Football Manager 2009

I've heard through the grapevine that the demo will be released on the 25th.

Well that's another relationship ended then  

Quoted from Green27

Well that's another relationship ended then  

I'm still into last years version. I've turned down the Newcastle and Arsenal job to stay at AFC Wimbledon so I can spank the filthy club stealers. Got em in 6 weeks & once I've trounced em it may be time to move on. 3 promotions in 3 years!!!

Up the Dons

I really, really shouldn't get this game. I won the prem with Grimsby two years in a row, in the second I got the charity shield and FA cup. I'm now on another mission to do well with Vauxhall Motors. Semi-professional clubs are a bit weird, so getting good potential young players onto full time contracts is tricky but they need to train more!

Nice one, all day on that then go to the Bradford game  

Bout time, i'm still enjoying 08 but its getting a bit tiresome now.

Anyone got the demo yet? I'm still on 07, got Nuneaton promoted 3 times in 4 seasons and i'm now in League 1. Spend ages scouring the foreign markets for gems. Have found a few Slovenians and dual nationality Brazilians who are doing great for me. The only thing that pisses me off about getting a small team through the leagues is my chairman accepting bids on my behalf- irritates the urine out of me!

They've now announced the demo will be released on Sunday.

From Miles Jacobson @ Sports Interactive:

As you may have heard on the Football Manager podcast on Friday, or seen in the News of the World on Sunday, the demo of Football Manager 2009 will be released next Sunday, November 2nd, just after midnight, giving you a whole Sunday to try out the latest incarnation of the game.

The demo will, as normal, come in different "flavours".

The "vanilla" demo will be the smaller version of the demo file size wise, in that it will have very limited graphical content (no logo's, player pictures, stadiums), English language only, and only English and Scottish leagues available to play, for half a season of ingame time. This saved game will be compatible with the full release of the game, out on November 14th.

The "strawberry" demo will have all graphical content, multiple languages, and 10 leagues to play with (the list of which will be made available later in the week), also for half a season of ingame time, and saved games will also be compatible with the full release of the game, out on November 14th.

The "vanilla" demo will be available exclusively from the News of the World's website as a download file. We will be linking to the News of the World's page directly from the front page at http://www.sigames.com, and from the forums, as soon as the file is live.

There will be 3 ways to get the "strawberry" demo.

The first of these will be via STEAM. For those that are unaware of STEAM, it's a digital platform made by Valve Software (the developers beind the Half Life series, the Counter Strike series, Portal, and many more). They have super fast bandwidth, and it is by far and away our recommended way to get the "strawberry" version of the Football Manager 2009 demo.

STEAM will also be one of the ways to be able to authenticate your retail version of Football Manager 2009 on it's release, and our preferred route of patching, as patching through STEAM is automatic. You can download the STEAM client from http://store.steampowered.com/ and can also pre-order Football Manager 2009 from the site to be able to play it at 9am UK time on the day of release.
The "strawberry" demo will also be available as a torrent download for those who are aware of this techonology, and as a download with bandwidth provided by GameShadow, although these are likely to appear shortly after the demo becomes available on STEAM, as we will be uploading to STEAM first.

I am also now able to confirm the specs required to play Football Manager 2009.
Please note that these specs are for the machines that we are offering technical support on - the game will work with other graphics cards, and on other spec machines, but as we are not offering technical support, we cannot list these on the system spec.
If your spec is lower than the minimum spec below, it is best to download the demo and try it on your machine, as the spec for the demo is the same as the full game.
Please note that if your PC graphics card is not capable of playing the game with the 3d match engine, it will default to the 2d view from previous FM releases, but the game will still run.

As was mentioned earlier in the year, I can confirm that the game will be released as a DVD Rom this year, rather than a CD. If you do not have a DVD drive, you are still able to purchase the game, but will have to do so via STEAM.

Mac System requirements
The game is currently only being supported on Intel Mac's only, and the minimum requirements are - OSX 10.5.5, Nvidia Geforce 7300 / ATI X1600 Radeon. 1GB RAM.

PC System Requirements
OS - Windows Vista or XP
Processor Speed - Vista - 2.0GHz, XP - 1.4GHz Memory - Vista - 1GB, XP - 512MB Videocard - 128MB Nvidia FX 5900 Ultra, ATI Radeon 9800, Intel 82915G/82910GL or greater.

Personally, I would recommend more RAM than the minimum listed above.

Now, there's also been a lot of talk on the forums about copy protection, and how we are planning to handle it this year, particularly in light of recent press with certain other titles and Securom, which we have used in the past.

We have followed those stories closely, but already had our plan in place for this year, and are happy with the choices that we have made.

I am therefore happy to be able to announce today that, for the first time in the Football Manager series since we started making the game, you will not require the disc to be in the drive each time you start the game if you are playing on the PC! Instead, you will need to authenticate your game.

This can be done in 3 different ways.

The first is via STEAM, as mentioned above. By authenticating through STEAM, you will automatically receive patches as soon as they become available. The second is a simple online transaction, which will take less than 30 seconds. The third, for people who are not online, is via telephone registration, with local call numbers in each country where we release the game, and this will take about 5 minutes to complete from our experience in testing.

We highly recommend the online authentication processes, as they are quick and easy.

Despite the license agreement that comes with the game stating that you can only install on one machine, we are well aware that many people like to play the game on personal laptops, as well as desktops, and our licenses for Football Manager 2009 will work in a very similar way to ITunes.

This means that you will get 5 licenses for personal use, so you can play the game on up to 5 computers as long as you own them, and the owner of the game is the person playing on said machines. If you uninstall the game on one of the PC's you have the game installed on, you get that "seat" back.

As an example, say you have installed the machine on your work laptop, your work PC, your home PC and your home laptop. You would then have used up 4 out of your 5 uses of the game. Your home desktop has some problems, so you decide to re-install windows on it. As long as you uninstall the game from that machine first, you will get that license back, and when you re-install, will still only be using 4 of your 5 installs.

Please note that the license when you purchase the game is explicit that you are only allowed to use the game for your own personal use.

Also please note that on uninstallation of the game, everything is removed from your machine, including all remnants of the copy protection system which we are using, which was a bugbear of many of the other systems available on the market.

MAC users will still have the same protection system as with other years, although we are hopeful that this will change in the coming years when someone comes up with a similar system for MAC's.

So, what we've aimed for, and have hopefully succeeded on, is a system whereby the legitmate purchaser of the game will notice the copy protection even less than in previous years.

Quoted from 75

I'm still into last years version. I've turned down the Newcastle and Arsenal job to stay at AFC Wimbledon so I can spank the filthy club stealers. Got em in 6 weeks & once I've trounced em it may be time to move on. 3 promotions in 3 years!!!

Up the Dons

I'm sad to report I lost 3-2 at MK Dons who were given two dodgy penalties. There's still the home game to come around but due to my Chairman selling my best left winger we are finding league footballer tougher than I anticipated.

I plan on putting a shirt & tie on for the return game to inspire my boys as they battle evil.

my game going as Gainsborough trinity is going well. I'm in my 9th season and i've got them into the Prem. We're struggling but our attendances are doing quite well, they are currently at the 15,000 mark but are constricted by my crappy stadium.

Quoted from mariner91

my game going as Gainsborough trinity is going well. I'm in my 9th season and i've got them into the Prem. We're struggling but our attendances are doing quite well, they are currently at the 15,000 mark but are constricted by my crappy stadium.

You must have cheated? Surely, not possible without cheating?

Quoted from 75

You must have cheated? Surely, not possible without cheating?

no i didn't cheat. Although i did put when i started that my background was international footballer. That way, you have a better chance of signing somebody decent for your team because they "want to work with you". Also, you can get money as a non-league club by requesting friendlies with Real Madrid B and other teams like that. They are more likely to accept your friendly request, you won't have to pay them any money and you still get lots of revenue from it. So if you are a small club and you have 5 games like that against similar sort of opposition, it really boosts your spending power. Thats how i did it anyway that and spending absolutely ages scouting the players in the games looking for gems who i could buy.

Oh yeah, i also got a training schedule of the internet somewhere that really improved my players.

Quoted from mariner91

no i didn't cheat. Although i did put when i started that my background was international footballer. That way, you have a better chance of signing somebody decent for your team because they "want to work with you". Also, you can get money as a non-league club by requesting friendlies with Real Madrid B and other teams like that. They are more likely to accept your friendly request, you won't have to pay them any money and you still get lots of revenue from it. So if you are a small club and you have 5 games like that against similar sort of opposition, it really boosts your spending power. Thats how i did it anyway that and spending absolutely ages scouting the players in the games looking for gems who i could buy.

Oh yeah, i also got a training schedule of the internet somewhere that really improved my players.

Blimey. Hats off to you. I thought I was a good manager but that is impressive!

Quoted from 75

Blimey. Hats off to you. I thought I was a good manager but that is impressive!

too much time on my hands

Demo already available

http://www.footballmanager.com/

Yep, got the demo from steam.

Need a few players for town though, suggestions? Watkiss reckons Heywood's one of the best defenders in the team

I downloaded the game last night, only got through two friendlies so far! I won 2-1 at Lewes and drew 1-1 at Torquay.

So far i've signed Mustapha Hadji on a free, Barry Hayles on loan from Leicester and signed Micheal Simpson from Burton on a free  

vanilla or strawberry; who got which?

i downloaded the demo but m pc is too excrement to get it to work.   gutted.

Quoted from mariner91

Oh yeah, i also got a training schedule of the internet somewhere that really improved my players.

Pray, tell young Sir.

Quoted from alvinghammariner

i downloaded the demo but m pc is too excrement to get it to work.   gutted.

same, have to wait for my laptop to come back

It worked OK for half hour and then crashed. Now whenever I try loading the game up it says an unexpected error has occurred and needs to close. After reading the SI Games forums it seems hundreds (if not thousands) of people are getting the same problem. Why release a game with so many bugs? Why didn't the beta testers spot all the problems?

Quoted from GG

It worked OK for half hour and then crashed. Now whenever I try loading the game up it says an unexpected error has occurred and needs to close. After reading the SI Games forums it seems hundreds (if not thousands) of people are getting the same problem. Why release a game with so many bugs? Why didn't the beta testers spot all the problems?

They probably have pc's worth thousands of pounds so don't notice problems that normal pc's would get, hope the patch fixes it.

Quoted from GG

It worked OK for half hour and then crashed. Now whenever I try loading the game up it says an unexpected error has occurred and needs to close. After reading the SI Games forums it seems hundreds (if not thousands) of people are getting the same problem. Why release a game with so many bugs? Why didn't the beta testers spot all the problems?

They've said they'll release a patch on launch day because of problems like excessive injuries, slow loading times, crashing etc etc.

Yeah I read that but this patch is only available to download from their web site. What about the thousands who don't have net access?

I don't imagine it's thousands...the chances are if they dont have the internet it's because they have a konked computer and if that's case it's unlikely they'll have the spec to install FM anyway. The errors pre-patch are annoying but they're not too bad.

Quoted from DocDock

Yep, got the demo from steam.

Need a few players for town though, suggestions? Watkiss reckons Heywood's one of the best defenders in the team

I missed out on Hadji! Loan signings mate- Stockdale from Fulham will challenge Barnes for the number 1 jersey. Also signed a quality central midfielder on loan called Collison, constant 7.5 ratings from him. Signed Fleetwood from Charlton too for 4k. Played 5 league games without losing and can't be bothered with it now, takes too long to load the matches.

whats towns budget/debt/expectation etc?

Well i've just gone and booked next Friday off work so i can have a full on weekend of Footy Manager  

The first patch will be released on the same day as the game, so dont worry about the bugs

Quoted from immariner

I missed out on Hadji! Loan signings mate- Stockdale from Fulham will challenge Barnes for the number 1 jersey. Also signed a quality central midfielder on loan called Collison, constant 7.5 ratings from him. Signed Fleetwood from Charlton too for 4k. Played 5 league games without losing and can't be bothered with it now, takes too long to load the matches.

I've signed Collison aswell, the West Ham lad right? He's quality! Also got Staurt Fleetwood, but he got injured. Managed to bring in Shaleum Logan, Calvin Andrew, and some other random premier league youngsters for my midfield. I'm 11th after 16 games.

I'm lucky enough that my laptop can handle all the 3D stuff quite comfortably. Barnes and Bennett are soo fab!

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Oh yeah, i also got a training schedule of the internet somewhere that really improved my players.

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Pray, tell young Sir.

I'm a regular on an FM forum called SortitOutSi. Link here... [url]http://sortitoutsi.net/forum/index.php?act=idx[/url]

If you look through the Tactics section, you will find loads of brilliant tactics, mainly for 08 at the moment, but you will also find that Training schedule, or similar. I use 'TUGS' training and it is by far the best! The forum will become alot busier over the next few weeks with the release of 09, and no doubt people will upload their tactics and share player finds.

You lot should join the forum, would be nice to have a few more mariners posting on there. I'm the only one.  

I signed Fleetwood, Bowditch for nothing and Logan, Collison, Treacy and Sears on loan for the season.

I've had a few downloads from sortitoutsi.

Hey guys some help please if possible. If I make a transfer bid I get a message from my AM telling me the news as leaked out - Is there a way in FM2009 to keep bids secret?

Also during game the AM Feedback will say there is to much space between defence & midfield or midfield and forwards

Any help would be welcome

Cheers UTM

I can't get Calvin Andrews on loan Palace want his wages paid in full but I can only stretch to a grand and a bit

9th season already, you must have alot of time on yor hands

Sorry to hijack this thread but i'm currently playing as Telford in 2017 in the Premier League, not too bad an achievement, eh?

Quoted from DocDock

Sorry to hijack this thread but i'm currently playing as Telford in 2017 in the Premier League, not too bad an achievement, eh?

You go on holiday a lot then. It takes over 24 hours to do a season.

Quoted from GG

You go on holiday a lot then. It takes over 24 hours to do a season.

your not kidding it takes 24 hours to do a saeson

Got a good one for you all to look at Nenad Injac

Currently 5th in the league 1 point off second Shrewsbury are miles ahead, Beaten Barnsley 6-1 in the League Cup but lost to Barrow in the FA Cup.

Barnes
Newey Bennett Heywood Stockdale
Hunt Logan Llewylln or Heggy
Sears Injac Bowdwich or Fleetwood

notice how there are a load of good cheap scandanavians, portugese and romanian players

downloading the demo patch now, hopefully will sort things.   If it does i'll get the game on saturday and catch up lol.

Quoted from alvinghammariner

downloading the demo patch now, hopefully will sort things.   If it does i'll get the game on saturday and catch up lol.

£22.49 from Asda.

is anyone else finding it a pain to download the patch?

took me ten mins for the demo patch, games playing, only problem is i'm losing.

i've just bought the full game. how big is the demo patch, im downloading a 165MB patch, i hope it's the full game patch.

Quoted from GG

You go on holiday a lot then. It takes over 24 hours to do a season.

I put the game on holiday inbtween games. I forgot to add it's 2008 i'm playing not 2009.

Anyone considering buying this its on shoptonet for £19.99 free del.

http://www.shopto.net/page.php?page=dettagli&codart=PCFO10

Quoted from immariner

Pray, tell young Sir.

its called Tugs training and you just put it in google and it'll find a way of downloading it for you. I'm sure he'll have a version for 09 by now.

Just finished my first full season. Took 15 hours and I finished 2nd with Grimsby. Had quite a good team but most of my key men were loan players. I signed Stuart Fleetwood on a free and he scored 30, Chris Dickson scored 10 in few appearances, Fred Seers (Loan) scored 6 in 30. Also Jack Collison I got on loan from West Ham and he scored 7 and grabbed loads of assists. Got Michael Duberry on a free in January and he was alright but Marvin Andrews was my main man at the back. Anyone recommend any league 1 players? Mr Fenty if you ever need a cheap and successful manager, you know where I am  

Quoted from Green27

Anyone considering buying this its on shoptonet for £19.99 free del.

http://www.shopto.net/page.php?page=dettagli&codart=PCFO10

I looked at this, not sure whether or not to use it, I've never heard of it before

Quoted from killingholmemariner

I looked at this, not sure whether or not to use it, I've never heard of it before

Hope it works I bought mine yesterday found it on the advert space on google I'll tell you if I recieve it seems pretty legit so far but we'll see.

Got the game, and the patch and here's my update if anyone cares.
Summer transfers:
Out- Clarke £30K to Cambridge
     - Hunt £20k also to cambridge
In - Sears (loan)
    - Bodwitch for £1k
    - Hadji on a free
    - Oebeng (loan from man city)
    - Hewson (loan from man u)
    - Chester (loan from Man u)
man u are my parent club and i am 9th at the end of november Sears has 10 goals.  

I've used shopto a couple of times. No problems for me. If you preorder games you'll often get them before general release too, which is nice.

Quoted from DocDock

I've used shopto a couple of times. No problems for me. If you preorder games you'll often get them before general release too, which is nice.

Ta mate it sounds a right bargain too.

I've decided to buy it, I dont fancy the whole installing bit though, Hopefully should come wednesday

In 2nd place mid Feb.

Bennett, Newey, & North have been the stars. north has 15 goals in 16 appearances and Taylor has come off the bench to get a few

Signed Fleetwood in the Jan window and he has 3 in 2 so far.

Jude Sterling has provided excellent cover at full back from MKD and Collison from West Ham is decent and Cywka from Wigan on loan is great

i got cywka on loan from wigan, been a good player for me, although my star man has been adnan ahmed from tranmere

Quoted from dunc90

i got cywka on loan from wigan, been a good player for me, although my star man has been adnan ahmed from tranmere

Also got Cywka, has the occasional off game (then again who doesn't) but creates lots of chances, and even scores the odd wonder-goal himself.

How is everyone doing?

Signed;
Fleetwood 2.4k
Broughton 1k
Rashid yussuf loan
adam clayton loan
javan vidal loan

Sold
Clarke to york 24k
till to dag&red 6k+clauses

North scored 1 in 4
fleetwoods been poor 1 in 8
Broughtons scored 3 in 4
Hopes been poor
Heywoods been unfit
I've won 1,drawn2, lost 5 scored 6 conceded 11 in the league and im 18th

Was just going to tell you Killingholme mine came today see you all in six months

yeah mine came yesterday, Which is strange considering you ordered yours first

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Oh my  

You've got a message from Hollie itsnotcoditshaddock  

Only 4020 for a Lincs Derby?

After finishing 2nd in my first season I've started ok in League One.

Additions include Steve Kabba, Lewis Emanuel, Charlie Daniels & Michael Duberry on frees and 2 season long loans (Labadie  from West Brom & Bridcutt from Chelsea).

Quoted from LH

Only 4020 for a Lincs Derby?

It was only a paint pot 2nd round match.

Does anybody else use a Mac to play this game I just downloaded Tugs training but I cant find it in the folder I places it when I went to add it, is it not compatible  

i feel really left out cause it seems i'm the only person still playing on 08 but i don't want to finish the game i've got going cause i'm doing so well!

Does anyone know where i can get decent premier league logos?

Quoted from killingholmemariner

Does anyone know where i can get decent premier league logos?

I didn't know you could put the logos for the premier league on the game? How do you do it??

You want to look here for Premier League logos... [url]http://sortitoutsi.net/2009/graphics/downloads/273/MD´09%20-%20Premier%20League[/url]

When you've downloaded them you'll need to extraxt the files inside the zip (with either WinZip or WinRar) and then put all the files into a folder called 'graphics'

The 'graphics' folder should be located in 'My Docs ---> Sports Interactive ---> Football Manager 2009.

If there's no graphics folder, simply create one and put all logos in there. Then when you load up the game, go to preferences, display and sound, and untick 'use skin cache' and reload your skin. Fire your game up and the logos should be there.

Hope that makes sense.

Anybody know how to make 2009 in "windowed" mode?

Load your game up. Go to Options ---> Preferences ---> Display and Sound. And the select the 'windowed' option from a drop down list of screen sizes.  

I just won League Two on goal difference from Bradford both on 86 points.

Barnes
Stockdale  Bennett  Heywood  Newey
Logan    Collison  Hunt   Y Bugsdsaewdsfdsf (Some bloke from spurs)
  Sears   Injac

ST/ Fleetwood and Bowdwitch all played regularly too

Right as you can tell I just got promotoed to League One and I need some Bargain buys any suggestion

robbie fowler?

Quoted from lincolnsmariner

robbie fowler?

Wasn't interersted in coming to town on my game.

Struggling in league one now, get most of the possestion but alway concede on the break just before half time and i cant score!

Quoted from alvinghammariner

Wasn't interersted in coming to town on my game.

Struggling in league one now, get most of the possestion but alway concede on the break just before half time and i cant score!

sound fimilar....all ways say that game represents a true version of the real game.

i got Kalala and Jason Euell on free transfers and they're doing quite well and Charlie MacDonald scoring alot for me.

Erton F..... swedish cant spell his last name

Finished my first season with Town, 6th in the league, made the Northern Final of the JPT (lost over 2 legs to Carlisle). Now I'm in the playoffs and I've got Bradford.

I'll be playing it later, hopefully I'll have some good news.

End of February in my second season. currently 2nd in league one 11 points behind a rampant Millwall 5 ahead of Coventry getting tense now and if I can catch Millwall I have them on the last day of the season.

Quoted from Green27

End of February in my second season. currently 2nd in league one 11 points behind a rampant Millwall 5 ahead of Coventry getting tense now and if I can catch Millwall I have them on the last day of the season.

Who's in your team?

November of my second season, 20th in league one and finding league one difficult.

                     Barnes
Stockdale Bennet Fowjut Beriche(L Spurs)

Logan(L) Livermore (L) Bridcutt (L) Milsom (L)

             Injac Church

Subs
Eley
Andy Todd
Christohpe
Fleetwood
Nsue

i can't wait to get this game after my jan exams

Finished 6th in my first season, yet to play the Play-Offs.

Haven't made many changes to the squad. Should of released a lot more though, seeing as my wage difference is -£700 lol.

                       P Barnes
R Stockdale  M Heywood  R Bennett  T Newey
              J O'Keefe(L)   J Clarke    
P Till                                         D Meenan
           D Cadamerteri   D Bowditch

Frequent subs / alternate starters:
G Montgomery
R Hope
J Smith
D Boshell
C Llewellyn
S Fleetwood
L Guy (L) - Doncaster Rovers (Parent Club)

Loanees:
T Cywka  - Wigan. Plays a good ball, finished loan with 89% completed passes record.
J Collison - Erm, West Ham? Got injured early, no comments.
J O'keefe - Blackburn. Often gets MOM. Consistent, and is happy to come. Recommended loanee.
L Guy - Doncaster, sent him here for the season. He's fast but can barely score.
Had another one, played left wing. From Wigan, name is gone completely. He was awesome though.

Out:
N Jarman
P Bore
N Hegarty
D North (Loaned)
A Taylor (Loaned)
M Bird (Loaned)
G Normington (Loaned)

Made it to the Championship in second with three games spare started a couple of games beating Derby and losing to Stoke and Palarse and bought in 15 new players! So will take them time to blend in.

In my fourth season now and Grimsby are in the Premier League beating Middlesborough in the Play offs any one got this far known any signings they could suggest.

always send a scout to portugal and scandinavia. there very good and always dirt cheap

third season and i'm in league one, a billionaire has just bought the club so i can't wait for the summer. Got a gem of a youth player, he's 17 and top scorer in league 1 so will cash in on him in a couple of years.

Quoted from alvinghammariner

third season and i'm in league one, a billionaire has just bought the club so i can't wait for the summer. Got a gem of a youth player, he's 17 and top scorer in league 1 so will cash in on him in a couple of years.

Why has no billionaire bought us not fair! whos this gem of a player?

Mascio is awesome just cant afford the £4 mil thy want for him  

Quoted from alvinghammariner

third season and i'm in league one, a billionaire has just bought the club so i can't wait for the summer. Got a gem of a youth player, he's 17 and top scorer in league 1 so will cash in on him in a couple of years.

how'd you get somebody to buy the club? is that just a random event that sometimes happens?

Why don't you look in the editor for young players with high potential ability number and who plays for a excrement team. It might not help you straight away but should be good in the long run.

it was out of the blue, some Belgian Billionaire bought the club. My gem is a striker called Kevin Harper, from the under 18's.