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Boston UnitedSquad revolution before the 9th season
Dear readers, be prepared for the long post! I has finished rebuilding Boston squad before the 9th season of the story. The season will be the 2nd one in the Premier League for our “Blue Square North League team”.
Loss of Marcelinho
Marcelinho became the best Boston player of the debut PL season. I was not surprised receiving the largest amount of offers exactly regarding him. Boston chairman has been accepting all the offers and I has been cancelling them during few weeks until… Huddersfield made the minimum fee release clause:
I could only view the offer without opportunity to cancel it. This is how I lost my leader of defence, very prospective Brazilian player 
I understood I should work even harder during the upcoming transfer window.
Transfer money and wage budget
The board gave me quite high transfer budget and low wage budget. Though it’s much better than $220K before the previous season.
Players Out
I said ‘Bye’ to many non-first squad players. The most of them can defined into 2 groups: High wage and Too old.
High wage
- Kyle Bartley (DC)
- Ryan Mason (MC, ST)
- Walid Atta (DR, DC)
- Christoph Leitgeb (MC). Though his is 33 years old as well.
Too old
- Jeffrey Altheer (DR)
- Kalifa Cisse (DC, DMC)
- Marc Tierney (DL)
It’s also necessary to single out the profitable loan of Ross Barkley.
Players In
How do you like this list? 
The long one! It contains 19 players. Surely there are several promising youngsters who were instantly moved to Boston Reserves. But the majority will be used in the main squad.
I won’t emphasize on every player, just want to describe for you Top 10 Boston transfers.
1. Robson (MC) - $110K
This super-talent was found in Slavia Prague. And you see that low amount of money I paid… Hope this wonderkid will become a Boston leader, hope I’ll be able to keep him happy in the squad for many seasons. Fortunately, he has no minimum release clause fee in the contract.
2. Esteban Stivan (SC) - $7M
It’s my attempt to find a great forward for Boston United. Esteban Stivas is only 18 years old! Looks like another wonderkid for my club 
Pay attention that my offer beat the offers of Barcelona, Atletico Madrid and Independiente.
3. Adama Soumaoro (DC) - $3.9M - Great return!
I decided to replace Marcelinho with central back who became the best Boston player 3 years ago being on loan in our team. I know Adama Soumaoro very well that should help to decrease risks of putting new weak DC in the first squad.
Though it’s clearly that better central defender has to be found in the next season to increase reliability of the last line.
4. Ben Powell (DMC/MC/DC) - $2.4M
Promising midfielder from Manchester United. Powell’s speed is awesome for central midfielder!
5. Mike Okoduwa (AMR/MC) - Loan fee $525K
Mike Okoduwa is quick and non-typical player whom I going to use on the right flank. Highly determined, speedy and having fine technical level. Hope his Tackling will help to hassle opponent’s pressing.
I like loaning Arsenal talents 
6. Emmanuel Adebayor (SC) - Free!
I am fan of Arsenal in the real life. Therefore I could not reject myself in signing Emma Adebayor. Moreover, he agreed on very average wage.
7. Mohamed Sissoko (DMC/MC) - Free!
Another awesome Boston newcomer! It’s well known that Momo is very tough ball tackler. The only shortcoming is his speed.
8. Gary Deegan (MC) - Free!
Experienced Irish central midfielder with great mental skills. I will use Gary as substitution player for Robson on MRC position with Advanced Playmaker role.
9. Jeff Holland (AML) - Loan fee $120K
Quick and decent left winger. Seems like he’ll start the first matches from a substitution bench.
10. Emmanuele Terranova (DC, DR) - $1.2M
Experienced Terranova is my attempt to increase depth of the squad in defence. He can play as central and right back having decent attribute values for the both positions.
Boston finances after the transfers
Now please look what financial situation I have after all.
Wage budget:
Very close to the wage limit. The board rejected to increase it ignoring my request.
General finances:
$12M unspent! It’s the money I can use in winter fixing up my transfer mistakes. You know normally I make them
Facilities:
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Author: Vitaliy Mokosiy
Playing Football Manager since 1996. Blogging about it since 2007.
Creator of FM Crowd.
some great looking prospects! your looking a lot stronger than last year! liking the look of your new stadium as well! good luck!
Kris17_lufc,
this year my target is getting into Top 12.
great post :)
Your squad looks a LOT stronger than last year. I especially like Robson & Sissoko combo. One is the brain and other is the muscle. If the squad blends qiuckly you could even challenge for Uefa league. Or at least be a force in one of the cups. You certainly have the required depth to do so. Best of luck in the next season!!
Nice revolution of the squad, many good signings. But i do not understand the signing of Adebayor. He does not look that good? How many stars does your assistant give?
Because of the good balance in your club you should try to upgrade the facilities of Boston Utd. In the Premier league you should at least have good training facilities :D
much much better team than last seasons.. still, i'm afraid adebayor will just be another balotelli..
how do you actually find new talents? do you send scouts to a country or league or just randomly search through the clubs?
good luck, vitaliy...
i'm very sure u'll comfortably avoid relegation this season..
Great transfers, hope you will get the top half finish. What did you do with Aguirre ? Have you bought him ?
how about aguirre?sign him then
I just wanna ask some question.
1) how you find youngsters? Use filtering or scout?
2) If use scout, how many stars they rate for that youngsters?
Mihovil,
I doubt this squad is able to fight for Europa League place. Premier League teams are very strong in the 9th season...
Chris,
my assistant states that Adebayor is the best Attacker in the team!
po7,
nothing really special about the scouting. Read Scouting section in my FM 2011 tips and hints. I just spend much time to scout players. Normally a summer transfer window takes 5-6 pure hours.
SYLENTm,
I decided to let him go back to Man City. Aguirre wasn't so good as I expected.
Mohamad Ridhwan Ruslan,
I use filtering, scouting, manual visiting of national U21 teams (and scouting), taking look at dream teams of different tournaments....
Nice looking revolution again Vitaliy. The squad looks pretty strong compairing last seasons team :) I like your signings as Arsenal fan too. Good talents and great stars like Adebayor and Sissoko.
I hope that losing Marcelinho won´t hurt your defence much. Hope you can finish top-10 next season.
how do you cancel offers when your chairman had accepted the bids from various club offers?
excellent article! i just discovered your blog and I'll keep reading it! but please answer Kevin's question which is interesting
Kelvin,
you can cancel such offers going to Transfer Centre (Transfers tab). There you can select the transfer accepted by chairman and then cancel it click the corresponding button
@ Vitaliy great method. same what i use right now :)
Would like to ask a few questions:
1) How would you rate the current Chelsea team
2) What league are Barnsley in
3) what team does juan manuel vargas play for
thanks
Hello Vitaliy. As always, a fantastic read, one of the, if not the best, FM Blog around. When you can, would be so kind as to post a screenshot of Newcastle United squad? Also, a plug for my FMT logos, which can be found at www.fm-base.co.uk.
Keep up the superb work :)
Jor1994,
1) Chelsea is the club #4 or 5 in the Premier League of the 9th Football Manager season.
2) Barnsley is in the League 1
3) Juan Manuel Vargas is still Fiorentina player being 35 years old
StuW,
I have already prepared Newcastle screen shot for the next post.
Hello friend. I have a doubt. How can I print image in FM11?
Did you try offering improved contract to Marcelinho or you just let him leave?
rtestasb,
you can do it in Windowed mode only. Press Alt+Enter if you are in Full Screen.
Then use Alt+Print Screen hotkey to get a screenshot
Mix,
I wasn't in time to offer new contract because he had already agreed on minimal release clause offer...
Your squad looks a lot different than the squad from the last year. If they gel properly i think that you can reach the Top 10 don't you think? I'm sad that Marcelinho is gone but for that ammount of money i guess that you can get other player that will make you forget him :P What are your real expectations for this year btw?
Good luck cheers
PTD1995,
my main expectation is building new stable core of the team that will be used in the next season. Top 13 is the most realistic result as for me.