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Moneyballing My Way To A Champions League Title in Every European Nation Part X: The FM23 Experiment


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February 2029

 

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Hibernian have dropped into the group of 4 teams fighting it out for 3rd thanks to us, but we can't keep Hearts close so we're right back down the bottom of the chasing pack.

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1 hour ago, Pompeyboyz said:

Maybe a season without European adventures to shore up and grow your depth will help in the long term. 

Financially of course it won't

Yeah I think you're right, but I'm not sure how much depth we can find with the limited budget we have available. Bit of a double edged sword :( 

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Preseason 2029

 

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A whole bunch of loans, but the big story here are the departures of 2 key players to the Rangers. They wanted to leave, so I didn't stop them, and we made a profit on them so I'm not too disappointed. Our replacements aren't as good, but they'll definitely do the job in our quest to return to the top 6.

 

 

 

Goalkeeper

 

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Central Defender

 

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Left Wing Back

 

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Defensive Midfielder

 

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Central Midfielder

 

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A perfect run through the group stage of the League Cup, which bodes excellently.

 

 

 

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Expectations have greatly increased for this season, and there's no way we can't get 5th.

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January 2030

 

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Rowley had his release clause met by Bristol, so we lose our best CB. After some reshuffling, the position in need was striker. So that's what we did.

 

 

 

Transfers (In)

 

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Now that everyone has caught up with their games we've been pushed out of the top 3.

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An unbelievable, unprecedented end to the season as we win all of our remaining games and finish 3rd, with a likely Europa League playoff berth based on the Scottish Cup winner. Celtic are playing Motherwell, and I kinda want Motherwell to win to stick it to the two players that left for Rangers earlier this season, because we would be in Europe and they wouldn't. But who knows at this point.

 

 

 

Best XI

 

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Kevin Graves  - Brayden Rapa  -  Damian Witucki

 

 

 

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Record Breakers

 

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Award Winners

 

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Progress

 

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2030 Preseason

 

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Ngonge heads to Germany, and he will be really hard to replace. What hurts more is that we also made a loss on a very good player. But hopefully the other players we've brought in can make up for it.

 

 

 

Goalkeeper

 

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Central Defenders

 

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Wing Backs

 

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Central Midfielder

 

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We really picked up our results once the first team was sorted.

 

 

 

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It'd be easy for me to say I want 3rd again, but even with our upgrades I'm not sure how possible that will be. However, I do want European qualification.

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13 hours ago, deltablue said:

I tried to look to see if you explained it in the OP but what does the 'Overall' rating mean?

The Overall rating is the value of the attribute formula out of 100 for the role they are selected in, with a rating of 100 denoting a "perfect" rating, which would probably consider them being among the elite of the elite. I haven't seen it happen too many times (only Mbappe as an Advanced Forward and van der Beek as a DLP), but next FM I'll be tweaking it to make 100 impossible to reach.

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October 2030

 

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An excellent unbeaten month as we go a clear 2nd in the league and top of the Europa League group. I'm not expecting it to last though, as we have to play both Marseille and Sevilla away still.

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December 2030

 

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An extremely busy month, and we did really well to get through it undefeated. We have at least a 5 point gap to Hibernian, so things are looking good at this stage.

 

 

 

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We get a decent draw in Red Bull Salzburg, but I'm not sure how we'll go.

 

 

 

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Yeah, this is far from excellent.

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February 2031

 

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A busy month, with the only loss coming in the cup. Which is fine, that just means one less competition to worry about, as we're still in the Europa League.

 

 

 

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Again, not the worst draw we could get. I think Sporting will do us though.

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March 2031

 

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Ross County get another one over us, but an excellent win over Celtic sees us 4 points from them and (more importantly) 7 points in front of Hibernian.

 

 

 

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We blew away Sporting to my surprise, and we're rewarded with the easiest team left in fellow Scottish side Hearts. The good news is that there will be a Scottish side in the last 4 of the Europa League. The bad news is that it might not be us.

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We did very well to beat Liverpool at home, but of course their superior quality took care of us at Anfield. But we comfortably secure 2nd place in the Premiership, and a shot at qualifying for the Champions League as a result.

 

 

 

Best XI

 

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Christopher Wear  -  Kyle Pearson  -  Graeme Gebbie

 

 

 

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Record Breakers

 

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Award Winners

 

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Progress

 

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5 hours ago, turgi said:

I was always curios to know what's happening with projects like this one.

@shaunvamosdon't you feel it becomes a bit 'robotic'?

Like I understand the idea of keeping the same concept, aren't you getting used to the same thing?

I understand what you mean, but what makes each chapter of this different are the players I can sign, which are only countries that border the one I'm in. I'm going all over Europe, which means I will have all different countries available to me each time, including ones from Asia and Africa under the right circumstances. That, I think, is what makes it not robotic for me :) 

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2031 Preseason

 

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We make a big sale for huge profit as Brayden Rapa departs after 114 league games with 60 goals, but he was being pushed out of the team anyway. Kyle Pearson joins us permanently after his strong loan spell with us last season, and whilst I don't like using so many loan players at this point of the save they're all too expensive to buy. They could become very expensive loans too if I don't play them due to the exorbitant amounts clubs want in case I don't use them.

 

 

 

Central Defender

 

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Wing Backs

 

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Defensive Midfielder

 

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Central Midfielder

 

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Striker

 

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A win against Benfica with a depleted team is always a positive :D 

 

 

 

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Europe is the expectation, but could we push for the title this season?

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August 2031

 

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A slow start in the league, no doubt due to fixture congestion, but we have received a huge financial windfall in the form of a Champions League group appearance!

 

 

 

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We're going to get crushed, but it won't be as bad as Sligo Rovers!

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November 2031

 

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Injuries, suspensions and all round fatigue sees us limp through November as our lack of depth was tested. We come out of it okay, and head into our last Champions League game with everything to play for.

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December 2031

 

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The loss to Arbroath sees us lose important ground on the top 2, but we made up for it a bit against Rangers. We also beat Porto to get into the Europa knockouts :D 

 

 

 

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Kyiv are a tough team, but we might have enough to squeak by.

 

 

 

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February 2032

 

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If we won our two very winnable games against St. Mirren and Motherwell we would likely be top :seagull: But there's still time.

 

 

 

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We took care of Dynamo Kyiv fairly comfortably, and now the three remaining Scottish teams face the three remaining Italian teams. They're all tough ties for us.

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Sir, I cannot tell you how much enjoyment I've had catching up with this thread over the last few days. It is simply sublime and I have loved every post of it!

Stenhousemuir certainly have been an interesting team - and going well so far this season, hopefully with the title still within grasp!

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