Breaking the Habit - A Man United rebuild

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@Danimal5981 wrote:

Judging from the images, I assume you still play the games yourself?...

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Yes, I do. I'm still mostly involved in the Rangers career, but jump over here from time to time to play a few games.

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@CO88LER5 wrote:
Unable to score....sounds familiar.
Any academy strikers to promote and give a chance to, perhaps?

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I haven't found any myself so far, but there is one striker, a Portuguese fellow, who was the only one I kept from the academy, when I started. I didn't like the others, so I set them free.

I think it's way too soon for the Portuguese though, his OVR is really poor, so I need him to improve, before I'll give him a chance. Next season perhaps. I also play Mainoo and Garnacho quite regularly, so swarming the squad with more academy players are also not in my plans at this point.

Strange to say the table looks realistic with United and Chelsea in the middle. Scoring is a big issue so far. Any changes to the formation coming?

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@Stlducks4 wrote:

Strange to say the table looks realistic with United and Chelsea in the middle. Scoring is a big issue so far. Any changes to the formation coming?

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Yes, I noticed Chelsea too. Quite realistic actually. Man City, Arsenal and Liverpool in top 3 is also quite similar to the current real life league standings, except Aston Villa pushing Arsenal down to 4th IRL. I could be inclined to switch up a few things in regards to the formation. In my Rangers setup I have tweeked the formation to a back 4, a midfield with a CDM, RCM, LAM and a forward three with a RM/RW, a LF and a ST. It creates a lot of these "diagonals", which @Danimal5981 spoke of earlier, and it's worked wonders for me. I could try to recreate that here, though with the players at my disposal I'd probably try to reverse it, with a CDM, LCM, RAM, LM, RF and ST.

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@CO88LER5 wrote:
It's a point about the game that I have raised in the past with EA, to no avail. When you start a career with an elite club, the contents of the academy are mostly dreadful - not at all what you expect them to have. It's simply not realistic that practically all of them need to be released immediately.
Never got any kind of acknowledgement from EA, though.

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At least we start with a "full" academy now, contrary to a few years ago, when it was empty at the beginning. I don't mind too much, I'll just find some myself, and I rarely introduce anyone in my first season anyway. I would like to be able to edit these youngsters though. Their names, appearances etc., that would be great to be able to change. Then you could also rename an academy striker as one you know from real life, who just hasn't been included in the game yet. This would be awesome IMO.

Ten Hag's job already on te line? Mid table with United... I mean, no one can make gold with this, but still - a little underperforming I'd say

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@Danimal5981 wrote:

Ten Hag's job already on te line? Mid table with United... I mean, no one can make gold with this, but still - a little underperforming I'd say

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There's definitely room for improvement, I agree to that. And EtH needs to find a way to make the team score some goals, otherwise it's going to be the end for him. He's making a decent effort with the defence though, and that's probably a good thing after conceding 15 goals in 6 champions league games in 23/24. If the goals start coming too, that could be the start of something new. Having sent so many expensive players away, with only Tapsoba and free transfers coming in, we might also see another new signing come January.