Anybody have any bargains/unknowns that are worth purchasing for as little
as possible in FM2005 5.05 patch ?
My Man Utd team has successfully mixed selling crap <Kleberson,Djemba
Djemba,Bellion etc> with buying bargains and reasonably big name players and

Chelsea and Derby are history and now I must build something with the  
Rovers...
The transfer budget is restricted to miserable £1,3M, wage budget is over  
already.

Is football manager 2005 developed by the same team who developed the
cm1,2,3....0/04 etc series  and Championship manager 2005 just uses the
name but was developed by different people?
Apologies if this a dumb question.I brought championship manager 5 and

Is 5.0.5 the leatest patch in fm 2005?
Thank you!

is there a limit to favoured personal at a club?
also has anyone actually ever had their appear at favoured personel for a
club? i have had it for a few players but not for a club, is it possible?
and if their is a maximum number of favoured personel what is it if anyone

Humpty Dumpty wet himself on the wall. Humpty Dumpty had a big bawl. All the King's whores and
all the Queen's men pinched their noses and ran away.

Does anyone know why when FM picks the team of the week that some
players are picked out of position?
It has been bugging me for a while! For example, just now my ACM was
picked to play in the RM position and 2 of my defenders were picked in

I don't know if this is common knowledge but I was pleasantly surprised to
get a message saying that Phil Neal (54 years old!) is retiring at the end
of the season while managing Leyton orient. I looked at the club he was
playing for the "Soccer AM Badgers" and found the staff at ...

Is there a way to get an old player to become a coach?  I have tried
everything but to no avail.

Is there anything like Nero (where you can just drag and drop *.avi or
*.mpeg files directly into a disk) that work for Burning DVD movies?
i.e. A prog that i can just point 2 avi's at, and they'll burn and be
watchable on a dvd player?

Nice to see the Press in FM as clued up as their real life counterparts.
I signed one Jose Luis Sierra on a free at St Pauli and in 14 games he's
scored 16 goals, got 8 MoMs and has an average rating of 8.86.
Probably for the sole reason that he's 36, the Press have just released

I`m watching the "old" goalkeeper Kasey Keller at the moment, in the
Mexico - Usa game. 80 minutes now (yes, I know the game was
yesterday...), and Keller has had some amazing saves. What a goalie!! I
can\t believe he`s the reserve at some german team.

ne1 having free news server that carries agcm, as mine goes $$

Well as you know, I've started with Chelsea a non edited game.
After 34 games was at 3rd spot 12 points behind Manchester United.
I'm no Mourinho. :-)
Even after have won the Carling Cup, fans and board were very unsatisfied  

Liverpool have signed a new centre forward from Kabul United FC.
Apparently on his first day at training, Houllier picked up a ball and said:
"Ball." Then he pointed at the goal and said: "Goal." Then he demonstrated a
kicking motion and said: "Kick. Understand? Kick, ball, goal.