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Giroud is fantastic for me. Cazorla and Gotze (he's only 29m in the first window- bargain of the decade, even at that price!) feed him lots of through balls, and he scores a lot from crosses. I play him as Deep Fwd- Attack, and have him as target man, Mixed suppy- which means if the keeper does...

"Thanks, who scored your goals, podolski was unaffective on the left and giroud was way to inconsisten for me." Er, well, Podolski scored 15 in 25 and Giroud scored 20 in 30 starts... but for me Gotze was an absolute demon, creating havoc in every game and setting up countless moves for...

Yeh mate, won the league first season (by a point!)- though i was pretty fortunate with injuries. Sort out the DM and LB position, and get another creative attacking player to shift the burden off Cazorla's shoulders. Also, keep the formation simple, a 4-2-3-1 works well if u can get that...

Thx for the reply dngrs Conceded quite a few last season, but got away with it due to Hazard getting 22 assists and 16 goals last season! But it was different then, because I had Fellaini in the side. This season after 3 games I have scored 10 goals, but also conceded 6 (too many for title...

Hi all, background: A year ago my Everton team was taken over by Consortium who invested £100m last window, and hav now decided to stop investing. They do however expect me to defend my PL title. Here's the team: __________Cavani __________(Jelavic) Hazard_____( ...

6) Try and win the league with a slightly insane formation and/or radical philosophy. (so you've won the league with a 4-2-3-1, and a 4-4-2, but can you win it with a 3-6-1 and playing sexy football?) 7) try and achieve Total Football, with every defender attacking, and every attacker...

well, i am biased toward certain stats definitely. Every, and i mean EVERY player in my team must have a good first touch and workrate. On the opposite end, I tend to place almost no importance on strength and jumping...

If you're struggling, take a look at your tactics, players and team-talks. There's loads of advice on this forum about team-talks etc. DEFINITELY download a tactic, look at some of the more popular ones on this forum; even if you don't like using other people's tactics, u can use it as a...

nothing improves a player faster than first team experience in a top division... at least, in my experience

Mario Gotze- £42 million to Arsenal in 2014 (straight cash) Would never spend more than £50 million on a player (unless their name is Messi)

don't loan him out to either of them! You want to loan him out in order to get him first team experience; as 'cover for the first team', especially for goalkeepers, he will only be playing if Casillas/Valdes gets injured. So he may get absolutely no game time, and just sit on the bench- it...

-Assign a scout full time to the U18 English league -On the day when ur club recruits new regens, thats when every other English club recruits theirs. THIS DAY IS VITAL!! Go to as many clubs as you can be bothered (excluding those like Man Utd etc where players won't leave...), and look at as...

well, I'm trying to do something similar in my Arsenal save- its a pretty Long-term view u have to take on this one, as British talent is not as common as Brazilian/German etc. I have a world class team of mostly foreigners, and will slowly phase them out, one by one, for exciting young English...

Well, one of the best ways to get ur player to recieve the ball is to make him more defensively minded than others in ur team, that way he shud look to get into more positions to receive the ball rather than attackin/ goal-threat areas. Also, he shud be set to ur team playmaker (as he already...