know what i was thinking spending so much on one player. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJJOEYT Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 i played championship manager once ... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattyboy89 Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 i played championship manager once ... LOL this made me laugh Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chas (Psyatika) Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 Hilarious. That has happened irl as well though so you are not alone You're gonna have to give details on this one! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aderow Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 i played championship manager once ... You think once is bad? I played it for about 7 months Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reading\'s Revolving, Rant Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 I remember a few years back SI changed the position of confirm and cancel transfer buttons. All summer long I negotiated with Chelsea to get Gallas to Barcelona and because I had played the previous version so much I was in auto pilot and clicked cancel, thinking it was confirm, gutted. They eventually let me have him, but it cost an extra £5 million. I did a very similar thing with Gilardino, also cost me more money Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruyff14 Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 Yeah, getting married. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aderow Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 Yeah, getting married. I hope your spouse doesn't use the forums lol Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fm manac Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 Well i was Nottm Forest on my game and i had this youngster called Niall O'Halloran (Regen) and i thought he's 15 but doesnt look too good. So i sold him..... BIG MISTAKE! 3 Years later i played Liverpool away, and there he was, both footed Finishing 20, and a value of £29,500,000, described as the next Michael Owen. Pinch me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GioGio85 Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 I once changed my captain mid point through the season and completley lost the dressing room, de-railing the rest of my season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lambs Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 This is from an old thread of mine, but probably my biggest mistake: "Here is a lesson waiting to be learnt, do not play FM when you are sleepy. I have just spent several baffled minutes, trying to work out why when I bid for Moussa Sissoko, my scout would then turn up giving me match reports that he was not being bid on. So I would bid for him again. Then I go through several baffling rounds of negotiations, where the price keeps going up and down. Finally, very baffled I get his club to accept 15 Million Pounds over 4 years, but then I get another round of negotiations, where it seems I have offered less for him, so I again offer £15 million. It gets more confusing when I offer him a contract which he accepts, only for him to turn up a few days later wanting more money. 'Okay' I think, 'I must be loosing my mind' (but mentally I am screaming 'BUG!') So I go and do the sensible thing and look on my transfers screen, sure enough there is Moussa Sissoko joining me in the January transfer window, but wait, who the heck is that....... Several spaces below him is Mohamed Sissoko, who is considering a contract offer from me. Oh bugger, seems I have brought both Sissoko, they are different ages, nationalities and from different clubs, but that didn't stop my sleep addled brain from seeing the errors of my ways. The good news is that they both look awesome, the bad news is I only really wanted one of them and in all the confusion I can't for the life of me remember which one it was." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sussex Hammer Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 Just made a big one. Managing England in the Euro Finals and was going to use my 4-3-3 I use with West Ham so filled my squad with central midfielders and strikers dropping the likes of Walcott and Lennon. Lost 1-0 in the opening game to Serbia so tinkered and ended up back with a 4-5-1 I won the World Cup with 2 years earlier. Qualified from thr Group but with only Gerrard, Young and Joe Cole as wide men the legs finally went and I lost on penalties in the quarters v Spain after being 2-0 up. What an idiot and I think Capello needs shooting!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jedaye Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 Playing a striker in goal in an FA cup final comes to mind............that's what you get when your drunk and just have to finish the season before you go to sleep. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daemon_Rising Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 |You wanted Moussa Sissoko, trust me! He's amazing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jedaye Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 Maybe...but what Keeper would have done the job in attack.......you can see where my error came in to it. Stupid newgens being called the same! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coaxial1985 Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 Mohamed Sissoko is pretty damn good too! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruyff14 Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 I hope your spouse doesn't use the forums lol We are no longer together so it's all good! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRealMagpies Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 I've missed regestering 2 key players for half a season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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