Unofficial - How are you doing in Master League?

Hey all, newbie to these forums *waves*

I started masterleague over the weekend and first up made some really bad signings and blew my budget, finished 9th on professional.

So i started again with full control of the clubs finances. This time i used the 'list of targets' to sign some better players, bought a new coach, jacked up my marketing budget to 1mill (home match earnings are over 200k per game) and am currently in 1st with about 9 matches to go.

Got to the semis in FA cup and M.United pumped me 4-0 haha. Loving this ML but it can be frustrating at times just because my players can be complete morons, but when you get it right its so sweet. Really looking forward to getting promoted and I have completed every chairman challenge with about 40% support from him.

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Just reading some people are finding it hard to hold a lead as i am sometimes. My thing is if im leading and 60 mins have passed, i will knock it around till time runs out. Sure its not pretty but when you have such an ordinary squad and are desperate for a result sometimes you have to win ugly.

P.S your first signing should be the best overall keeper from the 'watch list'. Makes a hell of a difference

I can tell already that winning the league is going to be a HUGE ask, after seeing Barcelona demolish their opponents on matchday 1, 5-1! I had an impressive 3-1 victory over Real Sporting to make a good start to my managerial career. New signing Scott Parker had a good debut coming on as a sub and nearly scoring. Overall; very impressed with my team. Still need a striker though, Falcao doesn't seem to be cutting it. Negotiations with Torres and Berbatov have now broken down, however I will continue my negotiations with Hulk, Van Persie and Adebayor and hopefully one will accept.

itsame said:

Hey all, newbie to these forums *waves*


Just reading some people are finding it hard to hold a lead as i am sometimes. My thing is if im leading and 60 mins have passed, i will knock it around till time runs out. Sure its not pretty but when you have such an ordinary squad and are desperate for a result sometimes you have to win ugly.

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lol, that really cracked me up, 60minutes??? nywaze i start from 80th min.. passing around... in my new league i have won 2 games, drew a few and lost a number...lol, but i have a feeling about this new team...

how come u guys have so much money... think i'll beef up marketing next season too

list of targets is really useful for lower teams as it shows you the players that have afforable prices and salaries as well as being easy to sign - i don't care if they are old right know as enyone id better than dodo or giersen. I found ganso as a free agent and easily got him so if know one wants to move to your team, find a suitable player from your lists of targets. This list will be better if you have a better scout(or coach i think?)

yeah getting players is not my problem, i cheap old/young guys from the list, but you guys keep talking millions, and i am wondering what's going one... cause i dont have that much money initially, i usually start with 3million plus...

You'll get enough money after a good first season (plus prize money for tournaments) and a few million with new sponsors.
I spent 1million in fan-club in second season and now I get >1millon for every game at home (even more for important games, like >2million for EuroLeague games). Of course that is also related to team's and player's popularity, but if a similar effect already occurs when you spend that 1million on fan-club in first season...that would be a pretty good start for your first earned millions =) I think that's worth a try (start new "dummy" ML to test this).

Hi guys,

I have a question...is it possible to start a master league with a team that I create. I remember last time I used to create my team...I mean the name, emblem, jersey...
How to do that nowadays??? Any help much appreciated. Thanks

So i finished first in D2 and got promoted

I fucked up again though, because i had loaned about 7 players and totally forgot they were on loan.. Luckily i had about 10mill going into the new league so I signed some free agents and invested in my youth team plus new scout, doctor etc. But now my whole squad is different to the one that did so well, its my fault because i wasnt paying attention. My chairman also asked me to qualify for Europe... bloody hell!

Haven't played a game yet but i can tell its going to be a hard slog to even remain in mid table

why do you have to pay for loan transfers - the only thing you pay is their salary

Played 3 games in premier league... lost 2-0, 4-1 (to spurs, they played at ridiculous speed), then went down 2-0 in the 3rd match only to come from behind and snatch a draw in the 90th minute! Awesome

abu97 said:

why do you have to pay for loan transfers - the only thing you pay is their salary

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He never said he did. He just forgot that the players were on loan, so after the season -> 7 players gone ^^ The money was to sign new players, not to pay for those 7.

I actually have to pay a transfer fee as well when loaning players. Don't know why, but it has happened several times already. Just signed K. Asamoah and Khrin on free transfers. Really want to improve my squad for next season (hopefully i will be playing CL) Freaking Bendtner has put his renewal on hold for months now! Primadonna.
It's seriously frustrating that i can't do anything - Why can't i offer him a higher salary or goal bonus or anything to give him a new offer?
I would really like to just have the opportunity of trying to keep a player who puts renewal on hold.

tgif... weekend of pes.. hope i get promoted

Just started my master league as Coventry and thought I'd use the extra funds from extra content, was only expecting a few extra million but you get a war chest £99 billion couldn't believe it.

My Team- Mullac Fc
I'm playing in the Pes league.
Formation-4-2-3-1
Gk Petrachi 75
Rb Warjnovich 75
Cb S.Gentilett 78
Cb Schmidt 72
Lb Bauserstein 78
Dmf Shirokov 67
Dmf Pierazzi 72
Lmf E.llama 81
Amf Camacho 51 (i'm looking to sign a replacement for him anyone know any good + young attacking midfielders)
Rmf Shimzu 81 (brought up from youth team)
Cf Roux 76

On the Bench
Fatecha 70
Ordaz 66
Irjescu 54
Van der berg 52
Guiterrez 55
Hugo Leal 58


1st season I came in 17th place in D2 with all the default players.
2nd season I also came 17th place after making a few signings.
3rd season I came 3rd and got promoted to the Pes league. (I changed the difficulty and signed a few players like E.llama and Warnovich who made a huge difference)
4th season i am currently 8th in the Pes league.

(question- on the table if your in the red does that mean your going to be in the Europa league and if your in the blue the Champions league?)

Hi there, just started ML using panasinnakos on TOP PLAYER.(ps3)

To get some chanllenge,I changed league structure, so in English league some big teams like Juventus, Inter, Bayer are all there, but i cant mix up with French and Spanish teams like Barca or Lyon. Do
not know why, maybe because my PES 2012 is US version.
Just played 1st league away game with Bayer and lost 3:1.

I dont meant to rantting and whinning further more, to be honest,
I must say AI cheats and scripts like hell in that game, it could have been 6:1 as ROBBEN and GOLMES misses 3 1on1 chances.
By reading useful informations on this forum, i used HOLD UP play,
Tackling, cross and square pressure to defend, but none of them
work well, ROBBEN and RIBERRY just Dance through my backline
GODLIKE no matter what i do, if i tackle, they dodge and turn,
if use 2 players to shove and squeeze them off the ball, they just
have the ball glued to their feet as if the ball grow out of their feet,
if leave spaces to them, they just blast a long ranger. They can
always find a weak spot and strike effectivelly with pinpoint accuracy.

In PES 2012, These AI scripted BASTARD players like ROBBEN, RIBBERY, MESSI, C.RONALDO,you name it.... should all be shot and raped for 1 million times to ease PES fans indignation and anger because AI just cheat like no tomorrow to fuck gamers over with nasty scripted goals.
Some ignorant KONAMI asshole programmers just implemented the
GODDAMN AI scripting system to give all gamers a hard time and let
the game just invincible. So its called "chanllenge" which means "losing
time after time". I dont like losing and i never will.
GOTO hell KONAMI if you find this is the way to piss gamers off and
make the game f**king "entertaining", I scored fantastic goals so the
game is good and entertaining not because of AI SCRIPTING SPREE.

Guys If you want to have some understanding of what i meant,
GO TO Exhibition Match, on TOP PLAYER, change players condition
to all "RED UP", and play a away game with Barcelona by using any
team you like. After 5 games, tell me how you feel about it.

My world, this is the most frustrating and irritating PES game i have
ever played even i enjoyed scoring greatly.

My ultimate objective in ML(TOP PLAYER) is to play in CL or Eropa, and
i can beat the shit out of TEAMS like Barcelona, Inter, R.madrid and
score load of fantastic goals. But from what i got in my first lost game
with Bayer, i dont think i can achieve that in PES 12 ML unless i am very very lucky.

For KONAMI poorly designed AI cheating based game, for all lovely
PES gamers, KONAMI goooooo and f**********k yourself, sorry
for swearing, but i must let my true feeling out of my chest.

Once The Elder scrolls SKYRIM is out in NOV, i think i am gonna
play that game and give PES 2012 a rest.

Trainning regime is confusing too, after reading "about trainning" thread, it seems rotating 4 different category will get the best result, will try it out soon.

GOOD LUCK, GAMERS, LUCK WILL BE A DESICIVE FACTOR WHEN PLAYING TEAMS LIKE BARCA OR SPAIN i reckon.

try using r2 plus circle plus x(ps3) at the same time meaning you don't rush in for the tackle buy you hold up and annoy him resulting in them losing possession. also x is used to get out another player of your team to come and help you out. train on this on challenge mode defence which was what i did and if you can get silver, even bronze then you are the master of defence. it took 30mins to master which isn't a lot considering there will be many matches to come.

Also about the cheating scripts, try unlocking superstar difficulty from extra content as that is very balanced. sure it might sound hard but it's easier than top player and like professional without cheating scripts and more tighter man-marking.This is probably because superstar wasn't intended for ml so it has no cheating scripts.

abu97 said:

try using r2 plus circle plus x(ps3) at the same time meaning you don't rush in for the tackle buy you hold up and annoy him resulting in them losing possession. also x is used to get out another player of your team to come and help you out. train on this on challenge mode defence which was what i did and if you can get silver, even bronze then you are the master of defence. it took 30mins to master which isn't a lot considering there will be many matches to come.

Also about the cheating scripts, try unlocking superstar difficulty from extra content as that is very balanced. sure it might sound hard but it's easier than top player and like professional without cheating scripts and more tighter man-marking.This is probably because superstar wasn't intended for ml so it has no cheating scripts.

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are u sure about superstar? cause i am close to having my ass kicked out... but managing to get some draws and stuff... the problem is my players just dont score... and have very weak shots...
i'll check it out later

CallumS said:

My Team- Mullac Fc


(question- on the table if your in the red does that mean your going to be in the Europa league and if your in the blue the Champions league?)

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Yes it certainly does.
So i accidently overwrote my ML with my BAL league. I was completely frustrated, but now i unlocked superstar and started over again.
It actually feels much more balanced now. I can win using FC Copenhagen and defence is waaay more easy now i think. Also no more crazy comebacks from cpu when i'm 3-0 up in the 80th minute, and best of all they don't seem to score on every f***ing free kick i conceede.
Has anyone else switched to superstar after playing on top player and noticed these differences?

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