Football Manager 2008

Hint:
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Submitted by: Dare Devil

Make a new user of the team you are about to play as in the match. 
Select quick tactics. 
For your opponent's team, set every one of their players in attack, 
then put an arrow from the goalkeeper to the striker. 
If done correctly, you should win 10 - 1.

Recommended team:
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Search for a team called Poli 21. They have lots of excellent 
players who are very cheap, and they score quite a few goals. 
Also, try the following players.

Kevin Doyle (Reading) 
Robbie Keane (Tottenham) 
Kasper Schemichael (Man City) 
Elano (Man City) 

Try the following Hibernian squad:
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Steven Fletcher (quality striker scored 35 goals in 45 games) 
Fillip Morais (amazing attacking right, left, or center) 
Alan O'brien (good winger left) 
Lewis Stevenson (good left back or left center midfield) 
Merouanne Zemamma (great midfielder) 
David Murphy (quality left back) 
Chris Hogg (good center half) 

Easy wins:
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Create a custom player and add them to your opponents team. 
Select "Quick Tactics". Set all of your opponent's players to 
attack. Place an arrow from the goalkeeper to the striker. 
You should win easily.

Hint:
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Submitted by: Covaci LIviu

GAbriel Torje(17)   - Poli Timisoara
NIcolas Millan(14)  - Colo colo
Tomassi Vailatti(21)- Livorno
Florin Costea(16)   - ''U,, Craiova

Mint young players:
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David amoo (liverpool) 
Daniel sturridge (man city) 
Febian brandy (man utd) 
Goran slavkovski (inter) 
Bojan (barca) 
Sergio aguero-expensive but worth it (at madrid) 
Jonathan/giovanni dos santos (barca) 
Damien plessis (liverpool)

Great players for low league teams:
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when starting a new season as a BSP league team 
you can get great players good enough to play in league one.all you 
have to do is go to player search, customise the search putting the age 
at. at most 28 then select nationality then choose france the you will 
find people at between 22 to 28 who play for french lower league teams 
and you can sign them for free without compensation.
when offering contract offer 100 pounds more than they ask so you can beat 
competition from other clubs.
When choosing leagues you have to choose only the first french league not 
lower.

Hint:
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Submitted by: raja365

If you're playing with some unkown-lower league team. set this tactic:mentality-attacking
closing down-often
passing-short
Everything else mixed
Before this buy some quality players who would join your team(exp.Josko Bilic,Itallo...)
 

Hint:
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Submitted by: lcarter

Diego Buonanotte (needs time but gets very good)
Rodrigo Fabri    (old ish but gets lots of goles)
Rui Fonte        (young but good)


Changing Formation:
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This works really well on the game day. If you go into the game with a formation 
and you set your team talk, if you then change your formation before you kick-off 
then it confuses the opposition and you automatically get the upper hand on them. 

Easy Money:
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To get easy money without starting a new game all you need to do is download the FMModifier 2.21 
then search your team, change thier money, and press save and then you have heaps of money.


Hints:
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Submitted by: Avinash

Some of the players that are tipped for stars.some of them are too expensive and 
some really cheap.some of them are wonderkids.they are really too talented and 
sensational.just check them once-

Ezequiel Garay-Racing
Renato Augusto-flamengo
Ismael Assiati-PSV
Luigi Bruins-Feyenoord
guilherme
Breno-Sao Paulo
Aaron- Valencia
Fernando Forestieri
Lulinha-corinthians
Sotiris Ninis
John gossens-Ajax
Georginio Wijnaldum-Feyenoord
Pichu Atienza-athletico Madrid
Gabriel torje-Poli 1921
Ricardo montolivo-Fiorentina
lorenzo De Silvestri-Lazio
domenico Criscito-Juventus
Henri Saivet
Alessandra Tuia
Mario Balotelli
Dmitri Daeseleire
Simone esposito
John fleck
Ever Banega

Hey Wanna sign a world class scout for free search for Roberto Batttega


Wonderkids:
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Submitted by: styep7

These are the players I have found and are either wonderkids or has media comparison. 
Some of them are on your list too.

Wonderkids:
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Season 1
Alexandre Pato - AC Milan
Alexandre Song - Arsenal
Anderson - Man Utd
Ben Sahar - Chelsea
Bojan - Barcelona
Breno - Sao Paulo
Carlos Vela - Arsenal
Denilson - Arsenal
Emiliano Insa - Liverpool
Fabrice Muamba - Birmingham
Gabriel Obertan - Bordeaux
Gabriel Torje - Poli 1921
Gareth Bale - Tottenham
Giles Barnes - Derby
Giovani Dos Santos - Barcelona
Gonzalo Hiugain - Real Madrid
Ismael Aissati - PSV
James Vaughan - Everton
Javi Martienez - Athletic
Jonathan Evans - Man Utd
Juan Manuel Mata - Valencia
Karim Benzema - Lyon
Lorenzo De Silvestri - Lazio
Marcelo - Real Madrid
Marek Hamsik - Napoli
Niclas Bendtner - Arsenal
Robert Acquafresca - Cagliari
Samir Nasri - Marseille
Sergio Aguero - Atletico Madrid
Steven Defour Standard Liege
Sunny - Valencia
Theo Walcott - Arsenal
Zdravko Kuzamanovic - Fiorentina

Season 2
Andy Carrol - Newcastle

Media comparison:
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Ben Sahar (Chelsea) - Could be the next Nahum Stelmach
Coelho (Inter Milan) - Could be the next Luis Figo
Fabinho (Internacional) - Could be the next Ronaldo
Fernando Forestieri - Could be the next Andrea Pirlo
Hebert (Atltico Paranaense) - touted as the next Jairzinho
Isaiah Ousbourne (Aston Villa) - touted as the next Steven Gerrard
Jordan Ayew (Marseille) - touted as the next Djibril Cisse
Jorge Luiz (Atltico Paranaense) dubbed the new Jlio Cesar
Juan Surraco - Labelled as the next Pablo Bengoechea
Lo Goncalves (Sao Paulo) touted as the next Jairzinho
Mariano (Vasco) Dubbed the new Kak
Rafael (Sao Paulo) Dubbed the new Mrio Srgio & labelled the next Zinho
Richard Sukuta - Pasu (Leverkusen) - touted as the next Jurgen Klinsman
Yaniss Thafer - touted as the next Thierry Henry

Hint:
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Submitted by: Rana

A world class coach: Krystoff Dowhan - Legia (Poland) 
Alex (Vasco) - the next Ronaldinho

Hint:
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Submitted by: Rana

Oswaldo Rodriguez - great young midfielder
Rene Mihelic      - great young midfielder
Mika Aaritalo     - greal left wing/striker
Nill de Pauw      - young striker
Jelle von Vossen  - promising midfielder

Real Names and German National Team:
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To get real players into the German national team and to get real club 
names for those clubs that have fake ones go to
C:\Program Files\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2008\data\db\800\lnc

In that folder delete the Fake.Inc file. Make sure you make a back-up of 
it somewhere just incase though. Now when you start a new game you will 
have real players and real club names.


Easy goals from corners:
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This cheat is really simple! All you have to do is have some1 with the highest 
corner attribute take the corners. then you on team instruction put the corners 
in the 6 yard box on both right and left. then take to players with the best 
headers in your team then go on player instruction of the 2 players then for 
corners put challenge GK.

Top Quality Young Players:
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Henri Saivet (free as soon as the game starts)
Tommasso Vailatti (2m from Torino)
Pablo Piatti (180k from Estudiantes)
Mamadou Sakho (free at start of the game)
Ever Banega (2.5m from Boca)
Ashley Chambers (free from Leicester)
Adam Newbold (free from Nottingham Forest)
Jack Hobbs (becomes world class, 1m from Liverpool)
Lewis Price (1m from Derby)
Georginio Wijnaldum (1m from Feyenoord)
Rhys Murphy (500k from Arsenal)
Dean Bouzanis (1m from Liverpool)
Joe Mattock (2m from Man City)
Damien Plessis (500k from Liverpool)
Emiliano Insua (3m from Liverpool)
Jerome Boating (2m from HSV)
Toni Kroos (5m from Bayern)
Mateo Musacchio (free from River)
Iriome (700k from Tenerife)
Pichu Atienza (4m from Athletico)
Guillen (300k from Athletic)
Godwin Antwi (2m from Liverpool)
David Amoo (1m from Liverpool)
Henri Lansbury (725k from Arsenal)
Lucas (8m from Liverpool)
Oier Olazabal (1.3m from Barcelona)
Lewis Stevenson (1.7m from Hibernian)


Hints:
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Submitted by: tom

ive only been playin da game 4 a couple of months, but i no sum playas dat 
can b brilliant! also theres a little hint dat will get u hu u wnt!!!

first things first, here r sum of dos plyas 4 u. dey r all yung nd dey r mint blud!

henri saivet- bordeux
toni kroos-FC Bayern
alexandre pato- AC milan
jimmy briand-rennais
gabriel obertan-bordeux
jonathon de guzman-feynoord
jonathon franks-middlesbrough
hugo lloris-
cesc fabregas-arsenal
hatem ben arfa- lyon
dan gosling
sotiris ninis
gabriel torje
john fleck-rangers (only 15 so give him time)
rui fonte-arsenal
rhys murphy-arsenal
damien plessis-liverpool
david amoo-liverpool
samir nasri-marseille
giovanni dos santos-barca
conor clifford-chelsea
keko-r madrid C
bojan-barca
aguero-a madrid
mario bolatelli-inter

the trik i told u about is so simple. if u no dat deres a playa ure gonna want 
4 ure team, put dat league in at da beginnin so u can manage da team. 4 ure main 
team, just offa 0 and accept wid ova team, den u just gotta tie up da contract.


Keeping Possession:
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To play possession football, often hard from a players perspective, it is a simple 
matter of tweaking your tactics.
Play a short passing game with a slower tempo and watch as your players consistently 
hit the target with their passes.
To add variety you can change the mentality from defensive to attacking. Defensive 
possession football will see your defenders playing with the ball alot and making 
occasional forays forward into space. Attacking possession football is much like 
Arsenals style of football with a consistent flow forward.
As your team gets more accustomed to possession football you can increase the tempo 
and watch as your team swiftly and accurately carve up the opposition.

Avoiding Work Permit Troubles:
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There are three ways to get around the annoying inconveniences that are Work Permits. 
They are: 

1. Your club can have a feeder club from a European country that doesn't use the work 
permit rule, you can send the player out on loan to the club and they will gain 
citizenship after a certain amount of years.
The shortest time to gain citizenship in a country is 3 years, in Belgium and Poland.
Pretty much all the other countries take 5 years, except for Spain, which takes 4 years.
2. You can leave the player in your reserves until he gains citizenship (which will take 
5 years).
3. A sneaky way of getting past the work permit problem is to offer the player another 
contract, as soon as they join you. About 60% of the time the player will be granted a 
work permit, even though they had only just been denied one. Sly, huh?
Failing all that. Try and find foreign players who have a European nation as a second
nationality. These players do not require work permits!

Finding Great Regens:
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To maintain a high standard of quality players in your team as the years progress during 
the game it is necessary to scout and develop your own youth talent into the next 
generation of superstars.
To find regens (game spawned players to replace retired players) you must learn to scout 
effective and efficiently. First you must sign to your club some scouts with at least a 
17 rating in Judging Potential Ability and Judging Current Ability. Examples of such 
scouts are Wolfgang Dremmler and David Hamilton.
Once you have some good scouts go to the scout screen and assign your scouts to the various 
youth competitions (eg Under 20 World Cup and Under 18's Leagues) with maximum age set to 
under 20.
Now wait and watch as your scouts scour the globe for the best new talent. Once they bring 
back some player reports choose what players you think youll need or want in the future and
snap them up while they are young.

LLM Money Making:
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In the Pre Season as smaller teams of any division you will always find you need to make 
some money to set yourself up for playing wages/making transfers/expanding stadium etc.
The best way to get money in these situations is to organise high profile friendlies in 
the pres season. By organising friendly leagues/cups/one off matches you can make anywhere
from 100k to 10mil pounds each pre season.

Hint:
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Submitted by: bob

Mauro Zarate bid bout 6mil he mint scores 20 + goals a season needs 2 get fit though

Hint:
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Submitted by: josh

At the start of the game go to ghana and look for boetang who is a cm. very cheap 
but lots of clubs try to sign him, so b quick! also delgado for cruz azul very cheap 
buy. Billy sharp can b brilll 4 any prem team. any1 got any signings they cud recomend 
for a newly promoted prem team?
 
Sugar Daddy:
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With this cheat, the clubs chairmen will now be a Sugar Daddy, and will continuelsy pump 
money into the clubs transfer budget. If you got to Editor, and click Clubs, you then should 
click your selected club. Then in the top left hand bar you want to click fiances and you 
will see a unticked button which is Sugar Daddy. If you are to click this then save, then 
load up that database and choose that team you clicked Sugar Daddy on. Your first transfer 
budget will be doubled, and every month you will make profits of 5ish million and will soon 
be unstopable.

quality players:
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Submitted by: Tom Kelsall

lulinha-AMC
antonio adan-GK
mamadou sakho-DLC
miguel veloso-D/DMC
matuzalem-MC
emiliano insua-DL
jack hobbs-DC
carlos vela-FC
joe hart-GK
andrea carozza-MC
marcelo-DL
dani alves-DR
 
Hint:
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Submitted by: crayz E tom

when you install FM 2008 on ure PC, go onto start and programs, then find ure FM 2008 and 
there shud b a data editor there too. you can edit clubs and create players so u can customise 
ure favourite teams to be the best with the most money and best players. but if u create a team, 
when u choose leagues that u can manage in at the beginnin of a new game, u will not be able 
to manage in the country u put the new team in!

Hint:
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Submitted by: pardonmyfrench

I know how to solve the problem that u can't choose the country u put a self-manufactured team in. 
Here's the tip: When ur done creating, instead of placing ur creation in the league, u swap it 
with an existing one. In that way it won't, pardon my French,f#@k itself up. The Editor is a 
really handy tool. I put Solberg from Third Division in Norway, to the Tippeliga by swapping 
it with Rosenborg. Nice, huh?;)

Good Striker:
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To get a good striker as man utd loan out FRAZIER CAMPBELL to WALSALL for a season or 2 when 
i did this he was scoring in every game and gettin player of the month frequently aswell. when 
he comes back he should be a good player to keep hold of. message me with what you think about 
this tip thanks.

Championship Tactic:
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Submitted by: Cheatsbook
Here is a good tactic for Hull City, i was 24th in the Championship and with this tactic 
i got 8th in my first season.

-------Fc-------
-------Amc-------
-Lm---Cm---Cm--Rm
-Lb---Cb---Cb--Rb
--------Gk-------

-Have the Am with arrows going to Dmc.
-Have the 2 cm going to the Amc.
-Have the Side mids going up like the Cm's.

Attacking Instructions:
-Play Attacking
-Have Lots Of Freedom
-Have Short Passing
-Time Waste Often

Just do what it says there it dosent matter how attacking you need to go. 
Hope this Helps people who are struggling in the Championship.

Fan Days:
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Although you do not choose when you get a fan day it can benifit you a lot.
What it is used for is smaller club who want to expand their support. They will let people
come in and watch a game of football for free therefore hoping they will enjoy it and pay to 
come back and see the team again. Make sure you put up a good performance and an entertaining
match or they will not want to come back and it would end up being a waste of time.

Hint:
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Submitted by: izzat cardiac

Get new quality youth players out of nowhere!!(depending your current squad status)
organize a friendly match with your reserves.
move most of your players to reserve.just left behind some of your top quality 
players(make them below 11).
and let your assistant play the match.after the match you will find some quality 
youth players out of nowhere playing for your team. the best thing is that you can 
offer them a contract..cool eh?

Fix National Teams:
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Due to licensing some National Teams don't have proper players (Germany for example) To get rid
of this go to "C:/Program Files/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2008/data/db/800/lnc/all" 
once there copy the file entitled "fake.lnc" (You may wish to put it in a safe place as backup 
if needed) then delete the file "fake.lnc" and when you start a new game the countries effected 
will have the proper squad. All this file does it put a "mask" on the national teams effected 
and once you remove it will get rid of the mask.

Money Earner:
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A nice way to earn some money for your very poor lower league club.
Arrange fixtures for the reserve and youth teams against other high profile reserve and youth 
teams. For some reason a friendly against Barcelona B brings in the same amount of money as a 
friendly against Barcelona A would and if you use your Reserve team the opposition will not 
request a feee for their participation.
This was especially useful in the Blue Square South with Bognor Regis. Neither the reserves 
nor the youth teams played in a league and were therefore free to play friendlies all season. 
I tried to organise friendly leagues as these bring in the most money and always invited the 
reserve or youth teams of the clubs that appeared on the 'major clubs' pages. Within a season 
I had a bank balance of £4'000'000 and started the next season with a transfer budget of 
£1.2 million.

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