Football Manager 2007 7.0.2 patch

SI Games has released the version 7.0.2 patch for the popular Football Manager 2007. This patch is saved game compatible as written on the SI website.

This is a brief change log of this patch.

General

– Fixed bug where Australian youth player was being given English nationality only and thus not being eligible to play as he had no work permit.
– Fixed bug with player fines not getting processed properly at various times in the season.
– Fixed bug where lots of virtual players were added for a team.
– Fixed future human manager transfer bug – some data wasn’t being updated properly in some situations.
– Fixed humans being offered countless players by German and Spanish teams in particular
– Fixed bug when training and youth facilities are upgraded simultaneously, only training facilities would actually upgrade.
– Fixed bug where teams who have already accepted friendlies for a tour accept again when a replacement team is picked.
– Fixed bug where sometimes fixtures would be played at the old stadium when a team moves to a new stadium.
– Fixed stadium expansion bug where seats were sometimes being added immediately after the expansion is announced.
– Fixed bug where national team managers were not sent news sometimes about players being injured when playing for the national team.
– Fixed bug where blank entries were shown in players history when they had not made any appearances.
– Confederations Cup now takes place in host country of next World Cup.
– International friendly instructions now cleared down after matches.
– When scout assignments are removed, the user can now re-assign to the same nation/region without having to leave the screen and come back.
– Fixed a crash in a scout report news item.
– Fixed a crash which would sometimes occur when playing a friendly competition which clashes with other matches.
– Fixed issues where some sweepers would have no DC ability
– Fixed a transfer promotion clause crash caused by edited data.
– Teams which are promoted from lower divisions without a stadium get one generated.
– Fixed crash when retiring an unemployed manager
– Fixed a rare crash when arranging a friendly match.
– Fixed a crash when calling up multiple players to a national pool.
– Fixed a crash which might occur if a human manager builds up a squad of over 200 players.
– When a player on loan is transferred to a third team, his stats are now cleared down properly.
– Fixed a manager being fired unreasonably in finish league due to some teams having a next division set as a lower division
– Fixed a game freeze when going to a scout’s list of scouted players.

You can download the patch from the following locations:

FileFront
SI website

Football Manager 2007 Staffs

Staffs in Football Manager are the background heroes of the club, they are mainly the assistant manager, coaches, physiotherapists and scouts. They are often not mentioned widely by many FM fans, but they are essential to your club’s success too. Training your players, treating their injuries and looking for new players are their jobs. As they are important to your club, I going to compile this staffs’ list so that all of you can take a good look at them.

Assistant Managers

-to be updated-

Coaches

Brendan Veneables (England)
Matt Wood (England)
Ian Collins (England)
John McKenzie (England)

Physiotherapists

-to be updated-

Scouts

-to be updated-

Updated on: 21 December 2006

Football Manager 2007 Genie Scout

This is a very good program that allows you to discover the hidden talents and potential stars in your FM2007 game. Genie™ Scout is done by a Ukranian, Eugene Tarabanovskyi. It is based on the old CM scout program by Michael Nygreen.

This Genie™ Scout program allows you to find players based on his potential and current abilities rating. In this way, you can find out the uncovered stars hidden in some places where your eyes doesn’t even place a look on. You can also see the position rating for players, to see which position best suit the player and for your club. You can also see estimated price of the players, so you do not have to do guessing game and testing in order to get the best price for a particular player.

Here is the screenshot for the Genie™ Scout.

You can check out this site for more information of this program.

Some of you may think that this is considered cheating in FM, because in order to find good players, you have to send your scouts and find players on your own, in order to experience the real-life football management game. But well, it is only a game.

Football Manager 2007 7.0.1 patch update

The new FM 2007 7.0.1 patch is out. The critical fix to this version is the contract bug. You can refer to this post for information on this bug.

This is the 7.0.1 updated changelist (for build 92685) from SI

– Fixed problem when in rare circumstances a players contract end date would change when rejecting a contract
– Fixed crash in network game when client selects ‘Domestic’ in a national team squad screen
– Fixed crash in MLS due to contracts being offered twice
– Fixed problem with certain clubs kits not being displayed correctly
– Fixed random freeze when processing
– Fixed player rejecting contract due to contract length when they were offered the contract they required
– Fixed coach rejecting contract when they were offered the terms they asked for
– Co-ownership deals are now no longer always accepted after being negotiated
– Fixed rare instance of player not accepting or rejecting a contract offer
– Players are now even more less likely to accept a wage drop
– Added a few smaller contract tweaks
– Staff are now less likely to accept shorter contract lengths on the same wage

Editor

– Added Feeder Clubs
– Added read only unique id fields
– Added Is Covered and Has Undersoil Heating fields to Stadium Panel
– Fixed not being able to enter negative club balances
– Number fields now auto select all text when tabbing to them
– Fixed swapping between Ascended/Descended sorting
– Swapping two teams will now also swap their nation

You can download the patch from the SI website.

FM 2007 7.0.1 bugs report

There are numerous posts on internet forums that state that after patch FM 2007 to 7.0.1, there have been some problems when playing the game.

These are some of the bugs reported.

Contract Bug [Link]: Player’s contract length changed when he rejected a new contract from his club during contract renewals.

SI recommends that you should comply to the needs of the players that you want to recontract until the new patch is out in the coming weeks.

Well, for the FM fans out there, bear with it for a while. In the meantime, you can relax yourself with other games or try to comply to the needs of your players, if your financial ability of your club permits.

GameBlog will update you when the new patch is out.

Football Manager 2007 7.01 patch released

The popular football management game, Football Manager 2007, has the first patch since its release weeks ago. Patch for FM usually comes with a lot of bug fixes, tweaks. The patch is 80.9MB.

I’m currently working the the FM staff list, which should come handy for your management team.

You can download the patch from these sites.
Filefront
SIGames (A lot of links)
The changelog for this patch is EXTREMELY long, so if you want to read them, you can click the link below. The changelog is obtained from the patch itself.

Football Manager 2007 Players

*NOTICE* (updated on 21 June) I’m going to create a new post soon and update with a new list of players I compiled. Please keep track of the main page for the updates.

*NOTICE* (updated on 22 June) The new list is up, visit the list via this link.

I decided to compile a list of players that I think is worth signing in the game. Take note that I will update this page once in a while to consolidate recommendations.

Goalkeeper
Kasper Schmeichel (Man City) – You can buy him and get your first team GK to tutor him, it will be a great help.

Igor Akinfeev (CSKA Moscow) – One of the bargain keepers in FM 2006, but come with a higher price tag.

Scott Carson (Liverpool) – Good GK, 21 years old. Relatively strong, but can be improved.

Defender
Micah Richards (Man City) – 18 years old Wonderkid, great header. Come with a hefty price tag. Approximately more than 12 million pounds.

Anthony Vanden Borre (Anderlecht) -19 years old defender. Great right back, used as a rotation when Carragher is used as centre-back. Can be bought at around 3 to 4 millions pounds.

Leighton Baines (Wigan) – Strong left back. Comparable to Ashley Cole as a left back.

Marcelo (Fluminese) – A good left back, capable. I bought him at 9 million pounds in the 2nd season. Recommended by many FMers.

Eduardo Ratinho (Corinthians) – Recommended by many FMers also, defence stats are not top-notch, but the attacking stats are good, capable of being an attacking defender.

Dani Alves (Sevilla) – Right Back, stats aren’t fantastic but recommended by many FMers.

Midfielder

Yohan Mollo (Monaco) – 16 years old. Future prospect. Can be bought at around 1 million pounds.

Cristian Benavente (Real Madrid C) – 16 years old. Great stats, can be improved to world-class level. He comes with a minimum release clause, however he does not want to leave as he said he cannot improve before he leaves.

Sherman Cardenas (Bucaramanga)- 17 years old. Good young midfielder with potential. Price tag: 1 million pounds.

Forward/Striker

Michael Owen (Newcastle) – 26 years old. You can buy him at the end of the first season as he is not playing regularly due to injury. Still a great scorer. Price tag: less than 10 million pounds.

Craig Lindfield (Liverpool) – 17 years old. Young and full of potential to become better. Relatively slow, but can be improved.

Theo Walcott (Arsenal)- 17 years old superb talent, full of power and speed. Sometimes you can buy him from Arsenal at around 15 millions but sometimes 50 millions. Depends on your luck.

David Villa (Valencia) – 25 years old. Come with a minimum release clause which is much lower than the expected price. Great purchase.

Javier Saviola (Barcelona) – In Barcelona second team, you can get him for less than 10 million pounds. Capable of scoring regularly.

Nicolas Millan (Colo Colo) – Extremely young and capable scorer of his age. You can sign a youth contract with him only, but as he is young, you may encounter the work permit problem.

That’s all for today. Will update with more players. You can add to this list by commenting below.

Football Manager 2007 Tips and Tricks

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Wondering why your Holland and Germany are filled of greyed out players, even when you ticked the “Use Real Player” when creating a new game? Where are Ballack and van Nistelrooy?

I do not have exact answer on why “real” players are used. But the best answer will be that SI did not get the license from the Holland and Germany FA to display the real team.

To reveal the real players, you simply need to delete a folder in the Football Manager 2007 directory. Go to C:\Program Files\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2007\data\db\700, there will be a directory INC. Delete this INC folder, recreate a new game, and here come the Ballack and Kuyt.

If you are using EPL teams, you will notice that there are no clubs logos and player faces. Well, I think the licensing fee of EPL teams are too expensive, however you can download fan-made logos pictures and facepacks from www.sortitoutsi.net, and copy to the respective directory in the data directory, or directory specified by the producers themselves. Look out for the README file.

If you have problems applying the kits, logos, and pictures, turn off the skin cache and reload FM to see the changes.
I have read some of the popular forums where people play FM, here are some of the players these forumers recommends.

1. Esteban Cambiasso – Inter Milan (around 11.5 million pounds)
2. Freddy Adu – D.C United (Loan)
3. Renato Augusto – Flamengo (not sure, by “touted by media as the next Ronaldinho”

I have added another list of players that I recommend for the game, you can see the list at this page.

Football Manager 2007 released

Football Manager 2007 (FM 2007) stated for its release on 20th October, has brought forward by SIGames to 18th October. Source.

FM 2007, a popular sequel to the famous FM 2005 and 2006, released today on 18 October. Football management fans will definitely like this new sequel, with a lot of new features added. This game is currently released for XBox 360 and PC platform. I believe the PSP FM 2007 will be releasing in months to come. Below is a short summary of features added to this new version of FM.

• Feeders Club: Enable larger club to team up with smaller clubs to develop players
• Manager Background: When you first make your manager, you will be able to customise your manager with certain backgrounds, such as ex-professional footballer

Review at IGN: Rating = 9.3/10

Here is the boxart for FM 2007.

Look like Jose Mourinho?