@Madmac79 how and why. I would
never subject myself to the pain of PES 5/6 default team again. This is pure masochism. I admire the courage, but at the same time intense flashbacks in my head make me wanna hide in a wardrobe and never come out until those default team cunts just go away and never return.
It's really not easy. It left some scars in me you know what I mean.

Thanks God they ain't as terrible in PES 3.
Speaking of PES3, I got through that play-off thing and it was lovely to be honest. Quickly disposed of Museumplein and Prague (1:0 each, they were USELESS), but Longobardi got their revenge and won our final match. I think I consider them my rivals now since we've had tons of intense games and they're good but I am better and I will prove it every single time.
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Master League rivalries. You don't need no shitty mechanics for this when you can make'em up in yer own head
Anyway we Eastern League Division 1 now, I was all over the place during negotiations. Sold a lot of people, managed to get a few. Damn why does even Świerczewski have such a great stats, I don't remember him being this good. Whatever, he's my CMF and Captain now. Grand Hetman-Ataman Field Marshall of the Commonwealth, if you will. Managed to grab few other guys here, four (i can math) Poles (GK Kuszczak, CB/DMF Bąk, SMF Dawidowski, CF Wichniarek), a Magyar (SMF Low), and Ukrainian OMF Serebrennikov. It's not bad! Made tons of monies off Minanda and Espimas ass so I went into new season with 20k in the bank already. I will be making signings, tons of them in the new season and Chivu is my goal #1.
Also bumped up difficulty to four stars, might go to five in a few games gotta see how things pan out.
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Played three opening games so far and damn we have rough calendar at the start. First, title defenders - grand Ruhr themselves. I have noticed our teamwork took a huge dip after exchanging entire squad and it was showing. We were all over the place and lost 0:1. Next game against Weser - another tough team - and we were leading for almost entire game thanks to Vladdi Boi's quick thenking in the box but Świerczewski horribly misplaced a pass in the back late in the game and Ailton impaled us. Still, we got a point.
Commonwealth's historical victory in Div1 came in third game against Westfalen. First Świerczewski finished off team's nice passing play with a top corner bombshot, and then in the second half his corner kick pass thing got perfectly finished off by Wichniarek's head. Westfalen pushed, and damn they pushed hard, but to no avail, and we win.
I don't know what to expect, would love to grab 6th place and take part in WEFA comps next season but who knows what will happen?
I have to commend PES 3 even more. Had some crazy funny stuff happen in last games, like Prague's GK just slide tackle and bring Munteanu down in 1v1 (yellow card only!) and other random silliness. It just makes the game feel so much more human. Random errors, weird ass situations, things that just happen in real football all the time.
One lovely thing I've noticed now is that goalies aren't just invincible in the air as in PES 5/6. Had tons of situations where they got pushed back or couldn't reach the ball at all. Makes for a much more chaotic, and that always means fun corner and free kicks, I find myself trying to lob the ball inside the box more often since it can produce something, if not a goal then at least I might get a good laugh off it
Quite the opposite than current-gen PES, but why bother? Miss me with that 4k shite, i have Rekordmeister and Longobardi to beat!