Defederico?

Neymar and Deferico are both great, had them (+Dentinho) at Twente

Coutinho? Though maybe not up to the rough and tumble of the EPL.

Abel Hernandez or Kramaric?

Balotelli is worth considering, but I dunno if that will upset squad harmony.

I'm looking for a player with 15+ finishing. Which effectively rules out Defederico, Neymar, Coutinho, Traore and Dentinho.

I'm not sure if I want to throw money at Madrid to lure Higuain or not. There's a real lack of lethal finishers around in 2015.

Does anyone have any experience with Miguel Medina?

I've had him in 3 different version of FM, including this one, and I don't think I've ever had him cause any problems.

He completely failed to make the grate at Man City, only scored 14 goals in 82 matches there. Makes me apprehensive about making a move for him when I just sold on Dzeko who's scored more goals in just one season.

I've signed him up from Man City for 7mil and haven't had any problems... sometimes he's abit too selfish and shoots instead of the pass but he's scored 11 in all comps so far and it's November... top signing imo if you can get him on the cheap

Depends which role you want to use him, if your a top 4 club and your buying him to be your lead man, well maybe not, but as a squaddie he's been perfect while if your a non-top 4 team i'd jump at the chance

I'm not sure I want to be spending 130k on wages for a rotational player. I'm considering playing Destro more regularly, but he's very frustrating in his form. He moved to Genoa two seasons ago and has been playing alright there. I think Genoa is going to ask a serious fee for him though.

Finished my fourth season at A. Madrid. Won the league for the fourth season in a row, Spainish Cup and Spainish Super Cups for the third season in a row. Athletic Bilbao seems to like the Spainish Cup they have been in the final every year since 2011. We won the Champions League on our third attempt after losing to Lyon in the Semi's two years ago and in the final last season. We broke Lyon's four year winning streak in the quarterfinals, beating them 6-3 at away and 4-0 at home. My young striker, Ledda, has overtaken Aguero, Neymar and Rodriguez as my most important player. He has been on fire. He had scored 68 goals in 41 games going into the World Cup.

I won the world cup with Italy. I was expecting Ledda to shine if I was going to do anything but he was shit after the group stage up until the final. We scrapped into the semifinal by a goal in extra time against Belgium and a shoot out against Germany. Against Brazil my midfield exploded with 4 goals to get into the final. In the final we got smashed by Argentina but they just couldn't finish us off and Ledda scored from a counter with our third shot and first shot on target in the 81st minute. I was just about to replace him with Pazzini.

Edited by chillbilly: 28/4/2011 08:40:54 PM

I got him for 90k... after awhile i just stopped caring about the wage budget when i was 1mil under it last season

I'm mostly just conscious of the wage budget because of the club's running costs. I more or less HAVE to make the ECL final and win the EPL to keep the club afloat.

Things are really looking up at Bristol

Struggled to 15th in our First EPL season, Consolidated with 12th in our 2nd, then gave everyone a shock and finished 8th in our 3rd. Bout to kick off the our 4th season in the EPL. Clubs debts are cleared, and I've been given heaps of room with Wages and Transfer budgets. Only problem i have is our training and youth facilities.

Adequate Training
Average Youth + Academy
Average Youth Network

I keep bugging the board about it as much as I can, and to their credit, they do respond positively most of the time, it's just that it takes a year and a half to upgrade them now, and they barely upgrade each time, it's pointless.

who are you Harry Redknapp?

:lol: No. But I'm spending 2.6m+ per week in wages which is hefty to say the least.

Sounds like Harry Redknapp

Just watch out, don't call him a wheeler dealer.

I'm not a wheeler and dealer. Fuck off! I'm no fucking wheeler and dealer. I'm a fucking football manager!

fixed for accuracy

I've won more trophies than 'Arry could ever dream of :P

Ok, here's an interesting one for you: Atletico Madrid moved out of Vicente Calderon in July of 2012 and into Estadio La Peineta and have been playing there ever since. The 2015 champions league final is being held at the 53k Vicente Calderon.

in mine it's at the Ibrox for some reason

I'm just mildly surprised that it's being played at a stadium that hasn't been used in three years.

:D

Ok, so Arturo Vidal had a great start at Atletico...scoring 9 goals in 18 apps. He then scored a woeful 4.7 in the derby against Real...I dropped him and he's bounced back with 7.0, 7.1, 7.1 and 7.0 ratings, but because of that 4.7 his average is still 6.58 my assistant manager is still suggesting that he be dropped and the fans are unhappy with him. That feels like a bit of a bug...

19 apps, 17 goals for a CB :lol: Epic

I wish I could get that kind of a performance out of my defenders :P

Arrogantly taking the penalty at 4-3 in injury time for the hat-trick :cool:

Adnan the German Turk wants to leave for a bigger club. He joined last season for 15 million ffs.

Gave him the "I want the club to grow." No deal. Gave him the "You are being totally unprofessional." Still nothing. Gave him the "Showing disrespect, no way I'm giving in to your demands."

No dice :/

First time ever that I've had the player stick.

I let him on the list.

Put a 50 million asking price on him. He's got 3 years on his contract.

Hah.

Two days later he wants to stay.

Idiot.

I didn't realise you had that player taking penalties as well. That makes things a little different :lol:

I saw that new film about the Busby Babes and the Munich air disaster with David Tennant in it the other night, probably abit twisted of me to think this but I thought that it would be interesting if players and staff died in the game. I don't want to sound like a horrible psychopath, of course it's horrible in real life when a player dies, and of course the Munich air distaster is one of the greatest tragedies in football, I feel really weird and horrible thinking this but it would be interesting if players died in FM, or maybe they do and it's just so rare I've never heard of it happening ever :-k

No, the players just retire and disappear out of the game.