Balotelli

So I went on to win the champions league but lost to Liverpool in the fa cup final. Brilliant season and I got offered the Barcelona job which I couldn't really refuse. Managed to take most of my staff with me and got a whopping 242 million to spend which I will use to try and lure a few of best players from Everton. João neves and Antonio Silva will be my top priorities.

Also branthwaite 18 jumping reach is a beast from set pieces. He got 10 league goals last season haha.

Ok so third season in and I've won the league and league cup. Got Liverpool in the FA cup final and then Atalanta in the champions league final. We went something ridiculous like 48 games unbeaten and then had a bit of a slump right at the end 😅. It seems that no matter what save I play the end of season is always really tough. 4 of our final 6 games were against Chelsea, arsenal Liverpool and United. But we made it. I'll edit this post and try and post some screenshots of our standout players. Esposito ( the youngest brother) a striker from inter who in my game moved to ac Milan. Cost is £22 million last season and had been absolutely sensational I think he's scored nearly 40 goals in all comps. I only got him because spurs bid 70 million for baldanzi and needed a striker as back up to Evan Ferguson. He's pretty much too his spot but with so many games Ferguson has still managed 25+ goals. some

I've always found FFP and spending a bit easy to get around on football manager. As long as you spread most of the fee over a number of years it doesn't seem to affect much. I think its a bit more realistic this year but every time I've been in the red the owner finds a new sponsorship deal or a bails us out. I always try and sell a couple of big players a season to combat this.

Went up no problem and added some premier league experience in the form of Conor Gallagher (transfer listed at spurs for 4.9 million), wan-bissaka, Sancho on loan (he's been brilliant and his deal is up in the summer but he wants 250k a week, I think United may recall him in January). I've got bouanani from France and Evan Ferguson from the relegated Brighton. It took him a while to get going but he's finally started scoring. I also got jurrien timber from arsenal who couldn't get a game there. Going into January I'm top of the league by a point with a game in hand over Manchester city. It's a weird one bar city all the other big clubs have struggled and it's been a really competitive season. It was us and Brentford too two for the majority of the season until city went on a run. I've been offered the spurs and juventus job turned them down. I've beaten both Liverpool and Manchester city and took points off arsenal and Chelsea. I've signed diamonde from sporting Lisbon after trying all summer. And also have had a deal accepted for joao neves. I usually would've given my wonderkids more of a chance but with being in such an unexpected position I think it makes sense to go all out and at least try and get top four. Amad diallo after being our signing and player of the season last year went to Barcelona. Then hasn't played a single minute and is transfer listed haha. The same thing happened with all the players who left for fairly big money when we got relegated. It's strange that teams will spend so much to then not play the player.

Having so much fun with this save. Just bounced back at the first attempt and absolutely walked the championship. Sold all first team players bar James garner (new captain) and branthwaite who is still transfer listed by request but nobody is willing to stump up the asking price of £40 million. I've gone to town on buying as many wonderkids as possible including - restese, debast, udogie who couldn't get a game at spurs, lamprey, Barrios, casadei, samardzic, pafundi and neuhen Perez (yes udinese got relegated). Rowe, ouedraogo, baldanzi, amad diallo. Elneny who already had a transfer agreed had been a brilliant said player and scored some crackers from distance. The priority was to go straight back up because of moving into the new stadium and have done that with I think it's nine games to go. Goal difference is something stupid like +85. Lost to Liverpool in the league cup and west ham in the fa cup which are the only two disappointments. Only lost three league games and only one at home so far. Let's see how far a billionaire backer and a new stare of the art stadium can take us. I forgot to add the transfer budget despite all the deals Id done, is around £250 million with £1.8 million left over in wages.

I've started a save as Benfica no surprise their team is full of potentially world class young players. And some more experienced older heads. Antonio Silva and Enzo Fernandez might be my new favorite players this year. And florentino Luis is a football manager legend.

Ok so the board were only willing to give me 600k of the 10 million pounds bid haha. Safe to say I'd sooner let him walk for free. I managed to get him to resign on another save attempt. So we shall see. So update. Got to December and still dead set on not signing this time around. I've managed to increase my percentage of transfer revenue so have got 2.4 million of the 10 million I got for him from Wolfsburg. I've managed to bring in Facundo farias from colon. Looks solid just hope he can replace the goals Diaz got us. We're second but have been beaten by the dingles so i already feel like restarting 😂.

Iam playing as Blackburn rovers on the beta. And have decided to cash in on Diaz (depending on how much of the fee I get). Any suggestions who I could get in without breaking the bank. I looked at the lad from Coventry but he wanted 35k a week so that's a non starter. Want to keep it true to life ie someone fairly young/unknown who won't want ridiculous wages. Any suggestions? Cheers