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Same happened to me... I was totally ****..

 

This.

Saylor, Shola, Tiote and Ba all could have the strength trait, but you need 86 strength rating for that, and I know some people would disagree that all those players are that strong.

IMO they are all around that strong, but Tiote and Ba use their strength better than Shola and Saylor.

 

I don't have a clue what all this IF player and ultimate team stuff is.

Got a PS3 for Xmas with FIFA12 so just mainly been playing exhibition matches to get used to it. Not had FIFA for a few years (FIFA96 was good!).

Any hints for a novice? I can win comfortably on semi-pro but got humped 4-0 by Brazil when I played them with Spain on professional so not ready for the step up yet!

 

On the subject, here's what I've given some of our players for strength

Ba and Shola - 86 (Strength trait)
Tiote - 85
Saylor - 84 (Probably should be with the above)
Best - 82
Williamson - 81
Colo - 77

 

First few seconds into a reserves v first team friendly.

Tiote snaps Ranger, injures him and gets sent off.

 

Good

 

Wtf... Is Graham Carr on drugs or something on FM 12.. he just highly recommended Jussi Jasskelainen and Micheal Salgado...

 

Barcelona signed Jussi on mine, weird, I don't know why.

 

Spuds offered me Bale and i got them to take ranger

 

For anyone interested, my Xbox tag is MrMDog.

Started to play ultimate team last night. Most of my starting players are around the 63 region but I managed to pick up Jagielka, Saylor and Santon for a combined 1000 coins. I can more than hold my own on head to head but on UT I keep getting smashed by people who've bought ten lightning quick, skillful players. Even though they're only rated around 63 as well, they're completely humping me.

 

How much money did you pay for him, and good to offload him.

 

£10m upfront and 5% on any profit

 

Major issue with new FM games is teams seem unrealistically desperate to sign a third goalkeeper as cover.

This can lead to much hilarity, such as Romain Larrieu being the subject of a frenzied bidding war, or as happened in my game, Chelsea signing Lee Grant

 

Or like Barcelona paying nearly £4million for Carlo Cudicini (sp?) on FM 2011

 

In FM2010 and 2011 (before Krul was that good) Bayern used to always buy Krul off me for £6-8 million and never play him.

 

At least he is young though, I'm sure Cudicini retired two seasons in

 

Just remembered I haven't opened my free UT packs for this month. I expect they'll all be ****e as usual though.

 

On FM2010, Man City always used to buy this 40 year-old South Korean goalkeeper who I don't think I ever saw get a game

One useful benefit of this is if they buy someone useless and stick him in the reserves you can try to get them on loan. My promotion to the Championship was indebted to Matthew Gilks, the greatest goalkeeper Newcastle never played

 

Just been offered the job as GB coach for the olymics

 

There is quite a large jump in difficulty between Semi-Pro and Pro, EA failed a bit there. In order to get used to it you should first play against 3-4 star teams, so you dont keep getting trounced 4-0 etc., as it will put you off that difficulty. As you slowly improve your playing you can up the star level of the teams you play against. Starting against Brazil on Pro probably wasn't the best idea!

IF just means in form, and is a set of players who have performed well in real games that week and are released in limited amounts in packs on Ultimate Team. Their stats are slightly higher and therefore worth a bit more.