Official ML Stories Thread

[ozzie66]

Well as long as everybody is telling their master leagues stories. First of all i dont have my memory card so i cant save (my stupid friend has got it). I started of with Real Betis (match mode players). With Joaquin, Denilson and Olivera in attack i was sure that i will finish first. At first i was getting 1-0, 2-1 victories and i was first. A slumb in my attack meant that i started drawing games without scoring. So i changed it, took Fernando off the first team for Capi.

That started the scoring againg a Olivera was bagging goals in every game. Got into the finals of the Division 2 cup. Everything was gravy till the winning run ended and i started drawing again. Denilson and Joaquin were not playing that well but i stuck with them because of lack of quality personel. With 3 games to go and Sevilla 6 points behind i still could not score (damn the bastard keepers). Drew with Sevilla. Drew the next game after. Last game was against Getafe and i had to win because i could not be sure if Sevilla will draw or lose. Started the match and i won a soft penalty. Took the penalty with capi but it was saved. The late in the second half with about ten mins to go, had a shot with Olivera which was parried out to Joaquin but as i was about to slot the ball in a defender came out of nowhere and blocked it. Match finished 0-0 and Sevilla had won meaning they went top for the first time in the league (i was top throughout) and won it.

Talk about an exciting championship. Pressure and lack of Bottle for my players. Finished the league unbeaten and still finished second. Got my revenge though as i beat Sevilla in the cup in silver goal second half. Capi with a bullet header into the top corner after great work from Joaquin (1-0). Still felt empty. Quit the game as i had no memory card to save it on.

 

[S-D-P]

just won my first match in division one 3-1 against cheivo with fredy adu coming on as a second half sub to make his debut,by the way i'am juventus on 6*

 

[robz18]

im on my 3rd season of ml (i've been playin alot of the english league)i'm pes united started with normal players (castolo,minanda etc) ive only won the div 2 cup...on my 2nd season got totally bumped..went through more then half the season without losing a match..brought in a new young keeper and started leakin nuff goals ...i've brought 2 youth players ( menendes, spanish goalkeeper) and a very quick mexican (cervantes, midfield) going into my third season i had a loooooooong off season trainin' my players and also brought in saviola, a young zola & di livio....i also have d'allesandro (mid) and virota (RB) playin' in their 2nd season for me

p.s excellant start to the new season, won first 5 games averagin' 4 goals a game and top of the the league in the WEFA cup

 

[S-D-P]

who do you think will be a good replacement for montero,del piero and nedved,thinking about making a bid for chivu,cassano and van der vaart,any suggestions

 

[tomo1811]

i was playin on 2 star at the beginin hoping to get the feel for it then go to 3 star, it woe let yah afta the start of the season. i went onto win all but 1 game when i drew 1-1 considing my only goal of the season! so i get promoted sign sum player and damn it!!! forgot to change it to 3star agen and had to have another season on 2*. any who i finished second 7 points behind madrid. what happens again! im so excited wid my signing i wanna get on wid the match o shit!! i sed 2* for another season!! so im using my ml on 3* friendly to get sum competition!!

 

[mutu]

.... right

I won div 2 by beating Pompey on the very last day of the season and went past em on GD alone. In the summer break I made some quality signings, B.Mendy from PSG came in, Bellamy and Tote on free transfers and Hernandez all came in.
Started the 2nd season on fire won 5 in a row (so did Tottenham Newcastle and Man u) then drew with Utd and Blackburn then beat Arsenal (who are joint 35th with me in WEFA rankings ) so I'm joint top with Tottenham now. Milner and Rooney are both on fire again Rooney has 7 goals Milner with 5 from MC and Bellamy also has 5

And that's as far as I've got

The only default players I have left are Ivanov (GK) Edington (SB) Stromer (CB) and Matt (RM) - Can someone suggest a good LB for as cheap as possible as I don't have much cash to splash yet and that's the only area I'm having any problems really

Also the thing where you buy players in mid season and then have to pay for a whole years wages even though they've only been there a week or whatever is bullshit, Bellamy doesn't come cheap you know

 

[lateef]

I once got beaten 6 time in a row, i was playing on 5* by the way

 

[MattShez]

Low Point:

Losing second place to Bayern Leverkusen on that last say of the Season after leading them by 6 points some 3 games before. Played them away and they won 3-0! The gap became 3 points and in the last two games i drew 1-1 & 0-0! Gutted i had 2 play a whole Division 2 Season Again!

High Point:

A few seasons later i beat real madrid in the semis to set myself up for the WEFA Champoinship final, against Liverpool at Anfield! the match before i was resting my two main strikers V. Nistelrooy & Adriano so brought on Cassano against Leverkeusen. Ends up scoring a hat-trick! so he had 2 play of course! In the actual FINAL he scored the first goal in the opening few minutes, then a free kick just outside the box, cassano rolls it and C. Ronaldo buries it bottom right corner. Safe! Only problem was Cisse scored early in the second half but I won 2-1!

*BTW* The player of the tournament was Mexes at right back! For me!

 

[Paul B]

Started a master league as Ipswich yesterday. 6*

First couple of games were 0-0 stalemates before netting my first win against Istres. Took the lead through Castello, got pegged back, re-took the lead through Castello again in the second half, got pegged back before Castello stepped up to slot home a penalty down the middle 20 mins from the end to complete his hatrick. Sweet.

Went on to draw 0-0 once more and then beating Pompey 1-0 to go joint top with them. My last match was a 2-1 win over AC Ajaccio. So as it stands, I'm joint top with Portsmouth, behind them on goal difference.

W3 D3 L0 GF6 GA3 F/A3

Castello incidently is the top scorer in the league, with 4 goals.

Still can't quite fully afford the players wages

Thats my story up until now.

 

[corky2k4]

started a master league last night on 6*. Am using the default players and used all the english teams plus celtic rangers and we united(my team is pes united). Lost my first 2 games and since then i've won my next 4 an am in the semi finals of the cup. ivarov my goalie is keeping me in every game he has a red arrow nearly every match. I've only conceded 2 goals with him in the first 2 matches. After losing my first 2 games i switched to 3-4-3 all out attack amd it seems to be working for me. Am doing the conditioning training after every game and i'm picking the players with red arrows every game. Its working great for me and hopefully i'll win the league and bring in some good players. Doe any1 else use 3-4-3 on 6* with the default players???

 

[gam3r]

Ok, a week ago i started master league with the fulham match mode squad on 6* difficulty, with Andy cole as a CF and Boa morte as a LWF. The first few games i drew, then i started bringing on Radzinski for andy cole because any cole never scored...from then on radzinksi scored in every game and became top scorer at the end of the season with boa morte not too far behind him with 6 goals. Radzinski had 14.I was second in the table and 1 point behind the first team blackburn rovers. Im gonna try and rememeber who i bought in the first transfer, that was Torrado(DMF) , Nakata(OMF), Sutto(CBT), Perez(SB),Rommedahl(WF). All of these transfers were worth it they prooved their worth many times, especially Perez as LB( i could afford these players by selling some others and trades). So my team after the second transfer period was something like this:

---------Van der sar------------
Voltz(rb)----sutto(cb)---goma(cb)-----Perez(lb)
--------------------------------
---------------Torrado(dm)
------C.jensen(cm)------------------
---Rommedhl(om)-------Malbranque(cm)---
--------------------------------
---------------------Boa morte(lwf)--
-----------Radzinski(cf)-------------

After the 1st transfer period in div2, i went on to win the league tittle and get promoted. I lost in the cup final against everton 1-0( from a penatly where the keeper got sent of lol!)

SO the big off season came...i had quite a bit of cash to spend to with selling and trading of players i managed to sign a nigerian striker Utaka, Rooney, Tevez, Fabregas, Milner, Lewis(GK-only 17great stats), Kompany(cbt). I no longer had c.jensen because deportivo l.c offered my 11000 for him and i coudnt refuse.
SO at the start of the season i changed my formation around abit to accomidate my new players. So it looked something like this.

---------------Lewis/Vds--------------
Volz----Sutto----Kompany----Perez---
-------------------------------------
------------------Torrado-----------
-----------------------------------
Rommedahl-----------------Boamorte/malbranque
--------------Fabrigas-----------------
--------------------------------------
------------------------Rooney---------
-----------Radzinski-------------------

These are the subs i usually made--rooney-tevez/fabrigas-nakata/rommda-milner.

I played Utaka for the first 3 games in Div1, he proved to be a disapointment not netting any and having all around poor performaces, so i lost hope in him and he soon became my 5th choice striker. I placed rooney in for him and rooney partnered well with radzinski scoring 7 goals in the 7 games he played in. Radzinski scored at least 1 goal in all his games. Tevez came on as a sub in 5 games after the off season, but then got injured for 20weeks. A match or so before the 1str transfer period in div 1, i was standing 3rd in the table with something like won 9 drawn 2 lost 1 or something cant remember, with newcastle in 2nd and mufc in 1st(ironicly im the only team to have eated them this season). Fabregas has been good so far, his development curve is encouraging! Milner was pretty useless to me..


So then comes the first transfer peroid of division 1. Alot activity took place.i didnt have that much cash so i had to spend wisely with the routine trading and selling.

In

Morientes-trade
Vincente-trade and cash
Martins
some italian winger(cant remember name)
Robinhio-free
emevson (cant spell it)

Out--ill try to remember
Some CBT from original fulham
Malbranque
mcbride
utaka
Milner

So after This transfer period, my formation stayed the same but with vincente on the LW instead of malbranque.
After the transfer period, rooney got called up for international duty so i decided to take morientes for a test drive in a match. I played the 45mins with him and radzinski and i was kinda disapointed because hes sluggish, but i know ill get good out of him. I also tried out Robinhio in OMF and he was good, but not as good as i expected. im disapointed at his development becuase i read somewhere that he develops alot and he doesnt. So after half time, i subbed on martins to play, and he scored on ghis debut!!! he's had a bright start and i think he will do good for the club. I also played the 17 year old goal keeper instead of van der sar and he is doing VERY good, his stats are going up fast and hes already got good stats!

Hope you've enjoyed reading this ill update it later when i play some more. gosh this is a long post lol ;P

Thx!

 

[mutu]

Milner out? Are you mad

Great signings in there I'll have to check up on Perez, how much did you get him for?

 

[GE]

I started my Master League Yesterday, with my own team 'ATL Braveheartz' on 4* ive played 4 games so far, i won them all 1-0 ....well thats all ive got to say for now.

 

[sinashgh]

Started a master league season with Newcastle (real players) last night and i'm already 18 matches into the league.

I didn't start off well because i had over-estimated the squad to be honest. After a good set of games i realized this team doesn't have many ESTABLISHED good players like van Nistelrooy and stars but a lot of GOOD DESCENT young talent that will become a star one day like Milner, Jenas and others.

Also the depth of squad wasn't good and this showed after several matches and injuries and fatigue because all my players outside of first 11 fitted on the bench!!!!! this tells you that you have a small squad because if you play as Inter or someone, you notice you have several players who won't even fit on the bench.

anyways, Dyer was disappointing and with Milner, Ambrose and Bowyer occassionally playing on right wing, he really didn't have a first team spot and was disappointing everytime he played as well, he's also one to be always injuried so i traded him for Marcus Assuncao (Betis for those who don't know) because he can take a FREEKICK better than anyone (97) and i needed a good freekick taker as Robert was benched half the time because of fatigue and no one else in the team could take one, i also needed him to just add to depth of squad.

I haven't had a good FIRST-choice striker in my team right now, for first half of the season i simply played whoever did good last game or had a nice red arrow and not fatigued, that means all 4 strikers (Bellamy, Shearer, Kluivert and Ameobi) all got pretty much same amount of playing time and that explains why i dont have a player in top of the goalscoring charts of Premiership because each have got like 4 goals.

Anyways none really impressed but as season went on, Kluivert established himself as my FIRST-choice striker and others were competing for a place beside him, I kept Kluivert because not only did he score as many as the other ones but he MADE a lot of goals with his ability to hold up the ball and pass it around well.

Recently i've been using Kluivert and Michael Copra . I handed him his first start of the season against United and he didn't disappoint. He didn't score but his speed and agility were a menace to the likes of Brown and O'shea for quite some time.

he's not that good either though but with Bellamy disappointing and missing many good chances and Shearer too slow, Ameobi seems sluggish at times so it looks like they'll all be rotating aroudn Patrick until one starts playing better.

During transfer window, (half season) I bought Vincent Kompany because we badly needed defenders since O'Brien and Bramble are hardly reliable defenders and we needed some defenders on the bench anyways to add depth.

Kompany has been AMAZING!!!!! He's the most reliable defender at 190cm with 90 balance and good speed/passing/heading and he's improving every game. not only that he scored my only goal in a desivive 1-0 victory over Spurs from a corner!!!!!

I also brought Olembe in a trade and a bit of money for Robbie Elliot because he can play in a different number of positiosn including (LB, SMF, DMF and CMF) while Elliot could only play as backup to Bernard and he wasn't even good at that.

I've also brought in Persian international 18 year old Kaebi who most of you would probably know as (DAGAKA, because its his name in PES4 but i've changed). He hasn't impressed so far at all but his stats rise a hell of a lot.

oh well thats it for nowl....... i'll keep you guys upto date later when i have time.

 

[-=[101st]=-]

Pique for sure.. well.. he is not really that agile, he is left footed though.. but he has an awesome curve, it doesnot peak until close to 5 years from the start of the game.. he does have average stats at the start, but afte 1 season, some of his stats has gone up 10 points and for me he has about 9 stats bordering 80, and 3 already in it.. and you should be able to pick him up for like 4000 maybe...

 

[gam3r]

hmm i bought Perez for about 4500 i think, not too sure but somewhere in that area. Btw he's great

 

[corky2k4]

I dont no if this is a bug but ever since i lost my first 2 master league games 1-0 my keeper ivarov has saved everything. Even shots that i thought are definately in he's saved. He has a red arrow nearly every game an he's unbeatable. I've played 11 games in the division 2 master league on 6* won 8 drew 1 lost 2 and am in the final of the cup. Ivarov is just saving everything. Am not complaining but its just abit weird that he is unbeatable now. Bought takahara and nakata in the first transfer window and takahara is amazing. My biggest win is 6-0 against pompey with takahara scoring 5. Nakata doing well with alot of assists and a couple of goals but its my keeper thats keeping me in alot of games. Does any1 else find that ivarov is unbeatable after a couple of games???

 

[7RONALDO7]

When I get the Xbox version on PES4, I will start my ML with Inter Milan, in Serie A, I think there the best team in the game IMO. I will use the defualt team, Veron, Davids, Adriano, Martains etc! And I will build on them, buying young players like C. Ronaldo, Rooney, Reyes etc. As I am doing this ML, I will edit all the EPL, then after I have done this, I will Start another ML, with MUFC in the EPL

 

[hereticboy]

Pique for sure.. well.. he is not really that agile, he is left footed though.. but he has an awesome curve, it doesnot peak until close to 5 years from the start of the game.. he does have average stats at the start, but afte 1 season, some of his stats has gone up 10 points and for me he has about 9 stats bordering 80, and 3 already in it.. and you should be able to pick him up for like 4000 maybe...

Yeah, Pique's a great youth player.

How many of you have bought Baumjohann? Great youth CF, bought him age 17, had him 2 years, he's improved and he's great but he's still nowhere near his peak!

 

[bish1]

Can someone suggest a good LB for as cheap as possible as I don't have much cash to splash yet and that's the only area I'm having any problems really

Not sure how expensive he is, but Babyaro (spelling?) is worth a shot, he's been solid for me while standing in for Bridge.

I'm using Chelsea with match mode players on 3* until I can get a feel for the game. Into my 2nd season on there, didn't get promoted as I lost out by 2pts after a run of poor form. Halfway through 2nd season I'm doing much better, new signings include D'alessandro, Dyer, Rouledge and Rooney to give me creative and attacking options after clearing out players I didn't like. Played 9, won 8, drawn 1, scored 12 and conceded 1, and enojoying a good cup run. If I continue my good form I will win the league by a fair margin and claim the D2 cup. Next season's aim at most will be qualifying for the UEFA Cup equivalent and a good cup run.