Well the first thing to say is thank you very much for your detailed reply!!!
Much appreciated Madmac79 👍
I completely agree with you on PES 2012 and PES 2013!
I downloaded both, simmed a match between City and QPR and it was an absolute joy to see a player like Taarabt do his tricks, even in his own midfield! The diffrence between Silva and Wright-Phillips was ultra evident!
And I really enjoyed watching these games.
But here's the problem (because there is always a "but"...): I don't care about the current or recent seasons, I want to play (or coach) with teams from the '90.
And I didn't find any retro '90 season for PES 2012 and 2013... Only an historical retro one but I'm not into that.
Is there something related to these titles? Is it just me who hasn't found what I was looking for?
So I discovered that PES 6 has various retro '90 season mods.
I downloaded this great one by Vasovic
https://evoweb.uk/threads/pes6-fifa-96-patch-95-96-finished-euro-version-version-latina.91387/
I think it has a modded gameplay because the matches are very fun to watch (or maybe 'cause I come from that utterly crap called PES 2021

).
But even a "God Mode" stats Ronaldo hesitates to dribble past his opponents... Strikers do the "stop, pass backward and run forward" bs too much for my tastes.
Is there a gameplay editor or anything that can be used to edit the gameplay?
I'll take your suggestion about PES 5. I saw some '90 patches for it, time to take a look!
Just one last question about "Pes 2008 (both PS2 and the infamous PC edition, which I personally completely revalued)".
I think I din't play it when it was released but for everyone, the PC version is terrible.
May I ask why you have reevaluated it?