Updated for 00/01 season. Includes downloadable editor, 24 leagues, 50,000 players and coaches, more tactics, player feedback, press interviews. MacFormat score 9/10.
8/2 - Johno
Here are some good players to get at the start for £0: Marco Negri (Scored 39 in 40 for my Hull City team) Taribo West (Class defender) Kiko (Scored 40 in 32 games in my Hull City team) and now some ways of getting players like, David Beckham, Zidane, Ronaldo etc, In a thrid division side. Most of you have seen the editor, so... go on editor, go on the player you want to sign. Then go to the Contract screen, scroll to your side, then click. It should say i.e (Ronaldo will be moved to the Hull City squad), Oh, and make sure you give him a low wage, you don't want to go bankrupt.
18/1 - Buckethead
A must buy. exeter city midfielder geoff breslan not so good at first but ends up amazin and adam fleming on a free at the beginning he is 13 and i got him to be the irish captain!!!
27/9 - Andyboy
play 3-5-2 with defensive midfielders on each side, with the team all out attack, only if your opponents are a bigger team, havent lost yet in 2 seasons champions league with rangers. players: richard knopper, alex notman (ended up selling for £34million in 3rd season to barca after paying man u £500,000 for him), tim de cler (now best defender on the planet), neil alexander (won european gk of the year 2 seasons in a row), mogens laursen (scored 56 goals in 3rd season), woodgate (not been rated below 9 since i bought him 4 months ago), also spent £4,000,000 with sunderland bought all these players, and won the premiership in my 3rd season. 5/2 - jack simmonds
isn't it tempting at the end of the season when the are loads of player to sign on free , don't buy one or two but never get loads it will clogg your team up and evreyone gets unhappy.
9/1 - yogi
the BEST in the game is a young guy called Bruno from gremio.44 goals 34 assists and avg rating of 8.48 isnt bad,also ronaldinho,andres nicholas olivera,cherno samba,gavin holligan,and if u have the money buy kluivert he is the best striker
18/3 - cyrus reid
buy ronaldhino from gremino in brazil he is the best player in the game. he is only 21 and with spurs in his first season he scored 50 goals and had most assists in league with average rating 8.28 play him just behind 2 forwards
17/3 - Daz
Buy cedric van de gun in your 2nd/3rd season he is amazing. Also Reynolds (newcastle) and Morgan (arsenal) after 2/3 seasons.
16/3 - Various
Chris: "buy fernando torres from athletico madrid and collins osunwa"
Stu Piece: "Heres a few quality youngsters: Shaun Marshal (Cambridge) Lee Wilkie (Dundee) John Curtis (Blackburn) & Trevor Benjamin (Leicester) NOTE: play them week in, week out to build up their ratings!"
Rory Mackenzie: "Buy andri sigporsson and roque santa cruz. Both guarantee goals and both are young stars."
Mark Ashcroft: "Buy ronaldo, roberto carlos, raul, toldo. there is also a player called marco dildo, he is only 16. buy him and in a year or 2, hell b the best on your team. Also buy beckham, crespo, kluivert, nesta, mendieta, edgar davids, del piero, thuram."
1/3 - Tommy De Mon
DEREK BOATEG - a clinical striker who I got to score 40 goals a season for 5 consecutive seasons. Not bad for a ghanain striker!
29/12 - Sean Dudley
Playing as Everton I approached to buy AC Milan striker Andriy for a fee of £30,000,000. Milan accepted the offer but Shevchenko rejected my contract.
The following week I played AC Milan in the UEFA cup and noticed Shevchenko was not even on the sub bench and he wasnt injured/suspended! I shut down my computer and the next day when i went back on i had Shevchenko on my team without spending a single penny!
18/12 - Andrew Da MaN
Buy Ortega and D'Alessandro from River they are VERY good and quality players!
12/12 - MacGold Direct
Here's a couple of younger players from Leeds that I recommend that you buy very early in the game. They were all good enough to win Champions League Final medals with me. Harpal Singh AM L (outstanding though lacks stamina for 2 matches a week). In the third season I turned down £15 million bids for him Stephen McPhail M L (astonishingly good performances, again stamina worries for the 2 games a week you play if you're in the CL and all the domestic cups.) Simon Johnson AM R (very good buy, capable of taking on the best teams in Europe) You will have no trouble raising £12 million for him in the third season.
3/12 - Matt
Buy Martin Palermo[BOCA £12.5MILL],javier Saviola[RIVER £20MILL] and Pablo Aimar[RIVER £20MILL].Play PALERMO on the left,SAVIOLA on the right of attack and AIMAR just behind in the hole,It's great I always get 60 goals and the most in one season was 85. It works best at MILAN and not at all at BARCELONA. Try it! 29/11 - Matt
buy CHERNO SAMBA,he's about 18 but is absolutely amazing. he scored for me in his 1st match and hasnt dropped below 7 in rating! also try out GREGOR VAN DIJK, he probably 1 of my best players and is pretty cheap. he doesnt drop below 7 either. u may have to try to buy him a couple of times to allow him to get a work permit.
12/11 - Keir Stone-Brown CHEAT!
Find the player you most like and is good then go to add manager and select his team then make him feel really bad then set his transfer status to £0 and buy him for that amount and reject any other team WARNING Don't reject all bids because it will reject your bid as well.
12/11 - Keir Stone-Brown CHEAT!
To sell a player you hate for lots of cash go to add manager and pick a team with a lot cash (Man Utd) and then find that player and buy him for £20,000,000 12/11 - Various
I recomment that you buy sebastian frey from inter he costs less than £1 million - Anders
Buy Juan Sebastian Veron He is amazing - Karman
Buy Pele from a team called Imortal and Maradona brillant once you have trained them. - Keir Stone Brown
I find that mark tobin age thirteen when just starting is the hottest prospect on the game also dereck tobin is decent too - Luke Jones
8/10 - Rob
buy AMARAL from infesta. he is 18 and worth only 80k buy him and he will score goals. garenteed!!!
A MUST BUY!!! a young player (15) at the start is BRUNO BARATA he is portugese and he is a left back. stick him inthe reserves for a few seasons and after a few years he is super!!
8/10 - Fletch
Bargain players that are a must for any manager. 1. Chris Iwelumo -stiker - Scottish (obviously) 2. Robert Douglas -goalkeeper- scottish 21/9 - MacGold
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18/9 - Keir Stone-Brown CHEAT!
Choose whatever team you like then three days before a match go to options and add manager, then choose the team you're playing, then take the goalkeeper out of your opponents goal then retire the other manager at the end of the match 4/8 - Andy
Recommended players:
Buy Denilson and keep playing him, brilliant player. About 10-15 million. and Alex from Parma, on loan to Flamengo, two great players.
4/8 - Jens from Norway
These players maybe not the best players in the game, but you get very much for your money by buying these players.
Christian Panucci D R/C Inter* Denilson AM/F L/C Parma** -------------------------- Hot prospects Kim KŠllstr¿m AM/F C HŠcken* Mangne Hoseth AM/F L/C Molde*** Mark Kerr M C * Derek Boateg S C **
3/8 - Teza
Do not sign the old aces like George Weah etc. Sign players who are young and you know are good.
3/8 - Simon
Recommended players: andrew mainwaring david collins bradley maylett alan pouton (when i got peterborough to champions league quarter final, he was fantastic, average rating of 8.5 and 22 goals from defensive midfielder) byron bubb nigel martyn is the best goalie in the game demis nikolaidis michael duff carl laurie zlatan ibrahimovic and zlatan muslimovic anthony tarr david healy
3/8 - Mark Wilson CHEAT! CHEAT!
To get lots of extra money for the squad at the start of the game, type "moneygrabber" as your first name and then "extramoney" as the second name.
16/7 - Graham
Buy Javier Savola from River he is worth around £5m but in 2-3 yrs later he is worth £20m because he is a similar player to Rivaldo, excellent! 8/6 - Stu
Some Players to buy! 1.John Greening, crap at 1st but quality later on 2.David Collins, get him 4 1m goes up 2 11m! 3.Dave Seaman, Quality Keeper! A must! 4.Zenden from barcelona, ace player!
4/6 - Lee Sterio
Mads Jorgenson is the best in the game - he costs around 8 million!
16/5 - Gordon Smith
My recommended formation is 4-1-2-1-2. Plus sign Danny Murphy to play in the AMC behind the strikers role, for an average rating of 8.5 for a season, guaranteed!
16/5 - Steve
Tactics - Man mark the goalkeeper and the striker usually scores a hat-trick; you may get about 10 goals dissalowed but it balances out!
15/2 - Chris
When you take over a club, firstly; assess your coaches, then add to them or replace them if they are hopeless, secondly; get coaches' reports on EVERY player to enable you to select your first team sqaud, finally, transfer list the rubbish asap!
Updated for 00/01 season. Includes downloadable editor, 24 leagues, 50,000 players and coaches, more tactics, player feedback, press interviews. MacFormat score 9/10.
