mascherano, sivok, wendel, blasi, palombo

try nigel de jong
he's pretty versatile

i personally bought felipe, vanden borre, de jong
felipe more suited as a DC imo
i have woodgate and felipe as my central pairing and they are fantastic
better to play vanden borre as DR as he has great dribbling and crossing

a few others that are good are gladstone, pablo, chivu
though some of those are quite hard to get

madrid's player is filipe
the one in udinese is felipe
easy to confuse hehe
filipe isn't worth buying imo
heck i sold him for dirt cheap
but felipe on the other hand is world class

^ impressive for a 19 yr old
personally i would play him as a DC
will make a search on him myself

found him and he has good stats in my game too
the only thing that bugs me is that he is a non-eu player
and i'm already finding it hard to keep in touch with that stupid 4 players trained by club, 7 by nation rule in cl competition
luckily for me my real madrid c has produced another 17 yr old gem of a striker

my main gripe is the champions league
the rules require u to have 4 players trained by the club and 7 by any club from the same nation.
the thing is if i want to create a team with the best players i will buy them from everywhere not necessarily spain (i play real madrid)

and in spain u're only allowed a maximum of 4 non-eu players although non-eu players can get a eu passport if they stay about 3 years in the country

currently i'm just shaving it
previously i didn't have the problem coz i had a good core of spanish players like raul, casillas, salgado, helguera, etc
but once i got rid of the dead weight like raul bravo, pavon, mejia, etc it seriously got me worried. with salgado and helguera nearing retirement, my priority when the season ends is to start buying local.

i am targetting navas but i have way too many attacking players already. joaquin and vicente are too exp imo. torres...i dun need him since i have mirko vucinic

my attacking players currently are:
raul, vucinic, robinho, kerlon, ronaldo (leaving), beckham, baptista (this guy is awesome: 30 goals in 41 app as a AM), messi, sjneider, deisler, moutinho, kalou

freddy adu coming in this season on a free

speaking of wingers scoring, my current season just ended and becks has scored 23 goals

that lineup is nice lar but doesn't say much y they only finished 5th
even with a simple 4-5-1 u could do wonders with it by just tweaking players instructions
but on the other hand the AI at times suck really bad so they tend to be very inconsistent

basically there are alot of good unknowns from brazil
wat i do is i select a brazilian club and ask for scout reports of players. guaranteed to scout at least one good player

i didn't load all players from brazil as fm runs quite slw laready on my comp but theres still alot of talent to choose from.
recently scouted palmeiras and they have some really talented players as well. god brazil is like a freaking gold mine

no thx

i dont judge players based on what scouts say
i get scout reports of players that i think might be good
just to reveal those hidden stats...then i'll make my own judgement

-double post-

This post has been edited by verx: Apr 3 2006, 01:48 PM

well it's up to the player really
i play with the masking and some will choose not to
like some will choose to buy players by using a 2nd manager to accept bids
or some who choose to use fm scout or use the editor to edit certain stats
it's up to the player how he wants to play
if u remove the masking then u don't really need the in-game scouts
like if irl u know every single wonderkid out there u won't need any scouts do u heck u could be the scout that everyone wants to hire!
attribute masking is an option of realism that FM leaves to a player's discretion

roma i feel is a great team to manage as they have a good set of players that could form the backbone of the club
mexes, de rossi, and aquilani have been my targets for some time but i could never get roma to sell them

don't bother with llorente
there are much better strikers that are cheaper
try scouting for brazilian youngsters
or if u can afford it get vucinic from lecce

it's how wide your whole team plays
it u play very wide your wingers will hug the touchline for most of the game but defensively it will leave alot of space for opposition to exploit
offensively u get to stretch the opposition's defence. it's about finding the right balance for your tactic

i just signed another brazilian youngster leandro castan
great centreback who will replace the all mighty woodgate
but...too many non-eu players!