[[FM19] Manchester United]

3 minutes ago, joekim87 said:

Well if they hog all the good players it means other teams can't sign them and they increase their chances of winning. Chelsea do it with their youth system in real life.

Yes I take your point but were not talking about youth prospects here, I'm talking about spending £150+ M each transfer window to replace players on your bench.

Look what happened at Utd this year - bought Sanchez to stick him on the wing, upset the balance of the squad, arguably have too many players that play the same position (albeit poorly), and rumours start swirling of players wanting out because there is too much competition for places. 

If these teams wanted to increase their chances of winning, maybe it would be wise to build a balanced squad, and address weaknesses, instead of buying 4 attacking midfielders when you arguably don't need more than 1.

[[FM19] Manchester United]

Made it through the January window.  I always play with first transfer window disabled to hold onto realism for as long as possible.  Feels like the AI has been rubbing their hands with glee as January approached.  City buy 4 players, Arsenal the same, PSG likewise. Tottenham too.  The one thing that really infuriates me with this game.  You now have teams who have players unregistered who've been a prominent player for half a season as the squad is too big.  I'd happily take no further tweaks to design/features for the next years game in a bid to help AI managers build decent and sensible squads, it really is a bit of a joke and I feel massively tarnishes the game.  Didn't buy 18 but had a good save (10 seasons +) on FM17 where City and PSG bought new players every year, that were no better than what they had, sat in the reserves and no one else could pick them up due to the money.

[[FM19] Manchester United]

I'm taking Utd back to the glory days of Ferguson - 4-4-2 with Wingers - what a dearth of them there is! It seems that everyone I find who I like the look of and people speak of on the forums are inverted wingers, Bailey, Bruun Larsen, Under, Sancho, to name a few.

Really trying to find a pairing in the Beckham/Giggs mould but it's going to be hard!  Currently rotate either Martial at LM as a winger - Big red dot in the tactics but plays reasonably well, and rotate him with Pogba as a wide playmaker, who again does well out there.

Mata has played well as a wide midfielder for me on the right, but is now out for 5 months with a popped achilleas, and with that, probably the rest of his physical attributes will be done.  Had lined up Carlos Soler as my RM but he's done the same too!

I'm finding it hard to figure out who to buy, have never liked to go for the big names and popular buys, though Skriniar looks very good.  Just flogged Smalling to Chelsea for £13M and Darmian to Napoli for £8M.  Hoping to bring back TFM, Tuanzebe and Mitchell to provide cover next season.

Currently sat top, 2 points over Liverpool at Xmas (Fabinho is insane by the way).