FM 2010 Good Striker : André Gignac

André Gignac

I play him as a lone Striker, he isn't ticked as a target man but thats basically how he plays, with modric just behind, his role is a complete forward and his duty is attack. I played him as a poacher in a 4-2-3-1 for about 5 easy games and he scored 1 goal. Then i read this thread and gave him a complete forward role and he scored 5 goals in the next 2 games.

good player guide FM 2010

Name: Carlos Tevez
Club: Manchester City
Position: FC
Role: Defensive Forward
Mentality: Depends - If you are playing against a team with a deep lying playmaker or DM then support. If not Attack
Other Instructions: None

I've had great success playing Tevez this way. Quite often the goals he scores are so simple, intercepting backpasses or taking the ball of defenders. His high workrate and determination means he will not stop chasing and closing down your opponents defence and forcing them into long ball tactics or errors.

Name-Andy Keogh
Club-Wolves
Position-CF
Role-Deep lying forward
Mentality-Support

Has 7 in 7 for me, unheard of in real life, including some absolute peaches from outside the box.

Name: Craig Bellamy
Club: Manchester City
Position: FC
Role: Target Man
Mentality: Attack
Other Instructions: On team instructions, set play Bellamy as your primary Target Man and put the Target Man supply to, Run On To Ball.

Using Bellamy in this role as an impact sub, has so far rewarded me with a return of 13 goals in 7 starts and 9 sub appearences.

Name: Simon Vukcevic
Club: Sporting
Position: AM L/C
Role: Attacking Midfielder
Mentality: Attacking
Other Instructions: Much creative freedom, longshots sometimes, run with ball often. Will dominate between midfield and attack.

Name: Joao Moutinho
Club: Sporting
Position: MC
Role: Box to Box midfielder
Mentality: Normal
Other Instructions: Set his closing down to high, passes to mixed, longshots to sometimes. He may not have the best stats, but this guy is money. If you need a goal, he will score it. The Gerrard of Sporting.

Name: Miguel Veloso
Club: Sporting
Position: D / M C
Role: Deep Lying Playmaker
Mentality: Standard
Other Instructions: Tackling aggressive, closing down always, through balls often, passing mixed. One of my all time favourite players, great passing, ensures you control the game from midfield.

Name: Sergio Agüero
Club: Atlético Madrid
Position: AMC
Role: Inside Forward
Mentality: Support
Other Instructions: He's quite versatile. He could play as a striker with a advanced forward role as well. Give him a Free Role.

Name:Edin Džeko
Club: Wolfsburg
Position: FC
Role: Advanced Forward
Mentality: Attack
Other Instructions: None

3 hat tricks in 6 games playing with these instructions in my Chelsea game

Name: Cristian Zapata
Club: Manchester City (bought him from Udinese)
Position: Central Defender
Role: Central Defender
Mentality: Stopper
Other Instructions: N/A

When it comes to attacking the ball, this guy is your man. Play him alongside a pacey, intelligent Centre Half with a cover mentality and watch him mop up anything that comes in the air. He'll dominate all day and on the very rare occasion he does miss a header, your pacey centre half will mop up no problem. So far for me has an average of 7.56 in 18 games and is my 2nd highest rated player. Just checked his actual stats and he wins 97% of all of his headers and most of the missed one's have come in the oppositions area from corners.

Name:Goran Pandev
Club: Lazio
Position: AM
Role: Inside Forward
Mentality: Attack
Other Instructions: None

Scores and assists a hat load!

Name:Angel Di Maria
Club: Benfica
Position: AML
Role: Winger
Mentality: Attack
Other Instructions: None

Absolutely class, bargain at little over 4million.

Name:Xabi Alonso
Club: Real Madrid
Position: MC
Role: Deep Lying Playmaker
Mentality: Support

Awesome, watch him split the opponents defence with a long through ball out to the wingers consistantly.

Name: Daniele De Rossi
Club: AS Roma
Position: MC
Role: Box to Box Midfielder
Mentality: Support
Other Instructions: None

Playing amazing for me with these instructions for Chelsea. Has scored 3 and has 2 assists in his first 4 games.

Name:Michael Rankine
Club: York City
Position: FC
Role: Targetman
Mentality: Attack
Other Instructions: TTB, RWB, LS and Cross at rarely, run from deep set too mixed.

Scored 6 in 8 so far Rank's is a beast in the BSP.

Name:Wes Brown
Club:Manchester United
Position:CB
Role:Limited Defender
Mentality:Stopper
Other Instructions:None


Name:Rio Ferdinand
Club:Manchester United
PositionCB
Role:Limited Defender
Mentality:Cover
Other Instructions:None

When played together like this they are almost unplayable unbeaten in every competition bar 1.(an unlucky 2 nil defeat to besiktas in the champions cup. My only defeat so far.)

Name: Eduardo
Club: Arsenal
Position: ST
Role: poacher
Mentality: Attack
Other Instructions: (keep as default)

Name: Robin Van Persie
Club: Arsenal
Position: AM(R), ST
Role: Deep-lying attacker
Mentality: Support
Other Instructions: (keep as default)

Name: Luka Modric
Club: Tottenham
Position: AML
Role: Advanced playmaker
Mentality: attacking
Other Instructions: none

Name: Luis Suarez
Club: Ajax
Position: AML
Role: Inside Forward
Mentality: Support
Other Instructions: none

Name: Artem Milevskyi
Club: Dynamo Kiev
Position: ST
Role: Complete forward
Mentality: attacking
Other Instructions: none

Name: Wilson Palacios
Club: Tottenham
Position: CM
Role: Ball-winning midfielder
Mentality: Support
Other Instructions: none

Name: Rafael Van Der Vaart
Club: Real Madrid
Position: AMC/CM
Role: Advanced playmaker
Mentality: support
Other Instructions: none

Name: Aaron Lennon
Club: Tottenham
Position: AMR/RM
Role: Winger
Mentality: Attack
Other Instructions: none

Name: Sebastian Giovinco
Club: Juventus
Position: AML
Role: Inside Forward
Mentality: Attack
Other Instructions: None

Name: Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Club: Barcelona
Position: FC
Role: Complete Forward
Mentality: Support
Other Instructions: drop his runs from deep to rarely

Name: Wilson Palacios
Club: Tottenham
Position: CM
Role: Ball-winning midfielder
Mentality: Support
Other Instructions: none

Just to add on, train him with get forward whenever possible and he just get insane on my game

Name: Oscar Cardozo
Club: Benfica (I've got him at Aston Villa)
Position: ST
Role: Deep Lying Forward
Mentality: Support

Get him to shoot with power and take free kicks.

Play him with a second striker who is set to Advanced Forward/Poacher with attacking mentality and he is brilliant.

Name: Jo
Club: Celtic
Position: ST
Role: Unsure
Mentality: Attack
Other Instructions: Unsure

Name: Milesyki
Club: Celtic
Position: ST
Role: Unsure
Mentality: Attack
Other Instructions: Unsure

Name: williton
Club: celtic(spartak moscow)
Position:ST(left) (am/fc)
Role: advanced forward
Mentality: attack
Other Instructions: default




Name: joseba llorente
Club: celtic (villarreal)
Position: ST(right)
Role: Deep lying forward
Mentality: Attack
Other Instructions: default

Club: Oldham Athletic
Position: AMR/L
Role: Winger
Mentality: Attack
Other Instructions: Hug Touchline, Crossing Mixed

FM 2010 Free transfers

Name: Ebi Smolarek

Age: 28

Nationallity: Polish

What leagues? Lower Premiership and below

Position: Forward Centre

Anything else?: A fantastic striker for championship sides, former Bolton man, boasts stats such as Finishing 15, First Touch 16, Composure 17 , Creativity 15, Technique 15 a Pace 15, looks a solid buy.

Name: Michael Misfud

Age:28

Nationallity: Malta

What leagues? Championship is probably highest

Position:Striker

Anything else?: Former Coventry player, suprised he's on a free, will be looking to get him for Cardiff. I'm sure many Coventry fans will be wanting him back.

Name: Michael Misfud

Age:28

Nationallity: Malta

What leagues? Championship is probably highest

Position:Striker

Anything else?: Former Coventry player, suprised he's on a free, will be looking to get him for Cardiff. I'm sure many Coventry fans will be wanting him back.

Name: Antoine Sibierski

Age: 35

Nationallity: French

What leagues: championship and lower

Position: AM/FC

Anything else: Former manchester city player will do a decent job for a mid table championship team, Also might be willing to drop down the leagues

Name: Michael Ball

Age: 29

Nationallity:English

What leagues? Championship maximum

Position: Left back/wing back

Anything else?: Former PSV a Man City man, still not in his thirties and a solid player.

Name Sol Campbell

Age: 34

Nationallity: English

What leagues? Championship, maybe lower premiership for experience a tutoring.

Position: Centre-back

Anything else?: Well known England international, partner him with a quick defender and you should have a solid back line.

Name: Dietmarr Hammann

Age: 35

Nationallity: German

What leagues? Championship or below obviously, maybe lower Premiership for experience

Position: Defensive Midfielder, midfield centre.

Anything else?: Very experienced and won caps for Germany, a solid anchorman in midfield. Very good technical(defensive) stats.

Name: Glauber Berti

Age: 25

Nationallity: Brazillian

What leagues? Championship or below

Position: Centre back

Anything else?: Solid player and should bring in your value for money, not used by Man City and released, not that quick so pair him up with a quick defender.

Name: Rudolph Douala

Age: 30

Nationallity: Cameroon

What leagues? Championship or below

Position: AMR/FC

Anything else?: Looks a slid attacking player, for backup or first team.

Name: Santiago Ezquerro

Age: 32

Nationallity: Spanish

What leagues? Lower Championship a below

Position: Forward

Anything else?: Former Barcelona man and a lot of experience, for League One he should provide experience for youth and a good season up front.

Name: Lauren

Age: 32

Nationallity: Cameroon

What leagues? Championship or below

Position: Right back( Rb)

Anything else?: Former Arsenal a Portsmouth man, and a lot of experience international wise, he should be a solid full back at championship level for at least a season.

Name: Rohan Ricketts

Age: 26

Nationallity: English

What leagues? Lower Championship a below

Position: AMR/L/CENTRE

Anything else?: Attacking minded and can play all across the attacking midfield positions, his variety of positions is useful and looks a decent player.

Name: Rudi Skacel

Age: 29

Nationallity: Czech Republic

What leagues? Championship or below

Position: Lb/AML

Anything else?: Very useful player for championship a below, former Hearts player, looks a solid buy.

Name: Andy Van Der Meyde

Age: 29

Nationallity: Dutch( Holland)

What leagues? Championship or below

Position: AMR/L

Anything else?: Released by Everton in the summer he's a good buy for championship teams.

Name: Jorge Andrade

Age: 31

Nationallity: Portugal

What leagues? Championshp or below

Position: Sweeper/Defender Centre

Anything else?: Used to be a first team starter for teams like Juventus, but unfortunately has been hampered by injuries, he'd be a top guy, not lacking hardly anywhere.

Name: Guillaume Beuzelin

Age: 30

Nationallity: French

What leagues? Very Low championship or below

Position: Midfield Centre

Anything else?: Backup for championship sides and should be a starter for League One Sides, another former Coventry man, who also used to play for Hibs.

Name: Henri Camara

Age: 32

Nationallity: Senegal

What leagues? Brilliant for championship

Position: Striker

Anything else?: Never really got going at any club since his first season at Wigan back in 2005, for a free transfer, he looks the business for a couple of seasons.

Name: Christian Vieri

Age: 35

Nationallity: Italy

What leagues? Havent tried anyone except a lower prem team yet.

Position: Striker

Anything else?: If you dont know this fella, you aint a football fan, amazing striker back in his day, use to score for fun for Inter after turn of the century!

Name: Henk Timmer

Age: 37

Nationallity: Dutch

What leagues? I have not signed him. Currently clubs from Serie A (including AC Milan) and La Liga are trying to sign him.

Position: Goalkeeper

Anything else?: Released by Feyenoord

Name: Mark Viduka

Age: 33

Nationallity: Australian (EU National)

What leagues? High Championship, Decent Bench player for a Relegation threatened Prem club

Position: Striker

Name: Alberto Fontana

Age: 42

Nationallity: Italian

What leagues? Premier League backup at best

Position: Goalkeeper

Anything else? One of the oldest players to ever play in Serie A and recently left Palermo.

Name: Willy Topp

Age: 23

Nationallity: Chilean/German

What leagues? League 1 perhaps

Position: Striker

Anything else? Former Bradford player with pretty decent stats.

Name: Ivan Campo

Age: 35

Nationallity: Spanish

What leagues? Championship and below

Position: DC/DM/MC

Anything else? A legend really..

Name: Michael Bridges

Age: 30

Nationallity: English

What leagues? League 1 and below

Position: Striker

Anything else? A player who started his career with such promise.

Name: Johann Vogel

Age: 32

Nationallity: Swiss

What leagues? Low Premier League/Championship and below

Position: Defensive Midfield

Anything else? An experienced international.

Name: Danny Mills

Age: 32

Nationality: English

What leagues? Definitely Championship and perhaps even lower levels of Premiership

Position: DC/DR/WB R

Anything else? Great amount of quality for free.

Name: Moritz Volz

Age: 26

Nationallity: German

What leagues? Championship for sure, and maybe low EPL

Position: D/WB R

Anything else?: Solid mental and physical stats, not so much in technique.

Name: Elliot Omozusi

Age: 20

Nationallity: English/Nigerian

What leagues? League One

Position: DR/DC

Anything else? Wages are fairly high at £2,600 for League One.

Name: Pelé (Pedro Miguel Cardoso Monteiro)

Age: 31

Nationallity: Cape Verde/Portuguese

What leagues? League One

Position: DC

Anything else? Gets called up for Cape Verde international matches.

Name: Izzy Iriekpen

Age: 27

Nationallity: English

What leagues? League One

Position: DC

Anything else? Decent League One defender who actually has good pace 16.

Name: Elliot Grandin

Age:21

Nationallity: French

What leagues?: Championship, possibly League 1

Position: AMR

Anything else?: Just released by Marseille.

Name: Sergiy Fedorov

Age: 34

Nationallity: Ukraine

What leagues? Championship

Position: DC

Anything else? The old veteran asks for a lot in wages but he's still good for some time. Almost as good as Jorge Andrade (who stat-wise is the best freebie in the demo)

Name: Seyfo Soley

Age: 29

Nationallity: Gambia

What leagues? Championship and below

Position: DC/DMC

Anything else? Has most of his stat points where it counts, so even though his CA is probably low he can still do a job for your team.. A beast of a player with extremely high physical stats and good marking, heading, aggression and bravery. Doesn't ask for much.

Name: Joseph Enakarhire

Age: 26

Nationallity: Nigeria

What leagues? Championship and below.

Position: DC

Anything else? Another good defensive player that doesn't ask for much. About as good as Soley, but with more stat points and more years of football left. At the end of the demo his value was over 2M€.

Name: Dejan Stefanovic

Age: 34

Nationallity: Serbia

What leagues? Lower Championship and below

Position: DC

Anything else? Old but still decent for some time. Doesn't ask for much.

Name: Bakary Soro

Age: 23

Nationallity: Ivory Coast

What leagues? Championship and below

Position: DR

Anything else? A young fullback that doesn't ask for much and still has room for improvement. kevin summerfield from Plymouth says it would be a "fantastic signing".

Name: Álvaro Novo

Age: 31

Nationallity: Spain

What leagues? Lower Championship and below

Position: AMC & AMR

Anything else? Good all rounded-freebie.

Name: Keko

Age: 17

Nationallity: Spanish

What leagues? Future mid-table premiership club star

Position: AMC/R, MC/R

Anything else?: Plays for Atletico Madrid, can be approached for compensation, but if you offer nothing, they accept. He can provide good backup, played well for me as Chelsea off benc

Name: Glauber

Age: 25

Nationality: Brazilian

What leagues?: Championship, might cut it in at a smaller Prem team too.

Position: Centre Back

Anything else?: Former Man City man who never really got much of a chance.

Name: Edgar Davids

Age: 36

Nationallity: Dutch

What leagues? Championship

Position: DM, CM

Anything else?: Looks brilliant for his age again.

Name: Boudewijn Zenden

Age: 32

Nationallity: Dutch

What leagues? Championship

Position: MLC

Anything else?: Great attacking player, Highly recommended.

Name: Stephen Appiah

Age: 28

Nationallity: Ghana

What leagues? Premiership, Championship

Position: DM, CM

Anything else?: Great ball winning midfielder.

Good Strikers in FM 2010

Name: Adriano

Age: 27

Nationality: Brazilian

Club: Flamengo

Position: ST

Name: Edin Dzeko

Age: 23

Nationality: Bosnian

Club: Wolfsburg

Position: Striker

Value: £6.75M

Sale Value: £15M-£20M

Work Permit Needed?: Yes But Granted

Name: Pato

Age: 19

Nationality: Brazilian

Club: AC Milan

Position: FC

Value: $27.5m USD

Scores for fun !

Name: Vincenzo Iaquinta

Age: 29

Nationality: Italian

Club: Juventus

Position: FC

Value: £7.5m

Sale Value: £7.5m

Work Permit Needed?: Not Needed

Signed him for Chelsea and can't stop scoring no matter if i put him next to Anelka or Drogba, playing him as a Target Man, what a beast, scores goals with head and feet.

Name: Klaas Jan Huntelaar

Age: 26

Nationality: Dutch

Club: A.C Milan

Position: ST

Value: 15.5M Euro

Scores and provides assists by dozens

Name: Luis Suarez

Age: 22

Nationality: Uruguay

Club: Ajax

Position: AM R/L, FC

Value: £5m

Sale Value: £15m

Name: Jimmy Briand

Age: 24

Nationality: French

Club: Stade Rennais

Position: ST

Jimmy is an explosive striker, who will score for fun and is the most loyal pet you could ever ask for. He is injured when you start the game, but give him time to recover and he will easily top the scoring charts.He will score at least 35 a season when played in a conventional 4-4-2 alongside a target man.

Name: Javier Chevantón

Age: 28

Nationality: Uruguay

Position: CF (can also play AMC/L/R

His Team: Sevilla

Value: £2.5 million

Sale Value: got him for 1.9m, could probably get him for less as he's listed at the start of the demo.

Name: Goran Pandev

Age: 25

Nationality: FYR Macedonia

Club: Lazio

Position: AM/FC (centre)

Value: 4.1m

Sale Value: 4.5 - 5m

Fantastic support striker

Name: Giussepe Rossi

Age: 22

Nationality: Italian

Club: Villareal

Position: Attacking MIdfielder(Centre)/Forward(Centre)

Value: 7.5m

Sale Value: 15m

Name: Artem Milevskyi

Age: 24

Nationality: Ukrainian

Club: Dynamo Kiev

Position: FC

Name: Martin Palermo

Age: 35

Club: Boca Juniors

Sale Value: about 1-1,5 million Euros

If you're looking for an affordable short term solution, Martin Palermo is still worth a look. Insane physical and mostly good mental stats, good finishing and exceptional heading.

Name: Marco Borriello

Age: 27

Nationality: Italian

Club: AC Milan

Position: Striker (Centre)

Value: £6m

Sale Value: £6m (transfer listed) - available on long-term loan for £900k initial fee, Milan happy with you to pay 50% of his wages

Work Permit : No

Tremendous player. In my Game he got (in the league) 8 goals, 7 assists in 16 games overall.

Name: Eder

Age: 23

Nationality: Brazilian

Club: Empoli

Position: ST

Value: £2m

Sale Value: Unknown

Work Permit Needed?: No, he has an Italian passport

18 goals in 20 games !

Name: Gabby Agbonlahor

Age: 22

Nationality: English

Club: Aston Villa

Position: ST

Value: £6,500,000

Name: Simeon Jackson

Age:22

Nationality: canadian

Club: Gillingham

Position: ST

Value: 375,000

Sale Value: 600,00

Work Permit Needed?: no

Name: Iker Muniain

Age: 16

Nationality: Spanish

Club: Athletic Bilbao

Position: ST

Value: $3.3mil

Sale Value: $4.2mil (Out of contract, the money is compensation upon signing him)

Work Permit Needed?: No

Not great yet, but has a ton of potential- definitely one for the future!

Name: Giacomo Beretta

Age: 17

Nationality: Italian

Club: Milan

Position: Striker

Value: £5M

Sale Value: Loan Fee 250k

Work Permit Needed?: No

This guy is highly reccommended, I had him on loan for Blackburn in my second season.

He played about 15 games for me and scored 8 goals. Now I'm in my fifth season and he has finishing: 20 composure: 18 Heading: 19 and stamina: 19 and he averages a goal a game

Name: Neymar

Age: 19

Nationality: Brazilian

Club: N/A (just write in Neymar, if not, search the big brazil teams)

Position: ST

Value: N/A

Sale Value: 5mil

Work Permit Needed?: Yes

I brought him, first season (now) has scored 17 goals and 10 assists so far with 15 games gone

Name: Oscar Cardozo

Age: 27 (I think)

Nationality: Paraguayan

Club: Benfica

Position: St

Value: £2-4mill

Sale Value: Don't know as I've been playing as Benfica

Work Permit Needed?: Again don't know as above

In both the seasons he's played so far he's averaged more than a goal per game in every competition

Name: Eren Derdiyok

Age: 21

Nationality: Swiss

Club: Bayer Leverkusen

Position: FC

Value: 6-7m

Sale Value: No idea

Work Permit Needed?: Nope

Good targetman in my Leverkusen save, scored 19 in 32 games and being 21 he should become better in future years

Name: Guillaume Hoarau

Age: 25

Nationality: French

Club: Paris Saint-Germain

Position: ST

Sale Value: £6-12m at the beginning?

Work Permit Needed?: Nope

Very good Target Man for pretty much any team. Pretty amazing in all areas you would look for in a target man and he will score goals at pretty much any level. Might cost you a bit to prize him away from PSG, I wouldn't know as I didn't have to buy him, but I think he is up there with some of the best target men in the game. Bold statement, I know, but besides blistering pace he pretty much has the whole package. I highly recommend him.

Here he is in my game after the third season.

Name: Roman Pavlyuchenko

Age: 27

Nationality: Russian

Club: Tottenham

Position: ST

Value: Can't remember, loan price of £700k with a £6.5 million option to buy.

Sale Value: He was just sold for £7 million by Tottenham.

WP: Yes, but given first time.

19 (8) apps, 17 goals, 7 assists in his year on loan.

Name: Eugene Seleznyov

Age: 24 (23 right at the start)

Nationality: Ukrainian

Club: Dnipro

Position: FC

Value: £3.5mill

Sale Value: Got him for £7.5 but din't really haggle

Work Permit Needed?: Granted on intial application

stats like:

Strength 20, Balance 20, Work Rate 20, Bravery 20, Stamina 19, Jumping 17, Heading 16 and fairly good technical stats

Name: Diego Tardelli

Age: 24

Nationality: Brazilian

Club: Atletico Mineiro

Position: Striker

Value: Was listed at 5 mill £ or slightly more when I saw him but that was second season

Sale Value: Got him for 10.5 mill spread over 48 months, might be available for less up front and this was 2nd season.

Work Permit Needed?: Yes (might have to go to appeal)

Picked this guy up for my newly promoted Newcastle side, I think he may be available for less in first season as he'd had a very successful season for Mineiro when I bought him. He's a skillful, pacy sort of player and makes an excellent foil for Oscar Cardozo if you've got him. He's started 21 matches so far for me and has 14 goals and 6 assists.

Name: Fernando Torres

Age: 24

Nationality: Spanish

Club: Liverpool

Position: Striker

Value: 39.5m

Sale Value: More than 80m

Best striker in the game. He wins you games on his own. Set him to complete forward, and switch between target to feet and run onto ball, according to defenders ur up against. And defensive line. Ive got him to get 55 goals in 47 appearances. 38 in the League.