Football Manager 2012 Tips – Building Your Own Transfer Budget
With the release of the Football Manager 2012 game just around the corner, I thought I would write an article on how you can get the most out of your transfer budget in the game by buying and selling players. I will discuss which types of players are best to sign, when to sign them, what not to do, and how to make the biggest profit when it comes to selling them on in the future.
Everyone dreams of being given a massive transfer budget on football manager, but that usually limits you to picking only the rich clubs to manage which can sometimes become a boring or unfulfilling game to play. Well have you ever considered taking it upon yourself to build your own transfer budget at less wealthy clubs? This can make a fun game and is a great alternative to managing an already cash rich club.
You may not be able to build a budget the size of Manchester City’s, but with a few clever strategies you can build your own transfer budget gradually season upon season.
The money making strategies all involve a bit of wheeling and dealing of players and the main principle is to simply buy low and sell high. We want to try and sign players that will be good investments so we can sell them on to other clubs in the future and make a tidy profit that can be pumped back into your transfer budget. Read the rest of this entry »
Top 10 Exercises For Football Strength and Speed
Way too many football players and strength coaches develop favorite lifts (usually one’s they’re good at) and stick to them no matter what. I’ve run into guys I trained with a decade ago and they are still doing the same workouts! I don’t mean the same philosophy, I mean the actual same football workout! Same exercises, sets, reps and sometimes, sadly, weights.
While we need to rotate exercises constantly to avoid accommodation, we can’t just add any-old exercise and hope for the best. Plus, often, the exercises we hate the most are the ones that do us the most good. Many guys hate movements like lunges, but, if you want to get faster for football, you need to do them.
Here are the top 11 Exercises for to Get Faster and Stronger for Football. Add them to your rotation and work ‘em hard.
1. Deadlifts – Deadlifts are the King Maker…they might be more responsible for building football speed and strength than any other exercise. Read the rest of this entry »