I've had a lot of quality players in my long-term saves, only of two have been over 15m (Andrea Poli for 17.75m & Edinson Cavani for 29m).
AFC Wimbledon (No patch):
1. Andy Carroll - Free 4th Season.
2. Daniel Sturridge - Free 4th Season.
3. Michael Mancienne - Free 4th Season.
4. André Bikey - Free 4th Season.
5. Léo Aro - Free 1st Season.
6. Nikola Saric - Free 2nd Season.
(In that save I only spent 100k until I got to the Premier Division and that player was sold 6 months later for 170k)
W.B.A (Patch 11.0.3)
1. Rafael Tolói - 2.5m 1st Season. He's rock solid in my defense, went to my team instead of Man Utd for first team football and all the big teams in Europe are after him, he helped me getting the 5th place in EPL, winning the EC, winning the EPL twice, CL once and F.A Cup and League Cup few times.
2. Vaclav Kadlec - 975k 1st Season. I kept on giving him chances for 6 months and he was not scoring a lot but he was better than Odemwingie and Carlos Vela in my opinion (Altough Tony Coton wanted me to put Kadlec on the bench) he got the Golden Boot on the first season with about 25 goals and got something around 23 goals in the second season, sold before the fourth season because Edinson Cavani stole his place, he was sold for 20m.
3. Peter Masilela - 180k 1st Season. I raised the wages he asked for and promised him a key status in the team and he picked my team and said no to teams like Juventus, he is now 2nd in the row in DL after Davide Santon but still plays a lot of games.
4. Davide Santone - Free 2nd Season. Naturally a DR but can play DL, I retrained him so he's also a natural DL now, he averages about 7.5 in rating each season.
5. Adam Hlousek - 1m 2nd Season. Immense player in the AML - Inside Forward - Attack. He gives over 10-20 assists each season and scores a lot, he was in the 4th place of top scorers in the EPL and once scored two hat-tricks in a row, that's not bad for a AML!
6. Lee-Chung Yong - 6.75m 1st Season. I bought him to replace Chris Brunt, I sold Brunt to Newcastle also for 6.75m. He's in the same role as Hlousek but he still attacks more and he scores a lot of important goals, sometimes he f*cks up my gameplan for half-time when he's having a bad game and I've decided a new gameplan by scoring 1 minute before half time after not being seen for 45 minutes, after that he plays a lot better because of improved confidence.
7. Alex Smithies - 675k 1st Season. I don't know why I forgot about him, he could be in the second or third place but I'll just put him here. He doesn't concede a lot of goals but and makes brilliant saves, maybe he looks good in my team because he has a great defense in front of him, he usually has a clean sheet every other game.
8. Tom Cairney - 2.5 or 3.5m 1st Season. Although my assistant manager wants me to use Graham Dorrans instead of him I prefer Tom Cairney because of his passing, dribbling, finishing and long shot abilities. I think he is at his peak with my team now and plays great for me, although he doesn't have the most assists for my teams he starts many attacks with deadly passes to teammates, I also love how he just shows up in the box and scores and I've even seen him take on 4 players and score against big teams I'm not finished, when he decides to shoot outside of the box 95% of the times he hits the target, he scores from 60% of these shots, but I don't like my team to rely on goals outside of the box so I restrict his long shots (well, I do it with all my players).
9. Yann M'Vila - 14.75m 3rd Season. He plays the Anchor Man role for me or when I'm playing more attacking football the Ball-Winning Midfielder role, he doesn't make mistakes and he helps the defense and usually gets the ball quickly from an opponent and either passes it to Cairney or Poli and they get it to play, or he launches a counter-attack by himself by passing the ball to space for my attackers to follow.
10. Nicolas N'Kolou - 2nd or 3rd Season free. I secured him in January and he has a contract worth something around 30k per week and although he's a great player he plays as a backup. He's versatile and I can play him in MC, DMC, DR and DC. I love having versatile players like that and even if he's a backup he plays a lot of games and usually comes of the bench for tired players. He's even my second choice in the DR position.
11. Owen Hargreaves - 2nd Season Free. He's so far back because he only played with me for 6 months. I got him in my team because I wanted a solid DMC and he was free and agreed to talk to me, he only had a 30-40k per week contract but had a minimum release clause of 8m. He had 7.8 in average rating until Chelsea activated his clause and stole him from me, he's still a key player for them.
I could of put few regen players in there but I don't see the reason because you guys don't know them, but my favourite regens are Javier Del Castillo a defender at the age of 18 that I got for 1m from R. Madrid that's now a great player and I think R. Madrid might be thinking of buying him back soon, the other one is Ahmed Aman and Egyptian 20 year old defender, he's immense in the air and a great all around defender. These players and Rafael Tolói and my fullbacks (Santon, Masilela, Jung and versatile midfielders) make my defense the best in the EPL.
