[The Unofficial French League Superthread FM2021]

7 hours ago, Gungner said:

How are you getting Nkoulou for £3 mil? Plus he wants an outragious wage. And there is no room in the wage budget for Lille... 

Seems like a challenge to say the least.

I also bought Nkoulou in S1, Torino transfer list him for £3m. Had to ask the board to negotiate his contract though!

Season 3 and I have won Ligue 1 with Lille, earlier than I had expected to. Luckily for me PSG were very inconsistent, and kept losing stupid games. Brenner has been insane with 36 league goals in 34 games. Unfortunately though, I can't crack Europe, with a group stage exit from the CL before a defeat to PSV in the Europa. That's my next challenge.

 

 

[The Unofficial French League Superthread FM2021]

Finally a thread! I'm in S3 with Lille. This save really appealed to me with the amount of talented youngsters, healthy financial situation, good facilities, and of course the challenge to stop PSG's dominance and to push Ligue 1 up the European coefficients.

 

First season was a little hit and miss, I signed Andrea Papetti, Victor Nelsson and Nicholas Nkoulou to bolster a weak looking defence. Started off shakey, struggling to string two wins together, however I had signed striker Brenner from Sao Paulo in January and climbed the table to finish 4th. 

 

Second season was entirely different. I had somehow managed to sign Sandro Tonali for only £11.5m after he had flopped (!) at Milan, who formed a formidable midfield partnership with Renato Sanches. Angel Gomes came back from his loan spell at Boavista and was like a brand new signing aswell. Having sold Celik in season 1 to raise funds to buy Brenner, full-backs had been a problem, so in came Angelino from Man City and eventually in January Emerson from Barcelona on loan, who proved to be a real coup. I had also captured centre-back Julian Chabot from Sampdoria who has been a revelation, and having sold Timothy Weah to Crystal Palace, replaced him with Justin Kluivert. We won 21 of our last 23 league games after a steady start, and finished the season on 96 points, certainly an achievement I didn't expect to achieve. However PSG were untouchable and won the league with 100 points.

 

In the third season now, I've added Yari Verschaeren, Zinchenko (loan), Emerson (loan again) and Juan Foyth (loan), depth is especially important this season due to the congestion caused by the World Cup in the winter. Currently top after 9 games, finding the Champions League a little rough though with a group of Man City, Atleti, and Atalanta! This is how I line up now - 

 

GK - Maignan

 Emerson (WB) Chabot (BPD) Papetti (CB) Angelino (WB)

Sanches (BBM) Tonali (DLP)

Ikone (IF) Verschaeren (AP) Gomes/Bamba/Kluivert (IW)

Brenner (AF)