Delphouneso Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 I needn't have worried so much, won my last two games 3-0 and 2-0, Championship football here we come! In other slightly bizarre news, Remi Garde has just signed Karim El Ahmadi for Villa, and Brendan Rodgers has been appointed Swansea boss. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farlz Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 This is why I love Football Manager 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NurembergVillan Posted February 1, 2016 Moderator Share Posted February 1, 2016 Bought this at the weekend, seeing as I'm now unemployed in real life, and started a game as Wolves. Limited transfer budget, and Wolverhampton isn't Madrid, so I'm gonna need some tips for bargain buys. Come at me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rds1983 Posted February 2, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted February 2, 2016 17 hours ago, NurembergVillan said: Bought this at the weekend, seeing as I'm now unemployed in real life, and started a game as Wolves. Limited transfer budget, and Wolverhampton isn't Madrid, so I'm gonna need some tips for bargain buys. Come at me! Raid the big teams in Brazil and Argentina. They have lots of high potential young players who can be picked up quite cheap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adw95 Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 21 hours ago, NurembergVillan said: Bought this at the weekend, seeing as I'm now unemployed in real life, and started a game as Wolves. Limited transfer budget, and Wolverhampton isn't Madrid, so I'm gonna need some tips for bargain buys. Come at me! As Rds says, South America is (in my opinion) the best place to get players. They're typically cheaper than European alternatives so have lower risks. Careful not to get sacked and leave all the 4/5 star potential players with Wolves though. I did this with Lincoln who I bought for Villa at a measly price of £4,000,000, got sacked after a few months (before he'd even joined) and decided I'd try to get him when I got the Arsenal job...£30,000,000. I'm sure @Daniel and @tarjei have better advice based on their ridiculous saves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villaphan04 Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 Look at South America for the players yes. Another thing that may help would be getting a work permit feeder club or a foreign loan feeder club asap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 Can anyone tell me why, yet again, Lee Hendrie is still on the database? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarjei Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 I stopped playing this before Christmas. I really like the first few weeks when you don't know what works and you have to pay attention to details to figure out the tactics. I'll probably start over again if a new patch comes out or enough time has passed so that I've forgotten all the tricks As for bargains, the best ones are the ones you find yourself 1 hour ago, rodders0223 said: Can anyone tell me why, yet again, Lee Hendrie is still on the database? I can't speak for the current researchers and the setup these days but I remember when I was involved with the data for Norway many years ago the players without clubs were sometimes overlooked in the database. The way it was set up was that researchers supplied info on their clubs and the staff and players there, while the head researcher(s) collected and checked the data, so I imagine a few players without clubs don't have their data altered at all. I remember I found quite a few 'ghosts' in the DB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V01 Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 Gonna have to disagree with the South America advice, for the first few years anyway. As Wolves you should be doing pretty much all of your player recruitment from Scandinavia, the problems with work permits etc are really not worth the effort until you'r established in the Prem. Scandinavia is full of cheap low wage players who'd be willing to join a small English club 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rds1983 Posted February 2, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted February 2, 2016 1 hour ago, V01 said: Gonna have to disagree with the South America advice, for the first few years anyway. As Wolves you should be doing pretty much all of your player recruitment from Scandinavia, the problems with work permits etc are really not worth the effort until you'r established in the Prem. Scandinavia is full of cheap low wage players who'd be willing to join a small English club Don't completely rule South America out due to work permits. Quite a lot of the players there have dual nationalities with EU countries and don't need a permit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 Currently ripping up league 1 with my new Walsall save. If i can get lucky with transfers i'm hoping to get back to back promotions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante_Lockhart Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 Sherwood had Villa bottom by November so he got sacked. Once I saw this I used the in-game editor to put Remi in charge. Couldn't save us and we got relegated. Remi got sacked in the summer and the Sheff Wed manager took over. Stuart Gray. He had us 18th in the Championship and got sacked in December. We are currently in February, 22nd and manager-less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Czechlad Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 8 hours ago, Dante_Lockhart said: Sherwood had Villa bottom by November so he got sacked. Once I saw this I used the in-game editor to put Remi in charge. Couldn't save us and we got relegated. Remi got sacked in the summer and the Sheff Wed manager took over. Stuart Gray. He had us 18th in the Championship and got sacked in December. We are currently in February, 22nd and manager-less. This seems very plausible to be honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rds1983 Posted February 5, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted February 5, 2016 8 hours ago, Dante_Lockhart said: Sherwood had Villa bottom by November so he got sacked. Once I saw this I used the in-game editor to put Remi in charge. Couldn't save us and we got relegated. Remi got sacked in the summer and the Sheff Wed manager took over. Stuart Gray. He had us 18th in the Championship and got sacked in December. We are currently in February, 22nd and manager-less. Hopefully this is not a premonition for next season. I have a save in 2023 and Villa just got relegated to the Championship for the second time. I'm tempted to take them over but I've just been given a huge transfer budget to play with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 (edited) Going for back to back promotions. Gary Gardener and Alex Iwobi on loan and they're ripping it up. Edited February 7, 2016 by Daniel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rds1983 Posted February 10, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted February 10, 2016 Just read that Phil Gartside has died. Any game I played, whenever Villa were taken over it was always either Graham Taylor or Gartside who was Chairman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyBM Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 On 2/2/2016 at 16:44, rodders0223 said: Can anyone tell me why, yet again, Lee Hendrie is still on the database? i actually signed him for villa to play in the reserves Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted February 22, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted February 22, 2016 On 2/2/2016 at 16:44, rodders0223 said: Can anyone tell me why, yet again, Lee Hendrie is still on the database? Because he's still technically an active player? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyBM Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 saying that though, theres a couple of players who were on the last edition but not this one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 I just finished my first season and added a few players. I finished 2nd couldnt believe it! Gabby was on fire for me and rudy wasnt too bad (if only they were like this in real life) i signed defour for 6.5m and he was really good with veretout. i now sold gabby to paalce for 10m and 9m for rudy and replaced them with bojan and bendtner. also signed romeu from chelsea along with bender from dortmund. but has anyone had villa taken over? joan laporta has just brought me (if only this could happen in real life ffs!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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