After losing my old Wolves save and temporarily falling out of love with FM, it's taken a short while, but I figured with the new patch, and us having Bassong & Frimpong, I'd give Wolves another go, here's a short summary of the 1st season.
First thing I did was promote Anthony Forde and Zeli Ismail to the first team, I employed a new tactic I had, which was a 4-1-2-2-1, team at the start of the game was, Hennessey, Foley, Johnson, Bassong, Ward, with Frimpong in the holding and O'Hara, & Milijas in the middle of the park, with Jarvis & Kites on the wing with Fletcher up front.
The transfers in that I made were, Kleber, a left back from Internacional for a fee of £6.5m, I've always struggled with left backs, especially as Ward and Elokobi never cut the mustard, and he was the best that I could get, Craig Dawson from Albion, he cost me £1.4m, had him a couple of times, always done well for me, always finds himself transfer listed too, so an added bonus, and finally, the best signing I made, was, Ruben Yttergard Jenssen, for a fee of £1m, I absolutely recommend him to anyone, a good, cheap, playmaking midfielder, he creates everything for me.
Finally, on to the season, first two games of the season, I had Arsenal and Man City, nice, gonna be bottom for the first two games, or so I thought..
Arsenal game, I was all over them, but I just couldn't score, so I decided to bring on Zeli for Jarvo, and 10 minutes later, he pops up with a goal, and then Fletch adds another, a 2-0 win against Arsenal, not bad.
Then on to City, I get a decent start, with Kites scoring in the 7th minute, then Bassong and Johnson add another 2, I'm 3-0 up, at Man City, then they come back at me, a Carlos Tevez double and an Edin Dzeko goal means I draw 3-3 at the Etihad, bit disappointing in retrospect, considering I was 3-0 up, but them's the breaks.
The rest of the season goes well for me, I manage to beat the teams around me, along with a couple of the top teams.
In January I managed to sign Fernando from FC Porto for £3.7m, as Frimpong would be leaving at the end of the season, he's added a bit of steel in the midfield, which I was lacking.
I currently find myself in March, and I'm top of the Premier League, by 4 points, my stand out performers have to be Steven Fletcher with 30 goals for the season, Roger Johnson with 17 goals, and O'Hara and Jenssen with 21 assists between them.
I'm hoping I can win the league, but we're yet to have the dreaded 'blip' in the season, so that's due any time soon, I'll keep this updated if anybody's interested or whatever.
Also, has anyone had any luck with developing Anthony Forde? I know Zeli is the main one, but for me, it's been Anthony Forde, he's kept Kites out of the side most of the time, played 16 games, 3 goals and 4 assists, he'd have more assists if Fletch didn't miss so many one on ones, but that's the way it goes. I put him on his own training schedule to try and improve his pace, crossing and technique, doesn't seem to be getting better stats wise, but the performances he turns in are decent enough, especially from an 18 year old.
If anyone wants any screenshots I don't mind providing.
