Member Success Stories: Had Success in the Transfer Market?

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• 1. Josh  |  July 7th, 2008 at 4:20 pm

  I signed gonul gokhan for 30k when rated 73 and sold him soon after for 6m after his rating change of +13 which propelled him up to 86

• 2. Wayne Rooney Stole My Lunchbox  |  July 7th, 2008 at 4:21 pm

  i bought eduardo da silva and luka modric for dinamo moscow when they were both rated 89

• 3. CEG  |  July 7th, 2008 at 4:24 pm

  I am a fan of all the football leagues but in particular I love the Brazilian league and especially Internacional…

  Now one day I saw that Pato had been added to the database and I obviously knew about him from keeping up to date with the news from Internacional. I bought him for my Udinese side. Now he is an 89 rated striker with AC Milan and has a very promising future!

  This is more luck than being able to scout talent, but I though I’d include it! Thanks CEG

• 4. jonny  |  July 7th, 2008 at 4:28 pm

  i bought eto for my middlesborugh team in a english league i was 20th in th division with 10 games left so i imeedatley bought 2 96 strikers within 5 game si was lifted out of the relagation zone i had to make a desision sell ibrahimovis or sell eto i concuded and sold ibrahimovic then picking p digard and some other youth talent

• 5. Garrett  |  July 7th, 2008 at 4:30 pm

  Here’s some of the ones I’ve pulled off.

  - Pulling then 75 rated Artem Kravats off the new players role. Now an 18 year old 83 rated forward.

  - Getting then 75 rated Ignacio Camacho Barnola off the new players role. Now 18 years old and 80 rated.

  -Buying Siem de Jong as an 83 rated free agent after he was released.

• 6. Wayne Rooney Stole My Lunchbox  |  July 7th, 2008 at 4:32 pm

  Benzema made his debut for my river plate team when he was rated 87 and now he is rated 93 and scoring lots of goals

• 7. Ben Read (forum)  |  July 7th, 2008 at 4:34 pm

  There are loads of players who make big rises all the time and being a scout on the forum I know who most of the big risers will be. The hard bit is managing to persuade the managers that they aren’t as good as they are. Here are a few of the better ones I have picked up.

  Pjanic for 10K was a great signing. He is now rated 85 and has made a big move to Lyon. He is Ben Arfa’s replacement so should get a decent amount of playing time. I think within a couple of seasons he has the potential to break the 90’s barrier.

  Gonul Gokhan. He was bound to come up sooner or later. I snapped him up for a cool 10K when i was new to the game, and it has payed off as he is now rated 88.

  Finally, I’d say Jonathan URRETAVISCAYA. The latest of the players mentioned, picked him up for 10K after seeing a thread on the forum and he is now rated 84. The best thing is he is now at Benfica, so I’d expect if he can manage to still get games and score as many as he was in Colombia he will continue to rise.

  I was also happy with Hugo and wellington from Brazil who I picked up in GC13 for a few hundred K. I sent a ticket to get them risen from 74->78 and then more recently they have been risen from 78->82/83. And they will also continue to rise.

  My Current tip is an 18 year old from Croatia called Duje Cop. If you want to find out more about him please read my forum thread

  http://www.soccermanager.com/forum/showthread.php?t=24822

  P.S. I was also happy to sign Diego Capel for cash in GC10 when he was rated 83. Now he’s rated 89 and a key player for Sevilla (Possibly Spurs next season).

• 8. jake  |  July 7th, 2008 at 4:59 pm

  i brought Viniciu Breno when he was 18 80for 5m now hes 18, 88 and my chairmans value is over 10m and he now plays for Bayern Munchen

• 9. Johan Cruyff  |  July 7th, 2008 at 5:04 pm

  I also bought camacho75-80 and urretaviscaya71-84. Wesley73-83 wellington78-83 monzon75-82 mauricho75-82 cristaldo70-80

• 10. Johan Cruyff  |  July 7th, 2008 at 5:11 pm

  Cano70-80lueando70-80 arraya70-80 tobio73-80. Renan 72 GK in brazil should also increase

• 11. Paul Thame  |  July 7th, 2008 at 5:49 pm

  Sammir of Dinamo Zagreb

  Was 72 when I first signed him and now he’s rated 86

• 12. Romanian MIR  |  July 7th, 2008 at 7:40 pm

  I bought Benzema when he was rated 89 and I paid Carew + 2 M
  I bought Nasri when the rule with chairman value wasn’t avaible and I paid only 15 M , now he is worth 50-60 M in my league
  I bought M.Diarra for 4-5 M + 2 players when he was rated 93 and recently I got 90 M for him

• 13. ?!  |  July 7th, 2008 at 9:44 pm

  i got a guy called holland when he was 17 and 66 rating but at the recent australian rating change he jumped up 11 to now 77 rating

• 14. gAv GaV  |  July 7th, 2008 at 10:42 pm

  diego buonanotte was rated 80 when i bought him for around 3million and now hes 87 and i sold him for 15million. i also remember along time ago when i bought carlos vela and giovani dos santos when they were rated 75/78 around that mark and now they are both 87s.

• 15. AKA AKon  |  July 7th, 2008 at 10:59 pm

  I signed both Giovani Dos Santos and Bojan separately. Dos Santos when he was rated 82 for £2.8m and I’ve sold him for £15. I picked up Bojan as a part exchange deal after he was used as part exchange to sign a big name player. He is now worth about £13m (Sm value) but way much more technically.
  And the good thing is they were are both banging in goals for me whoch always helps of course

• 16. ?  |  July 7th, 2008 at 10:59 pm

  i bought adebayor 4 10mil wen he was 89 now 92,
  bently for 12mil wen he was 89 now 91,
  miguel veloso for 8mil wen he was 88 now 91,
  ben arfa for 7 mil wen he was 87 now 89 and sold him for 21mil and 2 90 rated players.

• 17. eddie sarmento  |  July 8th, 2008 at 2:35 am

  the 20 year old paraguyan international marcelo estigarriba and jonathan urretaviscaya have been my best buys so far.

• 18. DJ  |  July 8th, 2008 at 3:28 am

  way too many young talents signed for cheap to list. Youth squad worth over 150mil in which I probably spent no more than 25mil to acquire.

• 19. Stephen O' Callaghan  |  July 8th, 2008 at 5:28 am

  Bojan for 1.8m as a free agent, chairman value now over 13m. Vinicius Breno for 1.9m as a free agent, chairman value now over 10m. Joe Hart for 1m, now worth over 8m. Also Mario Balotelli for 75k who is tipped to be a future star.

• 20. R.B.C  |  July 8th, 2008 at 5:40 am

  I bought Buonotte for 250k and now he’s worth 7ish mill

• 21. REAL MADRID- RAUL-VAN NISTERLOOY-ROBINHO  |  July 8th, 2008 at 8:04 am

  BALOTELLI - I bought him for 75k and sold him for 12 milion
  KRKIC - I bought him for 1milion and now I recieved offer worth 30 milions

• 22. danny stilwell  |  July 8th, 2008 at 3:37 pm

  I bought Colin Kazim Kazim for 3million and just after Euro 2008 I sold him for 13million

• 23. Oliver  |  July 8th, 2008 at 4:04 pm

  have picked up two Marcelo’s who are 23 and 25, and are both around 88 rated, i think they have a good futue ahead, maybe 90-93?

• 24. viraat  |  July 8th, 2008 at 4:13 pm

  i bought martin galvan, for 10K, hes only 15 years old but rated @ 71
  ive also got ivan bolado 19 - 85, i paid 9 million, but i could double that in no time IF i sell him…

  jose maria callejon 21 - 72 (i know thats low, but he broke into the real madrid team and all that and is going to rise a hell lot for sure), i got him for 50K, and by next season i could get over 5 million if he rises as expected

  cesae villaluz 19 - 88 (hes jumped 4, and hopefully a bit more soon) i got him for 1 million + manuel ferandes (he was a flop, used to be 89 for 3 seasons then droped to 88, had enough and traded him)

  i expect all these guys to rise a lot if not little, so if its a lot ill keep otherwise ill sell and still make a tidy sum!

• 25. viraat  |  July 8th, 2008 at 4:25 pm

  i forgot about the rest of the guys actually,

  i released this player once upon a time cause he was only a 84 rated and no1 was buying him, later when i came across him he was a 90 rated player and he was a free agent! talk about luck. the guy was fabrizio miccoi

  i bought van der vaart for about 10 million while he was a 90 or 91, now hes 94 and valued by sm at 10.2 million..

  also, anton grigoriev he was a 82 rated and i paid 2 million, now hes 85 and bound to go up if the forums around here r correct, mind u hes 22 at the moment

  oh yeah and marcos senna paid around 5 million when he was 90, now hes 93 and hes gonna rise esp after euro 08!

• 26. boroknight  |  July 8th, 2008 at 4:33 pm

  well i joined SM purely out of boredome 3 months back and took over tottenham in english championship 167, little did i know i was steeped in relegation with 6 games to go
  Didnt change my squad (coz noone would sell me their star players …baaah) and then a boy by the name of arshavin came to the party and pulled me out .
  I still dont know the score of the last match against crystal palace coz i was out of town for work but i was elated to find myself still in the first division.

  i just bought giovinco and sold guti and mr. giovinco just scored a magnificent hattrick against arsenal.

  what a trip

• 27. Andres  |  July 8th, 2008 at 6:52 pm

  I bought aguero when he was like 90 or 89 I cant remember for 15 million
  Now theyre offering me 55 million for him

• 28. Zumran Zahid  |  July 8th, 2008 at 7:25 pm

  I bought Gabriel Torje when he was 18 and rated 83 for 3.8 mill
  then i sold him for 7.3 million to Real Madrid when he went up by 2 ratings he is now 18 yrs and rated 85
  im gonna try and buy him back again.

• 29. zumy  |  July 8th, 2008 at 7:39 pm

  by best transfer deal one to go in the books for a long time was:
  Pablo PIATTI i bought him from estudiantes for a cash plus player deal at that time he was rated 84 or 85 and 18 yrs old so i offered the manager 2 million and a old player (the old player was 28 and 85 and had gone down by 2 ratings) the manager of the other team said to me ” hi Zumran, i dont know why you are buying my piatti for a lot of money he is only worth 4 mill and ur giving me 3 million and a player of 85, well if thats wat you want have him then” little did the manager of estudiantes know that piatti was going to go up to 88 before even turning 19. PIATTI is now 88 and 18 yrs worth 7.2 m 1 manager offered me 22 million for him i sed NO bcoz this player is one talented kid in the making,
  So if you are looking for a young 18yr old AM/F i would recommend PIATTI bcoz when the argentine changes come he is definently on his way into the 90’s
  (sorry this is toooooooo long)

• 30. Rob (athletico Madrid)  |  July 9th, 2008 at 10:01 am

  Micheal Johnson - 74- 87
  Richards 84- 90
  Aguero 88- 93
  Gunter 74 - 84
  loads of Good young guns

• 31. manu  |  July 9th, 2008 at 11:39 am

  I swapped hernan crespo and 19mill for torres
  Torres 92-95
  Crespo 94-92

• 32. Guilherme Neiva  |  July 9th, 2008 at 11:40 am

  Well, this story is not from me, but from the older manager of my club. A month or so ago I managed to catch a free Barcelona. Apparently he also shared my vision of having good young players in the club and his youth squad had no more than 35 players! I took a look at them and some were excellent signings.
  - Bruno Dentinho - He bought him as a free agent for 100k he is now worth 3,5 Million
  - Jorge Hernandez - Also a free agent. He cost 150k and is now worth 4,1 Million
  I have a lot more that are still 70 but will rise in the near future. Since my arrival at the club I´ve done several good acquisitions like Pato for 14 Million, Cardaccio for 4 Million and Alex Teixeira for 100k and his rating got up 4 last week, he is now worth 500k. But the best signing of all was Azpilicueta. The old manager bought him for 10k and sold him for 7.1 Million. A hell of a profit. I don´t have the less idea who he was, but thanks anyway!!

• 33. Footballmanager  |  July 9th, 2008 at 12:55 pm

  i brought Keita for peanuts.
  i brought thiago neves when he was a 85 rating. now 90.
  i brought Maxi Rodriguez with a trade deal. Cacau and and someone else.
  i had the best ingame strikers in the world. Boyd, Dennis, Delgado, Del Piero, Suazo. my team was unbeatable.

• 34. ^_^  |  July 10th, 2008 at 4:22 am

  Asenjo on a free! Rated at 85, but expected to rise soon, since he’s
  only 18,but already Valladolid’s 1st team keeper!

• 35. marco  |  July 10th, 2008 at 5:25 pm

  I bought Sergio Ramos for 10 million when he was rated 92, now he is 95 and chairman value is 40 Million

• 36. Musty  |  July 10th, 2008 at 8:11 pm

  i bought adebayor and flamini for 11m each wen they were 89 and 90 now theyre chairmans value is over 18m and i bought bojan for £1.8m cant remeba wat his ratin was but it was in high sixties to the low seventies i think and cristiano ronaldo wen he was 96 for £55m…

• 37. Sheepy5  |  July 11th, 2008 at 6:36 pm

  I picked up Seyouta Keita for something in the range of £7 to £12 million and with a rating of 87. Now his worth £12 million* and with a rating of 92

  *i rate him at £30 million

• 38. jack morss  |  July 12th, 2008 at 10:58 pm

  my best signing has got to be fernando forestieri bought for 1million exactly and within one week of signin him his rating went from 77 to 82. apart from that i would suggest that you try and sign thiago neves or search the real life clubs and look at every club in the country that is being reviewedand shortlist al the young/good players, it helps trust me i done that and with a struggling bayern munchen 16th in the leage 23 points behind 1st and half way through the season i ended up winning the league 6 points ahead of 2nd.trust me and try it

• 39. Wilson Gay  |  July 21st, 2008 at 7:58 am

  This are some players that I think will raise their ratings in a few years:

  Seb Hines (74 rating & 20 years old)
  Liam Bridcutt(74 rating & 19 years old)
  Matias Vidangossy(83 rating & 21 years old)
  Michael Coulson(75 rating & 20 years old)
  Dan Gosling(80 rating & 18 years old)
  Francisco Merida(78 raitng & 18 years old)
  Kieran Gibbs(76 rating & 18 years old)
  Grant Basey(77 rating & 19 years old)

  Hope all of you have good luck in the transfer market!

• 40. sandeep  |  July 23rd, 2008 at 2:16 am

  i have a bayern munich team in the 5th season now.i gotta admit my best buy has been banega for 80k when he was first in the new players list (might have got him from a club but cant rmember) a while after his rating shot up to around 86 and then to 88 and then milan bought him off me for 15million. profit of around £14.9 so pretty good.

  also i negotated a deal for quaresma for the same bayern munich team with the porto manager. the deal was 5 million plus sebastian diesler (cant memba his rating was around 91/92ish) when quaresma was still a 91 rating. few weeks after the deal it turned out that sebastian diesler was retiring from football altogether so queresma as a 91 rating for 5 million. bargain!!!

• 41. max  |  July 29th, 2008 at 4:28 pm

  i wanted messi wen he was rated 92 i think yh and barce lona wanted henry so he made a bid to me of 18m and messi for henry now who you think got the better deal no wi got the best striker on the game lol

• 42. Matteo  |  August 2nd, 2008 at 5:27 pm

  I bought Adriano Henrique -81- when he was playing for Santos, now Barcelona bought him for 10M.

  I bought Andrè Ayew for 1.1M, now SM value is 3.3M.

  I bought Hugo Lloris for 5.0M, now SM value is 8.2M. He’s 20 year old GK rated 90.

• 43. Cняiѕ  |  August 6th, 2008 at 10:40 pm

  These are the players which increased in their rating in my Lyon team…

  Fernando Gago ………. [ 90 -> 91 ] { Absolutely not for sale }

  Francisco Merida ……. [ 75 -> 78 ] { I’ll keep him as he’s an Arsenal youngster… for me they are the best in growing young players… }

  Alberto Paloschi ……… [ 75 -> 80 ] { I’ll keep him as I see him the next full-of-luck Inzaghi lol }

  Martin Bravo …………… [ 77 -> 86 ] { To make profit }

  Sebastian Rajalakso … [ 70 -> 80 ] { To make profit }

  Anthony Annan ………. [ 74 -> 84 ] { I don’ know yet as Blackburn just bought him… but probably I’ll sell him the double of his chairman value and buy another better young player…}

  Those are the players which increased in my team at the moment… I’m sure I’ll have many others as I have many promising young players… practically, my whole team is under-23, except one of my favourites… Schweinsteiger* [24] =]

• 44. jack morss  |  August 7th, 2008 at 11:16 am

  i buy theyoung players i have the only two 15 year olds inthe game martin galvan and diego orlando suarez(or something like that . he plays for dynamo kyiv)

• 45. david  |  August 9th, 2008 at 4:53 pm

  ive just bought parejo for 10k he scored for real madrid the other day rated 70 sure to rise

• 46. tom ricicles  |  September 8th, 2008 at 8:46 pm

  i brought kasper schmecal for 450k when he was 18 and a 75 and had no idea he would start the first 15 games for city last year. i then sold him for 7 mil when he was 86.

  i brought john arne riise for 2 miil before the chairman value and sold him for 24 mil.

  i brought daniel agger for 1 mil before the chairmans value and he rose from 90 to 91. but then i sold him for 22 mil and then he was out for 1 and a bit years and he went to 89

• 47. Steve Leketson  |  October 2nd, 2008 at 3:49 pm

  i brought aguerro for 15Mills.
  brought daniel alves for another 15M
  brought bojan for 5m from barcelona squad.
  i am playing a 3-5-2 formation.

  Martins — Huntelaar

  Guardado Lucho Zapater Marin Quaresma

  Givet Mexes Richards

  Buffon

  yes that is my squad.

• 48. meis  |  October 21st, 2008 at 9:55 am

  i grab sagna when he is 87 or 88

• 49. Abz  |  October 21st, 2008 at 6:48 pm

  Luís Santo DIOGO has had his rating increased to Rating Increase 87

  17 October
  Dimitris CHRISTOFI has had his rating increased to Rating Increase 83

  Yildirim SERCAN has had his rating increased to Rating Increase 83

  14 October
  Chris GUNTER has had his rating increased to Rating Increase 85

  13 October
  Leeds United win 2 - 1 against Southampton

  11 October
  Daniel STURRIDGE has had his rating increased to Rating Increase 83

  Armand TRAORE has had his rating increased to Rating Increase 85

  Pereira Neves DENILSON has had his rating increased to Rating Increase 88

  Pereira Da Silva RAFAEL has had his rating increased to Rating Increase 77

  9 October
  Fabian DELPH has had his rating increased to Rating Increase 75

  8 October
  Victor MOSES has had his rating increased to Rating Increase 80

  23 September
  Modibo MAIGA has had his rating increased to Rating Increase 84

  Mahamane TRAORÉ has had his rating increased to Rating Increase 80

  Yoann GOURCUFF has had his rating increased to Rating Increase 89

  Anthony MOUNIER has had his rating increased to Rating Increase 77

  Miralem PJANIC has had his rating increased to Rating Increase 87

  10 September
  Adriano Buss HENRIQUE has had his rating increased to Rating Increase 86

  Happy days

• 50. Vladan  |  November 13th, 2008 at 7:57 am

  I bought Alan Dzagoev when he was rated 75 now he had a rating change to 87 Cha Ching lol

  I laso have bought Aleksandr Prudnikov when he was rated 82 now he has had a rating change to 85 thats decent still good not alot of players get 3+ rating change.

• 51. Dean RIchardson  |  November 14th, 2008 at 4:42 pm

  I managed to buy Eto’o [96], Marquez [93] and Alex [92] (the defender) for only 80million. I was Borrussia Sortmund when they were bottom of the third division in a created setup. I went on to win the league and I am now 4th in the 2nd division.

• 52. pat  |  November 19th, 2008 at 1:17 pm

  i managed a celtic team who when i took over they had david beckham rated then 90 and i sold him for 9 mil and bought two younger players for 9 mil combined (1)alexandre pato then rated 85 for 5 mil now rated 90 (2) miralem pjanic then rated 83 for 4 mil now rated 87.

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