Ths document ©Copyright 2000 Andreas Constantinou *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* LMA manager Console: Playstation Arthor: AgRaMaToS E-mail: Antreasms@hotmail.com Version: Final Started: Friday October 27 5:46pm Finished: Friday November 10 Last update: 11/11/2000 Final: Not an update. Just put 3 sites names and the questions and answers section. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* ------------------- Table of Contents ------------------- 1) Information 2) Review 3) Prologue 4) Staff 5) The team 6) Formations 7) Tactics-before the game 8) Tactics-while playing the game 9) Tactics 10) Transfers 11) The game 12) Challenges 13) Cheats 14) Questions and answers 15) Epilogue ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* = = = = = = = = = = = 1) Information = = = = = = = = = = = This document is ©Copyright 2000 Andreas Constantinou. All rights reserved. This stategy guide for LMA Manager is mine. It can only appear in this page (without my permision) GameFAQs.com neoseeker.com cheatplanet.com gameadvice.com If you see the faq anyware else(Other sites,magazines e.t.c) please e-mail me. My email: Antreasms@hotmail.com If you want to post it to your homepage e-mail me. Warning: This is a strategy guide. It is not a walkthrough. This can only help you make better your team. Don't e-mail me for no reason asking me about how to win the cup or why i have't more detailed things e.t.c! Please try to avoid that. There not going to be another update. Ok? This is the final version of this strategy guide. = = = = = = = = = = = 2) Review = = = = = = = = = = = Without objection this is the best football managerment game ever. No other managerment game can be compare with it to these sectors: The use The atmosphere The absorption to the details which this game offers. The accomplishment og LMA manager is not just it looks better, but is doing all the procedure to the real participation to the game, easy, fast and (The most exating of all) amusing. My final verdic 9 out of ten (9/10), 93%, and 4.5 out of five (4.5/5). = = = = = = = = = = = 3) Prologue = = = = = = = = = = = This is a strategy guide about this game. I mean LMA manager. This guide has all the advices the playe r want and it has also cheats! Open your Playstation, put in the LMA manager disc and start playing the game. Read step by step this guide and you are going to be the manager of the managers. = = = = = = = = = = = 4) Staff = = = = = = = = = = = The first thing you are going to be asked is if you want full staff. Don't accept. Maybe the worse coaches come to your team. It is better to ''dig'' the market to take the coathes with the most big rating. Only hire a coach which hei speciatity is on goalkeepers. You don't need coatches of defence and attack. Coaches of middle? Hahaha. I have never heard in my life of coatches of middle. They must be crazy. If you want hire a man and put him to work with the players contracts when they are going to expire. But DON'T put him to buy and sell players. Why? Because he will bring to your team the worse players of the world and he will sell your best players! = = = = = = = = = = = 5) The team = = = = = = = = = = = The balance of your team is a law. If you don't have balance you are not going to make it far with your team. For start be sure to put the best players to the best possisions (For example: Don't put a defender to attack or a goalkeeper to middle. Check them and put them in the right places). After you do that the possisions need strengthening.You will need at least two back, two right back and four attackers. The players are getting red card usually so four (attackers) is a good number. = = = = = = = = = = = 6) Formations = = = = = = = = = = = Use whatever system you like, but when you choose one you must always work on that. If you change formation every time you lose a chance or every time you lose the game, your time is going to be unusual and this is worse. Maybe all that words i said before is funny to you but believe me you mustn't change the formation. The next systems are the better: 4-4-2: One of the best. This of-cource it mustn't suprice you. You didn't heard one team in England to win the league with using 3-5-2 aren't you? If you have enough middles try it. 4-3-3: You need the victory? You can't choose between three attackers? Play 4-4-2. Why? If you put one more attacker you will lose one from the middle. It is better to use 4-4-2. But! If you are losing 2-0 20 minutes before the end of the match try 4-3-3. It maybe better for this case. 4-2-4: Only if you have a weak middle choose this formation. Of-cource if you have a weak middle sell some of the attackers and buy some of the middle play. 4-5-1: If you are "sold out" of attackers, the 4-5-1 formation is not a bad choise.You can also (strongly reccomment) put that formation if you are winning and want to hold the score. 5-4-1: Never!Never!Never! If you still win 1-0 5 minutes before the end of the match don't use it. This formation give courage to the enemy and they will score. Get away from it (It is dangerous) = = = = = = = = = = = 7) Tactics-before the game = = = = = = = = = = = 1) For start set the formation of your team. 2) Set the personal training of all your players to their weakness.(e.g An attacker has good stats at shooting and bad at passing. Put his training passing.) 3) Next set the distance that your players will take the shoots. You don't want your attackers to wait until the made it to 2m before the net to score. Ah?!? 4) Last there is a face to the screen and it explains if the player is happy or sad. = = = = = = = = = = = 8) Tactics-while playing the game = = = = = = = = = = = 1) Wingers: Like a long kick (or not?) 2) Possesion play: The players change the possesion of the play 3) Long ball: The "famous" long ball!!! 4) Counter attack } 5) Direct } Some formations 6) Free kick: I am not telling you (Just guess!!!) = = = = = = = = = = = 9) Tactics = = = = = = = = = = = Terminal: Don't play with terminals. You are wasting your time. Okay, maybe they are playing open but they never take long balls. Generally they are passing back to the middle and nobody is protecting it. Possesion of ball: Take a look at the stats. If you have under 50% possesion of ball try this tactic. Sometimes the players are going to overact it but is better than to "sell" the ball usually. If you are at the first 2 divisiond use it, because they will crash you. Long balls: Good tactic if your team can't pass short. With a few words if you haven't the best middle of the world the long balls is the best tactic for you. This of-cource mustn't be used from big clubs like ManUnd,Arsenal Aston Villa e.t.c Counter attack: This tactic isn't good. If your enemy has corner, you will normally wait for all the players to leave and to go to the counter attack. This never happens. There are better tactics. Short passing: Good morning! The goal is faaaaar away from that tactic. The players are ALWAYS passing and they never go forward. So... the enemy players steal the ball and they score!!! Never!never!never! Pass forward: Use it with the possesion of ball tactic for the first 2 divisions and with the long balls for the other divisions. The combination is a guarantee so give pass forward. Free Kick: Choose the middle player with the most "shoot" for the Free Kicks. If you choose an attacker and he miss it he won't be to his place (attack to score). Penalty: Choose your best attacker for the penalties. Not other words. Marking: Use your scouts to learn who is the best player of your next enemy. Then put your best defender to mark him. (e.g If the enemy team has a fast left forward for her best player choose a right fast back to mark him. Shoot: Always put your attackers to shoot from a middle distance, your middles from a far and your defenders from a short. Your attackers are going to take better places and they won't need to take the shoot when they take the ball. You middles won't go very forward. For end your defenders are not going to score ever, unless they are very close to the goal. = = = = = = = = = = = 10) Transfers = = = = = = = = = = = There is no reason to give all your money on Ronaldo if you have a bad right back. I know that it is boring, but you must fix your defence. How do you do that? Loan: If you need players quickly go to the loan screen. Your negotiations about buying a player are may cost you a couple of weeks, so it is better to loan a player if you want to do that quickly. In a year you can only loan 6 players so in their loan contract put them 3 months. If you aren't in the Premier Division better loan young English players because they are very good. Some of them: Joe Cole, Francis Jeffers and Stephen Mcpall. Bosman Ruling: It is the best way to take a player, because you don't need to pay to transfer fim to the team. You must be generous with the because they have finacial problems. This is a good way to take money because you can sell them after you take them. Young Team: Take a look to the young team. If you let the best player of the young team in the young team his morale will go down. Good Players: In Premier Division you can find the players you want, but in the other Divisions what's up? Here is a list about the best players out of Premier Division: a) Goalkeeper: Richard Wright: He is the best goalkeeper out of Premier Division. b) Defence: Kit Symons: Richard Whight hasn't make a single save. Kit will stop all the enemy's attacks. c) Middle: Jamie Shore: He scores usually. d) Attack: Shaun Goater: He scores unstoppable!!!. = = = = = = = = = = = 11) The game = = = = = = = = = = = Almost all the managers tell that when the players go in the stadium they can't do anything. Lie!You can change a lot of tactics in the game. Change the tactics before the halftime Only if your players play really bad!!! If they are not scoring from free kicks change the player who takes them. The best is to give them a chance. If they are still playing bad after 60 minutes of the match, change them! Remember all the board of stats are nominal. If you win 6-0, your defenders surely don't have a good rating and your attackers have. You must always watch the match. One last help tip: Your enemy always scores from corner. Change your defence to deep. You may don't score from the corner but your enemy may don't score either. = = = = = = = = = = = 12) Challenges = = = = = = = = = = = Like Brian Lara cricket, in Lma manager are challenges too. There are the challenges: Demotion: You have 8 weeks to save your team from the Demotion. The most helpful thing you must check there is the form. Don't choose a player that he isn't in a good form. Then see what form and what morale the players have and if they have low of those change them. Next you must find where the team"hurts". Put more attackers and make more strong your defence. Chase for the championship: You have 2 weeks to win the championship. Use this tactic. Choose form, not technique. The teams who want to save from the demotion are going to play very strong. The good thing for this challenge is that your players are high in morale and form. Money: You have 40 million dollars. Win the championship. Only 40 million dollars? Today you spend 30 million for just a good player. But! Don't take immedeadly attackers. If you choose ManUnd don't buy Ronaldo. That team has good attackers. Help the team in Defence. Keep $2,000 for the case that one of your players injured. Cup: Win the English Cup. This challenge is for a hole season. If you lose in one of the Cup matches then you lose. Play 4-4-2 formation and try to win all the matches 1-0. The big Challenge: In 5 weeks win the Championship, the English Cup and the Champions league. Give more sence to the championship. That doesn't mean that you must ingnore the other cups. Goal Heaven: Score the most goals in the championship. I said before that there's no reason to give your money to Ronaldo? Foget it! Take the best attackers in the world and put goals and goals and goals. Don't care about your defence. = = = = = = = = = = = 13) Cheats = = = = = = = = = = = Put these cheats on your name screen as your name.You can use them unlimited times. (Where"_" is space). If the cheat is correct you will hear a sound: WET_WET_WET....................... Rains every game FACTOR_25............................. Sunny every game KING_MIDAS.......................... 500 million starting cash BACKSEAT_MANAGER......... Best tactics & formation selected GOOD_KICKIN....................... Player replaces ball in highlights THE_BEST................................ Players stats over 90% NORTH_AND_SOUTH............ All transfers succesful QUICK_DRY_CEMENT.......... Faster stadium upgrade WITCH_DOCTOR.................... Heal injuries quickly IVOR_INVINCIBLE................. Never lose match PRIVATE_JET........................... Fly around the stadium at matches high-lights MARTIAL_ARTS...................... Ninja players at highlights GOLDEN_SANDS.................... Beachball at highlights *I prefer not to use the cheats for a better game. = = = = = = = = = = = 14) Questions and answers = = = = = = = = = = = Ok. This is the questions and answers section. These questions are real questions. You can submit one by email me, put subject " Questions for the Lma Manager FAQ" and put name, town and country. Your question will be 100% posted at my next update. If one of my answers is wrong or there is another answer email me, put subject " Answers for the Lma manager FAQ" and put name, city and town. Your answer will be 100% posted. (There aren't any questions yet) = = = = = = = = = = = 14) Epilogue = = = = = = = = = = = Well that's the guide. I hope it is going to help you. This is the final version. There aren't other updates to wait for. Have a nice game!!! P.S: If you have any questions e-mail me. -------------------------------- AgRaMaToS -------------------------------- EOF