Alex Ferguson's Player Manager 2001 Cheats

Alex Ferguson's Player Manager 2001

Hint: Easy money:
Set the value of all your players on the left halfof the squad screen as £99.999 million, and five of thoseon the right as the same. Then, set the sixth as about £45to 50 million and go to "Finances". You should be ableto take out a loan at about negative £640 million. Do thisand immediately repay the loan. You should end up with about £95million to spend. This can be repeated as often as desired, butvery rarely your money will reset to zero and you will have todo it again.

Hint: Player placement:
The game has a problem with full-backs and centralmidfielders -- it makes them play awful. To get round this, playyour full-backs further wide than they start, cancel their passesto the wingers, and give them forward runs and early crossinginstructions. Play a 4-5-1 formation with one central midfielderjust in front of the back 4, and two just behind the striker (levelwith the wingers). Play one with high vision (70+) on the leftand one with high shooting (80+) on the right.

Hint: Good players:
A player that must be purchased no matter who you areis Barcelona's Javier Saviola. With a sell-on clause, you canget his value down to about £1.5 million. Play him on theleft wing (although he is a striker). Look for a player in anyposition with good pace and power stats (the only important statsfor a winger) and play him on the right wing. The quality of crossingwill not always be great but they will get past their men easily,and Saviola will not run the ball out very often down the left(unlike most wingers).

Upfront, there are a number of quality players available. Thereare the obvious ones: Batistuta, Trezeguet, Owen, Ronaldo, etc,but watch for pace, power, control and agility in your forwards(shooting does not really matter). A good cheap player with potentialif you start a default game is 16 year old Paraguayan F. Torres.He should have 92 on pace and about 50 on shooting. You can gethim (without sell-on) for about £140 thousand. Also, if youcan afford it, buy Pascal Zuberhuler (Leverkusen) as your goalie.

A good player for not much money is Sammy Baumgart of Wolfsburg.