Don't think it matters, looks more like a holding playmaker.
Yeah dribbling isn't a big necessity for him.
How come it's always the frenchies who produce those players.Just seen this guy in the United team
Take the Liverpool job and bring them to hell! At least, that's what I'd do.In my third season with Leyton Orient, Got promoted through the play offs in my first season (Which the board weren't happy about because it wasn't automatic!) Finished 11th in the championship in my second season, only 4 pts off the play offs, had an injury crisis that makes makes uniteds current one look tame. Then right at the start of my third season I got invited to attend an interview for the Liverpool job!
That's cheating though, only half the fun.You don't even need to take the Liverpool job to feck them over. Just spend £3 on the live editor, and just cause havoc from afar. It's a right laugh.
Replace Brenda with someone bang-average, like Alan Curbishly. Terminate the contract of anyone remotely good, and put all their total cloggers on £500k p/w deals that expire in 10 years time. Put their finances in the red, put their maximum attendance to something like 100. You can even make it so the playing surface at Anfield is SAND. No players. No money. No fans. No fecking grass
Well if a club that big terminates all contracts there's a lot of wage budget available, so the limit would rise with it.
Unbelievable.I can usually average between 60-65% if I do an all out possession tactic... Had a half where I was at like high 70s but went down a lot in the second half. Hard to really get like Barca/Bayern numbers
What really gets me (well, aside from the obvious) is how a team can have 38 shots against 1, and still only manage 57% of the ball.
It's one thing that bugs me about Football Manager's match engine. It's seemingly impossible to ever truly dominate possession.
Yes, I'm sure I'd take my Barcelona first team to a division three side, beat them 12-0, yet just about break 60% ball possession... if we're lucky.
@Skizzo, long update for ya
After 10 seasons, 10 domestic titles, 13 domestic cups, and, somehow, a Champions League semi-final appearance thrown into the mix, I decided to resign.
It's just not sustainable. The board seemed to increase my wage budget every year (which is what we all ask for, I guess) and, stupidly, I went along with it and started handing out ridiculous wages of £20k - assuming we'd only get better, and continue to rake in the money.
I was spending £600k just on wages every month, and losing anything from £200k - £700k depending on the circumstances. The club value fluctuated ridiculously (from £35 million to £1 pound, such was our financial instability)
We'd obviously get about £10 million altogether from the Champions League.
But from then on it was losses each month. The only way we'd occasionally make a monthly profit was if we managed to win a couple of group games, which was obviously never a given.
And though our sponsorship money was increasing every year, it just wasn't sustainable. Like you said, the attendances were awful.
Breaking through that barrier and becoming a Champions League knock out side just requires that extra finance we didn't have.
I simply couldn't get in the players to get us through the groups consistently. And each year I seemed to spend more and more, making our failure to get out of the groups more and more costly.
I then tried to sell off some of the high earners, and suddenly we didn't look like even getting into the group stages consistently. And obviously that just kills the finances.
So I left a club legend (and world class manager). The most successful in the history of Welsh football by a distance.
Having holidayed until 2040, it seems that one or two other clubs have benefited from my good work. Bangor City are now doing what I did with TNS, and dominating the league. They've won about five in a row and have a value of about £15 million.
Meanwhile TNS have had money problems, but are still 2nd/3rd, and seem to be now doing things in a more sustainable fashion.
They were so so far ahead when I left that they managed to carry on dominating the league for a good four or five years after me. But they stopped qualifying for Europe and the squad has gone downhill.
Welsh football isn't doing too badly though.
Edit: while it was holidaying and writing this up, TNS have gone 10 points clear in January 2041.
I've done Bilbao on 14, won the league first season, but I fecked the save up 2 seasons later with the cloud as I was playing on Vita. I did a bit of Crewe too, but ended up pissed off, went youth only, them my keeper fell apart.
I've done Bilbao on 14, won the league first season, but I fecked the save up 2 seasons later with the cloud as I was playing on Vita. I did a bit of Crewe too, but ended up pissed off, went youth only, them my keeper fell apart.
Can't wait to hear how you get on with Celtic, should be great craic.
It's brilliant fun. There's a good chance you're screwed if the youth recruitment(or the other Basque clubs) doesn't land you a potential keeper and striker(not so much as you can convert outfield players). Of course, you have a little flex, in that you can sign some Spanish youth, any Spanish U16 can be signed, and then automatically becomes Basque, IIRC. I can't remember seeing any regen French Basque.Always thought about doing a Bilbao save, definitely a different save than I've usually tried.
Already got the facilities being upgraded, so hopefully I can get some good youngsters coming through early. I'm gonna try and offload most of the non-scottish players in the January window, and the next summer window. Hopefully I don't fall apart after that
