Football Manager 2008 Good Players (Recommended)

Here is a brief list of players that I gathered from around the web and my game. Hope it’s helpful. They are highly recommended. However, some of them are quite expensive.

I will update this list as I find more good players.

Goalkeeper

Gianlugi Buffon (Juventus)
Iker Casillas (Real Madrid)
Petr Cech (Chelsea)
Jose Reina (Liverpool)

Defender (Centre Back)

Kolo Toure (Arsenal)
William Gallas (Arsenal)
Rio Ferdinand (Man United)
Gabriel Milito (Barcelona)
Alessandro Nesta (A.C Milan)
Vincent Kompany (HSV)
Daniel Agger (Liverpool)

Defender (Full Back)

Daniel Alves (Sevilla)

Midfielder (Defensive)

Javier Mascherano (Liverpool)
Daniele de Rossi (AS Roma)

Midfielder (Central)

Francesc Fabregas (Arsenal)
Steven Gerrard (Liverpool)
Rafael van der Vaart (HSV)
Kaka (AC Milan)]

Midfielder (Winger)

Cristiano Ronaldo (Man United)
Lionel Messi (Barcelona)
Maxi Rodrigue (Atletico Madrid)

Strikers

Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Inter Milan)
Adriano (Inter Milan)
David Villa (Valencia)
Samuel Eto’o (Barcelona)
Lukas Podolski (Bayern Munich)
Wayne Rooney (Man United)
Carlos Tevez (Man United)
Didier Drogba (Chelsea)
Thierry Henry (Barcelona)

Stay tune for potential players, featuring young and explosive players!

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26 Responses to “Football Manager 2008 Good Players (Recommended)”


  1. 1 choosen

    i recommend for Pablo Piatti (AMC), mostly of his goals came from long shoot from second line..

    i got him < 1M.

    he was my1st AMC although i had kevin boateng, belluschi (bought 19 M), mattias fernandez-midfielder playmaker (bought 19 M)..

    With him i was be able to defeat mostly oppositions like MU, Chelsea..

    However his weakness at his stamina..we couldn’t always used him for full 90 minutes..

    Just try..for lower spending budget

  2. 2 GameBlogger

    Yeah, he is under my Potential player list.

  3. 3 ingi björn

    filipenko put him in a afflicted club wich will let him play and his numbers go sky wards(-500.000), giovinco (18.000.000) marchasio(13,000,000), owen(9,000,000) ben sahar is great after 3 years ,michael woods(3,000,000) but highly giovinco and marchasio
    the best in the game

  4. 4 tom

    i have found a good goalkeeper called igor akinfeev he is very good he has got a clean sheet in the last 9 games for arsenal

  5. 5 david

    heres a few players ive got pablo piatti (amazing)marcelo grohe(grat gk) bruno (another good kepper)

  6. 6 david

    good some amazing players to show all use football manager fans post them soon

  7. 7 cappy

    use are so immature they players are average u need tae buy
    pazzini or gyan use sad people

  8. 8 Brandon Corfield

    Matias Fernandez - I brought him for 13.5m, Originally from Villarreal, Quick, good at dribbling,Reccomended player as he improves a lot because he is young.

    Thiago - 7.5m (worth it) - Brazilian wonder boy, Very good. Improving quickly.

    Genero Zeefuik - 1m - 18 year old from PSV, Improves very very quickly, he is good at dribbling, finishing. Reccomended. I firstly put him in my reserve squad, where he develops a lot. Brought him into my senior team, and he scored against chelsea.

    Gelson Fernandes - Very consistent defensive midfielder for man city. Also young and quick, and good at set pieces.

    Rolando Bianchi - just excellent !!

  9. 9 David

    Silva from Valencia.
    Bought him for Barcalona in my 2nd season, played 21 scored 18 and 17 assists… Also cost me 41 million though.

  10. 10 bryan

    Luke Moore is my favorit player.He’s good dribbling,good long shoot and
    finishing of the ball.

  11. 11 Raffik

    Danny Haynes ipswich about 250k at start will get 30+ goals a season

  12. 12 Sayer

    renato augusto is a brilliant buy…have to pay about 14 million but well worth it….got him for my portmouth team…starting line up

    james
    rafinha
    guy demel
    dellafiore
    john mensah
    jean ll makoun
    asomaoh gyan
    farfan
    renato augusto
    pato
    laverzzi

    won the league last season and im unstoppable…also check out derek boateng midfield engine great buy for me in 1st season only cost me 1 million

  13. 13 Always Spurs

    My dream team with Spurs in season 2009-2010

    I Play a 3-5-2 (attacking) – Very important to have a well balanced team and to have creative and attacking WB´s.

    I am unbeaten in the first half of the season, and the boys are really doing well.

    GK – Paul Robinson (Solid keeper)
    WBR – Rafinha (Good croses and a good attacking right wing)
    WBL – Gareth Bale (Huge talent and one of the best left wings in the game so far)
    DC – Johanathan Woodgate (Bought him in Boro “before the update came” and he is very strong)
    DC – Ledley King (My Captain and the organiser of my defence, great leader and defender)
    DC – Cesar Arzo (Strong and commanding defender from villarael who also score goals on corners)
    MC – Luigi Buigi (Good passer from feynoord, talented and young, does not score that much)
    MC – Romaric (Excellent player, attacking as well as defending, good balance player in midfield with great long shots, freekicks and so on. Was picked for the team of the year in PRM twice)
    MC – Leonardo (Young creative midfielder with a lot of technique and tricks, passes excellent trough balls and score fantastic goals)
    FC – Dimitar Berbatov (Player of the year in Spurs two years in a row, always delivers good performances and score about 25-30 a season)
    FC – Nicholas Anelka (Finding himself very good with Berbatov on his side and scores 30-35 a season)
    SB1 – Morgan Santis
    SB2 – Younes Kaboul (very strong defender, my next Ledley King)
    SB3 – Wienaldum (Very talented youngster who became very good)
    SB4 – Fernando (Very strong defensive midfielder, who is substituted when we need to bring a close victory home)
    SB5 – Henok Goitom (Super Striker, the next Berbatov)

  14. 14 Niall

    I thought this site had quite a cool selection of players - http://www.thefootymanager.com/2007/11/11/football-manager-2008-future-stars/

  15. 15 Richard

    Maxi Rodriguez is fantastic. Him alongside Drogba is amazing for Chelsea.

  16. 16 Steven

    These are a couple of unknown players that do not have the best attributes but become fanatastic getting 8’s and 9’s in ever game they play in

    craig cathcart (man united)
    ryan conroy (celtic)
    Jordan mcmillan (rangers)
    Stefan Laird ( blackpool)

  17. 17 Swainy

    carlos vela
    sunny
    elano scores loads behind striker
    chellini
    anderson
    makoun
    insua
    hamsik
    giovinco
    trezeguet

  18. 18 andyroo

    aguero from at madrid got me 47 goals befor the end of the season,
    (pluss only 19 and is a wonder kid has some well placed goals)

    van der vaart from hsv is some player if you play him in attacking mid with say like cambiasso from inter he gets some great long range goals,

    these are my top players so far,

  19. 19 Simo

    I am sheff u and Billy sharp is amazin he scored 15 in 7 for including a hat trick against chelsea in league cup but then he tore his calf and was out for rest of season and also try bogdan stancu and pablo piatti he scvored 5 in 6 and gt 7 assists

  20. 20 Santidane

    Aaritalo one of the best strikers you can buy
    He is good from the beginning and improves a lot
    He ends up playing for AC Milan
    AARITALO must buy

  21. 21 Steven M

    i have found a few good players , all great youngsters.

    Erland Thorvaldsen - fredrikstad
    Ken Fagerberg - Orgryte
    Eden Hazard - Lille
    valter - padernese
    all great youngsters , i highly recommend then

  22. 22 alin

    guys, try these players:
    Lulinha-corinthians , Balazs dzudzsak, iriome, sakho, cesar delgado, lucas biglia

  23. 23 Patrick

    Some of my favorites:

    Niklas bendtner /Arsenal
    Andrea Barzaglia /Palermo
    Damian Tissone / Atalanta
    Jean Makoun /lille

  24. 24 JRob

    Where on earth is Aguero, best creative striker on the game, and only 19!?!
    Also
    Evra (best left back)
    Vidic
    Craig Gordon (legendary keeper)
    Frey
    Van Der Saar

  25. 25 Chris

    A lot of these players are really expensive to buy, i partucularly like playing in the cocacola championship and i found these great players which are probably good enough for premiership teams :

    Winston Parks (free)
    Bogdan Stancu (170k)
    Mika Aaritalo (80k)
    Sortris Ninis (750k)
    Dalibor Volas (80k)
    Frazier Campbell (on loan)
    Gabriel Torje (<500k)

    there is a lot of interest in these players and all move fomr original teams pretty quick so only cheap at start of game

  26. 26 NINOS

    I have Barcelona in the second year. Some of my best players are
    ANDREI ARSHAVIN (ZENIT) 10,25M (THE BEST)
    MATIAS FERNANDEZ (VILLAREAL) 15,25
    ADRIAN (DEPORTIVO) 29M
    MIGUEL VELOSO(SPORTING) 35M
    LUKA MODRIC (DINAMO ZAGREB) 21M
    EZEQUEL GARAY (RACING) 12,5M
    MARCELO (REAL) 15M HE WANTS THE PERFECT CONTRACT
    RINCON (INTER) 1,5M
    SAKHO (PARI) 1,6M
    PAPASTATHOPOULOS 3M (AEK)

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