Owen Garvan - FMFormation.net - Football Manager

Axillo · 12-03-08, 06:17 PM

Owen Garvan

Club: Ipswich Town
Position: Midfielder Centre
Value: 1,200,000
Contract: 1,000 p/w
Age: 19
Nationality: Irish
Languages: English
Reputation: National
Squad Status: Backup to the first team

In Real Life:
Owen Garvan (born January 29, 1988, Dublin, Republic of Ireland) is an Irish footballer who currently plays for Ipswich Town and the Republic of Ireland U21s. He previously played for the renowned Irish schoolboy team Home Farm. Garvan plays as a central midfielder and has been compared to Steven Gerrard.
Garvan turned down offers from Celtic, Fulham and Nottingham Forest before joining Ipswich Town in November 2004. He subsequently became a regular in the Town team that won the FA Youth Cup in 2005. However he missed the second leg of final against Southampton after being rushed to hospital with a virus on the eve of the game. He made his senior debut for Town against Cardiff City in August 6 2005 and during his debut season with the senior team, 2005-06, he made 31 league appearances and scored 3 goals. During the 2006-07 season he made a further 27 league appearances and scored 1 further goal

On Football Manager 2008:
A good signing for most Championship sides.
Owen has alot of potential to be a good Premiership midfielder.
He starts of at the age of 19 playing for Championship side Ipswich on a professional contract, relatively unknown.
Ipswich often try to offer a new contract straight away to get the youngster on their books until about 2010.
Prodominantly a Central Midfielder, Garvan can also be deployed in a defensive midfield role.
You can approach to buy him at the beginning for a price of between 2,500,000 and 4,500,000 but Ipswich really like this youngster and will proberbly be looking for 4,000,000 or more.
He will want a contract 4,500 per week and then a signing on fee around the region of 100,000.
He also has alot of potential to be a good player and as the game continues he will turn into a player good enough for the premiership, A Real work horse midfielder similar to what Gerrard does for Liverpool, to see Owen Garvan in 2010 click here.

Tactical Instructions:
My advice is to play Garvan in a central midfield role with perhaps a defensive mentality with a few forward runs, or if your going more defensive then deploy him in a defensive midfield role.

Strengths:
Really good in the air.
Light-Hearted character.

Weaknesses:
Set pieces are not a strong point, especially long throws.
I Believe him to be a fairly inconsistent player.

Conclusion:
If your a top Premiership team looking for Europe and Prem glory then avoid signing Garvan for a while until he develops more, Although if your battling for Promotion in the lower leagues hes a perfect buy, Or maybe if your a League one or lower team then try and loan him for a while.

This guide was made as a request from John10, To make a request click here.

Thanks for reading my guide, give feedback, positive or negative.

**John10** · 12-03-08, 09:12 PM

another very nice guide, mate, fat work to lol, only requested this like yesterday haha

kutgw mate

**WozzaWolves** · 14-03-08, 05:34 PM

Great guide. Garvan looks class =O =D

Graham FM · 14-03-08, 08:50 PM

very good guide m8
lots of info and stats
keep up the good work m8 ;)

ryanthagunner · 14-04-08, 04:14 PM

Ipswich r my local team and irl he is a great player. Im also Ipswich on FM and he is a great Centre Mid, he performs more then my other CM which are Norris, Miller, Quinn, Velice Sumuloski and Matty Holland. He provides alot of goals aswell as scoring a few. Matt Holland seems to be a good partner to him so him with an exprienced player works.

Good work btw