My Brilliant Everton

after all, i try to play fm without any "save-load" and i find it is very very very challenging! thought i've been playing fm since cm2, but this is the 1st time i play without "save-load", it is really a good try for me.

ok, back to my brilliant everton... i find that everton is very strong in the start of 09 season but i still did some replacement:

sell Cahill to Roma for 10m
sell Arteta to MC for 17m
sell Yakubu to MC for 9m
sell AkinseXX to Portsmouth for 4m
sell P. Neville to Sunderland for 6m

1st season Sep. new signature:
Fagulio <--- 6.5m
Sanchez <--- 5.4m
Frollio <--- 200k
Beckham <--- 5.5m
Saivet <--- 1.8m
Mattock <--- 2.5m
Barragan<--- 550k

at the begining I played 4-5-1 attacking with Fagulio as AMC, Beckham as RM and Baines/ Saivet as LM, Sanchez as the FC with Robwell/ Gosling as the 2 MC without forward run.

Sanchez keep scores and sometimes I will play him as MR with Vaughan as FC and Beckham move to MC position, but I dont really like Vaughan, he seems not that telant striker... not enough quality to play alone upfront...

the process was good and I was in Top 6 in Jan 09... by that time, I brought some new face like:

Camacho for 10.5m
Zuccilic for 2m
Dihakate for 6m
Vukcevic for 8m
Asenjo for 8.25m

I also sold Howard to Roma for 6m, hibburt to somewhere for 3m

The most important deal was to buy Vukcevic for 8m... he was brilliant!!!! He replaced the position as AMC and I played Fagulio as ML...

at least i got knock out from the 2 local CUP but so amazing that I won the UEFA cup... I remember it was a really hard time because both Asenjo, Camacho,Dihakate and Vukcevic could not play the UEFA, by that time I could only back to original squad with Frollio as GK...

Beckham did a lot for the team, amazing free-kick, great assist... he is god!

so when finished the 1st season, my team got UEFA cup and ranked 6 in the league, capable to play UEFA cup in 2nd season....

Since I am quite satisfied with my squard, so I just did a little change in 2nd season....

5m for marko marin...

in Jan 2010, I realized that if I played only 1 FC, Sanchez is good but Vaughan is not that classy, so I spent 16.5 m for Keirisson...

still 4-5-1 with AMC

Keirisson / (Vaughan)

Vukcevic (Fagulio)

Marin Zucclicc Camacho / Beckham/ Sanchez

Mattock(Baines)Dihakate(Robwell) Jagelka Gosling (Barragan)

Asenjo

youngsters development: Davies Santon/ Canales

the team is much powerful as Keirisson really on fire... at last i entered the final round for all the 3 cups... only lost in PK to Chelsea in league CUP, but won Liverpool in FA Cup and won Arsenal in UEFA cup...

for the Premier league, I ranked no. 4 finally, so right now it's the 3rd season and I got the last ticket for EURO Championship...

For the charity sheld, I won Arsenal for 2:0

For the Cup winners Cup, I won Bayern for 1:0 (own goal)

Sice the team's development is on the right track, i got around 50m to spend but just buy Fazio for 16m to strengthen the centre defence

I'm also thinking to sign marquinhnos to replace fagulio/ vukcevic.. Fagulio used to be -10 but right now my coach said he is playing close to his full potential.. his attributes is just ok... and he gave around 10 goals and 10 assists per season in 1st / 2nd season... but i do value the "Flair- 20" from Marquinhnos...

since I played all the games without saveload..... I am really satisfy for my team's performance... and really care about the development of youngsters, the harmony among the players...

that's why i won't spend $$$ to buy star player... and more concern about the balance of the squad