Dealing with new features of Football Manager 2008
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Football Manager 2008 comes jam packed with new features, this article looks at these new features and how to deal with them in FM2008
New version of FM has a lot of rather small but cool features. One of them is a flexibility of season expectations choice. You can increase or decrease expectations from board! If you are sure to perform better than board expects, you choose more hard season targets and board give you more money for their achievement. I did this with Arsenal claiming that my aim is fighting for Premier Championship title!
I decided to use non-trivial strategy of team squad management. Actually, it is one of Arsene Wenger: search for young talents and growing them to real stars. Well, it is known that Arsenal’s squad is young at the start, but I decided to buy more players for U17-team. Part of new FM screen with bought players:
New transfer screen
Teaudors, Pele, Wright – younsters for U17 who are able to grow into very good football players. Young and perspective Urby Emanuelson was bought for increasing of concurrency between left flank players.
Ismael Aissati is a wonderkid attacking midfielder who is ready to play in starting eleven of Arsenal, at least being on substitute. His strongest abilities are agile technique, creative decision making and having both left and right foot very keen.
New player of Arsenal - Ismael Aissati
Considering Aisatti I would like to review another small new feature of FM 2008. Actually, it’s about second nationalities. In the previous versions of FM, any foreign player could get second nationality playing in his club for a long time. But no one of us could when it will happen. Since now there is possiblity to know:
Second nationality following
Of course, it’s a very small feature. But it, surely, allows us to plan more wisely when you have many foreign footballers and some for them restrictions in concrete championship league.
Getting back to my transfers within Arsenal, it is interesting to consider another new screen of Football Manager 2008 – Transfer Centre:
New Transfer Centre of Football Manager
On this screen one can all current and last unfinished transfer attempts. In concrete case you see my unsuccessful endeavours to buy young star Micah Richards and more young Saivet and Sakho, as well as unfortunate enquiries from other clubs for my players.
I’m pretty sure that this screen makes transfer management somewhat easier.
I decided to use non-trivial strategy of team squad management. Actually, it is one of Arsene Wenger: search for young talents and growing them to real stars. Well, it is known that Arsenal’s squad is young at the start, but I decided to buy more players for U17-team. Part of new FM screen with bought players:
New transfer screen
Teaudors, Pele, Wright – younsters for U17 who are able to grow into very good football players. Young and perspective Urby Emanuelson was bought for increasing of concurrency between left flank players.
Ismael Aissati is a wonderkid attacking midfielder who is ready to play in starting eleven of Arsenal, at least being on substitute. His strongest abilities are agile technique, creative decision making and having both left and right foot very keen.
New player of Arsenal - Ismael Aissati
Considering Aisatti I would like to review another small new feature of FM 2008. Actually, it’s about second nationalities. In the previous versions of FM, any foreign player could get second nationality playing in his club for a long time. But no one of us could when it will happen. Since now there is possiblity to know:
Second nationality following
Of course, it’s a very small feature. But it, surely, allows us to plan more wisely when you have many foreign footballers and some for them restrictions in concrete championship league.
Getting back to my transfers within Arsenal, it is interesting to consider another new screen of Football Manager 2008 – Transfer Centre:
New Transfer Centre of Football Manager
On this screen one can all current and last unfinished transfer attempts. In concrete case you see my unsuccessful endeavours to buy young star Micah Richards and more young Saivet and Sakho, as well as unfortunate enquiries from other clubs for my players.
I’m pretty sure that this screen makes transfer management somewhat easier.
