AMC: Wonderkids and young stars in Football Manager 2008
Today I would like to share with you my research about young talents in Football Manager 08 for position of central attacking midfielders.
Wonderkids
Sergio Aguero
The greatest wonderkid from Atletico Madrid for this position! But he costs very much and can be bought only by grand clubs. Brilliant technique, dribbling, speed, stamina and mental abilities.
Samir Nasri
Very good wonderkid-playmaker from Marseille who can develop many chances and dictate tempo. Young hope of nation team of France.
Anderson
Flamboyant Mancherster United's newcomer. Tricky and fast guy with good Stamina. Costs much as well as Nasri.
Matias Fernandez
Wonderful wonderkid from Villarreal!!! Just look at his attributes - many of them are 17-19! Costs $18M at the current moment in my game.
Giovani dos Santos
New Barcelona's mega-talent who is very-very young (only 18 years old) and can become superstar!
Juan Mata
Another wonderkid from Spanish League. He plays for Valencia and is very good as left winger as well as AMC.
Prospective young central attacking midfielders
There I would like to give you my shortlist of other young AMC talents. There are 22 of them, and it would take much time to describe each of them. Instead I prepared some categories containing 3 best players (related to a category).
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Best of the Cheapest talents
- Xabi Prieto (Real Sociedad) - $1.5M
- Sergio Mota (Sao Paolo) - $4.4M
- Lulinha (Corinthians) - $4.5M
The most young stars
- Lucas Trecarichi (Sevilla) - 17 years old
- Freddy Adu (Benfica) - 18 years old
- Sergio Mota (Sao Paolo) - 18 years old
- Lulinha (Corinthians) - 18 years old
The talents with the best Physical Attributes
- Kevin-Prince Boateng (Tottenham)
- Jeremy Menez (Monaco)
- Renato Augusto (Flamengo)
The talents with the best Mental Attributes
- Joao Moutinho (Sporting)
- Steven Defour (Napoli)
- Luka Modric (Dinamo Zagreb)
The talents with the best Technical Attributes
- Ivan Rakitic (Schalke)
- Sebastian Giovinco (Juventus)
- Jorge Valdivia (Palmeiras)
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Great list thanks!
Add Miralem Pjanic to AMs
buonanotte, superb signing for a smaller club
Tommasso Vaillatti form Torino. Is 25 at start, but you can buy him for four mil. In my third season i sold him for 32mil.
Kamil Grosicki 19 year old from Legia Warszawa bought him for 90,000. He plays allot better as a FC because his crosses blow but scored 30 goals first season (for Celtic, despite at least 4 injuries), now costs 3mil. Just have patience because he always seems to shoot over the bar and piss you off.
ramon, cska moscow player, renato augusto, flamengo player, and danilinho are all all quality
Consider Sotiris Ninis (age 16 or 17) from Panathinaikos (lot of crossing, corners, dribling, passing, acceleration and agility, pace, natural fitness and many more)...very cheap, extremly talented and with the correct trainning he will become a fantastic player(wonderkid)in the age of 18/19. I sold him to man und for 18 millions...
Purchasing Balazs Dszudszak is a great move. He is a Hungarian attacking midfielder (you can play him in the center or from the left) from Debrecen and costs only 200k. In his first season for me he played 30 games and scored 20 goals and gave 15 assists. After 2 years I sold him for 30 mil to Arsenal (quite a profit margin if you ask me)
also try Cesar Lindado. He is a South-American clinical striker. He costs about 30k and after 3 years he won the European golden boot
x peace, out
Mint players for lower league culbs:
Dino bercirovic
andre schembri
lewis young (ashley youngs bro)
archie cambpell(he turns mint and prem league clubs want him)
Scott dann- mint
szczesny - mint young keeper
gyan king
all these are sick, i bought em with altrincham and now im top of league 1.
Lauri Dalla Valle, got him for free at the start of the game and has been a regular in my squad since age 17.
Its obvious that you forgot the best wonderkid of the game , who starts with only 16 years old and its just amazing !
bojan krckic Pérez from Barcelona ,
it can be approached to sign , but its impossible to get him , cause he is so devoted to barça !
i tried to sign with Chelsea , giving him 300€ per week , and he rejected it ! but it turns into an amazing player ,well , he is allready ; D
Renan from sum brazil team
Striker but is better playin AMC
Kieran Sleep
DRLC and has a brilliant strike on him
hes english
haven't manage Indonesian teams?there's Firman Utina who'll as good as Kaka if trained well.
what? as good as Kaka???!!! Seriously??
I signed Pablo Piatti AMC 18yr old for £375k for Wigan, 1st season he was TOP goal scorer with 27 goals and 14 assist form middfield supporting a lone striker, He turned into a wonderkid after a few months. Wont be without him in future games, he's mint !!!
Ramon Fwd/AMC 19yr old from CSKA Moscow cost me £4Mill wonderkid
pikachuu, u retard Bojan Krkic
Utina is crap.......
pjancic and also kim sung chan for right and left back chek out fraga for goalie ders no point posting bojan if he doesnt leave barcaa breno is a sik CB and so is david luiz
not bad...
but Marko Marin for Borussia Monchengladbach is amazing. Hes 17 and scout reports say hes gonna be a quality player. Hes also very cheap. Another good player is Henri Saivet who is 17 and is amazing when trained properly
No question about it - Lulinha is the best attacking midfielder in the game - from the off - i had him playing behind 2 strikers and was the top scorer in the league 3 years running now worth over 30 mil
Silva of Valencia is one of the best AMC. Expensive though
max noble at fulham youth is amazing. give him time to grow and he will be worth it. i had him in my fulham team and he went from 5 grand to 5 million in a year. and now he is kepping guti out of my team and he is only 19 years old.
someone has mentioned saivet, he is awesome and frm sao paulo a 17 yr old called breno (cb), turns out awesome and banega (dm) frm boca.
matias fernandaz, get him for 10-13mil frm villareal, well worth it.
Carles Coto . Playes for mouscron a belgium team but you need a good team with good scouting to get him. because he cant be found with other teams with bad scouting.
surprised that noone have mentioned Anton Sosnin...
after three months (!) in Ajax, he was concidered the best player on the team, only 17-18 yr old!!!! And he's cheap as hell! one of my favorite players on the game !
nobody knows him but he is the BEST ever!! A real find! Better than nasri and bojan. He is ALEX from VASCO. He starts the game at 17and unlike others is an IMMEDIATE success. Also costs less than 2 million. Also check out alejandro gomez. two awesome players.
Henri Lansbury - Arsenal 16 at the start of the game. Had him in in Man Utd 1st team holding down regular place @ 18 he's a genius
Has nobody heard of äaritolo? He plays for TPS (Finland). You can buy him for 875k and he's 21/22 years old. Even Real Madrid is placing bids in the first season so it's not easy to get him but when you get him his price will raise fast. He's not the youngest of the list but still a good buy.
Lulinha is the brazilian squad main star at age of 21 and plays for my team... XD
pablo piatti, georgio wijnudalin, aaron lennon, lauri della valle, thomas necid, ever banega
I would recommend an attacking midfielder (right/centre) from Colombia - Sherman Cardenas; you'd be able to sign him for 1.1M since he still has a youth contract. At his age he plays as good as all the stars costing a lot of millions. Just check him out, you won't regret it.
there is this guy called henri saivet from bordeax and aaron from valencia, both could play attacking mid and striker, cool shiat.
who is the best striker on the game
ok , i will give u my players , 1st i will name outright world class players (or at least they turn out to be) and then i will name a bunch of players who are dirt cheap , yet can do a job when called in , and i tend to play them in lower rounds of cups etc , or use them as a way to make money
i will start with the best amc on the game , not aguero , or vela , but LULINHA give him till hes 21/22 and he will be better than messi
next DE SILVESTRI , italian right back , becomes best right back on the game
MARIO BALOTELLI , young inter milan forward , he becomes ace
AGUERO amc/fc , play him upfront though ! u would have to be stark raving mad if u dont , 20 goal+ a season every season
CARLOS VELA arsenals young starlet , again amc/fc...
BOJAN can be hard to tempt away , declare your interest in him once a year and in a few years if ya a champs league team he will come
TONI KROOS becomes best centre midfeilder on the game
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BRENO DC
THIAGO (BARCA) MRC
RADU DLC
BOUZANIS (LIVERPOOL U 18'S) GK
TRECHARI AMLC
WINAJDUM (HOLLAND U18'S)
ADU AMLC
DAVID LUIZ DC
JOSE BAXTER (EVERTON WONDERKID)
GIOVANNI DOS SANTOS (BARCELONA)
AKINFEEV GK
MERIDA (MONEY MAKER) BUY FOR 1 MILLION , SELL TO THE LIKES OF BLACKBURN FOR 8 MILLION AFTER A YEAR OR 2
SOTRIS NINIS (PANATHINAIKOS)
THE MAJORITY OF THEESE PLAYERS WILL BE DIRT CHEAP SO GET THEM WHILE THERE YOUNG AND CHEAP
minds gone blank now will try n post more when they come back to me , theres a goalkeeper in barcelona's under 18-'s who turns out to be amazing , i forget his name , his stats shouls stand out a little though compared to the other young keepers , so check him out
also USTARI is another good keeper
The wonderkids in my squad were-
Antonio Adan
Olexandr Rybka
Aquino
Sergio Mota
Fabio Pereira Da Silva
Iago
Florian Lange
Ramon Rodrigues Da Silva
sidnei
Mamadou Sakho
Guy Asulin
Francisco Merida
Wijnaldum
Aaron Niguez
Nacer Barazite
Giles Barnes
Sotiris Ninis
Anton Sosnin
Jose Baxter
Michael Johnson
Josh Wright
Mario Balotelli
Tiago Dutra
Jozy Altidore
Prudnikov
Shakhov
Rafael Forster
Pichu Atienza
Sergio Azparren
Lulinha
Pjanic
Marko Marin
Henri Saivet
Trecarichi
Manuel Fischer
Andy Carroll
Carlos Vela
All the players' are quiet cheap at the start of the game and are all potential wonderkids
GUYS LISTEN SOTIRIS NINIS FROM PANATHINAIKOS IS A DEFINITE PURSHAGE&LEONARDO FROM AJAX 2&U HAVE TO BUY ANSELO RAMON!BELIEVE ME!THX!
Ha ha.
Don't be fooled by just names. If you want wonderkids, just sign any good scout, and assign them to the World/Euro U19, U20, and Olympics. BTW roberto Bettega is the best scout around, second to Milan's Palombo and Aubameyang.
Piatti is the cheapest wonder AMC (signed him with only 55k pounds). And Ninis is hottest right winger around (475k pounds). He's even exist in Wikipedia (he's the best promising Greek player).
Olexandr Rybka
Bogdan Shust
Dean Bouzanis
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Breno
Skrtel
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Maximilano Moralez
Nogueira
Willian
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Henri Saivet
Bojan Krkic
U can get tem all 4 3
John Fleck,a couple of hundred grand,Ben Sahar also turns out to be a half decent player.Also a boy,Toto Tamuz turns out to be quality!
chack out billy sharp from sheff utd great plaer and only £3.5m
MUST BUY SERGIO AGUERO-27-33 MIL AND RAFAEL VAN DER VAART-13 MIL QUALITY BUYS..ALSO HERE ARE TOP CLASS YOUNSTERS..
HENRI SAVIET
WINALDUM
CAMACHO
MICHAEL WOODS
THIAGO-SAU PAULO-WORLD CLASS
DZUSZAK-PROBLY SPELT WRONG
AROUCA
RENATO AUGUSTO
CANT REMEMBER ANY MORE BUT 3HIGHLY RECCOMENDED ROMANIAN YOUNGSTERS
GABRIEL TORJE
ERIC BICFALVI-BAUGHT 1MIL SOLD 15 MIL
BOGDAN STANCU-BAUGHT-500K SOLD 13MIL
ALSO CESAR DELGADO FROM A MEXICAN SIDE IS WORLD CLASS SCORES 20 + A SEASON!!!
Please look at You Tube jwmciv Billy Eaton Liverpool FC
not football manager, on fifa 09 but bought dos santos from tottenham for 1.4million, scored 94 goals in 3 seasons, sold him for 49,000,000 to real madrid
Jose Baxter
Jack Rodwell
Pjanic
Giovinco
Balloletti
Mostly of all FM gamers don't know about Kenan Kodro, Levan Kenia or evnen not younousse. They become great after a couple of years.
Thiago Heleno
Pablo Piatti
Asenjo
Subotic
Veloso
Carriço
Hulk (giovanildo)