After great first season Hull City struggle to find the right tactics. Can you help?

[thecreamiest]

I am 6 games into my second season as Hull City manager (playing on the latest patch) and am struggling. I had a great first season and only narrowly missed out on a European place, finishing 9th. My squad is as follows;

Gk : Boaz Myhill, Alex Smithies

Def: Cesar Azpilicueta, Asier Del Horno, Sergiy Kryvstov, Alex Hammell, Anthony Gardner, Kamil Zayatte, Ricardo Costa

Midfield: Kevin Kilbane, Richard Hughes, Jimmy Bullard, Juan Roman Riquelme, Ferrie Bodde, Ruben de la Red, Geovanni, Stephen Hunt, Diego Buonanotte

Strikers: Yannick Djalo, Javier Chevanton, Guillermo Franco

When building this squad I thought I had assembled a good mix of youth and experience, flair and grit, speed and power, and had hopes of challenging for Europe but one thing is letting me down; tactics. In the first season I experimented with 4-5-1, 4-3-3 and most successfully a 4-1-2-3-1 employing four attack minded players, but this season I cannot seem to find the right formation or tactics to win games, I am 13th after 6 games having won 2 drawn 0 lost 4 and nothing seems to be working. Any suggestions would be very much appreciated, and any players I could add or remove would be great as well. Is this squad good enough to achieve success?

 

[JAP]

Just read guides ;(

 

[bgsam1990]

My observations after trying with Bolton in the EPL (i finished 6th and 3rd in two consecutive seasons)
Firstly, you might need a physically strong forward....helps a lot in the premier league (like Kevin Davies, ALmeida etc). This is even important because Djalo is very good when played as poacher/advanced fwd and so u need a target man or deep lying creative fwd.
Your midfield is pretty good ....try a 4-5-1 tactic
Myhill (GK)
Del Horno Zayatte Gardner Costa
Bullard De La Red
Giovanni Riquelme Hunt
Djalo
And if u haven't tried the 'fluid' tactic, try it..it should work well for the squad u have. And if u can afford a physically strong target man, shift to 442 and enjoy. Hope it helped!