I know Chris does his FM stuff.but I’ve started a career on FC24 as our great club, trying to revive our fortunes. I tried to not go crazy with transfers but then I kept getting stupid offers for players so I ended up selling some I didn’t necessarily want to.
Ins:
Matej Kovar (Leverkusen) - GK
Radu Dragustin (Genoa) - CB
Noah Mbamba (Leverkusen) - DMC / CB
Stefano Sensi (Inter) - CM / ACM
Michel Olise (Crystal Palace) - RW / LW / AMC
Bakaray Soumare (Made loan permanent)
Pape Gueye (Marseille) - DMC / CM
Nathan Tella (Leverkusen) - RW / ST
Pretty sure one or two more but I’ve gone blank at the moment
Outs:
Nemanja Gudelj
Suso
Joan Jordan
Orjan Nyland
Fernando
Marcão
Adnan Januzaj
Kike Salas (Loan)
Antonio Zarzana (Loan)
Alfonso Pastor (Loan)
Diego Hormigo (Loan)
Manu Bueno (Loan)
Squad:
Marko Dmitrovic
Federico Gattoni
Adri Pedrosa
Sergio Ramos
Lucas Ocampos
Radu Dragostin (on loan list)
Michel Olise
Stefano Sensi
Rafa Mir
Ivan Rakitic
Dodi Lukebakio
Mariano Diaz (on transfer list)
Matej Kovar
Tanguy Nianzou
Youssef En-Nesyri
Jesus Navas
Erik Lamela
Djibril Sow
Marcos Acuña
Pape Gueye
Oliver Torres
Loic Bade
Nathan Tella
Bakaray Soumare
Noah Mbamba (on loan list)
Juanlu Sanchez
Alberto Flores
David Santisteban (on loan list)
Ideally I’d like another Striker to go in place if the loan listed players, and maybe another Centre Back.
YEN (Rafa Mir / Mariano)
Lamela (Tella / Lukebakio)
I did also want Eberi Eze from Palace but funds are a bit low now so will probably wait as he would sit in the AMC role and I’ll move Sensi back to where Rakitic is playing when Raki’s contract ends at the end of the season. Not going to renew him nor Jesus Navas.
I’m still finding my feet a bit at the moment having not played FIFA 22 or 23.
I do have a question though, how the fuck do you score headers in this game? I put in so many nice crosses and corners and every single bloody time I end up smashing it 70ft over the crossbar with a header. I’m clearly doing something wrong.
I haven’t played since 19, so i don’t have the latest version. I think 22 & 23 are free on the gamepass service, but if any of y’all tryna get worked, just holla.
I haven’t played enough to find out plus I ended up selling him, although now you’ve said that I need to check if I have injuries etc on as I haven’t had any yet.
Going to restart this on a higher difficulty I think and try only do like for like Transfers In and Out (going to try stick to 5 for the first season).
Transfer Listed will be:
Nyland
Joan Jordan
Mariano Diaz
Fernando
Januzaj
I gutted my team on my playthrough. All I had left was Navas, Rakitic, Pedrosa, Ramos and Ocampos. I brought in some great young talent! Poached Arda Guler from Real, Garnacho, Eze, brought back Diego Carlos because is a rockstar and next season I pulled in Julian Alvarez! It is a fantastic team without a pot to piss in, but we win games!
That’s what I did but I want to try not basically buy a whole new team, especially not first transfer window hence why I am going to (try!) to limit transfers to a max of five.
I will invest in Scouting and Youth Scouts as best I can.
I wanted to do what Jim did, but I kept getting offers that I couldn’t refuse. So I ended up with Navas, Rakitic, Sow, Ocampos, Pedrosa, Neyland, Ramos and Soumare until he got recalled.
Also, since when did EAFC or whatever not reinvest the club success (champions league) into the January window?
Right so I started a new save today, my previous was on Pro but it was too easy and I bought / sold too many players for my liking. Anyway new save on World Class, just got to before the first friendly so not played a game yet…
Players Out:
Fernando - Real Sociedad (€9m)
Joan Jordan - West Ham (€30m)
Januzaj - RB Leipzig (€13.5m)
Alberto Flores - Albacete (2 year Loan)
Dario - Spezia (Loan)
Marcão - (see below)
Players In:
Pape Gueye - Marseille (€10m)
Soumare - Leicester (Loan made Permanent for €6.5m)
Bryan Gil - Tottenham (€6.5m + Marcão)
Gonçalo Ramos - PSG (Season Long Loan)
Agoume - Inter (€4m, plan to Loan him out)
Mejibri - Manchester United (Couldn’t loan as he only has one year left on contract so bought for €2m and will Loan out)
Renewed Oliver and Ocampos contracts, will probably let Lamela walk at end of contract, although if I get a silly offer I might sell him rather than lose him for free. Really now I need a CM and a GK and I’m done.
As far as outgoings I want to sell Mariano but didn’t want to wait for him to go (he took ages to sell in previous save) and then miss out on Gonçalo Ramos so I decided to get that Loan done asap. Need to sell Nyland, but then not exactly sure who to bring in for him, someone youngish with a bit of potential I think, currently got my eye on Matej Kovar (Bayer Leverkusen) or Alban Lafont (FC Nantes).
Wouldn’t it be nice? I’d be surprised if we end up making more then 3m from his sale… And more likely he’ll just sit on the bench making a salary for the next 3+ years. Always waiting for a coach to trust him like Lope did
Others:
Juanlu Sanchez (RB) (26)
Kike Salas (CB) (27)
Manu Bueno (CM) (28)
Hannibal Mejibri (CM) (32)
Antonio Zarzana (WG) (33) - About to go to Spezia for a 2 year Loan though
Diego Hormigo (LB) (35)
Lucien Agoume (CM) (42)
I know, the transfers are either too easy or too hard in this game. EA really need to work on that system. Still I’m not going to say no to €24.5m from a €30m sale of a player I won’t use back into my transfer budget.
Second friendly a 2-2 draw with Tottenham Hotspur, a late Rafa Mir equaliser, actually a 2-1 loss would have been harsh on me as I’m finding my feet now…
It was 0-0 at HT too.