Player Love

[CooCooKaJoo]

Everyone must have a player who comes through every single time for your team, who you love like no-over player.

Mine is Luc Castaignos. I <3 him.

Who are yours?

[dudge7]

Diego Buonanotte, first discovered him in FM07, now make a point of buying him every time I play as a decent team.

[jaredk]

rite now. has to be carlos tevez. guy is insane.

[edgar555]

Aaron Lennon. Although Toni Kroos is well up there.

[jackripper]

james rodriguez

[Edle]

Freddy Guarin

[edgar555]

Freddy Guarin

Still????????

[daidaithesequel]

Balotelli - must buy

[dudge7]

Freddy Guarin

ah, was always a must-buy in the early versions. Is he still as good this year?

[The Sean]

In my first two seasons with Kansas City in MLS it was Josh Wolff. He's too slow now. I'm keeping him to become a coach.

[Mullers]

There are 2 players, Junior Stanislas and Zavon Hines. Both players I play week in week out for West Ham and they always do really well.

[Ty]

Lennon also.

[Greeb723]

Giggsy!

[gunner86]

In my current save it's Luka Modric... ever since he turned down Barce and Man United to stay at my Villa team.

[minisav]

Hans-Jorg Butt. Saved us so many times in my first season in the 2nd division. Now my goalkeeping coach. He's rubbish but (sic) a legend.

[Crazy Billy-Jay Jones]

Jimmy Bullard. Lost count of how many times last season he saved us with a goal from nowhere, he's been the standout performer for my Southampton team. Bought for £4m, bosses the midfield week in/week out. Money well spent, even if he is knocking on a bit now.

[Tubey84]

Maxim Tsigalko in an earlier FM. I nicknamed him God in the end ^^

Singlehandedly took Logrones CF to the La Liga championship, scoring well in excess of a goal every two games in all competitions.

[ArsenalFan7]

Vladimir Belov my Russian Wonder.

@ Luc Castaignos though I hate him on FM because he was the standard of a BSP player after 3 years at Arsenal for me!

[dontask]

signed a regen in BSS once and he played for me for about 8 seasons until i reached the championship. the fact he was a striker and got me plenty of valuable goals made me love him even more

[RawrrrFace16]

Mota. Signed in all games I've started in FM10 and FM09

[TheGreemSim]

Chris Wood, he's only failed me on 3 occasions throughout his 42 match career.

[ism-scfc]

Gary Hooper

A god in the championship, and currently doing the business in the prem too

[slipknot67]

Henrik Larsson. My first save on FM always starts at Celtic and he's always my first purchase...never fails to get me goals right up until he retires.

[atonement]

hugo viana

[minisav]

AJ-Leitch Smith on 09. What a guy as he propelled Staines from BSS to the Championship

[dangerpuss]

Kikin Fonseca. My go-to guy for cheap goals.

[BillyBoi]

Mine are Shay Given, Billy Jones and Bojinov. I always try to sign them even if they dont get in the first team.

[Gr8est manager ever]

Fernando Llorente from Bilbao. He isnt as prolific as others but he can consistently score at any level. Love him

[lawd]

Juan Roman Riquelme, just an absolute god. Whenever my team aren't at it, he always chips in with a goal or assist, only player that I won't ever sell.

[Hershie]

Robert Acquafresca

[Suge]

Freddy Guarin

Just took him on loan. Scored a screamer straight into the top corner in his 2nd game for me

[Terra21]

Matias Defederico

[medo24]

It has to be Bojan for me. He became record league scorer for me at Man Utd on 08 and 09. There are a few regens I could mention as well.

[LilSaint]

I have a couple: Artem Milevskyi.. my absolute favorite..won countless trophies for me, both individually and for the club, Antoine N'Gossan, some regen named Foued Tran who is an MR and scores 2 goals almost every game, and finally Neymar

[dudge7]

Marcelo (Real Madrid one) and Aguero are others for me, always try to sign them

[OG.L]

Dzeko- already a legend at the club im managing

[CooCooKaJoo]

Vladimir Belov my Russian Wonder.

@ Luc Castaignos though I hate him on FM because he was the standard of a BSP player after 3 years at Arsenal for me!

he musthave a negative PA then cos he's a beast on mine

worth £30m and breaking all sorts of records.

his stats are off the scale!

[swed151]

Carlos Tevez, Sergio Aguero, Cristiano Ronaldo

[Irchard]

This thread is most dubious. (Dzeko for me)

[andylad]

both of mine mentioned

Dzeko on this FM for me when I'm a big team

Fonseca otherwise, absolute legend

[Tubey84]

Maxim Tsigalko in an earlier FM. I nicknamed him God in the end ^^

Singlehandedly took Logrones CF to the La Liga championship, scoring well in excess of a goal every two games in all competitions.

I've actually found my sig strip from another forum where I did this save as a FM Story!



Maxim TSIGALKO - A.K.A. "God", 200 games (167 starts), 131 goals. (Logrones C.F.)

"Jesus Saves... But Tsigalko nets the rebound!"

Logrones C.F. Honours List 2016/17

1 La Liga
1 UEFA Cup
1 Super Cup
1 Liga BBVA

[Diagoras]

Sylvain Legwinski

[weeeman27bob]

In order: Fernando Torres, Sergio Aguero, Matais Fernandez, Camacho.

[Crimson_Outlaw]

Sergio Agüero had him on the last 3 versions of fm

[sydfc4ever]

even thought he's old, slow, fat, and pretty much useless now, it has to be the one and only Robbie 'God' Fowler. I always bring him back to the Reds to retire. Even give him a few goes off the bench in cup games. I spent my teenage years basically worshipping that guy. Love live God!

[schweddy]

Joe Mattock...I always make sure I get him, and he never fails me. Same with Simon Davies, very underrated in FM.

[welshace]

artur kas'kov is fast becoming a favourite

kikin fonseca + bofo bautista are probably my favourite players of all time in this game... bar the great mark kerr of course.

[Legion22]

Sunday Oliseh

[Wee Aja]

One of the only totally unknown players I've ever discovered for myself: Antonin Rosa (LB/LWB). Not world class, but I always buy him now if I'm managing a mid-table (top league) team. Absolutely loved him on FM09 and he made me a profit of almost £20M (bought for £500k, sold for £20M).

[SellOn_Clause]

Christian Vieri...

Now I know what you're thinking... oh no this guy's off his meds.. but honestly I'm telling the truth. He's free, his wage demands are low and he's my supersub. I've seriously lost count of the number of times I've brought him on at 60', 70' etc and he's either smashed a much-needed goal home or kept the defense busy and passed to someone else to smash home.

[Raymond85]

Alexis Sanchez....for the past 3 years he has been an absolute god... when i start with Udinese i manage to refuse offers up to 60 MLN for him after a couple of years...there's no-one else as good!

[-MD-]

Tevez @ Man City
RVP @ Arsenal
Pato @ Milan

[rent_boy11]

Onandi lowe on fm08. signed him for shrewsbury in L2, he scored 30 goals 3 seasons in a row and got us to the prem.

[Ezequiel_Lavezzi]

Kikin Fonseca. My go-to guy for cheap goals.

Same, the guys a legend on FM2010.

[ulrich87]

Flat out, Wayne Rooney. He is insane on the game as he is in real life.

[MartinGregory84]

Yohan Guichard & Patrick Vaz

The lower League Business!!!!

always sign them up until about League one level then sell them for profit.

[dking]

Once upon a time, taribo west, you could get him on a bosman at the start of the game.

[Valonz]

David Luiz and Ramires.

[InterWolf]

Joao Moutinho. Mental God, you know he's always going to be spot on, always be there in the big moments.

[JonnyGabriel]

Vladimier Weiss and Danko Lazovic have been my first buys everywhere I've been on FM10 so far but...

Robert Acquafresca

Will be added to that list now.

[Dazedx]

David Villa. What a striker

[MeesterCat]

In previous versions: Daniel Montenegro or Labinot Harbuzi.

In this version: Probably Vincent Enyeama. Partly because he saves the team on countless occasions, but partly because he's really easy to wind up (via managerial mind games).

[Russ_WWFC]

Dan Fitchett, signed him for Rossendale in the Conference North, and he has followed me up to League 1, being top scorer every year

[Bradmonk]

Giggsy!

Good man!!

[Deano-avfc-10]

Defederico & Jonjo Shelvey, in my forest team in 2016.
Also got a couple of fave regens

[Haiku]

Oscar Cardozo .. Incredible stats.. I like to play him deep lying fw and/or targetman.

[Chocapik]

Lukas Vrabec. A 23 years old regen i bought in FM08 for Man Utd and became the best scorer ever for the club. Always scored at least 40 goals per season and many above 60. Even when i managed to buy him for Benfica when he was 34 years old he managed to score 46 goals.

[ManUTactician247]

ah, was always a must-buy in the early versions. Is he still as good this year?

Lets just say he's in my reserve team

[Lankylars]

Marquinhos in FM09.

[HenryrneH]

Willy Topp! What A Legend !

[carlos95]

lisandro lopez or gourcuff

[turn it in]

I cannot get over my 03-04 love for Peter Weatherson.

[Fabio MVP]

Supat Rungratsamee. The player who served me the best since CM 03/04.

[nine_iron]

Dean Windass and Nick Barmby (back in 09) and now Michael Mifsud and Ian Walker (unattached keeper)

[Braundjoh]

As a big team it would have to be Toni Kroos, he's a real beast from attacking midfield.

[FMAnderson]

Danny Mohiddin - Newcastle Left Winger .. Came through the ranks ..

[blz80]

Matias Abelairas

[leavingtrain]

Cesar Sampaio and Robbie Stockdale in an earlier version (01/02 maybe).

[Jenome]

Miguel Veloso
The only Defensive Midfielder i loved.
Thundered loads of Direct Freekicks into opponents' goal.

[emiloprisa]

I actually have about three or so. I almost always start as CFR Cluj or Steaua Bucharest.

Gonzalo Barreto - Danubio (FC)
Milan Badelj - Dinamo Zagreb (AM RLC)
Sergy Krivets - BATE Borisov (AM RLC)

these three i always try to buy. on my save yesterday my chairman at CFR went over my head and accepted a 18,5 mil euro + 20% off next sale for Milan Badelj from Leverkusen. He was 23 year old. I always try to sell my players with 50% clause. I made a lot of money that way. I have a 48 mil euro transfer budget in my 4th season. Not bad for a Romanian team. Also have about 60 mil in the bank and a lot of money coming in from monthly installments. The shareholders taking my cash annoys me though...

Barreto i once sold for 14m + 50% and Krivets for 12m + 50%

Oh, i forgot about Silviu Lung JR. He becomes an immense goalkeeper. Always sold him to big clubs (Man Utd, Roma, Barcelona, etc)
Cheers!!!

[football_master_94]

Used to be Tsigalko. Now its Gojko Kacar, Mats Hummels and Sébastian Blanco

[adey]

Sergio Asenjo (GK)

[Rohkey]

Dzeko, Altidore, Maganalles (regen), Kjaer...rarely have bad performances. And when they do, all I have to do is criticize them and it lights a fire under them.

Also my keeper, Delac, seems to always be 6.9+

[cplpeters1900]

The Sporting Trio of Vukivic, Moutinho and Veloso

[Gr8est manager ever]

Also another striker who i always buy if i can... Jozy Altidore he is awesome Quick,Strong,Good mind

And now im starting to love Romelu Lukaku

[ross8]

Once upon a time, taribo west, you could get him on a bosman at the start of the game.

Those were the days. I could actually win things then!

[Arkim]

Robert Lewandowski at the moment. I'm trying to find him a good partner up front but all season long he's been my go-to-guy for goals. Not technical at all but quick and clinical.

[burgerboys]

pavol suhaj, julian alsop, paul mcgowan, michael pook, scott tynan, callum kennedy and of course no team is complete without the one and only paul wotton

[Edinton]

I cannot get over my 03-04 love for Peter Weatherson.

Plays for my local team IRL, Greenock Morton, and has been a bit of lower league FM legend for me for a couple of years now, especiallyon FM07 when he was a free scoring CD or RB as even though he's a striker by trade we played him at the back for a few games because of injuries. FM10 he scored 24 goals to win me an unlikely first season promotion to the SPL.

[mizunuma]

Plays for my local team IRL, Greenock Morton, and has been a bit of lower league FM legend for me for a couple of years now, especiallyon FM07 when he was a free scoring CD or RB as even though he's a striker by trade we played him at the back for a few games because of injuries. FM10 he scored 24 goals to win me an unlikely first season promotion to the SPL.

My first ever FM game was with Morton (FM05) and since then, whenever I've had a rough spell in any game, I go to them to play for awhile. For whatever reason, I always do well with the 'Ton.

Someday I'm going to go to Scotland...and I'm going to go to Cappielow.

Chris Millar was my hero on that first game...ended up being in the EPL. I thought I'd gotten a pretty good deal until I saw his value had gone up by another decimal place with his new team!