— I’m starting to wonder that too, ck. There’s a progress bar beneath the current rating, and it’s been about a third full for three seasons now. I guess the pattern of my results – one step forward, two steps back, two steps forward, one step back – has kept it that way. Seeing as I need to be a B or an A to sign the really top players, I think Ive got a couple of hard seasons ahead of me yet. Assuming I don’t go down this season of course. That might set me back a long way if it happens. It mustn’t happen…

@LaKriss – I often find that I ’shout at Downs’ in the mirror during one or all of my bathroom breaks during a PES session…

Thanks both for the tip re. LuaLua. Thing is I already have attacking speed demons and they’re so far not doing me much good. And as for Mitea – I vaguely recall having him in my PES4 ML team at one point. If I don’t get Mathieu soon I’ll be hunting down Prieto (the poor man’s Mathieu), and then I’ll look for Mitea. Maybe I’ll get both. Or all three. The team ranking thing is seriously hampering my transfers this year.

Btw i came up with a theory why you lose annoyingly and have those “mishaps”. it’s because pes is and always will try to be a realistic football game as much as possible thats why we play it. Is it not? becauses its more real than fifa. Something along those lines anyway. Still makes you shout at downs and sing with the ups.

I cant wait for Div1 because I find competition in the team with Wayne Rooney which means that player stats deeply influence how good the opponent will be. In Div1 the big boys should give me a good game.