Your 1st/2nd XI....

Pacifico · 18-03-2005 07:48PM #1

In Football Manager 2005.....

My 1st (Arsenal 2011):

Taylor

Puyol     Naldo  Woodgate     Clichy

Quaresma Flamini Fabregas Montolivo

        Dagoberto Nilmar

2nd:

Rowe

Eboue     Rey   Senderos  Cole

Ljungberg Vieira Alexandre Reyes

        Pozzi  v.Persie

case n basket · 19-03-2005 11:08PM

My team doesn't really work as a first/second XI as some players play more than one position for me.

But my team is basically the squad Arsenal have in real life now, only:

Minus:
Bergkamp
Cole
Edu
Lauren
Ljungberg

Plus:
Akinfeev
Colombo
Favazza
Chivu
Evra
Kompany
Adams
Guarin
Mascherano
Whitaker
Cavenaghi
Robinho

Waiting on a work permit for Lucio... undecided whether I need him though.

Boro · 23-03-2005 11:09AM

[managing ManU]

I play an attacking 4-5-1 system that really works for me. I basically have cover for every position and rotate the players every game. That way they are fresh. Its easy to do by just setting up different squads in the squad selector thingammy.

                     Cudicini

    G.Neville   Ferdinand   L.King   Heinze

C.Ronaldo   Scholes    Alonso    Rooney    Duff
                    
                    Nistlerooy

                   Howard

    O'Shea   Silvestre   Brown   M.Taylor

SWP   Tevez    R.Keane    Essien    Giggs
                    
                  Smith

Other players i have to plug gaps:
P.Neville
Jagielka
Adu
Solskjaer
A.Shearer (old but still good for goals)
Downing
Bierofka
Pique

Just starting my third season. Its my first game in FM (yeah i know im slow

) so i havent experimented with bringing in young/unknown players. Won nearly every game and every competition i have been in. The formation has a rigid back 4 that dont venture over the halfway line, a central DM that breaks up play, two attacking midfielders (one free, the other not), and two pacy wingers that run to the byline and cross to the target man. Have an average of just under 3 goals scored per game and under half a goal conceded per game.

case n basket · 25-03-2005 09:50AM

Ok, now I got it!

First XI:

Akinfeev

Lahm    Campbell      Chivu        Evra

                Xabi Alonso
           Vieira     Mascherano

    Pires                       Reyes
                  Henry

Second XI:

Lehmann

Toure   Senderos   Kompany    Clichy

                   Flamini
           Fabregas     Guarin
    
  Robinho                    Tevez
                Cavenaghi

Extra players (who still get a fair amount of pitch time):

Eboue (probably should have him in 1 of the 11s, he started 40 games last season and was top class)
Van Persie (ditto)
Ryan Smith

Then there's the murky pit of my reserves with the likes of Cygan...

The One · 25-03-2005 02:13PM

Managing Newcastle
7 games into 3rd season
Pretty hard to get better then these teams
especially from newcastles players and finances!

1st:

                    Rensing
  
         Bonera      Yobo      Jong

Boore                                      Dede

               Schweinsteiger

Kaolu                                 Ewerthon

               Holm    Robinho

2nd:

                   Given
  
      Woodgate    Amaya     Kompany

Fritz                                   Gambino

                   Aimar

Kaolu                                  Ewerthon

            Zidan       Yeste

Bench:
Adebayor
Milner
Selva
Jenas
Adu
Taylor
Crespo
Chopra
Braaten

Somehow i keep them all happy by rotating them!

Tip: if u dont know who a player is.... go buy him!

Töpher · 25-03-2005 03:49PM

Shelbourne 2007:

                                    A.Blayney
  
                V.Velasquez    M.Koppinen    J.Hoyte

C.Andersson                                                    D.Marek

                         E.Cocherari         A.Dorman

                                  Dulee Johnson

                     R.Waltner                    T.Moskala

Got to the semi finals of UEFA Cup with this squad only to lose to Valencia.

Bench (generally):

Mark Thompson
Joey Ndo
Dime Jankulovski
Reynaldo Parks
Ruben Monteiro

[edit]

Just signed Freddy Guarín. Add him in there too!

Pacifico · 25-03-2005 05:33PM

The One wrote:

Somehow i keep them all happy by rotating them!

Yeah its really hard to keep everyone happy especially attacking players.

Bonera is pritty good, had him for a while before a part exchange for Naldo.

Chelsea just lodged a £50Million bid for Fabregas!

galwaydude · 25-03-2005 05:38PM

am managing Galway Utd and the year is 2007 and just won the league title so going in too champions league.What players can i buy?. Just bought guerin too, trying to get those two amazing south africans from orlando pirates but they wont budge on wages.

Skud · 31-03-2005 01:21PM

mokoena and who is other guy?

Töpher · 31-03-2005 01:38PM

Benedict Vilakazi and Lebohang Mokoena.

liamdye · 31-03-2005 04:03PM

I have borrowed my mates game as hes bored of it 4 the mo and have played it for bout 48 hours. Im in season 3 with Arsenal and also manager of England.

My 1st XI

Casillas

J.Zanetti J.Terry J.Andrade A.Cole

Joaquin Juninho P.Vieira D.Stankovic
(From Lyon)
F.Torres T.Henry

My 2nd XI

Cech

Eboue W.Samuel S.Campbell R. Carlos

F. Ljungberg F.Fabregas V.Kompany C.Ronaldo

C.Tevez J.Reyes

Other players who sometimes make it if injuries.

M.Zidan
Dagoberto
Robinho
Ronaldinho
G. Clichy
F. Adu
F. Guarin
Anthony Vanden Borre
Leohbang Mokoena

Some of these are too young at moment. I'm waiting for these to become good. The ones in bold are the best players to buy because they do become brilliant

My reserve team have won their league all three years.

Last Year i won the treble and this year i won the quad.

I also got England to win World Cup.

case n basket · 03-04-2005 03:29PM

Genoa 05/06

.................. Lastuvka

Cafu ....... Thiago ..... Sottil ....... Tosto

Gasbarroni ... Guarin ... Montenegro ... Delgado

........... Estoyanoff ... Larsson

Bench: Scarpi, Stellini, Sannibale, Carrerras, 
Budel, Lazetic, Van Persie, Guerk, Stellone.

Not exactly a squad of Galacticos, Lastuvka is my only big signing in that 11 (4m), and Van Persie is on the bench (3.9m), the rest cost less than 1m.

Delgado is the absolute dogs bollocks, I can't recommend him enough. Currently 2nd (probably 4th when Milan & Juve win their games in hand), one third of the way through my first season after being promoted from Serie B.

Serbian · 03-04-2005 06:23PM

I have had the game since the day it came out and I'm only in my third season of my first game

I can't say I really have a second 11, I'm struggling enough with my first 11! Here is my Middlesbrough team anyway:

M. Schwarzer

F. Queudrue	E. Ehigou	M. Upson	M. Cassetti

S. Downing	F.Vargas	M. van Bommel	Simao

		M.Baros		M. Lopez

My replacements include:
J. Lescott
C. Riggott
J. Veron
A. Voronin (got 32 league goals last season)

And a few more average players really.

Pacifico · 03-04-2005 06:31PM

My updated team (2014!)

M.Stekelenburg

Rafa     Naldo         O.Rey     G.Clichy

B.Ashton  V.Kompany F.Fabregas Ben Arfa 

          Reyes      Dagoberto

Subs:
P.Rowe
J.Woodgate
S.Nasri
v.Persie
A.lupoli

Also managing Brazil

Boro · 04-04-2005 11:10AM

Serbian - playing Quedrue and Downing on the right? Morrison didnt make it for you then? In my game he's turned out quite well actually.

Serbian · 04-04-2005 09:25PM

Boro wrote:

Serbian - playing Quedrue and Downing on the right? Morrison didnt make it for you then? In my game he's turned out quite well actually.

Sorry, Downing and Queudrue are on the left and Simao and Cassetti are on the right. I just put them on the wrong side when I was mapping out the formation. Morrison is pretty useless, I just spend most of my time sending him out on loan and hoping someone will pick him up for his incredibly inflated price tag!

GadgetFiend · 05-04-2005 02:17PM

MK Dons 2016/2017 - 2nd in prem last year- gotta go one better this year!

Kevin Stuhrr-Ellegaard (DEN)

Daniel Day (ENG)
Kostas Poulakis (DEN)
Leon Andreasan (DEN)
Mark Gonzalez (CHI)

Ruben (SPA)
John Paul Kelly (IRL)
Jamie Castrillon (COL)
Miguel (SPA)

Daniel Freidheim Holm (DEN)
Wagner Love (BRA)

the only familiar one there would be john paul kelly i reckon- still relatively youg after 11 seasons!

j22 · 11-04-2005 01:48PM

Man City in 2009
Tim Wiese

Daniel Bonera Joseph Yobo Matt Upson Maxwell

Joey Barton

Ji Park Sung Barry Ferguson Jerome Rothen

Jermaine Defoe Valeri Bojinov

Subs:
Kasper Schmeichel
Jean alain Boumsoung
Freddy Adu
Willo Flood
John Hartson

Your 1st/2nd XI....

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