FIFA 16 - Manager Mode - We're all Ahead of Brendan and LvG

[outlawauron]

Notts County Road to CL Manager Mode Update 

Recap of Year 5: 
Finished 2nd, Arsenal won the league. Leeds, Bornemouth, and Norwich City are relegated. 2nd-4th was very tightly battled. Finished above City on GD and above Chelsea by 2 points. 

Winter Transfer Window: 
Didn't do a whole lot of buying, because I wanted to sign a lot of free transfers for my CL push in year 6. 

Viktor Kovalenko - FC Shaktar - CM - 18m - 40k/wages 
Bartlomiej Dragowski – Manchester City – Short Loan with 2.9m fee – 20k/wages 

Departures: 
Alphonse Areola – FC Utrecht – 12m 
Ryan Gauld – Eihntract Frankfurt – 28m 
Romelu Lukaku – FSV Mainz 05 – 35m 
Stephen Arthurworrey – Leeds United – 875k 

I know that seems like a ton of selling for no immediate replacements. I knew I was going to be very solidly in the top 4-5, so I kinda just went for all the free transfers. I think I did pretty well. 

Free Transfers: 
Juan Carlos – Rayo Vallecano – 130k/wages 
Gareth Bale – Real Madrid – 175k/wages 
Lucas Torro – Real Madrid – 125k/wages 
Raphael Varane – Real Madrid – 150k/wages 
Alen Halilovic – Barcelona – 135k/wages 
Julian Brandt – Bayer 04 – 40k/wages 
Kellyn Acosta – FC Dallas – 15k/wages (Got him as a Sproadic 1st teamer as I'm not sure how long Diego Poyet will be around) 

Year 6: 
So, my team looks quite different than it did in the past. Trying to get all of the players playing well together in one formation has been.... challenging. After a few games of preseason, I arrived at reality that I'm going to have to sell some of my attacking players sadly. I've done a poor job at assigning player roles in contracts, so I'm also looking for good players I can convince to be Squad or Sproadic players. 

Goal for the season is to win Champions League, so I'm going all out. 

Transfer Window: 
Arrivals: 
Marco Reus - Borussia Dortmund - 52m - 160k/wages 
Lucas Melano - Portland Timbers - 11.5m - 60k/wages (Squad) 
DeAndre Yedlin - Spurs - 6m - 60k/wages (Squad) 
Rubio Rubin - FC Utrecht - 5.8m - 25k/wages (Sproadic) 

Departures: 
Steven Bergwjin - Ajax - 40m 
Munir - Celta Vigo - 37m 

So, I have another 33.5m to play around with and I saved it for the Winter window where I'll go after somebody big. James is currently highest rated player in the game at 93, and I tried, but Juve wanted $93m for him. Screw that. 

I loaned a bunch of players out while I sorted out the contract issues and to give good playtime. If anyone cares, I can make more of the bench cards, but I didn't bother with the extras. 

Here is my squad (LINK):