Shearer Season 5 Squad

Wow the fifth season already how time has flown. I sold my youth off didn't get much but good players don't cost much so fair play.

This is the team for season 5, I think Season 5 will go down in Jakswans history as the dawn :p For the first time my wages are sitting over £170k a day and as you can see it's a pretty serious team. Their all mature, high rep, highly skilled, strong and apart from Alonso quick.

After I had sold the youths I was thinking about who to sign and should I sign two good players or one great one. I like 4-4-2 it's good football and suits a solid team lacking in big stars. So I signed a few solid players.

GK - Gorka has been the teams keeper since Season One, he's not brilliant but pretty safe. I think he might move end of this season as I have a lock on him.
DR - Osorio currently keeping Ansaldi out of the team, 31 years old very solid and safe nothing too fancy.
DL - Filipe very good player 26 now and just coming into his prime, quick strong great mentals, could become world famous he's that good.
DC - Berra scottish Centre Back who's safe doesn't take prisoners and actually current captain, 27 years old and coming into his prime.
DC - David Luiz ok yes is the real deal this is the problem with young players though at 22 you could see he had everything that would allow him to become a good player but still young so didn't boss games. 25 Next Season and I'm expecting a lot otherwise he's out.
MR - Ashkan, crazy isn't it how attached you get to something in a databse somewhere. He is immense at times he lacks breathtaking pace if he had that he's Household name material but a fine player none the less 26 this coming season and continues to improve.
ML - Gimmy signed him when his wage demand was £2,500 a classic late devolper, shows what age can do, in the same bracket as Ashkan only a tad more consistent, at 31 still getting better!
MC - Diba I wanted solid and he's that a good footballer and at 29 has enough experiance to provide consistency.
MC - Alonso the first mega name at the Jaksi his rep is only high profile but he is the player this team is built around, more on Alonso later.
FC - Wendell pace & power great player but at 21 terribly hit and miss, the runs of form get longer and the runs of poor form shorter. 24 this coming season and threating to gain world famous rep.
FC - Paulo Roberto got early rep very quick with some nice technical ability still very young but has pace and some decent technicals.

WWFan who's a pretty fine expert and co authored the superb FM Britians TTF was in a form and talking about 4-5-1 and how it wasn't actually overpowered just that teams didn't try to combat it. It works in FM Live as you can patch over a few weak spots in the middle if you have a great striker. A lot of teams try to play high and just overwhealm the middle.

So I've read up on TTF and we seem to play as a better unit. I've then used WWFan's advice. I've made the pict hbigger, I play with more width and deeper, Alonso is the playmaker.

As every player now is very solid it should allow use to play to our strengths as it's 1v1 across the pitch not 5 scrapping around in the middle of the park.

Invariably with these settings Alonso has space and his passing is divine! So if teams try to counter this by playing high and restricting our passing pure football game then Alonso is more than capable of knocking a 60 yd through ball to really damage the oppoistion.