***The Official Football Manager Thread***

[Hunkerdown]

Quote: Originally Posted by Bruins

By the way, we qualified for the World Cup. South Korea beat Uzbekistan 4-2 over two legs in the playoff and have advanced to the final playoff against New Zealand.

That is awesome, I will be kicking off the Team USA Summer 2009 campaign, WCQ and confederations cup!! kick off agianst Canada tonight. Then ofcourse Gold Cup in july, dios mio!!!

[Bruins]

World Cup groups have been drawn:




What do you guys think of my chances, and of the draw overall?

[Bruins]

My best XI for the year:


And the FIFA World Player of the Year goes to...

[rsnomar05]

Quote: Originally Posted by Tomasperez9

I've been thinking the same thing, but rationalized it by saying to myself, "If you can tell someone to have a '17 Mentality' and a '5 Closing-Down,' then you can no doubt know the real price of a player." Which one of those is more unrealistic?

Yeah, neither one is very realistic. I think I might try the xml editing. I'll let you know once I've tried it.

[rsnomar05]

Quote: Originally Posted by Bruins

World Cup groups have been drawn: What do you guys think of my chances, and of the draw overall?

You actually have a shot. Group F is the group of death.

[ak1knight]

Quote: Originally Posted by Bruins

My best XI for the year: And the FIFA World Player of the Year goes to...

Nice 4-4-2 box formation, didn't work so well with Blackpool lol. Also lol at Tevez winning FOTY over Ronaldo on the same team, Real must have been real good.

[Mo]

Well my pursuit of Mario Balotelli is over.

After offering Newcastle a deal of $75M plus another $10M in clauses during the winter period and the deal being rejected.

I tried again near the end of the season in April/May, offering $50M up front, they negotiated, and I worked out of deal for $27M up front and $32M over 24 months, Newcastle's board are idiots.

Best thing is I sold Ashley Young for $30M and can now go after Walcott or Pato.

[Bruins]

I'll take it.