Keyblade Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 Those are very similar to the regens I signed in after my first season too (in terms of quality anyway). Yesterday my scout recommended me a regen Steven Pienaar that I sold in my second season . He was doing pretty well at 83 at 20 years old, just not good enough for where I am now. If he was that good back then, obviously I wouldn't have sold him to generate a measly 5M (I was so broke back then ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted February 25, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted February 25, 2016 My scout told me yesterday he'd found a "special" player. Normally when they do that it's a good suggestion. This time it was a 36 year old Antonio Cassano in rapid decline for £12m on over a million a year. Erm, no thanks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted February 25, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted February 25, 2016 Also, I got an offer for my backup striker for like 6m. Rejected it because I use him quite a lot. Then he wouldn't sign a new contract and the only offers I get for him now are 200k. Bollocks. Oh well. Signed Lanzini to replace Castledine ( <3 ) I've sold nearly all of my old squad. My entire first team squad is only 19 players Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 28 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: My scout told me yesterday he'd foun.d a "special" player. Normally when they do that it's a good suhis time it was a 36 year old Antonio Cassano in rapid decline for £12m on over a million a year. Erm, no thanks. I actually signed Cassano in a similar situation in my first season. He was absolutely immense though and was my captain. I reluctantly sold him the next season because he was rapidly declining as you said. The funds did go towards Embolo though so it was all good . Hr recently regenerated and is at the level he was when I sold him. Tempted to buy him for old time's sake. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 Ibrahimovic scored 2 of the most audacious, Ibrahimovic-esque goals on his debut 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samjp26 Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 Okay so I'm in my second season with Villa, got into the Champions League in my first season but now I'm sitting 7th in January. Just bought Abbiati regen for £300k (bargain!) and Distin regen for I think £4m. I went for Sturridge on the last day of the transfer window in the summer but he is pants compared to Babacar, I just find him to be really weak and he can't hold the ball up at all. In order to shoot up the table at least into top 4, I'm thinking of doing a formation change to implement 2 strikers, but I just don't know who to drop. My outfield team is: Jese / Babacar / Adama James Rodriguez Gana / Veretout Amavi / Okore / Richards / Van Rhijn Other good players I have are: Sturridge, Ayew, Vilhena, Xhaka, Distin (Regen) Any ideas on a 4-4-2 or something? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YGabbana Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 Okay so I'm in my second season with Villa, got into the Champions League in my first season but now I'm sitting 7th in January. Just bought Abbiati regen for £300k (bargain!) and Distin regen for I think £4m. I went for Sturridge on the last day of the transfer window in the summer but he is pants compared to Babacar, I just find him to be really weak and he can't hold the ball up at all. In order to shoot up the table at least into top 4, I'm thinking of doing a formation change to implement 2 strikers, but I just don't know who to drop. My outfield team is: Jese / Babacar / Adama James Rodriguez Gana / Veretout Amavi / Okore / Richards / Van Rhijn Other good players I have are: Sturridge, Ayew, Vilhena, Xhaka, Distin (Regen) Any ideas on a 4-4-2 or something? Id go 4-4-2, Rodriguez and Adama on wings 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samjp26 Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 Sounds like a possibility although I'd then be dropping Jese to the bench, feel like I shouldn't have bought Sturridge but even as a backup striker he just doesn't work up top on his own and I refuse to play him out wide as I'd need to drop Adama. Should I go with 4-4-2, anybody know of some decent backup strikers for less than £10m? Preferably in the target man mould. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YGabbana Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 Sounds like a possibility although I'd then be dropping Jese to the bench, feel like I shouldn't have bought Sturridge but even as a backup striker he just doesn't work up top on his own and I refuse to play him out wide as I'd need to drop Adama. Should I go with 4-4-2, anybody know of some decent backup strikers for less than £10m? Preferably in the target man mould. I've never used 4-4-2 myself so unsure on how it would work with the players you have. Not sure on strikers tbh as i dont use a target man. Im having a couple hours on it later so will have a look around and see who i thinks worth 10m 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samjp26 Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 Cheers dude, wish you could train players to play in other positions! I want Okore as a DM and Adama as a striker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samjp26 Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 (edited) So after switching to 4-4-2, I played one game and played a lot better but drew 0-0 with Newcastle. I then bought Lacina Traore, who for some strange reason is 32 years old on the game?! I'm assuming this age glitch is why he only cost me £4m, but he is an absolute machine. I've got him up front with James Rodriguez, with Jese out on the left and Adama on the right. About to sell Jese though, so James will go out left, another top deadline day signing in Strootman looks likely! Edit: Got transfer happy with a few deadline deals. Babacar sold for £10m, Gana sold for £10m, Jese sold for £14m. Already had some money in the bank so I've bought Strootman and Benteke Edited February 26, 2016 by samjp26 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 (edited) Benteke is 31 or 32 in my save ( ) but he's consistently in the top 3 goalscorers in the prem every season. I would have signed him if Embolo didn't make him kind of redundant. Edited February 26, 2016 by Keyblade 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Pangloss Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 Guerpegi is absolutely awesome. Recently signed him, immediately went from 85 to 86, the guy can pass through the eye of a needle, amazing to have especially when attacking with pace (Adama, Embolo and Iturbe). Only cost me £9m as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted February 26, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted February 26, 2016 Does he avoid the infuriatingly annoying habit of passing a through ball directly to the opponent's feet when a metre either side would set your striker completely free? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sexbelowsound Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 3 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: Does he avoid the infuriatingly annoying habit of passing a through ball directly to the opponent's feet when a metre either side would set your striker completely free? Sounds an awful lot like FIFA "Magnetic Football" 2016. If you manage to put the ball into space you've broken the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted February 26, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted February 26, 2016 You can use manual passing on PES to do it yourself, but I really haven't got the ability to do that. But yeah, it's frustrating when that ball is on and your guy just passes it straight to the defender. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 Whoa this Joaquin fella is really good. Regen version of him that is. He was already at 80 OR when he popped up in my youth team. A season out on loan and he came back at 85 and he's really damn good. Almost 90 dribbling and speed stats, with room to improve. Be on the lookout for him guys. Gonna sell Lucas Moura now who I paid almost 40M for and is not even as good as Adama. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samjp26 Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 How high OVR does Adama get to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 He's at 83 for me right now and 24/25 years old. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Pangloss Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 46 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: Does he avoid the infuriatingly annoying habit of passing a through ball directly to the opponent's feet when a metre either side would set your striker completely free? He does most of the time, his low pass stat is currently 90, so the vast majority of his through balls go to your player, in fact many a time I've just blindly done a triangle pass with him and as if by magic my forward is clean through. This guy is much better than Teixera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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