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  1. Hey @Johnny Ace, I used these roles and duties with my Brescia team last season, and we won the treble - Serie A, Italian Cup & Champions League. Granted I am 8 seasons in and 2 years into a Tycoon takeover so we have had cash to spend. Regardless, given our squad relative to the rest of Europe it was a great achievement. One thing I wasn't entirely happy with was my Strikers ability to score goals. He scored 26 in 49 so not bad, modest if anything lol - I guess my standards are high but this is a return I would expect from a creative striker not an outlet. This season though he's only scored 3 in 13. In all of the visualisation graphs in the Data Hub he's actually quite worrying His name is Paul Caron. His conversion rate this season so far is 9% from 17 shots on target. His counterpart, Silva, as 6 goals in 3 games and has a conversation rate of 73% From memory @Johnny Ace, what was the goal return of your AF in that system? Caron isn't necessarily contributing much this season and I'm tempted to move on.
  2. Any noticeable-to-the-eye changes that you would recommend making here? I basically want to Un-Haaland the league and have set some objective around Nunez being the best striker in the league over the next decade. But he and the team have been pretty toothless... Any suggestions/advice/recommendations welcome. 87
  3. Hey guys, In my own personal save managing Brescia, we have just had a Tycoon takeover from a South Korean firm. They've instantly given us a £120m transfer kitty (every season before that, we managed around 20m - so a massive difference) We won the Serie B in our first season, and then in the last 5 years of being in the Serie A we've finished 9th, 2nd, 5th, 2nd and 3rd. You're also guaranteed CL football next season - so loads to build on. Enjoy! https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/5lhmk8e952xduwktj7fvh/Ashley-Owen-Brescia-The-MAIN-One-Season-6-Tycoon.fm?rlkey=4oj46aqb2hkxapfp4csskovi8&dl=0
  4. Yeah, fair one @Johnny Ace - I'm not entirely unhappy, so didn't want to go into too much detail. Just wondered if there was something standout in the setup a more technical eye would notice over mine haha.
  5. We're either really really good or really really bad - nothing in between. Is there anything noticeably wrong in this setup?
  6. This was my favourite skin 2-years ago, thank you. "Does the skin include the Instant Result button? Yes, it’s easier to add this button than to answer all questions about why it’s not in the game." Is it possible to disable this? The reason is simple; I want to slow the game down this year & enjoy it. If the Instant Result button is there, the temptation will be to speed up and fly through the seasons
  7. Beautiful, thank you. Is it available without the Instant Result button?
  8. Everything in the post above is my perception of how I think things work... I'h very Happy to be corrected and told otherwise.
  9. Hello, I am 13 seasons into a save with Wrexham AFC. In our long career, we have only added two trophies to our cabinet: The Vanarama National League in 22/23 and the FA Community Shield in 31/32. We have been close to silverware a few other times, but our young squad faltered at the times when it mattered most. For example, in the 32/33 season, we lost the league by a single point, and were knocked out of the Champions League by Spurs, who overcame a 4-0!!! deficit on the second leg to win on penalties. In the years before that, we finished 3rd, 5th, 2nd, 4th, 4th, and 14th. We have been to a Champions League final where we lost to Madrid 1-0. And we’ve always done OK in the domestic cups. The fact is, we are a young team. The average age of our strongest starting 11 is only 21 years, 9 months. But it’s now got to the point where I’m sick of not winning… Ryan and Rob are still at the helm, but over the last season, there has been a lot of talk of them wanting to move on so I want to deliver them something special before they do. So I’ve decided to rip up the tactical rulebook that has always worked quite well for us, and instead try and create something NEW in the hope it inspires the squad to win win win. I also wanted to share it with you here. Not because I hope to teach you anything new, because I promise I won’t - I don’t watch enough real-life football and I do not read any tactical analysis pieces to admit I know enough to create something that will inspire any of you. But what I will do is try and apply common sense, based on years of playing the game in the hope it creates something that will take my game up another level. Happy reading. So, the first thing is first, HOW do I want to play? Jurgen Klopp said in an interview this pre-season, "I would love to be that team where everyone thinks 'oh God, Liverpool...'." "I want us to be a high-press team. Specialists in possession, specialists in high press. Best in the world in counter-press." And that’s exactly the philosophy I want to apply at Wrexham for the upcoming 34/35 season. It’s also what the board and fans want… and given it’s our final year in at The Racecourse Group before we move to the 47,000-seated Joey Jones Arena, I am willing to give them what they want. As a small, personal ambition, I would really like to do something about this… 9/12 times is a joke and I believe our soon-to-be Superstar Lewis Astley can topple Haaland. I’d also quite like to topple him in other persona accolades because in the last 12 years, Haaland has also won the Balon D’or 8 times! It’s my personal mission to ruin his legacy. I’m coming for you, Erling. I want him to be the goalscorer, the guy who ends most seasons with 40+ goals in all competitions. He is going to be the guy who puts everything away. In fact, 40 is too low. I want 50, in each season he plays. He has everything Cleon writes about in this article here (https://www.viewfromthetouchline.com/2023/01/23/fm23-the-secrets-of-successful-goalscoring/) So the focus on the roles and duties in this tactic has to be on support and supply. So what happens next… Well, let’s talk about the team instructions first. In Possessions: Play out of Defence I think it’s important to be realistic when you want your team to play a certain way, but equally, knowing that they don’t always have the correct skillset to do it. My defenders are great, at defending… But they lack composure, with the average of my fullbacks and centrebacks being just 12.5 The passing average is 11.75, the first touch is 12. But as I said, they are young and have lots of room to improve so I’m going to let them ‘mature’ into their responsibilities. So I will be careful to ensure that for any team that presses high and presses well, we will aim to bypass this. Shorter Passing Looking at the squad comparison, our average first touch across the whole squad is 12.83, our passing is 12.91, composure is 12.36, decisions 14.36 and off the ball is 11.40 At this point, I’m thinking square peg round hole but I’m gonna stick to my guns and try to give the fans what they want… we will see. Dribble Less I want the team to keep the ball only as long as they need to before making the next pass. I don’t mind players, who have personal traits such as running with the ball more often and doing what they want to do, but otherwise, I want this limited within the team instructions. Fairly Narrow This is where our playmakers are - in the middle of the pitch - so that’s where I want the ball. In Transition: Distribute to Centre Backs: It makes sense that if I want to retain the ball and focus on building from the back, then there should be no wild distribution from the GK. Slow Pace Down: I want to counterattack, but only when the moment is right. I read somewhere that this TI can just calm things down slightly so that’s why I’ve selected it. Counter: Based on my personal goal of wanting Astley to score a bucketload, it makes sense to sometimes… just sometimes, when the moment is right to bypass the need to want to make 50 passes before scoring a goal and simply just get the ball to him as quickly as possible if the space is there. Counter-Press: “Whatever we play, counter-press will be a big part. I hope we don't have to use it that often because I want us to keep the ball and then in the end of possession, shoot it in the back of the net!” - Jurgen Klopp Out of Possession: Higher Defensive Line: Ahhhh something my team might actually be able to play looking at the average attributes needed to play this demand successfully. Average anticipation: 15.75 Average pace: 15.75 Average positioning: 14.25 Average concentration: 14 With lots of room to grow/improve too. High Press: My base tactic is 4-2-3-1, so with 4 players stationed high, it makes sense to start pressing high. Do my team lack the necessary skills in order to do this? Well, we certainly wouldn’t be the worst team in the league trying to do this… More Often: I think this just makes sense given I went to be an absolute nuisance without the ball. So how does this all tie together? A few thoughts: I really do want to build from the back. So, with a sweeper keeper on defend, and with the team instruction to ‘slow pace down’, I’m hoping for the most part, when he’s got the ball he will play it out to the centre-backs but if there is a clear opportunity to counter, he will go for it… I want full-backs instead of wing-backs because I want them to offer passing options when playing up the pitch. I do not want them to shoot forward as soon as we are in possession. I don’t know if this would be the case but on paper, the wingbacks do sound like they would be more aggressive. I want my left back to offer width and balls into the box to Astley, so I’m hoping the overlap left shout will make him a little more aggressive. It might not be necessary with him being on an attacking duty but we will see… I like the idea of both my CMs being in the DM strata to help with that build-up and I’m hoping with them both being on a support duty, they will move up with the ball. I want my winger on the right to hold the width, but he has a trait of wanting to cut inside from the right, so I’m hoping he will play like Grealish does in real life. My AM is instructed to be riskier with his passing And my left-inverted winger I expect to supply goals and assists. So yeah, let’s see how this plays out…
  10. Example of what I mean here. Even at this point of the save, we do not sign wonder kids just for the sake of it. At the age of 18, they have to have a clear pathway into the first team. If they don't, they will be loaned out, or if they're not good enough - sold. All of these players, despite being sold for a great, great price had someone to step into their shoes. Obviously based on my goal of wanting my first team dominated by academy players, they will not be sold at any price so we're buying less and less players from abroad now.
  11. WARNING: Screenshot spam incoming The year is 2035 and Rob and Ryan have sold the club to ... Matthew Porter who has links with Port Vale? NO idea in what capacity but that was a weird one. We got linked quite heavily with tycoons but yeah some dude from Leaguewhatever ended up buying us. Fast forward 2 years later and we're now in 2037 so if you want to see what life at Wrexham looks like after 16 years in the game then keep reading... So this is a long overdue post. The last time I put an update in here, I'd just finished my 2nd season in the Premier League and we finished 4th. We won absolutely nothing between winning the National League in 2023 to winning the Community Shield in 2031. Since then, we've won an epic haul of trophies (Minus the Sky Bet League One - which was won in 1978) And we moved to a new stadium! This is sad because I loved the history behind the Racecourse but we were pretty stunted by it's inability to expand beyond like 18k seats. So our home is now Arfon Griffith Park which seats 35,312 but is already being expanded to 40,100 something. We have a VAST scouting network - 25 strong covering all of Europe, South America and Africa with a couple of them looking in Asia. We have the best First Team coaching team in the World, no arguments to be had here: And in comparison to the rest of the league, our U21 and U18 coaching team is not too shabby either: Our U18's have been up there with Spurs recently - trying to win their respective league year after year (2 in the last 4) I'll admit, we're at a stage in the save now, where we pretty much have world-class players in each position, and in the games we play, we are winning convincingly. It has been so much fun getting to this point, but it does beg the question - what now? See examples of said-world-class-players: So I've set a few long-term objectives which, I think if we can continue developing the players in the way we are, we should achieve them. It's simple: - Wales to be ranked 1st in the World Rankings (38th) - 75% of the Wales Starting XI to include Wrexham players (4/8 so far) - 6/11 of the Wrexham players to be from the youth academy (2/6 so far) - A Wrexham Born and Bred Player to win the Ballon d'Or - A Wrexham Born and Bred Player to win the FIFA U21s BEST PLAYER In terms of who I expect to come through the ranks next, we have these 3 starlets who I think can turn out to be World Class. Thankfully, I have zero loyalty to the players we have signed from elsewhere so the pathway should be pretty simple for them. .... except maybe Bootsma who is basically Messi mk2 which is annoying as our home-grown Ali looks like he could become a superstar 😭
  12. After just our 2nd season in the Premier we've managed to get Champions League football!
  13. Brilliant. Surprising how much money you get for good cup runs the lower down you are.
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