I made some mistakes on personnel in my initial squad. Whilst I met my financial objectives, £500k spend on AFs and £30k spend on wages, my squad was particularly inexperienced. My two biggest purchases were panicky as I tried to sign players from my shortlist during opening day lagfest. I didn't stop to notice that the GW15 version of Damian Le Tallec was randomly rubbish and Lucas Trecarichi can't play MC. That was £200k gone immediately. Of my initial squad only three play in my starting eleven at the moment, Ivan Lopez my right back, Simone Loria an experienced DC and Leonardo Ulloa, a decent Argentinian striker.
However, my transfer play in the next two weeks brought in Asamoah and Wanderley up front, Maduro and Kapo in midfield, Fazio and Civelli in defense. I've subsequently added Gabriel Pimba and Christian Maidana and feel pretty happy with my squad.
I had a really poor start to my league programme, losing five of my first eight games. I was too attacking in my play and was not playing to the strengths of my team. But the important thing was I saw what was going wrong and fixed it.
After correcting my tactics, and only signing a new keeper a few days later - Michalis Sifakis, the next 10 days have seen my ranking rise from 200 to 7. This improvement has largely been based on my league form. After losing 5 of my first 8 games, I have won 13 of the last 16 league games. With 10 games to go, it's close at the top of our league - and anyone could still win it. What's important is a top 5 finish - which should hopefully mean Premiership football next season.
Once the league programme finishes, thought will immediately turn to the end of season free for all and wage auction chaos. I need to start deciding now who I need to move on, and which areas of the squad need to be strengthened. My head says I need another quality DC to play alongside Fazio. My heart says get some attacking fullbacks like Royston Drenthe at £425k or Maicon or Dani Alves at much much more. After failing to sell Asamoah to raise money to improve the squad I have had several offers - one of which wanted to pay 90% of the money after beta is scheduled to end (which I thought was quite amusing). But the end of the season is not about how much cash you have, but how much room for high wages you can bear.
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Hi, Cyderman. Does this GW stands on 2008 or 2009 database ? If 2008, i understand that Damien Le Tallec PA and CA may be aleatory. But he has been beginning to make himself a name irl during last season, so i would expect a more consistent PA/CA for him in the 2009 database. What do you think ?
Hi Alexandre.
The database used on GW15 is 09. But he is one of those players that has a lot of zeroes in his base profile (you can check this with the FM08 official editor). The GW14 version of him looks pretty good; the GW15 not so good. Like you I expected him to improve - I think it just must be a bad role of the dice in GW15 for him this time.
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