Well, my squad is looking pretty good from a longterm perspective, whilst we may not have as many known potential superstars as some teams and the majority of players I have are very young (even at U21 level) the backbone to the side is in place. These guys will now become the core of my team, some are already at a good level, others still need time to develop, but I expect every one of them to become Legends at the club.
GK – Lukasz Fabianski – Arsenal – 23 Years Old.
The young goalkeeper had been at various clubs on trial before we decided to stump up the cash to buy him, there where other clubs bidding for him and in the end it was my £20,000 deal that won his signature. Whilst out at the other clubs he performed very well, but unfortunately when stuck behind my teams in-experienced defence he didn’t quite reach the level of performance he’d reach at other top clubs. Still, at just 23 with bags of potential I’m sure he’ll be an important member of the club for years to come.
DC – Martín Cáceres – Barcelona – 21 Years Old.
The most expensive free agent signing for the club is young centreback Caceres, who we paid £500,000 for in a wage auction. Another player who has been in and out of clubs on trial, until joining us. Immediately after signing for The Warriors he was shipped out on loan for a week so that his performances wouldn’t be lost on such a youthful side, now that hes back in my team with other members of the elite five around him he should prosper. Would you believe it though that he is the top scorer in the official AFA league!
DMC – Sunny – Valencia – 20 Years Old.
The last player to be brought in as a long term investment for the club was Sunny, already a fully developed defensive midfielder with his own touch of class via his many player preferred moves, he was the player at the top of my hit list. The deal to sign him did take awhile, and also increased in fee. In the end he cost my team a record transfer fee of £700,000, with a 65% future fee. As I didn’t have that amount of money to pay cash up front, me and the other club set up an instalment plan, this was in the form of a £300,000 deposit and then the rest (£400k) one week later.
MC/AMC – Maríin Gálvan – Cruz Azul - 16 Years Old.
Ah, where do we start with this kid? Snapped up stupidly cheaply in a wage auction, the surprise was the amount he’s contracted for, wages of just £4,501! I’d already been tipped off about this youngster after reading a article involving Miles Jacobsen (MD of SI) on the Sky Sports website, Miles believes this kid is set for stardom in the near future. A quick look at him and most people wouldn’t think much of him, but that’s true he’s by no means the finished article, yet. As anyone with FM09 may have noticed he is the youngest member of the -10 Club, putting him up there with Pato, Bojan, Anderson in terms of Potential. At my club we have several squads of different ages, I’ve put Galvan in the lowest one (U17 Squad) as I don’t want to break him in to fast, slow and steady is the way forward for him.
FC – Adrián – Deportivo – 20 Years Old.
The spearhead of my team, who is one of the most valuable players at my team with a market value of £1.3million! Right now he looks ok for a striker, but hes not scoring that frequently, which is understandable with a lad so you, im sure once hes got a few seasons of senior football under his belt he’ll be ready and raring to go. He does hold what I think of as the key to any FML Striker, and that is Acceleration, Pace, Dribbling and the all important, Determination. If you look at any of the top strikers in FML they will all have three of those four characteristics.
Theres also a lot of emerging talent in the rest of my team, Striker Terry Dixon the former Spurs youth is improving nicely, attacking midfielder Christian Mendéz is pushing himself into my first team as a regular now and hes only 18, defender Leandro Molina has so many green arrows I think the drug testers will be wanting a word with him soon, Majd Younis my left back isn’t improving as much as id hoped but he is developing steadily, but probably the biggest surprise is André Augusto da Silva…
Just 15 years old and Silva already looks good and has plenty of green arrows, not bad for a regen, the biggest shocker came this morning when I got a training mail which said…
Your coaching staff have indicated that Brazilian midfield playmaker André Augusto da Silva, spurred on by your cutting edge coaching, has been showing remarkable improvements recently.
Their report went on to indicate they feel he is ready for regular first team football and are delighted that you share this view and are featuring him regularly.
…they want me to give him REGULAR first team football!? At 15 years old!? Wow! Maybe Galvan is gonna have someone to pair up with in the heart of my midfield, or will it turn into a Lampard-Gerrard partnership? When all these youngsters start needing senior locks it locks like im gonna have some hard choices of who to keep and who to sell on.
