I had entered the transfer season in June with one transfer assured: that of young Mexican superstar P. Sanchez. Virota refused contract extensions and left my team, along with many players. Datonholm's loan deal ran out and he returned to his club, refusing my offer. All these transfers put me in a bad situation: I had a squad of merely 17 players, and had no subs in for my midfield. I brought in Tolcatoryn on a loan deal and tried for another midfield, but he was proposing an outrageous transfer fee and salary.
Following from last season, I honestly felt this was the year I was going to get myself promoted. Entering my third season in this ML, I had some money leftover, but one of the highest rated squads in the league, with an 84 rated RMF Marek Artesia and a midfield composed of high 70 rated players. Due to my newfound grasp of Professional level, I kicked off the season with a win. The matches that followed, however, proved to be ties, and this knocked me down the ladder.
Things began to change in October, when I began winning more consistently. At this time, though, I had a fixture pileup in which I had Intls, followed by 4 games in 2 weeks. My players became exhausted, and Giersen received a season ending injury, while Maqualao was out of action until the start of 2014. Despite setbacks, I climbed the ladder and finished off my first half of the season in 3rd place, behind Norwich City and FSV Sarmtonburg. There is still, however, half a season left, so promotion is not yet assured. Also, the title is perfectly within reach, so I might pull off a championship this year around. Sadly, I was knocked out of the first round of the FA Cup by Wolverhampton on PKs.
Entering the winter transfer, Heldon was on a run of superb form, being my team's top scorer. This resulted in an influx of transfer requests. I turned down all the offers, but Heldon was unhappy and refused my contract renewal. De Kaam, my star defender, also turned down my offer and is watched by several clubs. I was trying to convert Ruskin into a right back, due to Giersen's injury, but thought a nice RB would be useful. I put in offers for my old player Virota and young talent Opare, but both refused. Moving on, I checked out the newest regens. Extraordinarily, I found Del Piero at the top, with a rating of 82 at 16. I didn't skip a beat and put in an offer. Despite the extravagant transfer fee (1,107,000 when my funds are at 2,736,000) and salary (739,000 or 100,000 more than his value), I knew that if he refused my offer, I would lose him. I accepted and added the classy Del Piero to Penta City. Due to a debt of 2,789,000, I didn't pursue any more players and instead settled for this one.
On Del Piero's debut game, he scored my opening goal in a 2-0 victory over Nitsalkosis, off a brilliant pass by Marek Artesia. However, he was incredible in the following game, netting a hat trick on his second game with Penta City in a 3-0 victory over current leaders FSV Sarmtonburg. This victory pushed me to second place and Norwich has a lead of merely one point, while my goal difference is greater. The title has never looked this close.
Friday, May 18, 2012
Sunday, May 13, 2012
2012 Apocalypse
Well, I'm finally back. After a few weeks break, I hope I can update regularly. During this break time, I managed to really delve into a new Master League career on the PES 2012. As tradition, I did not download a patch and merely edited WE United's emblem and kit into the traditional Penta City ones. That's right, my ML is once again Penta City. To commemorate my placement in D2 league, I custom designed the Dehat Arena for Penta City, a small, open-topped stadium that I plan to remodel upon promotion to the 1st league. I placed myself into the Barclays Premier League and kicked off the season. As for any settings required, I set up on Professional difficulty level along with Negotiate Directly, No Classics, and Reset Prevention. This way, I can't rely on buying a couple Classic players to send me into promotion.
The true debate on all these settings was whether to start off my career on Regular or Professional. The fact is, I used to be a hardcore Top Player player until this PES.PES 2011 was still far too easy on Top Player, but this year, its become incredibly tough to play. Professional is much better, but is hampered by the "park the bus" strategy all teams seem to use. Regular provides space, but scoring goals is far too easy. I therefore settled on Professional, but if I stayed more than five seasons in the D2, I'll have to switch to Regular to avoid getting fired by the Chairman.
Kicking the game off, I was sent directly into the negotiation period, where I chose to pick up a created player called Marek Artesia, a 68 rated AMF. Lacking money, I signed a few Youths up to my senior squad: Palmieri, Fatecha, and Schmidt. Palmieri was rated at 68 and Schmidt at 58, but Schmidt's size and cheap salary made him a solid defender in my eyes. I decided to pass on Shimizu because despite the short player's high rating, his salary and lack of shooting capabilities made him relatively useless. I also searched the Free Agent list to find old defenders looking to retire and spotted Chigrat, who I had heard starts off as a regen of 90+. Due to the Youth system, after retiring, he would join up with my Youth team, so I wouldn't have to bid to highly to secure him. As for my own players, I sold Dodo to one of the D2 teams and released the other old players who had no one bidding for them.
The season began on a sour note, with a loss to one of the D2 teams. The rest of this first season was extremely uneventful, with plenty of 0-0 draws and one odd 3-1 win for me. I lost a few times in after the midyear break, including a 3-0 thrashing at Cantlesir Spor. However, due to all my ties, I finished off the season in 16th place, avoiding dead last by a couple of points. Entering into the transfer season, I had Napoli come in with a big bid for Chigrat. Due to him having been relatively useless this past season, I sold him and obtained wads of cash to go shopping with. Also, bids came in for Elegost and Jaric, so I sold them too.
Now, traditionally, players tend to improve in rating. However, I was not prepared to see that Marek Artesia had soared up to 73 rating in the space of one season, along with Ettori and Maqualao both improving a few numbers. Schmidt and Palmieri improved by 3, and my squad now averaged in the high 60s to low 70s. This transfer season, I planned to solidify my midfield. Scouring the Free Agent list for cheap youngsters, I came across a CMF called Diogo Rosado, who I bought immediately. I also picked up two wingers from the released players list: A.Camara and Heldon. Both of these wingers were rated at 70 in their respective positions. I also signed an Irish player called Datenholm on a loan deal from one of the fake teams in the PES League. He was the top rated player out of my new signings, and I had plans to buy him if he played well enough. Unusually for a CMF, Datenholm had an Acceleration rating of 90. With all these new buys, I decided to leave a margin on my club's funds, so I left them at 1,000,000 dollars approximately.
Starting my second season, I began to show excellent form in my first session of play, scoring a goal in every match courtesy of Ordaz and Gutierrez. I almost won several games before the game pulled some scripting stuff to pull a tie in the dying moments of the game.This excellent run of form saw me through October 2012: things died after that. Starting my second session of the game, I went on a goalless run for 2 months, losing most games and drawing some. During this time, I collapsed from the mid-table down to dead last, just like last season. In the last couple of games, though, I broke my goalless streak by tying a late game and winning a 2-1 victory in the last game of 2012. Hoping my bad streak was over, I entered the mid-year break on high spirits. Due to an instream of regens and Youths, I accidentally forgot to check out some regens.
The star of this year's regens was Giggs. A 16-year old rated at 84 was incredible, and any team could see this guy had a future ahead of him. However, Manchester United somehow signed him out from every other team's nose, right in the first week of negotiations. Equally drafted were regens Harry Kewell to Bolton Wanderers and Filipe Inzaghi to Ajax. Untouched went De Kaam, a solid 81 rated defender that I signed quickly. Taking a look through unwanted regens, I spotted 72 rated RMF/RB Virota, a perfect replacement for El Moubarki, who had put contract renewals on hold. To replace the aging Ruskin, I picked up Taffereau from my Youth team, a 59 rated 16-year old outperforming Ruskin. I tried signing regen Heycory, but even after six attempts, he refused.
Entering the second part of the season, I once again entered a losing streak, including three 2-0 losses at home. This death streak saw me score only one goal between January and late March, which was a penalty gamewinner taken by Marek Artesia. This was my worst run of form ever on PES 2012, and I was so desperate I even considered dropping down to Regular. Suddenly, though, in April 2013, something just clicked. Goal-scoring suddenly made sense, I now knew how to keep possession late game, make clean tackles, etc. My fortunes soared. I switched Marek Artesia from an AMF position to a winger position, where he was now rated at 81. I won a couple games 2-0 against Cantlesir Spor and Blackburn, lost to Keirkvernart, and went on a win streak to the end of the season. Most were balanced games, 1-0 or 2-1. This streak of form did include, however, a thrashing of PES United 3-0 at Konami Stadium, and I finished the season at a marvelous 7th place. That session was one of the best I'd ever had, because everything was happening like it should, no pathetic own goals (I let in so many) and no shots missed completely from right in front of the goal.
The chairman was not happy, because I hadn't secured promotion to the Premier League, but was nonetheless happy of my season finishing streak. Bizarrely, though, the fan receipts for the last month ended up being under 10,000 dollars, when earlier they were at 60,000. Weirder was the fact that my fan club had grown, not shrunk. Before entering this new transfer window, I released 8 defaults, including Cotsload, Cinalton, and several that I no longer played. Marek Artesia ended up as the top scorer in D2, scoring 10 and beating out competitors by 1 goal only. Ordaz showed up on the list with 8 goals (one hat trick) and Gutierrez with 6 goals. Out of the Best XI, only Marek Artesia made it from my team. I also sealed a transfer deal for a 16 year old P. Sanchez, rated at 76 with a wonderful 96 rated Dribble Accuracy. If I don't run bankrupt or ruin my current run of form, next year I will get promoted.
The true debate on all these settings was whether to start off my career on Regular or Professional. The fact is, I used to be a hardcore Top Player player until this PES.PES 2011 was still far too easy on Top Player, but this year, its become incredibly tough to play. Professional is much better, but is hampered by the "park the bus" strategy all teams seem to use. Regular provides space, but scoring goals is far too easy. I therefore settled on Professional, but if I stayed more than five seasons in the D2, I'll have to switch to Regular to avoid getting fired by the Chairman.
Kicking the game off, I was sent directly into the negotiation period, where I chose to pick up a created player called Marek Artesia, a 68 rated AMF. Lacking money, I signed a few Youths up to my senior squad: Palmieri, Fatecha, and Schmidt. Palmieri was rated at 68 and Schmidt at 58, but Schmidt's size and cheap salary made him a solid defender in my eyes. I decided to pass on Shimizu because despite the short player's high rating, his salary and lack of shooting capabilities made him relatively useless. I also searched the Free Agent list to find old defenders looking to retire and spotted Chigrat, who I had heard starts off as a regen of 90+. Due to the Youth system, after retiring, he would join up with my Youth team, so I wouldn't have to bid to highly to secure him. As for my own players, I sold Dodo to one of the D2 teams and released the other old players who had no one bidding for them.
The season began on a sour note, with a loss to one of the D2 teams. The rest of this first season was extremely uneventful, with plenty of 0-0 draws and one odd 3-1 win for me. I lost a few times in after the midyear break, including a 3-0 thrashing at Cantlesir Spor. However, due to all my ties, I finished off the season in 16th place, avoiding dead last by a couple of points. Entering into the transfer season, I had Napoli come in with a big bid for Chigrat. Due to him having been relatively useless this past season, I sold him and obtained wads of cash to go shopping with. Also, bids came in for Elegost and Jaric, so I sold them too.
Now, traditionally, players tend to improve in rating. However, I was not prepared to see that Marek Artesia had soared up to 73 rating in the space of one season, along with Ettori and Maqualao both improving a few numbers. Schmidt and Palmieri improved by 3, and my squad now averaged in the high 60s to low 70s. This transfer season, I planned to solidify my midfield. Scouring the Free Agent list for cheap youngsters, I came across a CMF called Diogo Rosado, who I bought immediately. I also picked up two wingers from the released players list: A.Camara and Heldon. Both of these wingers were rated at 70 in their respective positions. I also signed an Irish player called Datenholm on a loan deal from one of the fake teams in the PES League. He was the top rated player out of my new signings, and I had plans to buy him if he played well enough. Unusually for a CMF, Datenholm had an Acceleration rating of 90. With all these new buys, I decided to leave a margin on my club's funds, so I left them at 1,000,000 dollars approximately.
Starting my second season, I began to show excellent form in my first session of play, scoring a goal in every match courtesy of Ordaz and Gutierrez. I almost won several games before the game pulled some scripting stuff to pull a tie in the dying moments of the game.This excellent run of form saw me through October 2012: things died after that. Starting my second session of the game, I went on a goalless run for 2 months, losing most games and drawing some. During this time, I collapsed from the mid-table down to dead last, just like last season. In the last couple of games, though, I broke my goalless streak by tying a late game and winning a 2-1 victory in the last game of 2012. Hoping my bad streak was over, I entered the mid-year break on high spirits. Due to an instream of regens and Youths, I accidentally forgot to check out some regens.
The star of this year's regens was Giggs. A 16-year old rated at 84 was incredible, and any team could see this guy had a future ahead of him. However, Manchester United somehow signed him out from every other team's nose, right in the first week of negotiations. Equally drafted were regens Harry Kewell to Bolton Wanderers and Filipe Inzaghi to Ajax. Untouched went De Kaam, a solid 81 rated defender that I signed quickly. Taking a look through unwanted regens, I spotted 72 rated RMF/RB Virota, a perfect replacement for El Moubarki, who had put contract renewals on hold. To replace the aging Ruskin, I picked up Taffereau from my Youth team, a 59 rated 16-year old outperforming Ruskin. I tried signing regen Heycory, but even after six attempts, he refused.
Entering the second part of the season, I once again entered a losing streak, including three 2-0 losses at home. This death streak saw me score only one goal between January and late March, which was a penalty gamewinner taken by Marek Artesia. This was my worst run of form ever on PES 2012, and I was so desperate I even considered dropping down to Regular. Suddenly, though, in April 2013, something just clicked. Goal-scoring suddenly made sense, I now knew how to keep possession late game, make clean tackles, etc. My fortunes soared. I switched Marek Artesia from an AMF position to a winger position, where he was now rated at 81. I won a couple games 2-0 against Cantlesir Spor and Blackburn, lost to Keirkvernart, and went on a win streak to the end of the season. Most were balanced games, 1-0 or 2-1. This streak of form did include, however, a thrashing of PES United 3-0 at Konami Stadium, and I finished the season at a marvelous 7th place. That session was one of the best I'd ever had, because everything was happening like it should, no pathetic own goals (I let in so many) and no shots missed completely from right in front of the goal.
The chairman was not happy, because I hadn't secured promotion to the Premier League, but was nonetheless happy of my season finishing streak. Bizarrely, though, the fan receipts for the last month ended up being under 10,000 dollars, when earlier they were at 60,000. Weirder was the fact that my fan club had grown, not shrunk. Before entering this new transfer window, I released 8 defaults, including Cotsload, Cinalton, and several that I no longer played. Marek Artesia ended up as the top scorer in D2, scoring 10 and beating out competitors by 1 goal only. Ordaz showed up on the list with 8 goals (one hat trick) and Gutierrez with 6 goals. Out of the Best XI, only Marek Artesia made it from my team. I also sealed a transfer deal for a 16 year old P. Sanchez, rated at 76 with a wonderful 96 rated Dribble Accuracy. If I don't run bankrupt or ruin my current run of form, next year I will get promoted.
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