silentwars

I'm in the next transfer window and West Ham have now taken him off the transfer list. Value at 56-69 million. Can only guess they desperately wanted the money to bring another player in on deadline day.

There's nothing to suggest he's unhappy at the club

Paqueta placed on the transfer list on deadline day for £29m - as the club no longer require his services, despite him starting 22 of their 24 matches and having another 3 years on his contract. Any thoughts?

I'd keep him in the game because it's more realistic - doesn't mean you have to sign him or play him.

Hamburg - second biggest city in Germany, 57,000 stadium currently in the 2nd tier Everton big city and a new 50,000 stadium on the way, been struggling at the wrong end for a few years

FC Basel in Switzerland - big team for that league. In the bottom three IRL so could be a challenge and a good rebuild project.

Might up be worth waiting for the winter patch to be released - likely a few of their squad will get increases to their attributes.

What clubs are you applying for? if it's L1 jobs I'd be surprised if you're not getting interviews. Does you have any coaching badges in the game yet?

It's like with direct football - it's very hard to make it work successfully on modern FM - certainly without a high press it's suicidal. How many times IRL do you see a club in relegation trouble hire a defensive direct manager and them have results. Yet try that on FM and you're asking for trouble. It would be nice if the tactical system was more balanced and not favoured towards high pressing & possession based football.

If you have someone tall, aggressive, brave with good strength and heading then tell your team to hit early crosses. If he's playing centrally then tell the wide players to cross centrally or cross to target forward through PI's. You can tell your goalkeeper to distribute to him as well.

Have you tried the default wing play tactic? I'd probably adapt it a little to the players you have but it would seem like a logical place to start in the lower leagues if you're struggling.

First and foremost they have to fit your tactic - unless they're that good that you're prepared to adapt to get them in. If you're not going to be there long term then you might as well just focus on current ability. Of course you could always look to develop one or two and try to bring them with you when you move on.

Camello lacks aerial ability so I'd set it to low crosses. I'd also consider work ball into box because he's not going to get on the end of many crosses - so you want to discourage your players doing so. Of course if you're struggling to get a goal late on in a match you can turn this off in order to increase urgency. Maybe change the AMC role to a playmaker (if you have a decent one) so there's someone threading balls through to him. With your current tactic all the players in the final third are looking to get further forward so it would be beneficial to have one staying in the hole looking to create chances.

I've tried leaving DoF to transfers for my youth sides a few times and I can't think of one time when they've tried to sign anyone with any real potential. At this stage it's better just asking for recommendations and looking at your scout reports and then doing the transfers yourself. I'm hoping SI improve this element of the game in years to come because it would help add to the realism of the game if you're managing a club where the dof is responsible for transfers irl.

Based on Dusseldorf - only watched 1 match but this is basically my interpretation on how they played: DM and BWM seem to swap - so one sits and one supports AMR on the right sits inside when they have the ball and moves to the right when he picks up possession. Left him as a winger as when they don't have the ball he positions himself on the right wing.