Pretty bizarre first season so far. In early march and about 9 points clear at the top of league one with charlton.
Signed Marc Pugh from Bournemouth as reccomended and he was cack, but for some reason Leeds came in in January and bid £1million for him and Slater accepted it for me. Used the money left over to buy Curtis Nelson from Plymouth. Got Hogan Ephraim on a season loan and got Angelo Balanta on loan for the rest of the season in Jan and they're both quality.
BWP has suddenly started banging in the goals, getting 2 every game now after a pretty quiet start to the season.
Our finances are "insecure" atm, even though ive spent within my budgets etc, hope the championship will mean we will break even.
I just won the league with 110 points. Signings were Neil Mellor and Marcel Seip on permanent deals with Nathan Baker, Dean Parret and Andros Townsend on loan. Slater has given me no money to spend in the championship but I have adjusted the budget slightly and signed Marc Pugh. Also got Parrett on loan again and now looking for a new centre back partner for Morrison, a goalkeeper (possibly Speroni) and a new striker as Mellor is out for the season.
Livid! haha, just got Curtis Nelson sold behind my back by slater to Sunderland for £1.2 million while if he would have been patient Birmingham would have been willing to pay £1.7 million. Only increased my transfer coffers by a couple of hundred grand and got no replacement lined up.
Got an incredible midfield talent thats got the potential to be a good premier league player and the other youth players are looking very good. Won the league with 2 games to play so played Cousins, Harriot, this new guy, Poyet and Smith and they won both games without conceding.
Finding it bizarre that the bookies seem to think i have a decent shot at promotion, considering a lot of my key players are gone/being sold.
Btw, anyone managed to get Vetere to sign another contract? Think its not realistic since i'm sure he'd want to stay at Charlton with his mates in real life.
I'm playing with Forest due to the fact I take losing personally when with Charlton. Storming he Championship after 33 games. Beat Man U in the 5th round of the FA cup, now awaiting the draw for the Semis, tense! Cohen is top class, as is Chambers. Brought in Pugh for cover, he doesn't do much. Best buy was a young left-back, Ben Gordon from Chelsea - I'm hoping to make the loan permanent come the end of the season. Frimpong flopped, Moussi is incredible. I bought Hateley too, but he is constantly in my ear about starting. Got Mcdermott(Sp?) from Huddersfield after I found out Jimmy Floyd was my assistant - couldn't pay his wages, just couldn't.
Got promoted in 2nd place in my first season. <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Preston stormed the league with 104 points. Ian Hume finished top scorer with 34 goals in League one. BWP got 27 and Kerms got 20. The rest of the goals were shared out. Green did pretty awesome though. I signed Sone Aluko on a free to cover the left wing as Jackson got injured for a while and the rest were loans. I loaned Chris Wood until January from West Brom. Highly rated but was useless. Then in January I loaned Schlupp who was much better!<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
My team was mainly
Hamer
SollyCortMorrisonWiggins
GreenAlonsoHollandsJackson
KermsBWP
Occasionally switched to
Hamer
SollyCortMorrisonWiggins
Alonso
JacksonHollands
GreenSchlupp
BWP
Get heavily in the red really quickly though! Stayed within my wage budget and everything. Outstanding players were Morrison, Wiggins, Green, BWP and Kerms. I think im going to be signing a load of freebies. Or pick off a load of players from whoever doesn’t get promoted out of league one, Sheff Utd has a few good players just on high wages. Sign a load of Arsenal youth on loan. Try and get Shelvey back maybe. Need a good Centre back when Cort goes back.
I don't know it its just mine, but Jackson keeps drifting way inside when attacking, I often find him picking the ball up in the middle of the park, but Stephens and Hollands are standing around him too, and it gets pretty messy? I have asked him to run down the left more but he won't!
I don't know it its just mine, but Jackson keeps drifting way inside when attacking, I often find him picking the ball up in the middle of the park, but Stephens and Hollands are standing around him too, and it gets pretty messy? I have asked him to run down the left more but he won't!
Try setting him to hug line (or mixed) he might be set to cut inside.
Euell is not a left winger either!
He must have played there for clubs since leaving us, was alway a central player at Charlton on the old versions. Although Powell's put him on the left as a sub as well (Carlisle in the cup?).
Is there anyway of making it so that the club's finances are more realistic? It's not like in real life if we didn't get promoted we'd be in serious financial do do, the owners just wouldn't be happy. But on this game even when I'm in the championship I'm still in the red?
Is there anyway of making it so that the club's finances are more realistic? It's not like in real life if we didn't get promoted we'd be in serious financial do do, the owners just wouldn't be happy. But on this game even when I'm in the championship I'm still in the red?
In the Championship we still wouldnt be making a profit sadly.
I'd be interested to hear what peoples preferred match tactics are. I seem to have most joy playing 442 with defensive minded centre midfielders then either control or counter depending on the opposition.
I'd be interested to hear what peoples preferred match tactics are. I seem to have most joy playing 442 with defensive minded centre midfielders then either control or counter depending on the opposition.
I tend to play a weird kind of 4321 where the 3 are hollands and stephens in the middle with jackson wide left, then green wide right pushed up in line with kermorgant, who are both just behind bwp.
Got promoted to the Championship finishing 1st. The team I used was Hamer, Wiggins, Morrison,Seip,Solly,Jackson,Parrett,Alonso,Green, BWP, Mellor.
Then in the second season I was promoted again finishing 2nd. The team was the same apart from Kalas playing CB instead of Seip and Stephens playing CM instead of Parrett. I also signed a few squad players like Pugh from Bournemouth.
Just started the Premiership season and had a job offer from Man u, seriously considering if to go or not.
Just got this for crimbo and can't wait to get cracking over the next few days. Anyone know if there's a patch due anytime soon? Always seems to be one around this time of year to iron out any bugs so would rather wait until this is out before starting a new game.
Just got this for crimbo and can't wait to get cracking over the next few days. Anyone know if there's a patch due anytime soon? Always seems to be one around this time of year to iron out any bugs so would rather wait until this is out before starting a new game.
to be fair it's relatively bug free unlike previous versions where its horrendus until end of february when its finally all sorted out. And the update will be end of feb i'm guessing - it usually is.
AFC Wimbledon? See if you can take them past MK franchise and then into the PL. :-)
Just started a game myself with Charlton.
Got rid of Benson to Swindon, Doherty to Luton and hoping to offload Francis on loan but haven't had any offers yet. Also had to send Cort back because he got a broken leg in the second preseason friendly. Signed Marcel Seip & Eric Addo on free one year deals with options to extend for a second, whilst bringing in Eric Lichaj, Andros Townsend and Jeffrey Schlupp on year long loans.
Also hoping to tie up a deal for Mellor for 200k but I've got stiff competition from Pompey.
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Cohen is top class, as is Chambers.
Brought in Pugh for cover, he doesn't do much. Best buy was a young left-back, Ben Gordon from Chelsea - I'm hoping to make the loan permanent come the end of the season. Frimpong flopped, Moussi is incredible. I bought Hateley too, but he is constantly in my ear about starting.
Got Mcdermott(Sp?) from Huddersfield after I found out Jimmy Floyd was my assistant - couldn't pay his wages, just couldn't.
Got promoted in 2nd place in my first season. <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Preston stormed the league with 104 points. Ian Hume finished top scorer with 34 goals in League one. BWP got 27 and Kerms got 20. The rest of the goals were shared out. Green did pretty awesome though. I signed Sone Aluko on a free to cover the left wing as Jackson got injured for a while and the rest were loans. I loaned Chris Wood until January from West Brom. Highly rated but was useless. Then in January I loaned Schlupp who was much better!<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
My team was mainly
Hamer
Solly Cort Morrison Wiggins
Green Alonso Hollands Jackson
Kerms BWP
Occasionally switched to
Hamer
Solly Cort Morrison Wiggins
Alonso
Jackson Hollands
Green Schlupp
BWP
Get heavily in the red really quickly though! Stayed within my wage budget and everything. Outstanding players were Morrison, Wiggins, Green, BWP and Kerms. I think im going to be signing a load of freebies. Or pick off a load of players from whoever doesn’t get promoted out of league one, Sheff Utd has a few good players just on high wages. Sign a load of Arsenal youth on loan. Try and get Shelvey back maybe. Need a good Centre back when Cort goes back.
Excited!!!!
Obviously will be improving some players.
Got promoted to the Championship finishing 1st. The team I used was Hamer, Wiggins, Morrison,Seip,Solly,Jackson,Parrett,Alonso,Green, BWP, Mellor.
Then in the second season I was promoted again finishing 2nd. The team was the same apart from Kalas playing CB instead of Seip and Stephens playing CM instead of Parrett. I also signed a few squad players like Pugh from Bournemouth.
Just started the Premiership season and had a job offer from Man u, seriously considering if to go or not.
Who to be??
Let's the games begin!!
Anyone know if there's a decent face pack out for this version yet, and if so where to get it?