re: Anyone on the SB going to get FIFA 13 at the midnight release tonight?

Yeah, not the ideal CAM, but I wanted to try him and Fredy together. Probably won't last.

yes

fwiw, i just played 2 games on manager mode when the ball was...not visible. won one 1-0 and won the 2nd 2-2 (5-3 PK...it was a cup game)

Good Lawd.

It's stupid



Neuer
Lahm - Boateng - Badstuber - Baines
Javi
Schweini-Kroos
Robben - Messi - Muller



Alaba was being a dick and forced me to sell him so I had to buy another left back.

The farthest I got with Everton:

Howard
Baines-Sakho-Fabricio-Ansaldi
Ramires-Fellaini
Hulk-Dempsey-Tshabalala/Donovan
Doumbia

there is a reason i started with wycombe. i didn't mean to win npower 2 in year 1, but i did

back in the day fifa used to just use a single budget. what you earned weekly was in there. what you earned from trophies was in there. what you earned/lost from transfers was in there. salaries ate it up each week, too. and you could do stadium improvements to make more $ (but they cost a ton). i think you also paid to improve scouting, coaching, etc

what you'd do is spend all your money on a top-level scout. as you develop him, you scout players who were badass and then sell them to reinvest in scouting. once you got a 10 level, you would scout 99 overall players who were like 18

so then you scout/sell them, and develop your stadium and super high wages

in like 10 years i had $2B in the bank

I don't want to run straight 4-4-2. Gabby's been a good winger in the friendlies, so I'll probably keep him there. I feel that suits his speed better. I brought in Montero because he's my pet MLS project, and it would offset Gabby's move to winger. Plus, Montero's rated a bit better than Gabby is. Better finisher.

Would Delph work best as the CAM on that team?

Might switch to 4-1-2-1-2 Diamond...have had success with that formation in the past.

Like this...

Bent-Montero
Delph
Gabby-N'Zogbia
El Ahmadi
BACK LINE
Guzan/Given

I don't even see how that is fun

My project with Crystal Palace is going nicely, although I wish I would have started with a League 1 team now.

My starting team looked like this:

Speroni (73)

Ward (68), Ramage (68), McCarthy (67), Moxey (67)

Jedinak (69), Dikgacoi (67)

Zaha (72), Moritz (70), Garvan (67)

Murray (70)

After 1 season and a jump to the Prem I look like this:

Speroni (73)

Baird (69), Blake (72), Parr (76), Moxey (71)

Garvan (70), Jedinak (72)

Sterling (71), Di Gennaro (77), Zaha (77)

Ojo (79)

Youth development is so much better in this game. I've got a couple 16 and 17 year olds that I scouted on my bench already (the main reason I wish I would have started with a lower club)

You're looking at the world's newest owner of an xbox 360.

Hide ya kids.
Hide ya wife.

Okay I'm going to concede a bit and agree with SFP to an extent.

EA went overboard just slightly with the first touches. I understand what their objective was, but in trying to achieve that they subsequently eliminated 2 aspects of the game: counter attacks and overhead through balls. And while I'm not particularly upset with the former, the latter is quite troubling.

You're telling me that no matter which player I play with, I can't take down an overhead through ball? I played a few matches with Alexis Sanchez and Chile and was frustrated beyond belief. Lifting the ball over the back line while in the final third was working like a charm, but I couldn't even gain possession of the ball with Sanchez after doing so. I wish they would have negated this aspect of the game by increasing defensive positioning just a bit and making it harder to see/complete those passes, rather than making the touches so horrid that you quit trying it all-together.

Also, off the ball defensive positioning is once again awful. I can trap a defender in his own third through pressing, only to have him clear the ball to an unmarked forward. SMGDH