Hint:
Easy money: Set the value of all your players on the left half of the squad
screen as £99.999 million, and five of those on the right as the same.
Then, set the sixth as about £45 to 50 million and go to
"Finances". You should be able to take out a loan at about
negative £640 million. Do this and immediately repay the loan. You should
end up with about £95 million to spend. This can be repeated as often as
desired, but very rarely your money will reset to zero and you will have
to do it again.
Hint:
Player placement: The game has a problem with full-backs and central midfielders
-- it makes them play awful. To get round this, play your full-backs
further wide than they start, cancel their passes to the wingers, and give
them forward runs and early crossing instructions. Play a 4-5-1 formation
with one central midfielder just in front of the back 4, and two just
behind the striker (level with the wingers). Play one with high vision
(70+) on the left and one with high shooting (80+) on the right.
Hint:
Good players: A player that must be purchased no matter who you are is
Barcelona's Javier Saviola. With a sell-on clause, you can get his value
down to about £1.5 million. Play him on the left wing (although he is a
striker). Look for a player in any position with good pace and power stats
(the only important stats for a winger) and play him on the right wing.
The quality of crossing will not always be great but they will get past
their men easily, and Saviola will not run the ball out very often down
the left (unlike most wingers).
Upfront, there are a number
of quality players available. There are the obvious ones: Batistuta,
Trezeguet, Owen, Ronaldo, etc, but watch for pace, power, control and
agility in your forwards (shooting does not really matter). A good cheap
player with potential if you start a default game is 16 year old
Paraguayan F. Torres. He should have 92 on pace and about 50 on shooting.
You can get him (without sell-on) for about £140 thousand. Also, if you
can afford it, buy Pascal Zuberhuler (Leverkusen) as your goalie.
A good player for not much
money is Sammy Baumgart of Wolfsburg.
Hint:
Cheap players: Select any team, then go to the European teams. Put them into
countries. Go to the Russian teams (for example, Vogorad). Once you are in
the team, go to any player. Buy one and you will get him for a lot
cheaper. For example, a player worth £1.1 million will come down to about
£170 thousand.
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