dontask Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 my game last night got me wondering if anybody else has managed to get a top player for a cheap fee. i was having a search for players last night to see if any players contracts were due to expire in january 2015. i was leaving it very late as it was like xmas day but got the suprise of my life when i saw igor akinfeev top of the search list. only wanted 35k a week to come to ajax. got no competition for him at all and he accepted my offer a few days later had to pay a £5.25m transfer fee as russia isnt in the E.U but what a bargain!!!! hes only 28 as well. so has anyone else managed to get a bargain of a top player to come to their clubs??? i have also picked up srna and boudabouz on frees in the past. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
manutdfan4lyf Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 i couldve got Lukaku on a free in the 2nd season, but he went to liverpool instead Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nottingham Forest Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 I play mainly lower leagues but my best bargain has to be Nicolas Sanchez from River Plate at the start of the game. You can get him for free. He plays amazing and gets bigger teams interested and then I sell for about £1m but could get more. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattyboy89 Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 In the past with my Man Utd save I have picked up Pato and Ribery on free's. But this is very common. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintToon Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 This probably is a common one, but Riquelme on a free after the first season. Got him as Newcastle and he has been shooting and scoring from everywhere and anywhere. Basturk is right next to him in my 4-4-2 and he too is shooting and scoring long shots, he was also on a free. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevhamster Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 I got Emilio Nsue on a free for my Derby team after he was released by Mallorca. He banged in over 30 goals in first season and over 20 in his second. I had him for 5 seasons and I think he got around 110 goals in all. Add into that, getting £2.2m for him when he no longer featured in my first team plans, all in all a cracking signing. Plus his wages were reasonable all the way. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daemon_Rising Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 Got Criscito on a free and played him in my first team for 6 years, his stats are amazing. He's now 31, stats are still good but I just sold him for £20 million in order to bring in younger talent. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
reeceyg1 Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 got ribery on a free transfer in the 3rd season Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
uusinjsh Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 Akinfeev, Witsel, Rodwell for free in 2013..! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fabio MVP Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 Super Mario for 5 mil. pounds when he was 22. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bartman2008 Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 Neymar on a free transfer in 2017. He still wanted £105,000 a week. Could of been worse though! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninja Monkey Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 My best bargain was buying the current England number one from Manchester United for £2.1 million Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GIBURROWS Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 a 17 inch sony Vaio for £120 when my mate was leaving his job!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nottingham Forest Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 a 17 inch sony Vaio for £120 when my mate was leaving his job!!! Haha. 101010 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GIBURROWS Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 In a Football Manager sense on 09 Franco Zuculini was immense and would cost about 800k and would go for around 20 mil after 3 years, Bought Adam Smith on FM10 from Spurs for 1.2 mil and after one year sold him back to them for 14 mil. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Shanahan Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 Well in the current game I picked up Milevskiy on a free in 2011-2012 120 league goals in 5 and a bit seasons and aboult half that in assists. I consider that a bargain. I also picked up Hugo Lloris on a free 2015-2016 another bargain. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhroX Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 my game last night got me wondering if anybody else has managed to get a top player for a cheap fee.i was having a search for players last night to see if any players contracts were due to expire in january 2015. i was leaving it very late as it was like xmas day but got the suprise of my life when i saw igor akinfeev top of the search list. only wanted 35k a week to come to ajax. got no competition for him at all and he accepted my offer a few days later had to pay a £5.25m transfer fee as russia isnt in the E.U but what a bargain!!!! hes only 28 as well. Heh, amusingly enough, at about the same date, I could've gotten Akinfeev on a free for Ajax - he had no club. Sadly, I wasn't prepared to pay a benchwarmer £30kpw, and about a month later he went off to join Man Utd. My best bargain was probably from the same game: Stephen Defour on a free. Absolute legend Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
heathxxx Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 Argentinian forward Gastón Fernández on a free transfer, with any smaller club I happen to be managing. Have to get in quick at the start of a new save though, as there's usually bigger clubs sniffing around too. It was a wrench to sell him in the third season of my current save, but I did have the opportunity to sign Torres and Agüero. Still, I managed to move him on for 6.5 million and a very healthy sell-on clause. He managed to score 84 goals in 80 appearances for my club, making him the club record goalscorer of all time. I'll be monitoring him as he gets older and possibly, look to bring him back in his twilight years for tutoring youngsters and an eventual coaching role. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyRich Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 Marco Veratti - 600k, hes now worth £11,000,000 Simon Vukcevic - £2,200,000, hes now worth £17,000,000 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeseagullsfollowzetrawler Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 When do Pato and Ribery become available on free's? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dontask Posted August 19, 2010 Author Share Posted August 19, 2010 Heh, amusingly enough, at about the same date, I could've gotten Akinfeev on a free for Ajax - he had no club. Sadly, I wasn't prepared to pay a benchwarmer £30kpw, and about a month later he went off to join Man Utd.My best bargain was probably from the same game: Stephen Defour on a free. Absolute legend i think defour was available for a free on my game in about 2012 but he went italy instead Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayahr Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 Alaba @ € 2.7m Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AcidBurn Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 Gourcuff on a free transfer to Crewe in 2014, brilliant player. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sadiq Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 Axel Witsel on a free. He went on to win Champions League best player. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
llama3 Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 on fm06 i got fernando torres on a free in 2009 on fm07 i got buffon for £8.75m plus Fran Mérida at end of first season on fm08 i got the brilliant omar esparza for about £3m, ended up becoming a superb utility player and the new partner to fabregas in midfield, we were scintillating, he banged in goals from distance too for me on fm09 i cannot recall any particular deals fm10 my best bargain so far must be alphonse aréola for £65k, and he becomes brilliant Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harper Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 In 2010 Summer Transfer Window, Wolfsburg offered Dzeko to me (Arsenal) for £11.25M. Done deal, considering they wanted £22.5M for him at the beginning of the first season. In the 2013 Summer Transfer Window, I brought in Dominic Criscito on a free transfer. I'm about to buy a 26 year old, transfer-listed Fernando Gago from Man United for £4.9M as a back-up/rotation for Håvard Nordtveit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SerTkaN Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 Adler 6M € in 2012 to man city Akinfeev free in 2014 to man city Balotelli 12M € in 2011 to WEST BROM But in my entire fm carier : Mascherano free at second season in Fm 2007 second season , Hugo Lloris and Sergio Ramos free on 4th season in Fm 2008 ( all to Atletico Madrid ) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom_numbers Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 Gourcuff, Defour, Yaya Toure, Adebayor, Gignac and van der Weil all on a free transfer in 2013. Booyah! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave byrd Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 Bought this guy as an unknown kid from Brazil for £4.5m. 6 seasons on he is a global super star worth over £35m: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CGE97 Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 Yoan Gourcuff(2013), Adriano(2010) & Ibrahimovic(2011) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fabio MVP Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 Bought this guy as an unknown kid from Brazil for £4.5m. 6 seasons on he is a global super star worth over £35m: Does he misses at all? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Britrock Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 Enoch Showunmi on a free for Chelmsford City in the BSP. Smashed in 25 goals with an average rating over 7.5. He was way too good to be playing at that level and it showed. Still beaten to the title by Luton though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin599 Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 Neuer, offered by his club, for 5M only. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martyr1777 Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 Kinda odd but my best value has been a generated player. I've gotten him a couple different times when I started an MLS game. Julio Cesar, pretty common Brazilian name right. Both times he just fell into my lap by backroom advice... first time he was an attacking mid, second time defending mid, that's how I know he's generated and I know it's the same generation because the stats are almost identical, same name, and age. Anyway it was a great deal because he's got big technical and mental stats and fair physical at age 19, unsigned by any club so he was a free, and even with the great stats he's more then happy to take a development contract, not just for the first year but for the first 2 years. So great stats, young, free, and minimal wage. Perfect. Almost won rookie of the year no less. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurakUeda Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 Victor Anichebe on a free transfer in same year I promoted to EPL. First couple of seasons he was a great help for the team to keep the position in mid-table and building the team reputation. in 2019, he is in reserves but still scoring occasionally, even against big ones like R.Madrid, OL, A.C.Milan etc. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
santa Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 I got Romelu Lukaku for free in 2012 (i'm Juventus) and he's now worth £21m. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TPA Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 In 2018 I got 33 years old Yaya Toure from Arsenal in exchance for a no-hoper regen from my reserves. Arsene must have been becoming senile (or the regen had potential I failed to spot which I doubt) :-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaredk Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 wouldvhave got dzeko and goucruff on free transfers but they rejected me for juve and roma:( Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TiltonArmy Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 On my previous save Yoan Gourcuff on a free. My current save Julio Baptista straight swap for McFadden...has repaid me with 40 goals with 2 months remaining of the season Artem Milevskiy - £3.4 million - not exactely the bargain of the season but in todays market thats a coup Nicolas Burdisso - Free Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryknow Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 AKinfeev, Adler, Defour, Witsel on free. Best one though was a young Russian newgen LB, whom I swapped Danny Simpson with (straight swap). He ended up being in the first team straight away at like 17/18, and now is one of the best LB's in the game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AFCLiam Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 Luis Suarez - 5.75m. He became unhappy and got transfer listed. Lovely jubbly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bhoy! Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 One of the best bargains in terms of what I got out of them has to be Mauro Cejas. I signed him for Boca for like 100k at the start of the game. Sold him for 10m a season or so later. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
duffy89 Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 Gourcuff, Defour, Yaya Toure, Adebayor, Gignac and van der Weil all on a free transfer in 2013.Booyah! Holy S**t !! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
safcrhys Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 Would be on FM09, I managed to get Bojan on a free transfer to Sunderland at the end of the first season, went on to win numerous Premier League and Champions League trophies with me, becoming the clubs leading goalscorer, what a legend he was. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Masterstroke Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 Managed to offload Sean Scannell to Everton in a swap deal where I got Vaughan and 5 mil when at Crystal Palace Aymen Abdenour for 700k after his loan spell at Werder Bremen Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
daidaithesequel Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 Hopefully on my current save which is in 2014, i've got contract offers in for Mezut Ozil, Guillermo Ochoa and Kadlec all on free transfers yeehoo! But Kadlec has R. Madrid sniffing around him all season so ill doubt i'll get him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave byrd Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 Would be on FM09, I managed to get Bojan on a free transfer to Sunderland at the end of the first season, went on to win numerous Premier League and Champions League trophies with me, becoming the clubs leading goalscorer, what a legend he was. Sorry to be negative but you didn't 'manage to get him' it was a bug (i think in the second patch) where any team could get him on a free at the end of season one. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bradmonk Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 Andrew Riley. An AMR regen I signed for free on my Havant and Waterlooville save in FM09. Was with me from League 1 all the way to the Premiership and was still achieving 7+Avg ratings and shed loads of assists per season in the top flight even though he was only a one and half star player! Bargain! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pelicanstuff Posted August 21, 2010 Share Posted August 21, 2010 Step forward Messrs. Ryan Stevenson and Steven Lennon, who came to play for me in the BSS for £150/week each. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintToon Posted August 21, 2010 Share Posted August 21, 2010 I might be speaking prematurely, but I have agreed a deal with Ben Arfa that will begin at the start of next season. I don't think he is incredible, but I have lost one striker to a big club and another wants to leave so bringing in someone that I rate highly is good. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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