Downloaded and installed yesterday, did a bit of a rush start to see what its like as i havnt played it since 2005 version
Pre Season Friendlys:
Oldham 6 Marseille 2 LOL
Ashton 3 Oldham 1 LOL
two very strange results. If i have time tonight im going to spend some time looking around the transfer market before i play my friendlys see if i can pick up some good players, one notable one i got was jody morris, also some injured players there that are good that are more likely to sign as no one else is interested
Kept issueing the board ultimatums and got sacked so took over yeovil and took them to the premiership, although i released a young striker from oldham before i got sacked (bit cheeky ) and signed him for yeovil and he won the league for me every season and ended up playing for england 
EDIT: Actually, Marc might still be crying into his Stella after the Leeds whooping of St Helens...anyone else bought this yet?
came out on the 16th
next friday its pes2008 \o/ cant wait for that
always prefered managing teams from lower leagues and building them up rather than managing a top division side, just more interesting.
Last time i played 2005 i took oldham to 3 premiership wins, had to sell my top players each year and get bargain players and build them up while keeping a few core players so that i could stay afloat because the game decided never to upgrade the ground to playing to 15,000 capacity every game
first off, in 2005 the mechanics worked in such a way that each town or area had a rating, so if your club came from norfolk or whatever, then you were never gonna get an attendance of more than 15 blokes and a dog
And managing lower expectation teams has been much easier over the last couple of installments, since the 3d pitch diablo hasnt ruled and theres been no "killer" formation, but as a low league side all you need for success is a defensive 442 counter attacking side with either a pacey or big strong front man with targetman enabled, and if your underdogs then teams come out and attack you, and fail
Found that the challenge is staying at the top with a "big" team with not too much in the way of resources (Arsenal, Werder and Anderlecht have been my fave3) as you have to swap and change tactics all the time, and theres always chelsea who like to give you the bashings at stamford bridge to keep the perfect season off the cards
whose the bloke you signed who made it into england team or was he a regen?
this new one looks like its focusing on team morale a bit with the team and vice captain thingies, has anyone managed a season or anything on it yet with a bit of feedback?
o and yea cant wait for new pro evo, bah gonna keep me indoors for ages
long ball + high tempo is just too good
well in old ones you just had to tweak the tactics but theres always going to be certain things that really work, like having 3 blokes out of the box when defending corners and hitting on the break, or the front post flick on, or 2 tall CBs so that any clearances from opposition end up coming straight back at em as you always win headers etc etc
but yea its been harder and harder to really work the games out with each progression which is good, took me a season and a half to get a 433 working (won WC with argentina with it though ^^)
and could never get the arsenal 1touch passing to really work, even with the likes of iniesta alonso fabregas etc in a midfield trio with WFs for space
so its defo worth buying? might go pick up a copy later
I'll become a 'foureyes'! I think ill tell the board i aim to be a title challenger and offer massive wages to some of the better free transfers and see who i can get hold of. Oldham have ricketts and hughes rated pretty well although they didnt rate davis highly and a pretty solid defense but only half a midfield. NEW PRISON TRANSFER MARKET!
Bit pissed off, they didn't include the Man Utd buy-back clause for Guiseppe Rossi and he scored 28 goals in his first season for Villareal and now I will have to spend £30 million to get him.
only signed colocini up to now, name me a good target man!
finished a season already?
just had my first game, 2-1 against chelski in charity shield with subs anderson and nani combining for the winner in the 92nd min get in!
who turns out good in the united squad? the simple fact that the UI is diff and theyv changed all the colours to this brilliant white, my eyes dont naturally read the stats pages the same
Ok so just got it... but theres no genie out yet.. and i made 2 managers and sold crouch to chelski for 20mill so i got 28mill to spend and dont know what player to get .. so if anyone can help itd rox
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Ok so just got it... but theres no genie out yet.. and i made 2 managers and sold crouch to chelski for 20mill so i got 28mill to spend and dont know what player to get .. so if anyone can help itd rox
I would grab Huntelaar, the game says he has the potential to be as good if not better than Rooney and you can pick him up for around £17 million. As I said before the bloke scored an insane amount of goals as a substitute for me but I am now having problems with him because he doesn't get on with Vidic at all and is constantly unhappy. So it looks like I have to sell one of them and Barcelona just offered me £20 million for Vidic.
