On the eve of the first game of the new season, lets look at some transfers.
Well... This was the keeper I had in mind. Of course he goes to PSG instead to sit on the bench forever. You were meant to destroy PSG not join them!
Lets get to the outs first. I know I talked about selling Lodi and keeping Pellegrini but no body wanted Lodi and I couldn't go into the season relying on TWO guys coming off major injury seasons. Sporting offered 25M for Pellegrini, so he can go.
Moi Gomez goes to West Ham for 16M, as I said before he wanted to leave and I see no reason not to let him. Third choice at best on the left, third or forth choice at the CM spots, or 16M. Gimme the 16M.
Dubois is a good backup RB but again, he wanted to go. Ended up getting 8.5M for him from Atletico, which is fine.
Are you ready for the ins? I'm not sure you're ready for the ins. I am very, very excited for this summers transfers.
First up, we got him! Welcome to Lyon, Ben Sesko! 16M(11 up front), 1M more after 50 league games and a 30% profit sell on. The profit sell on hurts but honestly, it's just the price of doing business. He should be great for us.
Sesko is not coming by himself. Welcome back, Oumar Solet! The young CB was at Lyon before moving to Salzburg and blossoming into a really good young player who will come in to start at the back for us. I plan on doing something I've done in the past at CB this year and that is have all 3 of Denayer, Ake and Solet start equal games, 2/3 each. Hopefully that will keep all 3 happy and fresh. I really like this one. He comes in for 17M(11 up front), no clauses, no sell on.
With Pellegrini going out, I needed a new LB, Enter Federico Dimarco, 12M with a further 1M after 50 league games. Now you may look at his attributes and say, he's fine, nothing special. Trust me, this guy fits the way I play FM to a tee. Federico is hands down one of the 3 or 4 favorite players in FM22 for me. He's going to do big things for Lyon.
I know I said Vanderson would be the starter long term and that is still true, he is young after all but Maehle comes in to actually start this season. He had moved to Chelsea for 17M before last season but only played 7 times. I was able to get him in for 10.5M which is honestly a steal.
For the last in, there needs to be some background. I thought early on that I was going to get Altay and so I accepted a deal for Anthony Lopes from Wolves that he said he was open to. Lopes turned down Wolves then he got ****** at me that I accepted the offer. So now I had to sell him even after the Altay deal fell through and he went to PSG. But he wouldn't go, he just wanted to cause problems. I tried to apologize but he wouldn't hear it. I was so mad at him that now he will never play for me again. So GK went from, I'd like to upgrade to I have to get a new one. I had two options accepted.
Ugurcan is the better shot stopper, Simon is more athletic and probably a bit more complete of a keeper but also much more expensive. Either would be a great keeper for us.
In the end, I could not in good conscious, spend SO much money on Simon. So welcome to Lyon, Ugurcan Cakir. He may actually even be better than Altay, who I have had before. He's a really good upgrade on what we had in Lopes and Rajkovic. Lopes by the way, has been moved to Lyon 2 so if he doesn't accept a move he will be playing in like the 4th tier of France this year. Good luck with that Anthony. Ugurcan comes in for 15.5(8 up front).