The greatest player I have ever encountered

bamboozling

I was thinking guys maybe we could all use this thread to talk about their favourite or best player in their games. Here's my guy;

Ladies and gentlemen I present you Manuel Tews an absolute legend of the CM08 game I'm still playing and am starating season 2027/2028. This guy is a hero. The best right back ever. I'll give you the stats and let you judge for yourself.

He's now 35, signed for Liverpool aged 17, spent a season with the reserves, then a season on loan at Man City and from the age of 19 has played every season with Liverpool ever since, now beginning his 16th season as a first team regular.

818 competitive first team appearences for Liverpool and 30 goals. 513 league appearences and 19 league goals. 138 caps for Germany and 5 goals.

He has won:

Leagues; 9. 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025, 2027
Fa Cup; 12. 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2025, 2027
League Cup; 4. 2014, 2017, 2021, 2022.
Champions League; 5. 2016, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2025.
5 super cups, 5 club world cups, 8 community shields.
World cup; 2022 runner up

Individually; 11 time English players team of the season. 2 winner of European defender of the year

He's been my captain with 11 years now, he's rarely injured. What I also love about the guy is that he has never once considered leaving. He has never felt the need to seek a new challenge and whetever I say in the media he always sides with me. I love the guy.

There's definitely another season of top quality in him. After that I'm not so sure. Next season he'll be 36 and 37 in November. He's still got brilliant attributes but he's slowly getting worse. I don't want to be sentimental and keep playing just because I like the guy. Hopefully we'll put him out to grass after this season. His only flaw is that he won't consider staying in football after he retiers because if he did I would make him my assistant straight away!

Max Power1

Woah, wait a minute....

People still play CM??

bamboozling

Sorry, FM don't know why I put CM there!

Krusader

Thats some decorative player with all those trophies, have you tried to persuade him to take up a coaching roll by talking to the media

Shane732

In FM10 Dzeko is just a machine for me...

judas101

In FM 10 Alexis Sanchez and Eden Hazard are fantastic after 4/5 seasons.

Type of player I like, super speed, great dribblers, create and score goals.

Yakult

Shane732 wrote: »

In FM10 Dzeko is just a machine for me...

Likewise, he was in he's prime between 25-28 years old scoring 44 goals each season. After that tho, he went down to 15 or less, so I sold him for 45mil at 31 yo. (bought him for 11mil so happy with that)

Adriano (I know I know) is unreal for the first two seasons. only 8 mil to buy too. Declines fast but a handy cheap striker who will put away a good amount of goals for you.

Must check who is my greatest player now actually. Probably Reina

allanb49

Is he a regen or an actual player?

Yakult

Dzeko?

Max Power1

Bakayoko was a beast in CM2

Freddy Adu around CM4

Freddy Guarin in FM (not sure which one, but around 2007)

Plenty of random brazilians like fernando genro.

Also - fernando torres in CM 01-02

Fowler87

Havent played FM since the 09 game (must invest in the new one as I have time on my hands these days)... but few playesr thats stick out from my Forest management days include, Chris Cohen, Tomas Necid, Paul Scharner (yes I said it:pac:) but the one stand out player as ye probably all know from that game is Marquinhos signed from Palmeiros in Brazil... think of Ginola, Henry, Ronaldo, McManaman... and then combine them! Yep he was that good:)

thusspakeblixa

Ton-Ton Zola Moukoko.

Diddler82

Max Power1 wrote: »

Bakayoko was a beast in CM2

Freddy Adu around CM4

Freddy Guarin in FM (not sure which one, but around 2007)

Plenty of random brazilians like fernando genro.

Also - fernando torres in CM 01-02

Freddy Guarin was an absolute legend!

In CM 01/02 Antonio Gallieri was my best player ever...stats were dirt when he was 17 but for some reason playing in the AMC spot he would bang in 50 goals a season until he was about 24 and then you had to move him to up front and he would just continue on the goal glut!

Dolph Starbeam

Spent most of my time playing CM01/02 so this is where i found players more than other games.

CM01/02
Andres D'Alessandro
Maxim Tsigalko - 19yo Belarusian, Biggest legend ever in the game, scores goals for fun

tvercetti

Lots from CM 04 -
Lesser Knowns like Labinot Harbuzi, Johnnier Montano
More well known like Arteta, Dalmat, Mido, Bellion

Gonna Track down that game now

Revolution9

From Football Manager 2005,

Lebohang Mokoena.
South African, playing in the USA at the start of the game, only 17 and available for around 50k.

Once he hits 19 or so he is words class up front or as an attacking midfielder.

Revolution9

tvercetti wrote: »

Lots from CM 04 -
Lesser Knowns like Labinot Harbuzi, Johnnier Montano
More well known like Arteta, Dalmat, Mido, Bellion

Gonna Track down that game now

Remember him!
Swedish kid, either at PSV or Feyenoord.

Wingman2010

Kennedy Bakırcıoğlu.

Do I need to say anymore to the football managers veterans; it was championship manager back then

TheKells

No one mentioned the legend of Cherno Samba :eek:

Wingman2010

TheKells wrote: »

No one mentioned the legend of Cherno Samba :eek:

#
True!!

Was he with Millwall?

There was also a Dixon kid; I forget his forename. He was a spurs trainee; played underage for Ireland and was actually in one of Steve Staunton's squad's. He was also unreal. In real life he didn't fulfill his potential because of constant injuries.

Mars Bar

Terry Dixon?

Wingman2010

mars bar wrote: »

Terry Dixon?

Yes that is who I was thinking of

Mars Bar

Wingman2010 wrote: »

Yes that is who I was thinking of

I bought him for Southend United just before I left them. Don't think he did much in the higher leagues.

[Jackass]

Saviola.

Dolph Starbeam

Wingman2010 wrote: »

#
True!!

Was he with Millwall?

There was also a Dixon kid; I forget his forename. He was a spurs trainee; played underage for Ireland and was actually in one of Steve Staunton's squad's. He was also unreal. In real life he didn't fulfill his potential because of constant injuries.

He was, that Milwall team was pure class though, Samba, Richie Sadler, Tim Cahill, Steven Reid, Joe Dolan etc.

srfc19

thusspakeblixa wrote: »

Ton-Ton Zola Moukoko.

THE best player of all time!!

Wingman2010

srfc19 wrote: »

THE best player of all time!!

Yes he was the bomb also!

Gonzovision

TonTon is still playing in Finland apparently. Thinkhe only played one game for Derby.

Wingman2010

I actually used to always bring 'Romario' to the premiership. He was around 36/37 but he banged them in. It wasn't easy for him to pack up and leave south america for the cold english climate but he always did the job

mikemac

Kim kallstrom, Swedish player
Taribo West
Mark Kerr, Scottish lad

But my best player ever was Aghahowa in 01/02
A beast!

Bog

Ian Moore.

Tonton Zola Moukoko.

Cherno Samba.

Mark Kerr.

Michael Duff.

Dolph Starbeam

feelingstressed wrote: »

Kim kallstrom, Swedish player
Taribo West
Mark Kerr, Scottish lad

But my best player ever was Aghahowa in 01/02
A beast!

Oh ye Mark Kerr and Agahowa were brilliant, D'Alessandro and the River keeper, was it Costanzo or something like that, all brilliant. Keigan Parker was another in Scotland who was very good. Pawel Brozek was another nice forward too.

A quick google search for Maxim Tsigalko and looks like a lot of people have had success with him





:pac:

TechnoPool

chap called Tó Maderia or something if i remember, portugeezer, bangs in goals for fun, get him for around 80k first season in 01-02

razorblunt

CM3 there was a guy called Fahad Mehallal who was a machine at scoring bought for around 300k he was 28 or so though so you wouldnt get long out of him.

My favourite ever though was Carl Laure RB/LB bought from non league when he was 16, what an asbolute gem, like the OP would stay for his career never making a fuss.

There was also a midfielder I got on a free from Sunderland as cover stats werent great performances werent great but Inter bought him off me for £27million...which was nice! Can't remember his name think he was Argentinean!

Dolph Starbeam

TechnoPool wrote: »

chap called Tó Maderia or something if i remember, portugeezer, bangs in goals for fun, get him for around 80k first season in 01-02

Great player alright, did you see this though

Fictional players



The first release of the game included a player named "Tó Madeira", a great striker no matter where he played. It was later revealed that Tó Madeira was not a real footballer, but in fact a fictional player created by a scout working for the game producers. Later releases of the game included more fictional players, such as the "Crazy Greeks" Alexandros Papadopoulos, Anastasios Skalidis and Nikolaos Tobros.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Championship_Manager_01/02

kryogen

tvercetti wrote: »

Lots from CM 04 -
Lesser Knowns like Labinot Harbuzi,

What a player. My word what a player

DRakE

I remember a guy called Orry Fryer Oskarrson or something, signed him for QPR and he TORE UP the championship.. and Supat Rungratsamee or something was bad ass too at 15

srfc19

razorblunt wrote: »

There was also a midfielder I got on a free from Sunderland as cover stats werent great performances werent great but Inter bought him off me for £27million...which was nice! Can't remember his name think he was Argentinean!

Julio Arca was it?? Unreal around CM 3/4

Irishcrx

Think it was in CM 4 or so, a guy called Bjorn Zwikker was in the Ajax youth team, signed him for a 1 or 2 million and my god, he was a scoring machine, became the best striker in the game and banged in 50 a season for me year in year out...

stryker mcqueen

Mads Jorgenson was a fine player a few years back !! cheap as chips too , could do it at every level !

Timistry

For me, it has to be this kid called Daniel Braathen in cm03/04. He was originally from a little club called Skaed in Norway. I heard about him on cm forums so i started a new game with man utd, loaded the league and found him. Cost 80k as far as i remember. Stats were around that of a mid/lower table striker. Average pace, 14ish first touch/finishing/composure etc. So nothing special on paper but could the lad play :eek: Just literally scored for fun. 40+ a season for about 4 years. So many hattricks and wondergoals. It was mental

I bought adu and guarin aswell. I found that adu sometimes did not reach his full potential or I could not play him enough. Guarin was a great backup on the right and had a knack for banging in 40 yard screamers!

razorblunt

srfc19 wrote: »

Julio Arca was it?? Unreal around CM 3/4

No, not Julio, though he was quality, I think it was something like Mendez.

razorblunt

No, not Julio, though he was quality, I think it was something like Mendez.

-EDIT- it was Nicolas Medina!

stryker mcqueen

McGeady is the best winger in the uk in FM 2010 !!! quality for me ...turning down 30 million bids from madrid and barcelona every window ....luckily he is loyal !

koHd

Skalidis!!

Ridiculous lad that would average a hat-trick a game once you figured out how to deploy him. Silly stuff

focus_mad

Gabriel Batistuta

LEGEND....THAT IS ALL

Peadar_85

Franco Zuculini is a bit of a hero in FM 2009. Bought him for 850k from Racing Club as an 18 year old.

8-10

CM 01-02

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Dionisis Chiotis

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--Mike Duff---Ibrahim Said----Taribo West----Andriy Milevsky---

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Mark Kerr

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Kim Kallstrom

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Andres D'Alessandro

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Julius Aghahowa

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Maxim Tsigalko

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Cherno Samba

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(Kallstrom and D'Alessandro beside Kerr in the centre but with attacking arrows forward)

Very very good team on a budget. All those players will be shortlisted or bidded on as soon as I started a game.

tallaghtmick

champ manager 00/01 john o flynn and daniel nardiello absolute legends when trained right

ctrl-alt-delete

Over the years,

Salas when he had to come from Chile, Colo Colo i think it was,

Pazzini was amazing for me, can't remember which year,

Anatoli Todorov another year,

One Italian player I can't remember the name of it will come to me at some stage and i'll edit it in.

ctrl-alt-delete

8-10 wrote: »

CM 01-02

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Dionisis Chiotis

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--Mike Duff---Ibrahim Said----Taribo West----Andriy Milevsky---

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Mark Kerr

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Kim Kallstrom

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Andres D'Alessandro

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Julius Aghahowa

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Maxim Tsigalko

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Cherno Samba

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(Kallstrom and D'Alessandro beside Kerr in the centre but with attacking arrows forward)

Very very good team on a budget. All those players will be shortlisted or bidded on as soon as I started a game.

Aghahowa was always first on my list!

Kerr became the best player in the game most times if you played it long enough, and at an absolute bargain!