Season 54

[kynan]

Into the semi final of the CL, having beaten 2 teams with superior quality than me in both the knock outs. Got a team with a worse Q than me in the semi's, so expecting a T11 Trolling to come up.

With 6 games in the league to go things are starting to get interesting.



I lost to the team in 4th yesterday, while drawing with the team in 3rd the day before. The team that is now in 5th, was just below me before games played today, but I beat him 2-0 to over take him. That is how tight my league and games have been in the past 3 days.

Tomorrow I should have an easy win against the abandoned team in 14th, before I take on the team that is 1st. This guy should have run away with the league by now as he has a seriously stronger team than anyone else. He dropped to a surprise defeat to the team in 6th earlier this week, while also only drawing with the team I beat today yesterday. I hold almost no hope of getting a result against FC Krumme, but my objective was to finish top 4, so that looks really good. The teams in 1st, 3rd, 4th and 5th all have superior Q to me - the team in 1st being vastly better than the rest.

Once my game with Krumme is done I have Husni (10th), SRS (13th), Mehmet (8th) and Cakra (7th) left to play. While not thinking any of those games will be easy, compared to the run in I have had in the past week, those games are more favourable for me to get results. With this run in in mind I will now be expecting to finish 2nd - or if I manage to troll a win against Krumme, even win the league - although my expectations on that are very low.

I am then stuck with the decision on if I should improve my team for next season.



The original idea was to bring in 4 or 5 new players at the start of next season, while keeping the better players of this team for another year. However, having managed to compete so well this year it has got me wondering if I could get away with not bringing anyone new in yet again (its something I did this season - keeping the same players from the season before).

As you can see, Tokens and Money isn't an issue here as I have plenty from the farming I have been able to do over the past 6 months or so - but with farming becoming harder, as well as my free time being used for other things, I would like to think I am getting value for every single one of my Tokens. While I could quite easily go out and get 22 scouts next season, I don't intend to buy any. I'd much rather spend 10 or so Tokens on a player on the negotiations who will be a low scout after training.

If I am to buy players, I would be looking at bringing no more than 5 in. I'd also want to do it all for less than say 50 Tokens or so. Slightly under a week or so to decide what to do. I'm tempted to see how I go on in the first week of the next season and look at the situation again. My core target each season is to be promoted - with CL qualification wanted ideally too. I've never missed out on CL, but am not overly bothered if I do so. With that said, I do like keeping the consecutive record of promotions and CL going. I'm trying to weigh up if keeping this same team again will allow me to aim for CL qualification next year or not.