If anybody also created a Bundesliga team, Adrian Ramos is a really good player. Quick, good header, good shot, good dribbling and much much cheaper than Lewandowski or Mandzukic.
Well, Ramos won't be cheap much longer. Dortmund have apparently bought him to replace Lewandowski.
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Winner of a FIFA Prediction Fair Play Award (a phrase becoming increasingly ironic) "... Because he (me) has a sound tactical mind in general..." jandal7, at 9:30 am GMT on 12th May 2016
Didn't really play FIFA for few months and saw that ModdingWay patch 3.0 all in patch was available on 7th June and decided to download it. Tried career with Schalke, with failed really soon, for no apparent reason. Only few hourse later started Arsenal career which I am still enjoying.
2014 Season
Anyways, the first summer transfer season was more than successful, considering I got both Khedira (for 20 millions) and Sanchez (for 26,5 millions), while I sold few older guys to make those transfers possible. Team had pretty good shape and look, but the only position we missed the top player was striker, as we "only" had Podolski, who is great guy, but isn't the top. Also sent hell alot, if not all, young talents to loan, which I was happy with on first sight, but regret afterwards.
Season started and we had absolutely great start of the season, with 6 consecutive wins and no draws or lose at start. After 10 matches and half of half-season, we were on the top of the table with 8 wins, 1 draw and 1 lost match. Sanchez proved that he's great signing and with Podolski and Szczesny, who both surprised me with absolutely great games, was the best player of our team and whole PL. However, on another side, guys like Arteta, Ozil and Khedira disappointed me a bit, even despite their great stats (82, 88, 84). However, as that was quite expected after stormy start, team started getting a bit worse results in next 10 matches and dropped to 3rd to 5th positions. Even then, we were only few points below the first team on table, and even then we had best striker in the league (Sanchez), 4th best striker (Podolski), the best PL goalkeeper with most clean sheets (Szczesny) and Ozil who finally started doing what he does best - assisting. Team finished first part of the season on 3rd positions, 2 points behind Chelsea and 4 points behind leader at that point, Manchester United.
However, we hit winter transfer season soon and big changes happened then. Offers for Szczesny were basically everywhere. From funny ones (considering how great he was) from 10 millions, to huge ones that were even over 25 millions, which you have to agree is great for goalkeepers. After rejecting 6 of them, Barcelona came up with 30 million offer that just couldn't be missed at that point. Soon, we sold Wojciech Szczęsny, the our best goalkeeper. And yet, he wasn't the only one sold player. Arteta was the biggest flop of the first half-season, mainly because I simply had to give chance to Ramsey and Wilshere, who are way younger than him and has as good ratings as him, and he clearly was angry because of that, which helped his awful quality of football. Anyways, managed to sell him only for 6 millions and he gone to Real Madrid, where he finished in starting 11, which was extremely funny. In the meantime, we also got 70 million (!) offer from Borussia Dortmund for Alexis Sanchez, but even despite we would accept that anytime, we desperately needed him in rest of the season, so I had to keep him. Then, possibly the biggest boom of winter transfer seasons ever happened. As we clearly missed a great goalkeeper and as Viviano (78) couldn't really make us a team that wants a title, I had to do something. And I did. I sent the offer for Manuel Neuer, which funnily enough was 25 millions, less than Szczesny deal. And they accepted! What a great moment that was. We secured the best goalie in the World. However, that was all in that transfer season and we now had to focus on Champions League knockout phase and run for a PL title.
CL rounds of 16 was the first great event for us. And guess who we played? Yes, Real Madrid. From all teams on this World, draw have choosen Real Madrid. Arteta met their old friends for the first time, but it was, on surprise of everyone in football world, bad experience for him. 1-1 on Emirates, 2-2 on Bernabeu was enough for us to secure us quarter finals. What a great way to start 2nd half-season. It seemed like sky was the limit then. PL continued in a pretty solid way and we constantly were on the same amount of points as MUTD and Chelsea, which made our league title dreams even bigger. Rejecting Sanchez offer showed as a good move once again, as he just kept scoring and assisting, like no one else. Neuer, as you'd expect, started showing class soon too, so selling Wojciech showed as a great idea soon. However, 2 guys still kept bad form and plays throught whole 2nd half of the season and even despite they both developed even more, it was all without effect. Ozil and Khedira. However, on bright side, we reached semi-finals, as we managed to beat Milan in 2 easy games and wins, with 3-0 and 1-2. Barca waited for us there and it was mission impossible. 2-2 both at Emirates and on Camp Nou, but Barca showed they are just more experienced and coldblooded by winning 5-4 on penalties. It was a heartbreaking lose, but I was happy with semi-finals. Who could expect Arsenal reaching that level, after all? No one, I know. That was the end of our CL journey, but Premier League and Cup Final was yet to finish. And we won Cup! With 2-1 against Chelsea in the final, that was our best result so far in the season.
A couple of rounds before the finish, 3 teams that constantly were on top, definitely made some solid advantage that clearly showed one of them will win it. Arsenal was one of those 3 teams, MUTD and Chelsea together. 2 rounds before the end, all 3 teams were on the same amount of points - 85. However, Manchester United had one huge advantage - 37th round was schedule round reserved for Chelsea - Arsenal and a possible draw could secure Manchester a title, considering that both London teams had hard job in last round, with Southampton and Newcastle as opponents, while Manchester played Stoke. Anyways, Manchester won that 37th match of season, while Chelsea and Arsenal played exactly what predicted - 2-2 draw. 88 points seemed perfectly enough for Manchester United, as they only had to draw to win the title, considering they had goal difference on their side. Something completely unexpected happened then.
Last rounnd, 38th match of the season. Manchester lost! Chelsea played draw and what a great chance for a title win that was for Arsenal. 5 days before final match against Southampton, everything looked perfect. Almost. 1 day before the final match, our 6th player in a row injured, which meant we didn't have enough guys to play that match (by PL standards, you clearly have to have 11 starting and full substitutions bench), we had to automaticly forfeit and to lose with 3-0. What a great way that was to lose the title! Oh my God, I can't even explain how pissed I was.
Even after all of that, directors and presidents of the club were happy with our results in that season, which meant at least one more season at the helm of Arsenal FC. However, I had to major huge changes if I wanted triple crown this year. Players from loan returned, some of them got sent to loan again, while Rosicky was sold and that's how transfer season started. However, major changes were yet to be made at that point. Ozil and Khedira were the first two to go on the Transfer list, even despite their great AVG ratings. After few days of negotiating, Barca agreed to buy our 2nd player in 2 seasons - Mesut Ozil. Somehow, I managed to sell him for 75 millions. Somehow, even despite his 89 rating at that point, he was completely useless whole season, which lead to this move. No one wanted to offer at least 20 millions for Khedira, so we decided to keep him. With few more oldies, 75 millions for Ozil and 44 millions that were ours by default in the transfer season, fun could start.
It was time for buying new guys! Cavani was the first one to come, for "only" 50 millions, which I considered as a great deal, since he's 87 AVG and has great speed, strength and shoot. By that, we secured a striker, position that was, I can clearly say, our biggest weakness in last season. Reus was our next target and we managed to get him for a solid amount - 45 millions. Team finally started to getting its shape, but with Sagna declining, we had to secure another left back for the future. Considering we already spent alot of money for Reus & Cavani, I had to come up with a cheap, young solution that could possibly even play in starting 11 and yes, I managed to find that player. It was Mattia De Sciglio, Milan's youngster that didn't really have a good season there, which automaticly meant I could get him for cheap. 17 millions was his price and I think I did a great job, since he has a really nice speed and potential of 85! There was the end of 2015 transfer season.
The team never looked better. 2015 season just started and we already have 3 wins, 0 draws and 0 losses. I'll try to come up with another review of the season, once I finish it. Uhm, and this turned out to be a bit longer than I expected. Edited by admirschleck on 23-07-2014 10:28
FOR ADMIRSCHLECK's OPINION
Edited by emre99 on 24-07-2014 14:57
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I have too much free time at the moment so started a Dortmund career. May have gone talent crazy, this is my second season team
Bonilla
Pisczek / Subotic / Kaya / Alex Sandro
Verratti / Malanda
Blaszczykowski / Mikhitaryan / Reus
Insigne
Plus, I have Oliver Torres, Bakkali, Kovacic, Martial, Correa, De Sciglio, Adryan, Willems, Shaw, Zouma and Marquinhos in the squad. Problem I have is finding loans to get them all play time. Edited by jph27 on 30-07-2014 14:55
Im never have played Fifa 14 before and im really confused about the coop Leage at Fifa. Can please someone tell me if it is pisible to play a League with a friend in another country online agianst the AI in a PC?
You can't play against the AI, but you can play against other players. The person you play with has to be on your friends' list and you'll probably need to organise something with them.
Is there any way to activate "buy later" option for loans in FIFA14, like it is the situation in many real-life loans? I really need that and would be nice if someone knows the answer. Thanks in advance.
