You have taken them personally? Wish I were taking ours, not likely while I play for Kevin Nolan Wanderers. To be honest he's probably one of our best players, he weighs in with a few goals. Some of the others are shockingly bad, horrible passers or just run in to opposition defenders. Was getting sick of Matty Taylor until he banged in a belter, Cohen gets frustrating as well.

Yeah it seems a bit random as to who it selects to take them midgame. One or two were in penalty shootouts but bar one that I blazed over the bar the rest have been saved :mad:

Bloody annoying since it's normally me who wins them (and not by diving :p)

After half a season at Chelsea (where I scored once from LWF) I had offers from Man Utd, AC Milan and Real Madrid.

Figured I'd stick with Chelsea for now rather than return to the training matches at a new club. Wish they'd play me in the centre or even upfront now my stats have improved.

Was tempted to move to PSG in January but I looked at the team and noticed that they were playing 4-5-1 as well so I thought I'd stick with Bolton. We don't lose many games but draw a lot against the good and not so good. Can draw one week against Liverpool and then the next against Hull. Thought we were going to draw 0-0 at home to Man Utd when I got subbed off. Kevin Nolan then proceeds to assault the Man Utd defence skipping passed about five of them and blasting an unstoppable shot into the top corner. I think we are about 8th or 9th in the league and I'm 5th top scorer in the league.

Really into the game, would play it loads more if I could. Try to keep it down to an hour at night at most though. Most satisfying performance last night was against Newcastle away. They took a two goal lead in the first half. In the second I pulled one back with a fine finish past a distraught Shay Given and the that crazy Argentinian with a perm scored an own goal to gift us a 2-2 draw.

Team selection is crazy at times. Walker tends to play more than Jaskelainen, Walker has this annoying habbit of playing the ball short to the nearest man in times of defensive danger. Cohen continues to be played even though when Muamba plays the odd time he is a much better and adds more to the attack. Get it sorted Megson!!

FUCK this is pissing me off!

Before I used to get about 75 mins on the pitch per match, now I keep getting subbed on about 55 and not because I'm fatigued. It's also not that I'm playing poorly as I always have one of the highest ratings for the team.

I just scored in back to back games and now I don't start the next game. And all this whilst Chelsea can't get a win. We're like 11th-13th in the league!!

Go into the options and set "Manager AI" from "Retard" to "Intelligent". :shifty:

I tend to get subbed at around 70-80 minutes, then they tend to change to a 4-4-2 formation. Unbelievable.

Last night I put us in the lead against Arsenal in the cup, subbed me off on about 75 minutes. Arsenal then equalise and I have to sit through extra time and penalties which Arsenal won :(

Eight games left until the end of the season, might possibly get into Europe but I'm seriously considering leaving at the end of the season if any decent offers come in.

I'm at about 13 Goals in 22 games or something like that, still in the running for top goalscorer. Need to up my game a bit and by that I mean bolton need to attack more :mad:

What's your average rating Mackem? With that kind of ratio you should get some decent teams come in for you.

Won the UEFA Cup with Villarreal :D

Lost the first leg of the semis at home to Fiorentina 3-1 :o but won the away leg 4-1 :eek: and then beat Milan in the final 3-0. Scored in each of those games, finished top scorer for the competition :)

Signed for Real in the summer. Not going that great, defence is still shipping goals as usual and I've not quite broken the rotation yet so I can still end up on the bench game to game. Scored a few though.

Finished the season - 30 appearances 16 goals. Needed to get the hell out of Bolton because for every good game I had there would be about three or four which were almost write offs because the team barely attacked.

Had a few offers from teams like Bologna, Napoli, Deportivo, St Etienne, Hull but the one that stuck out was Roda JC from the Netherlands. They play an adventurous 4-3-3 formation. I came on half way through the second half in the first match against Feyenoord a goal down. After a few minutes, the coach changed to 4-2-4. Makes a big difference from always playing in a 4-5-1 formation at Bolton. Scored my first goal in my second appearance as a half time sub. Hope to break the top three in Holland with this team.

I would have went ot the other teams but I think Hull might have been frustrating in respect to creating goals, Bologna and Napoli didn't have as good a midfield as Roda JC. Deportivo play 4-5-1 which I had no interest in, the choice was between St Etienne and Roda JC really.

I'm not sure what my average rating was last year. Funny thing was at a point I saved the game and simmed the last eight games to see what happpened at the end of the season and I eneded up in the league eleven. When i actually went back and played the games, I didn't. Was getting too many 5.5 ratings at Bolton when they weren't creating much, the better games I could easily get 7.0 - 8.0, they just weren't very regular.

By the end of the first season, all my stats had improved by four points from the first game.

Season 6 = Best season for me yet.

CHELSEA

• Scored 12 goals in all competitions from Centre Mid (and LWF sometimes).
• We won the "FA Cup" beating Everton 1 - 0 in final (taking my personal record in finals against Everton to 2 wins, 1 loss).
• Beat Man Utd 4 times (including Cup Semi Final) with me scoring in two games.
• Drew too many league games finishing 8th overall - although one more win would have put is in Euro Qualification spots.
• Knocked out of "Champions League" in Group Stages (proper not qualification ones).
• Knocked out of "UEFA Cup" by Lyon (who were also in my CL group!?) in first match.

My average rating was around 6.50 with 12 Man of the Match performances. I didn't get in the Euro or World teams even though I was Chelsea's top scorer for the season. Think this was my second highest average rating - the highest one coming when I won the award for Top Assister and got into both Euro and World teams.


ENGLAND

• Got my first International start against Turkey on the opening group game of the "World Cup".
• Should have bagged a hat trick in 2nd game against South Africa but missed oppurtunity to get 1st goal for England.
• Debut goal for England in 1 - 0 win over Peru to top the group.
• Beat Hungary 2 - 0 in first KO stage.
• Beat France 4 -1 in Quarters.
• Beat Spain 2 -1 in Semi having gone 1 down on 32mins we scored in stoppage time at the end of the 90 then a goal on 95 in Extra Time holding out for win and a place in Final.
• Beat Italy 5 - 3 on penalties after 0 - 0 draw. Of course I was subbed so didn't have a penalty to take.

TRANSFERS

Received offers from West Brom, Man Utd, Lyon, AC Milan and ASTON VILLA. I was very tempted to go to Villa as I'm a Villa fan IRL and they did finish above us. Decided to stick with Chelsea as I've only been there a season and a half.

I hope to move abroad in a few years and then return to England with Villa (or vice versa). Proviging I'm still doing well I guess.
My average rating for the season was around 6.50. Oddly enough though I wasn't selected for the Euro/World teams as I was when I was top assister a few seasons ago.

In case you were wondering.

You better believe if I get an offer from Sunderland, I'm going :D

Do many other transfers occur around you in the game? Say if you are at a club for a few seasons and are doing well, for instance take a crap team the the league title, europwe etc, do they bring in quality players?

I remember Bolton brought in one or two people at the start of last season but nobody really noteworthy.

Transfers are ludicrous tbh.

There are so many players that have switched between the "Big Four" that just wouldn't happen. Reina and Fabregas to Utd are prime examples. Beckham plays for Fulham, Gerrard has gone to somewhere like Torino, Everton have Mountinho.

Chelsea had Owen when I arrived and have signed Vicente (who I must be keeping out of the team) and Nani just joined in the last window - as well as other less well known faces over the years.

Basically there are loads of transfers that just wouldn't realistically take place.

Also, I've had offers from Sunderland since the first season - even when I was playing for their biggest rival.

My first three offers were from Bolton, Newcastle and West Ham. Shame that 'Newcastle were not 'Sunderland' instead :(

Anyone know what features aren't on the PS2 version? I've read that the Champions League stuff isn't included, but this career mode sounds pretty sweet, was wondering if it was on the PS2.

Yeah the Champions League isn't on it apart from that I wouldn't know except the obvious better graphics. I've read some people commenting on that PS2 has better gameplay but I haven't played it on any of the next gen consoles.

I had 2008 on PS2 and just this BAL mode alone makes it a massive improvement on last year's.

Hit a really good vein of form. Seems I'm a bit like Rooney in that sense :o

Knocked Barca out of the Spanish Cup, put together a decent run in the league to climb to 5th (including walloping Santander 7-1 - scored 4, assisted 2, still only got an 8 :|) and scraped through to the champions league 1/4 finals after coming back from 2-0 down to beat Osasuna 3-2. Got Fiorentina up next, they should be scared after what I did to them last time :D

Getting a bit sick of some of my team-mates though. Drenthe can run fast and that's about it. Raul only passes to certain players. Robinho would rather try to dribble past 5 players than lay a pass square. And Sergio Ramos, when he's not giving the guy he's marking 10 yards to work in, 70% or more of the time when he tries to tackle gives away a penalty or a free kick on the edge of the box. Unreal.

Still, am up to 15 goals and 4 assists at the halfway point. Did think about signing for Valencia but World Cup 2014 will be at the end of the season and I don't want to be fighting David Villa to get into the team.

Don't get me started on team mates, some of them are the thickest idiots ever :mad:

Anyway still going with Roda JC, might have made a mistake joining them as they aren't too good. However we are into January and sitting in 9th or 10th which is about the same place Bolton finished last season. If we can improve by a few places I'll be happy. Strangely, it's not really Ajax, PSV, and Feyenoord that are the difficult teams in this league it's Heereven, FC Twente NEC etc who are hard to play against. I think the rest of the team raise their game against the bigger clubs.

Got high hopes for the cup, through to the second round - I think we have a chance.

Not really scoring many goals this year, I think I have about 7, but my all round game has improved :cool:

I'm not 100% but I'm pretty sure european games count as 'bigger' games and so you get more experience bonus if you play well in them. Try and finish top 6 and you'll get into the champions league qualifying round :y:

Is it odd that I enjoy coming here to read how everyone is doing in their careers?

Also, I was thinking of jumping up to 10 minute games cos I ened up with too many 0 - 0 draws playing at 5 minutes. How long do you guys play per game?

10 minutes, in my third season at the moment.
Playing with Fulham, seem to have some bad luck in front of goal but I've got the top assists in the league at the moment.
Andy Johnson is the worst guy to ever play up front with, he regularly doesn't pass and shoots from rubbish positions.
But we're through to the champs league group stages so I'll stay till the end of season.

Yeah ten minutes here as well. I dread to think how little of the ball I would see with five minutes.

Well I switched to 5 mins when I was stuck in the reserve games. Nothing worse than pointlessly running round for a full 10 minutes. Now my stats are better and I actually get passed to I think I'll up the time.

LOL

First 10 minute game and I bag my first brace and then hat trick in a 4 - 0 win over Spurs. Then we went on to a classic versus Man Utd.

Kept up what is becoming a tradition by scoring at "Old Trafford". Rooney equalised before Hargreaves was red carded for bringing me down just outside the area. Corini made it 2 - 1 with the freekick. Man U were then given a penalty that Fabregas blazed wide. Rooney eventually got a second equaliser before I set Essien up to make it 3 - 2. United still had time to hit the post before the final whistle.

Gotta say, I love 10 minute games!!

Added a further 4 goals for the season taking my tally to 8 goals from 5 games (since moving to 10mins)/7 games for the season.

However, I'm still on 'Normal' (or whatever the middle one is - wish they'd just stuck with the star system) guess I'll step if I do ridiculously well this season.

Just won a copy of this for £15 + £1.50 p&p on ebay...can't wait for it to turn up!!!

I wish they'd fix the netcode on this. How can I have a laggy 1 v 1 game on this and have a completely smooth 10v10 game on FIFA? :(

I have this on PS3 now. I will fight anyone on it.

I think I'm proper addicted to BEL mode. Was up til 3.30 last night finishing the season off :o

Won the league, just, by 2 points over Barca, and won the Champions League, beating Arsenal 4-1 in the final (avec hattrick) :cool: Joint top scorer for that one too. I was miles behind in the pachichi rankings though, going to have to work on that - finished with 29 goals and 9 assists for the season in all competitions.

Then won the World Cup :D Scored 8 goals, still didn't get top scorer due to Trezeguet hitting 9 :mad: 1 x Canada, 4 x Egypt, 2 x Romania, 1 x South Africa. Beating up the little teams :cool:

Had an offer from Milan to move but they play a strange 4-5-1 / 4-3-3 hybrid and have tons of strikers already, so going to stay at Real for a bit longer.

Sounds like a good season for you MMM. You're not the only one who finds himself playing at ridiculous 'o' clock.

Didn't have a good rating for last season despite scoring so many goals so I'm concentrating on playing better for the team this year. Averaging about 7.2 at the moment, 3 goals and 5 assists from 7 games :D

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LEAGUE - Winners
Great start, took a huge lead over the rest of the pack until Arsenal caught me. Slipped to 2nd before fighting to a 13 point lead at the top. Once again started to slip. Man U went ahead of me on goal difference - for one week. Won the league by 5 points.

19 Goals / 6 Assists


LEAGUE CUP - Semi-Finalists
Beat Villa (3-0 agg) and Liverpool (5-1 agg) before being knocked out on away goals to Everton (1-1).

4 Goals / 0 Assists


EUROPEAN MASTERS CUP - Winners
Beat Spurs (5-1 agg), Fiorentina (2-1 agg), Marseille (5-1 agg) and lastly Man Utd (1-0) where I got the winner.

4 Goals / 2 Assists



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EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP QUALIFIERS
6 Matches / 4 Goals / 0 Assists
Qualified top of group.


A decent season overall. Started really well but the goals seemed to dry up towards the latter stages. Still fucked off with some team mates/squad selections.


CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS
Offers from Chelsea (q), Torino, Portsmouth, Hull, Marseille (q), Barcelona, Villareal and Arsenal (q).

Would go to one of the Spanish teams but they didn't qualify for the "Champions League" so I'll stay at Chelsea another year I think. See if I can't add a CL medal to my League Cup (x2), League and Masters Cup medals.

European Footballer of the Year :cool:

Well finished my season with Roda JC. Helped them up to 7th even though they were a worse team collectively than Bolton. Got into the League team. Scored 10 from 30 games. Was considering staying with Roda JC even though they managed to get worse in the new season. Then came an offer that was too good to refuse. 3 games in, Dutch tactical genius Steve McClaren comes in with an offer to play for FC Twente. They were already top of the league with 9 points as well so off I went!

They play a 4-5-1 formation but it feels a lot better than Bolton's and Roda JC's 4-3-3 come 4-5-1. At the end of November right now and have 8 goals and am at an average of 6.9. Second top goalscorer and second best player as it stands. Roy Makaay is ahead of me on both fronts but then there's no real shame in being second to him. 4 points clear at the top of the league.

Do you get offers throughout the season when playing abroad?

Does anyone honestly buy these games for the single player? :nono:

I was getting them until the end of August or September, then the transfer window closed.

World Footballer of the Year :cool:

And Jabba Pro Evo is almost unplayable online, of course we buy it for solo play :nono:

The good thing about single player on this Pro Evo is that you don't know what the AI is going to do when you are playing on the same team.

2008 and 2009 PES are terrible online.

Be a Legend is the only thing PES really has going for it anymore. 10 v 10 FIFA 09 games are great, either when people take it serious and keep their position, or if it's chaos and everyones ball following like a schoolboy match :D

Jabba: You ain't playing this on PC though, are ya?

Good. The PC version is severely gimped

Finally my copy for the 360 has turned up...gonna spend all night on this.

I agree in part with what Jabba is saying, however, as a gamer that isn't online I have to stick to playing the AI. Although there is nothing better than getting a few of the boys together for a proper one-on-one rampage.

Mind you, Become A Legend offers enough for the single player this year.

Gave the game some hammer and then went on BAL mode.

Playing as a second striker and scored in my scouted game with two assists and then signed for Pompey.

Oh man, level with Makaay on 17 goals right now, a hat-trick last night for me made it very interesting.

Also the cup competitions have started. In the semi final of the FA Cup equivalent and into the second stage of the UEFA cup like tournament. Funnily enough I was dropped to the bench for the start of both tournaments. We got past Espanyol after I came off the bench and scored two and now it's on to Seville.

What difficulty do you guys play Be a Legend on?

I'm still on the 'Normal' level. Why the fuck did they do away with the star system anyway!?

I'm finding it ridiculously easy on normal on Be a Legend mode. For example, after five games, I've found myself in the starting squad for England.

I owned FIFA 09 for a few weeks, and so far, prefer that to Pro Evo. I'm not a fanboy, having more or less alternated between the two for about 10 years now, but this year, Pro Evo seems to be missing something.

I'm going to give it a couple more weeks.

Is that 5 games for your club or 5 games for England?

If it's the later then I'm not suprised tbh. I think you get automatically drafted into the national side at a certain point.

No, after five games for my club, I was selected for an international qualifier for England against Slovakia.

Only gay people play Pro Evo on single player on anything other than Top Player or 6 stars.

4 games left and I'm top scorer with 20 while Makaay has 18. Top of the league with a 2 point lead over PSV. Got knocked out of Europe by Seville, got knocked out of the Dutch Cup by Ajax even though I put us 1-0 up, I got subbed on about 75mins, then they scored two :mad: Hoping that winning the league and being top scorer will make up for it. Scored 50 league goals now in my third season which I'm quite happy with considering some of the crap teams I was playing in.

Fixed :p

Won the league and was top scorer, decided that I needed to move on as I couldn't really do much more in that team. Moved to Italy to play for Fiorentina, a few games into the season and we are top and unbeaten. Joint second top scorer, Fiorentina are in the Champions League type tournament so it's all good, first match is up next.

Finished 2nd season at Real, won the league and was named Liga Player of the Year. However, lost the Champions League final when, after going 2-1 up against Man U on 79 minutes, the manager subbed me and changed to 4-3-3 :mad: We ended up losing 3-2 in extra time :rant:

It pissed me off enough to want a change, so I left Real after having scored 55 in 104 appearances (not bad, IMO). I am now at Juve, 2nd in Serie A and through to the proper group stages of Champions League with no problem. Currently joint capocannonieri also. Team isn't quite as good as I was hoping, I have to say, but not bad. Quaresma is awful, Adebayor is turd. Balotelli and Amauri are good to play alongside though.

Who's your favorite player in this game? Mine is probably Sergio Aguerro super skills and has the knack of putting the ball in the top corner from 20-25 yards, after a few seasons of master league most of his stats are 90+

Finished the season at Juve with 37 goals and 11 assists :cool: Won Serie A, lost to Man U in the Champions League final, AGAIN :mad: this time on penalties. Got tired of Juve being terrible so signed for Chelsea, who are actually WORSE. We're 2nd in the league but got knocked out in the groups stages of the Champions League :$ UEFA Cup ftw.

Also am now 3-time World & European Player of the Year :cool: :cool: :cool:

I'm sort of switching between my BAL at Fiorentina and Master League with Sunderland. I can't compete with MMM's achievements :(

Chelsea are shit, I signed for Man U in January. First game start on the bench, we go 2-0 down to Boro, I come on after 55 and we win 7-3 :cool:!!

Playing it on 1 star I bet.

:roll:

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LEAGUE - Winners
Took us over half a season to get to top spot, pretty much held on to it from there. Retained the league by 11 points.

80 Pts / W 25 / D 5 / L 8 / F 64 / A 28

20 Goals / 10 Assists

Top Scorer
Team of the Season Member
Player of the Season


LEAGUE CUP - Winners
R1: v Man Utd (2-0 / 2-4)
QF: v Liverpool (4-0 / 1-1)
SF: v Arsenal (1-1 / 2-1)
Final: v Newcastle (2-0)

2 Goals / 3 Assists (Top Assister)


EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP - Winners
Don't remember the Group Stage.
QF: v Real Madrid (1-2 / 3-2)
SF: v Arsenal (2-0 / 0-0)
Final: v Juvetus (2-0)

5 Goals / 0 Assists


OVERALL 27 Goals / 13 Assists / 6.82 Average Rating / 22 Man of the Match Awards / 9 MIP Awards



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EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS
Disaster.

1st Game: v Serbia: Sent off for 2 yellows in a 2-0 loss.
2nd Game: v Germany: Ended 0-0
3rd Game: v Turkey: Returned to team with 2 assists in a 3-0 win over Group winners Turkey. Sadly not enough to get us through, lost out to Germany on Goals Scored.

2 Games / 0 Goals / 2 Assists


CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS
Offers from Chelsea, Villa, Liverpool, Monaco, Lyon, Boro and...

I signed for A.C. Milan.

Just started a career, got offers from Newcastle, Bolton and West Ham, went to West Ham and played pretty well in my first 3 games off the bench (including making my debut playing towards the Kop) got a start against Wigan where I tackled a midfielder from kick off and smashed one in from about 40 yards, before getting a second with a header.

Only scored 2 others aside from those (about 11 games in) I keep getting dropped because of the fitness levels and always taken off, its unbelievably annoying.

Oddly, the only striker I enjoy playing up front with is Tristan, Cole is fucking shit and Ashton is the most selfish player I've ever seen.

Who knows where it'll go though, how quickly do stats shoot up?

I still get taken off around the 70 minute mark and I'm the leagues best player! Reeeeeaaaaaaaaaaly frustrating.

Almost as frustating as the AI for team selection. Drogba comes into team, scores twice, dropped for Owen, who scores, dropped for Dembele, who is shit. Ryan Babel got a start as CF from nowhere in one of the Cup Finals - he did score a beauty though.

Which in turn isn't as frustrating as your team mates inability to put a decent cross in from open play. I beat the RB/LB and provide crosses at least 5 times per game, if I've run centrally the cross never comes.

Made Wolves and am attempting to get them in the 'Premier League'. The only players of theirs that I could find were Berra, Quashie and Keogh(sp?). Rest of the team are decent(ish) players of championship level.

Keogh is up front witt David Connolly. Quashi is in centre midfield with Grant Leadbitter. Keith Gillespie on the right wing, Hunt on the left. Defence are a few crap players and the goalkeeper is Northern Irish.

It's hard going but I'll get them there. Keogh is a bit crap mind.

Are you even playing on 3 star

YES FFS

Hennessey may/should be in the game. Kevin Foley as well? :-\

Don't remember seeing them...anyway they will not fit in with the Wolves domination plan anyway :D

LOL that Wolves game failed when I overstretched their budget with a rookie error.

Anyway, I'm actually still play this game on BAL.

I'm a centre forward who started with Bolton but left at the end of a frustrating 4-5-1 formation to go to the Dutch League with Roda JC. They were playing what I thought was an attacking 4-3-3 formation which was actually 4-5-1 under another name so I sacked that for the best opportunity I could muster which was Twente who had qualified for the Champions League equivalent. Won the title with them and was top scorer and it was off to Italy to play for Fiorentina. Great season there where we were runners up in Serie A I believe (top scorer again) and we finished runners up in the Champions League. After this season I got picked for England to play in what I think was the Euro championships IIRC. We won and I was top scorer, it was really easy that after playing in a not overly creative Fiorentina side.

Went to Athletico Madrid who had beat Fiorentina in the Champions league final just to try the Spanish league out...it was a bit tough and took a while to get going and couldn't quite catch up to Barca and Real Madrid and ended 3rd, went out of the Champions League in the semi finals and wasn't top scorer in any of the competitions although not far off. Spain kinda sucked and after the season with Athletico Madrid I could pick where I wanted to go and had decided before the end of the season I was going back to England a hero. Picked Man Utd because they were ranked number one although in hindsight Chelsea might have a better team. Scored a blinder debut goal, probably the best I've scored so I saved it haha. Anyway won the league just, as Liverpool didn't win in their last game of the season, finished as the assist king (first time ever) but was two off Vela from getting the top scorer in the league. The bastards dropped me completely for the Champions League final and we got beat off Barca but I was still in the Euro Team of the year (another first).

Into the second season with Man Utd then and we're 6 league games in, last game was a classic with Chelsea. Both teams had won their first five and we went to Stamford Bridge. I was benched for the game but came on at the start of the second half on the left wing. Essien scored on 60 minutes but I was running my little legs off and started drifting into the centre forward positions. The manager decided to bring on Berbatov who I've rarely seen play in two seasons. The ball was bouncing about in the box and Berbatov played me in a bit wide of the goal, instead of going for the shot I turned 360 degrees and put him in for an easy finish on 86 minutes. I was quite happy with that until the normally useless Modric went on a run on the right and timed a cross along the floor straight onto my foot for an easy tap in, in injury time. Good times, felt like one of those 'special Man Utd moments'. Yeah fuck the new games I've still got a promising career to fulfill here.

The team can be annoying though. I was regulary playing with Tevez last season as Rooney was barely given a chance and ended up on the wing, seems to be playing more central this season. No Giggs, Scholes etc so the team had Modric and Park in the centre for a lot of last season who could both be extremely frustrating. Ronaldo isn't as good as when you play against him. He constantly turns for no apparent reason and loses the ball, Nani is ok but Giovinco is who I like to play with out on the wing the most. Defence is solid but there are like three keepers who they rotate around, Foster, Turner and that young foreign lad they have.

Want to get all the top acheivements before seeing if I can lift Sunderland into greatness, if they put an offer in.

Damn, looking back in this topic, I started this game around this time last year