FIFA career mode challenge (FIFA 14–25) Part 2.
15/16.
Here comes the second season which was even more interesting that the last one and it also bring a lot of surprises in it. In real life Barcelona has returned in August as the best club in the world after winning UCL, La Liga and Copa del Rey in a single year all that was left is to best Sevilla and become UEFA Super cup winner (which they did).
My Barcelona will not be in this tournament as we managed to get trashed by AS Monaco and couldn’t match with real life Barça. To match with this season, we have to win La Liga and Copa again and also try to get the Supercopa and UCL to be even better.
Kinda forgot how good Enrique’s Barcelona was so beating it will be hard, but I’ll try.
SUMMER TRANSFER WINDOW
IN
I’m a big fan of transfers but this year will be soft in terms of signing players, I mean my squad is so good it is hard to add something but of course I did. First player to join was Dani Ceballos who joined Real Madrid in real life. I remember when everyone was talking about how good he is and how he suits Barcelona. He even almost signed but decided to choose Madrid which turned out mostly good for him. But in my reality, he joins Barcelona from Betis and I hope he will not disappoint.
That would be the only transfer of this season if ter Stegen didn’t get injured in pre-season which would mean he will miss 2.5 months. Forgot goalkeeper’s injuries even exist and starting a season with only one Bravo after this would be a bad idea, that’s why I decided to pull someone old and experienced to use him for cup games and that’s how I found Victor Valdes. Of course he agreed to join on 2 years contract and help us when needed the most.
OUT
After having a strong first season for us Vermaelen had to leave for Everton as Marc Bartra returned from his loan and he outshined Belgium’s defender in everything.
Adriano played last season as CM, and it was fun but this year with Grimaldo getting better and better I decided to let him join Derby County to help them stay in EPL.
Cristian Tello was always good but at the same time he was never good enough. Sounds harsh but it’s the truth and when choosing between him and Deulofeu to be Messi’s backup I chose the second one. Tello goes to Levante.
There were also a lot of guys from La Masia who are simply not good enough so I decided to sell them and let the squad breathe a little so here every one of them starting with Camara who went to Blackburn
Edgar Le to Alaves
Bagnack to Alcorcon
And Gerard to Derby County
Winter transfer window didn’t bring much too as nothing happened for Barcelona.
TOP DEALS
This Fifa I got all 6 of them and they were even better than the last time as market prices go up.
Absolute record as Arjen Robben joins PSG for 72M I hope I never get them in the UCL knockout round.
Bayern keeps getting robbed as another moneybag gets thrown at them, this time it’s Manchester City who paid 65M for Muller
And it’s not the end. Chelsea agreed to get Jerome Boateng for 55M and Bayern is basically left with only Lahm, Lewandowski and Neuer now.
PSG needed some money to afford 72M deal so they sold Javier Pastore to Roma for 45M, it’s interesting how Roma joins the top deal’s list second year in a row despite never being a much spending club.
They also sold Pjanic to Atletico for 45M so that kind of looks like Arthur Melo deal now and I just hope it works better for those than Arthur’s one.
Last but not least is Luiz Gustavo who also joins Roma for 30M, and I must say they are building quite a team in Rome. If they can keep all those guy’s it’s going to be an interesting team.
LA LIGA
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(Last season’s top 6 was Real, Atletico, Valencia, Sevilla and Athletic so I only play them and simulate everything else).
Back-to-back league title is here as La Liga was even easier to win this year than the previous and I still don’t understand why this tournament was so easy in 15 and 16 but I guess I can only celebrate while it lasts. Despite losing both El Classico’s Madrid managed to lose the title race to us. The best fact from this year’s season is that Rakitic got 14 goals and was in top 5 goal scorers. I don’t know how. He didn’t score in any other competition as much.
Copa del Rey
Another year another win again Atletico falls in the final and my Barcelona is dominating Spain by winning everything there is. I would say that the best game out of all of those was a clash against Sevilla. They were winning 2–2 on home goals and I was sure that it was the end. But then, on 90+3’ minute Munir out of all people scores a goal which means we are in the final. That was something.
SUPERCOPA
And to get 3/3 in Spain we won the Supercopa against Athletic destroying them 1–4 on aggregate. What is interesting we only won them 1–0 in the first leg and actually conceded first in the second but then everyone from MSN got a goal and that would mean first trophy of the season and looking back — a start of a dominant year in Spain.
UCL
I don’t even know how to explain this. It happened again.
Looking back, It kind of reminds me of a quarter final curse that Valverde’s Barcelona had but at least then Barça lost to solid teams and here is my Barcelona getting destroyed by Wolfsburg out of all teams. Losing 0–3 in the first match seemed awful but I still had hope that it can be easily turned around I mean it’s Wolfsburg right?… Well no the game had other plans and despite having Lacazette, Messi, Pedro, Neymar and Suarez all on one pitch in their box it was not enough to even score one goal and that would mean that Barcelona is leaving UCL in February again. Tough loss and UCL goes to Juventus after all.
UEFA EURO 2016
This year also had Euros which was played in France and considering my love for Griezmann’s style of playing and how i was rooting for them to win i had no other team to choose other than France. And it was a great choice as their squad was so fun to play with as it has prime Pogba, young Benzema, young Giroud, Griezmann, Payet and others. Of course there was no choice to lose it again and in my reality France won Euro’s beating Switzerland in the final.
COPA AMERICA 2016
I tried to get it but i still don’t why Copa America was played 2 years in the row, still i played it in my FIFA story and this year i had to choose any other team besides Argentina as they were my team last year. It wasn’t a tough choice and i took prime Brazil with Neymar, Willian, Hulk, Coutinho, Ramires and company. This team arguably feels like the best in the game and we simply walked on our opponents. Neymar was dominating the pitch and everyone else was good too. That means that Brazil gets another Copa win and Messi still has zero, hope to change that soon.
That would be FIFA 16 season, it was great in terms of international football and Spanish football but we failed in UCL again. Think next year Barcelona has to switch formation from the usual 4–4–3, get rid of a couple old players and get us another finishing playmaker. Hope that helps..
Here are other leagues and stats for the season.
EPL
Cardiff, Derby and Norwich got relegated while West Brom, Watford and Burnley got up.
LIGUE 1
Bastia, Lens and Metz got relegated and Troyes, Brest and Auxerre got up.
Bundesliga
Kaiser, Fortuna and Werder go down while Freiburg, Bochum and Leipzig go up.
SERIE A
Carpi, Livorno and La Spezia went down and Empoli, Sassoulo and Modena went up.
STATS FOR THE SEASON + OVERALL.
