Sep 2008 24

As we all know Football Manager 2009 (FM09) is out although we are all having issues running the the bad boy. Although it’s early days I thought it might be a good idea for us to try and identify who we think the new future wonderkids in FM09 are. I’m sure some of the wonderkids from FM08 will be there again (I’m thinking Saivet, Vela, Bojan etc) but I’m thinking we should be able to pull some new names out of the hat. That said feel free to throw in some of the old names in there but you get less kudos if you do.

The obvious (and expensive):

  • Anderson (AMC) – Man Utd
  • Balotelli (AM RL, ST) – Inter
  • Giovinco (AM LC, FC) – Juventus
  • Walcott (AM LC, FC) – Arsenal
  • Bojan (FC) – Barcelona
  • Aguero (AM, FC) – At. Madrid
  • Dos Santos ( AM RLC, FC)  – Tottenham
  • Fiorillo (GK) – Sampdoria
  • Galvan (Cruz Azul)
  • Hamsik (Napoli)
  • Kroos (FC Bayern)
  • Pato (A.C. Milan)
  • Pjanic (Olympique Lyonnais)
  • Benzema (Olympique Lyonnais)
  • Saivet (FC Girondins de Bordeaux)
  • Sakho (Paris Saint-Germain)
  • Vela (Arsenal)

Less obvious (not so expensive):

  • Bruna (Liverpool)
  • Boucher (Havre Athletic Club)
  • Alamo (Tapachula)
  • David Rochela (Deportivo B)
  • Ansaldi (Rubin)
  • Wijnaldum (Feyenoord)
  • De Gea (Atletico B)
  • Diaz (River)
  • Villaluz (Cruz Azul)
  • Walter (Internacional)
  • Wilshere (Arsenal)
  • Kolodziecziak (Racing Club de Lens)
  • Paulo Henrique (Santos)
  • Maidana (Spartak Moscow)
  • Davila (Chivas)
  • Nemeth (Liverpool)
  • Willian (Shakhtar)
  • Neymar (Santos)
  • Taison (Internacional)
  • Welbeck (Man Utd)
  • Tales (Internacional)
  • Monzon (Boca)
  • Hobbit Bermudez (Atlante)
  • Esparza (Chivas)
  • Fleck (Rangers)
  • Dalla Valle (Liverpool)
  • Delfouneso (Aston Villa)
  • Shea (FC Dallas)

Right that’ll do to start the ball rolling so who do you think the wonderkids of FM09 are?

What do you want to see from Football Manager 2011? How can they make it better?

Related posts:

  1. Football Manager 2008 – Wonderkids
  2. FM09 – English Wonderkids?
  3. Football Manager 2010 Wonderkids & Future Stars
  4. Football Manager 2009 – Wishlist
  5. Football Manager 2009 – New Features

698 comments

  1. hdw says:

    oh and you can get riquelme for 11m i got him for cardiff and he’s scoring 20 goals in first season. 20 stats for free kick taking and penalty and passing. good for 3 seasons.

  2. hdw says:

    oh and bolzoni and vitale dmc/mc and LB/WBL/ML respectively can be signed from inter for quite cheap round 12 m both and are both quality players who joined my cardiff team after 1 season in the prem. after 2 seasons they are wanted by all of Europe’s top teams for 20m each. got balotelli for 8m after he got pissed at jose mourinho and wanted to leave. they all say they owe it to themselves to move to a bigger club after a while so try and sell them for big bucks before they start moaning. kacar is also a great DC.DMC who can be had for 5m after 3 seasons. top player.

  3. Fat Man says:

    Franco Zuculini at Racing club turns into an immense player, as does Airton (Flamengo). Also Eduardo Salvio (Lanus). Davide Santon (Inter) and Andrea Mazzarani (Udinese) both become quality players also keep an eye on Subotic (Dortmund) and Kuzmanovic (Fiorentina).

    I can probably name a team which is worth signing which can go on to win any top flight title.

    Fiorillo (Samdoria) or Asenjo (Valladolid)
    Santon (Inter) or De Silvestre (Lazio)
    Sakho (PSG) or Vitale (Napoli)
    Subotic (Dortmund) or Richards (Man City)
    Leo (Gremio) or Thiago Heleno (Cruzeiro)
    Kuzmanovic (Fiorentina) or Airton (Flamengo)
    Hamsik (Napoli) or Zuculini (Racing Club)
    Bolzoni (Inter) or Nuri (Dortmund)
    Sturridge (Man City) or Giovinco (Juventus)
    Balotelli (Inter) or Mazzarani (Udinese)
    Strikers, you can really sign anyone and they will score in this team, I personally sign either Pogrebnyak (Zenith or Pandev (Lazio)

    Cheers

    Fat Man

  4. Greek Fan says:

    Sotiris Ninis will be one of the most best players in all over the world!He is a fine option to buy!!!Belive me

  5. chenzi says:

    salvatore foti. quality italian striker for sampdoria.
    valcav kadlec czech striker
    havard nordtveit centre back
    paolo frascatore centre midfield roma u20

  6. danny says:

    buy a player called angel di maria dnt no wt league bt he is amazing scores loads of goals also dnt b man city in the second season they dnt give u ne money

  7. Ross says:

    2 words for ya.morgan schneiderlin from southampton.he is the boy. got to get marquinhos in their 2.both quality

  8. wannabegay says:

    no one on any website mentions vagner love, the cska moskow striker! he’s like the best striker EVER! he and pato from milan are the best players in the game… henri saviet is very good also… denis alibec (romanian striker from farul) becomes very good (he’s bought by lyon and he scores every game in ECC). igor akinfeev is still good (he will win best GK of the year), like in the other fms.

  9. enrico enzo says:

    i recomend every1 to sign nihat,srna,matiaz fernandez and also asenjo there all such great players from begining 2 end oh yh and u sud also think bout signing zhirkov.

  10. FMLEGEND says:

    Vagner Love , BEST PLAYER ON THE GAME

  11. cmreeve says:

    Gareth bale is a quality player if played on left midfield, he’s usually a left back but plays excellent there

    The Australian goalkeeper Dean Beuzanis is also a cheap but excellent keeper

  12. greg says:

    alan dzagoev, hes russian and becomes the best midfielder in the game in year 2011.

  13. danny says:

    player called ashley hemmings sign him really cheap from wolves becomes amazing scores bomb loads

  14. Gary says:

    Benitez a ecudorian striker signed him for fulham fr 2.3 million and in 2012he has scored at least 25 goals a season and now madrd offered me 38 million for him….. needless to say i rejected

  15. Vijay says:

    I am managing Barcelona right now.
    Lionel Messi and Samuel Eto are performing suberbly
    Signed Robert Pires reasonably cheap and is scoring a lot of goals.
    Valdes is keeping well.
    Thierry Henry is also good and can sign him at a reasonable price
    Signing Miguel Veloso for about 15 million and Andrey Ashravin for about a little bit more is also good.

  16. El Nino says:

    there is a player named wijnaldium who plays for feyenoord who is only 17 and has great potiential also
    john fleck from Rangers
    Jack Wilshere from Arsenal
    Ochoa (GK) from America (Mexican team )is quite cheap ,you should get him for around 5m

  17. bilbo says:

    james mccarthy is excellent

  18. MATTY says:

    you should sign a player called sander post from a club in estonia called flora for him to come up at start of game you click top division for spain , germany and italy all divisions for england i signed him for chester for about £100.000 he scores 30 every year his value never goes up so if he quits it doesnt cost much to get him sign him hes ace

  19. Metalforos says:

    Juan Manuel Mata is a wonderkid, a must-buy, it costs 3,3 million euros
    but he will soon be asked by big clubs (Valencia, Milan, Juvnetus) and i can’t keep him much longer at Olympiakos

  20. joseph says:

    your forgeting a few players – lavezzi (napoli), dembele (az alkmar), eden hazard (lille), edin dzeko (wulfsburg), sessagnon (psg)

  21. Tombo says:

    Joe Mattock, leicester is a great signing becomes a wonderkid

  22. Martin the genius says:

    No one better than Javi Martinez, he is awesome.

  23. Jaimal says:

    Sweeper called dominguez is young, quality + cheap

  24. Chris Lovell says:

    Quality Team:
    GK-Ustari
    RB-Richards
    LB-Monzon
    CB-Heitinga
    CM-Fellaini
    CM-Ramires
    AMR-D’Alessandro
    AML-Whilshere
    ST-Laurito
    ST-Marquinos

    Good luck beating that team

  25. kieran says:

    gioda ,(cb) excellent!,parejo only 4 k brilliant for 19yr old mattock is also an amazing deffo an essential signing.

  26. Eshaan says:

    Only into my 2nd season with Newcastle (won the league and leage cup in season 1) and the main reason? Tore Reginiussen (£1.3m). Norwegian defender is a stalwart. Not a superstar, but the player you need in your squad.

    Fleck (Rangers) and Goossens (£1.3m) for the left side of your team. Look out for Dominique Malonga – slow starter but picks up the pace. Demidov is a good shout. Schneiderlin is fantastic but he’s signed for West Ham in my game.

    Sold Steve Harper for £5m, signed Ben Foster free (and he’s been immense in the 2nd season). Also got Adriano lined up for next season on a free transfer…not sure how he’ll turn out.

    Davide Santon is young and useful. Jack Collison has taken a while to settle in but Stephen Appiah, season 1 free signing…IMMENSE!

  27. BigJoe says:

    You need vanger love, srna, fernandinho, casillas(expensive though) and arshavin, all world class. Im mint at footy manager and you wont beat me. ;-)

  28. waz91 says:

    i cant believe no1 has said feghouli he is worth 37million on my ac milan game im on my 7th season now but if u play him he becomes amazing and u can buy him for 6.5mil. gourcuff also wicked scores some screamers from out side the box. akinfeev is my GK and he wins best GK every year even above casilas who my brother has for inter. also aguero is brilliant! thiery henry was crap for me on my milan game but good on my barca 1 also dont let owen go to waste he only cost 5 millions n agbonglahore plays alot better than his potenial.

    AC MILAN
    GK Akinfeev
    RB lorenzo de silvetre
    CB cheillini
    CB Sakho
    LB Thimmothie kolodiezek?
    RM c.ronaldo
    CM Veloso
    CM Kaka
    LM messi
    ST Pato
    ST Benzema

    also have feghouli,richards,vela,sniejder,camacho,gourcuff,
    i have also had these players but they have retierd or i have sold them :
    david villa,beckham,tevez,huntellar,gamberini,nesta,cesar,carrick,adriano,ronaldo,owen,andrea mazzanari,henry and more i cant fink of but i am goin onto my 8th season n the only cheat i did was put sniejder on my team n my brother put vaart.
    my brother has had players like cassilas,ribery,david silva ramos zabeta aguero lucio jonny evans torres n a couple morew i cant think of.

  29. Adam el says:

    sign a guy called lewandowski, hes amazing :)

  30. R2D2 says:

    I have managed 4 different clubs from the 4 best leagues. This is my pick of 3 players that have done well over 3 seasons: -

    1)R. Taddei (AS Roma) – Approx. 18mil euros
    Averaged : (111 appearances – 37 goals and 63 assists)
    2)K.Bojan (Barcelona) – Approx. 12mil euros
    Averaged : (104 appearances – 83 goals 33 assists)
    3)M.Veloso (S.Lisbon) – Approx. 15mil euros
    Averaged – (96 appearances – 30 goals and 47 assists)

  31. Kz says:

    Wonderkids are also: ioannis papadopoulos, kyriakos papadopoulos, nazarith, acquafresca, enyeama, altidore, jose goncalves, alcala and zeefuik. Try them.

  32. addict says:

    hayden mullins is quality if u hav a conference team

  33. Garfy says:

    Celso Borges AMC Saprissa £300,000 – One of the best wonderkids on the game. Bought him for QPR in Championship, three years later I am being offered 21M by Chelsea.

    Zoran Tosic AMRL Partizan £8M – Real gem of the serbian league, Man United have bought him in real life.

    Adem Ljajic AMRLC Partizan £3M – Younger and probably in the end better version of Tosic. Man United have also bought him in real life.

    Cesar Villaluz AMRC Cruz Azul £1.4M – Will come to most Championship teams in first season if you can afford. Should be first signing if Championship team. Becomes wonderkid 2010-2011.

    Axel Witsel AMRLC Standard 5-10M – Fantastic CM if you can prise him away from Standard. Excelled when bought for QPR and partnered Fellaini in CM.

    Jack Rodwell DC Everton £5M – Future captain of England and very easy to obtain if you have the money.

    Tales AMC Internacional £3.5M – Another top quality ACM, has Spanish passport.

    Andrew Driver AML Hearts £2.5M – A project, Englishman with natural left foot, can become one of the best left wingers in the game. But you need to put a lot of effort in.

    Gabriel Torje AMR £4M – Romanians answer to Ronaldo, has good pace, acceleration and wingers stats.

    Diego Biseswar AMRLC Feyenoord £2M – Play him just behind the strikers and watch him smash it up.

    Georginio Wijnaldum AMRLC Feyenoord £1.5M – Same as above but younger and sits in the CM position.

    Rasvan Ochirosii AML Steaua £1-2M – Good left winger, mid table premier sides would be advised to buy.

    Ruben Yttergard Jenssen AMLC Tromso – Enthusiastic midfielder, will run his socks off all game.

    Sinan Bolat GK Genk $1M – Good youngster, if you need a back up this is your man. Well him or

    Jonathan North GK Watford £100,000 – same as above. If you need back up it one of these two or possibly

    Preston Edwards GK Millwall £100,000 _ same as previous two.

    Rodney Sneijder M RLC Ajax £1M – Real possibility of being best player in game if you can boost his physical stats.

    Joe Mattock DL Leicester £2.5M – If you are looking for a LB, then look no further. But do not buy him as back up as his stats will just fall away.

  34. ryan fortune says:

    oscar cardozo great player scored 25 in 29 games for me

  35. mo says:

    i got vela for swansea city and he was ber cheap nd den hes scores 33 goals in 40 games and man city nd ac milan nd real madrid bid for him 25.5 million and accept so i can make better players den vela .

  36. mo says:

    get darren gibson of man utd i brought for swansea city he got 12 assits and 4 goals and is worth atm 30 million no joke

    and is wanted back by man utd 40million but did not accept it
    so sikk

  37. jim says:

    You have to sign Dentinho, Ricardo Noir & Douglas Costa.

  38. gabriel from portugal says:

    the team with a huge future

    gk -josh lambo
    rb- daniel opare (real madrid)
    lb-
    cb- daniel rahaim and miguel victor (benfica)
    cm- rafael carica and biram kayal
    amr- davide santon (inter milan)
    aml- jon goossens (ajax)
    amc- fernando forestieri
    st- alex teixeira or daniele vantaggiatto

    in 2 seasons this team become a serious trouble to the europe giants

  39. JACK says:

    JOHN FLECK – RANGERS SCORES LOADS BUY HIM QUICK HE BECOMES AVALIBLE FOR ENGLAND
    JACK COLLISON – WEST HAM GOT YOUNG PLAYER OF YEAR 5 TIMES IN ROW
    MAREK STECH- NOT CONCEDED ALL SEASON
    MOSES – CRYSTAL PALACE
    SANTON – INTER
    STEVE SMITH – RANGERS
    VIGURS – NOT SURE WHAT CLUB ENGLANDBASSED THOUGH
    JORAN SPENCE & JAMES TOMKINS ENGLAND CENTRE BACKS IN TWO YEARS
    SURMAN – SOUTHAMPTON

  40. josh says:

    I cant believe no1 has mentioned Adam lallana from saints he scores against all of the big clubs and in the first season when i got promoted he scored 23 goals from midfield ! also schniederlin from saints he is a great midfielder he is brilliant at stopping the opposing attacks and also scores at least 10 a season there both now worth 10 million plus

  41. Fatboy11 says:

    Here is my tottenham team
    i will update you after important results and shocks

    GK: Gomez
    DL: Gareth Bale
    DR: Alan Hutton
    DC: Jonathon Woodgate
    DC: Ledley King
    MR: Sotiris Ninis
    ML: Luka Modric
    MC: Jack Wilshere
    MC: Axel Witsel
    FW: Javier Saviola
    FW: Oscar Cardozo

  42. jake says:

    must buy: vukcevic from s lisbon. 6 mil, £12,000 wages, will come to any topflight team
    vagner love, sell anyone to get him, WORLD CLASS
    rodwell, grows amazing
    cardozo, strong, scores loads
    vargas – fiorentina, if you get him, your gunna win
    volas, if your a championship team he scores lots
    montelivo, great passer, tons of assists and a few goals.
    keirrson. little bit of paitence then world class,
    marqhiunos – good in a few years
    :)
    MUST GET VUKCEVIC

  43. Jd says:

    Freddy Adu he a great buy

  44. Dan says:

    I reckon in the fm 10 you should be able to manage under 21 sides at national sides . anyone agree?

  45. James says:

    Sanchez is the greatsest!!! dribbles round 3players at least every time gets tons of assists

  46. Sean says:

    Gotta buy Juan Manuel Mata from Valencia. Play him attacking left wing and within 2 seasons better than Messi

  47. Bradford Boy says:

    I’m Man Utd, and have just sold Evra for 23 mil. Any ideas on a good replacement for him?

    My team at the moment is:
    GK: Ben Foster
    RB: Gary Neville/Rafael
    LB: Fabio/
    CB: Rio Ferdinand
    CB: Nemanja Vidic
    DM: Miguel Veloso
    RM: Jesus Navas/Cristiano Ronaldo
    LM: Cristiano Ronaldo/Ryan Giggs
    AMC: Joao Moutinho/Paul Scholes
    FC: Carlos Tevez/Mario Balotelli
    FC: Wayne Rooney/Sergio Aguero

    Havn’t cheated, but sold on for big prices.

  48. dave says:

    Jon Obi Mikel (Chelsea)

  49. j0nny says:

    @ Bradford Boy.
    -Marcelo from Real Madrid
    -Clichy from Arsenal
    -Mamadou Sakho from Paris Saint-Germain
    -Federico Balzaretti from Palermo
    -Yury Zhirkov from CSKA Moscow
    -Darijo Srna from Shakhtar

    Hope this helps

    (go Man Utd!!!!)

  50. Jonny says:

    henri saivet best striker on game

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