medievalman Posted November 24, 2008 Share Posted November 24, 2008 am at start of 2nd season had to sell cuellar for 25 mill as he demanded to. sold afew others like luke young shorey sidwell and reo-coker but brought in aload not sure how theyll get on yet though. Heitinga for 20 mill looks quite good though i have also bought krancjar and vargas Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike Posted November 24, 2008 Share Posted November 24, 2008 I have just started my second season, having made the following transfers: Transfers In – Total £45.4m Anyukov (DR) – £12.25m Cacares (DC) – £11.25m Huntelaar (ST) – £7.5m Di Maria (AML) – £6m Acosta (AMR) – £5m Radoi (DC) – £3.4m Transfers Out – Total £44.4m Cuellar – £20m (Real Madrid) Carew – £7.5m (Newcastle) Sidwell – £5m (Spurs) Shorey – £5m (Blackburn) L. Young – £4.4m (Bolton) Friedel – £2.5m (West Ham) Salifou – Free (Rapid Wien) Routledge – Free (Hibs) The board accepted a bid of £20m for Marcelo from Chelsea but fortunately he couldn’t agree terms. I also turned down a bid of £40m from Man City for Veloso as he is irreplaceable. After this flurry of transfer activity my first team squad now looks like this: GK – Asenjo / Guzan DR – Anyukov / Torres DL – Marcelo / Bouma DC – Radoi / Laursen DC – Davies / Cacares MC – Reo-Coker / Camacho MC – Veloso / Ramires AMR – Milner / Acosta AML – Young / Di Maria ST – Huntelaar / Agbonlahor ST – Owen / Rossi I have just beaten Arsenal 3-2 in the Community Shield, with Huntelaar scoring the winner in the 93rd minute, and followed that up with a 2-0 win at Helsingborg in the UEFA Cup qualifying round (Huntelaar scored both). I’m hopeful of a great season Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reo-Coker-Cola Posted November 24, 2008 Share Posted November 24, 2008 What are the main signings of the 1st season? My transfer budget didn't increase after I requested it unfortunately... so had £6m. In Marcelo 4.4m Julio Cruz 450k Emerson loan Sturridge 3.3m Ferriera 1.3m Total 9.5m Out 4.6m Unbeaten in pre-season and Euro Vase etc... Just about to play Man City in 1st game of season. Any suggestions of future buys or players to sell? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomvilla Posted November 24, 2008 Share Posted November 24, 2008 veloso, camacho, cardozo, enyeama, hulk and barzagli have all proved really good signings for me. When it comes to the original team, you can get lots of money for a lot of our players as other posters have shown, so hold out for as much as you can. from what i have seen you can get 30 million for barry, and 20 for cuellar....others can reach high prices as well. sell off the deadwood - harewood, knight, petrov, salifou Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reo-Coker-Cola Posted November 24, 2008 Share Posted November 24, 2008 Should I just wait for bids for players or put prices on them? Keeping Harewood for now... got rid of Taylor, Knight, Salifou, Osbourne etc Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike Posted November 24, 2008 Share Posted November 24, 2008 Should I just wait for bids for players or put prices on them?Keeping Harewood for now... got rid of Taylor, Knight, Salifou, Osbourne etc Transfer list them and set their squad status to "not needed". Then continue for a day and it will then show whether or not there are any other club interested in them. If there are then "offer them to other clubs" for at least double their value and see what offers you get. Hope this helps. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomvilla Posted November 24, 2008 Share Posted November 24, 2008 for the bigger name players....if you do well, bigger clubs come sniffing around....then do what you want...set a price, offer to clubs or wait depending on what you want. let me know how you get on Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaSmith Posted November 24, 2008 Share Posted November 24, 2008 He scored in his first game. But now hasn't scored in ten. sounds like good old Pogrebnyak;) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaSmith Posted November 24, 2008 Share Posted November 24, 2008 Carew just broke a 487 MINUTE DROUGHT!!! and a derby match against the baggies isn't a bad game to break it either Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avfcgoodie Posted November 24, 2008 Share Posted November 24, 2008 Just did the Double over AC In Semi's vs PSV 6th in League, 3 Points from 3rd with 4 Games left Defoe and Doyle are Useless Van Derr Varrt and Ferrari are Awesome Foster and Hedwigs Mauro steady Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaSmith Posted November 24, 2008 Share Posted November 24, 2008 With ten minutes to go v Arsenal the league leaders i was 4-1 up and then in the 85th minute it was 4-3! The whole of villa park was on the edge of their seats for the last 5 minutes and i managed to run away winners. Agbonlahor scored 2 after i was asked if i agreed with the fans beliefs of him not performing up to standard. i may have just screwed up arsenal's title challend:D Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbs87 Posted November 24, 2008 Share Posted November 24, 2008 Ha got the Ghana job aswell. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
D3AN Posted November 24, 2008 Share Posted November 24, 2008 I keep asking for a higher wage budget, and keep getting 100k or so added to it. I've managed to get around an extra £10m-£15m this way In need of a right and left back, near end of first transfer window, because from my games so far, Young and Shorey don't look up to it. Any suggestions guys? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
-lewis-16- Posted November 24, 2008 Share Posted November 24, 2008 I'd get Joe Mattock for left back, cheap and English, he's been great for me so far not to sure about right back though, I need one too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
D3AN Posted November 24, 2008 Share Posted November 24, 2008 ok cheers mate, how much did you get him for? I'm being told about the £2m mark, but he looks pretty solid. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
-lewis-16- Posted November 24, 2008 Share Posted November 24, 2008 yeah roughly that, I got him for 3.3m I think, but he is fantastic. He can only get better as well, he's looking like future England left back in my game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbs87 Posted November 24, 2008 Share Posted November 24, 2008 Mattock is insane in my game got fans player of the year first season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
-lewis-16- Posted November 24, 2008 Share Posted November 24, 2008 guys has anyone got Agbonlahor to learn a PPM I've asked his to learn 'Try to break offside trap' which would be great because of his pace and he said 'he sees no point' then I asked him to learn 'round the keeper when 1v1' and again he said he sees no point I don't really get it, because I think these moves would vastly improve his game because these would work well with his pace Is it just by chance whether he'll learn it or not, or will Agbonlahor always reject these moves? because there clearly is a point in learning these moves, and I dont get why he's saying there isn't Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbs87 Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 He rejected 'learn offside trap for me' as well maybe hes just stubborn. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reo-Coker-Cola Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 Embarassingly bad start to my managerial career at Villa... Has anyone been sacked by Randy yet? And if so, where were you when you were dismissed? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbs87 Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 11th in the league at the end of my 2nd season but into the fa cup final and got the world cup with ghana to look forward to. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaSmith Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 Just got through to th QF's of the UEFA Cup. Will play Portsmouth and if i win that i will play Rangers or Juve. Got knocked out of the FA Cup in the fourth round against WBA . currently in march will update at end of season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaSmith Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 Although my job security is stable and i'm currently 5th(?) and in the QF's of the UEFA cup there is already speculation on who will take my job at the end of the season? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardie Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 what season are you in? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PercyAVFC Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 Can anyone tell me how Delfouneso turns out, havent bothered getting a new striker yet, I know i need 1 to replace Harewoodnot but do i need to replace Nathan? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyp Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 Hi all. Loved Villa since a kid, loved FM since I was 13 but never got the courage to combine the two. Until now! I'll be playing a good old-fashioned 4-4-2, with my current first XI being (with my future plans in brackets): GK: Friedel (really doesn't look the part in this game, I'll give him this season but will definitely bring in a new GK next season) RB: L.Young (would like to bring a new RB in to rotate with Young. Balletti on loan for the season would fit this bill perfectly) CB: Cuellar CB: Laursen LB: Shorey (need to bring in a LB to cover whilst Bouma is out. Razvan Rat on the transfer list for £2.7m looks the part) RM: Milner LM: A.Young CM (defensive): Petrov (want to bring in a good creative DM to maybe replace Petrov here, as I want to play with my two CM's swapping roles during the game) CM (attacking): Barry ST: Carew ST: Gabby (definitely need to bring in at least one new ST. Not sure who yet though) I will be selling: Knight, Harewood, Salifou and Reo-Coker. I offered them all out, and have had a £5m offer for Knight, £3.8m & £4.8m for Harewood (hopefully he'll accept the £4.8m contract..), £2m for Salifou and £6.25 for Reo-Coker. If these all go through, I should have a decent budget to play with. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaSmith Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 what season are you in? 1st thats why i'm so confused Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyp Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 Hi all. Loved Villa since a kid, loved FM since I was 13 but never got the courage to combine the two. Until now!I'll be playing a good old-fashioned 4-4-2, with my current first XI being (with my future plans in brackets): GK: Friedel (really doesn't look the part in this game, I'll give him this season but will definitely bring in a new GK next season) RB: L.Young (would like to bring a new RB in to rotate with Young. Balletti on loan for the season would fit this bill perfectly) CB: Cuellar CB: Laursen LB: Shorey (need to bring in a LB to cover whilst Bouma is out. Razvan Rat on the transfer list for £2.7m looks the part) RM: Milner LM: A.Young CM (defensive): Petrov (want to bring in a good creative DM to maybe replace Petrov here, as I want to play with my two CM's swapping roles during the game) CM (attacking): Barry ST: Carew ST: Gabby (definitely need to bring in at least one new ST. Not sure who yet though) I will be selling: Knight, Harewood, Salifou and Reo-Coker. I offered them all out, and have had a £5m offer for Knight, £3.8m & £4.8m for Harewood (hopefully he'll accept the £4.8m contract..), £2m for Salifou and £6.25 for Reo-Coker. If these all go through, I should have a decent budget to play with. OK, official pre-season transfers: OUT: Zat Knight to Middlesbrough for £5m Marlon Harewood to WBA for £4.8m Mustapha Salifou to Coventry for £1.9m Nigel Reo-Coker to Man City for £6.25m Stiliyan Petrov to Sunderland for £6m TOTAL - £24m IN: Razvan Rat from Shakhtar for £2.7m Juan Quero from Numancia for £2.9m Belletti from Chelsea on Loan (£1m initial fee and £5m future fee) Rafael Carocia from Gremio for £3m Hulk from Porto for £6m Petri Pasanen from Werder Bremen for £7.5m TOTAL - £23m I'm happy with the squad now. Everyone had a good pre-season (Delfouneso was superb). Only reservation is Friedel, but I'll have to wait till next summer. VILLASMITH - have you done anything controversial? Like, getting into debt, getting into hot water with the FA, selling big players etc etc? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pnalyd7 Posted November 28, 2008 Share Posted November 28, 2008 Just been offered £10M by Tottenham for Reo Coker, im in Jan09 (patch 9.1) should I sell & try for a better DM if any available for less than £13M ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardie Posted November 28, 2008 Share Posted November 28, 2008 could be that they want to re-new a contract with you and the media think you wont accept the offer, happened to me in 08 i was like WTF lol Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaSmith Posted November 28, 2008 Share Posted November 28, 2008 Contract worries are over now as i just signed a new four year contract. Also just finished 1st season in 4th:D and won UEFA Cup. Has anyone had Agbonlahor score more than 20 goals? he got 27 in all comps for me:D I'm now currently haggling for Ludovic Magnin as he's been outstanding and have signed Dorin Goian off relegated Bolton for £4.3M and signed Diego Lugano off Fenerbache for free. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
naycarter Posted November 28, 2008 Share Posted November 28, 2008 good thread. i played with curtis davies tho along side cuellar and they were great together yet i found that young and shorey are woeful! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pnalyd7 Posted November 28, 2008 Share Posted November 28, 2008 Jeremy Mathieu (Toulouse) DL/WBL/ML fantastic purchase for his price.....excellent ratings. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyp Posted November 28, 2008 Share Posted November 28, 2008 Awful. Just awful! 6 games into the Prem season and I've not won once yet, and sitting in 19th with a goal difference of -7. I can't stop gifting teams chances (at least 14 shots on goal against me every game), yet we're having about 8 shots in all at a push. Not happy! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reo-Coker-Cola Posted November 29, 2008 Share Posted November 29, 2008 1st season 10th in league with 7 games to go... veeeery mediocre! QF of Uefa vs Marseille Champions League is out of reach... hopefully I will get to end of the season and qualify for UEFA again. Touch and go though. Job could be on the line! Second season signings anyone? UTV Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaSmith Posted November 29, 2008 Share Posted November 29, 2008 First CL game of the season I drew 1-1 at home v Benfica. I've also been quite active in the transfer market after realising my squad was quite small. Player's sold so far: Taylor-free-free Lichaj-free-free Salifou-M. Tel-Aviv-free Sidwell-Sunderland-£6M Stieber(sp)-Bradford-free Carew-Newcastle-£5M Petrov-Newcastle-£5M Reo-Coker-Man City-£10M McGurk-Oldham-free Guzan-Villareal-£3.1M Total-£29.1M Player's In: Lugano-Fenerbahce-free Goian-Bolton-£4.3M Sturridge-Man City-free Magnin-Stuttgart-£3.5M Veloso-Sporting-£21.5M Caceres-Barcelona-£6.25M Total-£35.55M quite a few defensive players in and a few attacking players out so i'm currently trying to sign Saviola, Ziani and Papadopoulos(sp) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbs87 Posted November 29, 2008 Share Posted November 29, 2008 About to start my third season IN Fazio-Sevilla-17mil Mati Fernadez-Villereal-!3mil Wellbeck-Man Utd-3mil (comp) OUT Drenthe-Chelsea-14mil Hopefully my squad has been tweaked to perfection now and we can challenge for CL place. Heres my starting line up GK Akinfeev RB Behrami LB Mattock CB Davies CB Fazio DMC Cana/Banega MC Barry MC Van der Vaart/ Witsel AML Fernadez AMR Young ST Crouch/ Carew SUBS Bradx2, Laursen, Luke Young, Santon, Routledge, Petrov, Saivet, Gabby, Wellbeck Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbs87 Posted November 29, 2008 Share Posted November 29, 2008 Just rejected the Chelsea job. According to the news item that came before the contract offer i am 'known as a bit of a cup specialist' which i guess is a nice way of saying im rubbish in the league. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaSmith Posted November 29, 2008 Share Posted November 29, 2008 Swarms of people have started to go for Davies, Barry, Cuellar, Milner, Young and Srna. Most have been warned but still getting occasional bids. looking to sell Davies as he is now really unhappy about me rejecting a £9M bid from Man Utd. I had a great starting game of the season in a 4-0 home win against Sheff Utd . Just sold Laursen aswell as i didn't want to get rid of a new signing and he was my weakest original villa CB and is getting on now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaSmith Posted November 29, 2008 Share Posted November 29, 2008 Laptop just froze will now have to start again from June 09:( all signings gone except goian and lugano:( also no players sold so will look to maybe hold out for a bit more money. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyp Posted November 29, 2008 Share Posted November 29, 2008 Just rejected the Chelsea job. According to the news item that came before the contract offer i am 'known as a bit of a cup specialist' which i guess is a nice way of saying im rubbish in the league. HAHA! Brilliant. Fair play getting offered a Big-Four job though. You must be confident in your Villa team to reject that. As my previous save started so disastrously, I turned into a petulant child and started up a new game last night. I've become *that* guy. It has, however, turned out to be a decent decision, as I'm doing much better now. Transfers In (Total: £18.75m): Razvan Rat - £2.7m Lorik Cana - £8m Hulk - £6m Belletti - £1m (season long loan) Robert Lewandowski - £1m Transfer Out (Total: £17.75m): Marlon Harewood - £4.8m (West Brom) Zat Knight - £6m ('Boro) Stiliyan Petrov - £7m ('Boro) - Nice to see 'Boro continuing their tradition of buying our deadwood 7 games into Prem, and I'm in 6th place with 12 points and a GD of +4. Highlights of the Prem season so far include a 3-1 win at Fratton Park, and a 2-0 beating of Man City at Villa Park. Into the Group Stage of the UEFA cup after a 9-1 aggregate win over Honka in the 1st round, and a 3-1 aggregate win over Sivasspor in the InterToto cup. My group consists of Rosenborg, Udinese, Deportivo and Schalke...so it'll be tough. Gabby and Carew are top scorers so far, with 6 each in all comps. Hulk is looking set to be a vital part of the season, and Lewandowski will become a legend - search for him. I'll post a screen of him soon. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmeth1985 Posted November 30, 2008 Share Posted November 30, 2008 you edited your budget???????? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyp Posted November 30, 2008 Share Posted November 30, 2008 Me? Nope - started with the usual £6m, asked for an increase which took it to £10m, then sold the players listed in my previous post. I would have spent more on players, but annoyingly I'm not getting the full 100% of profit from transfers out to use to bring people in. Speaking of which, the board have just given me an extra £10m to use in January, so with that and a bit of budget tweaking, I'm able to buy van der Vaart (who has just accepted his contract). I'll also be getting Landon Donovan in January (for free, and not wanting much in the way of wages... Can't lose). p.s. Just beat Udinese 3-0 at Villa Park. Excellento. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaSmith Posted November 30, 2008 Share Posted November 30, 2008 as i have to start my second season again how much do you reckon i could get for: 1. Davies (£25M) 2. Laursen (£6M) 3. Petrov (£7.5M) 4. Reo-Coker (£15M) 5. Carew (£7.5M) 6. Sidwell (£8M) 7. Guzan (£5M) In the brackets is what I think I could hold out for but let me know if you think it's too high or too low as I'm not expecting a big budget this season so the more I get out of these players the better. thanks for any advice Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArcticMonkey Posted November 30, 2008 Share Posted November 30, 2008 Me? Nope - started with the usual £6m, asked for an increase which took it to £10m, then sold the players listed in my previous post. I would have spent more on players, but annoyingly I'm not getting the full 100% of profit from transfers out to use to bring people in. Speaking of which, the board have just given me an extra £10m to use in January, so with that and a bit of budget tweaking, I'm able to buy van der Vaart (who has just accepted his contract). I'll also be getting Landon Donovan in January (for free, and not wanting much in the way of wages... Can't lose). p.s. Just beat Udinese 3-0 at Villa Park. Excellento. Probably the campest word i have ever heard/seen Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaSmith Posted November 30, 2008 Share Posted November 30, 2008 Just been offered £15M upfront for Milner and £25M over 24 months with 50% profit of next sale from R.Madrid. Should i accept? and if so who can i get in to replace him? thanks for any help Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaSmith Posted November 30, 2008 Share Posted November 30, 2008 To make up for my laptop freezing FM has given me the best intake of youth players I've ever had:D Almost all of them have the potential to be as good as the best players currently in that position:D Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisandro Lopez Posted November 30, 2008 Share Posted November 30, 2008 Just been offered £15M upfront for Milner and £25M over 24 months with 50% profit of next sale from R.Madrid. Should i accept? and if so who can i get in to replace him? thanks for any help Yes, accept that! Axel Witsel? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaSmith Posted November 30, 2008 Share Posted November 30, 2008 Yes, accept that! Axel Witsel? Will probably accept and have a look at Witsel. Normally I would accept an offer like that it's just I was wondering whether I could milk a bit more out of Madrid and because Milner had a fantastic season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaSmith Posted November 30, 2008 Share Posted November 30, 2008 after thinking about it I was hoping to get the money from the transfer but Milner rejected Madrid's offer and accepted mine:eek: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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