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On 04/12/2022 at 23:03, mhaffy said:
Now that the 23.2 update has been released I am about to start my main long term Chelsea save. I will be looking to refresh the squad and offload Ziyech , Jorginho and probably Kante as well due to his age and high wages. Did you receive offers for Ziyech and Jorginho or offer them out/ transfer list? Also wondering if you sold them in the initial summer window or January 23 window.
Sorry about the late reply, been busy. Offered them both out. Jorginho was snapped up immediately, Ziyech took a bit lowering the asking price.
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Fati 65m, Bellingham 103m - both fees mostly in future instalments (think I paid no more than 5m up front in each deal).
Ziyech went to Juve for 13.25m, Jorginho 60m to PSG.
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I'm going well so far. Half way through first season and top of the league. Playing 4-3-3. Havertz is great as an AF, doesn't dominate the line but generally takes his chances. Brought in Bellingham and Fati (both fees based mostly on future payments) and sold Jorginho and Ziyech.
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21 hours ago, kenmfssrox said:
Just reached Jan in my first season and Lukaku is a monster. He has scored 31 goals in the league from 17 games, 41 competitive goals overall and won the Ballon d'Or, fifa best player and fifpro player of the year awards. I kept my scout on Mbappe for almost the entire season and he just accepted my contract in Jan. Surprisingly, there was no competition. Gonna run him on the left wing to support the Lukaku goal machine lol. Werner is quite OP too, he's gotten 24 goals but most of time is in cup competitions.
Remember to sign Demir at end of first season, you can get him for 10mil or less before Barca can activate his 8.5m clause since they have no money.
Just look at those stats lol
That's awesome! I am starting to think that I should have waited on Mbappe and saved myself 100 million. He has been amazing for me playing as an inverted winger on the left, averaging a goal a game, chipping in with lots of assists and working brilliantly with Lukaku (who also got world player of the year for me). I also did follow Demir closely and pounced when Barca didn't activate his release clause. James, Havertz and Mount have come on leaps and bounds. Andreas signed on in Jan after both Milan teams offered deals, Gvardiol has been amazing at CB and Fati leads my team and the league in assists down the right. Mendy isn't rated and his stats are a bit unfair in my opinion, but he's a monster, constantly making amazing saves and won the world golden glove.
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13 hours ago, PitchPosh said:
Just reached November and Lukaku has 14 goals already. I have a feeling he could have quite a haul by the end of the season as the squad becomes more familiar with each other. With that said, I have found that quite a few big chances are finished horribly, even by players like Lukaku.
With December approaching, I've got wins against Tottenham, Arsenal, United and Liverpool, who I am only clear of at the top of the table by 1 point. Werner and Kovacic have been quite poor for me, and Pulisic has been injured for a good portion of the first half the season. If decent offers come in for any of them in January, I'd be tempted to move them on. I'll look to post an update once I'm out of January.
Hope everyone's saves are going well!
Lukaku scored 52 for me in my first season. Constantly scored early and important goals. Only issue is that he has quite an unrealistic expectation of the games he should start (pretty much every game) and my coaches constantly suggested resting him.
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17 hours ago, mhaffy said:
Fingers crossed re Christensen. How are Trevoh Chalobah and Malang Sarr doing for you? trevoh only 3* potential in the Beta save I created just to look at things and run FME vs QME stats tests for posting in Bugs Tracker...Was hoping, given his real life perfomances so far, that he would have been buffed versus FM21..
Sarr has only played a couple of games but been solid enough, Chalobah doing well in the reserves. Limited potential (which I think is quite harsh from the researchers) means they probably aren't going to be long term solutions. I bought Gvardiol to replace Rudiger and has has been extremely solid, brings the ball out of defence well and has chipped in with a couple of goals and I'm only in mid-October.
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58 minutes ago, mhaffy said:
Thanks; maybe I won’t disable first transfer window when I start my long term save on circa 9th November…. I experimented at start of beta save and managed to sign Christensen on new 4 year deal plus option for another year at £105k per week with £20k appearance fee and circa £3m loyalty bonus… so may be able to tie him down in my long term save….
That's a great deal! he's playing really well for me but currently not interested in signing. I hope that changes before January, especially as Spurs, PSG and Newcastle are sniffing around.
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Put in a speculative deadline day offer of 25m upfront and 75m in instalments for Mbappe and PSG accepted. 350k per week for 5 years!
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17 hours ago, mhaffy said:
Did you sell Rudiger in January transfer window or at start of game? I was wondering about disabling first transfer window when I start my long term save on main game release but concerned that I will be unable to get fee for Rudiger in January window. I doubt that I would be willing to pay him huge wage to stay on. Also wondering if you managed to get Christensen to sign new deal. Seems that I will probably need at least 2 new centre backs for 22/23 season but only £40m in starting transfer kitty won’t go far….
I sold Rudiger at the start of the game. I'm only in August but Christensen is not interested in signing a new deal.
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Sold Rudiger to Real Madrid for 37 million GBP after he refused to discuss a new contract. Now considering whether to replace him with the obvious choice in Kounde or go for someone a bit younger in Gvardiol, or younger and less expensive like Inacio. I play 4-2-3-1, so he would complete with Thiago Silva and Andreas Christiensen for a spot in the first team. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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I was just wondering how you increase the overall intensity of training.
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Can I find some screen shots of schedules? Downloads won't work on my Mac.
Cheers for the help.
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Player not developing - any advice welcome
in Tactics, Training & Strategies Discussion
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I use FMRTE to check players' CA and PA and have a 24 year old newgen striker who has a PA of 192 and CA of 182. He has been at my Chelsea team with 4.5 and 5 star coaches for 6 years and in that time developed slowly but surely through under-21s games, loans and squad rotation.
For the past 2 seasons he has been my first team striker, starting an average of 40 games and being the sub in another 15, and played quite well without being Haaland-level amazing.
When I first bought him at 18 for 2 seasons I gave him an additional focus of quickness as he was a bit slow and I like to play with fast strikers, and that worked well. He currently trains as an advanced forward at double intensity and has generally responded well to this and my staff see no issues with his training schedule or commitment.
My issue is that despite playing the majority of the games and training well, his CA has remained at 182 from August through to April of this last season and his stats have remained largely the same.
Any suggestions for how to kickstart his progression would be gratefully appreciated!