Long story short I have yet to start this save; my STEAM account got hacked and am (im)patiently waiting for it to be unlocked, which has given me a lot of time to read a lot of threads on here, as well as other sites, as I plan out this save and provide a detailed story of it on the site.
First off, I will be using LFC Marshall's newest update for this. I am looking to takeover in June, and using the editor I am contemplating placing Danilo and Alex Sandro back on the squad. My reasoning was that I would not have sold these players, and this is something I usually do when starting a save, though its a bit 'gamey' in this situation as Danilo signed before June (31 March 2015), though the Alex Sandro signing happened in August and placing him back on the squad is appropriate, so let me know how you feel about that.
My goal for the save is to sell most of the first team, to afford myself the largest transfer budget as I have a large number of players I am looking to bring in. As I cant open Football Manager at the moment, this is where I need the help from you members; which players on Porto (preferably LFC Marshall's latest transfer update) are homegrown and for the Portuguese league (this is my first time playing it) how many players must I have that are either 'trained at club' and 'homegrown'?
As a guideline for this save and story, I will be starting off by stating something along the lines of; "FC Porto are looking to shed the title of a selling club, and looking to seriously contend year in and year out for the Champions League and improving the reputation of domestic football in Portugal." The transfer budget is set to around 20 million from what Ive read, still debating whether to up it to maybe 35-40, due to the success of making huge profits on players in the past decade. With the sale of players such as Brahimi, Herrera, Imbula, Martins Indi, Osvaldo and a few others, I am hoping to have around 90 million in the kitty.
Now for the fun part, and this is where I will require and consider your input, which players do I bring in. Here is a short(kinda) list of players I am considering (the values are rough and taken from what I have read fellow FM'ers getting these players for):
Nathan - 6.5M (AMC/MC)
Balanta - 9M (DC)
Lucas Romero - 9M (MC/DMC)
Malcom - 17M (ST/AML)
Barbosa - 8.5M [+Agent] (ST/AMC/AMR)
Tielemans - 14.5M (MC/AMC)
= 64.5M (rough estimate)
The bolded players are ones I have purchased in my only other FM15 save with Barca and who were brilliant and the first I will be looking to pursue. This second list is a mix of bargains and top prospects I have come across reading various stories and shortlists:
Guido Vadala - 4.9M (AMC/ST)
Matias Kranevitter - 4.5M (DMC/MC)
Tony Sanabria - 825K (ST)
Gaston Gil Romero - 6M (DMC/MC)
Andre Cubas - 5M (DMC)
Fabio Castellano - 1.3M [Release Clause] (MC/AMC/AML)
Emanuel Mamana - 5M (DC)
Sergio Diaz - 275K (ST/AML)
Luka Jovic - 1.86M [Release Clause] (AML/ST)
Federico Bonazzoli - 2.3M [Release Clause] (ST)
Jesus Vallejo - 1.1M [Release Clause] (DC/DMC)
=38.9M
This puts me at 103 Million, but I will be scouting all these players and won't be signing all of them, thus the rough estimate of needing around 90 Million. Also, I will be looking to add in clauses, future fees and so on, if I am finding myself a bit short of funds. The final list, are players who are a bit more expensive who I also am very interested in:
Breel Embolo - ??? (AMC/ST)
Gerson - 10M (Maybe)
Carlos - 15M (Maybe)
Kenedy - 15M (Maybe)
Carlos Fierro - 6M (Maybe)
My list is attacker heavy, along with central mids, and I can use suggestions for fullbacks and keepers, though I am now looking at adding Joel Pereira as perhaps my future keeper. I am looking to build this squad around primarily South American and Portuguese players, and because their is a severe lack of Portuguese wonderkids, I will be looking to bring up the next 'Golden Generation' through my youth system.
I will also add that current Porto players Ruben Neves, Andre Silva and Quintero are all in my plans. Thanks for reading this long post, and helping me out with further suggestions on players, how to improve this save, and so on. I really want to put forth an enjoyable story for all of you to read once I get FM back.
Cheers,
Pebsykid.
First off, I will be using LFC Marshall's newest update for this. I am looking to takeover in June, and using the editor I am contemplating placing Danilo and Alex Sandro back on the squad. My reasoning was that I would not have sold these players, and this is something I usually do when starting a save, though its a bit 'gamey' in this situation as Danilo signed before June (31 March 2015), though the Alex Sandro signing happened in August and placing him back on the squad is appropriate, so let me know how you feel about that.
My goal for the save is to sell most of the first team, to afford myself the largest transfer budget as I have a large number of players I am looking to bring in. As I cant open Football Manager at the moment, this is where I need the help from you members; which players on Porto (preferably LFC Marshall's latest transfer update) are homegrown and for the Portuguese league (this is my first time playing it) how many players must I have that are either 'trained at club' and 'homegrown'?
As a guideline for this save and story, I will be starting off by stating something along the lines of; "FC Porto are looking to shed the title of a selling club, and looking to seriously contend year in and year out for the Champions League and improving the reputation of domestic football in Portugal." The transfer budget is set to around 20 million from what Ive read, still debating whether to up it to maybe 35-40, due to the success of making huge profits on players in the past decade. With the sale of players such as Brahimi, Herrera, Imbula, Martins Indi, Osvaldo and a few others, I am hoping to have around 90 million in the kitty.
Now for the fun part, and this is where I will require and consider your input, which players do I bring in. Here is a short(kinda) list of players I am considering (the values are rough and taken from what I have read fellow FM'ers getting these players for):
Nathan - 6.5M (AMC/MC)
Balanta - 9M (DC)
Lucas Romero - 9M (MC/DMC)
Malcom - 17M (ST/AML)
Barbosa - 8.5M [+Agent] (ST/AMC/AMR)
Tielemans - 14.5M (MC/AMC)
= 64.5M (rough estimate)
The bolded players are ones I have purchased in my only other FM15 save with Barca and who were brilliant and the first I will be looking to pursue. This second list is a mix of bargains and top prospects I have come across reading various stories and shortlists:
Guido Vadala - 4.9M (AMC/ST)
Matias Kranevitter - 4.5M (DMC/MC)
Tony Sanabria - 825K (ST)
Gaston Gil Romero - 6M (DMC/MC)
Andre Cubas - 5M (DMC)
Fabio Castellano - 1.3M [Release Clause] (MC/AMC/AML)
Emanuel Mamana - 5M (DC)
Sergio Diaz - 275K (ST/AML)
Luka Jovic - 1.86M [Release Clause] (AML/ST)
Federico Bonazzoli - 2.3M [Release Clause] (ST)
Jesus Vallejo - 1.1M [Release Clause] (DC/DMC)
=38.9M
This puts me at 103 Million, but I will be scouting all these players and won't be signing all of them, thus the rough estimate of needing around 90 Million. Also, I will be looking to add in clauses, future fees and so on, if I am finding myself a bit short of funds. The final list, are players who are a bit more expensive who I also am very interested in:
Breel Embolo - ??? (AMC/ST)
Gerson - 10M (Maybe)
Carlos - 15M (Maybe)
Kenedy - 15M (Maybe)
Carlos Fierro - 6M (Maybe)
My list is attacker heavy, along with central mids, and I can use suggestions for fullbacks and keepers, though I am now looking at adding Joel Pereira as perhaps my future keeper. I am looking to build this squad around primarily South American and Portuguese players, and because their is a severe lack of Portuguese wonderkids, I will be looking to bring up the next 'Golden Generation' through my youth system.
I will also add that current Porto players Ruben Neves, Andre Silva and Quintero are all in my plans. Thanks for reading this long post, and helping me out with further suggestions on players, how to improve this save, and so on. I really want to put forth an enjoyable story for all of you to read once I get FM back.
Cheers,
Pebsykid.
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