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. Kris says:

    Mauro Zarate!!! He’s on loan at Lazio in the first season, but you can buy him for roughly 4million in the 2nd. Bags of potential, has scored 15 goals in 15 games for my Leeds team and im in the Championship, so you might beable to get him for teams which are not in the Prem. Also Ramires from Sao Paulo and Eduardo from Botafago.

  2. Conor says:

    Easilly Davide Santo or vaclav Kadlec both cheap and turn out amazing

  3. Stephen Naisbitt says:

    Axel Witsel
    Wonderkid,
    Cost 4mill tops plays all over midfield
    scored goal of the month 5 months in a row
    Awesome Player!

  4. jak says:

    curtis is sex on fire with steven taylor martin old what a legend vagner love is sikige

    dont forget hamsik its like cheating with him

  5. Bojan says:

    if you can take yassine jebbour hi is world clas mid in my hoffe team with 21 year ,also romario mendes and if you need good goalkeeper for 3 mil. dusan kuciak ….

  6. Eadie says:

    if you buy tales he is probrably one of the best AMC on the game after 4 seasons hes cheap as hell to i got him for about 3 mil

  7. steve says:

    Joey Mattock – Leicester City….quality left back.
    Richard Duffy- Free Agent…..good attacking right wing back.
    Damon Gray-…good striker for Championship level at a good price.

  8. Abdi says:

    buy Diego Buonanotte
    20 yrs old
    4.4 million
    won champions cup player and goal of the season
    has potential to be better than MESSI!

  9. Johno says:

    Fabian Delph and Jonny Howson are good players for the championship and turn bloody brilliant and get nice and pricey, so they are pretty good players if your’e tryna get into the premiership. Ben Parker is a good solid left back and hes pretty sheap. Aiden White, is a very young right back and he comes off playing wicked. Wayne Routledge is a superb player in the championship, also LuaLua and Vassel. They score goals for fun.

  10. Ads says:

    Marquinhos from palmeiras gets unbelievable scored 40 in 45 in prem/champs league one year! Per Cilian Skjelbred was a very good signing from rosenborg AMC. Steve Mandanda if you are after a goalkeeper as well!

  11. Ads says:

    Left winger – Abdou Razack Traore from rosenborg well worth signing

  12. chelseafanatic666 says:

    hugo lloris from Lyon if ur lookin for a goal keeper worth 4 million so can prob get him for 10 million 1st season, in 4th season hes worth 24 million and only conceded 12 goals whole first season.

  13. Colin says:

    has nobody mentioned Sergio Asenjo?! Best keeper on the game after 5 seasons.

    Sebastian Boenisch, DL from Werder Bremen is not bad…
    DC – Mirel Radoi, Zapata, Franco Zuculini (but he’s a DM and CM too), Leo
    Davide Santon – DR absolutely brilliant

    ML Yuri Zhirkov from CSKA is a great buy – 12m though! :L
    MC Witsel – Steven Defour both from Standard and Defour’s actually better than witsel but nobody mentions him….
    MR Darijo Srna is one of the best in the game.
    DM Anatoly Tymoschuk – another one of the best in the game and also wonderkid Rafael Carioca from Gremio – only 3 mil!

    AM – Sergio Mota – Diego Buannanotte – Adel Taarabt – Diego – Willians Santana – Alex

    ST – fantastic striker and will go to anyway in a big league, even Rangers… Chindeu Obasi from Hoffenheim aka Edu. also demba ba from hoffenheim. Alexis Sanchez is a great buy. Mario Gomez from Stuttgart :P

    go on my bebo and i can help anyone with people to buy!

  14. jam says:

    liverpool rule

  15. bobmcshims says:

    richard towell from celtic – after 4 seasons is the beft left back in britian

  16. Urzzaz says:

    Douglas Costa not cheap but worth all the penny.

    Lulinha could be better in the game.

    Hélder Barbosa best portuguese winger!!!!!!

    Bruno Alves….what a solid defender.

  17. Nikola says:

    Stevan Jovetic, Mirko Vucinic,Walter.

  18. HRISTOS 68 says:

    GERSON FOR DC
    ADRIEN FOR MC
    AQUINO FOR FC

  19. Fm09 says:

    Marek Hamsik (CM) – Young Slovakian playmaker, got for around 15mil. Gets loads of assists.

    Oscar Cardozo (ST) – Great target man, top scorer in the prem in his firts season with 20 goals

    Mario Balotelli (AM) (ST) – great young, versitile attacker, WONDERKID. Must get early because he goes really expensive.

  20. Jovan says:

    Matias Fernandez-Villarreal
    Thiago Neves- HSV
    Federico Facio-Sevilla

  21. stuy says:

    Givinco is cheap only 5m. if you are looking for a cheap striker who is experienced M.Owen 4m injured for 2 weeks but worth every penny after 1 season worth 12m.

  22. nick says:

    RAMIRES the best player…!

  23. johnny says:

    ignacio camacho
    john fleck (bargain)
    henri saivet
    jozy altidore (transfer list at the start of game)
    deigo capel
    lautaro acosta

    all amazing wonderkids!!

    robert lewandowski is a bargain who scores for fun

  24. Tom says:

    Alberto Paloschi ST ( Bargain at start of game but after couple of seasons will cost £30 mil)

    Guilherme DR (Gremio)

    Christian Landu DC (Viking)

    Baker DL (Aston Villa)

    Fazio DC (Sevilla)

    O’Toole MC (Watford)

    Jonsson DR (Hearts)

    Nordtveit DC (Arsenal)

    Marecek MC (Slavia Prague) Best CM on game after 5 seasons, Quality

    Keirrison ST (Cortiba))

    Di Santo ST (Chelsea)

    The majority of these players are relatively cheap at start of game (£5million or less)

    Players such as Paloschi, Fazio, Guilherme and Maracek are best players on game after few seasons but they are super expensive, Buy them at start.

  25. Andros says:

    Nenad Milijas from Red Star is awsome player!!!

  26. nife says:

    alex raphael meschini, 26yr old AMLC, plays in brazil for internacional. awful physical attributes, but just give him creative freedom and be amazed.

  27. jt says:

    my roma team iz amazing i have gago,navas,camacho,diego milito, sulejmani,diego ,witsel,cacares and asenjo in the secong year but im 7th in the league and its march does any one know how?

  28. madan says:

    hows about fabricio 26yr from cruzeiro only 5m but my god he is brill

  29. casper says:

    Gareth Bale

  30. n0nstop54 says:

    Alípio from real madrid 16 years striker he seems the next jairzinho from brazil he scores like crazy i buyed him with atletico and he is damn good with aguero

  31. jt says:

    thanks ill sign some of them in da summer

  32. jt says:

    i just won the champions league but still finished 5th with roma

  33. mike says:

    Delph from Leeds is an absolute must! stick him in your reserves for a year then introduce him slowly in 2nd season… by start of 3rd season he’s awesome! you will have silly money thrown at you by real madrid and co for this guy!

  34. Midge says:

    sakho-psg solid center back

  35. Brad says:

    Wonderkids:
    acosta
    guilherme
    balotelli – his favoured personal- paloschi or somthin???????
    santon
    lassana diarria
    juan manuel vargas- great tecnique- eg crossing corners etc.

  36. gunners says:

    Gary O’Brien. really good Striker !!

  37. Rob says:

    I built a young team with Everton using Yobo, Cahill and Yakubu & Baines as my ‘keep me in a respectable position so I don’t get the sack’ players for three years and I’m challenging for the title now in season 4. These are the young men in my squad.

    * Fiorillo GK Sampdoria (got him for 4 mil I think) Awesome
    Spence CB/RB West Ham (one million) good cover, amazing at free kicks
    Kadar CB/LB Newcastle (less than a million, also good cover)
    Paulo CB/RB from some Brazillian side, cost me 6 mil which isn’t cheap, but he’s bloody brilliant for me and everyone’s trying to poach him.
    *Bolzoni DM from Inter, got him for 4 mil, got world class for me and starts for Italy now.
    Fellaini DM/CM, already at the club and has been really good.
    Răzvan Ochiroşii from Bucharest isn’t a world beater but he did a job on the left for me for two seasons getting many assists. I picked him up for 200k abnd sold him for 7 million.
    Sergio Motta LM/AM. Can’t remember where I got this lad. Like Razvan he didn’t turn spectacular for me. But I got him for less than 2 mil and he became an above average premiership player. Sold him too for 7 million. Worth a buy.
    *John Fleck from Rangers. I got him for around 4 million and he’s a very versatile midfielder/striker. Worth around 15 million now. A must buy.
    * Foti from Udinesse, striker. This guy made the difference for me. He cost me ten million which was a gamble I thought but he’s been immense. First season he played was last season and he and Yakubu scored 25 each and left me in third in the legue and with a CL spot. Gave me money to spend and I’ve just bought a Brazillian striker called Kierrsson who has amazing stats but isn’t playing well yet and a left winger called Rossi from Juve I think who’s intense.

    All these are worth a go I’d say to build a young squad and see if you can get them good. None are overly expensive either. Current team is Fiorillio, Spence, Yobo, Paulo, Baines, Bolzoni, Cahill, Arteta, Rossi, Foti and Kiersson. Bench= Howard, Kadar, Fleck, Yakubu, Fellaini.
    This squad cost less then 30 mil to assemble over three years and I’m second in the league. Safe.

  38. Lewis says:

    IGNACIO CAMACHO! HOW CAN YOU FORGET HIM! from atletico madrid, first class player, have to sign him.
    Also if you are a championship club, or not a top league team, i was norwich city, and i signed Daniele Vantaggiato, he is a striker, scored 44 goals in 47 games. He got player of the season for the whole of the championship, got 10 Man of the Match’s. Great Player, must sign him.

  39. LewisSSS says:

    John Fleck from Rangers, great prospect, signed him for just 3.5mil, must sign him, also a player not mentioned, VICTOR MOSES FROM CRYSTAL PALACE. He is just 17 in 1st season, you must sign him whoever you are! Great player at 17, even better in his 20′s! MUST SIGN HIM!

    Also Moussa Kone, Great player, great prospect, i must sign!

    Jordan Elfverson! Must sign him. only he is a very young player, 16 in 1st season, i signed him when he was 17! What a signing he was, when he was 20, i was in the prem, 23 goals in 34 games, must sign!!

    AND YOU MUST SIGN JOHN BOSTOCK FROM TOTTENHAM! MUST SIGN!

  40. Lewyyyyyyy says:

    3 YOUNGSTERS, YOU HAVE TO SIGN!

    DIEGO BUONANOTTE!

    IGNACIO CAMACHO!

    FRANCO ZUCULINI!

    MUST SIGN THESE PLAYERS!!!!

  41. NORWICH TILL I DIE! says:

    ANDRE-PIERRE GIGNAC

    YOU MUST SIGN HIM!

    2ST SEASON 34 APPEARANCES, 36 GOALS!

    I SIGNED HIM IN MY 2ND SEASON FROM TOULOUSE FC, HE WAS ONLY VALUED AT 4.5 MIL! BUT VERY GOOD ATTRIBUTES!

    THE NEW THIERRY HENRY! PROSPECT OF BEING BETTER!!

  42. NORWICH TILL I DIE! says:

    sorry, supposed to say 1st season above!

    lol

  43. Hammers says:

    Zucillini is a must definately.
    Fiorillo is amazing after like 1 season
    Ochoa becomes the best keeper in the game if you play him until he’s 26
    Walcott goes from 9mil to 38mil in two seasons and becomes a vital member of any squad
    gareth Bale, lay him until he’s 21 and Barcelona & other top Teams offer no less that 32mil
    Cristaldo is good when you first start and is only young, at around 21 he is the prems top scorer and puts it away practically every time. Amazing prospect.
    Craig Gardner surprisingly becoms a good SOLID right back for cheap for any mid table team.

  44. Addyharvey. says:

    Rytt :P

    i think Steven Defour is an amazing central midfielder he if one for the future and already looking like a new Steven Gerrard.
    i think also James McCarthy is also a fantastic young central midfielder .

    bye :P

  45. liam says:

    brazilian ronaldo. signed on a free 14 games so far 18 goals

  46. Kevin says:

    Nuri Sahin….Dortmund, plays as MC, but can be retrained to play well as AMC. He’s fast enough to play on the wings, but haven’t tried him out there just yet!

  47. Liverpool4evandalwayz says:

    Howard Beverland – Northern Irish right back 17 years old I scouted him, also i would look for wonderkids in Mexico because they have loads and Brazil.

  48. Fodifhogdih says:

    Serdar Tasci – Stuttgart
    Andres Guardado – Deportivo
    Hugo Lloris – Lyon
    Marcelo – Real Madrid

  49. Fodifhogdih says:

    Igor Akinfeev – CSKA Moscow
    Steve Mandanda – Marseille
    Manuel Neuer – Schalke
    Rui Patricio – Sporting
    Sergio Asenjo – Valladolid
    Sergio Romero – AZ
    Stephane Ruffier – Monaco
    Gael Clichy – Arsenal
    Paolo De Ceglie – Juventus
    Erik Pieters – PSV
    Stefan Radu – Lazio
    Andreas Beck – Hoffenheim
    Raul Albiol – Valencia
    Ruano Alexis – Valencia
    Sokratis Papastathopoulos – Genoa
    Gerard Pique – Barcelona
    Thiago Heleno – Cruzeiro
    Dirk Marcellis – PSV
    Mamadou Sakho – PSG
    Neven Subotic – Dortmund
    Johan Djourou – Arsenal
    Hector Moreno – AZ
    Marvin Compper – Hoffenheim
    Jan Vertonghen – Ajax
    Diego Capel – Sevilla
    Cristian Rodriguez – Porto
    Sebastian Blanco – Lanus
    Royston Drenthe – Real Madrid
    Jesus Navas – Sevilla
    Renato Augusto – Leverkusen
    Tobias Weis – Hoffenheim
    Ashley Young – Aston Villa
    Marko Marin – Monchengladbach
    Theo Walcott – Arsenal
    Juan Manuel Mata – Villareal
    Axel Witsel – Standard Liege
    James Milner – Aston Villa
    Aaron Lennon – Tottenham
    Roy Beerens – Heerenveen
    Ever Banega – Atletico Madrid
    Arturo Vidal – Leverkusen
    Dias Luis Gustavo – Hoffenheim
    Anderson – Man United
    Joao Moutinho – Sporting
    John Obi Mkel – Chelsea
    Fenando Gago – Real Madrid
    Marek Hamsik – Napoli
    Mohamed Sissoko – Juventus
    Marouane Fellaini – Everton
    Zdravko Kuzmanovic – Fiorentina
    Stephen Ireland – Man City
    Denilson – Arsenal
    Fabien Lemoine – Rennes
    Claudio Marchisio – Juventus
    David Silva – Valencia
    Samir Nasri – Arsenal
    Yoann Gourcuff – Bordeaux
    Honorato Ederson – Lyon
    Carlos Eduardo – Hoffenheim
    Viktor Fayzulin – Zenit
    Sebastian Giovinco – Juventus
    Alan Dzagoev – CSKA Moscow
    Alexandre Pato – AC Milan
    Gonzalo Higuain – Real Madrid
    Luis Suarez – Ajax
    Giuseppe Rossi – Villareal
    Mauro Zarate – Lazio
    Gabriel Agbonlahor – Aston Villa
    Stevan Jovetic – Fiorentina
    Carneiro Keirrison – Coritiba
    Norrdin Amrabat – PSV
    Djab Yannick – Sporting
    Edin Dzeko – Wolfsburg
    Alvaro Negredo – Almeria
    Edison Cavani – Palermo
    Dieumerci Mbokani – Standard Liege
    Fernando Llorente – Bilbao

  50. Som1whoknowsStuff says:

    Andre Ayew Nobody knows about him but i do. Great player African hidden star. Son of one of the best african players ever Abede Pele

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