Football Manager 23

[Giggles]

So long as all this wasn't because they were trying to go down the road of that FIFA/FC sticker album muck.

[Bernanke]

https://i.ibb.co/VYJzG7KH/IMG-8726.jpg

[Dan]

Ironic that the tag of this thread is ‘completed it mate’

[Bernanke]

Ironic that the tag of this thread is ‘completed it mate’

something something "the off season"

[Pepe]

They should re-release 01/02 and watch the money pour in.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'm sure they were legally forced to leave it up for pre-order all these months.

[Dan]

It's gone exactly as it should have, at least until we fell on our faces in the last game before the break & lost our first game of the season to Andorra, but I don't think it's going to do too much to derail our title charge. Should be pretty straightforward down the home stretch, but it would be nice to see us tidy a few things up because we're actually underpeforming both xG for & xG against.

Not even going to bother spoilering this one, as it's pretty obvious that we were going to win the league at a canter.

https://i.imgur.com/AfL4D3g.png

We broke most of the league records, winning 34 games & becoming the first team to break the 100pt barrier. We scored 96 goals, which still isn't even a good indication of how dominant we were as we were also the biggest underperformers on xG (https://imgur.com/nj5Siu0), netting 16 goals less than we should've. We also had a good run in the Copa del Rey (https://imgur.com/ZwunMvt), beating three La Liga sides 3-0, including Real Madrid, before Sociedad put us out in the quarter finals.

In terms of key players, Max Moerstedt (https://imgur.com/vcVS2lP) went crazy after the winter break, going on a ten game scoring streak on his way to 35 goals for the season at more than a goal per game. He was ably complimented by Emmanuel Yeboah (https://imgur.com/ue3nbTG), who was excellent despite having a few injuries, and Marcos Leonardo (https://imgur.com/AsF9clx), who was signed to rotate up top but ended up being impressive out on the left after Robin Hack (https://imgur.com/wTpLnSI) broke his leg.

We've got about £60m to spend for next season, along with around £250k p/w of available wages, so we should be able to make some decent upgrades. I've already spend £13m on Willie Gnonto to come & be our new LW, but I'll be looking for a new GK, some FBs & then anyone else that looks like an upgrade.

You'd imagine we should be okay to avoid a relegation battle next season, especially given the results from the Copa del Rey, but it'll be interesting to see exactly where we end up slotting in on our return to the big time. I'm optimistic we can aim for midtable, but hopefully the expectations will be a bit more modest.

[Mike]

After a lengthy break, I got back on my save. First full season in the J3 league is over.
https://i.imgur.com/GUnWL0I.png

https://i.imgur.com/yoBTfbt.jpeg

[Dan]

You'd imagine we should be okay to avoid a relegation battle next season, especially given the results from the Copa del Rey, but it'll be interesting to see exactly where we end up slotting in on our return to the big time. I'm optimistic we can aim for midtable, but hopefully the expectations will be a bit more modest.

We've reached midseason in our return to La Liga so time for an update.

I got exactly what I wanted in the quote above, with us predicted to finish midtable but only expected to avoid relegation by the board. We had about £60m to spend, which we've put to good use, bringing in some more established players (https://imgur.com/xLskCTd) to improve us across the board, including Willie Gnonto, Tjark Ernst & Christian McFarlane, who are on last season's transfer page as we got them in early.

It's been a reasonable start to the season, with us struggling to string together a run of results but also managing to avoid any horrific streaks of bad results. It's quite tight in the middle of the league (https://imgur.com/qVlQBZo), so whilst we're a bit higher than I'd expected so far we'll definitely need to step it up a little if we're going to hold on to our position.

I've had a few issues sticking to the wage budget this year, with us £150k p/w over at one point. We got back under, but then I brought another couple of players in so we're back to £40k over, which has put me in the position where I've had to sell Marcos Leonardo, who has been okay this season but is one of our top earners & isn't really important enough to deserve his money. I've already spend some of the wages we'll save from selling him on a replacement, but we have about £15k left to use so I might be able to sign one more player in January.

We've also seen regression from the guy ahead of him in the lineup, as Max Moerstedt has gone from scoring 36 times last season to a grand total of 1 goal so far this year. He did miss 5 weeks with an injury at the start of the season, and he's been in & out a bit as he's tried to get form & fitness back. but we definitely need a lot more from him in the second half of the season.

[Dan]

It's been a reasonable start to the season, with us struggling to string together a run of results but also managing to avoid any horrific streaks of bad results. It's quite tight in the middle of the league (https://imgur.com/qVlQBZo), so whilst we're a bit higher than I'd expected so far we'll definitely need to step it up a little if we're going to hold on to our position.

Well, we did not step it up (https://imgur.com/sF0VLmg) & we did not hold on to our position (https://imgur.com/ihTKfFG). It's still a decent first season for a newly promoted side, and it was exactly what I said I hoped we be able to achieve, but we absolutely died not long after the transfer window shut & Cesc couldn't find any answers as we slowly drifted down the table.

It was a very frustrating run & one that has convinced me it's time to move on again. We're constantly up against the wage budget, which is a bigger issue than I'd anticipated when I put the rule in that I can't just shift the budgets around at will, and the board have set next seasons wage budget at £3k p/w lower than we're already spending, which pretty much killed the last remaining chance of me staying. Real & Barca finished 18pts clear of the rest of the league, and with us having one hand tied behind our back it has the feel of a long slog to get to title contention. Barca now have Cole Palmer, Xavi Simons & Dusan Vlahovic alongside Yamal, Cubarsi & co. They just broke the league record for goals scored with results like an 11-2 against Racing & a 9-0 against Granada where they scored 7 with ten men. I did get an offer for an interview at Monaco around midseason that I turned down, and I went for one with Atletico that I didn't get, but there are a few jobs potentially coming available in the summer that look very appealing, so hopefully I'll be able to get one of them.

[Dan]

there are a few jobs potentially coming available in the summer that look very appealing, so hopefully I'll be able to get one of them.

Didn't take long :drool:

https://i.imgur.com/MEvyqMb.png

I'd initially been targeting Ajax, who felt like the ideal next step - finished 7th in a declining Eredivisie having been on the slide for a few seasons, but with £200m in the bank it looked like an easy two season turnaround. Had an interview with them, only for them to slap a club vision on the table with 'negative transfer budget model' included. I managed to get it removed, but when they offered me the job the budget was still only £16m & I'm not convinced it won't just get added again next season, so that ended up turning me off the job. I'd also not really been expecting to get the Arsenal job, but when they came along & slapped an offer on the table with £150m transfer budget, £6.25m a week in wages & most of the original squad still hanging around it was too good to turn down.

They've finished 7th, 8th, 2nd & 5th in the last four seasons, with the last two titles somehow having been won by Ange Postecoglu's Tottenham, and the league does seem to have got a lot more unpredictable, with most of the big clubs having finished outside the top five at least once & nobody getting more than 88pts since the first season, so it'll be interesting to see what we can do to get back into title contention.

[Lofty]

That is definitely a more attractive offer. I've been playing FM23 on my steam deck and decided to take PNE to the top, first season and the final game I am sat in 6th with Blackburn in 7th and one game left to decide who gets the final play off spot :eyemouth:

[Lofty]

Drew Sheff Utd in the semis, won the first leg at home 3-1. Second leg they were 1-0 and predictably the game ran well beyond the 3 minutes stoppage time to allow a 94th minute goal from them to force penalties.

Fortunately we won the shootout, and ended up with a final against Vincent Kompany's Burnley. Cue a spate of injuries in the interim which made me dread the worst, but came in at HT 2-0 up and finished 3-0 :cool:

I am now the greatest hero Deepdale has ever seen after a single season, the board have allocated £525k a week salary budget and £37m for transfers. The whole squad needs an overhaul so probably wont go far but if I could sign the on loan Liam Delap and Troy Parrott permanently that would be a start.

[Lofty]

Predictably all my 3 star shit munchers who were on 5k a week now want 40k a week. I've already been ferreting around firing contract offers to all 5 star potential youngsters who are about to be out of contract. Given I am expected to be relegated anyway are there any repercussions beyond a drop in form if I just axe everyone over 30 and below 3 1/2 stars if I deem them not useful? Seems like a good a time as any to take the hit on reshaping the squad Forest/Chelsea style.

My main problem is the best loan players I had last season are valued insanely high. Palace, Brighton and Fulham went down but all their decent players are valued over £50m, Fulham are in the conference league somehow though lol.

[John Arne]

Something that seems to happen a lot.

I've got a world class player, and for the previous 3 years the likes of PSG, Barca and Man City have made offers of $130m-$180m... I've rejected, no issues from the player and life goes on. However, this time the player got cheesed off that I rejected it, so I just said he could leave. Offered him out and an absolutely nobody willing to bid even $90m for him. I literally turned down a $180m bid from PSG last week. #FirstWorldProblems

[Mike]

There’s another match engine tweet thing out
https://www.reddit.com/r/footballmanagergames/s/lCAamAdhyy

https://fmtweak.com/

[Ben]

Surely it’s not long before Miles takes this down after realising a bunch of geeks just made his old game a million times better than FM26 will be, and for free.

[Lofty]

Was offered the West Ham job on my save, should have split my save really as it was teed up nicely for a PL team picking the bones out of the shock relegation teams. Turned it down, first game of the season and Arne Slot's Hammers put me to the sword.

So far the only point we've managed is a goalless draw at home to WBA. Definitely think based on how badly the big money signings are playing it would be aswell to recall all high potential youth players from their loans and pump minutes into them in a season that there's no expectation in anyway.

[John Arne]

Surely it’s not long before Miles takes this down after realising a bunch of geeks just made his old game a million times better than FM26 will be, and for free.

I don't see how he can. People who bough the game are free to mod as they like, surely? Perhaps stuff like this will lead them to lock down the code a bit more, but I guess that's the least of their issues right now :D

[Dan]

They've finished 7th, 8th, 2nd & 5th in the last four seasons, with the last two titles somehow having been won by Ange Postecoglu's Tottenham, and the league does seem to have got a lot more unpredictable, with most of the big clubs having finished outside the top five at least once & nobody getting more than 88pts since the first season, so it'll be interesting to see what we can do to get back into title contention.[/spoiler]

Well, I ended up playing all the way through my first season with Arsenal. We've got quite a lot to go through...

Transfers

We had £150m to spend, plus a load of players who could be moved on to free up wages & generate extra funds, and we certainly did that.

https://i.imgur.com/46aVt0Y.png

I hadn't intended to go this far with the overhaul, but once I'd got the first batch of players out the door I got offers for players like Raya & Merino, who I had intended to keep but decided to sell as they both only had a year left on their contracts. We blasted money all over the place to bring in big names like Marco Carnesecchi & Michael Kayode, as well as securing the signing of Lorenco Krištić, who is an obscene newgen striker I spotted a few seasons ago when he was still in Croatia & had a £9.5m release clause - he hadn't wanted to join me then, but he went to Benfica & banged them in so I still feel like £40-60m will be a good deal. We then made an even bigger splash by securing our long term Declan Rice replacement in Marc Bernal for a fee that can reach over £100m.

Unsurprisingly, given the amount of players we've brought in, I'm planning to slow it down a bit for the next few seasons.


Domestic Cups

We had a decent run in the FA Cup (https://imgur.com/fH16bnl) before losing to Man City in the fifth round, but made it all the way to the final of the League Cup (https://imgur.com/8tQne1A), where we would face Man Utd:

https://i.imgur.com/6lREawD.png

Fully deserved the win here - it's a bit disappointing that we conceded at the death to send it to extra time, but Ethan Nwaneri produced a Ryan Giggs-esque dribble from the halfway line before smashing in the winner, which was probably worth the extra 30mins of football.


Champions League
https://i.imgur.com/gIxTXc4.png

Having snuck into the CL thanks to the fifth place from the coefficients, we were handed a reasonably tough set of fixtures, but we made it look easy as we topped the league phase with a perfect run. We faced Koln again in the last 16, seeing them off easily before shocking a disgusting Barcelona side with a 4-0 win at home then narrowly holding on in the second leg. That set up an all-English final four, with us facing Man Utd while Liverpool played Man City. We left the first leg with an advantage, but couldn't hold on in the second leg & ended up going all the way to penalties (https://imgur.com/AG0FVtV), where Declan Rice & Ethan Nwaneri both missed to send us out & set up a Manchester derby in the CL Final.


Premier League
I didn't hold out much hope of us challenging for the title this year, particularly given Spurs, winners of the last two titles, went the first half of the season unbeaten, but we had a strong first half as well (https://imgur.com/HiCXqr7) & managed to stay in contention as we headed towards the run-in, however every time we got within touching distance we'd slip up & hand them back momentum.

As we approached the end of the season we came to a crucial North London derby, with us having pulled level with Spurs, however a narrow loss (https://imgur.com/6mKgBwC) saw us once again give them back the advantage. That wasn't the end of things though, as Spurs lost to Villa (https://imgur.com/WjZmO6u) to put us back level with two games to go, only for us to lose to Chelsea (https://imgur.com/ild18w0) in the penultimate set of games.

We entered the final day 3pts behind Spurs, but with a far superior goal difference. We took on Liverpool at home, whilst Tottenham were away at Newcastle, who had to win to guarantee themselves a Champions League place...

https://i.imgur.com/Hgazh94.png

We did our part, completely running over Liverpool, but would it be enough?

https://i.imgur.com/VbDXyzO.png

Lads, it's Spurs :cool:

https://i.imgur.com/htBxONQ.png

:dance:

An incredible final day saw us pinch the title from our biggest rivals on goal difference as they completely collapsed under the pressure & saw their two year reign come to an end. We were deserving winners, as we smashed most of the league & were miles clear on the xG table (https://imgur.com/CnZNiQb), but I'm sure the fans would prefer winning it this way :D


The Players
https://i.imgur.com/remxml6.png

The season stats give an indication of how dominant we were, with goal contributions dished out like sweets, but there are a few players who deserve special mentions.

We got great seasons from some of the big name players that were here when I arrived, with Martin Ødegaard (https://imgur.com/qc2Fy8b) hitting double figures for both goals & assists (and convincing me how good the CM attack role can be in the process). Bukayo Saka (https://imgur.com/WRzs2Q0) also recorded a double double, whilst Benjamin Šeško (https://imgur.com/zcsVCr7) equalled Thierry Henry's club record 39 goals in a season. The player from this group that deserves the biggest dose of praise, however, is Jonny Rowe (https://imgur.com/sAKdfH5), who I'd accepted a £45m offer for in the summer, only for him to turn it down & lay waste to everyone on the way to a 25 assist season, and his screamer to finish off the title party pretty much summed his season up.

We got great contributions from the likes of Ethan Nwaneri (https://imgur.com/zI4iujM), whose season was hampered by a few injuries after recovering from damaged cruciate ligaments at the end of last season, as well as Ebere Eze (https://imgur.com/vz97Kpi) & Désiré Doué (https://imgur.com/iYb9Ip6), who were the main workhorses in midfield but still racked up goals & assists. In typical Arsenal fashion we got 7 goals from Gabriel (https://imgur.com/ZqLKjqO), but it's time to talk about Lorenco Krištić (https://imgur.com/ZvgT3vh), who exceeded expectations in his first season, showing off his incredible all-round skillset by netting 28 times & laying on 15 more despite making half his appearances from the bench. He looks phenomenal for his age & keeps improving, so I'm expecting him to be one of the best players in the world when he gets to start every week.

I think that probably covers everything. I'd expect this summer to be much quieter than the last one, but with the core players still at their peak we've got a great opportunity to push on & try to start racking up some big trophies over the next few seasons, so it'll be interesting to see how high we can climb & whether we can overhaul a Barcelona side containing the likes of Cole Palmer & Samu which looks to still be the best team in the world.

[Lofty]

Nice work.

My second season at Preston has crashed and burned, between the African nations robbing me of my best players, some bad long term injuries and the big money striker I brought in being a turkey we've spent the majority of the season propping up the table. Tried several tactics but nothing turning the tide and I suspect I will be sacked.

Not sure if it is a bug but the having asked for a new contract when we got promoted my best CB and captain decided to ask for another one 3 months into the new season, which I didn't want to give him and the budget was too stretched to meet anyway. So that's tanked my dressing room all season too. Given this is FM23 realising Gyokeres was still at Coventry for peanuts once I had blown my beans on Ndiaye was particularly galling.

[Lofty]

Got relegated :D

The cheeky twats kept insinuating a loss against the top 4 I had to play for my final games would see me sacked, but it never came to fruition. I upset my squad of loafers telling them I wanted to aim for the playoffs because it was too ambitious. I am just binning off as many of the fuckers as I can to pave the way for some sweet sweet quality. Offered Conor Bradley a contract as his is about to expire but I think we won't be his best offer.

Decided to switch up to a 352 attacking dreadnought formation and with the right additions I think I can monster the league and create a more stable tactic for dealing with big teams instead of the grinding relentless losses. i was tempted to revert to what got me promoted in my first season but the triple centre half kamikaze wing backs method is stuck in my head now, if I can recruit good enough wing backs that is.

I actually have a good right wing back but he wants to leave because I was too nasty about them continually shipping goals.

[Dan]

Loki Doki is doing a Preston save & getting smashed every week in the Prem so I’d say it’s Preston’s fault tbh.

[Lofty]

I thought that was Sandra's fault?

[Dan]

Coincidentally she’s also getting smashed every week.

[Lofty]

Had a pretty epic summer where via the Sports Almanac of playing FM23 in 2025 i managed to bag Mika Biereth and Conor Bradley on free transfers. Add in Rodrigo Muniz and we were in business, the 352 running riot for the first part of the season and propelling us to 4th, beating Palace on penalties on the league cup.

Since then however our form has gone to rat shit and no tweaks to the tactics or personnel seem to help. Firmly entrenched in mid table and more annoyingly currently losing against all the bottom teams when ideally those would be easy points. About to hit the January transfer window so all I can do is try and find some real quality at a good price: typically though the interested South American player far too good for us and listed for £300k can't get a work permit :moop:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://i.imgur.com/8k7Gxb1.png

Liverpool are in serious trouble here :drool:

https://i.imgur.com/TxRbvmg.png

:drool:

They're down.

-£165m in the bank too :harold:

[Spikey M]

What about in the real world m8?

[Shindig]

<looks at where United are in that table>

:yawn:

[John Arne]

Twice in 4 years that the local council have blocked the building of a new 84000 stadium. Welsh cunts.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Hitchin Town 2048/49 Season Update:

League:

https://i.imgur.com/LzZsxVm.png

Our highest finish and points total which is nice and we scored the joint highest goals (71) with Arsenal. Just a shame our defence is shit.

Also, lol at Liverpool.

https://i.imgur.com/MX4xxsW.png
https://i.imgur.com/d0uU15C.png

Double over Liverpool, beating United 6-0 and beating Arsenal 5-2 were the highlights.

Cups:

https://i.imgur.com/0AqOiP7.png

A very kind run to the final for us.

Final:

https://i.imgur.com/63li8nJ.png

2 kick off goals for Fulham which was annoying as shit, we also dominated them in normal time but in ET we struggled. Thankfully my keeper saved one penalty and the decider was smashed against the post.

Squad:

https://i.imgur.com/8n22S66.png

Gumbs is starting to become our main man now. Keeper and defence our main issue. No real CBs of note coming through (unless I play Townley there who has had some decent games at RB) but we do have a really good Aussie prospect at goalkeeper. He was on loan at Burton Albion in League Two this year and did really well.

[John Arne]

My current transfer budget is $700m....

https://gyazo.com/0903e777c3b7e8495bea0369634c41e7.jpeg

[John Arne]

FUCKING CUNTS at the Japanese FA just sacked me. Started a new save and proceeded to launch a 20 odd game unbeaten streak. WON the EEAF title, WON The Asian Cup... 2026 World Cup started shaky with defeats to Ecuador and Belgium but managed to qualify beating the MIGHTY Suriname. Second round absolutely smashed Netherlands 3-0, arguably the greatest result in modern Japanese football. Then got knocked out by France.
Current Asian cup, strolled into the semi's, including a 7-0 over Oman and 3-0 over the Aussies. In the semi's South Korea got lucky with an extra time winner to go through 3-2.

AND THEY FUCKING SACKED ME.

Pricks.

https://gyazo.com/094a248c4ed2d332ab509f9391e6f1b1.jpeg

[Pepe]

:lol:

[John Arne]

Looking for a fellow Asian team to take over and knock the shit out the Japanese twats at some stage.

[Lofty]

Was there anything in the vision you were not meeting?

I just split my Preston save as I was offered the Lazio job, I like the prospect of picking up that save later in the database I've been playing.

After a charge at promotion that came so close only to fail (last five games had 3 of the top 4) I decided go for broke and upgrade positions and let the squad dynamics land where they may. Got a new keeper who is a slight upgrade, can't offload the old keeper due to his wage demands so that should be fun. Brought in two top class midfielders on mega deals, Nicolo Fagiolo and Santiago Hezze. Liam Delap is transfer listed having spent the last three seasons on loan with me and I am his favoured personnel. Hope City are open to installments because those other signings depleted my kitty.

I need more depth at striker, a 28 year old Neal Maupay is a free agent. His attributes tick the boxes but I am still wary, how much cuntishness can be in the hidden attributes?

[John Arne]

So unfortunately, the only national job that was available in Asia was North Korea, and their team was shit.
Instead, I took over Kashiwa Reysol (who are somewhat known to have a decent academy). They were in J2, and had sold essentially their best 5 players in the previous off-season. Loadsa money in the bank, and managed to get promoted having taken over when they were mid-table. We finished 6th and went up through the play-offs.

I then got somewhat conflicting messages about our new owner, Tsubasa Okada.

https://gyazo.com/efe3834e160c068e2b01b244b27c2715.jpeg

10 days later...

https://gyazo.com/c062faf9e6cd62e35fe04f50cf3c0c59.jpeg

Not sure where this leaves us.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://i.imgur.com/DDFI6lG.png

:drool:

We've won our first ever European games 4-0, 7-0 and now 8-0.

[John Arne]

What year you in now?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

2049.

We've also started well in the Premiership.

[Lofty]

Wonder if Miles has patched FM23 on the sly to spite me, 3 of my four strikers out with big injuries, loaned one in for cover, got injured on his debut :D

[Lofty]

Managed to make some top quality January loans, which helped solidify my excellent run of form when things had started to look threadbare. Annoyingly I took part in deadline day to try and offload some moaners and ended up getting stung with a transfer bid that unsettled Conor Bradley. Managed to agree a move but defer it to the summer, still not ideal. His understudy has been moaning they aren't playing as a wing back in the right back position and instead as a wing back in the wing back position so they are getting binned too.

Managed to pip Norwich to 2nd by a point on the final day ensuring automatic promotion, so back in the PL with £40m to spend.

[Lofty]

Captured a bit of that classic FM magic this evening, went looking for a cheap wonderkid and spotted a 19 year old far too undervalued, landed him for £2m and his work permit appeal squeaked through just before the transfer deadline. First game an FA Cup tie with Chelsea, bring him on in the second half and he immediately scores and sees us through :cool:

[John Arne]

I had a great couple of years at Kashiwa Reysol, and then left the day after winning the AFC Champions League, just before European summer. Managed to get a gig at 1860 Munich, who had just been relegated to the 3.Liga. I think it's fair to say that it is NOT a happy camp.

https://gyazo.com/07f62c63de7abae1c2763a3a3998ba16.jpeg

[Lofty]

That could he a nice save in itself: getting them back to the big time. Though good luck with that atmosphere haha.

[John Arne]

Yeah, we should smash 3.Liga.

Only thing holding us back is the tiny 4,000 stadium. Hopefully we can move back into the Allianz at some point.

[Gray Fox]

See as a new manager the unhappy with agreed playing time thing should not apply. But Miles says differently I guess.

[wullie]

I like that the delay to the next one has let me go ridiculous with 24 instead

https://i.imgur.com/g7V29EJ.png

I can't lay claim to the Championship, one of the FA Cups and the two League One trophies but I also won a Friendly Cup that we hosted as part of the first season at James Maddison Stadium but for some reason it doesn't include that

[John Arne]

Imagine the DVD sales for the James Maddison cup :drool:

[Yevrah]

I've been watching Season 2 of Sunderland til I die (which is excellent) and it's given me a hankering to get back into this.

What was the real team/competition name update that didn't do the stupid shit of calling the Italian Golden boot something like the capocanioneribianco so you had absolutely no idea what each award was?

Ta muchly.

[Yevrah]

Don't forget to fix names and stuff: https://www.fmscout.com/a-fm23-real-names-license-fix.html

This was it. Guessing they have an FM24 version.

[Manc]

"On a river where they used to build the boats."

[Yevrah]

:D

Can't be arsed with a data update and starting with Jobe Bellingham has sealed being Sunderland. :drool:

[Lofty]

Went into the last 4 games in 17th, Arsenal (A), Villa (H), West Ham (A), Fulham (H).

Managed to keep it goalless for 70 minutes at the Emirates before snatching a goal out of nothing, however the lead lasted 60 seconds and they ran out 2-1 winners.

Villa were in the relegation fight so I hoped for 3 points but after being 1-0 down at half time a 1-1 draw was better than nothing. West Ham were mid table as always, set up with our 5-3-2 WB formation and looking to be defensive and waste time constantly as in the previous matches I had hoped to maybe nick something. However we absolutely shat the bed and were 4-0 down by half time. 2 late goals made the scoreline look slightly more respectable.

All came down to Fulham, who were safe but only just. I adjusted for this and decided to bin off time wasting altogether and be more positive. A boring goalless first half wasn't the end of the world, but we managed to scab an 87th minute winner. Immediately locked down into time wasting and fully parked bus to win the game. Thankfully despite Brighton winning their game we stayed up on goal difference. Villa and Forest also down.

Oh and the club was taken over but they aren't investing :D

[John Arne]

I can't tell whether this is the greatest player ever, or the worst.

https://gyazo.com/81f0cd9ebd4804f55154ca7b4c413aa3.jpeg

[Bam]

Very aggressive for someone so weak, he couldn't reach your chin even if he jumped.

[John Arne]

Small man syndrome with quality technique. Reminds me of those lads now in their 40s carrying a lot of timber, but still very skillful at 5-a-side

[Clunge]

I’ve just seen the 173cm / 96kg :D. Just trying to imagine myself (170) with an extra 20-25kg baggage :/.

[Gray Fox]

Thats not far off Lee Trundle in the Welsh league.

[wullie]

2040/41, it's touch and go but I feel that if we keep momentum in the last month we can just about edge that ninth title in a row

https://i.imgur.com/rkzNawx.png

[John Arne]

Time to leave for pastures new?

[wullie]

Maybe but not as part of this game, now the only names I recognise are the managers. I normally get the itch to start again long before this, might be on for my record.

[Lofty]

After surviving relegation and bringing in some decent strikers and back up options my persisting with the 5-3-2 WB tactic, with a few tweaks, has started to pay dividends. It's now January and we're sat comfortably in the european places, which would be amazing given the objectives are still avoid relegation. The board did let me adjust but it wasn't worth it for an extra few hundred grand in transfer money.

Got the semi final of the League Cup, against Utd. Decided I would play the first leg last night then pick up again tonight, which was at Old Trafford. My wonderkid midfielder was given a straight red after 57 seconds and we lost 3-1 :moop:

[John Arne]

21. Unfortunately, out of my price range.

https://gyazo.com/3d33cf68c8c400917998bd5393179353.jpeg

[Lofty]

Had a mid season wobble, managed to recover form but finished just shy of the european places. Having made it to the league cup semi finals and the FA Cup quarter finals I was happy enough, but then due to the coefficient after the UCL final I squeaked into the Conference League :cool:

Jhon Duran and Jarrad Branthwaite were at relegated clubs so I immediately activated their relegation release clauses, going to try and hoover up some cheap wonderkids because the big boys are sniffing round my stars.

Annoyingly though the board have set me a minimum requirement of reaching the Conference League Quarter Final.