True Football Manager

Players that you can sign for free at the very start of the game are really important if you manage any club that doesn’t belong to top 10 of English Premier League. For instance, I have signed several players for Leeds United because they will help my club and it’s for free! So I decided to prepare list of free Football Manager 2010 players grouped by positions.

 

Goalkeepers (GK)

Pablo Cavallero

Other decent goalies:

Maxym Levytskyi (Ukraine, 36 years)

Ian Walker (England, 37 years)

Scott Tynan (England, 25 years)

Paul Jones (Wales, 42 years)

Sebastian Viera(Uruguay, 26 years)

 

Central Defenders (DC)

Samuel Kuffour

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Sol Campbell

Vladislav Vaschuk

Jorge Andrade

Other decent central defenders:

Jeff Strasser (Luxembourg, 34 years)

Marlon Ritter Ayovi (Ecuador, 37 years)

Roque Junior (Brazil, 32 years)

Lucien Mettomo (Cameroon, 32 years)

Ivan Helguera (Spain, 34 years

Bobo Balde (Guinea, 33 years)

Sergiy Fedorov (Ukraine, 34 years)

Dejan Stefanovic (Serbia, 34 years)

Olexandr Zotov (Ukraine, 34 years)

Boris Zivkovic (Croatia, 33 years)

Izzy Iriekpen (England, 27 years)

Glauber (Brazil, 25 years)

 

Right Defenders (DR/WBR)

Ze Maria

Elliot Omouzusi (20 years old!!!)

Other decent right defenders:

Lauren (Cameroon, 32 years)

Danny Mills (England, 32 years)

Jean-Joel Perrier-Doumbe (Cameroon, 32 years)

Steve Watson (England, 35 years)

 

Left Defenders (DL/WBL)

Olivier Bernard (France, 29 years)

Jean-Joel Perrier-Doumbe (Cameroon, 32 years)

Defensive Midfielders (DMC)

German Villa

Other good central defensive midfielders:

Edgard Davids  (Holland, 36 years)

Johan Vogel (Switzerland, 32 years)

Andriy Husin (Ukraine, 36 years)

Pape Diop (Senegal, 34 years)

Seifo Soley (Gambia, 29 years)

Amaral (Brazil, 36 years)

Ivan Campo (Spain, 35 years)

Brahim Hemdani (Algeria, 31 years)

 

Central Midfielders (MC)

Stephen Appiah

Other decent central midfielders:

Joe Keenan (England, 26 years)

Inigo Idiakez (Spain, 35 years)

Jermaine Wright (England, 33 years)

Matt Holland (Ireland, 35 years)

Gareth Williams (Scotland, 27 years)

 

Left Midfielders (ML/AML)

Denilson

Other decent left midfielders:

Rudi Skacel (Czech Republic, 29 years)

 

Right Midfielders (MR/AMR)

Jorge Soto (Peru, 37 years)

Klever Manuel Chala (Ecuador, 38 years)

Andy van der Meyde (Holland, 29 years)

Hamed Namouchi(Tunisia, 25 years)

 

Central Attacking Midfielders (AMC)

Sylvain Wiltord (France, 35 years)

Mustapha Hadji (Morocco, 37 years)

Ervin Skela (Albania, 32 years)

 

Forwards (FC)

Vratislav Lokvenc

Ebi Smolarek

Other good forwards:

Mark Viduka (Australia, 33 years)

Carsten Jancker (Germany, 34 years)

Amoroso (Brazil, 35 years)

Tommy Mooney (England, 37 years)

Rune Lange (Norway, 32 years)

Christian Vieri (Italy, 35 years)

Goran Ljubojevic (Croatia, 26 years)

PS As I have told I managed to sign several free players from this list to my Leeds. Overtaking my next post I disclose Sol Campbell is one of them .

Let’s start Football Manager 2010 story with Leeds! The first thing every new manager should do is an analysis of the squad. It has to be done at first because it will influence on decisions of tactical schemes, transfers and signings and targets for a season.

So here is my Leeds United squad analysis…

Goalkeepers

It’s certainly the weakest line of the club. Shane Higgs and Casper Ankergren – two pretty poor keepers that doesn’t deserve to be in the first squad. It means that I must buy a good goalie very soon!

 

Defenders

I didn’t look through the squads of other League 1 clubs but I am quite sure that Leeds has one of the best defensive lines in the league.

Take a look at Australian DC - Patrick Kisnorbo:

He is good defender for Championship, I think, not only League 1.

Leigh Bromby. Decent central defender with good natural fitness. He has good chances to be in the first squad if I don’t buy better DC.

Lubomir Michalik is pretty average DC that will be backup player together with Richard Naylor if I don’t sell them both.

Best left back in the team is Irish guy Alan Sheehan. His level is probably enough for League 1 but not for Championship. Ben Parker is slightly worse and should start matches from substitution bench.

Regarding right backs I can say that there are two guys: Jason Crowe and Andy Hughes. The first one has good Work Rate and Natural Fitness values + average values of other important attributes. So he is my preference for sure.

 

Midfielders

Jonathan Howson. MRC of 21 years old. He has quite average values of attributes but his Work Rate (15) allows me to think of some his prospects in the club.

David Prutton. Another MRC. Determined pitch fighter that will start any match from substitution bench.

Bradley Johnson. MLC. 22 years old. Good for backup. Most of attributes are between 10 and 13.

Michael Doyle

Central midfielder loaned from Coventry. And I will not cancel this loan because this player seems very useful.

Neil Kilkenny is a bit better than Bradly Johnson but costs much – $875K.  So maybe he will be sold if I need additional money.

Andy Robinson. Poor AMRL with high salary of $11.5K. I have to try to sell him!

Robert Snodgrass

 

Young Scottish star of Leeds United! Of course, he is left-right winger with somewhat poor speed (Pace=10, Acceleration=12)… But his other attributes including Work Rate promise bright future for this youngster.

 

Forwards

5 forwards here.  The best of them is top scorer of the previous season - Jermaine Beckford:

By the way he has the highest transfer price in Leeds United - $1.4M.

The second forward is Luciano Becchio who costs $800K.  Well, he is not enough for promotion from Championship but perhaps good for League 1.

Prospective young striker Tom Elliott makes me to think about his destiny. From one hand he can develop in decent forward, from the other hand I can sell him for at least $325K…

American Mike Grella and Nigerian Enoch Showunmi are quite weak attackers in my mind.

 

 

What I can say… It was the most hot voting in my blog. I have been following it till the end… Newcastle or Leeds, Leeds or Newcastle? It was a great competition between voters of these two great English teams! Both clubs are very interesting to me for managing, but finally 1020 of you chose Leeds United. So I must follow your decision!

 

The third position is taken by Burnley with 10% of votes. Frankly speaking I thought that Burnley is one of the favourites in this poll and it should get more votes… Another surprise for me is in that the last positions were taken by Birmingham City and Wolverhampton with 5% of votes both. Not so many fans of these clubs?

 

Thank you, my dear readers, for you participation in the poll!  You selected a team for new story from me! Football Manager 2010 story, this time…

 

PS By the way I gave my vote to Nottingham Forrest in the very beginning .

I congratulate all of you, dear readers! Football Manager 2010 is available now. I have ordered it on Amazon and should wait some time till delivery.

You can follow my example if you want:

 

Buying Football Manager 2010 Digital Download

Another totally different option is buying FM 2010 digital download through Steam, IGN D2D, GamersGate or Gamesplanet.com. It will cost you more money but you will receive FM 2010 almost instantly.

 

FM 2010 Patch 10.1

Football Manager 2010 Patch 10.1 is announced and can be downloaded from here. In my opinion the most important changes in the patch are:

- Fixed player listed as 'Unh' no longer will have no evidence that they are unhappy on their personal section.

- Adjusted quality of newgens produced in both active and inactive leagues.

- Fixed crash when going to squad screen after retiring

- Fixed bug where Match Preview screen was missing team and competition links.

- Extra-time and penalty wins now indicated on team fixture panel

- Fixed players on very high wages requesting a lot less when renewing contract.

- Prevented board from stepping in and accepting bids just over the basic value of the player on behalf of a manager when player was transfer listed.

- Prevented big clubs from actively looking to replace their terrible third choice goalkeepers

- Fixed bug where playmaker and target man roles were not being setup correctly in the match.