OK, first season, you don't need lot of players. You'll need a playmaker, cuz Scholes and Carrick can't carry whole season, and Anderson is injured and poor. So, i would recommend someone like Modric. There is this one guy from Nurnberg called Ilkay Gündogan, who's their best player and he is wonderkid on FM11. I strongly recommend those too for playmaker role. If you sign Ilkay Gündogan, let Scholes tutor him and he'll become one of the finest playmakers. That's it for first season. You don't need a winger cuz you have Nani, Park, Giggs, Valencia, Bebe and Obertan. Obertan and Bebe have decent PA ( around 170 both and that's good). Rooney and Anderson can cover winger position too. After this season, I would sell Anderson, Owen and Brown to give room for Gündogan, Macheda and Smalling.
Second season, defo GK, Lloris, Adler, De Gea.... my choice would be Lloris, but they are all "the same" so, whoever you like better. You'll need a good CM, maybe Lorenzo Cristieg or Daniel Kofi Agyei for the future. You don't need a left back, cuz Evra can do the job at least one more year, and you have Fabio, who's great after 3 season. Play with Rooney as Complete foward and Hernandez as Poacher, bring Macheda sometimes and keep Berbatov as backup till the end of season. Offload Berbatov, and O'Shea, even Ferdinand.
Third season, buy some CB, there should be some decent regen, if not, get someone like Varane or Michele Camporese who plays in Fiorentina, just for backup to Evans and Smalling. You'll have Vidic too, but, he's getting old and you need a long term backup player. Those too are perfect. They can even be better than Evans and Smalling sometimes. You're wingers should peek now, and you should give more room to Ravel Morison. But, he has 5 ambition, so I doubt he'll turn fine. If he doesn't, buy some winger. You'll need a playmaker too, search some re-gen or sign Thiago or Kevin, both well known wonderkids. Also, you'll need a backup for LB. I don't know any good young LB, so search for re-gens. You'll need a foward too, there's lot of good fowards in the game, Yaya Sanogo or Bueno would fit fine ( due their adaptibility). Sell Carrick, Park, Evra at the end of season.
Strategy
4-4-2 (4-2-4)
----------VDS
Rafael-Vidic-Ferdiand-Evra
----Fletcher-Scholes
Valencia-------------Nani
---Rooney-Hernandez
GK- Normal
RB-Fullback-support (attacking mentality, runs with ball often and crossed mix)
LB-Fullback-support (attacking mentality, runs with ball often and crossed mix)
CB- Normal
CB- Normal
CM- BWM - support ( closing down to half and short passing, low creat.)
CM- First season with Scholes, use him CM- attack with closing down to half, direct passing and high creat. After Scholes, use Advanced playmaker - attack with same tweekings.
LW- Winger- support ( closing down to half, cut inside, drill crossing)
RW- Winger- Support ( closing down to half, hug touchline, float crossing)
ST( left, play Hernandez here) - Poacher ( low creativity)
ST- Complete foward- support ( closing down to half, wide play-normal, creativity to half)
mentality- control
passing: Direct
creative freedom: discipl.
closing down: press more
tackling: Default
marking: Zonal
crossing: Default
roaming: Default
Def.line : Very high
Slow and Narrow.
Won everything with United, Napoli, and Burnly in 3 season top. Feedback please ?
Here's tactic.
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. I'll definately try Piatti as a striker, and Eriksen is currently out for a couple of months so there's no need to worry about him but I wouldn't mind retraining him to play on the left-wing tbh. Once the season finishes Hargreaves will only have a year left so I'll be selling him along with Obertan & Bebe who were loaned out before the start of the season.
) for the rest of the season. Hopefully he'll come back and want to stay, but obviously I'll allow him to leave if he wants, I'm sure we'll cope without him XD