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Post by GBGav on Oct 13, 2011 16:21:25 GMT -5
Anyone trying any youngsters out from their academy? I've got a lad called Fran Martinez who plays RM. He's currently rated 67 but only just turned 18. Brought him through the academy when he was 16 and he's getting good. I give him a game as often as possible and with Lennon recently being ruled out for 4 months, here's his opportunity. Also got a 16 year old keeper called Theo Mattuschka, he's rated 69 already! Worth £7.5m according to the transfer page. I play him in cup games and less challenging league games. Krul's hard to leave out the team! I scouted a midfielder in Germany with the same surname (Mattuschka.) He has a high potential so I signed him to the youth squad. He's only 14 years old though. Got a couple of others in there too. |
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Post by Dan on Oct 13, 2011 19:08:22 GMT -5
Started a Career with Lazio today. They had a starting budget of £17,000,000. I sold 9 Players, the best was 35 year old Rocchi (75), and brought in Argentinian Centre Back M. Musacchio (77) from Villareal for £10,000,000. I signed Batefembi Gomis (82) from Lyon for £18,000,000 and was looking set for the Season, when my best Player Hernanes (84) threw a spanner in the works and declared he could no longer stay at the Club. I took the first Offer I got which was from Barcelona for £34,500,000 which was over £11million more than his estimated worth so I couldn't really turn that down. While I bidded for a whole load of young CAM's, I decided to move Mauri over to the CAM Position and managed to sign Hulk (85) for £33,800,000 which I was well happy with. Deadline Day came and I made one more signing which was Diaby (77) for £4,900,000. Beat Stuttgart and Arsenal in Pre Season whilst losing to Valenenciennes, and have played a couple of in the League so far, beating Chievo at Home 2-1 and drawing Away at AC Milan 0-0. Just finished my first Season with Lazio. Won the Coppa Italia 1-0 against 2nd place Juventus and came 3rd in Serie A with 81 points, losing 8 out of 38. Milan won the League only losing 3 all Season. Hulk finished Top Scorer with 30 Goals in 39 . Had some of the best against the Computer that I've ever had in this Season, beating Juventus 5-3, drawing AC Milan 3-3, and beating Roma in the Derby 4-2. Cisse became a Cult Hero coming off the bench and winning me 4 consecutive in the 90th minute. At the end of the Season I had offers from Liverpool, Tottenham (who play a 4-2-3-1 with Bale, Van der Vaart, Nani and Rossi as the front 4), Sevilla and Gent. In all honesty if it had been a year down the line I'd jump at the chance to go have switched Leagues and gone to Liverpool or Spurs or even Sevilla, but I decided I needed to stay at Lazio for at least another year to try and win Serie A and see how my Team do in Europe. With a few more Signings to add to the likes of Hulk, Batefembi Gomis, Musacchio and Diaby who I signed in the Summer they could have a decent looking Team. *Edit* Zarate came back from Loan who was only an 80 at the age of 25 so I sold him and bought 21 year old Striker Luuk de Jong (83) from Twent for £24,500,000. I also used a fair bit of my budget to bring in Centre Mid Guarin (83) from Porto for £14,500,000. Inter came back with a raised offer of £9,500,000 for 32 year old Mauri (80) which I couldn't really say no to. Vilarreal came along and offered me £14,500,000 for Radu who was only a 78 Right Back so I had to take that for him really. I then bought in Youth Scout Florin Martin for £7,000,000. I've also just bought Henriksen (81) for £19,000,000 and Howedes (83) for £13,500,000. Therefore had to sell Ledesma for £9,000,000. That's just about me done Transfer wise for this Season. Lost the Italian Super Cup to AC Milan, but am about to play them in my first League Game now. Current Squad looks like this (4-2-3-1): GK: F. Marchetti (79) LB: Garrido (75) CB: B. Howedes (83) CB: Andre Dias (80) RB: M. Musacchio (79) LDM: M. Henriksen (81) RDM: A. Diaby (78) LW: B. Gomis (82) CAM: F. Guarin (83) RW: Hulk (87) ST: L. de Jong (83) Subs: 1. L. Cana (78) 2. M. Klose (81) 3. D. Cisse (82) 4. A. Konko (76) 5. L. Kozak (77) |
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Post by Jericho Is God!™ on Oct 14, 2011 12:49:39 GMT -5
played 3 games online today in UT was winning the first one 3-0 then EA signed me out and said i lost the match, then the same thing happend again and then again...Ive had no luck playing fifa12 online always either i get signed out of EA or they leave the match. (Ive played about 5 matchs from start to finish)
And its not my Internet as I can play any other game online and its fine.
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Post by Hammersmith Hardman on Oct 14, 2011 12:59:10 GMT -5
EA servers are an embarrassment, to make great games like FIFA etc. their servers truly are shite.
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Post by Gazza on Oct 14, 2011 13:13:05 GMT -5
EA servers are an embarrassment, to make great games like FIFA etc. their servers truly are poope. I was just playing online on the 360 and they was fine. |
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Post by wyleecyotee on Oct 14, 2011 13:41:41 GMT -5
At least you can start matches on Ultimate Team, if I try my game just crashes.
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Post by Callum1993 on Oct 16, 2011 15:37:07 GMT -5
Just started a new one with Man City. Got kinda bored with the Spurs one. Determined to stick to this one. Bought: Pepe- £19 million Dani Alves- £26 million Neymar- £65 million Sold: Milner- Bayer Leverkusen £9 million Ballotelli- £21 million Napoli Bridge- £1.1 million Taylor- £800,000 Savic- £2.2 million Onuoha- £2 million Also sold a few youngsters. Current squad: Hart Alves Kompany Pepe Clichy Barry De Jong Nasri Silva Neymar Aguero Bench- Pantimilon K. Toure Richards Y.Toure Dzeko Tevez Johnson Simmed the friendlies won them all. Lost the community shield 2-1 to Man Utd after a Rooney goal in the last minute. Tevez got that goal First game against Swansea, Dominated the game hit the woodwork 3 times yet found myself 1-0 down. Pulled it back to 1-1 after a Silva goal. Next was Bolton. Ended up winning 2-1. Lead through a Pepe header. Bolton evened it up. Then I got a late winner from Dzeko off the bench. Next was Spurs away. Went 1-0 up through a Neymar goal. They leveled it up through Adebayor. Then they had a good spell and went 3-1 up Adebayor and Parker goals. Luckily I scored twice in the last 5 minutes. Barry and Dzeko again off the bench. Next up Carling Cup against Hartlepool. Beat them 4-1 Aguero Hat-Trick and Dzeko. Been lots of big transfers elsewhere. Benzema & Modric to Man Utd, Kaka, Di Maria, Gomez to Chelsea. Pato to Lazio. Sneijder to Barca Also bought Shaqiri, forgot to say that. Since this i've had a mixed spell. Beat Wigan 5-1, Wolves 5-0, Blackburn 4-3,League leaders Liverpool 2-1 and Norwich 4-0. Drew a few games with Fulham and Aston Villa. Lost to Man Utd and QPR in a shocker. Currently 3rd in the league 5 points off Chelsea at the top but play them next. Out of the carling cup in the Quarters to Man Utd. Dzeko had a great spell as a supersub so i gave him a few starts. He's now the prem's top scorer with 9 goals. Neymar has 6, Tevez has 5, Aguero has 4. Silva has 5 from midfield |
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Post by McBlake on Oct 16, 2011 18:06:48 GMT -5
Stoke online in a 5-2-2-1 formation with Crouch up front. Unbeatable  |
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Post by wayneyb on Oct 27, 2011 17:31:29 GMT -5
How ridiculously hard does this game get after a couple of seasons - played Tranmere in League Cup with Chelsea and it was harder than playing against Barca!!
The speed of the players is ridiculous - Phil "Usain Bolt" Neville was outsprinting Mata by yards! I'm all for the CPU making the game harder but it gets a bit soul-destroying when you have zero chance of catching their strikers giving them so many 1-on-1 opportunities.
Gripe over - i'm pretty fed up of starting over again after a few seasons.
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Post by RCW on Oct 28, 2011 20:18:47 GMT -5
Gettin' for Xmas probally.
Me and my mate started a career with Barca.
Signed Eden Hazard for about 48 million.
Won our friendlies then beat Athletic Bilbao in the 1st league games 3-0 Hazard getting 2 goals and Villa getting the other.
Nice team.
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Post by Himmy! on Oct 29, 2011 11:18:41 GMT -5
Played this for the first time against my mate whos had it for a month. Played about 15 games, I put over 4 on him every time. Simples!
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Post by Noza on Oct 29, 2011 13:43:41 GMT -5
Finished my second season with Tottenham Hotspur today. A very fruitful and highly entertaining season for me. Below is a detailed breakdown of each competition I was in, but I shall start with the transfer window.
After doing the treble in my first season, I realized that, being in the Champions League, I was going to need a better, and more expansive squad. I picked up a few very good players on the cheap, for around £10-15 million (Artjoms Rudnevs, Robert Lewandowski, Jordan Ayew). Also signed the Brazilian wonderkid Oscar for £19.5 million, which was an awful lot, but he is just starting to show his immense talent. I didn't really add to the first team very much, as I was happy with how they all played last season.
I started the Premiership fairly well; a 3-2 home victory over Fulahm on the opening day, a 2-1 away win over newly promoted West Ham and a 3-1 away victory at Everton. I dropped points with a 0-0 home draw to Blackburn, but for some reason I always struggle to put goals past them, so that was fine. Had a horrible run of games after those; Manchester City at home, Arsenal at home, Aston Villa away, Liverpool at home, Manchester United away, Newcastle at home and Chelsea away. The first fixture went horribly. I lead Manchester City 2-0 going into the 87th minute, then Adebayor scored twice against me to get them a point. The North London derby also went horribly. I was level at 1-1, then some no-name striker (I think his name was J. Campbell) popped up with a goal in the 94th minute to win them the game 2-1. I also lost 2-1 away to Aston Villa in the game after. In the ultimate contrast, I battered Liverpool 5-1. I was expecting a tough game away at Manchester United, but it was nothing of the sort. I found myself 4-0 up at half time, with Thomas Muller netting all four (he ALWAYS seems to score against Manchester United). I ended up leaving with a 6-1 win. I picked up six more points after a 4-1 win over Newcastle and a 4-2 one over Chelsea. I appeared to be back on track after a 4-0 win over Leicester, 1-0 away win at Wolves and a 7-0 drubbing of West Brom. That, however, was most certainly not the case. A 3-0 away defeat to Sunderland sunk my players confidence.I thought the 2-0 win over Ipswich the next game would regain it, but that didn't happen. Leading 3-1 with five minutes to go, I ended up drawing 3-3 away at Stoke which was a tough one to take. However, it would get far, far worse. Another home defeat to Bolton (1-0) was destroying, but nowhere near as bad as the next result. I suffered my worst Fifa defeat (against the CPU) in history; a 5-2 thumping away at Wigan. I had two more games to go until January, if I needed to bring anyone in. A late surge in the final fifteen minutes against Aston Villa bought me a 4-0 win, and, in the most extrodinary game I have ever played, I triumphed over Liverpool at Anfield, eventually coming out 4-3 winners; I lead 2-0 at half time, until Walter Samuel pulled one back with twenty minutes to go. Dani Pacheco levelled it up with ten minuted remaining. Ignazio Abate scored two minutes later to put me 3-2 in front. In the 90th minute, Pacheco scored again to make it 3-3, however Artjoms Rudnevs popped up with a goal with the last kick of the game, to win me the tie. A 3-1 away defeat to Arsenal, a 2-2 home draw to Everton and a 3-2 away win at Newcastle rounded off an eventful January.
Transfer wise, all was quite, until Deadline Day. Roma decided they really (and I mean really) wanted Seydou Doumbia. Making four offers (of which I all turned down), they eventually came back with an offer I could not turn down. £50,000,000. I took the offer, and signed Stevan Jovetic and Mamadou Sakho.
In his first game, Jovetic netted a hat-trick against Manchester United in a 7-1 win. He also helped me come back from behind twice to gain a 2-2 draw away at Manchester City. At this point, I was sixth in the table and realized I could not drop anymore points if I was to win the league. I really focused on my defensive game a lot more, and made a genuine last minute surge for the title with wins over Blackburn (1-0), Stoke (4-1), Bolton (3-2), West Brom (an astonishing 10-1), Wolves (5-0), West Ham (4-1) and Fulham (5-1). I suffered a setback with a 2-2 draw at home to Wigan, but after wins over Ipswich (4-0), Sunderland (3-0) and Leicester (4-0) I was top of the table going into the final match against Chelsea. A win would gurantee me the title. I ended up winning 5-2, with Stevan Jovetic scoring another hat-trick.
The League Cup was also very successful for me. After sweeping past Fulham (5-0), Port Vale (3-0) and Derby (4-0) in the earlier rounds, I found myself in the Quarter Finals against Aston Villa. I wound up winning that 6-3 after Extra Time (was 3-3 after the ninety minutes). I was giving Norwich in the Semi's. I lost 2-1 in the first leg, but turned them over 9-2 at my place. I easily dealt with Manchester City, 4-2, in the final. Jovetic bagging another hat-trick.
The F.A. Cup was also an easy one for me. I swept past Watford and Birmingham 1-0 in the first rounds. Crystal Palace (3-1), Chelsea (3-0) and Fulham (1-0) were beaten on my way to the final. I over turned Manchester United 6-1 (Muller getting a hat-trick and Jovetic netting two) in the final, as per usual.
The Champions League proved slightly harder. I had Schalke, Valencia and Basel in my group. I turned Schalke and Valencia over 3-1 at home, and got a 0-0 away at Basel.I beat Valencia 3-1 in the away leg, and Basel 1-0 at home. This allowed me to easily qualify, though a 1-0 away defeat to Schalke put a slight damper on things. I was drawn against Inter Milan in the second round. I was 1-0 for around eighty minutes of the game, but stoppage time goals from Lars Bender and Jordan Ayew got me a 2-1 victory. I beat them easily 3-0 in the home leg. I then got drawn against Real Madrid in the Quarter Finals, of which I was none too pleased. I won the first leg 3-2, in a quite remarkable game. I went 1-0 down after thirteen minutes. Jovetic finally put one past them after seventy eight minutes to draw me level, and I thought I had won it when Jovetic scored again in the eighty ninth minute. Ronaldo converted a free kick in the ninety fourth minute to put them level at 2-2. I didn't even think I had enough time to kick-off, but around two minutes later, I managed to end up in a one-on-one situation with Casillas, and Lewandowski converted to win me the game. I comfatably won the second leg 1-0. I was drawn against Chelsea in the semi-finals. I lost the first leg 1-0, but beat them 2-0 at the bridge to get me through to the final. I had Bayern Munich, and went in 0-0 at half time. It was quite a tight affair, until around midway through the second half, Ignazio Abate just tore their defense to shreds, and netted two goals to give me a 2-0 lead. Gomez scored a late on, but Muller (against his old club) made it 3-1 in stoppage time.
My targets for the third season are to win everything, which should be fine. Signed Xherdan Shaqiri from Basel for £28,000,000 and Georgi Schennikov from CSKA Moscow for £12,000,000 after Assou-Ekotto left. Will post a report after the season is finished.
By the end of the season, this is now my team (and subs bench) lined up:
GK: Patricio (84)
RB: Walker (80)
RCB: Musacchio (82)
LCB: Sakho (83)
LB: Assou-Ekotto (80)
RM: Abate (83) (C)
CM: Sandro (81)
LM: Bale (88)
CAM: Hamsik (86)
RS: Jovetic (84)
LS: Lewandowski (79)
GK: Guilherme (81)
CB: Reinartz (78)
CDM: Bender (80)
CAM: Oscar (81)
RW: Dos Santos (82)
CF: Muller (84)
ST: Rudnevs (82)
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Post by GBGav on Oct 29, 2011 15:48:35 GMT -5
Finished my first season with Newcastle. Didn't win any cups but I did win the Premiership. I shouldn't have though because I began to mess with the difficulty sliders when I was 10 points behind Man City (the games were getting seriously frustrating. I would often have 15+ shots and 0 goals, the CPU with 2 shots and 2 goals.) But I couldn't find a suitable medium and ended up winning most remaining games. Sold a lot of unnecessary players so this is currently my team:
Krul
Santon, My VP, Coloccini, R Taylor
Cabaye
McGeady, Gutierrez
A Costa
Ba, Donovan.
Others:
Forster, Hubocan, Kjaer, Tiote, Ben Arfa, Marveaux, Lovenkrands, Best.
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Post by Dan on Nov 1, 2011 7:41:13 GMT -5
Started a Career with Lazio today. They had a starting budget of £17,000,000. I sold 9 Players, the best was 35 year old Rocchi (75), and brought in Argentinian Centre Back M. Musacchio (77) from Villareal for £10,000,000. I signed Batefembi Gomis (82) from Lyon for £18,000,000 and was looking set for the Season, when my best Player Hernanes (84) threw a spanner in the works and declared he could no longer stay at the Club. I took the first Offer I got which was from Barcelona for £34,500,000 which was over £11million more than his estimated worth so I couldn't really turn that down. While I bidded for a whole load of young CAM's, I decided to move Mauri over to the CAM Position and managed to sign Hulk (85) for £33,800,000 which I was well happy with. Deadline Day came and I made one more signing which was Diaby (77) for £4,900,000. Beat Stuttgart and Arsenal in Pre Season whilst losing to Valenenciennes, and have played a couple of in the League so far, beating Chievo at Home 2-1 and drawing Away at AC Milan 0-0. Just finished my first Season with Lazio. Won the Coppa Italia 1-0 against 2nd place and came 3rd in Serie A with 81 points, losing 8 out of 38. Milan won the League only losing 3 all Season. Hulk finished Top Scorer with 30 Goals in 39 . Had some of the best against the Computer that I've ever had in this Season, beating 5-3, drawing AC Milan 3-3, and beating Roma in the Derby 4-2. Cisse became a Cult Hero coming off the bench and winning me 4 consecutive in the 90th minute. At the end of the Season I had offers from Liverpool, Tottenham (who play a 4-2-3-1 with Bale, Van der Vaart, Nani and Rossi as the front 4), Sevilla and Gent. In all honesty if it had been a year down the line I'd jump at the chance to go have switched Leagues and gone to Liverpool or Spurs or even Sevilla, but I decided I needed to stay at Lazio for at least another year to try and win Serie A and see how my Team do in Europe. With a few more Signings to add to the likes of Hulk, Batefembi Gomis, Musacchio and Diaby who I signed in the Summer they could have a decent looking Team. *Edit* Zarate came back from Loan who was only an 80 at the age of 25 so I sold him and bought 21 year old Striker Luuk de Jong (83) from Twent for £24,500,000. I also used a fair bit of my budget to bring in Centre Mid Guarin (83) from Porto for £14,500,000. Inter came back with a raised offer of £9,500,000 for 32 year old Mauri (80) which I couldn't really say no to. Vilarreal came along and offered me £14,500,000 for Radu who was only a 78 Right Back so I had to take that for him really. I then bought in Youth Scout Florin Martin for £7,000,000. I've also just bought Henriksen (81) for £19,000,000 and Howedes (83) for £13,500,000. Therefore had to sell Ledesma for £9,000,000. That's just about me done Transfer wise for this Season. Lost the Italian Super Cup to AC Milan, but am about to play them in my first League Game now. Current Squad looks like this (4-2-3-1): GK: F. Marchetti (79) LB: Garrido (75) CB: B. Howedes (83) CB: Andre Dias (80) RB: M. Musacchio (79) LDM: M. Henriksen (81) RDM: A. Diaby (78) LW: B. Gomis (82) CAM: F. Guarin (83) RW: Hulk (87) ST: L. de Jong (83) Subs: 1. L. Cana (78) 2. M. Klose (81) 3. D. Cisse (82) 4. A. Konko (76) 5. L. Kozak (77) Finished my Second Season with Lazio. Got knocked out of the Coppa Italia in the Second Round, which was kind of a blessing as I had a lot of in Europe to deal with this Season anyway. Won my Champions League Group beating Man United, Celtic and Atletico Madrid in the process, then knocked out Bayern Munich and Porto before being beaten in the Semi Finals 5-0 on Aggregate by Real Madrid. Won Serie A on the last day of the Season by 3 points ahead of Milan, with Signing Luuk de Jong scoring 49 Goals in 47 Games in all Competitions, 36 in 33 in the League. Class Player. At the end of the Season, I received offers from the following; - Lazio - - AC Milan - Real Madrid - Chelsea - Borussia Dortmund - Bayern Munich It was a tough decision as I wanted to build on my Lazio Side and make them win Europe, but there wasn't really enough funds to make them evolve much more than they already were. Therefore I decided to go to Chelsea and test the Premier League. Couldn't believe it when I scrolled all the way down the Squad to find none other than Kaka sitting at the very bottom of the list. Sold Lampard ironically to Lazio for £10,500,000, Kalou for £8,500,000 and Benayoun for £6,000,000. Bought Christian Eriksen (88) for £54,000,000, and 20 year old Winger Jose Manuel Iturbe (86) for £57,000,000. |
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Post by Mike Giggs' Munchies on Nov 8, 2011 18:17:36 GMT -5
Finished my first seson with Utd. Won the Prem with 2 games to spare, but in my last 2 games Kroos, Evra and Cambiasso all go injured, I figure it must be fatigue. After knocking 5 past City in the F.A. Cup semi I got Liverpool in the final. Was 2-0 down at HT having played shite, but came out all guns blazing 2nd half and was 3-2 up by the 65th minute. Gerrard then equalized and it was end-to-end into injury time. I thought it was destined for ET when on the ball with Young in the 90+5th minute, but Anderson (Kroos' replacement as CAM) somehow lost his man and made a run - Young put him through and Ando slotted comfortably into the bottom left hand corner. First a Ferdi injury time header on FM beat Liverpool at Anfield and now this, very happy.
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Post by GBGav on Nov 9, 2011 15:52:10 GMT -5
Played against Benfica in Ultimate Team last night and these two things happened. Had me in stitches.   |
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Post by wyleecyotee on Nov 9, 2011 17:00:04 GMT -5
Those are bloody hilarious!... Love the new fifa tackle engine, so many strange things happen... although some are bad, someone shot, hit underside of crossbar, my keeper goes to grab it off the line but my defender thinks he can do better, my keeper falls over my defender which makes my defender stumble and hit the ball against the post, back against himself and into the net... tremendous.
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Post by hbkjason on Nov 9, 2011 17:32:49 GMT -5
I started a career as Rangers and won the treble but wouldn't you know it the damn manager mode freeze bug happened so I had to start over so I did using Spurs.
I did not buy or sell any players my first season I brought in a few on loan but that was it I was more than happy with the Spurs squad to start off with. After a really poor start to the season (I had 3 points from first 7 games) I made up for it by putting together a really good 11 game winning streak. Unfortunately my start to the season cost me in the title race and I finished third 9 points behind champions Man utd. I did however win the Fa Cup. Pav was my top scorer with 31 goals in all competitions.
My 2nd season has been brutal I sold Defoe and made a great deal getting 24 mil for him I sold a few other player as well and had some big money to play with. I had a few loan plater back like bently and jenus so I was happy with my midfield but I lost Manu and Defor so only had Pav up top. I signed Lukas Podolski Landon Donovan and David Goodwillie along with Pav I thought these 4 would be more than enough fire power to get me through. I also signed Sami Khidera for a bit extra power in midfield. So far my 2nd season has been much harder I got through the champions league group but my league form is really erratic.
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Post by Dan on Nov 10, 2011 10:02:52 GMT -5
Just finished my first Season with Lazio. Won the Coppa Italia 1-0 against 2nd place and came 3rd in Serie A with 81 points, losing 8 out of 38. Milan won the League only losing 3 all Season. Hulk finished Top Scorer with 30 Goals in 39 . Had some of the best against the Computer that I've ever had in this Season, beating 5-3, drawing 3-3, and beating Roma in the Derby 4-2. Cisse became a Cult Hero coming off the bench and winning me 4 consecutive in the 90th minute. At the end of the Season I had offers from Liverpool, Tottenham (who play a 4-2-3-1 with Bale, Van der Vaart, Nani and Rossi as the front 4), Sevilla and Gent. In all honesty if it had been a year down the line I'd jump at the chance to go have switched Leagues and gone to Liverpool or Spurs or even Sevilla, but I decided I needed to stay at Lazio for at least another year to try and win Serie A and see how my Team do in Europe. With a few more Signings to add to the likes of Hulk, Batefembi Gomis, Musacchio and Diaby who I signed in the Summer they could have a decent looking Team. *Edit* Zarate came back from Loan who was only an 80 at the age of 25 so I sold him and bought 21 year old Striker Luuk de Jong (83) from Twent for £24,500,000. I also used a fair bit of my budget to bring in Centre Mid Guarin (83) from Porto for £14,500,000. Inter came back with a raised offer of £9,500,000 for 32 year old Mauri (80) which I couldn't really say no to. Vilarreal came along and offered me £14,500,000 for Radu who was only a 78 Right Back so I had to take that for him really. I then bought in Youth Scout Florin Martin for £7,000,000. I've also just bought Henriksen (81) for £19,000,000 and Howedes (83) for £13,500,000. Therefore had to sell Ledesma for £9,000,000. That's just about me done Transfer wise for this Season. Lost the Italian Super Cup to , but am about to play them in my first League Game now. Current Squad looks like this (4-2-3-1): GK: F. Marchetti (79) LB: Garrido (75) CB: B. Howedes (83) CB: Andre Dias (80) RB: M. Musacchio (79) LDM: M. Henriksen (81) RDM: A. Diaby (78) LW: B. Gomis (82) CAM: F. Guarin (83) RW: Hulk (87) ST: L. de Jong (83) Subs: 1. L. Cana (78) 2. M. Klose (81) 3. D. Cisse (82) 4. A. Konko (76) 5. L. Kozak (77) Finished my Second Season with Lazio. Got knocked out of the Coppa Italia in the Second Round, which was kind of a blessing as I had a lot of in Europe to deal with this Season anyway. Won my Champions League Group beating Man United, Celtic and Atletico Madrid in the process, then knocked out Bayern Munich and Porto before being beaten in the Semi Finals 5-0 on Aggregate by Real Madrid. Won Serie A on the last day of the Season by 3 points ahead of Milan, with Signing Luuk de Jong scoring 49 Goals in 47 in all Competitions, 36 in 33 in the League. Class Player. At the end of the Season, I received offers from the following; - Lazio - - - Real Madrid - Chelsea - Borussia Dortmund - Bayern Munich It was a tough decision as I wanted to build on my Lazio Side and make them win Europe, but there wasn't really enough funds to make them evolve much more than they already were. Therefore I decided to go to Chelsea and test the Premier League. Couldn't believe it when I scrolled all the way down the Squad to find none other than Kaka sitting at the very bottom of the list. Sold Lampard ironically to Lazio for £10,500,000, Kalou for £8,500,000 and Benayoun for £6,000,000. Bought Christian Eriksen (88) for £54,000,000, and 20 year old Winger Jose Manuel Iturbe (86) for £57,000,000. Fair to say I had an absolute mare of a first Season in charge at Chelsea. Went out of the FA Cup in the first Round to Manchester City, and out of the Carling Cup in the second Round. I then went out at the Group Stage of the Champions League in a Group that had Marseille, Celtic and FC Zurich, but because of that Qualified for the Europa League. I actually thought this was a blessing as I'd never won this Competition before on any FIFA Game as I'd usually always Qualified for the Champions League. However I got all the way to the Semi Finals, drew 1-1 Away at Werder Bremen then lost the Second Leg 5-2 at Home to get knocked out at the final hurdle. I had such an Injury struck Season though, with Torres out for half the Season, Mata, Ashley Cole and Iturbe also all out for long periods. I pulled together a run of about 14 straight wins in the League at the end of the Season though to go top on Goal Difference with only 3 to go. But, I let in a 90th minute equaliser to Fulham in my third to last Game and finished Second, despite losing just 2 all Season. If I didn't concede that Goal I would of won the Premiership on not Goal Difference, but Goals Scored For. Gutting. They decided to keep me on though, and at the end of the Season I had offers from Inter Milan, FC Porto, PSV Eindhoven and Feyenoord. I was wondering if I was yet ready to take charge at one of the biggest Clubs and wether I'd gone to Chelsea too early, and was so close to going with Porto for a few years before going back to a Big Club again, but with only a £20,000,000 budget I decided otherwise and stayed at Chelsea. Signed Alexandre Pato for £38,000,000, and Sidney Sam for £12,000,000 for some extra cover in Midfield. I've never been much of a fan of Pato though, and was originally going for the likes of Cavani, Falcao, Sergio Aguero, Lavezzi, Robben, but couldn't get any of them, and ended up going for Pato who should be class at Chelsea. City came in on Deadline Day with a £59,000,000 bid for Christian Eriksen which I turned down. End of the day if I was to sell him then who else is there to replace him with? He's probably the best young CAM on the Game. Wasn't that good in the first Season but he's been on fire the start of this Season, different level. Lost the first Game of the Season 3-1 to Spurs, but since then I've been on form, beating Arsenal 5-2 at the Emirates, Leicester 4-0, Wigan 5-1 Away, Carlisle in the Cup, Man United at Home 3-1 and Sevilla 6-0. Current Line Up is; GK: Cech LB: A. Cole CB: J. Terry CB: David Luiz RB: Bosingwa CDM: Essien LM: Kaka RM: Jose Manuel Iturbe CAM: C. Eriksen ST: Fernando Torres ST: Alexandre Pato Subs; 1. R. Lukaku 2. Mata 3. S. Sam 4. Ramires 5. Raul Meireles 6. B. Clifford 7. R. Bertrand |
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Post by Mike Giggs' Munchies on Nov 10, 2011 11:35:58 GMT -5
Roma told me to stay away from Pjanic for the second season in a row. Can't afford Gotze or Erikson, and Pastore just moved, so looks like I'll have 45m in the bank for January (60m if I can sell Wellbeck). All I've done this window is sign a LW to replace Giggs, can't remember his name but he's similar to Young and Nani and hes only 20. Promoted a Spanish LB from the youth team aswell as Wolves bid for Fabio (I keep pressing accept but it stays on the transfer screen for some reason), he absolutely titchy but has amazing control and a potential of 90. Dunno if I'll keep him or loan him out, his height is a problem vs. any decent sized player.
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