danofashby

Been trying to sign Tevez, he wants to join but can't pay his wages, so his agent walks away. Tevez sacks the agent, but when I try again he's back.

I signed tevez on my save, heres how i did it.

First offer man city £15.5m over 48 months (theyll accept this)

Then edit your budget so you have no transfer budget left.

When you get into contract negotiations offer him the highest wage you can (around 110k) and the highest loyalty and agent fee (around 3.3m). Then use the new feature to lock these parts of the negotiations. The agent will then come back with a load of crazy clauses. You can negotiate these down. I think i got max bonus for 20 league goals, 20% yearly wage rise £34m min fee and £0 relegation fee(this really helps lower a players demand i have found)

Once you have offered the contract edit you budget back to where you started.

I understand this could be considered cheating by some, but if you do this too much you screw yourself financially

i know for definite that andras is still here, i spoke to him on facebook, hes nursing an injury atm but hoping to push back this year. and they are both still on the os so i imagine they got another year due to the injuries. also how do i get a work permit for the canadian lad in the youths to sign a new contract? ive never got my head round this personally, i mean how did we get lichaj a work permit?

I think Lichaj has a polish passport so doesnt need a work permit. I agree that the wp rules seem a lot harsher on fm than in real life.

Thanks Rev. I found i had a mage on my account at level 30. So ive been playing with that, now im at level 69. Im enjoying it at the moment, just need to find a decent guild so i can do the raids etc when im high enough...

Hey Guys,

I last payed WoW properly in like 2006. But have recently decided to give it another a shot after reading a few things about cataclysm. Anybody got any suggestions which class to be etc (anything but a warrior or warlock).

Cheers

I decided since im only playing for 6months that destroying the finances wouldnt matter so bought all my players on 48months deals, so ive spent £60m and got in £1.8m

IN:

Rafael Ln Fee 725k

Alou Diarra £6.5m

Sebastian Frey £8.5m

Andy Carroll £4m + Beye

Fabio Coentrao £2.5m

Edin Dzeko £23m

Mikel Arteta £13.5m + Sidwell

OUT:

Freidel (RC Lens) Free

Osbourne (Leicester) £825k

Heskey (Newcastle) £1m

Clark, Bannan, Lowry, Halfhuid all out on loan

Been getting results but not performances, 6th after 12 games with 22 points and 2 games in hand. Lost 7-0 to chelsea though! In the QF of the League Cup against Fulham. Won 3 drew 1 so far in my europa group.

Playing 442 but i cant seem to create that many chances. Downing has 'assisted' something like 4-5 own goals already this season!

Sindre Loe Bing (sp), could play everywhere except cb and sweeper, got ridiculously good. Rumour has it though that he bribed a researcher to make him that good.

Fredy William Thomson was another good one!

danofashby .... surprisingly

Release Date has been announced. November 5th.

i read that quote as him saying that villa have generally finished between 7th and 12th in the premier league (probably more like 6th-12th) and these are the positions we are expected to finish in, by people oputside villa. So finsihing 13th would be seen as total failiure and finishing 6th is overacheiving, which i would say is about right imo. Therefore villa are not as big a club as liverpool who are expected (rightly or wrongly) to finish at least in the top 6

GET IN!!

Great Ball!!

Young has spent the whole time whinging to the ref. He should have had more decisions his way, but its obvious the ref is happy for newcastle to kick us in the air so he should just get on with it.

have we ever won a game as a result of bringing on Heskey?

Blues at home last season, borught on heskey and won 1-0. Made a big difference in that game imo

get carew off now!!!

stick delf on, theyre still playing really high.

We desperately miss gabby

OMG!!

That was disgraceful. If that had happened to Man Utd the press would be going mental about it tomorrow. Ref should definitely be relegated or whatever for that!

This ref is a disgrace, i hate how UEFA put nobody refs in charge of games which move at a pace they never see

Did Emile just have a shot?!

Didint look like it

to be fair to Davies, when its on the floor hes good. He just cant handle the high balls. Would be good next to Dunne or Collins imo

Guzan has the eternal goalkeeping problem: you're either a great shot-stopper and shite at crosses, or great at crosses and shite at shot-stopping (fortunately for us, Big Brad is one of the few that can do both).

I think its easier to get better at crosses than shot stopping though.

Look at David James

I know Davies hasnt played in a while but for someone who has ran his mouth so much since MON left you wouldve thought he wouldnt be so lazy/shit.

I thought he looked good alongside Laursen for a while so maybe he has got potential, but i think Clark has more so i think we should cut our losses and get rid!

Andy, i think youve done a pretty good job with villa to be honest, generally pretty accurate.

My guess with the young players is that clark will be -7/8, albrighton -8 (unless he has a fixed PA cos hes 20 now if so i would guess about 155), delph and delfouneso -9s. These are pretty much the same as they were last year i think.

I agree about the researchers getting unfair abuse on the SI forums. People always moan about one attribute on one player cos they saw a game where they scored a hat trick or some other rubbish. People always say Agbonlahor is overrated pace wise, these people have obviously never seen him sprint when he really means it

Andy can you give us any info on how good villa's young players (delfouneso, clark, albrighton, delph especially) are going to be?

On 2010 i didnt think albrighton could becme top end premier league class which was unfortunate, where al the others could if you were lucky

Clark was good today, just because he was so composed and calm. Last time i saw a young centre back play like that was when Barry broke into the team when we played 532