I've put some hours in this weekend :icon_lol:
Won the Championship with 108 points, was given a decent budget of about £20m & £120k per week extra. Star player was a young AM I got on loan from Ajax called Nouri, who hit double figures for goals and assists, and my inside forwards who were all rotated pretty much every game. Dicko took ages to warm up but finished really strongly ending up on twenty goals. Bod was fucking gash tbh.
Costa was good but they wanted far too much money for him, and then rather helpfully they offered him out for £1.5m after I was fucking skint, the fucking shit cunts. And then very late on in the window I was given more budget which I spent on a centre half, so my total net spend for the window was about £30m
Was pleased with the window though, and we had a really good season. We've got five games left and we've never been out of the top ten, even being as high as fifth on occasion, with some really impressive scalps along the way. A really tough finish though and with only four points separating 5th to 10th it could be anything tbf.
I'm playing a 4231, with attacking fullbacks (sometimes only one attacking depending on opposition wingers, inside forwards and a false nine (swap the false nine to a defensive forward away from home). One CM set to support and one to defend. Tactically generally I'm pushing up, closing down, high tempo, offside trap, and low crosses as none of my forwards are great in the air.
My signings are almost exclusively young, with only Mvilla over 25. Particularly recommended are Andrei Ivan, Morosini, Dueland and Mere, all of which are performing brilliantly in the top flight. This coming preseason will be quite a quiet one tbh. I'll try and get Tah in but he's gonna be £18m, and there's not much on the bosman market tbh, so it's going to be teenagers with an eye on the future and aim for 5th-7th with the lads I've got hopefully improving. The young lad I've got from Atleti looks like a cracking player so I'll probably move Dicko on and cope with him and Kuki, as I can't see me keeping three strikers happy