Weirdest/Most Impressive top scorer?

Football Manager has defiantly gradually improved over the years in terms of a teams performance in the league, their transfers and their player performances but every so often I am surprised by something.

On my current game, (I'm playing as Burnely) in 2010/2011, Manchester City's Tevez finished the season as the Premierships leading goalscorer with 42 goals, that's more than a goal a game.

A few other little wonders were Blackburn's Nikola Kalinic consistently getting 20+ goals a season and the odd defender, like John Pantsil chipping in with 10 odd goals, I'm guessing there from free-kicks.

I was just wondering if anyone else had any unexpected leading goalscorers for one reason or another?

David Villa's 49 goals in a single season and the tender age of 33 is bloody impressive especially to say the likes of Benzema, brahimovic, Solgado are still quite young compared to Villa and generally have better physical attributes since there younger. I can see him smashing that record this season aswell, 15 games played and 33 goals thats on average 2 goals a game :O

49 Goals in a season

outstanding if i say so myself.

David Villa's 49 goals in a single season and the tender age of 33 is bloody impressive especially to say the likes of Benzema, brahimovic, Solgado are still quite young compared to Villa and generally have better physical attributes since there younger. I can see him smashing that record this season aswell, 15 games played and 33 goals thats on average 2 goals a game :O

49 Goals in a season

outstanding if i say so myself.

Impressive indeed.

33 yr old villa = king poacher

Frazer Campbell constantly scores 20+ a season in my current Liverpool save. Quite surprising

Carlton Cole scores quite a lot in FM.... Definitely unrealistic!!!

Frazier Campbell and Kalinic always seem to score loads on all my saves.... never happen in real life. James Vaughan at Everton is another one that scores loads, against me anyway

my attacking Midfielder for England just scored 15 in the World cup.....considering my main Strikers scored 45 or so over the season it was a shock he only scored 4 at the finals.

I remember a few seasons back Yakubu always used to dominate the scoring charts. His stats were pretty poor but he'd always be grabbing 30+ a season. This form earned him a move to Chelsea and then Real Madrid where he was constantly one of the most lethal forwards in Europe. He then won the golden boot at a world cup and finally, after retiring from playing, managed Colchester into the Premiership!

(Yet whenever I signed him he was bollocks!)

took over as bristol city,won promotion to the premiership, my top scorer for the promotion season was emile heskey!! 30 goals in a season...most hes scored over his career!! yet in the premiership in my game at the moment same old heskey P11 scored 2

gabby agbonlahor keep scoring 25+ goals and is top sconer in epl last season with 30+

I had a FM 2007 game as Man United where Alan Smith was top scorer in both the EPL and CL for a few seasons in a row before having to retire due to injury.

in fm 2008 Muntari from inter scored amazing 29 goal. All of them from long range

My regen CB regularly nets me 20+ goals a season, he became a club legend within 2 seasons because of this!

Jack Wilshere is England’s all time top scorer with 51 goals in 72 games. And he is only 26.

On one of my saves the top scorer for the 2011 season was Daniel Sturridge.

On my current City game Torres is unstopable, won the top scorer award 3 times out of 4 (Tevez got the other) and in the Euros scored all 8 of Spains goals before they were knocked out in the first knock out stage by Sweden.

Impressive indeed.

stupid and unrealistic, some might say.

stupid and unrealistic, some might say.

Shun the non-believer. I don’t think he’s cheated, Villa is class in my save to, and in real-life.

My regen CB regularly nets me 20+ goals a season, he became a club legend within 2 seasons because of this!

Using the corner cheat much?

Shun the non-believer. I don’t think he’s cheated, Villa is class in my save to, and in real-life.

yeah, Villa's great in my save too (never seems to score against me tho! wish i could say the same about c. ronaldo!), i dont think its a cheat, just a design failure of the game to decline his attributes a little. At 33, only 1 or 2 points down from his peak would be fair but it would probably have him getting 20 goals a season, which i would say is about right. Obviously the guy is a class act in real life but we'll see if he can keep that up, or even have the motivation to do it, in 6 years time.

In his first season for me Henrik Dalsgaard scored 47 goals in 29 appearences. He has gone downhill since though, getting only 27 in 28, 20 in 27, and 18 in 16 in the next two and half seasons.

Using the corner cheat much?

I had a feeling somebody would mention this. I wouldn't even know were to start with the cheat as I've never looked it up, only heard of it. Just got a CB with high jumping/heading/strength stats who goes up for corners. If I did use that cheat I'd have hoped to have more success than I have already in cups and the league.

Also, as a side note, none of my other CB's can emulate his record when tried on the occasions he's been injured.

Ched Evans on my game. He has 123 goals in 186 league appearences for them with 4 season in the EPL. :O

Playing as Cork City at the moment, and my CB Kevin long was third top goalscorer near the end of the season with over 25goals!! and My kepper had scored about 10 (then again he does take my peno's)

I can barely get anyone to score in FM2010! However if I take into account all SI games then I can clearly remember a Dutch player called Dick Koiijman who a defensive midfielder. He bagged 27 goals, most from long range. No other midfielder has ever come close to being so amazing.

This was on CM00/01 if I remember correctly.

I re trained Christiano Ronaldo as a striker at the age of 33 and he scored something like 60 goals in 55 appearances over 2 seasons.

I have a Fm2010 game where I've set up my own senario that United have been booted down to BSP. Still with full squad, but I have to sell if a decent offer comes in. Anyway, as you can imagine this has still made many games one sided in my favour and goals/game reflect that. Rooney ended with 55 goals in 35 league games. Berba 38 in 25 and Owen 41 in 30. More impressively I thought was David healy on loan from Sunderland, 20 in just 7 league starts.

I know some of you will hate me for doing that, but it's a fun was to play.

Kaká on FM 2008 for Milan, 66 goals in a season, can't remember how many games were played. Got to the final of CL, Italian Cup and the club were in the CWC...first season..

All goes on tactics

Took over Liverpool, had a regen who was voted world player of the year 3 years running, he scored 56 goals in 44 matches overall. Took free-kicks and pens which helped though.

Ched Evans scored 30+ goals in Serie A for two consecutive seasons...

Do you post on gametrailers?

Ched Evans scored 30+ goals in Serie A for two consecutive seasons...

Do you post on gametrailers?

Ronaldo Biachi on 2008 with 28

Johan Elmander with a massive 14 goals on 2010, sold him then for 28million to united

and on 2006 jermaine Defoe had 39 goals in 44 games, that season i only had 4 goalscorers, Tevez had 28 in 38, Jenas had 7 in 34 and robbie keane had 8 in 10.

Baring Injury Tim Cahill scores 30 goals a season for me, true to life when he hits a form slump so does my Everton team.

on 2006 jermaine Defoe had 39 goals in 44 games

I remember Defoe being outstanding for me on a network game I had set up on 2006.

i started a save with Hellas Verona in the italian serie c, and in my second season Francesco Di Gennaro scored 45 goals in 44 games.

Using the corner cheat much?

What's the corner cheat?!

Do you post on gametrailers?

I used to but I haven't been on for a while.

steven naismith, toped the charts in the spl and was undeniable the best striker in europe that year, with more goals than any one in the champions league, he won the golden boot for me aswell. Never one the champions league though

What's the corner cheat?!

i think it has something to do with setting a player to lurk outside the box and giving the ball to them and they'll just keep scoring.

Jason Roberts got top scorer in the Prem in 10/11

Lukaku, 72 goals in 58 appearances for me in La Liga. Only 3 of those were from either penalties or free kicks.

samaras from celtic got 37 goals in lik 42 appearances only if he could do that in real life

Agbonlahor and Tevez are the two that keep scoring unrealistic amounts of goals in my games. However, Xisco is currently outdoing them in the game I'm playing right now, leading the EPL scoring chart. Not very plausible.

My most impressive top scorer:

Shame that due to injury he only made 39 starts.

Oh, and before anyone asks:

Nathan Delfouneso can be counted upon to score 15+ goals per season on my save, yet his stats are distinctively average maybe even poor.

Nathan Delfouneso can be counted upon to score 15+ goals per season on my save, yet his stats are distinctively average maybe even poor.

What about his physical stats?