@Prof: Hard luck!
Hope you have better in the qualifiers.
@db: I hope Acasiete has a good leap on him - the first thing I always look for in my centre-backs is aerial ability. At the moment I'm having a hard time coming up against Mallorca when they have both Tristan and Maxi Lopez on the pitch at the same time, they eat up my defenders on crosses
. Perhaps you could pair him with Christopher Samba
Here's a bit of an update on my ML, since it has been a while. I've simply been too addicted to playing the damn thing to post about it.
I can declare the experiment a success! It has turned out to be exactly the challenge I was after. Each match is a battle, each season is a struggle to pay the wages, but so far I'm surviving and slowly getting better.
Starting Points: 1500
SEASON 1
League position:
8th (2pts)
Points remaining: 150
SEASON 2
League position:
8th (9pts)
IN: Vitolo
, Spanish midfielder, free agent.
Points remaining: 604
SEASON 3
League position:
8th (10pts)
IN: Pena
, Spanish fullback, free agent.
Points remaining: 1173
SEASON 4
League position:
7th (15pts)
IN: Navarro
, Spanish striker, free agent.
IN: Tiago
, Brazilian striker, 2275.
Points remaining: 571
SEASON 5
League position:
8th (10pts)
Points remaining: 1842
SEASON 6
League position:
7th (12pts)
IN: Notario
, Spanish goalkeeper, free agent.
IN: Serrano
, Spanish midfielder, 3000.
Points remaining: 430
I think the key thing was taking the gamble on signing Tiago at the end of season four. It left me with only 571 in the bank, but in combination with Navarro I now had a remotely competent strike-force and that was always going to be a huge boost in the task of finding the net. They didn't settle in straight away, but really came good in season six when Navarro finished as the Segunda Division's top scorer and Tiago as the leading assist man, which brought in some
very welcome extra bonus points.
Vitolo was an important signing too. At the time, he was a cheap, average, dimunitive midfielder with no club, who I only signed because he was the cheapest free agent available and I didn't have high expectations. He's since improved in leaps and bounds, a real bundle of energy in the middle of the park and a driving force on a very pedestrian team. He's become far too good for Cádiz, really. I've (sort of) been hoping a CPU team would bid but none has arrived. He's got two years left on his contract. When it runs out I'll have a decision to make whether to selfishly keep him or let him find a more appropriate stage, because he's just so far ahead of his current teammates statistically.
It's all very nice bringing in new and better players, but this is also reflected in the squad's overall salary which has now risen from 3193 to 4925, so each year the bar is raised slightly higher.
With three games to go in season seven, Cádiz stand 5th in the table and only 215 points away from matching this year's salary target, so barring a disaster this ML will reach an eighth season minimum.
Great fun, highly recommended for those with patience, and not for the easily frustrated!
. Don't forget that if anyone wants to try it themselves, my option file is still
HERE and it should simply be a case of using the PESFAN Editor to import the Default ML players across to your own option file. Just remember to insure your control pads and pets beforehand.
