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  1. Legskeattch

    Legskeattch Squad Player

    I just finished second in the Premier League in 2020/21 by 1 point!

    Scored 72 goals and conceded only 26!

    My league positions have gone:


    15/16 - 8th
    16/17 - 4th
    17/18 - 5th
    18/19 - 7th
    19/20 - 6th
    20/21 - 2nd

    According to Europe Coefficient I am 29th best team in Europe.
     
  2. reids

    reids First Team

    I just sold Amrabat for £18m to Stoke, whilst bringing in Redmond (for £6m) and Zivkovic from Partizan on a free. Wheeler dealer.
     
  3. Legskeattch

    Legskeattch Squad Player

    Is that you Harry?
     
  4. Optimistichornet

    Optimistichornet Penguin Assassin

    I finished 8th in my first season with the winter update, sold a lot of the older favourites in the window and spent a whole lot of money. I'll post a screenshot of my transfers later in the weekend when I get back from Wembley.
     
  5. reids

    reids First Team

    Strong transfer window: http://i.imgur.com/IUaKSWF.png

    Logan: One for the future
    Redmond: Homegrown replacement for Amrabat for a third of what I sold Amrabat for. Looks to be a good replacement with 2 goals in 5 PL apps so far.
    A Zivkovic: Good rotation option for Sarabia at the moment.
    Swift: Potentially one for the future, small risk, homegrown.
    Meret: Good option now Gomes is aging, already better than Pants as well.
    Alvarez: Cheaper wages (by 30k!), younger, better option for £1m less than what I sold Suarez for. Great deal.
    Kaderabek: Love this guy IRL, first time of using him on FM. Younger, better crosser than Nyom (who got 17 assists in the PL!) so should flourish, and he's already got 6 assists after 5 PL games. Will be startig over Nyom with Nyom used as a rotational option
    R Zivkovic: Slight gamble here, big transfer fee (but will replace Vydra, for a £2m loss), but looks to be better in every way. Will rotate with Deeney + Ighalo up top and will be Redmonds rotation option if needed.
    Acerbi: Sold Prodl for 2.5m and got this guy in for £4.7m, younger by a year, better technically whilst maintaining all of Prodls good defensive stats. Worth the extra £2m spent.
    Molumby: One for the future
    Rowe: One for the future
    Rudiger: Very very solid young (23) CB. Don't really need him this season so included a loan back to Stuttgart for the season as part of the deal. Will move on Britos after this season and Rudiger will be his replacement.

    Christ. I am a wheeler dealer :]]


    The new buys seem to be settling well though...http://i.imgur.com/FuXTanx.png

    The new Leicester!
     
  6. reids

    reids First Team

  7. reids

    reids First Team

  8. luke_golden

    luke_golden Space Cadet

    Nothing but respect Reids. When I've been in the middle of a particularly enjoyable save, I'll be sat at work jotting down plans for my scouting network/tactics/squad moves etc and going over things in my head. It's a truly consuming game at times.
     
  9. reids

    reids First Team

    Getting well ****ed off with this now.

    My first season with Watford, I finished 15th. I bought Sarabia at the start of the game for 6.5m and sold Abdi for 4.5m (so 2m loss for a much younger and better player, worth it). Amrabat tears the PL a new one and I can't refuse 17.5m from Stoke for him, so off he goes at the end of the season, with Redmond for £6m and Zivkovic from Partizan on a free as replacements. Big teams sniffing around Nyom as he got 10+ assists for Amrabat, so I buy Kadarabek for 7.5m just in case (and Nyom is aging a bit as well). Sell Suarez off for £4m and buy Stambouli in for £8m. Sell Prodl for £2.5m, and Angella for £3m and get in Rudiger from Stuttgart for £4.5m. All good business.

    End of 16/17 comes around, i've finished 10th. Nyom goes to Juve for £6m. Zivkovic goes to Wolfsburg for £25m, Sarabia goes to Southampton for £18.5m, Stambouli goes to Man City for £15m, Ighalo goes to Fiorentina for £10m. I invest the money in £8.5m for Gabriel Barbosa from Bayern, and get in 2 nifty looking Brazilian kids on frees (Luis Henrique and Mathiues Peirea) who play up top/wing or CAM, and buy Mammana in for £7m. Once again I have options.

    End of 17/18 comes around, i've finished 9th. Redmond goes to Man City for £27.5m, Kadarabek goes to Bayern for £25m, Barbosa goes to Atletico for £24m, Rudiger goes to Man City for £13m, among others (total sold: £117M for that season!)

    With my squad decimated (losing my top 3 scorers and top 2 assisters), I finish 13th in 18/19, losing Mammana to Man City for 25m and Luis Henrique to Monaco for £12m. I'm sure i'll lose more before the season starts as well!

    Thank **** for my scouting system giving me an endless array of talent coming through as well as the "big" names who have failed elsewhere that I pick up for cheap. My stats screen says in my 1484 days in charge i've sold 55 players for a combined total of £311m!! That's madness. I've bought in 98 players for a combined fee of £164m, with the highest fee spent being Barbosa for £8.5m after his move to Bayern didn't work out. I'm a bit of a tightwad though and have my philosophy that I stick with, i've got an available wage budget of £325k per week available to me, alongside a transfer budget of £160m. Could probably ***** it all and over-haul the squad from top to bottom and win the PL in 1 season. I won't though :sign13:
     
  10. reids

    reids First Team

    Just finished 19/20.

    League positions have been disappointing, as above and now finishing 10th. Consistent though, despite my squad getting ripped to shreds each year!

    My scouting system is paying off massively, with the following gems (click for stats) unearthed over the past couple of seasons who have all had first team action and declared as "wonderkids" in the last year:

    Ahmed Ali (ST) - Bought for 575k
    Ahn Dong-Keun (CM) - Bought for 2.5m
    Jayson Molumby (CM) - Bought for 1.1m
    Jesus Herrera (DL) - Bought for 500k
    Kryzstof Skrzypczak (DM) - Bought for 3m (although just charged Sheff Wed £1m for a loan for the season!
    Lazar Sokolov (ST) - Bought for 750k
    Omar Mostafa (CB) - Bought for 500k
    Raul Gutierrez (CB) - Bought for £4m
    Strahinja Petkovic (DM) - Bought for £1m

    Probably got a few more in my U21s and U18s that haven't been exposed to enough first team action yet as well!
     
  11. Aberystwyth_Hornet

    Aberystwyth_Hornet Squad Player

    i'm in 20/21 and I pretty much would bankrupt the club each season if things went wrong yet am loved because i've won silverware. We're just about to move to the 'Watford Stadium' as well.

    How good did Lewis turn out on your game? He's my back up right attacking winger and Athletic Madrid want him for £25 million. He's going no where though, he's the only link to our actual team. I feel bad selling Hoban, I used him in an exchange for a regen who hasn't turned out how i hoped and the fans hated me for it for about a season. My best bargain has been Martin Ødegaard from Real Madrid for £2 million. Could not believe it when they transfer listed him. In fact i love going through Arsenal, Man U, Chelsea, Liverpool, Barca and Madrid signing their transfer listed players.

    My most recent wheeling and dealing was regarding Benteke. I signed him for around £10 million when out of the blue about 2/3 seasons later on transfer deadline day Liverpool offered me £27 million despite him not really setting the world alight (ultimately he went to Chelsea) I then quickly signed Berahino (again around £10 million) who had just been transfer listed by United and is blatantly the better of the two. I do wish i could have signed Embolo or Barbosa though, sadly both rejected me when they were within my budget. I do have Pedro but he seems to either score hatricks or nothing.

    I also realised I seem to collect central midfielders...

    Scout network is really important and i think i have an affiliated club in most regions now
     
  12. Timbers

    Timbers Apeman

    Only got the 2016 recently through a really good deal in Euro 2016. Through I did really well in my first season (8th), missing out on Europa place on the final day, my only signing was Adrián Embarba on the right wing, I am really struggling in the second season so far after 4 games due to all the loans coming back.

    Vydra took the Czechs to the final of Euros and played brilliantly for them but is useless for me. He is demanding to play each week, so is Gomes (I got Butland for 10 mill as Stoke were relegated) and Capoue (who has been replaced by Abdoulaye Doucouré) and it's calling me lots of hassle. I sold Juan Fran for 12 million somehow despite him not being great on loan but desperately need to have some home grown players in my squad so have picked up Keane from Burnley for 11 mill.
     
  13. reids

    reids First Team

    Nice! Lewis is one of 4 who still remain (along with Cathcart, Capoue and Penaranda), I normally play with wing-backs and he's been #2/3 for a number of seasons and has never really disappointed when called upon (for 18/19 he actually played 28 games and got 10 assists from RWB!), but he's now dropped to #3 choice (#1 is Dja Djede who we're actually about to sign...foresight haha) and I may even try to sell him on this summer. I flogged Hoban to Leeds for £4.1m, I felt sad at the time but the quality of CBs i've bought since far eclipse what he's done so I don't really regret it long-term!

    Does Doucore do alright for you? His stats were garbage I thought and I soon sold him on...
     
  14. Timbers

    Timbers Apeman

    Yes, he is my best midfielder at the moment. I am playing him box to box and stats have increased since start of pre season.
     
  15. reids

    reids First Team

    Crap. haha.
     
  16. PowerJugs

    PowerJugs Doyley Fanatic

    FIFA Career Mode fan here. Currently doing a Watford based Career in FIFA 16, which is known to be... less than stellar at times, due to FIFA using poor, predictable coding outside of a match. Essentially Career Mode is dictated only by your transfer kitty when it comes to signing players regardless of who they are and how good you are, so for example I could sign Ronaldo if I pooled the required resources for, say, Accrington Stanley in League 2 on a Pre Contract. Players can ask for more saying 'You're not prestigious enough' and 'I'm happy where I am and do not want to relocate' but this can be solved with £££. I plan on doing a full 15 Year run (You are forcibly retired thereafter, therefore 15 Years is the cap)

    For sake of having something vaguely interesting, Giafranco Zola returns to great fanfare (Along with that elusive Plan B) and FIFA's 'Sports paper' asking how long Zola was going to ask. Stay Classy.

    As with pretty much every Career I do, I try to keep it realistic as possible signing wise. This means that I've set myself rules within the game that cannot be broken. This includes using Premier League Squad Rules (8HG, 17 Non HG), using only the GTN (Global Transfer Network, requiring assigning scouts to a country, and they can only scout players within that country) and no team breaking Pre-Contracts. Although this is a bit subjective, I am also aiming for 'realistic' transfers for my team, so until later in the Career I won't be able to sign World Class players or near that echelon. This is entirely self managed; if you wanted to you could sign Ronaldo or Ibrahimovic on a Pre Contract if you so wished in your first season assuming the funds are there.

    Glossing over the 1st Season (Because I didn't think of tracking this Career until last night[!], and will help me stick with 15 Seasons) We finished 5th (5th to 1st give access to the 'European Cup' [FIFA don't have rights, PES do]) just squeezing Man City out of Europe. Ha. I also stopped Arsenal winning the League on the final day which stopped Man City taking my spot as they were a point behind me. Ha again. Deeney was TOP SCORER with a whopping 16 goals. Yes. 16. Gomes was one of the best GK's for Clean Sheets, but edged out by De Gea, Lloris and Forster. The team was in excellent form.

    Signed a metric shít ton of scouted Youth. (Only way to develop Youth in this game, no academies) All of high Potential. (80+) Some have been promoted before capture:

    IMAGE

    Team was:

    --------------Gomes-----------------
    Nyom--Prodl--Britos--Van Aanholt
    --------Capoue--Behrami-----------
    -Bergy-------Abdi---------Amrabat-
    -------------Deeney-----------------

    Subs: Borjan, Hajrovi*, Suarez, Guediora, Watson, Cathcart, Anya/Paredes

    Pantillimon, Arlauskis and Jurado were not part of my squad when FIFA loaded at the start; instead Pants was at Sunderland, Arlauskis and Jurado at Espanol. Fine with me.

    ____________________________________________________

    2nd Season:

    Start of Transfer Window, I listed Paredes, Abdi, Borjan, Van Aanholt and Britos. Amrabat was available if good price came in. It was at this point I realised Doucouré and Juanfran was not part of my squad as they didn't return from Granada and RCD Deportivo respectively, meaning that I had less money to sell Juanfran with and I was missing a Box to Box CM. Oh, and Penaranda never moved. On the plus side, Watson signed a 1 year extension. Yay.

    With a reasonable Shortlist prepped and a nice transfer budget of £22m and £140k available for new signings, we begin strengthening our squad. Signing Roberto Pereyra (£12m + Amrabat) , Bryan Dabo (£.6m + Behrami), Thomas Meunir (£4.1 + Paredes), Andreas Bjelland (£2.3m + Britos), Andrew Robertson (£.5m + Van Aanholt), Yannis Salibur (£3.2m), Isaac Success (£3.55m) and Johnathon Bond (£.65m) Realising I had 16 Non HG, I kept Abdi as no offers came in and he could still do a job so he survives another year. I have the headache of Gomes retiring end of Season. At 35. For literally no reason. Why. There is no way to stop them retiring even if they have a Contract to see through. (In this case, 3 Years as he signed an extension) Fúck you FIFA. So that's something for the scouts to sort out.

    Currently, at the end of August, we're first with 10 Points with Leicester. Onwards and upwards.

    Current Setup:

    --------------Gomes-----------------
    Nyom--Prodl--Bjelland--Robertson
    --------Capoue----Suarez-----------
    -Bergy------Pereyra------Hajrovi*-
    --------------Deeney----------------

    Subs: Bond (GK), Iggy, Salibur, Guediora, Dabo, Cathcart, Meunir
     
    Last edited: Jul 26, 2016
  17. BigRossLittleRoss

    BigRossLittleRoss First Team

    PJ, Am doing a similar thing with Watford . Am now 5 years in with only Gomes Nyom and Behrami remaining from original squad. I can't seem to finish above 6th despite most of my first XI averaging mid 80s ranking.

    Am playing professional level , what level you playing PJ? I think I'm just sh1t at playing FIFA as my 9 year old son is already beating me , unless I practice when he's not here.
     
  18. PowerJugs

    PowerJugs Doyley Fanatic

    I've spent an unhealthy amount of hours on FIFA, so am very well versed in every nook and cranny related to it, I play on Legendary with the use of Sliders managing Human and CPU balance in Settings.

    *Cough* ~2,000 Hours over last 2-3 Years *Cough*
     
    Last edited: Jul 29, 2016
  19. East Stand Builder

    East Stand Builder Reservist

    Where was Iggy in the first season?

    Im in my 3rd season- managed to get Neymar and Tevez on pre contracts.

    Key players also include: Brandt, Jet Williams, Tielemans and Dier.

    Deeney, Murray, Cathcart, Vydra, Capoue and Nyom are the only original players left with me.
     
  20. reids

    reids First Team

    And this is why I prefer FM :doh:
     
  21. PowerJugs

    PowerJugs Doyley Fanatic

    And is why I banned unreasonable Pre-Contracts for myself!

    Thing is, FIFA really isn't aimed to be 'Realistic'. For those who want a realistic CM, you need to put in self imposed rules etc. There's no 'right' way of playing as some people enjoy harvesting the best players in a team regardless of likelihood. ie Ronaldo and Messi
     
    Last edited: Jul 29, 2016
  22. YellowKicks

    YellowKicks Squad Player

    Watched 'I believe in Miracles' last night which compelled me to return Forest to European Glory. They haven't got much money so let go of lots of high earners to rebuild the squad, trying to play similarly good football to what they were successful with in years gone by. So far ended up with this team.....

    ..........................................Andujar..................................................
    De Laet..................Mancienne..................Forren................Cohen........
    ............................Mutch..........................Lansbury............................
    Munir..................................Verdi..............................Atsu/Iwobi..........
    .....................................Assombalonga...............................................

    Clearly abused the loan market to bring in Mutch, Munir and Iwobi who have drastically improved the quality of the side. Managed to pick up Atsu actually very cheap on a permanent from chelsea, as well as Forren for 300k who's been a revelation. After 11 games i've won 9, drawn once and lost one which leaves me joint top with Huddersfield.
     
  23. YellowKicks

    YellowKicks Squad Player

    In a completely Bizarre set of events, after romping to the Championship Title (secured with a 6-0 victory at Derby); we are 4 games away from winning the Premier League title in our first season. I've barely even signed anyone, Assombalonga has 35 goals, Atsu 17 and Julian Brandt (picked up for 6 mil when transfer listed) 15.

    I think I may have genuinely created the best tactic of all time.
     
  24. reids

    reids First Team

    Now in March 2021. The only players still playing for me from this list are: Molumby, Herrera, Sokolov, Mostafa + Petkovic. I'm languishing in 15th place as my team can't get any consistency from being ripped apart each window. This is so infuriating. Think in the summer i'll sell pretty much all the players in the team and build a whole new squad of mid-20s. Bored of this now.
     
  25. YellowKicks

    YellowKicks Squad Player

    Reids what do you find the best way to find the best regens is? I've been using the scatter gun approach of Brazil/Argentina/France U20 players as my scouts never seem up to much.
     
  26. reids

    reids First Team

    Huge scouting network (25 scouts) and a bit of manual looking in U20/U21 teams works for me!
     
  27. Dusty Rhodes

    Dusty Rhodes Academy Graduate

    FM17 looking to be sweaty. First things first. Change the dire formation!!!

    ----------------Gomes--------------------------
    Janmaat ----- Britos -- Cathcart -- Kenedy
    ------------Capoue----Watson/Pereyra----------
    Amrabat/Pereyra------Pereyra/Ighalo---------Success
    ---------------Deeney/Ighalo------------------
     
  28. Jumbolina

    Jumbolina First Team

    I've just got a Brazilian regen goalkeeper called Commodus. Isn't that the bad dude from Gladiator?
     
  29. PowerJugs

    PowerJugs Doyley Fanatic

    I thought he'd be called Knóbodus if so.
     
  30. reids

    reids First Team

  31. reids

    reids First Team

  32. StuBoy

    StuBoy Forum Cad and Bounder

    Are you actually playing FM17 reids? Or is this just a blog?
     
  33. reids

    reids First Team

    I will be playing it when it's released, but in the meantime establishing the philosophy and a plan so when it's out I can hit the ground running.
     
  34. StuBoy

    StuBoy Forum Cad and Bounder

    Ok ta, thought that was the case! No early release for you then! Although it would be pretty early if you had it now, don't think it's out until November?
     
  35. Aymondo

    Aymondo First Year Pro

    Approx 21st of october as the beta is released two week earlier for those who pre order
     
    Last edited: Sep 29, 2016

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