coyneeee
Winger
I've decided to give my AZ game a little break and start a fresh with Nashville SC and their introduction to MLS (Inspired by @coyneeee). The idea that the expectation of the club in season 1 is simply not to finish last was particularly appealing because it should give me time to do this MLS save in American sports style and build a team through the draft.
In Real Life, Nashville are due to move to a new stadium in 2022 but it doesn't seem to be in the game, so the current 10,000 seat stadium may be a challenge.
I've no real clue how to do this, so it's probably a bit of an experiment and I'll go all out in FM21 when I suspect all the latest franchises will be added to make the league more significant.
As I've got no games for a whole season (with the exception of the MLS cup), I've organised a series of friendlies in the build up to get my teams fitness and familiarity together. The most famous being fellow new franchise club Inter Miami.
The club has no transfer budget and I'm not sure how the draft works just yet, so I've looked into the free transfer market for my first signings:
1) A 20 year old Colombian striker who isn't much, but has potential to be my best striker.
2) The MLS legend, all time top scorer, model citizen and big name potentially fan favourite, 33 year old Bradley Wright Phillips. I've signed him until the end of the season with an option of a 1 year extension, but essentially he's to mentor my younger players.
3) Kim Ki-Hi - 29 year old South Korean international centre back, who has just left Seattle. He becomes my best defender and a leader in this brand new squad.
Looking forward to figuring out how this all works.
Why are you signing people if you've not a league place til the next season? Don't make the mistake. You're essentially losing club balance, which Nashville don't have much of, to sit there for a year aside from the MLS cup for a full year.
As I've said mentioned there's 4 different drafts - The shit players draft, the squad filler draft, the newgen draft, the superstar draft.
You want to be making zero signings unless a genuine 4-5 star player is affordable until the 20-21 draft, in the meantime any players you don't want you want to be trading for their Superdraft picks.
The squad you start off is full of trash and more importantly, they're mainly foreigners who count towards the 8 non Americans you can only register. The designated player AMC who's on an absurd £16k p/w is the only person who survived my cull.
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