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lee_kendrick

lee_kendrick

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I habe about £80 million to spend right now, cannot purchase untill the summer now anyway, so will be more likely well over £100 million.

i think i need a rio ferdinand replacement, not sure how good sakho is a center back?

thinking about a goal keeper to, although i do have 2 very good youngs ones, and foster does ok. Btw how many people have foster in the england team, he never gets picked in my game even though he plays every game for me.

where else can i improve my team

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antero3000

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I'm in 2nd seasons January transfer window and here is my squad:

GK: Oscar Ustari/Edwin van der Sar

DL: Patrice Evra/Taye Taiwo

DC: Rio Ferdinand ©/Jonny Evans

DC: Nemanja Vidic/Fabricio Coloccini

DR: Daniel Alves/Danny Simpson

ML/AML:Abdou Razack Traoré/Nani

DMC: Alou Diarra/Owen Hargreaves/Michael Carrick

MCa: Anderson/Luis Jiménez

MR/AMR: Cristiano Ronaldo/Nani

AM/FC: Sergio Agüero/Wayne Rooney/Carlos Tévez

FC: Sergio Agüero/Wayne Rooney/Carlos Tévez

1st season transfers in:

Piet Velthuizen - Vitesse - £5m (Buy of weak moment but seems to develop into decent player)

Abdou Razack Traoré - Rosenborg - £1m (Very young but is playing very good avg after 17 games avg7.32)

John-Joe O'Toole - Watford - £2.5m (same as Velthuizen)

Daniel Alves - Sevilla - £16,5m (Best rightback in the world)

+youngsters

1st season transfers out:

Darren Fletcher - Portsmouth - £7.25m+30% next sell

Mikaël Silvestre - Palermo - £2.6m

2nd season tranfers in:

Sergio Agüero - At. Madrid - £34m (Godlike player 24apps 17gls 14ast 3mom avg7.54)

Luis Jiménez - Ternana - £5m (3gls 11ast in 23apps)

Alou Diarra - Bordeux - £8m (solid and consistant DM)

Taye Taiwo - Marseille - £8m (good rotation for Evra)

Oscar Ustari - Getafe - £4.1 (panic buy at end of transfer window but good keeper)

Fabricio Coloccini - Deportivo - £17m (Haven't played yet but I expect him to challenge Rio/Vida)

+youngsters

2nd season transfers out:

Ben Foster - Portsmouth - £9.75m+30% next sell+£40m after one cap (too good offer)

Park Ji-Sung - Napoli - £3.9m

Gerard Piqué - Inter - £20m (got tired of his wining+chairman accepted the bid)

Success so far:

Won everything except Community Shield (Shevchenko scored an offside goal in 90th minute icon_mad.gif) in 1st season and on my 2nd trying to win everything.

Future aims:

Trying to nurture some youngsters into good players. Making Manchester United worlds richest football club. Get Loserfool relegated icon_razz.gif.

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ronaldo175

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Originally posted by SneakyDave:

Well, I did it. First I resigned from the Argentina job after winning the 2010 World Cup.

Now in October 2010, I resigned from Man United.

Here's my final first team:

GK: Lloris/Foster

LB: Evra/Abidal

RB: Alves/Torren

CB: Vidic/Evans

CB: Barzagli/Vidal

CM: Hargreaves/Banega

CM: Zapater/Banega

AMC: Aguero/Fernandez

AMC: Silva/Rooney

AMC: Ronaldo/Gourcuff

FC: Adriano/Bojan/Vaughan

So as I left, I had a huge squad, full of depth and then I figured that there was no point anymore.

It's been fun while it lasted.

Nice final squad Dave, you got another challenge lined up after United or will you be creating a new game?

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SneakyDave

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Originally posted by ronaldo175:

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by SneakyDave:

Well, I did it. First I resigned from the Argentina job after winning the 2010 World Cup.

Now in October 2010, I resigned from Man United.

Here's my final first team:

GK: Lloris/Foster

LB: Evra/Abidal

RB: Alves/Torren

CB: Vidic/Evans

CB: Barzagli/Vidal

CM: Hargreaves/Banega

CM: Zapater/Banega

AMC: Aguero/Fernandez

AMC: Silva/Rooney

AMC: Ronaldo/Gourcuff

FC: Adriano/Bojan/Vaughan

So as I left, I had a huge squad, full of depth and then I figured that there was no point anymore.

It's been fun while it lasted.

Nice final squad Dave, you got another challenge lined up after United or will you be creating a new game? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I played it cool for 4 months, rejecting job offers from Cameroon, Fiorentina, Liverpool and finally Milan.

I then got an interesting one... Athletico Madrid. Sven Goran Erikkson was just sacked with the club placed 19th in the table and the expectations being for me to win the league by the end of a two-year plan... I accepted!

The club is VERY low on morale, with many players wanting to move on, and Antonio Reyes being ****ed that I dropped him from captain role in favour of Franco on goal. Reyes didn't have the mental stats IMO.

Seems a good challenge and hoping to build up some talent from a club famous for young talent.

Thanks for asking!

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Sanityfm

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Originally posted by jackie_gx:

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Sanityfm:

I have 82 mil to spend not sure where to strengthen in my squad..anyone has any advice?

My keepers are Ustari, Akinfeev and Grohe.

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I think your team already strong enough. My team not even half the depth of your team. I don't think it still have any room for improvement. A suggestion of mine is you can buy the promising player with age less than 18. It will help in the registration of CL.

How you manage to get so many star player in your team?

How much did you spend for all of these player?

How you manages to keep the team in balance?

How your result of the team so far(no load after lose)? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

1& 2)I had cavani, but sold him the season after i got him. he was crap.

sold Tevez for 35mil, sold dos santos for 30mil to chelsea after getting him for free. Got RVP, Grohe, Insua and RVP on free.

3) i use the rotation method, have 3 different squads, only players unhappy now are borre and stancu, whom i dont mind selling off, Stancu is worth 15mil now (loaned him off to atletico madrid in previous season icon_biggrin.gif)

4) the first 2 seasons i won by 22 and 13 points, it seems to be getting harder now always down to the last game.And i have won it all 4 times, won FA Cup 3 times, League cup 3 times and Champions League 4 times.

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Sanityfm

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Originally posted by Sanityfm:

Here is my u-18 squad, i have good talent coming up from the reserves aswell...might have to make a 4th squad icon_mad.gif.

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I'm expecting alot from this player specifically, he is at norwich on loan atm.

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well duh he is at norwich it says rite there but ya this picture shows all his stats..

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I am thinking of starting a Man Utd save, only problem is that I don't have a clue how to play (formations & tactics). I am used to play in Italy and I often play there mixed (litte bit to short) passing with a fast tempo. This works pretty good and have brought me soms major succeses. I have tried the same with Arsenal and Everton but this way of strategy does not seem to work in England as well as it did in Italy.

How should I play in England with Man Utd? Some advice would be aprreciated icon_smile.gif

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edrock85

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Ive just started a new game with Utd on the new patch and the 4-2-3-1 i used away from home on the old patch is not givin me any goals in 8.02.

Has anyone got any good away tactics that have been posted with a download link which will get me some goals, havent won away from home once and its november now!!

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tomtuck01

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Originally posted by Trigger_18uk:

Any chance you could elaborate on the formations and tactics you were using throughout the season? I know you mentioned a 4-4-1-1 and a 4-1-2-2-1 system. Would like to know how you got such a good season out of Ronaldo if at all possible.

Thanks.

Here, as promised, are the systems I use. (I just hope they upload!)

tomtucks Manchester United 4-5-1 (or 4-1-2-2-1)

In this system in my first season, my usual selections for my front 3 were;

AML - Wayne Rooney

AMR - Cristiano Ronaldo

ST - Carlos Tevez.

tomtucks Manchester United 4-4-1-1

And in this system;

AMC - Cristiano Ronaldo

St - Wayne Rooney

If you want more explaining, feel free to ask. If not, then good luck if you choose to use something similar.

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thegaffer91

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when do people get rid of ferdinand? im at the end of the third season and am contemplating selling him for £10-15 mil and playing jonny evans alongside vidic.

what do people think of that and what have they done with this situation

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edrock85

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Originally posted by thegaffer91:

when do people get rid of ferdinand? im at the end of the third season and am contemplating selling him for £10-15 mil and playing jonny evans alongside vidic.

what do people think of that and what have they done with this situation

Ive never ever sold Rio, his pace lasts until hes well into his thirties which is priceless for a centre back. He neva gets injured either, ive sold Vidic on this one to make room for Pique, Evans and Cathcart but never Rio

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thegaffer91

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It is the beginning of the 4th season. this is my current squad (im on 802):

GK: Akinfeev/Mirante

RB: Apam/Simpson

LB: Evra/Bale

CB: Vidic/Ferdinand/Evans/Nortdvelt

Wingers: Ronaldo, Barnes, Nani, Mota, Young

Central mid: Hargreaves, Adrien, Fernandez, Gibson, Anderson

Strikers: Rooney, Tevez, Berbatov, Brandy

I have £64m to spend. do i need to bring anybody else into the first team squad? do i need to replace anybody? or shall i just spend it all on bringing in quality youngsters?

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simonbyrneno.4

simonbyrneno.4

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Tomtuck- How did you get Ronaldo to perform so well for you? any chance you could post his individual settings or a screen shot of them as i'm having difficulty downloading your tactic.

I've had great success in my games, but have never been able to get Ronaldo to perform like that. He's usually an 15-20 goals a year player for me

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watford4evasam

watford4evasam

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Hi my first post on this thread.

I am in my second season at the club and struggled in the first season finishing 4th in the league. So I thought I would need new players but I don't have a big budget, £13.88m.

So I need a few players so can you recommend good cheap players in second season. I have got the first patch I think

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Chasjs

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Buy some quality young players on compensation like:

Sankhare - PSG

Sakho - PSG

Aquino - Murcia

Fleck - Rangers

Saivet - Bordeaux

Wijnaldum - Feyenoord

Thiago - Barcalona

Galvan - Cruz Azul

Goldstein - B.Jerusalem

You can buy other good young players aswell, like:

Kroos - FC Bayern

Defour - Standard (this guy should even play a cover role in your first season)

A good recommendation is to get Bojan(Barcalona) on loan for the season. Buy his favored personnel and praise him monthly. This will increase your chances of a permanent deal in 2nd season. He does become class.

To fins these just search for them or their clubs in the search bar.

If you get these then that will be most of your budget, but you have a title winning team anyway, so don't worry.

Oh and those up there have been my transfers for my first season...

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Vinsanity666

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Okay,

after a lovely Benfica save, my Anderlecht save getting a bit boring and a miserable Derby game.

I have decided to finally have a go with my beloved Manchester United. I never really wanted to start as them because they don't have much work to do in the squad, but now that i ran out of ideas i just thought: Heck, why not?

Pre-season

I decided to go for a 4-1-2-2-1[/1], because of the strong defence the anchorman really tightens it all up at the back and the 2 wingers move into 3 striker roles when in attack.

A short passing system really is in its place with such a good squad and shouldn't prove any problems.

I moved Ritchie Jones to the first team, because i don't have alot of central midfielders. This is where i moved in for my first transfer. Alberto Zapater!

I'm also looking at a new AML, since i'm a bit tight on the wingers with only Nani, Ronaldo and Giggs.

A new FC, somekind of a target man. The Ruud Van Nistelrooy deadly assassin. And offcourse a new GK, Vander Sar really just isn't my kind of goalkeeper AND he's dutch...

Transfer Targets

GK: Sébastien Frey, Gomes, Mickaël Landreau, Roman Weidenfeller and Bogdan Lobont.

AML:Vicente, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Hatem Ben Arfa and Andrés D'allessandro.

FC: Adriano, Michael Owen, Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink, Malik Mouath Al-Hawasawi and Mario Gomez.

Other stuff

Anybody got a screenshot of Ben Foster, Possebon, Chris Eagles or Febian Brandy in the future? How good do they get?

I might also be looking at a new DC that can cover as a backup/rotation player with Vidic. Micah Richards would be lovely, but really hard to get. Pablo, Vincent Kompany and Christopher Samba spring to mind.

Maybe i'll even attract a great AMC to take over from Scholes as he's getting too old for my liking. (although i love him IRL). On my list have been: Guti, Raul Garcia, Diego(my fav), Juan Roman Riquelme, João Moutinho, Steven Defour and Pablo Piatti.

Any help and suggestions are appreciated and will be taken into consideration icon_biggrin.gif

~Vinny_out

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Alrite, just started a new United game yesterday and going well sofar.

Heres my current squad i play a 4-1-2-2-1 formation with 1 defensive mid, 2 centre mids, 2 wingers and 1 forward.

van der saar

foster

neville

brown

vidic

barzagli

ferdinand

pique

evra

lescott

makoun

hargreaves

o'shea

moutinho

anderson

gibson

carrick

scholes

nani

giggs

ronaldo

rooney

rooney

benzema

tevez

nani plays on the left wing and he has 6 goals from 8 he has been on great form, ronnie has 4 in 10, benzema has been amazing scoring 8 in 8 and rooney has 3 in 4, he had a ban at the start of the season so he hasnt played as much as everyone else, benzema is keeping him out the team but with rooney i can still use him on the left or right wing to an effect.

were 1st in the prem after 8 games 1 point ahead of chelsea and 2 infront of arsenal and spurs. Lost only 1 away to arsenal won 6 and drew 1 away to reading.

I created my own tactic/instructions... i think its great when you know your own tactic instead of using someone else's, when things are going wrong you understand what needs changed and aslong as you really studdy the game your playing you can pick up what needs changed and for me this has been great. Valencia for example i read the scout report on them and used instructions which i best thought would work against them away. We were getting beat 1-0 at half time, had our half time team talk tweaked a few things. Second half we were pilling the pressure on but couldnt find the net then the subs came on, 1 of those benzema who got 2 goals in the last 15 to give us a deserved win.

A few months ago if i were getting beat id just up the tempo and attacking play to try get the win but by analysing whats going on and making nesecery changes gives you a great feeling when it pulls off.

I tried to sign silva from valencia but they rejected my 44mil offer so i cancelled, i wanted dani alves aswel but i cancelled again after my 36mil offer was rejected. so they will be end of season targets.

youth players in

etock

saivet

thiago

sakho

fleck

aaron ramsey

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not sure, this is the 1st time ive signed benzema, i offered 7.5 mil plus 5.5 over 12months, 1mil after 1 country app, 20k per game for 10 games and 2.5mil after 10 league apps It got accepted and i offered him the contract.

Liam the main things that will drop in ronaldo's game are his physical stats e.i. pace... his technical and mental stats shouldnt really budge. You only really need to look at scholsey he has excellent stats but he can't make those bursts into the box as often as he used too. you could use him as a striker if he can't handle it out on the wing anymore.

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hi... i've been managing man utd with some success, i've won every premier league from 2008-2011 and won the CL from 2008/2010 now i have a 120M budget to spend so i was wondering if anyone could help

here's my team

i hope you can help

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sart91

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yes but i also like to switch some of the players every match so i can play the ones with the better condition for example if messi is 92% and kroos is 98% i'll play kroos, at the end they both play good

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Originally posted by Leandro Davide:

I am thinking of starting a Man Utd save, only problem is that I don't have a clue how to play (formations & tactics). I am used to play in Italy and I often play there mixed (litte bit to short) passing with a fast tempo. This works pretty good and have brought me soms major succeses. I have tried the same with Arsenal and Everton but this way of strategy does not seem to work in England as well as it did in Italy.

How should I play in England with Man Utd? Some advice would be aprreciated icon_smile.gif

you can try my tactic. I test it for 3 season. Score 140 goals

This is the link I posted in Tactic and Training tips.

It is custom made for Man Utd

http://community.sigames.com/eve/forums?a=tpc&s=2101905...882015104#5882015104

Here is the link to download the tactic. The file contain tactic, training package and some pic.

http://files.filefront.com/GX4+4+1+1rar/;10238150;/fileinfo.html

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I sold Nani to Newcastle for £30m + 50% next sale. Just bought him back for £14m. And I get £7m back. So its an overall profit of £23m but I also had Aquino out on loan. I should have called him bak!!! Maybe could try selling Nani again after a season for £25m icon_smile.gif

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Vinsanity666

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This was quite a thriller!

I didn't have 1 shot on target after the red card as it nullified my midfield. Chelsea started a 4-2-3-1 bombing of my goal. I reverted my style from short passing to direct, quick & counter and had Carrick man mark Sheva. Seemed to have work as Vennegoor was in an open space between both Chelsea defenders.

This happened in the Community Shield too tbf. Vennegoor doesn't look quick with his stats, but he's pretty fast... I think Chelsea don't consider him a treath so they double mark my wingers leaving Vennegoor with an open slot to put the ball against the net.

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I might report on my first season soon... although at the moment I am a bit pi**ed off. Knocked out of Champions League in 2nd Knockout. First round beat Chelsea 4-1. Go to Stanford Bridge for the 2nd leg and get hammered 5-0. I'm 1-0 down after 10mins and Drgoba gets injured... I cheer... then Pizzaro comes on and gets a 25min hat-trick... I almost cried. I go for it in the 2nd half but they manage to seal it with a late goal...

Knocked out in the 4th round of both domestic cups against Chelsea(LC) and Everton-Vaughen broke though my bombardment of there box and scored a 118th min goal(FA).

Before being knocked out of the Champions league I lose away to Arsenal 3-0 and draw with Newcastle at home 1-1. So now, 2 games left and Chelsea have practically sealed it. Although after I was knocked out I did fine 5 players 2 weeks wages for poor performances (they got 4s) and I murdered the opposition 3-0 in the next 2 games.

Shame really, was looking great in the first half of the season.

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Ronaldo off to quite a start to the '08-'09 season.

Brought in Benzema, Aguero, and Veloso in the transfer window. Unfortunately, the board accepted bids of $41M for Nani and $20M for Ben Foster. icon_frown.gif

I was hoping Foster would take over for Van Der Saar this year, but oh well. Now I have to find a top class goalkeeper.

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End of first season

Pretty much done the review above

Notable Mentions

C Ronaldo - 11 Goals/40 Apps/7.47 Average Rating

R Ferdinand - 12 Goals/45 Apps/7.33 Average Rating

N Vidic - 5 Goals/38 Apps/7.24 Average Rating

C Tevez - 18 Goals/43 Apps/7.23 Average Rating

W Rooney - 17 Goals/50 Apps/7.16 Average Rating

Nani - 4 Goals/41 Apps/7.12 Average Rating

L Saha - 10 Goals/22 Apps/7.09 Average Rating

P Scholes - 5 Goals/35 Apps/7.03 Average Rating

Awards

Club

Fans Player of the Season: C Ronaldo

Premiership

Premiership Team of the Season : R Ferdinand - DC, O Hargreaves - DR, C Ronaldo - MR, W Rooney - MC, C Tevez - Bench.

Footballer of the Year: 2nd - C Ronaldo

Manager of the Year: 3rd - Me

Players' Player of the Year: 2nd - C Tevez

Players' Young Player of the Year: 2nd - Nani

European

Goalkeeper of the Year: 3rd - E Van der Sar

Defender of the Year: 1st - R Ferdinand

Champions League

Best Player: 3rd - C Tevez

Honors

Community Shield - Winners

League Cup - 4th Round

Premiership - 2nd(94 Points)

FA Cup - 4th Round

Champions League - Quarter Finals

So not the best of seasons, although it started brightly. I just seem to fall apart at the Bridge.

Full First Team Squad List (With a few reserves)

B Foster

T Kuszczak - Thinking of selling

E Van Der Sar

W Brown - Thinking of selling

G Neville - Reserves

J O'Shea

D Simpson

O Hargreaves

K Lee - Reserves, Thinking of selling

P Evra

M Silvestre - Sold

J Evans

R Ferdinand

N Vidic

G Pique

M Carrick - Thinking of selling

D Fletcher - Thinking of selling

D Gibson - Reserves, Thinking of selling

C Eagles - Listed, Reserves

Nani - Might Sell

P Ji-Sung - Listed, Reserves

C Ronaldo

R Giggs - Reserves

Anderson

S Defour

P Scholes

W Rooney

C Tevez - Might sell

F Campbell - Reserves, Thinking of selling

L Saha - Thinking of selling

Also have alot of good youth players (Aquiano, Kroos, Saviet, Sakho, Welbeck and many more).

I'm thinking of returning to a more traditional 4-4-2 next season, although I am considering a 4(DL,DC,DC,DR)-2(MC,MC)-3(AML,AMC,AMR)-1(FC) formation.

Now the fun part... I have £39million to spend and a maximum of £48million if I decide to adjust my budget.

I'm looking at:

Gauraduo - Deportivo

Zapater - Sevilla

Bojan on loan again... please Barca, be kind

Adriano - Inter

Jimenez - Inter

Dream signings but will probably cost too much:

De Rossi - Roma

Dani Alves - Sevilla

Silva - Valencia

Bojan - Barcalona

Richards - Man City

Aguero - At. Madrid

And a couple others

Who do you think I should look to sell???

Who do you think I should look to buy???

What do you think about formation???

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Dont sell Carrick icon14.gif He's a brilliant passer, and can control the tempo of a game from CM or DM.

I've just entered January in the second season in my game, it's going okay atm, not great, but okay. I'm 2nd in the league, 7 points behind Chelsea, but I've still got to play them again, and so do Arsenal and Liverpool. Into the 4th round of the FA Cup, and I was knocked out of the League Cup 1-0 to Arsenal, but like last year I was playing my youths. Also, I'm into the next round of the CL, I forgot who I've drawn, but iirc they shouldnt be too hard to beat.

Targets for end of year:

- Retain Premiership

- Retain CL

- Make FA Cup Semi's at least.

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Barnetboyz

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also starting a new man utd game for a while \o/

have loaded belgium leagues (so i can see how my loans get on) and the major leagues, also planning on playing Hargreaves at right back and sign a proper DM (unless i put Carrick there)

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