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Furthest you've taken a player as a first team regular
Hi, I was just wondering how far anyone has taken a single player at a club as a first team regular? I'm Gainsborough Trinity and have won successive promotions (as champions every time) from Blue Square North to the Championship. During this I've had two players who have played regularly in every season - Danny Racchi (who was my first signing from Huddersfield) and Emmanuele Smith (signed half-way through first season). In the championship and i'm 4th after 10 games with Emmanuele Smith still playing as first choice centre back and Racchi is part of a rotation with a regen right winger. Anyone gone all the way to the prem with a player still playing regularly?
02-13-2008, 02:38 PM
Furthest you've taken a player as a first team regular Post #2
i have seen players in FM07 that were generated in the conference league with PA of 190+ in the 2nd season.
newcastle bought him for 500k and then a year later i got him for 7mill.
02-13-2008, 02:39 PM
Furthest you've taken a player as a first team regular Post #3
i also got a striker generated as a 17 year old in the 3rd season which managing exeter who had a PA of 163. unfortunately chelsea put in a bid of about 5mill 6 months later and he wanted to go
02-13-2008, 03:02 PM
Furthest you've taken a player as a first team regular Post #4
Not really my question, I don't mean a player who starts in the lower leagues and then is bought by a big club but a player that plays for the same team all the way through promotions.
02-13-2008, 03:08 PM
Furthest you've taken a player as a first team regular Post #5
Took Daniel Galbraith (who I bought after 3 years on loan for £3 million) from bottom of the 1st division with Livingston, to winning the Champions League (12 years) He scored nearly 500 goals for the club all in all. Got 62 for Scotland.
Also had a Scottish regen who made something like 650 appearances for the club.
Legend.
02-13-2008, 05:59 PM
Furthest you've taken a player as a first team regular Post #6
Back on CM 03/04, I managed to pick up Stewart Downing on a free transfer for my Division 2 (League 1) Burton Albion team. Needless to say, he was the best player in the league by quite a way, and was still my key player once I'd reached the Premiership.
I also kept Terry Henshaw in my team from the first season, all the way to the last. However, he was nowhere near good enough to play from Division 1 upwards.
02-13-2008, 06:05 PM
Furthest you've taken a player as a first team regular Post #7
Started in League Two and now 2nd in the Championship. Have only played 3 full seasons though. He's the only survivor in the first team from the squad i started with. and not looking to replace.
Fan's player of the year in the 1st and 3rd seasons.
02-13-2008, 06:20 PM
Furthest you've taken a player as a first team regular Post #9
Originally posted by john_stevo:
Not really my question, I don't mean a player who starts in the lower leagues and then is bought by a big club but a player that plays for the same team all the way through promotions.
Not in FM'08, because I play too slowly.
In CM01/02, Chris Brass still saw action for my York City side when I got them into the Premiership, though he no longer featured the way he had at the Conference level.
In FM'05, I brought a regen along from Conference to Premiership and into Europe, though I did switch teams and buy him from my old team along the way.
02-13-2008, 06:30 PM
Furthest you've taken a player as a first team regular Post #10
I signed a regen called Neil Milton for my Hitchin side in the Blue square prem when he was relased by chlesea at the age of 19. He went straight into my first team and stayed there untill he scored a hat-trick in the championship play-off final to propel us into the permiership were he drifted out of my team as age caught up with him.
He scored 307 league goals in 425 appearances and became my assistant when he reitred, a proper legend
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