Player Guide FM 2008

[Sir Calumn]

Thread for posting your best finds. You can post any player you have bought, so long as they have done well for you, but the more obscure players are preferred. We all know C. Ronaldo would be a good buy - you dont have to tell us!

Keep posts to the following format if possible:

Name:
Nationality
Starting Club:
Age:
Position:
Approx Price to Buy: (either the price you paid, or just a description like "very cheap")
Suitable For: (for example: "top division clubs", "conference sides" etc)
Notes: Any other important information, examples could include "difficult to get a work permit for british clubs" or "only good for a couple of seasons, perfect for promotion attempts" or "takes a long time to develop, but worth it" etc. Dont bother telling us things we can easily see from the stats, for example "excellent at free kicks" or "very fast" would not be necessary.)

I'll post a few very soon.

Oh, one more thing, dont bother making a new post for every player but try to keep to a max of three or four per post.

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Here's a blank one for you to copy and paste:

Name:
Nationality:
Starting Club:
Age:
Position:
Approx Price:
Suitable For:
Notes:

 

[Sir Calumn]

I havent been playing long enough to find anyone really great yet, or to see the full potential of alot of my players, but here are some buys that have done well for me so far:

Name: Jefferson Farfan
Nationality: Peru
Starting Club: PSV
Age: 23
Position: ST, AML, AMR
Approx Price: £5m
Suitable For: All clubs
Notes: No trouble getting work permit, good from the start and develops, I prefer using him as a winger than a striker, sometimes finds it hard to adjust to life in england.

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Name: Mathieu Delpierre
Nationality: French
Starting Club: Stuttgart
Age: 26
Position: DC
Approx Price: £7m
Suitable For: All clubs, though only as cover for title challenging sides
Notes: None

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Name: Carlos Salcido
Nationality: Mexican
Starting Club: PSV
Age: 27
Position: DL, DC
Approx Price: £8m
Suitable For: All clubs
Notes: No problem getting work permit

 

[Sir Calumn]

Name: Joao Moutinho
Nationality: Portuguese
Starting Club: Sporting
Age: 21
Position: AMC
Approx Price: Very expensive at start
Suitable For: All sides
Notes: An excellent AMC, if you're patient you can sometimes get him pretty cheap after a little while.

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Name: David Luiz
Nationality: Brazilian
Starting Club: Benfica
Age: 20
Position: ST
Approx Price: Expensive at start
Suitable For: All clubs
Notes: You'll get 12+ great years out of him

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Name: Mario Gomez
Nationality: German
Starting Club: Stuttgart
Age: 22
Position: ST
Approx Price: Expensive at start
Suitable For: All clubs
Notes: Takes a long time to get going but can become a really good player

 

[Siawash]

Name: Rafael Van Der Vaart
Nationality: Dutch
Starting Club: Hamburg SV
Age: 24
Position: AMC
Approx Price: $22m+
Suitable For: All clubs
Notes: Top scorer with 23 in the league in only his first season. TTried playing him on the wings, but with little success. Maybe if you keep playing him there he can get used to it.

 

[ShiftyPowers]

Farfan, Moutinho, Gomez, Van der Vaart?

 

[Johnny_Big]

Name: Ezequiel Lavezzi
Nationality: Argentinian
Starting Club: Palermo I believe
Age: 22
Position: ST
Approx Price: Expensive. More than 10M have to be spend.
Suitable For: All clubs.
Notes: You don't need any more forward. Put him in forward runs and run with the ball, and watch him do magic. Score tons and assists nice as well. Shoots great from long range too. Note: Works wonders in 4-5-1/4-3-3.

 

[MiCk_10]

Name: Breno
Nationality:Brazil
Starting Club: Sao Paolo
Age:18
Position:CB
Approx Price:Cheap At start
Suitable For:ALl clubs
Notes: Very strong,wonderkid...can be better than rio n terry... found him using large database

Name: Lorik Cana
Nationality: ALbania
Starting Club: Marseille
Age: 23
Position: DM
Approx Price:7M
Suitable For:All club
Notes: Strong marker, can be train to be centre back...can be cery effective if play at natural position high work rate and team work

 

[ShiftyPowers]

Name: Breno
Nationality:Brazil
Starting Club: Sao Paolo
Age:18
Position:CB
Approx Price:Cheap At start
Suitable For:ALl clubs
Notes: Very strong,wonderkid...can be better than rio n terry... found him using large database

Bayern just bought him for 18M in real life. He's supposedly amazing.

 

[mi_pratik]

Rocchi

Name:Tommasao.Rocchi
Nationality:Italian
Starting Club:lazio
Age:29
Position: ST
Approx Price:10M to 18M
Suitable For:Any top Team
Notes:Powerful striker strong pace very determined. He scored 35 goals for me in whole season in Spanish Liga

 

[Johnny_Big]

Bayern just bought him for 18M in real life. He's supposedly amazing.

I have him in my team along with David from America (MEX). Never had so good CBs.

 

[Siawash]

I think this should be stickied.

 

[theo]

name: Jozy Altidore
nationality: American/Haitian
starting club: New York
age: 17
position: ST
approx price: 170k
suitable for: top division clubs
notes: develops fast, becomes really good


name: Alex (Alex Texeira Santos)
nationality: Brazilian
starting club: Vasco
age: 17
position: AM RLC, F C
approx price: 80k
suitable for: top division clubs
notes: "touted as the next Ronaldinho", adapts fast

 

[Johnny_Big]

I +rep Alex. He is a fantastic player now after 2/3 years.

 

[theo]

I just realised that I got him for 80k

 

[TimmyP]

Name: John Russell
Nationality: Irish!
Starting Club: Galway
Age: 20-ish
Position: Midfield
Approx Price to Buy: Very Cheap
Suitable For: Championship-Any other club
Notes: Devilishly diffictult to find, but is a top quality player, despite the stats. If you want him though, you must have the irish leagues added on. Gets 8's in most games he plays

 

[Mus]

Name: Ezequiel Lavezzi
Nationality: Argentinian
Starting Club: Palermo I believe
Age: 22
Position: ST
Approx Price: Expensive. More than 10M have to be spend.
Suitable For: All clubs.
Notes: You don't need any more forward. Put him in forward runs and run with the ball, and watch him do magic. Score tons and assists nice as well. Shoots great from long range too. Note: Works wonders in 4-5-1/4-3-3.

plays for Napoli

 

[Johnny_Big]

Or that. He just rocks. Everyone buy him.

 

[Hopeunited]

Here is a budget striker for you who are managing top-division relegation candidates or Dutch/Belgian clubs:

Starts the game at the Swiss club St.Gallen. Kobenhaven purchased him for 500k after 3 seasons in my game.

 

[ShiftyPowers]

He looks like a total pussy.

 

[Stotty]

Charles Doudin is a cracking little striker for lower league clubs. Costs around 15k from La-Chaux-de-Fonds