CM2001/02 Dream team

NeilInFrance

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I know it is boring to share your Championship Manager exploits, but I was so happy about finding the last piece of my jigwaw, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink I thought the only chance of finding someone remotely interested was on here.
Im on CM2001/02 and took over Boro in 2001 with the policy of only signing players who really did play for the Boro at some point.
Dimi is backup keeper.

Top of my shopping list are Mendieta (but he won't come and is now too expensive) and Rochembach who is rotting in Barcelona reserves (but can't get a work permit)
Downing doesn't exist in this universe.
 

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Have you signed Tu Madeira? Never played for Boro, granted, but he never played for anyone in real life, so I guess that's okay? Thank me later ⚽
 
No, Tu Madeira would be against my rules! Although there are some players like Taribo West or Nicolas Anelka that I sometimes think really played for us because I ve had them play for Boro in CM.
 
I remember vastly disliking everything Jermaine Defoe did in real life because in champ man he wouldn't sign a new contract and signed for Liverpool! 😄Best game ever.
 
God I loved that game, and it’s not boring to share your team at all!

Mark Kerr, Eldar Hadzmedivoch, Jonas Lunden, Cherno Samba, some absolute legends there.

What are you playing it on? I tried downloading it recently but the mouse sensitivity when trying to change transfers and contracts made it unplayable.
 
Kim Kallstrom, Billy Jones, Paul Robinson, Kennedy Bakircioglu, Tonton Zola Makouko, Mark Van Bommel, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Stephan Selakovic, Isaac Okoronkwo, Cherno Samba.

Wasted so much time on this game when I was at Uni
 
Tonton Mokouko was also immense in the FA Premier Manager series, as was Kennedy Bakirgioglu. Kim Kållstrom decent but not as good as on CM
 
took a computer home from work one Friday eve to load & play it... several cat naps over the weekend realised it was 05:30 on Monday morning & called in sick at 08:00... apparently I sounded awful, slept Monday & back in early on the Tues.... cracking game.
 
You can download current squads on the CM forum website. I’ve taken Middlesbrough to the Premier League title 10 times in a row.

Pro-tip: Benjamin Sesko.
 
This was by far my favourite game. I stuck with this version until about FM 2006 when it started to feel far too simple compared to the new games.

My favourite game on it was one with Crystal Palace where I took them from the bottom of Div 1 to winning the Champions League. I remember rushing home during my GCSE's to play my games on it. I remember having two regens about 10/15 years into the game who just dominated every single game, a French AMC and an Italian Am/F R/L/C. I'm sure the French player was Zidane and I think the Italian one was Totti.

I remember whenever. I started games with Middlesbrough it would always be a rush to sign the Swedish players Ibrabimovic, Kallstrom, Bakerlogu and Barsom before them becoming too expensive. Then trying to find the regens of Gazza and Waddle as soon as they came through. If you had those 6 players with a narrow formation, you were pretty much guaranteed to win everything.

I don't think I could go back to this version of the game now. The tactics engine of the game had too many exploits. But I miss the perfrct mix of simplicity and depth of CM01/02, the new versions of the game are far too complex and take far too long to play.
 
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