How's your FIFA 13 career mode going?

[RagingTrav]

Re: How's your FIFA 13 career mode going?

Leeds United, January transfer window - 2012-13

After a very bright start the season hasn't gone to plan, dropping a lot of points and currently sitting 6th with a record of 16-8-7 (56 pts) and I felt that Kenny and Ashdown were letting in too many goals. I went out and purchased Alex McCarthy from Reading (71) for 1.4m and he seems to be stopping a lot more shots in the short time he's been at the club.

Alan Tate returned to Swansea and Robbie Rogers returned from Stevenage before being released by me. Charlie Taylor was loaned to MK Dons, Dominic Poleon to Aldershot and sold Luke Varney to Ipswich for 230,000.

The rest of the squad I'm pretty happy with and believe I can still push up into the top 2 (Cardiff are sitting on 63).

First team (4-3-3 Holding)
GK A. McCarthy 71 1cs 6.8
RB S. Byram 71(+2) 3ass 9cs 6.9
CB J. Pearce 72(+3) 1g 8cs 6.6
CB T. Lees 70(+2) 8cs 1rc 6.7
LB. A. White 69(+3) 1ass 7cs 6.9
CDM I. Radovanovic 71(+4) 4g 5ass 7.0
CM R. Austin 72(+3) 6g 13ass 7.4
CM P. Green 69(+1) 3g 7ass 7.1
RW B. Emerton 63(-1) 6g 4ass 7.4
ST L. Becchio 74(+1) 21g 2ass 8.0
LW R. Hall 70(+5) 7g 8ass 7.4

D. Somma 69(+1) 6g 8.0
D. Norris 67 3ass 6.8
R. McCormack 73(+1) 9g 7ass 7.6
P. Kisnorbo 63(-2) 6cs 6.7
N. Turner 63(+6) 1g 6.1
L. Turner 53(+1) 2cs 5.5
E. Diouf 71 2g 4ass 6.8

Obviously my aim for the remainder of the season will be to get promoted, but I also hope to go on a bit of a run in the FA Cup to raise some revenue as well as being able to get games into some of the younger fringe players.

[MrOctober430]

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Finished my 4th season, 3rd full at United

That's nothing. Should see my Liverpool CM. Numbers are freezing the game.

I just signed Neymar for $52,000,000.

My strikers are now consisted of; LW Neymar, C Suarez, RW L. Velazquez (Youth). Benched Downing because he went from an 83 to an 80 over the summer break. 30 years old. Sterling will be benched as well until I can loan him or sell him.

I'm trying to buy players under 21, because some players are getting up in age. So I'd like start getting ready. Also putting some time in the Youth Academy now.

[cubsfan203]

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So I mentioned a while back about San Jose being bought buy some billionaire owners in my first season. I was browsing through available jobs, and they were on there. They have $69 million in transfer funds!!! That's insane for an MLS team. Unfortunately for them, they are sitting in last place at the moment because they haven't spent any of that since they got it. They could have the league's best team spending half of that easily.

[Get Blunted]

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That's what I'm talking about!!

I can't wait to get to level 13 (almost to level 12 now) so I can get the financial takeover for my SC Bastia career. I'm tired of $8-$5M budgets.

[cubsfan203]

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So the super ST I cheated and signed as a free agent is playing extremely well for me. He is 2nd in the MLS with 11 goals. Naturally I'm getting a bunch of offers for him. Didn't really want to let him go so I counter offered insane amounts, and then Bayern comes back with a counter offer of $26 million...

What to do, what to do....

Keep in mind this guy has improved so much he's now a 77 rated player at 19.

[PhillyPhanatic]

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Having a blast in my Bradford City career. Bringing them back into the EPL is a harder task than I thought lol. Through 12 games I'm in 7th place and only 3 points separates me from dropping to 12th. I think I actually enjoy bringing up a lower-tier team up from the bottom then just starting off right away as an EPL team

[JJT]

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Best way to do it I think. More fun earning your way there.

[Goonerish]

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Finished my 4th season, 3rd full at United

Some realistic transfers I see. You think someday they will figure out the transfer market and growth in this game? Unbelievable and very lame.

[gerg1234]

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Mo said awhile back that FIFA13 wasn't his realistic game. He plays it for domination. He said Football Manager was his real deal addiction.

[Goonerish]

Re: How's your FIFA 13 career mode going?

Mo said awhile back that FIFA13 wasn't his realistic game. He plays it for domination. He said Football Manager was his real deal addiction.

Oh I see. Thanks, didn't know. Well he is definitely dominating.
Curious about who the 1 draw was.

[blkout]

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I've spent way too much time reading this thread lol, may aswell post my own game..

I've got a game going with Santos at the moment. The plan was to hang onto Neymar until I had a possible replacement coming through the youth academy and sell him for nothing less than $50 million. That lasted until the end of the first season, where I had both a player in the youth academy who could replace him (Emilio Jardim - 61-65 OVR, 87-93 POT 14 year old CAM/CM/CF) and got a $50.5 million offer from Real Madrid. Sucked to sell him but it made no sense to keep him.

Short summary; season one
- Sold Ganso to Juventus, bought Denilson to replace him
- Bought Dede
- Finished 3rd, Neymar and Andre #1 and #2 in the league in goals
- Denilson finishes #1 in assists

Off-Season
- Sold Neymar to Real Madrid for $50.5 million
- Sold Denilson to Udinese for $10 million

The problem I had was figuring out what to do with all the Neymar money. I try to keep things somewhat realistic so I thought bringing Brazilians back to Brazil made the most sense. My defense was hugely shaky until Dede came along last season so I tried to fix that..

- Replaced Denilson with Casemiro
- Bought Danilo for $8.5 million
- Bought Alex Sandro for $8 million
- Bought Rever for $3.6 million

Replacing Neymar was hard, I picked up Deulofeu from Barca B as a direct positional replacement, and bought Robinho for $9.9 million to try and replace his goalscoring. I thought it was kinda cool to bring Robinho back to Santos for a couple of years until Jardim is old enough to come into the squad. Also picked up Adryan because I remember him getting really good in another game I had going.

Still have $20 million left but I don't think I'll spend it.

[Mo]

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Mo said awhile back that FIFA13 wasn't his realistic game. He plays it for domination. He said Football Manager was his real deal addiction.

Correct.

Oh I see. Thanks, didn't know. Well he is definitely dominating.
Curious about who the 1 draw was.

Everton. I took an early lead, they counter with two goals in the first half. Threw the kitchen sink at them and finally nab the equalizer in the 88th minute(Or around there, memory of that is fuzzy, just knew it was real late in the game)

[Bgrd1080]

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Starting a career with AS Monaco. They were bought but a Russian billionaire in real life so used the financial takeover. I have brought in Neymar and Tello that left me with about 6 million to play with. I'm going to just scout players for the rest of year 1 however. I eventually want Monaco to be competing against PSG in another 3-4 years.

So I sent Tello back after the season long loan. A tremendous talent but wasn't fitting my strategy. We signed Traore in the January window and he was tremendous at the striker position with Neymar feeding him the crosses. I'm about to start my 2nd season now and Inter have offered 30 million for Traore. I think I'm going to have to accept that and bring in the extra funds as I only have about 9 million to work with in the new season. There are rumours Neymar is unsettled and PSG have offered 67 million for Neymar but I really don't want to let him go. I still have lots of work to do with this team and am hoping for a mid table finish in our 1st season back in France's top league.

[AwCoconuts]

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I started my career mode with Arsenal and I am currently in the first January transfer window.

Szczesny

Sagna----------Koscielny----------Vermaeleen----------Criscito

Dzagoev----------Wilshere----------J. Rodriguez

----------(CAM)----------

Podolski----------Giroud

Summer

I bought Dzagoev for €8,500,000, Criscito for €6,000,000 and Arshavin, and J. Rodriguez for €20,000,000 and Gervinho. I paid too much for James, but I sold a lot of dead wood to make up for it.

January
I sold Santi Cazorla to Real Madrid for €42,000,000 and almost got Luis Suarez for 15 M, but Bayern Munich acted like a douche and got him. I want to buy a CAM and a striker with good heading ability and at least 80 speed and acceleration. Giroud isn't working for me. I have €40m to spend for the CAM and the striker. Any Ideas?

[CyanideSmile]

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I have recently started a return to glory career mode with Portsmouth FC.

Playing on professional as I am not good enough to move to World Class yet..
I used the financial takeover to see how it would go and am currently really enjoying it still undefeated in 10 games and am clear by 9 points ALREADY!! I am contemplating moving up to World Class...

I have completely overhauled the team bringing in Lucas Piazon, Nathan Ake, Marvell Wynne, Tom Carroll, Tonny Vilhena, Adryan and Yassine Benzia to name a few.

I will keep you guys updated and post a full team soon.
Any help/advice would be much appreaciated

Thanks,
CyanideSmile