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Jela's mad for some reason leave it out.

Might go as Crawley, got a £500,000 budget from the Tubbs sale in this DB.

Emma wrote:Schnix I have returned to Roma I was out of a job for nearly a year then Roma approached me with €10 million for transfers and €1.2 million wages.

Here is my team before I have made any transfers:

cool , looks a pretty complete squad to me. although i'd get rid of some deadwood players like kamara, simplicio, guberti maybe, and one of the two extra GK's. you really should sell some of your high earners as in burdisso, juan, borriello, osvaldo. those 4 really can hurt your budget. not sure if you wanna pay the €24m to keep bojan when his loan finishes so you should start hunting for a young striker with low wage demands

Schnix wrote:

Emma wrote:Schnix I have returned to Roma I was out of a job for nearly a year then Roma approached me with €10 million for transfers and €1.2 million wages.

Here is my team before I have made any transfers:

cool , looks a pretty complete squad to me. although i'd get rid of some deadwood players like kamara, simplicio, guberti maybe, and one of the two extra GK's. you really should sell some of your high earners as in burdisso, juan, borriello, osvaldo. those 4 really can hurt your budget. not sure if you wanna pay the €24m to keep bojan when his loan finishes so you should start hunting for a young striker with low wage demands

I'm planning to sell Bojan and Juan just not main starters, losing Lamela in the first season hurt me. Any suggestions on a striker? Totti's retiring also.

Emma wrote:

Schnix wrote:

cool , looks a pretty complete squad to me. although i'd get rid of some deadwood players like kamara, simplicio, guberti maybe, and one of the two extra GK's. you really should sell some of your high earners as in burdisso, juan, borriello, osvaldo. those 4 really can hurt your budget. not sure if you wanna pay the €24m to keep bojan when his loan finishes so you should start hunting for a young striker with low wage demands

I'm planning to sell Bojan and Juan just not main starters, losing Lamela in the first season hurt me. Any suggestions on a striker? Totti's retiring also.

totti's 36 in my save and still not retiring yet . you can't sell bojan. he's on loan . for your first team, you can try getting paloschi/marilungo as your strikers, but they're expensive. destro/borini are good alternatives

if all else fails, get michele paolucci as a rotation/backup striker. for what you pay for, he's cheap, loyal, consistent, and reliable

I wish Totti would stay

I like the sound of Paloschi, I have €10 million and selling Juan and Kamara should increase my budget.

I'm playing a 4-5-1 formation but i'm more accustomed to a 4-2-3-1 formation, any tips on positions for my players in 4-2-3-1?

Emma wrote:I wish Totti would stay

I like the sound of Paloschi, I have €10 million and selling Juan and Kamara should increase my budget.

I'm playing a 4-5-1 formation but i'm more accustomed to a 4-2-3-1 formation, any tips on positions for my players in 4-2-3-1?

i play 4-2-3-1 also, and that seems to suit Paloschi the best as a lone striker. Paloschi likes beating the offsides trap alot so set him as a target man with ball to feet. have him play as a deep lying forward so he doesnt get caught offsides 'too' often. and make sure at least 2-3 of your AMC's have "tries killer balls" as their PPM. Totti and Pjanic already has this and either one of them should play in the center. for your other two AMC's, make sure they're fairly quick and possess decent finishing, because Pjanic is poor at those two attributes. Lamela would've been perfect but =\..... you can try Marilungo, Fabbrini, Bonadventura, Borini, or Schelotto for these wide attacking positions

Schnix wrote:

Emma wrote:I wish Totti would stay

I like the sound of Paloschi, I have €10 million and selling Juan and Kamara should increase my budget.

I'm playing a 4-5-1 formation but i'm more accustomed to a 4-2-3-1 formation, any tips on positions for my players in 4-2-3-1?

i play 4-2-3-1 also, and that seems to suit Paloschi the best as a lone striker. Paloschi likes beating the offsides trap alot so set him as a target man with ball to feet. have him play as a deep lying forward so he doesnt get caught offsides 'too' often. and make sure at least 2-3 of your AMC's have "tries killer balls" as their PPM. Totti and Pjanic already has this and either one of them should play in the center. for your other two AMC's, make sure they're fairly quick and possess decent finishing, because Pjanic is poor at those two attributes. Lamela would've been perfect but =\..... you can try Marilungo, Fabbrini, Bonadventura, Borini, or Schelotto for these wide attacking positions

Thanks man, I will try and get Borini seems the best option. It was sad about losing Lamela it was partly my own doing, he said he was unhappy with someone on the team I said his behavior was unacceptable then I sold him because he wanted to leave

hume7 wrote:Jela's mad for some reason leave it out.

Might go as Crawley, got a £500,000 budget from the Tubbs sale in this DB.

Its because he can't handle weird

You sold Lamela

added David Beckham as a new manager, managing england

anyone got a pack for international kits?

for Norwich I'm trying to build a team of predominantly English players with the odd foreign player. My ideal squad in like 3/4 seasons would be completely English

Benitez wrote:You sold Lamela

I had to, I didn't like his attitude

Wilfried tries to force his way out because I don't have the money to give him a better contract in the middle of the season. Cunt. I will do my best to push Fierro ahead of him even though he's just 18.

Emma wrote:

Schnix wrote:

i play 4-2-3-1 also, and that seems to suit Paloschi the best as a lone striker. Paloschi likes beating the offsides trap alot so set him as a target man with ball to feet. have him play as a deep lying forward so he doesnt get caught offsides 'too' often. and make sure at least 2-3 of your AMC's have "tries killer balls" as their PPM. Totti and Pjanic already has this and either one of them should play in the center. for your other two AMC's, make sure they're fairly quick and possess decent finishing, because Pjanic is poor at those two attributes. Lamela would've been perfect but =\..... you can try Marilungo, Fabbrini, Bonadventura, Borini, or Schelotto for these wide attacking positions

Thanks man, I will try and get Borini seems the best option. It was sad about losing Lamela it was partly my own doing, he said he was unhappy with someone on the team I said his behavior was unacceptable then I sold him because he wanted to leave

Guido Marilungo is by far the best option.

Fallen, but still clawing back. 4th still possible, but Wilfried is now down in morale.

Looks like defence is your problem, not goalscoring. Who are your defenders?

M'Bengue-Roger Johnson-Mbiwa-Zubar.

Backup is pretty shit, probably part of the issue.

Going to start as Arsenal and make an English squad

Rodwell
Barkley
Smithies

Are amongst my targets

Formation?

4231 is my favourite.

crump wrote:Going to start as Arsenal and make an English squad

Rodwell
Barkley
Smithies

Are amongst my targets

Formation?

English squad? Who do you plan on scoring your goals?

Laurencio wrote:

crump wrote:Going to start as Arsenal and make an English squad

Rodwell
Barkley
Smithies

Are amongst my targets

Formation?

English squad? Who do you plan on scoring your goals?

I have one exception.













Cavani

What sort of 4-2-3-1?

Eternal Witcher wrote:4231 is my favourite.

same, i can't think of a better default formation than the 4231. i play it narrow though with no wingers, but that's only because roma has no wingers. do you play with 2 wingers eternal? or 3 AMC's?

crump wrote:

Laurencio wrote:

English squad? Who do you plan on scoring your goals?

I have one exception.













Cavani

What sort of 4-2-3-1?

Bound to be successful then. You could stick a lower Premireship side behind Cavani and they'd win the league.

Smithies
RB CB CB Gibbs
Rodwell Barkley
Walcott Wilshere Chamberlain
Cavani

4231 with 2 wingers? you got walcott and ox

Laurencio wrote:

crump wrote:

I have one exception.













Cavani

What sort of 4-2-3-1?

Bound to be successful then. You could stick a lower Premireship side behind Cavani and they'd win the league.

yeup it'll be exactly like Napoli IRL then lol. an overrated GK, behind a crappy defense, behind a mediocre midfield, behind Cavani

Schnix wrote:Smithies
RB CB CB Gibbs
Rodwell Barkley
Walcott Wilshere Chamberlain
Cavani

4231 with 2 wingers? you got walcott and ox

Lovely. Obviously that squad will be the squad in around 2014/15. Need to get rid of the wasters bit by bit, I'll field a 4-4-2 until 2013/14 then start fucking everyone off.

Cavani will be in his absolute peak by that time, giving me enough time to mould a star English striker into the mix by the time he hits 30 odd.

May I suggest buying Robert Green to keep the goalkeeping position warm until Smithies comes of age?

Oh and for backup to Cavani I whole heartedly recommend Connor Wickham.

Laurencio wrote:May I suggest buying Robert Green to keep the goalkeeping position warm until Smithies comes of age?

Oh and for backup to Cavani I whole heartedly recommend Connor Wickham.

Good reccomendation, midfield and strikeforce is basically cemented, aswell as left back and GK position.

CB and RB are issues. Could poach Cahill from Bolton.

crump wrote:

Laurencio wrote:May I suggest buying Robert Green to keep the goalkeeping position warm until Smithies comes of age?

Oh and for backup to Cavani I whole heartedly recommend Connor Wickham.

Good reccomendation, midfield and strikeforce is basically cemented, aswell as left back and GK position.

CB and RB are issues. Could poach Cahill from Bolton.

Shawcross and Cahill will do the job nicely, and you already have Kyle Barley who turns out very good.

Laurencio wrote:

crump wrote:

Good reccomendation, midfield and strikeforce is basically cemented, aswell as left back and GK position.

CB and RB are issues. Could poach Cahill from Bolton.

Shawcross and Cahill will do the job nicely.

Nice one Lauro.

The 5 year plan is on.