The glaring hole in the squad is up top the three strikers in the team are incredibly poor, so your limited transfer budget should focus on signing someone there. The well-travelled Juande is another player along the same lines, but he can do a very decent job as a defensive mid, as can Isaias. When you start, he is transfer listed though, so you may be better off removing him from there pronto. Javi Lopez, ex-Espanyol legend is the star player in the rest of the squad, with the ability to play at either right-back or right-mid. The central midfielder isn't a world beater by any means, but to set yourself a harder challenge in a league where you're predicted to finish mid-table, you can convert Josh Cavallo into the first name on your teamsheet. Who's Josh Cavallo? Well he's the only openly gay footballer in a top league right now. What does draw us towards them, and hopefully you too, is that Josh Cavallo plays for them. 32-year olds Ricky Miller and Ben Williamson can play up top and on the right wing respectively, but aside from that? The squad is threadbare, so this challenge is not for the faint hearted.Īlright, there's actually nothing particularly interesting about Adelaide United other than the fact the A-League often goes unloved in Football Manager. You may lose him at the end of the season when he returns to his parent club but for at least the first year, any hope you have of not being relegated to the Vanarama South will rest on his shoulders. Able to play pretty much anywhere on the pitch but excelling in the middle of the park is Henry Woods, 21-year-old star on loan from Gillingham. This means you're four wins behind any of the other clubs in the division, and you're 500-1 to win the league. Putting aside the non-existent transfer kitty and the fact the club is already spending the entirety of the £8k wage budget, managing Dover Athletic in FM22 comes with a huge caveat: the club has a -12 points deduction. When your contracted players aren't up to the same standard as the few loanees you have, you face an uphill battle to bring your squad up to scratch.Ī much longer-term save here with Dover Athletic, a team in the Vanarama National, also known as the second-to-bottom tier of English football (that is playable in Football Manager 2022). So at the end of the season, you'll need to replace your star striker, along with your best right back in the form of Mitchell Weiser, because he's also on loan but from Bayer Leverkusen. A natural advanced forward with impressive physical and on-the-ball stats, he's not actually owned by your club he's on loan from Dijon FCO in Ligue 2.

When it comes to the Werder Bremen squad, the most interesting player is Roger Assale. While they're one of the favourites to bounce straight back up to the top, when you get them there you've got to tackle the mighty Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund, and RB Leipzig. Bundesliga for the first time in 40 years last season, which means they have a breadth of history behind them and an iconic legacy to restore. Over in the German leagues, do you fancy taking a once great team back to the top? Werder Bremen got relegated to the 2. What's even better is that the board only want a top half finish so it gives you a few years to develop the young stars before the board demand silverware. You may face the issues of players like Mbappe and Messi not wanting to join Newcastle United, but that sort of transfer budget offers so much manoeuvrability in the transfer market that you can hunt down all of the best FM22 wonderkids and snap up whoever you like. The current Newcastle squad isn't one to be laughed at, with the likes of Allan Saint-Maximin and Callum Wilson up top, not to mention latest signing Joe Willock from Arsenal, but with a budget of £200m? You can practically buy anyone. The Toon Army has been in the news lately thanks to their financial takeover which means when it comes to money, you're sorted on all fronts.

Kicking things off is possibly an obvious choice in Newcastle United, but the dynamic they bring to Football Manager 2022 cannot be understated.

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