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41 minutes ago, Ronaldo Beckham said:
Good luck in the save, interesting idea but I do feel like your current team is worst then the one you started with but that is just my opinion.
Very valid point but the idea is that these players are starters for this season to (hopefully) impart some of their professionalism etc.
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https://twitter.com/footballdaily/status/1282305692192460801?s=20
Following Seamus Coleman's comments yesterday, I have decied to start a save that focuses on rebuilding the team with more favourable personalities. 'Negative' personalities will be discarded from the squad and model pros will be embedded to mentor younger players.
There are many players I have sold that I have an attachment to in real life, so although the overhaul is drastic, I wouldn't say it is necessarily realistic in terms of my own allegiances to said players as a supporter of Everton.
Transfers Out
Richarlison to Leicester - £30m
DCL to Newcastle - £15m rising to £35m over terms
Mason Holgate to AC Milan - £15m rising to £30m over terms
Tom Davies to DL Pro - £15m rising to £30m over terms
Bernard to Guangzhou Evergrande - £30m
Theo Walcott to Shanghai Shenhua - £15m
Seamus Coleman to Burnley - £12m
Morgan Schneiderlin to Tianjin Teda - £3.8m
Oumar Niasse to CSKA Moscow - £3.8m
Anthony Gordon to Wolves - £2.5m
Loans Out
Andre Gomes to Man Utd
Yerry Mina to to Sevilla
Transfers In
Marasha Kumbulla - £20m rising to £50m over terms
Dominik Szoboszlai - £20m rising to £40m over terms
Steven Sessegnon - £12.5m rising to £32.5m over terms
Noah Katterbach - £5m rising to £15m over terms
Kenneth Taylor - £7.5m rising to £15m over terms
Marcus Dewhurst - £7.5m rising to £15m over terms
Antonio Marin - £5m rising to £11m over terms
Yusuf Demir - £3.5m rising to £10m over terms
Jorrit Hendrix - £5m rising to £10m over terms
Viktor Fischer - £4.5m
Karol Fila - £1m rising to £3.5m over terms
Signings under £1m
Rober, Jesus Vazquez, Amadou Diallo, Lucho Gonzalez, Rodrigo Palacio, Devyne Rensch, Adam Hlozek, Darren Fletcher, Gorka Iraizoz and Rayan Ait Nouri (loan).
In essence, a lot of comings and goings. I tried offloading Jordan Pickford but there was limited interest as he is on astronomical wages, I've no doubt he will be sold in January. Josko Gvardiol is also arriving in January for a few of £5m rising to £12m.
Starting Eleven
Provisionally, I see this as the starting eleven for most of the campaign. Szoboszlai, Marin and Demir will be starters no doubt eventually but the ideology is for them to be mentored first and foremost so that their development can be maximised. Palacio is responsible for mentoring Marin and Demir whereas Darren Fletcher is mentoring Szoboszlai as well as Kenneth Taylor.
I have deliberately tried to sign as many ambidextrous players as possible as I want to see how effective a lineup with a lot of either footed players will be in the long-term. In my next post, I will update on how the first season goes. There will be a few more younger players signed who fit this philosophy (Filip Stevanovic, Rayan Cherki, Chris Mochrie and Romano Postema are players I like the look of).
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On 05/07/2020 at 12:25, ThomasHK1979 said:
Can’t choose between them.
Got an 35.5M Euro accepted for Kana and a 16.1M Euro accepted for Szoboszlai.
The role will be Box-to-box in a 4231 system.
cant choose? Which one :-)I'd go Szoboszlai if it's first season, if not then ultimately it depends on how they are both looking on your save.
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15 hours ago, Gee_Simpson said:
Lol nice, I wasn't expecting to see his name in here! I signed him for Man Utd 1st season because he looked decent but I only bought him to improve my under 23's, could he make it in the first team?!
I bought Gvardiol and Kenneh too! I loaned Gvardiol out to Nottingham Forest but will give him some game time this season.
I was actually searching the forums for feedback on Esposito. I can sign him now for 20m, is he worth it? This will be for season 2.
Potentially mate but for a team like Man Utd, he'd be more of a rotation option mate - I have a screenshot of him at his peak in another thread somewhere, he's still very good when you train him from the start.
Both of them are potentially class, both capable of reaching Ruben Dias/Milan Skriniar level of quality when fully developed.
I would do yeah, Esposito develops into a class striker irrespective of save because of his aerial presence and the fact he is so well rounded as a striker.
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On 04/07/2020 at 17:34, That There Phil said:
He's been great for me, and still has significant influence in my mentoring groups.
Hmm it's a strange one. He performs really well I find but as a mentor he doesn't seem great for me, don't know why - I've always used smaller mentoring groups too.
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You got a bad roll on Anjorin's determination, I think that is what is holding him back. I've seen him become very good on some saves!
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On 02/07/2020 at 12:30, That There Phil said:
It looks like age might finally be caching up with Rodrigo Palacio. Fortunately we only have 2 games to go this season, and he will only be an emergency backup player next year before he retires in June 2022. Hopefully we can still get some mentoring influence from him in his final season.
I've had him a few times now, I find he's quite hit and miss as a mentor unless he's significantly better than the player(s) he is mentoring.
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3 minutes ago, Stackalee said:
Thanks man, sorry if that was a bother I probably shouldn't be browsing forums with a headache!
Really solid development there, are you managing Germany too or has he done that well for the AI?
Also funny thing, I've never actually noticed real players gaining weight over time before.
No worries dude, we all experience it from time to time!
I've got another manager as Germany, yeah. He's on penalties and free kicks for Germany so he scores a lot more for them, on top of some friendlies against obscure nations haha.
I've never noticed it as vast as that before myself either! It may well correlate with the strength increase.
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1 hour ago, Stackalee said:
Is there a way to pause this? Finding it pretty hard to look at tbh.
Unfortunately not, I will tinker with the settings when I create the next GIFs though! For your convenience however:
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Chances are the one who is wanted by the better clubs will have a higher reputation, it is never necessarily a sign that one is better than the other and the 75 rating is generally dependent on other factors such as form, professionalism/ambition and reputation. An unambitious individual tends not to develop very well for example.
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Karim Adeyemi
Three time Ballon D'Or winner at 21 and overall absurd goalscorer, one of the best players on the game, given you really aggressively train his finishing.
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Louis Munteanu. Young, cheap, lots of potential, would allow you to put money elsewhere then too.
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2 hours ago, That There Phil said:
I'm in desperate need of a new deep lying forward this summer, but Trent Alexander-Arnold is unhappy at Liverpool and potentially interested in joining us. He'd be an absolute monster in the RWB role!
I've always wanted to sign Trent on a save, it's virtually impossible doing so when managing Everton though. I hope you manage to pull it off!
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2 hours ago, karanhsingh said:
This is just mental. What does your whole team look like now?
This is my usual starting eleven mate. Brooks, I've always been quite fond of as a player so I prefer starting him over Vinicius - he isn't quite as potent as Vinicius BUT he's a very good finisher. Fornals, Tonali and Bentancur have all NEVER played in midfield and specifically operate as natural full-backs, so the sheer passing ability on the pitch is unmatched really. Don't get me wrong, there has been times on this save where my balance has been -£80m because I've brought a lot of these players in over installments. I'm only really at a stage now where the finances are fine and I can possibly start looking to spend big on an Mbappe or someone like that.
I personally love Szoboszlai and Verschaeren on this edition of the game. Had them both in my first season training their passing and they are both Pirlo-esque in their own right now.
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2021/22 Attribute Progress
This screenshot is a bit later as I didn't have an autosave from the 2021/22 season unfortunately. As you can see, his finishing has improved by 2 which is massive, meaning his finishing has improved by 8 over the course of 3 years - a gigantic leap! Adeyemi's personality was also impacted by Lautaro Martinez as his personality changed to professional and he also transitioned from a wonderkid to an elite striker. I would say he is now world-class in terms of his attributes, for sure.
How many did he score?
He was absolutely absurd, scoring 36 in 34 from open play and 13 penalties on top of that to absolutely smash Mo Salah's record as well as Alan Shearer's and Andy Cole's. The penalties certainly helped but he broken their records without them. He also broke his own record set in the Champions League in the previous year (which Cristiano Ronaldo held with 17) with a 24 goal campaign. Of course, he won the golden boot in the Premier League and Champions League.
At international level, he was imperious in Germany's qualifying campaign for the World Cup - scoring 16 from open play and six from the spot. His international record is phenomenal as some of the quality of opposition is much poorer than the Premier League. Suffice to say, he became Germany's all-time leading goalscorer at the age of 20. I can't wait to see how many goals he actually scores in his career for Germany.
2nd UCL Win
He wasn't at his best in the final but two of our academy newgens rescued us thankfully.
Awards
I honestly don't think I've ever had a player this young be so dominant on an FM save, he was out of this world in this campaign and one can only hope that he will one day break that 60 goal domestic record. It was a shame he couldn't play in four Premier League games, as I have no doubt he'd have at least scored four more.
Considering he scored 79 in the calendar year, I will also now be hoping that he breaks Lionel Messi's record of 91 goals scored in a calendar year.
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I have a couple to show. Radulovic has probably been my most impressive this year, remind me a lot of SMS from Lazio.
Jezik came in at a time where I'd unfortunately just managed to poach Ansu Fati from Barcelona, so unfortunately his game time was limited but I still managed to develop him extremely well. He lacked a bit in flair but I thought he was outrageous considering I paid a mere £1m for him in 2021.
I'm posting this guy on the premise of how good he is at 18! He is nowhere near his full potential but he looks excellent. Unfortunately, I probably won't play this Wolves save again but I think he could surpass Trent's ability at RB.
Ignore the attributes decreasing as he is an absolute monster! Used him as a mezzala, box-to-box midfielder and even sometimes as a false nine up-front, he's the real deal.
Only just signed this guy but wow, look at his attributes! If only he was a bit taller, he'd be perfect. Find it totally bizarre that he came through at Hearts but obliged to pick him up for his release fee of £19m, an absolute steal.
This guy came through the academy as a striker, I noticed that his crossing was as good as his finishing, so I retrained him as a LM as we lacked in that position. Suffice to say, his last season was stupendously good - 20 goals in 37 starts and 11 assists, many of those goals were free-kicks also. Reminds me of a left-footed David Beckham, will update when he hits his potential.
Also, on more recent saves I have started to add real images to newgens for realism value in case anyone wondered.
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3 hours ago, Jorge666 said:
I'm currently running a save with Lyon, I think I may have found another thing that will help MASSIVELY, I hired a load of coaches looking only at what stars in the coaching rating they'd give me and not at mental attributes, didn't think anything of it, high stars = good attribute boosts in training and while that may be true for technical attributes, I noticed many of my younger players determination started flagging, so I replaced all the ones with determination <15 and lo-and-behold, the dropping of determination seems to have stopped
Yes I do believe that this is another factor. I tend to employ determined and professional staff and I have noticed this too.
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It isn't impossible! I'm doing a similar thing with Karim Adeyemi and he is currently averaging 64 a season, so it is definitely doable.
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6 hours ago, karanhsingh said:
Nice idea! He looks immense already
Thank you! He's really something else, his development on the game is often very different to how he looks on my save - it is catered to the fact every game he has played has been as a striker. The AI will often play him as a winger because of his pace but managing Germany too has allowed me to make sure he is primarily a central goalscorer.
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19 minutes ago, Don Logan said:
Following this with great interest. Two questions about mentoring though.
Can one model citizen highly influential player improve the personality of another highly influential player with an inferior personality. Or would they cancel each other out?
Is three the sweet spot for the size of mentoring groups?
Answer to your first question is yes. On my save Lautaro Martinez and Karim Adeyemi were both highly influential players but Lautaro helped improve Karim's personality.
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A delve into the future...
So, on this save I am currently in 2023. I am detailing a lot of Adeyemi's accolades based on autosaves I have. I thought I'd just tease the sort of form he is in at the moment in 2023, I feel like this could be the closest he will get so far to Dixie's record. 6 in 3 in the Champions League and 12 in 6 in the Premier League, outrageous.
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2020/21 Attribute Progress
Vast improvements once again, in fact he improved rapidly after we upgraded our training facilities which seems as though it was a godsend in his development. We managed to sign Lautaro Martinez who acted as his mentor (hence the determination increase) after Rodrigo Palacio's decline due to age. He also managed to pick up the 'tries tricks' trait from Mason Greenwood who was also in the mentoring group.
How many did he score?
He didn't disappoint again, I went into this season simply hoping for attribute improvements as well as better his goalscoring record from last season and he delivered with extreme potency. He had a few injuries which meant he missed more Premier League games than I would have liked but to score 31 was great output in that respect. He also emphatically lead us to a Champions League win, we had a comfortable run to the final admittedly but his performance in the final against Barcelona stole the show. I almost forgot but he also lead my Germany side to a Euro win too, scoring in the final of that too. Granted, he scores a lot of penalties for Germany.
Everton UCL Win
Move over, Messi, there is a new king in town.
Germany European Championship Win
Move over, Cristiano, there is a new Adonis.
European Golden Boy
FIFA Best U21 Men's Player
Following in Joao Felix and Kylian Mbappe's footsteps respectively, Adeyemi picked up both awards with his stellar form across the calendar year.
Can he keep up the goalscoring?
The tactic I use is a 4-3-1-2 with attacking wingers, made by Knap, it is a gegenpressing system and both strikers in this system score a lot of goals. I have no doubt that as Adeyemi's attribute increase, so will his goal output. I may well change to a formation with one striker later in the save, if he is not getting remotely close to Dixie Dean's record but I am hopeful that the next season will see him far eclipse his 31 league goal tally as he already has 17 in 14 in mid-January.
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2019/20 Attribute Progress
As you can see here, his finishing improved by 3 as well as his technique and composure. Overall, his development was excellent. I played him as an advanced forward for club and country and focused his training on his shooting. He was also being mentored by Rodrigo Palacio for the entirety of the campaign as he is a model citizen and I believe he has an ideal personality to impact Adeyemi and his development in the long-term. He also managed to develop the 'moves into channels' trait thanks to Palacio's mentoring as well as an increase in his determination attribute.
How many did he score?
He was surprisingly excellent! Many times over the course of the season, I was left scratching my head - how on earth was he scoring so many? His finishing, although not great in attribute terms, was really really consistent. He scored our very first domestic goal in the save and ended up on 26 goals, with only three of those being penalties! This meant that he picked up the golden boot award in his FIRST season, it was utterly absurd considering how inferior in quality he is to Harry Kane. Mason Greenwood did rather well too, mind.
We also boosted his goalscoring record for Germany by playing friendlies against San Marino, US Virgin Islands and Eritrea. However, he did have five goals in 5 appearances in European Championship Qualifying, so he was no slouch in that respect.
Golden Boot
The Retention of Hot Property...
His performances led to the vast majority of the elite clubs in European football willing to break the bank to sign him, however, I clocked this interest before the transfer window opened and signed him a new lucrative deal in order to avoid him becoming unsettled by the transfer rumours.
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Karim Adeyemi
Karim Adeyemi is an 18-year-old German forward who currently plays for RB Salzburg in Austria. He has been on loan at Salzburg's feeder club FC Liefering (they essentially act as Salzburg's B team, in a similar format to Spain and Holland's reserve squads where they cannot be promoted to the top tier of the Austrian Bundesliga) for the past two seasons, during the earlier stages of the 2019/20 campaign, he mustered up 9 goals and 8 assists in 14 domestic appearances for Liefering. Adeyemi's raw pace, ability to beat his man and versatility across the front line has seen the Munich-born starlet linked to some of European football's elite clubs in more recent times. Since March 2020, however, he has returned to RB Salzburg and has been involved with the first team. During this time, he has contributed 3 assists in 5 goals, thriving in a LW role during his appearance against Sturm Graz in which he assisted twice, a shot on goal that Patson Daka dispatched and later a pass into Hee-Chan Hwang to round out a 5-1 win for Salzburg.
In the realm of Football Manager, in one of the most recent updates, Karim Adeyemi saw his potential ability raised. Without delving into the intricacies of the upgrade that he received, as I know not everyone wants to know the 'beneath the bonnet' bits of FM shall we say, to liken this upgrade in terms of player comparisons - he could become either as good as Vincent Aboubakar in his prime or reach the lofty heights of a prime Gonzalo Higuain or Robert Lewandowski. This is dependent on the potential ability roll players of this ilk receive whenever you start a new save. Obviously, we all would prefer a roll on the higher end, especially when it is a player we actively want to sign.
What does this career entail?
I will sign Adeyemi for my boyhood Everton in my first season, regardless of how much I have to pay. My ultimate goal with this save is to develop Adeyemi into an elite striker, that is a given and an absolute requisite for him to achieve my ultimate goal. I want him to win golden boots, I want him to win Champions League trophies and I want him to win the Ballon D'Or. But what is the most difficult thing I ideally want him to achieve? I want him to break Dixie Dean's long-standing goalscoring record in the top-flight of English football or old First Division as it was when Dixie Dean accomplished the feat of 60 league goals in a domestic campaign. This occurred in the 1927-28 season where this record was set in 39 games. Adeyemi will have one less game per season to do this.
If Adeyemi is to topple this record, he must first break Mo Salah's record of 32 goals in the modern 38 Premier League game campaign as well as Alan Shearer and Andy Cole's record of 34 goals in a 42 game Premier League campaign. Even so, neither of these are necessarily easy to break.
Along the way, I hope I can manage to break Gareth Barry's appearance record of 653 in the Premier League also but this is extremely unlikely as he would have to appear 37 times (on average) over the course of an 18 year career in the Premier League (assuming that he retired at the age of 35). If I do break this with another player though, I will update.
Is he actually any good on the game?
So here we are, at the very start of the game. On the surface, he looks very average in terms of using him as a starting striker in the Premier League but given his age, his off the ball movement, combined with his pace, flair and determination will be extremely meta for the game engine. Do I anticipate that he will score most of the chances created for him or the chances he creates for himself? Probably not, not in the first season at least.
How will I maximise his goalscoring?
I am adding two managers to the game, I managing Everton and Germany as separate managers. Therefore, he will be starting for Everton and Germany at the very start of the game and be assigned to take penalties for both club and country. In retrospect, I could also make him the free-kick taker for club and country but I believe this will likely be overkill as I want Adeyemi's development to be optimised but also for club and country to be winning silverware. If a Toni Kroos can take an excellent 90th minute free-kick that could influence a game in Germany's favour then yes, he will be taking that free-kick. However, given the attacking intensity I hope to apply with club and country, I have no doubt he will score a lot of goals regardless, from open play and from the penalty spot.
And so, it begins...
Ignore that we signed him for £24m, the initial fee was £7m with £17m spread out over the course of the next three seasons. Given how high Adeyemi's seal is (as you can see from the potential ability rating), this is actually a really good fee for him. You can sign him from the very start of the game as RB Salzburg can recall him from his FC Liefering loan, therefore any club can poach him immediately without honoring his loan contract.
The calm before the storm...
In the next update, I will detail how Adeyemi progressed over the course of the first season. I don't anticipate him coming remotely close to Dixie Dean's record in his first season with us but if he scores a third of the 60 goal tally, I will be impressed.
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[FM20] Bury AFC - Building from the ground up!
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Will follow this closely, my hometown club! Crying shame what happened. Steve Dale had liquidated so many companies prior to taking the ownership reigns at Bury. It was completely nonsensical for the EFL to allow him to take control.