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Just powered through my first season and got Colchester into the Championship via the playoffs. No money available and a £2k/wk wage budget rise that all went on keeping Marvin Sordell from leaving, whee!
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Seconding the advice on ignoring the AI, it doesn't have a clue. I've got a Villa side up to 6th inside two seasons with a tactic that makes my assman go crazy. "The gap between our midfield and defence is too big, we need to hold back on tackles, we're never going to score", he cries as I batter United 3 - 1 at Old Trafford. You can do well with any tactic so long as you've got the players for it. My tactic is a flat back four with two defensive midfielders, three skillful AMs on Attack and a target man. It goes against every piece of advice I've seen and it's (relative to the club) the most successful tactic I've had since 2014.
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Jan 8, 2016 14:16
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What's up with Mario Gotze in this game? Arsenal got him for £25m after one season in the beta, this time around I got him on a free for Villa after a year without a club. He's only 26 and still one of the best AMs in the world. Speaking of Arsenal, they sold me Carl Jenkinson for a couple of mil, bought him back after 18 months for £10m, dumped him in the reserves without playing a single game, then sold him back to me for £5m six months later. Also they're now managed by David Moyes.
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Jan 18, 2016 13:40
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After 3 years finishing 7th-8th with Villa, there just isn't the funds to crack the top six and my stars are getting restless. Butland already jumped ship and Shaqiri keeps agitating for a move to Spurs that I keep rejecting because nobody half as good will come. I've brought in Alex Iwobi and Michael Frey to add goals to the midfield and stop them passing it around the box for hours on end. Also applying the advice in this thread to try to stop Benteke being such a donkey.
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Feb 3, 2016 21:41
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I had to let Idrissa Gueye go because he couldn't get a work permit extension. I know I'm only Villa, but he's not even thirty and started almost every game for the last four years. This system is dumb. Hopefully Gary Medel's legs have another season left in them because there's gently caress-all in terms of defensive midfielders around at the moment.
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Feb 8, 2016 01:18
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Finally cracked the top six, pipping Spurs to fifth on the final day of the season to make it into Europe. The next day Benteke starts agitating for a move to a bigger club. The club in question? loving Reading.
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Feb 9, 2016 12:07
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Another season, another transfer window spent fending off constant Spurs bids for Xherdan Shaqiri. The amount never changes, either, always £18m rising to £23m with add-ons, and they bid two or three times a week every transfer window. I've got him set to Reject All Offers but you've got to admire their determination. At least we're now a big enough club that he hadn't complained this year. He used to throw a tantrum every August, calm down and sign a contract extension in September, then kick off again in January.
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Feb 10, 2016 13:18
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Every single year I'll have two periods where I have to play every big team back to back and I'll have to pick morale out of the toilet after a run of draws/losses. No poo poo I haven't won in six, I've just played City/Arsenal/Inter/Chelsea/Inter/Spurs! The worst is when it happens in September or March, either leaving me in relegation trouble and making morale even worse or hobbling me just before the finish line and tanking my run-in. Why did they code this in? The thing where you're more likely to play a team in the cup ring after you play them in the league is fun, this is just artificial difficulty.
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Feb 16, 2016 09:59
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The best formation is 5-3-2 with 3 CBs and attacking wing backs, because a glass ceiling develops post-Brexit with big clubs hoarding any decent AM who can get a work permit until it's hopeless trying to compete. Ligue 1 is full of ball-playing defenders who rack up caps for small African nations and the AI hates wing backs to the point of dumping even world class prospects into the reserves, so just fill your team with those and win every game 1 - 0.
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Aug 23, 2017 17:10
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I'd love a technical wing back but I don't think they'd work in my lovely 8-behind-the-ball strategy. My board give me no money and my entire system is based around absorbing constant attacks and hitting on the break so everything else takes a back seat to being able to run like gently caress for ninety minutes.
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Aug 27, 2017 19:28
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I prefer the match engine so far, especially the decline in the forty-yard screamers that seemed to decide every other game in 17. I think I've seen one from Sanchez and one from Rooney but a loose clearance from a corner no longer means certain death.
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The kid from my u18s who was looking like the second coming of Henry just did his ligaments in a pre season friendly and is out for 7 months  Just signed Ronaldo on a one-year deal, though, so that'll keep his space in the squad warm
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