First days of GW15

So a new GW ushers in Wild Geese FC 2.0. I had a shortlist of players I wanted, but found most of them not available - which I think is a sign that the game does a great job of spreading out the talent at the start of the game. If the first manager could just go in and sign their favourite 16 players then there problems for everyone else.



I made a shortlist of young players who can improve drastically. In my mind I had a team of young starlets; Pichu at the back, Alberto Bueno up front, Buonanette pulling the strings. I looked for Eden Hazard, Kermit Erasmus and the other known 5 star futures. I ended up with 5 from my list plus a few of randoms:



1. Lucas Trecarichi - tricky Argentinian left winger
2. Oguz Sabankay - purely because I mentioned him in the blog last week
3. Pedro Mosquera - a Real Madrid youngster - good technique, dribbling and flair
4. Tacio - former Brazil u17 player - is averaging 80-90 attempted passes a game at the moment
5. Enrico Alfonso - Italian U21 keeper
6. Leo Schwechlen - young Monaco DC
7. Dimitriu Copil - the new Hagi?
8. Damien Le Tallec - French youth international
9. Sabrin Sburlea - Romanian U21

So the team is pretty weak, but my wages are only £30k a day - although I did meet a manager with wages of £20k a day - which makes me sound expensive. I've taken the finance package for starting skills - 10% off transfer fees makes a significant difference at the start of the game.

I made £70k profit on the first day and I didn't sign any trialists -preferring to save my money for purchases. One trick to use on players with trialists is to bid on the trialist just before the 24 hour trial is up. Rather than kick off a 24 hour wage auction - the auction ends when the trial ends. I bid for Asamoah, the Udinese Ghanian striker with 3 minutes to go on his trial. Needless to say nobody else bid and I got him for the minimum £9k a day. So now I only make £60k a day profit. But I do have a striker with 18+ for pace and acceleration, and 16 for dribbling, finishing, heading and off the ball - all vital forward stats.

I am currently swapping between 451 and 433. I started off with my trusty almost all out attack 433 (3 MCs and 3 STs) and got beaten in 8 out of my first 10 games. So I switched to 451 with neutral mentality and now I am on a 5 game unbeaten run, with my midfield dominating possession in most matches. Tacio is getting hold of the ball all the time. With Asamoah I now have the pace up front to stretch and overload a 2 DC formation so I will slowly reintroduce my narrow 433. One more target to sign tomorrow and then I will think about more mundane tasks like getting a reserve keeper and reinforcing the 5 defenders I have in the squad. Current rank is 294 with 1.5 stars.