PES Chronicles

Right, after this negotiation period I’ve got a team that I know can win the Treble in season 2014. Without further ado, here are my incomings:

Schwarz
Kim Cyun Hi
Prieto
Kavlak

I’ll take them in reverse order.

Kavlak might be a case of ‘who he?’, but again—like Dos Santos in the last mid-season—I was led to him by a search for a good left-sided AMF. I want cover for Dos Santos. Kavlak’s another player with very good stats and an acceptable range of special ability stars.

Prieto is a long-standing stalwart of all my Master League teams stretching back over several PES years. A superb DMF, I’ve regarded him at times as a poor man’s Mathieu, but he’s actually an outstanding player in his own right. It’s a first for Prieto that he’ll be third-choice for DMF behind Bradley and Mathieu—but Mathieu is 31 now, so maybe Prieto will be second choice. I’ll have to see how it goes.

Kim Cyun Hi – I saw this 17-year-old pop up in the Youth list this time round and, well, after hearing him strongly recommended by some posters in this blog (“the greatest striker I have ever played with in PES”), I thought I’d have a look. As ever, I won’t see the best of the youngster for at least three seasons, and I’ll have to remember to play him enough to let him develop at a good pace. I’ve already fielded him in my one and only pre-season friendly, where he performed quite well. More on that below…

Schwarz. Schwarz. And again: SCHWARZ. Ahhhhh… The hero of my all-conquering Treble-winning team during the fateful last season of my main career on next-gen PES2008. And here he is again, only 22 years old and almost fully developed thanks to several seasons playing for a CPU team. Was it in PES4 that Schwarz first came to prominence? It was either PES4 or PES5. Someone, somewhere should really work on putting together a PES Wiki that would catalogue information like this. I want and need to know when Schwarz first appeared in PES.

I saw Schwarz in the list of players who were open to negotiation and thought about it. I thought about it for all of two seconds, then put in my bid and got him. I hesitated only because I knew I’d be writing about it here, and it might seem a little cheap to be equipping myself with so many great players. But I’m not playing by any House Rules here—not yet anyway. Hopefully I never will be playing by House Rules, and I can go on having all the players I want. That’s pretty much how it’s always worked for me before.

As I hope has been amply demonstrated over these last-gen PES2008 seasons, there is no need, really, for me to limit myself in terms of which players I can and cannot get. There’s no need for me to stop myself having players like Schwarz, Yamada, Camacho, Maldini—or any of my superstars.

I really am the average PES player that I claim to be. I could even pack my team from back to front with classic players—the Elcherinos and Maradonas—and I’d still be average. This is why I was and am so distraught about next-gen PES2008. The game that had previously lasted me for an entire year was all but played out in a month. I’d gone out and splurged £400 (approx. USD$750) on a PlayStation3 especially for PES, and I ended up feeling like a mug.

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I played one pre-season friendly, and all my new signings played. I won 3-1. My three goals came from Schwarz (rasping drive from 20 yards), Prieto (trademark medium-long-ranger)—and Kim Cyun Hi.

I’ve got a replay here below of Kim Cyun Hi’s goal. ‘Stupendous and/or significant goals’ are the rule for replays posted on this blog (unlike the old days when I used to post any old rubbish just for the sake of it). The reason why I’m posting Kim’s goal is because I have a feeling that the buzz around him is going to turn out to be true, and over the next 15 seasons he will become a great striker, and thus his first goal is one for the scrapbook. In any event this headed goal isn’t a bad one for a 17-year-old rookie to get:

And so to my First XI. It’s time for a few players to have a great season for me: Giggs, Del Piero, Larsson. It’s a possible Treble season, and they’ll have to come good, I feel, for me to have a chance. But I’m going to play it quite conservatively on the First XI front, and just content myself with putting Schwarz in up front in place of Podolski.

It’s a painful decision to drop Podolski to the bench. Yes, he could play as an AMF on the left, but I’ve throughly checked out his and Dos Santos’ stats. Dos Santos is the better AMF and he is 5 years younger than Podolski.

The other option is to play Podolski on the left up front, but I could never drop Komol. As I always say about my First XI, it’s pretty academic—due to injuries, fatigue, international call-ups, and miscellaneous other factors (resting players, etc.), very few games would actually see me start with all of the players on the diagram.

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