Celtic Fc

[RyanSweeney1888]

need advice on anything to do with celtic have tried with them many times and hasnt been good lol! soo players i should buy/sell, tactics to use etc.

 

[Maleficus]

Griffiths is God, especially for £240k... Also well worth signing are Enyeama (miles better than Zaluska and only £240k), Prodl (£1.1m but well worth it as he's always in the right place to stop attacks and gets a fair few goals too), Adam Rooney (Maybe not straight away, you have plenty strikers as is, but after a year or two), Magnar Odegaard (at £12k he's the best bargain on the game IMO) Tom Cairney (If you can get to him before Chelsea do) and maybe Mark Reynolds and Scott Cuthbert.

Play a 4-5-1 with Juarez (Use this guy a lot and hang on to him as long as you can) playing DM, Forrest AMR (Winger, support) and optionally swapping with Maloney AML (Inside Forward, attack) and Griffiths alone (Advanced Forward, attack).

Sell people at your own discretion. I'd recommend shifting Crosas and Zaluska. You may or may not want to show Samaras the door. You'll be far better off getting Griffiths, but with Hooper and Stokes being useless, and Murphy better as a wide Inside Forward, maybe Samaras should stay as cover. (I've no idea if he's any good as I sold him straight away, but I'm sure he can't be worse than Stokes...)

As soon as you can (IE after first season) shift Cha Du-Ri, Loovens, Izaguirre (he'll need replacing to avoid a lack of full-backs, I went for Jorge Ribeiro on a free, but Bob Harris may be a good, cheaper option) and Hooper and Stokes (God did those two **** me off with their incompetence. At any rate this is a good excuse to sign Adam Rooney and maybe Florin Bratu, who was an excellent free for me).

 

[Mullen19]

Sign Lukaku - 5mill over 2 years, Galeano - 4.5mill, smithies - 500k
Play a 4-4-2 with lukaku and stokes upfront, Galeano and Majstorovic at the back,
You should win the league pretty easy

Also keep and eye out for paulo henrique, i said him for 19million second season and sold him for 33 +50% sell on clause in the 4th season

 

[All Blue Supporter]

Like how the two posts above clash!
One says stokes is useless and need to get rid and the other says use him.
;D

 

[RyanSweeney1888]

thanks guys

 

[bryan1]

David Goodwillie's class in the SPL aswell bud

 

[All Blue Supporter]

Quick question, when the **** did Celtic get all this cash to splash 4.5 million n then 5million and 15million about at the same time?
I knew they had the the highest cash in the SPL but have I missed something?

 

[Mullen19]

Start off with 5 i think, adjustments can put it up to like 7/8, sales can put that up, asking for more transfer budget puts it up, getting into and through CL group ups it, Chairman puts money into the transfer all the time.
Classed as rich on the game and stokes is good in the spl, scores quite a few but when hooper recovers from injury hes obv better

 

[kennyfmmad]

sell samaras and hinkel as they will give u extra cash and free up some additional wages. buy another striker eg. goodwillie. get a young GK, stokes and hooper are good in spl but u mite need a str for europe like christian benitez from santos laguna, u can get him cheap and buy another CB to bolster the team. Its worked for me, i won the league by 7 points and didnt lose to rangers, also got to semi-finals of europa league (got beat by liverpool) and won both domestic cups. Overall: hooper 28 goals, benitez 25 goals, stokes 20 goals and commons got 18 goals. thats wot these guys got in all competitions. just a thought though mate

 

[bryan1]

Is Samaras not good in the game? He always seems to score plenty against me haha

 

[RyanSweeney1888]

thanks again

 

[davidar]

I think it really depends on how you are as a manger. I play as Celtic and won the league in my first season - beat Rangers to it on the last day of the season I'm only in my 2nd season and have qualified for the Champions League, just played my first match in the group where I drew with Bayer Leverkusen (was a bit miffed though cos was actually winning 3-1) and am playing AC Milan next.

I've hardly bought any players too - in fact I have only actually bought one and got another two or three on free transfers. One of the players I got on free was Juan Pablo Carrizo, the Argentinian goalkeeper. Another I got on free was Nikos Lyberopoulos, a Greek international striker. He's 35 BUT so far in this 2nd season he's been banging them in for me. I also managed to capture Denilson in my first season as well and he's been really good for me. Other players in my current squad that are playing excellent as well are Ledley, Juarez, Kayal, Hinkel, Majstorovic and even Loovens is playing good for me too. A lot of the current players already in the squad I am getting the best out of. Samaras is a hit and miss for me. Played not too bad towards the end of my first season but so far not much this season, so a very hot and cold player for me (pretty much how he's like in real life ).

As for my training, I have put them all on individual training schedules rather than lumping them together in a Midfield schedule, a Defender schedule etc. I prefer this as it gives me more control over a particular players training where if they were in a group schedule and I wanted to change one players training then I couldn't without it affecting the rest of the players on that same schedule. It's tedious to set up originally but is better in the long run I think - especially for the youth players and is working good so far.

Make sure you put the coaches onto their best section only as well. Rather than having them assigned to all sections, for instance, just tick the section that they are best at, whether that be Tactics, Defending, Shooting or whatever. That way you get the best out of your coaches as they are concentrating on what they are best at. For my training, each section for me is Strength - 4.5 stars; Aerobics - 5 stars; Goalkeeping Shot Stopping & Handling - 3 stars (looking to improve this though); Tactics - 4.5 stars; Ball Control - 4.5 stars; Defending - 4 stars; Attacking - 4 stars; Shooting - 4 stars. The more adequate the coach is then the better the training.

My tactics vary from match to match as well - who I'm playing, the quality of opposition, if I'm away or at home etc. I like having 3 in center of midfield with Juarez, Ledly and Kayal and I play two attacking wingmen as well. I have four at the back usually with Mulgrew/Izaguirre and Hinkel in wing back positions, but I have sometimes went with only three at the back giving me a variation of a 3-5-2 sometimes. But like I say, my tactics all depend on who I'm playing and where.

 

[kieran97]

maleficus---- u had some good ideas at the start but then i would not sell izzaguire as he is superb for me in lb with andrew driver from hearts playing infront of him and a signed lakaku he done no good so he was used as a bench warmer as i signed griffiths and kadlec for 2mill and they have scored 20 in 6 games . i would recommend selling samaras straight away or asap and loovens . i thought it would be a good idea to train hoovifeld as a cdm and it was a great success as hes been given 4 out of 6 man of the matches . give zaluska on loan to a bigger and better club and loan out another keeper or buy enyeama

 

[CAFCMAN]

BUT CHRISTIAN BENITEZ! I GOT HIM FOR 1.3M! i play him as a lone striker with the poacher role. so far he has scored 18 goals in 13 matches!