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 Champion team 2.2 Start as England manager 2.3 Easy money 2.4 Easy victory 2.5 Buy FGN players that have European Passports 2.6 Opponent has no players 2.7 Finding good players 2.8 Free players 2.9 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

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.

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.

Recommended players

The following are very good players that are unknown. Some of them are young to start, with so you may have to wait a bit before you buy them. Some are not very good, but once the start playing they will improve.

Kris Taylor (wait until 2004 before buying him)

Frank Baumann

Tayfun

Daniel Andersson

Willy Sagnol

Martin Djeton

Vinicio Espinal

Inacio Pia

Ricardinho

Daniel Osorno

Zoltan Sebescen

Stephane Dalmat

Bernardo Romeo

Guly

Daniel Van Buyten

Markus Kreuz

Edwin Congo

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Try the following players:

Ludwig Freden Klenfelt

Tomas Rosicky

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

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Try the following players:

Vincenzo Montella

Hernan Jorge Crespo

Patrick Kluivert

Julio Ricardo Cruz

Athirson

Paul Matthijs

Alex Notman

Darren Fletcher (wait until 2003)

Pierre Wome

Diego Cagne

Daniel Nardellio

Emiliano Conti

Alessandro Turchetta

Edwin Congo

Vinicio Espinal (buy him midway through first season)

Willy Sagnol

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The following are good players for Division One and the Premiership:

Omer Riza (West Ham.)

David Healy (Man. U.)

Martin Palermo (Boca)

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Try buying the following players. The players marked with an asterisk (*) get especially good and a few years into the game could be worth about £25,000,000 each. The other players might not look good but if you buy them they get brilliant.

Julian Gray*

Raul Estevez

John Convery

Stephen Crainey

Fausto Rossini*

Lucio

Alan Smith

Julius Aghahowa

Joe Cole

Giacomo Cipriani*

Jamie Smith

Jairo Fernando Castillo

Aydin Musa

Kahveci Nihat*

Csaba Feher

Dmitry Parfenov

Denis Yevsikov

Sergey Semak

Arjen Robben *

Diego Quintana

Jorge Luis Anchen

Michael Ballack

Hatem Trabelsi

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Some of the following players are useful for Premiership Teams. Some of them could be worth £20 million or more when you are about five seasons in.

Sharbel Touma

Bennidect McCarthy

Kennedy Bakircioglu

Martin Palermo

Alan Smith

Alan Shearer

Gustavo Lopez

Marcus Allback

Omer Riza

David Healy

Arthur Numan

Peter Lovenkrands

Shota Arveladze

Stefan Klos

Michael Mols

Ronaldinho

Allesandro Del Piero

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Also, try these players.

Dominic Matteo

Dieter Hamann

Denilson

Valery Karpin

Djalminha

Rafael Van Der Vaart

Omer Riza

Ariel Ortega

Celestine Babayaro

Lubomir Moravcik

Tierry Henry

Ben Thatcher

Vladimir Smicer

Jay Jay Okocha

Cherno Samba

Deon Burton

Cesar

Jose Quitongo

Faustino Asprilla

Guti

Tote

Claudio Lopez

Steve Mcmanaman

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Some good and cheap players at the start of the game are:

Willie Howie (about £1 million)

Kim Kallstrom (£1.2million)

Kennedy Barkiciglou (£2.3million)

Helder Postiga (free)

Kalam Mooniaruck (free)

Danny Schofield (£800,000)

Martin Wood

Mads Timm (under £5 million)

David Bingham (varies)

Ada Fleming (free, 14 years old, comes into game a few months in)

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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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