Played one more season with Man Utd. Won every game in every competition, except a 2-1 loss away to Liverpool in the league (somehow they got Balotelli firing). Pretty decent defense again as well.
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Having seen Rooney win yet another ballon d'or as a midfielder I think I've been going at the APM positions all wrong. Having a "striker" type of player in the APM position is crazy good. Most of the chances he gets from corners and throw-ins are not long shots. It's shots from around the penalty spot. Composure and finishing (and anticipation) seem much more important than "shoots from distance" PPM (which Rooney don't have). He scored 35 in 44 starts this season (41 in 45 last season).
I always thought Pogba was the perfect player for this position because of his "shoots from distance" and 20 long shots, but he's actually got 15+ in the "striker" attributes I mentioned above as well and I've never had him score close to 1 a game like Rooney does in that position.
Funnily I probably have the perfect player for the left APM in my team already in Mata, but I've been wasting him as a striker.