Arsenal 1st Season Acquisitions

[Messiah76]

Hi Guys

After years of playing FM I've decided to take on Arsenal for the first time and in need of 5 first team players in the following positions, suggestions please:

2 x DC
1 x WBL
1 x Anchor Man
1 x False 9

Cheers

 

[stokecfc10]

Eder Balanta DC
Lucas Romero DM/Ancher Man
Ricardo Rodriguez WBL
Mauro Icardi F9

 

[TomD2286]

I got in Darmain, Subotic, Umitti an Balanta to reshape defence with arsenal. I got Clasie in for centre mid but bender twin could be a good shout. Good luck with ur arsenal save. I changed my squad loads and working wonders

 

[stokecfc10]

i brought depay balanta romero and barbosa then i got pareya umitti and rulli on a free and i can only finish second in the EPL because of Chelsea are monsters

 

[Alfco]

DC - Jesus Vallejo (17, high potential, only about 1.5 mil), Nkoulou (also youngish, can get him on cheap and he is a ready made player), Emanuel Mammana (18, high potential, I think he's cheap) and you'd do well to look at Kongolo, Umtiti (who has one year on his contract I think) and Nastasic. I'm sure you already know about the beast that is Balanta.

WBL - Aren't really any great deals out there, but Marcelo is always really and digne seems to be a decent young LB. I'd wait a year and try get Jonathan Silva who looks a great prospect.

Anchor Man - The Benders (Lars and Sven) are both excellent choices, but there is also Lucas Romero who needs a bit of developing but will be a definite star. Khedira (who is under 20 mil) is also an option, except he's more of a BBM.

False 9 - I'm not too sure about a false 9 but I'd definitely look to pick up Munir for his TRC of 10.25 or so mil and maybe try mold him into it? He's an outrageous talent and I'm sure he could adapt Or maybe get Memphis Depay and try train him to that position?

Hope it helped

 

[Messiah76]

Cheers for those guys. But Romero as Anchor Man - tackling is only 14 at the start, does this improve?

 

[markrobert30]

Gaston Gil Romero, Wanyama, Carvalho they could fill the slot.

 

[Messiah76]

Carvalho's tackling stats have gone down. Tackling is 11 at the start of my save

 

[MANUMAD]

2 x DC: Balanta + one of Papastathopoulos/Samir/Denswil/Veltman
1 x WBL: Ricardo Rodriguez
1 x Anchor Man: Sven Bender/Lucas Romero/Wanyama
1 x False 9: Aboubakar

Cheers[/QUOTE]

 

[SmoothJitsu]

Carvalho's tackling stats have gone down. Tackling is 11 at the start of my save

There's one thing that i learned from all these years of FM is that Tackling is not all that important for a CDM, it's good to have but it's not a necessity. guys with good Strength,Positioning, Anticipation and Marking were always the guys who did the best work for me

 

[dickdastardly]

Eder Balanta DC
Lucas Romero DM/Ancher Man
Ricardo Rodriguez WBL ***YES!!!!****
Mauro Icardi F9

 

[Thanasis7]

well in my save I got Howedes (around 20 mil) and Balanta (around 8 mil) for dc. Also got Coentrao for dl or wbl (ONLY 10 mil). For false 9 since I'm using one as well I would say use Ozil, he's a beast and easily retrained. This way you can utilize wilshere or ramsey or cazorla who can all play in the same positions

 

[devertion]

I bought all of these in my save
2 x DC: Balanta 11mil USD + Umtiti 12 Million
1 x WBL: Coentrao about 10 mil
1 x Anchor Man: Lucas Romero 12 Million or Khedira 32 million(sold next summer for 80 million)
I don't use F9's. Depay, Barbosa, and Welbeck have been amazing as complete or advanced forwards.

 

[Rafiomcnick]

I have to choose a CM (BWM) or DM for my 4-2-3-1 between Javi Martinez (who is available around 32 £ - 120k p/w), Lars Bender ( 14£ + Monreal - 76k p/w) or Wanyama (17£ - 48k p/w). Who should i buy?

 

[atv]

I've just started as Arsenal and signed the below:
Victor Wanyama
Nagatomo
Vlaar
Juan Jesus