Football Manager 2005

Super Performance
When you are about to play a rival team or a team near the top of your league, their manager should say something about your team. If they do, respond to the comment by saying that you will beat them or if you are top of the league and they have said you will not win say that you will definately win the title. Some of your players should now have PR next to their name. Click on it and if it says determined to prove rival manager wrong or another good thing you should play them, but if it says worried whether the team can win then do not play them. The players that have good PR's (player response should play good in the match).h
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Good Players

• Robinho.
• Raul.
• Damien Duff.
• Joseph Yobo (let him play for Everton for one season).
• Christiano Ronaldo.
• Dejan Stankovic (buy him straight away or his team won't sell him).
• Coloccini (gets better with experience).
• Jorge Andrade.
• Maarten Stekelenburg (good young goalkeeper).

Best Young Player
Freddy Adu from D.C. United.
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Great Strikers
If you can, sign the following strikers, they are ace:

• Thierry Henry (Arsenal).
• Ruud van Nistelrooy (Manchester United).
• Darren Huckerby (Norwich City).

Good Players
Try getting:

• Vanden Borre: 1.7M release fee (I think), young, and plays on lot of positions.
• Petter Vagaan Moen: Can buy him for about 800K, one of the best young midfielders in the game.
• Daniel Fredheim Holm: Can obtain him for like 1.7M - he's a fast attacker with an excellent dribbling ability.
• Trond Olsen: Cheap, I think he's got 20's in Pace and Acceleration, attacker that gets better every season.
• De La Cuesta: Cadiz defender known from earlier managers, he's great althought his numbers aren't the best.
• Cesare Natali: From Atalanta - not very cheap, can buy him for 6-7M, his numbers aren't too good either, but he's maybe the best defender in the game, and he also scores a lot with his head.
• Fred: Brasilian striker, he scores like 2 goals per game!

Great Players

• Freddy Adu
• Kieran Richardson
• Carlos Tevez
• Robinho
• Adriano
• Steven Pienaar
• D`Alessandro
• Sanli Tuncay
• Diego
• Daniele Bonera
• Nigel De`Jong
• Dédé
• Ricardo Carvalho
• Cristiano Ronaldo
• Miguel

Get the best goalie for free
If you want to get the best goalie for free, and just sign him a contract, search for "Dida" for "AC Milan". His contract is not protected, so you don't have to offer any money for him!
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Good Cheap Players

• Labinot Harbuzi - 12K Swedish attacking mid.
• Daniel Fredheim Holm - 1M Norwegian forward.
• Freddy Adu - 550K USA forward.
• Freddy Guarin - 1.2M Columbian defensive mid.
• Iain Turner - 800K Scottish GK @ everton.
• Lebohang Mokoena - 100K-800K - AM/F South African.
• Mike Zonneveld - 1.2M LB solid.
• Van Bommell - 2nd season free transfer - wait till late to get him maybe around august or he wont come.
• Bogarde - LB free transfer 1st season - class.
• Kasper Schmeical - 550K turns into his old man.
• McFadden - 4M awesome dribbler and a constant 8.
• Pearson - 3M Celtic AM LCR class player.

Subs
If you are losing in a match or not sure that you can keep the lead or want to take the lead then wait until the 65th minute and click on team tactics. Then bring of your most tired striker your most tired winger. Then bring on a fast winger and an experienced striker or one with good finishing and you should score a goal.
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Football Manager 2005 game description:

Football Manager 2005 will feature teams from 158 divisions in 51 countries. With the inclusion of reserve and youth teams, the number of league teams available to players of the game exceeds 5,000, while the international teams (with the senior squads augmented by their under-19, under-21 and under-23 counterparts) brings the total to 5,300.

FM 2005's scope easily exceeds that of Sports Interactive's previous most comprehensive football management game, which showcased teams from 42 nations. FM 2005 includes leagues from a number of countries which have not featured in Sports Interactive's previous titles, including Belarus, Bulgaria, Chile, Iceland, Malaysia, Peru, Romania, Slovenia and Uruguay.

Developer: Sports Interactive.

Publisher: Sega.

European release date: 5th November 2004.

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