Recent content by Draigh

I got him to be top scorer of the Prem in the first season by coming inside from the right.

Indeed, bank balance may be worse, they probably cancel the upgrades to free funds for your budgets.

Also, just how soon do you want them to be ready? Seven years of development would mean they reach their best at 22-23, which sounds quite reasonable. It's hard to expect world class players at 20 all the time.

Why not go for Sigurdsson? Signed IRL and quality midfielder. For my Newcastle side he's scored 15 in 18 after a few months, the majority of them free kicks. Also gets a lot of assists from free kicks or corners. Alternatively you could go for Douglas Costa, though he's likely been snapped up by...

Stefan Bell, a great defender, very composed and very good on the ball. Starts the game out on loan but can be picked up for as little as 1.5 Million after the first season.

A Trequartista's role is not to score goals. He will, by virtue of playing centrally in front of goal, but he's mostly looking to find and create space, draw opponents out of position and set up runners from deep or wide. If you just want him to score goals you're better off using him as an...

If he won't show up in the search he's not there. Did you load a large/medium/small database?

Not the cheapest, but Eden Hazard is currently in his first season for my Liverpool and has 22 assists recorded, one more already than the player with the most assist over the whole past season (which would be Downing). He's also got 10 goals already, all from playing on the left of a 4-3-3.

If his stats are like that I wouldn't teach any PPMs at all, as the player is likely to be good enough to score anyway. I use the following rule of thumb: - shoots with power decreases the accuracy of the shot, but increases the chance of a goal when it's on target. Therefore it's a good...

Yes I do, but only with teams that are really suited to it. When you've got the right players for the job it can be very effective, a good strike partnership guarantees goals while two banks of four can defend very well.

Update your game, that fixes it.

There's plenty of modifiers like ambition, consistency, big game performance, professionalism and others that aren't visible to you in-game, but have a large influence on the results of a team.

I'd say about an average of 1 per season, 2 for youngsters and perhaps more if you put heavy personal training on top of a training schedule tailored for that stat. Of course everything still depends on personality, playing time, tutoring and overall quality of your staff and facilities.

I used Suàrez on the right wing as an inside forward, he became Premiership top scorer in my first season.

You get used to it, besides it's helpful as often as it's annoying.