TheInvisibleMan Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 Just wandering if anyone has seen players play really well for other clubs, yet in other games when they sign them, they play awful and don't score (if it's a striker). It's rather annoying but i guess maybe it's the manager's (the users') stats? It's happened to me with Vagner Love and Goran Pandev. Vagner Love i signed for £7.5 million for Man City and he scored 2 goals in between August and January. He played pretty regularly and i sold him in January to Lazio for £5 million. Pandev scored an hatrick against me for Newcastle but when i'd signed him for City in the game before, he'd done nothing. Got a few goals but not as much as at Newcastle or Chelsea, in other games. Has this happened to anyone else? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayahr Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 Well, I guess it's fairly normal that not every signing you make will play to its best, just like in real life... It depends on luck a bit, but I guess mainly on whether the guy is actually good within your tactics. I expect many people don't know which attributes are important for their style of play (if they are even aware of their style). Then even good players will not suit their tactics as their qualities are not maxxed out by the tactic. (see this in a game myself currently where I'm Barca and both Messi and Ronaldinho are far off what they could be but I have success and have not found a way yet to maxx those two out but still have the same amount of success - but at least I know it's my fault ) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
glamdring Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 £17.5 million of Werder Bremen's hard earned cash spent on Mario Gomez. I'm still too traumatised to talk about it in any more detail :-| Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nomis07 Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 Manuel Fischer from VFB Stuttgart Signed him for £7.5m and he scored once in 34 games, next season I shipped him off on loan to Liverpool with a £7.5m clause, he went on to score 28 goals in the PL and they signed him at the end of the loan. He's now worth over £20m! Stefan Kiessling, signed for £9m and did nothing, sold to Spurs for £5m and now he's banging them in again Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuciferM Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 Just wandering if anyone has seen players play really well for other clubs, yet in other games when they sign them, they play awful and don't score (if it's a striker). It's rather annoying but i guess maybe it's the manager's (the users') stats?It's happened to me with Vagner Love and Goran Pandev. Vagner Love i signed for £7.5 million for Man City and he scored 2 goals in between August and January. He played pretty regularly and i sold him in January to Lazio for £5 million. Pandev scored an hatrick against me for Newcastle but when i'd signed him for City in the game before, he'd done nothing. Got a few goals but not as much as at Newcastle or Chelsea, in other games. Has this happened to anyone else? God, yes, this is an awful part of the game! Low and behold different managers could actually use different tactics and roles therefore bringing out different parts of that player's game. What we really want in FM09 is exactly the same AI manager managing every club in the game. That'd be just like real life. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheInvisibleMan Posted October 23, 2008 Author Share Posted October 23, 2008 God, yes, this is an awful part of the game! Low and behold different managers could actually use different tactics and roles therefore bringing out different parts of that player's game. What we really want in FM09 is exactly the same AI manager managing every club in the game. That'd be just like real life. Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed :| I wasn't saying this was bad, just it's frustrating and seeing if it happened to anyone else. Can see where you're coming from though, it would be unrealistic if it didn't happen. Going back to the other posts, it probably is that the players don't fit into our system or their attributes don't suite the style of play eg. a passing game. A lot of the time, i build a tactic to suit my playmakers or wingers and maybe not my strikers, which this problem seems to happen the most with. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purefun Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 No never happened to me tbh. Whenever a player doesn't perform a just provide a s.s. of his tactics and people are kind enough to help me out. Its usually the wrong personal instructions for that player. Nothing else. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
santy001 Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 Sergio Aguero for 38m, did well the first season, second season he didnt score after from january to april and only got a goal in the last league game, and in season 3 he hasnt scored from october to mid-january where I now am. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigy18181 Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 theo walcott, was banging them in for england and his other team so signed him for my current man utd. Was pure baws, so stopped playing him for a year. Wayne Rooney just got injured so I put him in up front and he is now starting to bang in goals. So I am now happy even though it has taken over a year to pay off. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
theincrediblehulk Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 Walcott will be inconsistent if you play him upfront. He doesnt have the stats to be consistent playing as a striker. If you want consistency out of him, then play him on the right wing and he'll deliver the goods pretty much every game. And also, if you bring him off the bench regularly, he's very, very effective then as well. Will usually create atleast a couple of chances because of his pace. Whether that leads to a goal or not is another matter altogether. As for the OP, yeah that's happened to me. Rafael Van Der Vaart and Ricardo Quaresma are the two main culprits. I've never been able to get them to perform consistently. Although on my current Arsenal save I decided to buy VDV to give him one last chance before FM09 comes out and for the first time, I've actually got him playing very well indeed. I forgot the exact figures but he didnt have a bad game in the 18 odd games he played for me in half a season (signed him in Jan). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamRuff04 Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 I didnt sign him, however i was managing chelsea and i promoted Scott Sinclair to my first team i was really short of strikers he played 42 games, league and cup and he scored 4 goals i then sold him to Bolton for 1M and he scored 17 in 15 games how does that happen and he is now worth 5M and hes only 22. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ville Valo Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 I didnt sign him, however i was managing chelsea and i promoted Scott Sinclair to my first team i was really short of strikers he played 42 games, league and cup and he scored 4 goals i then sold him to Bolton for 1M and he scored 17 in 15 games how does that happen and he is now worth 5M and hes only 22. He's very similar to Walcott in than he doesn't have the stats to play as a striker. I'd say he'd be much better as a supersub or a winger. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forza Italia Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 Pandev screwed me in FM07. I'll never sign him again. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fabregas18 Posted October 25, 2008 Share Posted October 25, 2008 On the 8.0.1 patch I was playing as Arsenal, and Ashley Young had scored 7 goals in yhe first 4 league games first season... I bought him for £27M, and thought he'd be a great buy.. He didn't score a single goal all season... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
haza555 Posted October 25, 2008 Share Posted October 25, 2008 Matt Hill, what a useless sack of **** (excuse my french). gives goals away for fun, i swear after this post to never mention his name again. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheOriginalJez Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 I didn't pay much for him but a guy who rocked at his old club then came and did nothing... reminded me of Forlán actually... portuguese fella by the name of Tomané - couldn't score if he had an open goal. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
YesYesOhYay Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 kalou was pretty shocking! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
YesYesOhYay Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 kalou was pretty shocking! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
soli Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 Steven Taylor. Gets lots of 6 with the occassional 7s. Actually plays better at RB for me. Also not able to sell him off as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
firthy19 Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 i signed andrey arshavin for 6.5 + clauses i put him up front for my man city team and he scored 3 in one season Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demon4 Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 I Find when i loan a player who scores 20+ goals a season who then i evetully buy next season then turns rubbish. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
man_utd_fan Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 arshavin was very bad when i signed him for man united and when i took over sevile when they were doing bad i signed fernando morientes and he kept having a match rating of 6 and only scored three goals Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
roooonaldooo Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 elano ! bought him for 48 mill. First game broke his leg for 7 months. Then came back and went on and off with more injuries till i had enought then sold him Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vrv Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 Lukas Podolski - 9M - Did **** for two seasons and left for 7M Ricardo Oliviera - free - Scored a hat trick on his debut then broke his leg. Came back off of injury and his first game back he scores two then tears a muscle.... Fabregas - You don't want to know - I don't want to talk about it Reginaldo - 15M - Had three great seasons at Napoli so I thought I would buy him. Never really got started and had a lackluster season and definitely not worth 15M Carboni - 5M (I think) - Thought I would add some experience and tenacity to my midfield and well I thought Juan Manuel Torres + Carboni would turn out to be awesome but not so much. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinnymalinky Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 Juan Manuel Torres and Alan Kardec from 8.0. At the end of the season both had an average rating of 6.5ish. Although this could've been a bug, as I won the league year-in-year-out at a canter and also won the UEFA Cup with most of my players recording a poor overall rating. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vrv Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 Juan Manuel Torres is only good for three things. Yellow Cards, Red Cards and breaking the oppositions legs. He has no offensive ability what so ever but does that matter? He took out Ibra and Pazzini for around a year. Anyone who does that is a legend in my book even though he can't play for more than 45 mins without getting a red Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
longyt Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 fabregas- ridiculous price, for ridiculous performances! (in a bad way!) play him in cm, alongside gerrard, and for two seasons has averaged 6.15. ah well... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinnymalinky Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 you certainly have a point vrv. I wouldn't mind so much if he was kicking players off the park and getting good ratings Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gerrardsrightfoot Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 Bought Pato in a Liverpool save for close to £35m once...he was shocking. Got 3 goals in around 40 appearances I think, sold him onto to Barcelona the next season for £17m and of he course he goes on to end up with over 35 goals for them.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kopsy101 Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 ronaldo - got him for 57mil and he was very average for 1 and a half seasons. babel and dos santos were better. sold him for 27 nuk at 29 years old and got messi who is unbelievably good Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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