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How Are You Doing On CM?
- Thread starter Tom Halsey
- Start date
King Pietersen
International Captain
A draw away at Swansea in the penultimate game of the season cost me the league title in my second year in charge of United. Chelsea ended up pipping me by 1 point, so winning that game against the Swans would have won me the league. We bounced back quickly though, a 7-0 win over Southampton was followed by a win in the Champions League Final, eventually defeating Napoli 6-2. Didn't come easy though, with 76 mins on the clock we were 2-0 down. A superb free-kick from Mata brought us back to 2-1 and from there it was the Adnan Januzaj show. He levelled things up on 89 minutes with a superb curled effort before sealing the deal setting up Shaw in extra time to make it 3-2 before adding two more goals himself (one was ruled a Reina own goal, but it was Adnan's goal). So 3 goals and 2 assists for Januzaj, a truely inspired match-winning performance.
Son was the star player of the season. Despite only joining in January he was electric. Led the club in terms of POTM awards, won Footballer of the Year, Fans' Player of the Year and was just an all-round god. 13 goals and 11 assists in the league with 8 POTM awards in 15 games. Insane player. To think the fans were dubious when I brought him in too. Money very well spent. If you have the money for him, buy him. He is the best player I've used on this years game. Used as an MR W(A) he's been absolute class. Buy him, thank me later.
The summer transfer window saw many changes. Out went Valdes, Yarmolenko (£25.5m), Schneiderlin (£45.5m), Mata (£35m) and Lingard (£3.7m) and in came:
Neymar - £75m
Stones - £40m
Donnarumma - £15m
Calhanoglu - £27.5m
Verratti - £66m
De Sciglio - £20m
Celik (Regen) - £5m
A lot of money to spend but a lot of it is over 48 months so not a massive amount of initial outlay but some world-class talent brought in. With Valdes leaving Donnarumma fits the bill as back-up goalkeeper, the defence is strengthened with the additions of Stones and the versatile De Sciglio, Verratti replaces Schneiderlin, Calhanoglu replaces Mata and Neymar comes in because he's immense. With those changes made, my strongest XI is:
---------------------De Gea------------------------
---Darmian----Stones----Jones-------Shaw---------
-----------------Pogba----Verratti---------------------
--Son----------------------------------------------------
-------------------Calhanoglu----------Neymar---------
---------------------Dybala------------------------------
Beast of a team with Donnarumma, De Sciglio, Laporte, Rojo, Tielemans, Valencia, Januzaj, Herrera, Memphis, Rooney, Martial and Wilson as back-up squad players. We're looking incredibly strong going into my 3rd season. Very pleased with that line-up.
Son was the star player of the season. Despite only joining in January he was electric. Led the club in terms of POTM awards, won Footballer of the Year, Fans' Player of the Year and was just an all-round god. 13 goals and 11 assists in the league with 8 POTM awards in 15 games. Insane player. To think the fans were dubious when I brought him in too. Money very well spent. If you have the money for him, buy him. He is the best player I've used on this years game. Used as an MR W(A) he's been absolute class. Buy him, thank me later.
The summer transfer window saw many changes. Out went Valdes, Yarmolenko (£25.5m), Schneiderlin (£45.5m), Mata (£35m) and Lingard (£3.7m) and in came:
Neymar - £75m
Stones - £40m
Donnarumma - £15m
Calhanoglu - £27.5m
Verratti - £66m
De Sciglio - £20m
Celik (Regen) - £5m
A lot of money to spend but a lot of it is over 48 months so not a massive amount of initial outlay but some world-class talent brought in. With Valdes leaving Donnarumma fits the bill as back-up goalkeeper, the defence is strengthened with the additions of Stones and the versatile De Sciglio, Verratti replaces Schneiderlin, Calhanoglu replaces Mata and Neymar comes in because he's immense. With those changes made, my strongest XI is:
---------------------De Gea------------------------
---Darmian----Stones----Jones-------Shaw---------
-----------------Pogba----Verratti---------------------
--Son----------------------------------------------------
-------------------Calhanoglu----------Neymar---------
---------------------Dybala------------------------------
Beast of a team with Donnarumma, De Sciglio, Laporte, Rojo, Tielemans, Valencia, Januzaj, Herrera, Memphis, Rooney, Martial and Wilson as back-up squad players. We're looking incredibly strong going into my 3rd season. Very pleased with that line-up.
sledger
Spanish_Vicente
Picked up the new FM the other day, and after a slow start I have quickly fallen into the trap of playing it compulsively.
Started with Valencia. Season started poorly with a defeat to Monaco in the Champions League playoff, but since then I've only suffered one defeat in fourteen league games, despite Parejo and Gomes being out for all of that time with injuries. 2nd in the league at the moment.
Started with Valencia. Season started poorly with a defeat to Monaco in the Champions League playoff, but since then I've only suffered one defeat in fourteen league games, despite Parejo and Gomes being out for all of that time with injuries. 2nd in the league at the moment.
sledger
Spanish_Vicente
Negredo now out for 4 months with some muscle tear. Bit of a problem, as he's probably scored about 80% of my goals this season. Equally troubling is that Alcacer is out injured for a month or so as well, so it'll be Santi Mina leading the line for a while. Form has already dipped off a bit - started to draw loads of games - so it'll be interesting to see how things go.
That Guardiola screenshot reminds me of the time I got a message saying Steve Bruce (then the Liverpool manager) stormed out of a press conference in anger. Quite amusing, for a variety of reasons. I think I posted about it at the time, actually.
That Guardiola screenshot reminds me of the time I got a message saying Steve Bruce (then the Liverpool manager) stormed out of a press conference in anger. Quite amusing, for a variety of reasons. I think I posted about it at the time, actually.
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
You were also sure that Christopher Wreh was going to be the best footballer in the world. Forgive me for seeking a second opinion.
sledger
Spanish_Vicente
For about 5 minutes he probably was.
