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rstebbing1709

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  1. Has anyone else found Antony to be useless? Almost finished season 2 and across two seasons he has 3 goals and 1 assist, he's been fairly regular in his starts too.
  2. Season One Review Season one has now been completed and it was an agonising one in the League as we ended up losing out to Liverpool by 3 goals. In any other season our 98 point total would have been a title winning one, but Liverpool matched us having lost their first 2 matches they did not lose again all season. We did however go well in other competitions winning the Carabao Cup and the Europa League. Reaching the quarter final of the FA cup where we lost 4-3 to Leeds in a game of the season contender. Transfer wise, we made use of the the installmants feature to bring in the players we wanted, United make enough money and we now have that Champions League Revenue that I'm not too concerned with future budgets being effected by this policy. We may have over paid for JWP but his perfectly fit the tactic we are using and being English we didn't need to worry about work permits. Gagliadini for £3.5m is a must buy as a squad player he is great and will accept a relatively low wage, Goncalo Ramos was another player that we did not pay the earth for but he has really shone. Not too much on the outs except Tottenham having what I can only describe as a mad moment and paying £32m (£16m upfront) for Donny. Squad wise not too much in terms of change however we promoted a number of youth players into the first team squad to give them some experience and allow them to train with the first team a number of loans returning this year, most of which we will look to move on. Wan-Bissaka has been demoted to the under 18s after what I can only describe as the worst FM performance I've personally witnessed, finishing the aforementioned FA cup match with Leeds on a 4.8 (couldn't take him off as Dalot was injured). Tactically we played a 433 for most of the season we played with a Raumdeuter on the right, which was changed to an IF towards the end of the season while we looked to try and add a few more goals to close the GD gap with Liverpool.
  3. Unfortunately my laptop died so I've had to restart my save, going from season one this time and looking to change how I play the game a bit this time round. Usually when picking coaches/players I'll look purely at their attributes but this time I want to see how personality and playing style affects things. So with that in mind I've sacked my entire coaching team, technical director, head scout, head of youth development and director of football. To be considered for the role the person must have either, model citizen, model professional, professional, fairly professional or resolute mentality and their preferred playing style must be vertical tiki-taka or tiki-taka. If they have high attributes that's a bonus. Also going to test how training and preseason help with tactical familiarity and team cohesion so we're playing friendlies every Wednesday and Saturday in pre-season and our training is based solely around 3 things: Tactical familiarity, Team Bonding and Fitness work. We are training in every available slot but managing the work load by having days after matches just be team bonding, match review and attacking/defending shadow play. Transfer wise main target is James Ward Prowse, but also want a CB, a back up striker and another CM for back up.
  4. Bid £35m for Andreas Schjeldrup board say transfer is blocked because it's too high, I complain, they say decision is final. Next page is contract offer with the £35m bid accepted as if the conversation with the board never happened.
  5. Just about to start season 3 with United, let the first season go through with Ten Hag (who was sacked) before taking over with the team having finished 7th in season 1 Season 2 saw a huge rebuild of a club in turmoil and a huge number of first team players wanting to leave for Champions League football. Out the door went: De Gea, Maguire, Lindelof, Bailly, Fred, Sancho, Fernandes, Wan- Bissaka, Varane, Williams plus some youth/fringe players for around £200m combined, most of it coming from Sancho at £88m Van de Beek and Israel Reyes (purchased by Ten Hag) left on loan to buys for a combined £15m Elanga, Alvaro Fernandez and McTominay left on loans with optional fees. Ronaldo and Tuanzebe left at the end of their contracts. We bought in: Luiz Junior as goalkeeper, Tomori and Marc Guehi as CB replacements, Tyrick Mitchell also came in from a relegated Crystal Palace. We spent big in midfield with Bruno Guimaraes and James Maddison arriving on deals that will cut into our transfer revenue for years to come. Noni Mudueke and Marcus Edwards arrived to boost our options out wide, Menino came in as a utility player and we added Nicolo Rovella on loan. Upfront the big signing in was Ivan Toney who came in from Brentford who had also gone down season 1 and Mathys Tel on loan to add some depth. We also promoted Ethan Laird, Alejandro Garnacho and Charlie McNeil to the first team squad. Competitions wise it was not a great season with us exiting the Carabao Cup in the 4th round to City, the FA cup in the 1/4's to Brighton and the Europa conference league in the round of 16 to Rennes who tore us to pieces. A 3rd place premier League finish probably kept us in a job. About to start season 3 with a £85m transfer budget that I've managed to rise to £91m by selling some clauses, Aston Villa have just bid £25m for Luiz Junior which will almost double our outlay on him and PSG are offering £31m for Marcus Edwards, we also have some fringe/youth players we are looking to move on. This year we want to be a bit more targeted with our transfers, we need to replace out GK as I don't think Henderson is good enough to be a champions league starter, we are looking at Caprile from Bari, attributes look great for a 22 year old and £7m asking price is a steal. De Vrij is transfer listed for £8.75m and will add experience alongside our number 1 defensive target Nianzou who Sevilla will accept £13.25m for. Further forward our big targets are Musiala who Bayern will allow to leave for £87m and either Jude Bellingham or Moises Caicedo depending on what their teams want. Finally Endrick arrives at the start of this campaign to play as our back up striker to Toney.
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