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42 minutes ago, kopfan1977 said:
Rebuilding this aged squad is going to come at a price and don't think many are premier league standard. Likes of Bielik, Sibley, Knight, Byrne, Buchanan are likely to be kept on.
i would include Bird and Williams in that list if you still have them in your squad (36 apps) and (27 apps) respectively. Sibley hasnt developed as i had hoped and doesnt stand a chance breaking into my side now. Buchanan played 28 games for me last season on the left of 3 CB's and did ok for a player with a jumping reach of 9!! Bielik is a good back up but got an number of minor knocks here and there and never got a major run in the team. Byrne was sold after downing tools last year, i did bring in Kenny and Fredericks to provide competition. Knight is my captain but only played 26 games last season, seemed to blow a bit hot and cold.
I think there is going to be some great entertainment at Pride Park this year
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Good Luck with this save Stu, just as a reminder don't extend Baldock or Jagielka's contract when the takeover might go through. Buchanan and Lawrence are more than good enough from what i played in the beta
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just thought i would share my transfer dealings before the start of the 24/25 Premier League campaign at home to Southampton.
Incomings as follows
Bradaric and Menino brought in to fill the Fullback slots as i am switching to the 4-3-3 DM Wide formation
Scarlett and Pease are both young starlets to start up top
Iversen to provide competition for O'Leary in goal
13 minutes ago, Stuniverse said:I wasn’t expecting that. Brilliant news. Hughesy’s back!
of course Hughes brought in to provide competition for those central midfield positions along with Rovella on a free with a £50k a week contract !! The Rams are in the big time
Just two major outgoings as of going to press, Lookman and Williams both demanded moves ??? Williams to Norwich for £9.5m and Lookman has gone to Kyiv for £15m.
Still £10.5 million in the transfer budget and £180k spare in the wage budget.
On a side note have a couple of future signings confirmed as well
Cortez will arrive Jan '26 for £6.5m + add ons. 3 U21 caps and 2 full international caps for Mexico !! made his full international debut at 16y 191 days old scoring a brace in his 2nd match.
also have Cesar joining at the end of the season, don't think he'll be far off a full cap for Brazil soon. paid £7m for him, could have got him on a free but i have used up my 6 overseas U21 slots plus Man U and City were sniffing around
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Big News !!
The one, The only, club legend Will Hughes has returned !!
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Happy with the the way the season has gone. looking at the graph we were never involved in the relegation battle. In fact our final position was the lowest we ever were in the table. Our best performers were in defense with O'Leary, Collins & Ballard all having Avg ratings above 7.0 for the season. Offensively we could do a lot better, Lookman top scorer with 10 but every one of the attacking players Avg ratings barely above 6.6.
Plenty of scope financially as we have been given an extra £500k in the wage budget and a transfer kitty just shy of £50m.
Overall balance up to £57m in the black but we still have the CVA of £7m??
Board still happy with bravely fighting relegation
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just had an emphatic 5-0 victory away to a Brentford side reduced to 9 men to get us over the magical 40 point mark. 5 games to go, sitting in 12th and 13 points seperate us from relegation. Sheffield Utd need to win every game from now on to make things interesting.
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53 minutes ago, Stuniverse said:
Do you go with two different tactics? One for the Top Five teams and another for everybody else? Looks like the Top Five are the usual suspects with Tottenham struggling to keep up.
Yes, although its a similiar shape, i just have a more cautious outlook. big tactical changes i have found in previous versions of the game dont help the teams performance. transfer window is over and i have bought 3 brazilian kids i had scouted for relative peanuts. regens that got into their under 18 national team straight away and the scouts like their potential so i can look to develop them. 2-2 draw away at Newcastle after the deadline day so im now 12 points clear, 13 games left. lost 6-3 away at Villa in the 4th round FA Cup an lost 2-3 at home to Arsenal. Injury time winner after leading 2-1 at half time. Top of the league Man Utd at Home followed by Liverpool Away up next. I'm relatively confident i can stay out of trouble, but need to get the points on the board befor the last 2 games. Chelsea at home then Arsenal away. Following Utd and Liverpool i have 2 winnable games at home to Fulham and Burnley but i havent won in 8 league games now. single FA Cup 3rd round replay win at home to Brighton in that run.
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January update, things are looking decent in the year so far. The gulf in quality between the top 5 teams and those below are frightening. Form has been patchy but have picked up a decent number of points. 3 wins on the bounce in early December had us in 7th but have only picked up 1 win in the last 7. Lookman top scorer with 6.
11 points ahead of the drop with a game in hand. Have been thumped 4-0 at Old Trafford and 5-2 at Stamford Bridge. biggest win 5-1 away at Turf Moor. Best result was the last game away at Elland Rd, 2-0 down and getting run over by Leeds. go all out attack for the last 10 mins. grab a goal with 3 mins of normal time to go and carry on attacking. Leeds concede a 95th minute penalty which Lawrence smashes home for the epic comeback.
Transfer wise i have sold Fredericks and Kenny for 15m in total. both were unhappy so i took the money to get enough funds for the transfer window. One major incoming transfer is a regen from Cardiff City, who has made 54 appearances in the championship already, making his debut in August 2022 at the age of 16 years 214 days. Welcome to Derby County's record signing at £12.5m plus add-ons, beating the likes of Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham and Everton to his signature. Superb mentals and good Technicals & physicals for an 18 year old. scouts have 4.5 -5 star potential.
Another piece of business was bringing in Abdoulaye Doucoure from Everton for £9m - superb Prem league player with a bit of experience
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2 hours ago, derbyfan said:
Hey guys, which tactic is op to save derby in first season? Can u give me a good one? Second seasons i will use my own tactics but i want to finish the first year with no problems. Thankyou so much.
I used a 4-3-3 Verical Tiki Taka in the first season as it suited the available playersfor me. Either this or using 3 at the back with wingbacks have been the main option, this is what i have changed to in the Prem league. The players are good enough its just injuries that can get in the way of a good run of form. Beilik, Knight, Baldock and Kazim are seriously injury prone.
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4 hours ago, Stuniverse said:
Are you happy with your transfer business?
Yeah I'm pretty happy with what ive brought in. considering i was given a transfer budget of £30m+ I only spent £7m of that. everything else has gone on wages !!
Brooks, Gray, Longstaff & Lookman are decent Premier League players who arent at the end of their careers either.
4 hours ago, Stuniverse said:Interestingly, three seasons ago probably, Derby agreed a deal with Everton to loan Ademola Lookman… but he snubbed us and insisted on going to RB Leipzig instead.
I wasnt looking to sign anyone deadline day but Sissoko demanded a move back to Blackburn in the Championship for £3m and Lookman was the only player i could bring in for a reasonable fee. got plenty of options on either wing now.
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Ademola Lookman was the only other incoming transfer for £1.4m and a loan deal for a backup keeper. lowest wage bill in the Prem sat at 740k per week.
switched to a 3 at the back with the WCB's, system is looking good so far at creating chances. lost the first game 3-2 away at Leicester. followed by back to back 2-1 victories, home to Villa and away at West Ham. sitting pretty in 7th after transfer deadline day. Brighton at the Amex up next.
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Well my transfer budget has disappeared, whole squad has been demanding new contracts it seems. wage budget has almost doubled to 700k
Missed out on a number of free transfers i wanted. £6m transfer budget left with 50k in the wage budget to spare.
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19 hours ago, Stuniverse said:
Bottle jobs 😂⚽️🤣
Indeed, they only gained 7 pts in the last 8 games to finish 20 pts behind.
The Final Table
beat the Championship record for points and number of wins.
103 goals scored
only 32 conceded.
Goode and Fletcher with 22 goals each in the league campaign, only beaten by Sheff Utd's Brewster with 27. Lawrence picked up 15 goals, Max O'Leary with 26 clean sheets.
One major difference this season has been the bigger squad to allow rotation, meaning the only major injury concern was missing Knight for roughly a quarter of the season.
A couple of bargain signings already confirmed........Brooks from Bournemouth and Diallo from Southampton for a grand total of £400k. Hoping to pick up Ampadu from Chelsea on a free transfer. Want to improve the left back position and probably the left hand side attacking winger.
over 30m budget so we shall see how the transfer window goes
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3 hours ago, Stuniverse said:
Two points clear at the top, and eight clear of third, and already guaranteed (if my maths is correct) a playoff spot with eight games to go… it’s still looking good.
The Rams are going Up !! After beating us, Stoke drew away to mid-table Hull, lost at home to a promotion chasing Palace, lost away to a relegation threatened Coventry and grabbed defeat from the jaws of victory conceding in the 86 & 88th min at home to a mid table Blackburn. 11 points clear of Sheff Utd with 4 games to go, with Sheffield having a game in hand
35m budget is pretty tasty for a promoted side, financially the promotion is a boon to a side like Derby. I just hope we can survive and not get sacked
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17 hours ago, Stuniverse said:
Top of the league and 11 points clear after 26 games, it’s looking very positive for promotion. Problem? Are you not wanting to go up,
Its not that i dont want to go up......and we have acquitted ourselves well in the cup games against Premier League opposition this season. I just feel its probably a year or so too early for this squad. I would have to find amazing bargains to even have a chance of staying up. With the current squad i think we would have a chance of beating the lowest points score in the league.
Which has been shown by the change in fortunes since the end of the Jan transfer window after selling Shinnie. I was 11 points clear at the top. The last game that was played was a promotion 6 pointer away at Stoke - lost 2-1 with a 91st minute winner, the table currently stands
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20 minutes ago, Quinby said:
1. Have you guys had better experiences with window turned off? Ie do the club sell everyone first window and hard to replace those?
I didnt use the function to turn off the 1st transfer window. I'm led to believe this would stop any player saleas all clubs in the league dont have the ability to buy players. Only a couple of youngsters were loaned out in the first window in my playthrough, the adminstrator accepted both loan offers without any input from the manager.
24 minutes ago, Quinby said:2. When does takeover generally happen? and how much is given in what window to spend and strengthen?
It varies on a number of factors, which i guess would be mainly down to finances. In my takeover it was early December but some others have had the takeover go through earlier. This allows room to extend contracts to the better players (dont extend Baldock/Jagielka or even Kazim !! They spent all of the 2nd half of the first season on the treatment table) Others have had the takeover delayed so its always possible.
29 minutes ago, Quinby said:. After take over are plays still being sold above you?
I havent seen it happen in my save but i'm keeping wages under control. The previous versions of the game took it out of your hands depending on the new chairman and the bids being made. Just sold Shinnie for 5.5m which was the top end of his perceived value. Had an 8m transfer budget at the end of the first season with a slight increase in wage budget. You need it to keep Lawrence at the club beyond the end of the season and he is excellent
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Lost my 2nd league game of the season then received a 5.5m bid from West Brom for Shinnie on deadline day, which i accepted due to the quality of the younger MC players of Beilik, Knight and Sibley.
spent some on boosting the squad defence with some younger talent
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3 hours ago, Stuniverse said:
Amazing result, @Recyclic3021. Pride Park Stadium would have been rocking.
Unfortunately got knocked out by Everton on penalties in the next round
gutted we scored with our only shot on target (in the 69th min with a header from a set peice) and then they equalised in the 86 min. They dominated the game 26/2 shots xG 2.07/0.18 so i cant complain
speaking of set peices this guy below is
21 goals from set peices so far this season
Which leads to the bigger problem.....i think we're going up.
sold Byrne to LAFC for 1.5m - he wasnt happy, he thought i had signed Kenny and Fredricks on free transfers to replace him. Funny as I had used him on occasion to give Kenny a breather. playing Fredricks as a Winger.
January Transfers done unless someone comes in with a big bid for someone
Lacava on a free is the one to watch. Venezuelan International at the age of 19 with good attributes. Scouts gave him a A rating and he can play either wing
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O'Leary with 3 saves in the penalty shootout. Caraboa 4th Rd shock result
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Deadline day just gone and a great start to the season
Utilising the set pieces well Fletcher and Goode top scorers with 6 a piece
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O'Leary signed but Delap turned us down. Bookies have us a comfortable mid table side, when the board just want us to avoid relegation again
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35 minutes ago, Adamm90 said:
What kind of wages are people shelling out to get Lawrence to stay?
managed to get him on a new 2.5 year contract at 28k when the takeover went through
coming up to my first game of the 22/23 season. These are the transfers so far, Have a 100k bid in for Max O'Leary at Bristol GK and a loan offer for Delap in also.
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7 minutes ago, Stuniverse said:
Waiting to see who gets released by other clubs?
Yeah, hoping i can pick up Jonjoe Kenny from Everton if hes released, probably need a GK as Marshall has gone to the States and Roos to Spain. Allsop is my only keeper now!
Fletcher has signed on the dotted line.....will look to the loan market for attacking wide players, although Dylan Williams is really coming along nicely
Stoke sniffing around my star player Tom Lawrence
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8 minutes ago, Stuniverse said:
Are you hoping to sign all five?
Got 3 Goode, Clarke & Sissoko can all play DC and Sissoko gives extra cover at DM.
Golding is a regen striker that was just too good at that price. Scouts raved about him11 minutes ago, Stuniverse said:How did Delap do for you last season?
couldnt afford him last season, had no room in the budget but he's a former Ram, right?
scored 4 goals in 13 games for Rotherham last season.
Have offered 1.1m for Fletcher at Watford as he's just been listed. waiting for 30th June in game before fleshing out the rest of the squad
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[FM22-Derby County] Why manage the Rams? How are you getting on?
in Good Player & Team Guide
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Hi Reece
In answer to your questions
1. No not until the takeover goes through which can be at any time during the season. Its recommended to disable the first transfer window as any bid for one of your players is accepted
2. No additional scope in the wage budget to offer anything to your current crop of players, until the takeover that is. 2 of your players have deals until the end of Dec, Baldock & Jagielka. although i extended their deals, i wouldnt recommend it. Baldock never played again after getting 3 major injuries in a row and Jagielka's attributes dropped off alarmingly as he is getting on a bit for a proffessional footballer.
3. Before the takeover 0%, which is why disabling the first transfer window is a good option, After the takeover in my save i believe this was increased to 30%. i did get a decent wage budget and transfer kitty at the end of the first season, as we had manged the finances quite well