Hi all,
I usually play with Liverpool as that is my favorite team. I decided however to try something different this time around. So I started a save with AS Roma. The first season went very well and I ended up winning the Serie A and the Coppa Italia.
I disabled transfers in the first window, which is the first time I've tried that. I'm not sure if that is the reason, but I saw way more transfer activity in the january window than I'm used to.
Anyway, here are some screenshots and notes on my first season.
January transfers:
I had bids on numerous players. Ending up Selling Tammy Abraham for 70m as he really wanted to go and it was a lot of money. He was however playing REALLY well for me (13 games, 15 goals, 3 assists). Also sold Smalling for 11m as he was getting on age wise, and Mancini and Ibanez are just as good. I did not expect to sell my GK, but 10m was too good to turn down for an old keeper, so he went as well.
Pellegrini and Mancini also had bids, which I rejected. Both of them were upset about this as they wanted CL football. I promised them that I would let them go, if we didn't qualify ourselves, which they were both happy with luckily. To my shock and horror I saw in January that Dybala had a release clause of just 16m, so I gave him a new contract and upped it to 66m, which was the max.
The sales left me with a very small squad, so I hauled in Russo as a backup GK, Matteo Gabbia as a backup DC and Youssoufa Moukoko as a new striker (for 31m which I think is a steal). And I also brought in some depth in midfield with Gagliardini.
Tactics and starting 11:
Squad:
Dybala has been the star of the show this season, playing both as SC and AMR.
Competitions:
