Playing my attempt at Jurgen Klopps philosphy of gegenpressing (super high pressure from every player in in front of the holding mid on the defence, high tempo possession football on the attack)
4-3-3 Wide, Flat midfield.
Out:
Fletcher (solid player, need to cash in on him now)
Smalling (only cos rojo wont leave).
Valencia (he's terrible now, can run with the ball, damned if he tries anything else with it though, time to cash in)
Anderson (don't need a reason).
Sent Falcao home cos I know from previous experience that he's made of glass and is a complete mercenary. I object to us getting him in RL (understand the need to overspend for CL in business terms, not really impressed with whats happened to United from a spiritual point of veiw, too many mercenarys like city.) and frankly his outrageous wages can buy me a defender which is what we really need.
Considered letting De Gea go to PSG cos he moans like a ***** when I don't, but kept him cos Ter-Stegen is at Barca now.
In:
Javi Martinez (simply one of the best midfield breakers in the world, better mental and technical stats than Fellaini)
Mateo Kovacic (Close between him and Veratti, went with Kovacic as hes more useful if I decide not to use a roaming playmaker and i fancied a change as Veratti is a no brainer)
Nikolas Nkoulou (Would normally take Balanta but need defensive stability now and Nkoulou is 10m of awesome bit low on the tackle side, but make up for it with mental stats, particularly his decisions) and technical stats are easy to train.
Lucas Romero (no reason needed, kid is just good at almost everything and will fill in any of the midfield roles I use with ease)
Lucas Boyé (Munir picked barca over my united team - understandable given the current state of the team and its rep)
Decided to go with mainly youth except for the holding midfielder who simply needs to be as close to world class as possible as it just makes the entire teams life easier to have someone with serious quality backstopping defense and attack, hence the outlay on Martinez.
1st place since end of october (oddly enough when my full backs came back
![Stick out tongue :p :p](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png)
). Currently in February and 9 points clear battered city 3-0 at home, camped around their box, chelsea were the biggest challenge but when Mourinho parks the bus theres not much you can do except hope for an individual mistake, which with the team he's built is like hunting unicorns.
Have to say, aside from a too many niggly knocks being taken as injuries (especially self inflicted) I'm enjoying this FM way more than last year.