Good Players Thread [Sticky]

DerekD Goldfish

Please post the best players you have purchased or your have trained up at your club.

This guide is based on the EP3 Data patch being installed.

Please keep them in the following format:

Name Position Club(At the start of the game) Nationality Fee







Player Position Cost
Esteban GK 2m
Eddie Gustafsson Gk 1m
Wayne Bridge DL 12m
Boumsong DC 5-7m
Mancini DR/MR 14m(amazing player)
Alin Stoica MF/FR(R/L/C) 600k
Ricardo Quaresma MR 4-5m
Joe Cole MF(L/C) wait till west ham go down
Diego MF/FW(R/C) 15m
Kaka MF/FW(R/C) 14m
Alex(cruzerio) ML 3m
Mikel Arteta MC 5m
Joaquin MR a lot(amazing player)
Ijeh FW 1m
alexander faurneraud MF/FW(R/L/C) 1m
Cristiano Ronaldo FW(R/L/C) 5m
Fernando Cavenaghi FW 17m
Adriano FW a lot
Mido FW 12m

s8n

christopher eagles from man u or philip mulryne from norwich
both brilliant attacking midfielders

50Cent

Freddy Adu age 13...amazing when hes 17/18/19 (free)

Fernando torres (20mill)

Defoe(850,000)

William Gallas(amazing and versatile)10 mil

Samuel Kuffour(10mill)

Tim Howard

Glen johnson(500k)

Obviously Ronaldo, Zidane, Joaquin and all the other big stars...

if your a ****ty team...stick with youngsters...like Adu

tinofapples

Selakovic - (£750,000)
Kallstrom - (£400,000)
Ibrahim Said - (£525,000)

Just 3 that spring to mind

Cavegh***- River plate -
Maxi Lopez - River Plate

Johnny Gomez

Kim Kallstrom for £2.1M is an excellent replacement for Keane
Kleberson for £5-6M another solid midfielder
Lee Miller for £60-90K great for lower league teams
Phillipe Mexes £12M excellent Defender
Joleon Lescott £2-3M good solid defender
Christian Chivu can cost alot but is worth it
Richie Partridge great little winger plays either side too
Tijjani Babangida great for first division and ok for permier league
Daniel Nardiello £2-3M he is a born goalscorer

Thats all I can remember

The Muppet

cambiasso free excellent def mid c left playing him fro wet ham and he averages 8 plus i bought hime 5 seasons in for 6m but milan buy him in season 2 before that he is free.

cherno samba alos free from millwall is one for the future as in cm3.

johnson , cole, defoe, ferdinand excellent young players.

Lafortezza

lewis buxton DC young and cheap
T Hubschman DC sparta Prague I think
Mido has min fee release clause of7 to 9 million

Johnny Gomez

You should also check out Djibril Cisse(sic), excellent striker and also has a min. fee release clause.

irishgeo

Please post the best players you have purchased or your have trained up at your club.

This guide is based on the EP3 Data patch being installed.

Please keep them in the following format:

Name Position Club(At the start of the game) Nationality Fee

Lafortezza

Michael Arteta MC Rangers Spanish Min Fee of 3million

Alexander Farnerud AM/F R/L/C Djugaerdens (sp?) 1.5milllion

Kim Kallstrom AMC (or DMC depending on your patch) can't remember club Swedish min fee 1 million

Mido F L/C Egyptian min fee between 6.5 an 9 million

DapperGent

My particular favourites:

Mista F(LC): An absolute beast. You can get him on loan at the start but you'll have to fight off most of La Liga to do it. Usually transfer listed for the second season can be got for £5 - £7m at that point.

Farnerud and Kallstrom: The lads.

Yobo D/DM (R/C): £8.5m release clause. Not to be sniffed at if you have the cash.

Glen Johnson: Usually a wonderkid within a season great performance and usualy only £1.5m at the start.

Mido F(L/C): Amazing. @£;8m release clause too.

Joe Cole AM(L/C): Stick him on the left wing and he will annihalate. @£;12m release clause.

Bosnjak F(R/C): Get him around £30k. Best bargain in the game. Quality striker.

Mancini D/AM (R): Incredible player. Sometimes he's approachable to sign at the start on the game sometimes not. £14m if you have to buy him.

Athirson D/M (L): My favourite player by a street. Contiual 8s and as good at Left midfield as he is at left back. Best £5.5m you'll ever spend.

edzah

chritsos patazglou from a olympiakos is magic (dmrc) - 7-9mil
luke beckett - striker is great as well - 750,000
and mick duff - right back is brill as well 500,000

hussey

Just started to play this game .. was sick for the last two days now I'm sooo addicted!!

Players :
(I'm managing pompy, who don't have much cash)
Taylor D L .. always good .. england under 21 .. class
Eddie Pope .. was in the premiership team of year .. didn't cost much .. 800k or so

ML
Adrien Gashi .. good player always around 7.5 avg .. bought for 200k worth now 3m ... MC
Fernerad/Kallstrom .. the lads!!
Thiago Motta . got on loan from Barca .. then he rejected Barca's contract so I got him free AML .. class player (fans player of year twice player of month)
Fabio Paim .. youth .. super player .. only 14 .. he is class .. though don't play him every match otherwise he burns out AMR/L

FC
David Aganso .. beast .. got him on loan from madrid .. 22 league goals ..

tinofapples

I think it might be an idea to mention which version of the game you are playing while discussing players , tactics and whatever else i.e CM3 01-02 , CM4

matrim

I'm only in my 3rd season with EP5 these aren't tested between different games

Domizzi D(R/L/C) 3m

Pope D(r/c) - 800k - he didn't settle in the area for me but is still playing great

Klompe D(c) - about 3 m

Stefan Moore S - don't know how much you'd have to pay as I'm playing as villa. He's class. played 74(34)- goals 58- assists 26

Other players at Villa playing good are Hendrie M(C), samuel D(R/L/C), barry D/DM(L/C), Gudjohnson DM(C) -2.5 after first season

And young players who are just getting into my team (10-20 games including sub) now and doing well are
McEveley - free he's only 16
Pereplyotkin - free he's only 16

As well as the usual

Samba,
Faurneraud
C Ronaldo
Kallstrom

JohnnyBravo

i would just like to say fabio paim and vierinha from porto i think i bought glen johnson and put him on loan for three seaons and he still isnt great but i have put the last (5 i think ) patch on the game

Wompa1

YOUTH:CHERNO SAMBA (MILLWALL) AND FREDDY ADU (FREE)

GOALKEPPER: TIM HOWARD (NEW YORK METROSTARS)
DEFENDER: KIM KALLSTROM
MIDFEILD:STEFAN SELAKOVIC
STRIKER:ALEX NOTMAN

FREEBIES: JASON SHERLOCK
BILLY MCKINLAY

COACHES: STEVE GRITT
KITT CARSON

Spud

Joe Cole -Buy him when West Ham get Relegeted

DapperGent

Martins. Martins. Martins.

kaimera

Andres D'Allesandro: SC - €16m - 29(1):30gls.
New value €35.5m

Van der Vaart - Ajax - €51m [bastard :mad: only valued at €14m but Ajax wouldn't frickin budge. Hadda sell Ronaldinho (€50m) so needed a new young AML]

AdMMM

Originally posted by Kaimera
Andres D'Allesandro: SC - €16m - 29(1):30gls.
New value €35.5m

Van der Vaart - Ajax - €51m [bastard :mad: only valued at €14m but Ajax wouldn't frickin budge. Hadda sell Ronaldinho (€50m) so needed a new young AML]

Rofl, had that same problem with Fernando Torres, only worth 17million, bought for 45million.


FREDDY ADU - GET HIM (YOU WON'T REGRET IT)

kaimera

Originally posted by |.Murderer.|
Rofl, had that same problem with Fernando Torres, only worth 17million, bought for 45million.


FREDDY ADU - GET HIM (YOU WON'T REGRET IT)

cant get Freddy no work permit. 3 seasons and still trying.

emmemm

S Selakovic is great ,cost me only 1m ,midfielder
casas 10m golscorer
c samba 1m gud 4 da future
bonera 3m defender
nedved 16m world class midfielder

Big al

adam fleming 16 AMR Free!!! Star for irish clubs or english div 2 or less, gets better every year

smiaras

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Big Ears

so your go to somwhere with better value,lidl,germany sebastien deisler 19 million,it all makes sense now. wait no it doesn't. But he did save my blushes in the league cup final. went 1-0 down to millwall in the 87 mintute.........92 minute Deisler goes on na run beats four defenders and chips the goalie from 30 yards. (magical stuff). Mutu the man finished the job scoring twice in extra time but only after millwall scoring again.Ah twas a great game.

hussey

Originally posted by smiaras
Carlos Daniel Hidalgo FRLC 250k (Gets refused permission for work permit at first but then gets it on appeal). There's another post on a different thread about him a couple of seasons into the game, I bought him straight off for villa to get my grubby mits on him and planned on loaning him out in order for him to keep his work permit. In the meantime I planned to use him as a substitute in order to keep the wp% up, first game off the bench and scores two, followed by a goal in each off his consecutive two games. Using the 2D engine you can see the guy's movement off the ball is fantastic, always hits the ball on target and normally the keeper spills the ball. You won't find better value even in Dunnes Stores!

agreed .. bought for 150k .. permit the same as you
worth 15million after 3 years with wolves .. scored 36goals when he was a regular for me! Fan player of teh year and still very young

Jodus

You have all missed possibly the hottest talent in England. In my Liverpool team (double CL winners, 6 time champions), he has the record for highest average, most assists and most MOTM awards -

Serge Makofo. You'll get him as a 16 year old from Wimbledon, I think he costs about 650K. Loan him out for a year the following season, when he's 17, and when he comes back, he is world class. An England regular at 18, playing mostly at RM, or ACM. Third most valuable player in my current team after Le Tallec and Paim (who's already been mentioned, another great winger, can play either side.

My other favourite early purchases include -

Arteta
Domizzi (Atalanta, full back)
McEveley

Mark

Originally posted by Jodus

Serge Makofo. You'll get him as a 16 year old from Wimbledon,

He's worth 1.4 million right now, but Man City just *won't* sell him. I'm offered 6.25 million, and intend to go upwards to 11 or so if he's as good as you claim once I get some cash (This is what spending 29 million on about 6 players does to you.)

While I'm here, why is it pubic hair yankingly hard to sell players?! I'm playing as Man United agus I need an influx of cash to continue my reckless buying sprees. Over the months I have tried to sell Barthez (Intending to buy Buffon), Silvestre (even tried lowering asking price 7 million below what he's worth), Butt (*snort*), Ferdinand (no luck there even when lowering the price.) All refused. The only luck I've had was John O'Shea for a paltry 6.25 million. And 4 million of that was spread over eighteen months. 'snot on.

Incidently, I heartily recommend buying Phillipé Mexes. Nabbed him for 5.25, he quickly shot up to 12 and looks set to continue.

emmemm

cm01-02
Brahim is good in defense 4 1st division clob
so is xavier
wallwork
negri
west

kaimera

GK: Isaksson: cheap and very very good keeper.

DMC: Rochemback: Barca 'B': Barca usually willing to sell. takes time to settle [did in england ] and can be a tad injury prone [could be my training] BUTT quality DMC.

DRakE

Richie Partridge. [Liverpool]
Haruna Babangida. [Barca B afaik]
John Welsh. [Liverpool]

Also worth noting if you're playing as Liverpool, The Arse bought Micheal Owen from me for 44 million.. valued at 20

shels

psv is a goldmine for deadly players. Bouma, Hofland, vogel, van bommel, kezman, rommedhal are all class players

cournioni

Anyone ever sell an Eircom League player for £7million?

Ciaran

I sold one to Man City for €10m about 15 years into CM 01/02, a left winger.

besty

when the game starts, if you have enough cash there is a group of players you should always buy...theyll work wonders

lucio cb 11m
mexes cb 3m
tuncay sc 10.5m
kapo am/f/r 4.8m
arteta mc 3.1m

after 2 seasons you can get emre, henry and davids on free transfers if you get them on precontract agreements too. by the way, how do you get freddy adu in the game?

Coolio

David Mendes Da Silva DMC Sparta(some small dutch team) Dutch 1 or 2 million turns out class value after 4 years 25 mill

Portillo Striker Real Madrid B team

Pah Madou Kah DMC,MR,DR very versatile brilliant player has 20+ assists every season from central midfield Can't remember who he plays with doesn't cost much, Real Madrid bought him off me for 20 million

Thats all I can remember at mo

cole9

Tom Huddlestone
Kasper Schmeichel
Cristiano Ronaldo
John Turner
Mark Peters
Simon Cox
Morten Gamst Pedersen
Stephen Pearson
Freddy William Thompson
Alex Tapp
Supat Rungratsamee
Cherno Samba
Jermain Defoe
Moses Ashikodi
Florent Sinama Pongolle
Alexander Farnerud
Aaron Lennon
Anatoli Todorov
Simon Francis
Vincent Kompany
Freddy Adu
Martins (Inter)
Evandro Roncatto
Luke Steele
Maxwell
Lionel Morgan
Stanton Fredericks
Carlos Tevez
Pabio Paim
Alberto Nery Castillio
Antolio Todorov
Philipe Mexes
Wayne Rooney
Robinho

cournioni

Christian Timm is a great player if you have £2.5 million handy.

besty

diego from santos is defintely the best player ive had in any cm game.always 9 ratings.loads of assists and some amazing goals

Iago

1 name, can't beleive that he hasn't been mentioned already

Jairo Fernando Castillo

my god what a player, at the moment with Man U he's my first choice striker, considering I've also got Theirry Henry, Van Nistlerooy and Rooney in the squad that tells you something..


Average rating of 8.5, player of the year two years in a row, 35 goals this season as well as 20 assists!!

If you don't have him, you're not playing the game properly!!! You have to buy him in the first season though...

tinofapples

Yeah I have at Parkhead in my current game .

He's dislodged the prolific Larsson from my solitary strikers position !!

DerekD Goldfish

Jairo Fernando Castillo

I think i mentioned him before signed him for wolves he did so well I renamed him The Messiah. One season he spent the entire season injured came back for the last three games scored in them all including the winner in the FA cup and CL.

Quatre Mains

I play lower div teams(Oxford), so this won't apply to those of you after the Champions League. Just had back-to-back promotions up to Div1. Best Players I've had to date;

FC - Mark Rawle - good for 30+ a season. We are in Div1 now and he's still banging them in.

AMR - Chris Hackett. If you get him at the start he's <30k, now 2m. Rarely scores below 8

MC - Jonathon Douglas

DR - Scott Cooper

- all can be bought for pittance early on, and none are too greedy contract wise.

Best player I've found (had him on loan a few times) is Fola Onibuje. Have bid again and again for him but refuses to leave West Ham

phenom

here is a shortlist of players with v.good potental.got it off a cm forum .save the zip file and move the file within the zip file to user data .Then load the list from your game.

kenny

CM0304 4.14

Just a few bargains i've picked up for my Aberdeen team.

Kenny Cooper free - 'World Class Striker'. Man Utd reject.
Jorges Torales free
Cesar Carignano free

Juggling these three, got 70-80 goals between them last season (07/08)

Darren Carter - 500k - Excelent CM
Sunday Oliseh - Free - Great player
Nigel Reo Coker - 60k
Lionel Morgan - 350 k
Sandro Bloudek - Free (Sold for 6.75M)
Haruna Babangida - Free - Just lost him on a bosman - gutted
Richie Partridge - 300k - ditto

Arthirson - Free
Pah-Moudu Kah - 2.3M
Helio Quiroz (SW/D/DM C) - Free - Quality CB
Mathew Kilgallon - 1m
Kevin McNaughton - Had him since the start. Superb.

Robert Enke - Free
Kasper Schmiechel (sp?) - 200k

Skud

nobody mentioned emmanuel oliadebe, great striker, has a release claus

phenom

If you Have your Database on medium this guy is brilliant and dead cheap.in the past 11 games he has scored 13 goals.
He is Oskarasson a M/F R/C and Costs 50K he is excellent. He is for a club called por

other good players are Petkov from aek ,Midfield Left
McPhee Striker
Kim Kallstrom (v.good) Midfield Centre
Kristiansen Goalkeeper Also v.good.

cournioni

Federico Magallanes is a very good player on a free transfer. He won't be your coaches choice, but he got up to 40 goals a season for me.

Quatre Mains

FInally got Oxford up to the Premiership and a lot of the players that were Div1 masters are of course gimps in the big time. However, in the 2 seasons since then I have come across a serious goal machine;

Supat Rungratsamee (Thai)

- bought in from Portsmouth for 900k circa 2007(expiring contract), knocked in nearly 50 last season, currently worth 17.5m and is still only 21.

Dr. P

been playin the game for about 5 years now..... (different versions)


Here is the wonderkids in the game at the start....

wonderkids

Cristiano Ronaldo
Robinho
Diego
Tevez
Cavenaghi
Robben
Kaka
Rooney
Simonetta
De Rossi
Cerci
Curci
Cassano
Scurto
Jermain Defoe
Michael Dawson
sergie makofo

also daniel braathen is the best player in the game.... 100 goals in 56 app....
si games announced he is over rated and almost like a cheat player.....