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  1. Real solid squad player. He's not breaking into the first XI, but I'm always happy to give him a start when I need to rotate.
  2. lots of rotation. lots of games to rotate in. Skin is WTCS Gold. big fan
  3. 2026/27 REVIEW Obviously a great season, winning everything we participated in. Starting to hit the point I lose momentum on a save, but we'll see how long I can keep going. PREMIER LEAGUE Two losses, both away, both in the first half of the season, and some absolute spankings. CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Smoked Madrid in the final, and again very few issues apart from a couple away matches. CUPS No issues at all, really. TRANSFERS IN TRANSFERS OUT Little bit of a refresh. Real happy with my outs, except for Havertz under 40M, but it was going to be tough to get a profit there. Everyone else was a hugely successful fee out. And the ins are a lot of young players I'm hoping to make a profit on if they don't make the first team, and then Musiala is the big purchase(spoiler: he was worth it). SQUAD STATS outstanding performances from basically the whole squad. Under 7 average from only two players. One of whom is a 19-year-old central defender that I integrated into the team this season. I was hoping to play him less, but injuries and the number of matches meant he got 41 appearances. He's been fine. He's also young, he'll come through. The other was a loan signing that I didn't need to make, and really shouldn't have. Not worth it. He's heading back. A few notes on specific players: Musiala is hanging out down there with 16/16 on the season and an average rating of 7.21. Outstanding, especially with a slow start. Osimhen was injured for 3 months and still scored 24 goals! Odegaard was unreal. Fully in his prime now. 13/19 on the season, but a lot of pre-assists and key passes to get us into positions to get goals. Mamoru Fukui was one I wasn't expecting much from. He arrived in January after he finished the season in Japan on loan, and he was on fire. 6 goals and 2 assists in 7 appearances. He would have played more except for a couple smaller injuries. Really loving the squad I've pulled together here. Not sure where to improve them at this point, really.
  4. Usually it's "spend the original transfer budget" rather than bonuses you may get. But yeah, it's always the toughest part for me as well. I'm usually not interested in gutting the squad to buy high-rep players. Maybe 1 a season, but I bring through so many young players that more than that is pretty rough.
  5. Yeah, this is around the point where I just cannot turn it down. Even when I want to keep a player around.
  6. 2025/26 SEASON REVIEW Another very successful season for the squad 4 trophies(depending on how you count the UEFA Super Cup). PREMIER LEAGUE After a really up and down first half of the season, the second half went significantly better, with our only loss being at Anfield. Title was clinched with the draw against City. CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Not an easy path! The Barcelona performance at Camp Nou though, was outstanding. 4-1. DOMESTIC CUPS Glad to get the win in the NLD EFL Cup final, but the FA Cup loss to City hurt. JANUARY TRANSFER WINDOW IN Jocelyn Halleux was an excellent-looking youngster I picked up for 30M as I think he has incredible potential. He was bought in Jan with a loan back for the rest of the season, but he'll be in the first team mix next season. Rafa Marin was brought in on loan as central defender depth due to my third choice central defender leaving for Atletico Madrid. He has a buy clause for 6.25M, and I think I'm going to trigger it, to hopefully make a profit at the very least. OUT I bought him for 2M, so this is an incredible profit, and his performances just weren't improving to the level I wanted. This felt like a great deal. SQUAD Outstanding performances from most players. Osimhen with 36 goals, Saka replacements Mathys Tel with 20/17 and Roony Bardghji with 11/23, young backup keeper Dennis Seimen with 22 appearances due to some nice draws. Ethan Nwaneri stepping into the first team this season and performing quite well with 6/9! --- With the Tycoon takeover, I'm probably spending some big money this summer just because I can, although I have several players I'd like to keep developing.
  7. Very unique approach @lomekian! I haven't gone with the "buy players entirely to sell them" direction before, but it seems to be going well with everything else you're doing.
  8. Have you been throwing money everywhere? I am after January so I haven't had a chance to spend anything yet.
  9. Kroenke was going to retire at the end of the season, so we got a new chairperson and, uhhhhhhhhhhh
  10. Been slow going this season for various reasons, but finally hit January 2026. PREMIER LEAGUE: Too many away draws! And the home loss to Liverpool was absolutely brutal(but deserved). We've had some absolute destructions of other teams, especially at home, but can't quite figure out what to do away from home. CHAMPIONS LEAGUE: Having a mostly solid performance here, except that awful match at Atletico. Two away matches to finish it off, but also the weakest two opponents in the entire draw. Should get through top 8 fairly comfortable if we play how we know we can. EFL CUP: Straightforward so far. TRANSFERS: IN OUT Saka was going to kick up a fuss, and as we had already won everything I figured it was time to let him go. Everyone else was fringe players, except Nelson who was a rotation option. Feel like I got solid fees for everyone except Vieira. --- Mathys Tel was not my first choice replacement for Bukayo Saka, but I just didn't have the budget for a Vinicius Junior/Rodrygo level player. So I went a touch younger, as Roony Bardghji can rotate with him on the right. He's playing very well, but not to Saka's level(obviously). 11 goals and 9 assists in 30 appearances all competitions as right winger is excellent return. Luca Lipani was signed off a very cheap 5M release clause to try to make a profit off of at worst. I think that's all he's going to be, I don't see a world beater in here, but his loan to Hertha has him performing well enough to increase his value. Sam Amo-Ameyaw looked ok, and has potential on the wings with that pace. I think I overpaid a bit, but Southampton weren't selling for any cheaper and I had a lot of money available. As an English youngster, I have hope for him still. He's gotten a couple games in, has performed ok, but not outstanding. I think he'll be fine. SQUAD Good performances from most players. That DL spot is a struggle, between Estupinan and Zinchenko(who, like IRL, is constantly injured), but besides that, the struggles are from the youngest players, which is understandable, as I'm just trying to bleed them in with sub appearances for the most part. --- Overall, Things are going well. Got a few things to improve, but a good foundation.
  11. Well, as much as I love him, if PSG is offering this up front, after we just the treble, it's time to let him go.
  12. Arsenal 2024/2025 Competitions Overview: An outstanding season! Four trophies(if you count the community shield), capped off with our first Champions League win! Let's dig into the details. Premier League: Ups and downs throughout the season. Had about a 12 point lead going into January, but it was down a LOT by the end of the month, with a loss away at barely-survived Leicester. However, this was in the midst of a GK injury crisis where I literally had to start a grey GK named Sebastien Miggins who had no attributes over 8. Probably should just have adjusted my tactics to constantly hold possesion, looking back on it. Should have tried to avoid them getting any chances at all, because they put them all away. I did sign an emergency backup at that point. However, when our GKs stopped being in an injury crisis, it helped a lot. Even a torn thigh for Saka against Leeds, leaving him out for the rest of the season, didn't completely derail us. Domestic Cups Very poor performance from the backups at home against United in the League Cup, but the FA Cup had a win at Anfield and revenge against United in the final. Champions League In the new format, we opened up incredibly strong, with the last two matches (in January, during our GK crisis) not dropping us out of the top 8, so we got to skip a round. In the knockouts, our Home advantage at the Emirates overcame every attempt by some of the big boys of Europe to knock us out. Finally, in the final, it was a very even game decided by Warren Zaire-Emery's relentless pressing leading to a turnover that he poked home! SQUAD STATS The frontmen were oustanding. 27 goals from Osimhen, 16/12 from Saka, 10/12 from Martinelli. Odegaard and Havertz were also incredible from a little bit depeer. Odegaard with 15/19 and Havertz with 16/17. Roony Bardghji filled in admirably at the end of the season for an injured Saka, as well as being a good rotation option to keep him healthy throughout the season. 9 goals and 13 assists is a great return in his first season behind Saka. Back in the depeer midfield, Zaire-Emery was phenomenal, coming out strong at the end of the season next to Odegaard. Rice might not have had the average rating of others, but he was a rock at the 6. Tchouameni was disappointing. Just not quite to the level of Rice, but hopefully next season he'll more fully come into his own. And then in the backline, Tomiyasu was incredible across all spots, filling in where he needed to, and playing really well in all of them. Saliba/Gabriel continued to be a glorious pairing. Raya is just so good. He played out of his mind in a lot of the tight matches to keep us in it or keep us ahead, and we got through enough. Transfers: IN Made Raya official, he was absolutely worth it. Just an outstanding keeper in FM. Babadi's contract was expiring, so I figured at the very least I could get a big profit on him. He didn't quite fit into my plans this season and I couldn't get him a loan. I hope to next season though. Tchouameni looks good, but didn't quite perform to the level I hoped of him when I signed him. Maybe next season? Seimen was signed for a Raya backup and cup keeper, because Hein ain't it. He was loaned back to Stuttgart for the season, but I wish I had him for january, haha. Seriously, look at this kid. Cox was the emergency signing during January to play over Hein while Raya was out(and also while Hein was injured, as it turns out). He just displaced Hein as backup pretty quickly. Zaire-Emery was my top target going into the summer, and boy did he pay off. Champions League winning goal, and he looks like a staple of the midfield for a decade. Roony is my Saka backup, but he got a lot of starts due to Saka's injury at the end of the season. He had an absolute steal of a release game, really happy to trigger that. I've never been that happy with Zinchenko, so when Brighton were relegated last year, I went for Estupinan. He was good, but not outstanding. He was better defensively than Zinny, at least. Took a flier on a cheap kid from Kilmarnock for 1M. We'll see. --- Like I said, an outstanding season. Hoping next season to integrate more youth. More time for Nwaneri at the very least, and we'll see who else.
  13. I bought Estupinan from relegated Brighton as I felt he was better than Zinny defensively and not a huge downgrade offensively. Timber has been solid across the back from me, so I haven't needed other upgrades at the fullback positions.
  14. Lotta transfer movement for me between seasons 1 and 2: --- This has led to a bit of a rocky start to the new season, but we're still right up near the top in October.
  15. This will honestly depend a bit on the rest of the tactic, as that will affect the spaces available for them. I've also just struggled with Jesus's success in general in this FM.
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