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9 hours ago, Swills417 said:
Just a little update of the financials of the Leno deal. Making big money on him, although that average rating at Bayern is quite something!
I also made a big January purchase of my own in this window.
He is also on £14m p/a.
Kulusevski looks brilliant in this years game but seems strange to me as I don't really rate him in real life. Where are you going to play him?
Love that you got £71m for Leno hahaha. That's excellent value.
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12 hours ago, Swills417 said:
@Duckelfsc perhaps try bring in a long term replacement for Leno? I find eventually Bayern Munich always come in for Leno and are usually willing to pay quite a lot!
Yeah that's what I was thinking. Is Onana good enough for that or not?
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Spurs got relegated in the first season for me
Harry Kane still there and ripping it up in the Championship:
If only I wasn't Arsenal then maybe I could buy some of their players!
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Finished 4th first season and won the Europa League. Now only 4 games in but have won all 4.
First season I signed:
- Yunus Musah for £20m
- Luiz Felipe for £25m
- Ilias Akhomach for £5.5m
- Alvyn Sanches for £650k
This season I've splashed the cash and brought in:
- Yusuf Demir for £31.5m
- Ismael Bennacer for £45.5m
- John Stones for £22.5m
- Luke Thomas for £29m
- Sergio Romero for £675k
- then the big one....brought in Haaland for £117m
Squad is looking like this - wondering what I should aim to improve?
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Strolling to 2 in a row with Mainz. Unbelievable performance! Thing is can you really move up from where you are?
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Played some more last night. Currently still unbeaten so far in my first season with Koln. 7 wins and 7 draws in the league. Sitting 3rd and I'm 2 points behind Bayern and 1 behind Schalke. Hopefully should be able to qualify for European competition of some sort.
Kainz, Shkiri and Horn been my best performers so far. Behrens has started playing more recently too and is making the B2B role in midfield his own.
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On 28/11/2019 at 07:04, Pavi said:
Well, I might downplayed how well Daramy has been
How far in is that? End of second season?
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Firmino?
Gouri as a project signing.
Edouard?
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What's your thoughts on Joseph Paintsil and his potential? I signed him for Koln for €6m but he's been poor so far.
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Played some more of my FC Koln game last night. Currently just played the first game of November 2019 and I'm still unbeaten! Played 10 in the league and have drawn 5 won 5. This puts me 3rd in the table, level with Bayern and 2 points off league leaders Schalke. The unbeaten run includes the cup too and a scraped win on penalties away to 3rd Tier Ingolstadt in the 2nd round. Now got 2nd tier Stuttgart away after that.
It's definitely not been scintillating football that has got us to this point but mainly a strong defence. We've only scored more than 2 goals in a game once and in half our games we've not scored more than one goal. Part of this seems to be that my striker is struggling to get involved in matches. Amine Gouri playing as an advanced forward in a 4-2-3-1 - he started the season well but hasn't scored for 5 matches now and he's only completing about 5 passes a game so barely getting a touch of the ball. Would moving him to a complete forward attack get him more involved?
My second most expensive signing of the summer Joseph Paintsil has been absolutely hopeless so far. €6m, one goal and a seemlingly uncanny inability to cross the ball to a teammate. He's only 21 so hopefully he improves but looking like a panic signing at the moment.
Timo Horn is an incredible keeper and Ellyes Skhiri has been awesome for him. The Tunisian can score from anywhere and is my top goalscorer at the moment.
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4 hours ago, DirtyJoe said:
Finished my first season
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Awesome! You seem to have focused on signing German players too.
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4 minutes ago, craiigman said:
I have changed systems now. My idea was that Lewa wouldn't be needed in the build up, and he wasn't involved anyway, so was hoping with poacher he would be on the end of things.
Also what about that system makes it cautious? I found with the Gegenpress or Vertical Tiki-Taka defaults just ended up with stupid amounts of long shots, and wasn't breaking teams down at all.
Yeah I see your new system above. Looks good to me. Just think positive mentality, only a few players on attack and standard line of engagement is quite cautious with Bayern. If you are still using that formation in some games then maybe try a more attacking role for the left-back?
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Played some more last night and finished the transfer window.
Brought in:
Naci Unuvar - €1m from Ajax
Florent Muslija - €2.5m from Hannover
Joseph Paintsil - €6m from Genk
Mohamed Daramy - €2.1m from Copenhagen
This means all signings so far except Behrens are 21 or younger.
Then I managed to get Modeste's wages off the bill selling him for €3.5m and Risse also left for €2.5m
Managed to make a profit on player sales of €17.4m, significantly reduce the average age of the squad and also reduce the wage bill by €104k per week. Only issue might be that we have a very inexperienced squad so will take a couple of years before these players are firing at all cylinders - hopefully some of them can start sooner.
I started the season with an away 2-0 win in the German Cup against a 3rd Tier side then the league action started.
First game was at home to Freiburg and was a very comfortable 3-0 victory.
Then I went away to Frankfurt and drew 2-2. A late equaliser from Amine Gouri getting us a very credible point.
We then drew 1-1 away to Schalke in the final game before the international break meaning that we are currently 6th in the table after 3 games.
Tactic is working ok but think I will totally change one of the 3 tactics when I get home. Not sure how to fit Paintsil into the side at the moment.
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15 hours ago, craiigman said:
Not playing much of FM19 probably hasn't helped much, but really starting to question my own sanity here. I started a Bayern save to get the hang of things, and I'm not doing as well as I should be.
Just can't seem to score many goals. The Hamburg game was a weird one, because I was 3-1 down. Then they seemed to actually start playing football and we won 4-3. But the last game vs Ingolstadt and only won 2-0. They didn't have a shot, but I only had 10.
I started with this:
Which to me looks fairly well balanced but nothing was happening. So I changed it to the stock vertical tiki-taka and used that 4141 which improved slightly.
Just wondered what other people are using with Bayern. But also thinking how bad can I actually be on FM to not be able to do well with Bayern.
Tactic probably quite cautious for Bayern. Poacher could also be isolated in that system - not sure that's making the best out of Lewa. Plus Lewa could deal with many types of crosses and is strong enough in the air that "Low Crosses" isn't a setting I'd use.
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3 minutes ago, Goretzka said:
I'm still thinking. I like Bundesliga because there is no foreign limit and the league is contentious. But I'm still angry with the Schalke board lol. What would you suggest?
Gladbach, Leverkusen or Frankfurt would be good choices imo.
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26 minutes ago, Eschaba said:
And Behrens as a BBM
He good? Just signed him for Koln.
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Just now, threeps said:
Modeste went to a MIddle Eastern club for 3.2m and now earns a staggering 97k per week!
Cordoba has 3 goals thus far and an avg rating of 6.96. So ok, nothing special.
Might look to change the tactic slightly by adding a right wing midfielder playmaker (not many about!) so play is concentrated on that side leaving the left side for the fast guys for when play can be switched, thus the anvil and hammer tactic!
Did you transfer list Modeste and offer him out for that amount approximately? Yeah Qatari and Saudi clubs seem to love buying overpaid players on this.
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1 hour ago, threeps said:
Sold both Schaub and Drexler, at the time they didn't fit in with my 442 but in hindsight I could of kept Drexler for the 4411. Managed to offload Modeste but I got no takers for Cordoba. Will try again in January.
I can see Cordoba fitting it to your formation quite well as the pressing forward though. Does he perform badly? How did you manage to get rid of Modeste? I'd love to get his wages off lol
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27 minutes ago, threeps said:
Also started a game with 1. FC Köln. Gone with a 442/4411 either emphasis on the wide players or long ball counter attacking.
After 12 games I sit 9th with a W4 D4 L4 record.
Most notable recruit is the speed merchant Kouame from Genoa (8M) who I play as an advanced forward and has bagged 8 goals. I also got the equally speedy Alphonso Davies from Bayern on loan and hopefully will get him permanently. Tried to get rid of the strikers but to no avail but did buy a new back-up one in the form of Ahmed Kutucu, whose only contribution thus far is an assist by hitting the post from 4 yards and the ball rebounding onto Kouame's foot!
Next transfer targets will be get rid of more of the dead wood, buy a better AM for when I go 4411 (usually away against stronger teams or when they play a DM playmaker) and improve the centre midfielders (currently playing Höger and Skhiri there).
Nice one. Quite different tactical ideas from me. Did you try to sell Cordoba or only the two pensioner strikers? You can sell Cordoba quite easily. Offer out for €10m or £8.5m and you can get that money straight up for him.
Are you not playing Schaub or Drexler at all?
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Started by Koln game last night. Made quite a few changes to the squad. The only main thing I have to do for the board is sign players under the age of 23 for the first team and finish mid-table. I haven't played any competitive fixtures yet.
I brought in:
Von Drongelen - 20 year old Dutch CB from Hamburg - €4.4m
Behrens - 29 year old German DM from Nurnberg - €4.3m (direct Hoger replacement to play ball winner in my midfield)
Blas Riveros - 21 year old Paraguayan LB from Basel - €3.5m
Amine Gouri - 19 year old French Striker from Lyon - €8.25m (think this guy will be my biggest signing of the lot)
I also signed the Uruguyan Striker Matias Arezo for €1.2m from River Plate Montevideo but he's only 16 so won't arrive at the club till Jan of next season.
Total spend so far is €20.7m and only one player out of the 5 is over 23 so fits with the board's request.
Outgoings were:
Cleared out some deadwood which were:
Sobiech - €3m - CB
Schmitz - €1.8m - RB
Hoger - €4.8m - DM
then I got an offer from Bayern for my left-back Jonas Hector who was one of my best players. But he was valued at €14m, 29 years old and they were offering €25m upfront so I couldn't turn that down.
I had an issue where I started the game with 3 alright strikers but no one I thought could get me enough goals over the course of a season. Two strikers at 31 years of age who I couldn't seem to sell no matter what. Modeste was on a ridiculous 4 year contract at a huge €67k per week so no wonder! My other striker was Jhon Cordoba who has some great stats but his finishing is 11 and his other technical stats were poor too. He had 2 years left on his deal and I could get €10m for him so I decided that he would make way to give Gouri space in the squad since I play one on top.
Total outgoings total €44.6m so far representing a profit of €23.9m
I now have a budget of €19m left and still need to sign a couple of players. A young back-up goalkeeper costing at most €2m. Plus, depending on how easy it is to sell the deadwood wingers I have, I want to buy a brilliant inside forward comfortable on both wings with most of the money. Ideally he'd be under 23 too. Any recommendations?
I'll also look to pick up cheap promising young players in quantity at up to €1.5m each.
This is my main tactic and presumed starting eleven at the moment:
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Thinking of going Koln when the unset attributes issue is fixed. What are the restrictions in Bundesliga in terms of squad building? As far as I understand it's very lax compared to Italy or Spain, is that right?
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Winger Attack?
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2 Manchester United CMs above are absolutely insane.
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He is also on £14m p/a.
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