Football Manager 2011 **Demo Out Now**

Completely free 6 month demo of FM11. All features are available so is just like playing the full game.

I recommend getting the strawberry version, will take longer to download but is a lot better visually.

Hope you enjoy...

http://www.footballmanager.com/demo

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What are the minimum specs for running the Football Manager 2010 demo on my system?

PC

OS - Windows XP/Vista/Windows7

Processor - XP - 1.4ghz or faster Vista/W7 - 2.0hgz or faster

Memory - XP-512MB Ram, Vista/W7 - 1GB Ram

Video Card - 128MB minimum. Nvidia FX 5900 Ultra or greater; ATI Radeon 9800 or greater; Intel 82915G/82910GL or greater.

Earlier cards may only display 2D Match Viewer Mode and are not supported.

Mac

Intel Processor, OS X 10.5, NVidia Geforce 7300 GT or greater

What’s the difference between the Strawberry and Vanilla Demos?

The Strawberry demo contains all the sounds, player pictures and logos within the game. Because of this additional content the file is larger and will take longer to download. The Vanilla demo is a stripped down version of the game, which runs exactly the same but is just a smaller download file.

What leagues can I run via the Demo?

In the demo you can only run 'quick start' games, which only run one league and a small database.

The demos include the following:

Vanilla

English language

England and Scotland quickstarts

Strawberry

All Euro Languages

England, Scotland, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Brazil, Argentina, Chile quickstarts

It just refreshes the Steam page every time I click install, good start for me! Working now though, great speed for download, over 1mb/sec is seriously fast

Good stuff. That is fast!

Downloading now. Was going to go to bed but...blatantly gonna have a fumble around with this first.

Just to warn you. Chaplow and Bignall won't be at Saints as they are emergency loans, which FM never includes.

I'd imagine there's better available on free transfers right away, always are a few crackers.

yep, just got Darius Vassell on a free transfer

15k a week, not a chance! Anyone found a gem yet? Only been an hour i'm still getting to grips with it, though I will need a new skin for the game, the white background ruins my eyes

********, I was just about to go to bed when this popped up on my Facebook homepage. Now i'm sat here just starting my Saints game...could be here for a while.

Most of the gems i've found have been snapped up in real life so will be no good in the actual game.

Izzy Iriekpen is a decent CB, as is Sam Sodje, although really not an area that needs strengthening.

Stern John is also available.

15k a week, not a chance! Anyone found a gem yet? Only been an hour i'm still getting to grips with it, though I will need a new skin for the game, the white background ruins my eyes

got Fabian Brandy on a free, seems like a good one for the future

Stern John is also available.

Don't do it!

Don't do it!

On the SI forums you've put Assulin and Goncalves as ones to sign, but they don't show up when I search for them. Is this due to the quick load being on small database by default?

Also, who is this Alan Bailey kid and why is he rated so good in game?

Just went to offer Rickie a new contract - cheeky git wanted £13,000 a week! Bloody nora..

On the SI forums you've put Assulin and Goncalves as ones to sign, but they don't show up when I search for them. Is this due to the quick load being on small database by default?

Also, who is this Alan Bailey kid and why is he rated so good in game?

Bailey isn't real, he is a newgen. Everyone will have him on their game as the demo is a "quickstart", which basically is a savegame and everyone has the same savegame.

Right cheers.

Just had some fun laying into the next opposition manager to the press, although my players didn't seem too impressed.

Matthew, have you noticed we have an agreed price of k875 for Guly but only 500k to spend so wont be able to get him anyway.

Matthew, have you noticed we have an agreed price of k875 for Guly but only 500k to spend so wont be able to get him anyway.

You can adjust your transfer budget.

You can now get the demo via direct download or torrent.

http://www.footballmanager.com/demo

You can adjust your transfer budget.

Still doesn't compute with the current reality at Southampton. The game is too rigid on transfer budgets

So, whose found the first bug?

Still doesn't compute with the current reality at Southampton.

Who, apart from those at the top of the club really know what that is? We are all guessing.

The game is too rigid on transfer budgets

If there is a player you really want but is outside your budget you can ask the board to do the deal for you. So not as rigid as you think...

If there is a player you really want but is outside your budget you can ask the board to do the deal for you. So not as rigid as you think...

Yes but if you have a pre-agreed fee the finances should be there to complete.

So, whose found the first bug?

I did, you can't cancel loan agreements, even when told to by your staff. Richardson is far too crap for this league. Loads of players get injured almost constantly. There is a manager sacked every week (atleast one). Half your team wants to leave 3 months into the season.

Apart from that its quite good.

If there is a player you really want but is outside your budget you can ask the board to do the deal for you. So not as rigid as you think...

It is far too rigid though, and you get a crappy wage and transfer budget considering where we are now, plus i didn't get any extra come january, and when you ask the board to finish the guly transfer they disagree.

Yes but if you have a pre-agreed fee the finances should be there to complete.

The finances are there, you can have a £1.9m transfer budget for Saints on day one if you want. Guly costs half that!

The finances are there, you can have a £1.9m transfer budget for Saints on day one if you want. Guly costs half that!

No you can't, and if you did i would expect it massively dents the wage budget.

No you can't, and if you did i would expect it massively dents the wage budget.

Select win the league as a board expectation

Goto boardroom > click edit budgets > you can slide it all the way up to £1.9m

Yes, it does impact on the wage budget(which is realistic), but still makes it possible to spend a lot more.

Select win the league as a board expectation

 

Goto boardroom > click edit budgets > you can slide it all the way up to £1.9m

 

Yes, it does impact on the wage budget(which is realistic), but still makes it possible to spend a lot more.

Whats the point of having 1.9mil but having no wages available ?? Who exactly are you going to sign for 1.9mil that will accept 1k a week ?

Whats the point of having 1.9mil but having no wages available ?? Who exactly are you going to sign for 1.9mil that will accept 1k a week ?

Have it at £1.4m then, you still have £13,000 per week wages to play with. Or 900k transfer budget with £23k wages to play with. Which is loads in League One!

Plus you can offload some of the crap in the squad to free up wages.

Remember season one budgets in FM are skewed because the clubs have already spent their budgets for the summer in real life.

The real question is what sort of budget we get once promoted to the Championship.

The real question is what sort of budget we get once promoted to the Championship.

The real question is what sort of budget we get once promoted to the Championship.

Impossible to answer as it depends on so many factors. For a start, the club has a whole year of trading before that point.

The real question is what sort of budget we get once promoted to the Championship.

Impossible to answer as it depends on so many factors. For a start, the club has a whole year of trading before that point.

Injuries are far too common, Barnard came back and was out again, I've struggled to fill my bench on numerous occasions because of too many injuries, and I hadn't thought of it as a bug i have seen half the managers in League 1 get sacked!

Injuries are far too common, Barnard came back and was out again, I've struggled to fill my bench on numerous occasions because of too many injuries, and I hadn't thought of it as a bug i have seen half the managers in League 1 get sacked!

Injuries are far too common, Barnard came back and was out again!

Was he fully fit when you starting playing him again? Did you give him reserve football to aid his recovery? If not match fit after returning from an injury then a player is more likely to get another injury. Alternatively it could just be a coincidence.

The game uses data from physioroom.com to reflect real life injury rates within professional football.

Was he fully fit when you starting playing him again? Did you give him reserve football to aid his recovery? If not match fit after returning from an injury then a player is more likely to get another injury. Alternatively it could just be a coincidence.

 

The game uses data from physioroom.com to reflect real life injury rates within professional football.

I don't even think he went back into a game he got injured in training again!

Was he fully fit when you starting playing him again? Did you give him reserve football to aid his recovery? If not match fit after returning from an injury then a player is more likely to get another injury. Alternatively it could just be a coincidence.

 

The game uses data from physioroom.com to reflect real life injury rates within professional football.

No i can agree i had an entire front line out, only to sign more forwards on loan and them to get injured aswell, at one point i was fielding youth players as my only forwards.

The amount of managers that get sacked is equally rediculous.

Have you both been doing proper preseasons and giving players short game time? Tired/unfit players more likely to get injured.

Rickie never seems to score for me in FM11, so i'm playing him in an attacking midfield role behind Brandy and Barnard up front, who are both banging them in. He's good for assists, but he's missed 3 penalties and hit the crossbar about 4 times in 11 games...

Have you both been doing proper preseasons and giving players short game time? Tired/unfit players more likely to get injured.

Yes I did a pre season where the training was higher and they had three matches of 45 minutes and then they came off!

Downloaded the demo via steam and it keeps crashing, just pops up with an error saying "football manager 11 demo has stopped working"

v.annoying!!

Use the direct download.

Downloaded via Steam and it was fine for me.