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Eduardo Salvio

Dan — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:44:29 +0000

In my opinion, Eduardo Salvio is the next ‘Marquinhos’ on Football Manager 2010. He is a creative AMR that can also play up front so we already have similarities to Marquinhos. Salvio has some of the biggest clubs in the world after him, and in the summer he turned down a move to english giants Manchester United because of the competition for places. Good move my friend Eduardo Salvio is a 19 year old Argentinian who plays his trade at Lanus. On Football Manager 2010 he has some great stats with a lot of potential.

Stats

It’s obvious Salvio’s strength’s are his pace and acceleration. Any winger with great attributes in these two areas, mixed with high agility and flair is going to be an awesome player up and down the touch line. His lightening pace will scare a load of defender. Eduardo Salvio’s technical attributes are a bit of a let down but he is still developing at 19 years of age. Saying that, his passing, technique and crossing attributes are not that low and these are 3 key technical attributes for a winger. Salvio has bags of potential. I have always believed that a high determination stat on a youth will help them develop faster. Will have to get word from SI on this soon!

Tactics

In my current Arsenal career, I am playing Salvio as a winger set to support. This is the best setting for him because he has all the right attributes to play as this type of winger. His stats may not be as good as some of the wingers in your squad, but I still reccommend giving him some action as that is what he will need. If you read my Marco Verratti Player Profile, you may have started to understand my concerns with playing youth too young, but Salvio is a little bit older than Verratti so giving him more first team action will be vital. I still think a tutor would be good for Eduardo Salvio, find a suitable winger in your squad who you would like Salvio to take tips from and try to become like him. I have no set schedule for Salvio, but continue to use Tugs Training for Football Manager 2010.

Price

Eduardo Salvio starts the game with a value of 2.1 million, like 95% of the wonderkids on the game, the clubs are reluctant to let go. I managed to get him for 4.1 million, which is a bargain for someone with so much potential in my opinion. If you have the funds available at your club, definitely try to snap him up before someone else does! He does not ask for much wages (£6,000 a week) so definitely a great long term invenstment.

My Rating: 6/10

Potential Rating: 9/10

7 Things To Do If You Find Yourself Bored in Football Manager 2010

Dan — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:25:09 +0000

We all have them periods in our lives as Football Manager’s where we just cannot truly be bothered to carry on with our game. This can be down to a number of things from results going bad to a load of injuries…sometimes we just lack the inspiration to carry on with the game so we quit. I have put together a brief list of 10 things to do if you find yourself in these positions.

Go as an obscure or lower league team

An obvious one, but many people usually stick to the bigger teams on the game, I will admit I am one of these people. Going as a lower league team can be difficult but it is also a great challenge. The joy you get when you bring a club from nothing to domination is a great feeling. It will be a long game with a lot of ups and downs but stick with it and I can guarantee you will enjoy it. Check out How to cheat financially in the lower leagues for a good lower league tip and http://www.fmstory.com which is a great lower league story written by fellow blogger Lye.

Set yourself a challenge

Setting yourself goals before you start your career is a good way to make sure you stay determined. You have the mind and power to give yourself any type of challenge, however ridiculous it is. From getting Barnet to champions league glory, or like me winning a competition with a team from each country. It can turn out to be a lot of fun and help keep you focused.

Use the editor

The editor is an extremely powerful tool, and it’s under used. Spice up your game by creating your own database and doing whatever you want with it. Mixing up players, competitions, or creating your own club can be a good boredom killer and keep you interested in FM2010.

Downloads

The Football Manager 2010 community is amazing and we should be lucky to have some of the people we do participating. Many fans are creating there own fantasy databases and these are a good way to keep you interested. FM-View released a Bayern Munich Legends databse last week which I downloaded and tried out, it is a great idea and if it was not for my challenge and the blog I would definitely be playing a proper save with it. Check out http://www.sortitoutsi.net/forum/forum/122-custom-databases/ where you can find a whole load of cool databases for FM2010.

Graphics

You may not think so, but just changing the appearance of Football Manager 2010 can do a lot of good. Sometimes when I am lacking inspiration, I change the skin or install some facepacks to brighten up my game and give myself a change of scenery. Two blog posts that can get you started 60,000 Image Facepack and 5 of the best Football Manager Skins

Football Manager 2010 Time Machine

The Football Manager 2010 Time Machine I created is a good way to fast forward years in the game. The first season in my opinion is the worst and seems to drag on and on. The time machine allows you to start a game from 2010-2025 in England, Spain, Italy and Germany. I will be looking to add more countries to this list, including France which will be available to download tonight. Read more about the time machine and downloads here.

Get Involved!

If you have simply had enough of Football Manager for the moment, have look around the FM Community. There are some great fansites out there with amazing discussion forums where you can get involved and chat about Football Manager 2010 with other fans of the game. My person favourites are FM-View, Los Wonderkids, Football Manager Fanboys, FM-Britain and of course the official Sports Interactive Forums.

There is nothing wrong with being bored in FM2010, it happens to me all the time on every version, and sometimes little changes to the game or doing something different can spice things up for us and rekindle our love for the game!

Regen Creation Dates in Football Manager 2010

Dan — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:47:42 +0000

Something I discovered earlier today by browsing http://www.theawaystand.co.uk was the fact that the regens in Football Manager 2010 are created on a specific day dependant on there nationality. Although this was nothing like a shock, It was just something useful that I thought I would share with my readers.

Firstly, if you are wondering what a regen is, they are the players that are generated through out your Football Manager save so that there is never a shortage of players. When the old players retire, new players must come through the youth academies etc in the game to make sure there is no player shortage, and if you get far enough in the game every play will be a regen/’made-up’ player.

Anyways, I found the creation dates interesting because it will allow me to know the dates of certain countries creations, so in future on a certain day in my game I can search for the regen’s (u16′s) from that country to try to find a hidden gem or wonderkid before anybody else does. A pretty useful piece of information if you, like me are one that is always on the hunt for the next generation of players and enjoy developing them from a young age. The regen creation dates are as folllows:

January 1 Brazil, Chile
January 5 Rep. Ireland, Iceland
January 7 Finland
January 10 Colombia
January 15 Africa (except South Africa)
January 20 Norway
January 28 Peru
February 14 Belarus
June 7 Baltic States, Georgia, Bosnia, Cyprus, Armenia, Montenegro, Albania
June 20 Germany, Ukraine, Portugal, France, Turkey, Israel, Australia, Scotland, Hungary, Croatia, N.Ireland, Greece, Switzerland
June 24 England, Austria
June 29 Slovakia
June 30 Italy, Czech Rep, Poland
July 1 Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia
July 7 Denmark, Holland
July 10 Serbia, Spain
July 15 South Africa
July 20 Mexico
August 1 Argentina, Uruguay
September 19 North/Central America & Caribbean, Ecuador, Bolivia, Venezuela, Paraguay
December 9 Japan, Middle East
December 27 Russia, USA, China, Sweden

Hopefully this information will be of good use to you, I am hoping it can help me in my current save to bring in some amazing wonderkids!!

Marco Verratti

Dan — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:58:23 +0000

I can almost guarantee you will not find a 16 year old as good as him, and if you do, I urge you email me and I will share it with the community. Marco is widely regarded as one of the hottest prospects in world football and many top clubs are interested. On Football Manager 2010 it is no different. He plays his trade at Italian side Pescaro Calcio as a centre midfielder, and has been dubbed by various journalists as the next Francesco Totti.

Stats

Verratti’s stats are already better than a lot of experienced players on the game and that says it all. His 11 for passing and creativity is very good for someone of his age, and with the right training these two stats will shoot up very quickly. His set pieces are more than special with 16+ for technique, corners, penalty taking and free kicks, this usually means a lot of assists and will should always get himself on the score sheet a few times a season. His comparison to Totti in real life is partly down to the flair and agility and this has been highlighted in Football Manager 2010. All round great stats for someone as young as he is and they can only get better with the right coaching and training.

Tactics

Marco Verratti is only 16 years old, and if you carry on following my blog you will find out that I do not like playing youngsters too early. I would recommend using Verratti as a sub if you are a big team, and bringing him on when you are in a comfortable position towards the end of the game to give him some experience and keep his match fitness. It is up to you, but I think it can really help. If you have a great centre mid or AMC at your club at a good age, Eg Fabregas at Arsenal, I suggest using the tutoring option in Football Manager 2010. This will reap great benefits for both players but especially Verratti as he will start to resemble his ‘mentor’ and become a great player. I also recommend putting him on a youth training schedule, or download Tug’s Training 2010 which can be found here http://tugstraining.co.nr/

Price

Marco Verratti starts the game with a value of around £200k. Pescaro Calcio are very reluctant to sell as he has such great potential, but usually a fee of between £300k and £400k will secure his services. I suggest getting the bid in as soon as possible as lots of other clubs come sniffing early on. I have bought him several times, including Football Manager Live and he always becomes one of my star players.

My Rating: 7/10

Potential: 10/10

FM2010 Facepack – 60,000 Images

Dan — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:28:10 +0000

I was browsing Sortitoutsi.net earliar (a great Football Manager 2010 fansite, especially for downloads) and came across an amazing facepack which features almost 60,000, yes thousand images of players all across the world. This is a massive contribution from the community and I downloaded it as soon as I came across it as facepacks were one thing that my game was lacking.

All the top players are included obviously, as well as most of all the other players, so do you want to put names to faces whilst your browsing the game? For instance, I just found out that Lauri Dalla Valle is white, and I always pictured him to be black, do not ask me why

Here is a screenshot to give you a preview of what they look like.

There are two ways that this facepack can be downloaded.

Firstly, if you prefer Torrents then you can download one here: [DOWNLOAD] , and an alternative torrent link here: [DOWNLOAD ALTERNATIVE TORRENT]

If torrents are not your thing, there is a direct download option, but because the files are so huge it has been split up into 15 parts, here are the download links:

Once you have downloaded the facepacks, you must extract the files using WinRar to “My Documents/Sports Interactive/FM2010/Graphics/Facepack”. If you have not installed graphics before then you need to create the graphics folder and the facepack folder. Do not hesistate to comment on this post if you need any help installing them.

A big thanks to all the guys at Sortitoutsi.net for this amazing facepack which I am sure you will enjoy them. I will carry on posting any cool things I find for Football Manager 2010, and I do not take any credit for the work. Just to help my readers to enjoy the game and enhance there experience

Football Manager 2010 Patch 10.3 Released

Dan — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:33:29 +0000

At last, the antipicated release of patch 10.3, released by SI a few hours ago. You can download the patch via Torrent, Steam, or Direct Download. Check out the download links here. Here is a preview of some of the changes made in the latest Patch.

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Football Manager 2010 v10.3.0
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Crash Fixes
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- Fixed crash when clicking on the backroom advice button.
- Fixed issue causing runtime error in network games

General
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- Players who say they are willing to leave the club to help with the clubs debts no longer get upset if you transfer list or offer them out.
- Fixed scouts completing their nation assignments too early for small reputation clubs.
- Adjusted generation of names for Croatian newgens with second nationalities.
- Fixed older newgens in some cases getting youth contracts instead of regular contracts.
- Playing for a clubs A and B teams now does not count as having already played for 2 clubs in a season when joining a new team.
- Past meetings tables are now sorted by goal difference and goals for after points.
- National team facts information panel now only uses first team players.
- Adjusted changes in very low average attendances
- Fixed newgen name issues where some African newgens for example were getting English names because of their birth city language being English.
- Players no longer get unhappy about the clubs league position until after a reasonable amount of games have been played.
- Fixed bug where a person loses a language skill when changing from a player to a staff member.
- Stopped inappropriate manager to manager comments been available on Brazilian State league games.
- Adjusted newgen attribute creation and development
- Adjusted Danish cup attendances
- Players don’t get called up to Olympic qualifiers if they have important club matches.
- Automatic rejection of other national job offers if offered multiple jobs. When you accept an offer it auto-rejects the other jobs just like it does with club management.
- Adjusted Turkish Super Cup attendances
- Adjusted Bulgarian attendances in continental matches
- Adjusted attribute progression
- Adjusted newgen PA levels
- Adjusted conversion of negative PA values
- Stopped players constantly feeling under media pressure.
- Cancelled friendlies now don’t cause entire tours to be cancelled.
- User achievements screen now displays the date left after the user has resigned from a national youth team job.
- Stopped user been able to interact with players who are away on loan.
- Stopped two player happiness contradictions, wanting a new challenge/agreed a future move and also wanting to stay at the club.
- Improved the selection of players parent teams send to their affiliates.
- Fixed shots off target in quick matches sometimes being displayed as a negative number.
- Increased the number of strikers selected in U20 World Cup squads.
- Fixed German First Division games being refereed by lower division refs (requires new game).
- Improved international squad selections.
- Stopped unavailable players playing matches in inactive leagues.
- Stopped player conditions dropping so much in the quick match engine.
- Removed some pre-game histories that were being retained when playing with fake players (requires new game).
- Removed inconsistency in a players decision to try to learn a new preferred move or not.
- Stopped staff members joining much smaller teams for a minor job promotion (Steve Gatting etc.)
- Fixed an issue that could stop a human getting an international job when he is the best candidate.
- Made some improvements to Best Eleven selections.
- Fixed an issue whereby a scout was hired but couldn’t perform scouting duties, mainly affects long term games.
- Stopped duplicate news item appearing for human manager’s former team when appointing a new manager.
- Removed Chelsea transfer embargo.
- Fixed an issue whereby a player could become unregistered if user went on holiday over the registration deadline.
- Got the board to take into consideration the time left on a player’s contract when deciding to veto a free transfer.
- Fixed an issue whereby the board would state you can scout a region, but the option never appears for that region on the assignments dialogue.
- Fixed incorrect contract rejection reason when a coach rejects a contract due to basic wage.
- Fixed an issue whereby a human manager was prevented from accepting a management position at an amateur club upon the first time of asking.
- Fixed an issue where the incorrect match sequence milestone could be displayed pre-match for the away team.
- When a player complains in the media the unhappiness isn’t removed until they have responded to the manager’s response.

Finances
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- Adjusted wage and contract length demands of players with long term injuries
- Adjusted English manager wages
- Adjusted Brazilian sponsorships
- Adjusted Uruguay wages
- Adjusted English non-league finances
- Updated Brazil top level ticket prices.
- Stopped Chairman investing in club when not required.
- Fixed Swiss youth wages being too high.
- Adjusted Swiss finances.

Read the rest of the change list over at the SI forums by clicking the following link: http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php?t=192934

Football Manager 2010 Wonderkids: Shortlist Pack 2

Dan — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:14:28 +0000

Part two of my series contains another three shortlists. The second part of the -9′s are included, a shortlist of u21′s with a Fixed PA of 170-180, and a shortlist of u18′s with Fixed PA’s of 160-170.

If you read the last article you would understand what this means, but I will paste the same thing again in case you missed it….Some of this may be jibberish to you, so let me explain PA a little bit. PA means potential ability, and that basically means the ability (out of 200) a player could develop to, however development relies on many things such as coaching, regular games, training etc, however that will be a different article some time in the near future.

If a player has -10 potential, it means that everytime you start a new game, he will be assigned a PA between 180 and 200. FM2010 will randomise this number each time, but it gives you an indication of a wonderkid, because 180 potential is still great -9 potential is basically the same thing only the players will be assigned a PA between 150 and 180. When a player has a Fixed PA, it means that their potential ability will be the same every time you start a new game, for example Sergio Aguero has a fixed PA of 189, meaning every game he has the chance to get to that PA.

Once you have downloaded the shortlists, place them in My Documents > Sports Interactive > Football Manager 2010 > Shortlists. Now load up your FM game and go to manager, then find players. Click the shortlist button and press import shortlist, chose the one you want and it should be loaded into your game

Shortlist One: -9 Young Stars Part 2 (Patch 10.2)

Shortlist Two: u21 Talents with Fixed PA 170-180 (Patch 10.2)

Shortlist Three: u18′s with Fixed PA 160-170 (Patch 10.2)

Football Manager 2010 Wonderkids: Shortlist Pack 1

Dan — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:42:23 +0000

Part one of my series contains three shortlists. One for the -10 wonderkids in the game, one for some of the -9 young stars in the game, and one for the under 23 players with a fixed PA between 180 and 200.

Some of this may be jibberish to you, so let me explain PA a little bit. PA means potential ability, and that basically means the ability (out of 200) a player could develop to, however development relies on many things such as coaching, regular games, training etc, however that will be a different article some time in the near future.

Anyways, these set of shortlists are just the first part, and I will be making different packs each week and posting them up on the site. Once you have downloaded the shortlists, place them in My Documents > Sports Interactive > Football Manager 2010 > Shortlists. Now load up your FM game and go to manager, then find players. Click the shortlist button and press import shortlist, chose the one you want and it should be loaded into your game

Shortlist One: -10 Wonderkids (Patch 10.2)

Shortlist Two: -9 Young Stars (Patch 10.2)

Shortlist Three: u23 Talents with Fixed PA’s between 180-200 (Patch 10.2)

Germany: FM2010 Time Machine

Dan — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:09:03 +0000

Please see http://aidtheboss.com/?p=11 for more info on the FM2010 time machine.

To use these save games, once you have downloaded one, place it in My Documents > Sports Interactive > Football Manager 2010 > Games. NOTE: You must have patch 10.2 for the save games to work.

2010

Spain: FM2010 Time Machine

Dan — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:04:33 +0000