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Leeds transfers during winter of season #5

Posted: 18 May 2010 10:13 AM PDT

Today's post will be devoted to transfers of Leeds and other clubs in my Football Manager 2010 story completely.

 

Leeds have sold the following players

Sold Buonanotte, Carroll, Nilsson... 

Don't be wondered too much. I've just decided to provide financial strategy of wage decrease by sale of players who are not successful in my team. Additionally I looked through wages and understood that getting rid of Buonanotte, Carroll and Nilsson would save around $150K monthly.

It was very sad to say goodbye Buonanotte who became a legend of Hull in my Football Manager 2009 story. His problem was the fact that he had always been out of position in Leeds. On the player position screen bright green one circle is only at AMC – the position that I have no in my tactics. Therefore he didn't manage to flow in to Leeds team play.

Andy Carroll was the most contradictory and discussed transfer before Leeds start in Premier League. I still wouldn't say it was a total fail because sometimes Andy had truly excellent series of matches. And he became the best Leeds goal scorer in the last season. But now it's no sense to use him because I have better players in attack. Leeds fans are upset with the transfer:

Fans upset to loose Andy Carroll

Everything is simple regarding Nillsson. He is the most weak defender in the team. Too many mistakes from his side made me really angry. Fortunately I managed to sell him for $4M.

Mendizov is one of those youngsters-regens who didn't develop to good player of Leeds first team level. This is the reason why he was sold.

 

Leeds have bought 2 experienced defenders

Leeds: +Carvalho, +Johnson

I decided to increase depth of Leeds defence because I had few matches when most main defenders where injured and I should use young guys from U21 team instead. Two experienced central defenders were bought:

Ricardo Carvalho

Ricardo Carvalho in Football Manager 2010

Old but still usable central defender. His experience and nice defensive attributes may help sometimes. The most weak side of Ricardo is his speed.

Roger Johnson

Roger Johnson in Football Manager 2010

Former leader of Birmingham was quite desired guy for my team just because he is:

- Cheap bargain

- Pretty qualitative player

- Possesses English nationality

I hope to use him in the first squad instead of Van Buyten whose age became 36!

 

I didn't want to sign more players because squad harmony is really important in this stage of the season if I want to achieve position allowing to player in Europe League.

 

Transfers you asked me to show

In the end there are 3 screen shots of transfers in my game that someone of you asked:

Transfers of July 2013, FM 2010 

Transfers of August 2013, FM 2010

Transfers of January 2014, FM 2010

Hope it was interesting for you to read this post Happy


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