So happy with how season 2 went. I won the league with 8 games to go, and won everything else apart from the champions league. But tbh when you get knocked out in the champions league semi final to barcelona on penalties you can't really complain. I think I lost only 3 times in total over the whole season which is ridiculous, so the joy is definitely back.
Second Season I've had to do some major rebuilding as pretty much half my team is now too old to continue playing at the standard I want my team to be at. Players like evra, ferdinand, scholes, giggs have either retired or i've had to move on because there stats have just dropped dramatically. More upsetting was that I've had to let go of RVP and Sneijder. Both were now 30 on my game, and due to both being injury prone their physical stats were just ridiculously low. RVP dropped from 14 acceleration to 12 and 15 pace to 12 which was so noticeable to me tbh. Sneijder just stopped being the player he was in the first season and even my *** man reckoned he had dropped from a 4 1/2 star rating to only 3 (no being just a "good" player). I got 15 mil for each of them which is good i thought at 30 years old.
Brought in:
Isco (to be my new AP)
Xabi Alonso ( Yes, he is 32 but i wanted to have some maturity in my team and for some reasons centre mids tend to age better in terms of stats and playing ability, so long as they arent injury prone)
Pepe (Again another experience signing, not going to be in my starting XI but will play a back up role)
Falcao (This was literally a direct replacement for RVP and he will be in my starting XI)
Gerard Deulofeu (Decided to get this guy over bale, saw it as an investment for the future, not only is he rated 4 stars at like 19 but he is also ridiculously rapid. I bought him as my long term replacement for valencia but for now he will be backup. I needed another winger as only having 3 wingers in a tactic that demands 2 means that my wingers get very tired very quickly)
Alex Sandro Had to let go of evra so I bought this guy as alaba snaked me and went to arsenal. So i have a choice of this guy or fabio to start at lb, both are rated pretty well by my *** man so its all good though.
So as you can see, I only really made 2, possibly 3 "big" signings if you include alonso (who i might start over khedira actually). The rest of the signings were just about putting experience and depth into my team, but I'm happy. I was initially going to leave united but i realised there was still a challenge as I was about to lose about 5 or 6 players to injury proneness or old age, so i had to rebuild my team. Accepted the brazil job so that will keep the save lively for me too.