Championship Manager: Season 00/01

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Contents 1 Cheat Codes 1.1 Transfer funds do not decrease 1.2 £100 million 2 Hints 2.1 Keep good record 2.2 Faster matches 2.3 Champion team 2.4 Start as England manager 2.5 Easy money 2.6 Easy victory 2.7 Buy FGN players that have European Passports 2.8 Opponent has no players 2.9 Finding good players 2.10 Cheap players 2.11 Free players 2.12 Recommended players 3 More...

Cheat Codes

Transfer funds do not decrease

Enter JIMMY RULES as a manager name. When you buy a player, your transfer funds will not decrease.

£100 million

Enter FISHBITE as a manager name.

Hints

Keep good record

You can exit the game without saving if you are losing by pressing [Keypad Asterisk]. You now have another chance to win that game.

Faster matches

Press [Space] during the game while there is not any on-screen commentary. Note: You will also need to repeat this at the start of the second half.

Champion team

Choose a team to manage but do not select "Take Control". Instead, select "Tactics". The game will respond that no tactics are available. Type champions then select "Take Control". Your team will have better performance.

Start as England manager

At the start of a new game, click on any English club. Then, click on any English player. Click on the players nationality (English). The England team will appear. Select "Take Control". You will then be the manager of England.

Easy money

• Play as a team such as Real Madrid and sell add on a manager such as Manchester United. Get Manchester United to buy your players such as Savio for £12 million and players such as Geremi for £7 million. You can get about £100 million after selling them, and be able to buy players such as Lugi Baggio and others.
  

• Start with Juventus and transfer list Del Piero. Lots of clubs will offer a large amount of money for him (about £30,000,000). Note: Do not accept the offers with monthly installments, as some of the clubs will offer straight up front.
  

Easy victory

• Simply take over the opposition's team. Play all the players on the wing, which results in your team getting a big win.
  

• Select "Add Manager" and click on the team you will play next. Select "Tactics" and set all the players on the side with no one in goal. Also place the worse captain in charge of that team.
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Buy FGN players that have European Passports

In the player and staff search screen, click on "Player Search". Then, specify "EU National" under filters. While you are in there type in, after the "Text" filter, a country or continent outside the EU. This will allow you buy to foreign players that have EU passports such as Alexander Mostovoi (who is Russian/Portuguese).

Opponent has no players

Choose a rival team that you do not like. Add manager, then free transfer all their players. Instead of clicking "Continue", retire immediately. None of the free transfers will be blocked, leaving them with no players.

Finding good players

Enter the "/cm0001/editor/" folder and run the cm0001ed.exe file to start the game editor. Use it to open your data file, which should be in the "/cm0001/data" folder. Use the filter to find any player who has ability over 180. These players are very good but usually are very expensive and famous. However, some of them are not -- for example, some players from South America. You can use filter to find any player with potential over 180. Some of them, especially the younger ones, are not expensive and will develop into very good players in a few years.

Cheap players

• Add the manager of the club that the player is at. You can now release the player you want and resign as manager that day. The very next day you will see that the player is freelance and plays for number one. You can then attempt to sign the player on at a cheap price.
• Add the manager, then just make a bid of about a million. You are manager of the club that you want the player from, so you can accept and reject any other bids from other clubs and let the player go to your club for a very small amount.

Free players

• Take over the team that you would like to get the player from and set his transfer status to $0, "This Player Is Not Needed" and "This Player Is On Transfer List". He will get mad. Click on "Change Player" and switch to your name. Approach to buy him and the desired player should be worth $0. After that, you will get a new mail message for the team you took over. Accept the transfer, etc., The player will almost always accept your contract and sign with you for no money. Note: If the player is in a different region, when you choose the leagues you want so you can get your free players, choose the leagues with the players in them.
  

• To get a player to volunteer, place an outrageous bid for him (twice his market value). After his team has accepted, change your offer zero and select "Cancel" on the "Adjust Offer" screen.

Recommended players

Try the following players.
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Ada Fleming (free, 14 years old, comes into game a few months in)

Alan Shearer

Alan Smith

Alessandro Turchetta

Alex Notman

Allesandro Del Piero

Ariel Ortega

Arjen Robben

Arthur Numan

Athirson

Aydin Musa

Ben Thatcher

Bennidect McCarthy

Bernardo Romeo

Celestine Babayaro

Cesar

Cherno Samba

Claudio Lopez

Csaba Feher

Daniel Andersson

Daniel Nardellio

Daniel Osorno

Daniel Van Buyten

Danny Schofield (£800,000)

Darren Fletcher (wait until 2003)

David Bingham (varies)

David Healy (Man. U.)

Denilson

Denis Yevsikov

Deon Burton

Diego Cagne

Diego Quintana

Dieter Hamann

Djalminha

Dmitry Parfenov

Dominic Matteo

Edwin Congo

Emiliano Conti

Faustino Asprilla

Fausto Rossini

Frank Baumann

Giacomo Cipriani

Guly

Gustavo Lopez

Guti

Hatem Trabelsi

Helder Postiga (free)

Hernan Jorge Crespo

Inacio Pia

Jairo Fernando Castillo

Jamie Smith

Jay Jay Okocha

Joe Cole

John Convery

Jorge Luis Anchen

Jose Quitongo

Julian Gray

Julio Ricardo Cruz

Julius Aghahowa

Kahveci Nihat

Kalam Mooniaruck (free)

Kennedy Barkiciglou (£2.3million)

Kim Kallstrom (£1.2million)

Kris Taylor (wait until 2004 before buying him)

Lubomir Moravcik

Lucio

Ludwig Freden Klenfelt

Mads Timm (under £5 million)

Marcus Allback

Markus Kreuz

Martin Djeton

Martin Palermo (Boca)

Martin Wood

Maxim Tsigalko (Dinamo Minsk)

Michael Ballack

Michael Mols

Omer Riza (West Ham.)

Patrick Kluivert

Paul Matthijs

Peter Lovenkrands

Pierre Wome

Rafael Van Der Vaart

Raul Estevez

Ricardinho

Ronaldinho

Sergey Semak

Sharbel Touma

Shota Arveladze

Stefan Klos

Stephane Dalmat

Stephen Crainey

Steve Harper (willing to drop down a few divisions and is only 800K at the start)

Steve Mcmanaman

Tayfun

Tierry Henry

Tomas Rosicky

Tote

Valery Karpin

Vincenzo Montella

Vinicio Espinal (buy him midway through first season)

Vladimir Smicer

Willie Howie (about £1 million)

Willy Sagnol

Zoltan Sebescen

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Mark Kerr is very cheap, but becomes an amazing player. Buy him from Falkirk at the beginning. He will cost about £800,000 but can be worth up to £15 million after three or four years. Also llyas Saglamoglu from Torslanda is very cheap. He costs about £90,000 but can be worth up to £16 million. Also, try to buy players from Finnish or Swedish clubs. Some players can be bought for £200,000, but be worth about £8 million within half a season. Phillipe Mexes from Auxerre and Ivan Javier Cuadrado are also quite cheap and very good players for middle table Premiership clubs.

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