He kicked up a fuss and I sold him to Sevilla - oops. Papastathopolous is very good too though.

Sakho is probably the best 'available' defender on the game, him or Fazio IMO. Chiellini is probably the best on it, though, him, Mexes or Vidic.

Shocking. He is superb, he, Papa and Sakho would have been three of the very best for a club like Genoa.

20th with 14 games to go, and I miss out on the playoffs on the last day, after only 2 defeats in those 14. Balls.

How hard is it to get yourself up for another season when that happens?!!

Now for League 1 and I've signed;

Lee Holmes - Left Midfielder from Southampton 30k
Daniel Ayala - Central Defender free transfer released by Liverpool
Chris Herd - Central Midfield free transfer released by Aston Villa
Romain Gasmi - Attacking left/right midfielder free transfer released by Strasbourg
Roy O'Donovan - Attacking right midfield or striker free transfer released by Sunderland
Febian Brandy - Striker free transfer released by Man Utd
Wayne Brown - Attacking midfielder right/centre free transfer released by Fulham
Now trying to sign Dan Harding left back from Southampton for 100k as they have transfer listed him

Sold 165k of players.

I think I should be able to finish in a decent position, won my first 2 games but I've lost the last 2.

He was immense on FM2009 for me. Banged them in for fun. Still as good?

Not too bad so far 5 league games, 3 goals, 1 assist, 7.40 average rating. Those 3 goals were all in one match though.

I'm playing him as a right midfielder.

Thanks, Smolarek would be a reasonable signing just for a few years whilst I build up interest in the club.

How does this run compared with 2009? I had that but it was slower than Paul Wellens on a Monday morning. The 3d graphical bit was like a flick page animation. Is it worth me bothering with this one? They say on the website they've optimised it, but they always say that.

I've run 2009 and 2010 on the same computer - AMD X2 6000, 2GB RAM, ATi 3870 1GB graphics card and the difference in performance is amazing.

2009 did run at a crawl and I couldn't get addicted to it but 2010 runs quick and so that addictiveness has came back, plus 3D has definitely improved.