Just listened to the latest podcast. Interesting but i have mixed feelings.
First of all IMO the game is better wjen not played on the hardest setting.
Secondly, and perhaps my main point. It seems you guys only play with the superstar teams: i hear you guys talking about Barcelona, Man United, Liverpool, Italy and other superstar teams. IMO PES is better when you play with lesser teams. At the moment i'm having a blast playing a league with Atalanta.
Personally i prefer to play a league above the ML which is still broken to me (allow to play without team spirit and i play ML again, team spirit is a good idea, but at the moment it's impact is ridiculous. At the beginning of a ML all teams should have average team spirit (but roughly the same). And then your team spirit should increase the more you play and even more if you have decent results. Teams that transfer too much player should have lower team spirit.
I agree with you about variation in in the level of assisted passing (this is broken too). Fascinating discussion about the tactics of the game...yes the current tactics are a significant backwards from the tactics in the PS2 days. It should be possible to direct individual players like in the PS2 days or like a system like PES2011.
Oh and a minor point of critic: please tell this one guy to stop using "fucking" every other word(or nearly), it's not funny, itbecomes very boring and he sounds like a 12 year old...i have nothing against the use of expletives but (almost) every other word it becomes something like a plea for street crediblity from an altar boy...not very convincing. But this is a very minor point.