Double post incoming.
My Parma ML in PES5 is going great. I managed to win the D2 - though I had to wait until the last fixture to clinch both the promotion and the title - which means on the following season, I would be playing on a superleague comprised of the best Italian/Spanish/Portuguese sides.
A bit short on PES Points, I decided to refuse to renew the contracts of our top performers on my debut season, Fabio Simplicio and Delvecchio, both wanting +800 PES contracts (PES Points don't grow on trees, mates...) and rescinded all the horrible deals we had lying around, such as paying almost 500 PES for an unimpressive 20-year-old SB benchwarmer. This, considering also the prize money of our title win, gave us a bit of room to bring in talented, cheaper footballers. Schweinsteiger was free and I got him; former Villarreal keeper Barbosa too, another youngster, then Pazzini and Riordan, two young attackers to replace the ageing, expensive but still prolific Corradi and Delvecchio up front. The latter, Riordan, is a classic on my PES5 adventures.
@Flipper the Priest is he supposed to be an amazing footballer? Because for me, he always is, for some reason, though he is not phenomenal early on. Additionally, I still had enough in the bank to bring in Francesco Coco, an overpaid italian footballer who I will try to rehabilitate, plus one of the cheapest players in this game, an Italian sideback who is good enough to be a substitute but despite his unimpressive statsheet, he should be worth more than he is. The fact he has the same name as a phenomenal drummer who used to be a member of Pearl Jam had no influence on my decision. Finally, I got another player who I believe could be more expensive than he really is, an Iranian attacker name Bogodani: an underrated combination of high speed, dribbling and heading stats.
I thought my transfer market adventure was over but I...drum roll...get an offer from the CPU (!!!
@Madmac79, the Gods are going wild); Arsenal wants to trade Gilberto Silva for Marchionni. At first I laughed, but then, it kind of made sense. Gilberto is an ageing, expensive footballer; Marchionni was one of my best players and he is still young - plus, he was on a 5-year, cheaper contract. As I wasn't able to replace Fabio Simplicio on the CMF position, and despite his high salary, Gilberto was the ideal acquisition for Parma. I accepted it and gotten our first star player. After this deal, I can still spend a few hundred PES points without going bankrupt so I once again bought a young, cheap player, Portuguese striker Veine. He isn't impressive in any way, but because he has many stats over 70, I think I can utilize him as a jack-of-all-trades on my rather tight roster. Of course the "desenrascanço" master had to be Portuguese...
GK: Lupatelli, Barbosa, De Lucia
CBs: Bonera, Joy Raisun, Coda
SBs: Coco, Camara; Bettarini, Abruzzese
CMFs: Grella, Gilberto Silva, Savi, Dessena
SMFs: Bresciano, Schweinsteiger, Rosina, Rebecchi
CFs: Pazzini, Riordan, Bogodani, Sorrentino
Jack Di Tutti I Lavori: Veine
My financial backer my inspiration Xi Jinping is not happy with this transfer market; I didn't acquire a single Chinese footballer - after getting Joy Raisun previously, who is almost always a starter (because he actually plays well, not because of any other reasons...) - so now he's closed the PES Points faucet, meaning I will have to actually earn the survival of this team by winning matches on this SuperLeague. I currently have about 220 PES, the team's salary (though I reduced it in about 2000 PES) is...11000. Wish me luck. If things don't go as planned, I will have to get another Chinese footballer mid-season.