Hows Bridcutt been for you, Hes one of the most underrated players in my team at the moment on my Dundee United save
I have him playing in a similar role but as a defensive midfielder he also has a high pass completion rate and makes a lot of passes doesnt score that often thoughYeah, I've seen. How do you use him? For me he has been pretty average, but does the job he is asked to do. I play him just in front of the back four as a deep lying playmaker and it's basically his job to just keep us ticking over and he has the highest pass completion rate of any of the players so I suppose he is doing that quite well from that perspective.
1. Has Scocco moved to Sunderland in real life? Cos he 's not on your transfers pic.
2. Scocco and Vergini are among FMs unsung heroes for some years now. Esp SCOCCO ive been singing the praises of since time immemorial!
3. Rescaldani is god. Had him for PALMEIRAS and within 2 seasons I was gettin 20/5+ mil offers for him.
Finally a Sunderland save :-D
Your started off with exactly the same players leaving at the beginning lol. I got ?5m for Larsson and ?5.5m for Ji Dong Won but could only get ?500k for Cuellar!
Shame you didn't play Diakite as he is actually really decent on the game (better than Brown & Roberge). Celustka did a good job for me at RB with Gardner as cover.
Managed to acheive 3rd in my first season (2nd/4th/1st in following 3 seasons). Brought in Diame, Honda and Guaita permanent (Guaita in Jan). But loaned in players which we don't have much depth in, LB Ciro Capuano (despite his age he has great stats) and the wingers i brought in were mainly as cover (Palladino and Ayite).
Keep up the good work and hopefully you improve in the next season. I will certainly be following as a fellow Mackem
Cheers pal! Diakite just found himself behind Vergini and O'Shea and since I was trying to play possession football I decided Roberge would be better as cover. Finishing in the CL first season is a great achievement, especially because our finances are pretty awful in the game.
I personally wish I hadn't sold Ji as in another save I started (Only got about 6 months in) he was my best player, averaging 7.3 or something like that. But, he's easy to move on and you need transfers out to bring people in at the start.
I've let quite a few players go on frees so it will be another typical Sunderland rebuild over the summer! I'll have the pre-season update out today.
The finances are horrendous and theres alot that needs tweaking in the first 3 seasons when you have the 44m loan to repay. The funds from euro qualification really helps as 4th season i got 25m to spend and spent down to 6m, then when i was give my targets they gave me another 23m which i spent down to 1m, then part way through November i requested more and got around 18m. (Word of warning, i found that even though my projected balance was to be higher, it took a massive dive around November and went into the red projected)
I made the mistake of not signing Ki on a permanent. Nice signing with Monreal, i ended up staying with Colback for the first 3 seasons. Guaita has been great for me but now on ?65k a year.
My team I have managed to build 2 months into 5th season (season bought in brackets):
(Either 4-1-2-2-1 or 4-2-3-1)
GK: V.Guaita (2.4m 1st) & S.Colombi (Bologna 2.1m, 5th)
LB: B.Davies (8m 4th) & C.Biraghi (Free 4th)
CB: K.Zouma (22m 4th), S.Caulker (10.5m 2nd), A.Masi (Free 4th), M.Kelly (5.5m 2nd)
RB: J.Flanagan (Free 3rd)
DM: Fernando (Free 3rd)
CM: G.Imbula (12.5m 4th), C.Fabregas (Loan 4th & 5th season), W.Hughes (4m 3rd)
CAM: A.Correa (Free 5th)
RW: C.McManaman (6m 3rd), Rodrigo Gomez (1m 3rd - now worth 15m and POY 4th season)
LW: E.Giaccherini, Thiago (375k, 5th - Transfer listed & 5 star potential)
ST: A.Erramuspe (7m, 4th - Regen), C.Porter (Regen Youth, 4 1/2 star potential), F.Taborda (12m, 5th - Lyon Regen, 5 star (was quoted 52m the season before))
Looks a nice squad that you've built there! Did any of the original players leave for big money?
Not really. Alot of them i let go for free. Whickham was poor so didn't renew his contract 3rd season. Altidore went second season to CSKA for 6.5m. O'Shea left for 100k even though he made team of the year just had to reduce the wages and he was on 51k like Brown. Alot of the other went cheap (Fletcher 1.9m 5th season even though he was worth 3m but since the update they don't offer near the valuation).
Well done on beat United away. There a team i just can't seem to beat on there no matter what i do.