Sonic Youth

Still poised to take advantage of any slip-ups of other title challengers, especially if those defensive foibles are now minimised, and your partnership boosts your team play. Progress in Europe, with A. Madrid better than Bayern Munich in my opinion. I guess you’ll need to wait and see with your youth intake from the looks of things.

Not sure I’m keen on this intake, though squad depth I guess. Been a few intakes that has a star come through. Not sure if you’d consider this gaming the system, but if you want to sell a keeper, would setting them as a set piece taker make it easier to? Or harder because they will be unhappy?

Oh. There’s another page. And stuff happened Meh, not the big month ending I was hoping to read. Still though, a fantastic season, coming second by a fine margin, and making the finals of UCL and the Cup.

Ha! Striker-Keeper for the extra time win and progress from the Quarterfinals of the UCL after a 90th minute goal to force extra time Now with a decent advantage over Porto in the Semi’s. Oh yes, congrats on your 3-0 against Real Sociedad. The league is tight, though in your advantage And you’ve made another cup final, at Benfica’s expense It’s going to be a big month next month!

Christmas has come to save you from shopping around for an alternative tactic in the nick of time Seriously though, you’ve been on form this last month and desperately unlucky against Inter. I did enjoy your Creative Efficiencies link with Jan ter Burg rubbing shoulders with Haaland and then seeing their salaries. So who is providing value for money there then? Sometimes I find I need to read your post a few times to make sure I’ve noticed the details in your stats, graphics, links and graphs to make sure I’m gleaning what your explaining. I could only imagine what you’d get up to if you did have a laptop that could handle that much FM. More posts I’d imagine, which I would still be reading

Real Sociedad in Europe 4-6? Only need to win 2-0 at home now I like how you’ve got a 20 goal a season striker-keeper Got a lot to play for next month!

Top result against Man Utd, with who else but Gowdy popping up with the winner Your GA/FOR are amazing

Those awards won by your players are amazing. All worthy winners Your form is still great (we won’t talk about that Benfica loss), table topping, cup winning, European progressing, a month with all clean sheets The youth intake preview looks intriguing. I guess that list of ex-players who are now backroom staff are not good enough to displace/add to your team. There is a few on that list too.

Gowdy’s two windows away from being your most capped International on top of scoring the most international goals

Ah well. Is there many ex-Belenenses players who are backroom staff?

Another cycle concluded. Did he turn into a scout/coach/something else?

What’s happening to Lopez? Is he unhappy about something?

Jersey have started well, with Newcastle and Man Utd running hot. Recruitment has gone well, with your new exciting striker Alaoui starting well. This coming month is going to see how good Man Utd is and which European competition you’ll end up in.

Gowdy’s number are something to see! Also noticed that your the only English team (ok ‘English’ team in the top 10 player development table Nice Commercial Income position too.

Amazing season, even more impressive than last season

Imperious form! What I don’t understand is why the board needs to take out a £61million pound loan to complete the training facility upgrade. Decent youth intake, with players who will fill in your squad nicely around your stars.

Form is great That is a lot of GK goals!

That’s some start to the season! Bit unfortunate in the Super Cup and Supertaca though. Four Ako goals looks a promising start to hitting 20 goals. Next month is when business tightens up with European football I think. That’ll see where the top 3/4 teams shake out for this season. Scoring almost 3 a game is striking too

Good post Based off the three skill attributes, 2 out of three ain’t bad but 1 of 3 is going to be tough to reach their potential. Did you find any examples like that (high PA, lowered than 10 or 5 in 2x of amb/det/pro?) and if so how did they progress? I guess a certain level of facilities and coaching must be available to the players in the top 100. It looks like the majority came from top teams and leagues. Stating the obvious there, though there’s bound to be some that came up via alternative routes.

So good team/position/transfer analysis in your last couple of posts I really like the squad breakdown table. Would include a top score add to that table as a second comparative statistical marker of what the top player (passes eye test) has? Or not relevant? I like how your keeping us hanging on your top Central Midfield target It’s curious how the players you end up with from your statistical approach aren’t what you’d typically look for if searching by skill levels. It’s bringing a different dynamic to your save.

Man City must think what must be if they had been successful with Gowdy.

Now there’s some mic-drop posts above Jimbo! Congrats on winning the league, ECL, the Cup, the universe and everything in it

Hitting some good form at the business end of the season and looking a good ticket for your fans to watch That youth intake looks very midfield/defender heavy. What were you hoping for to come through? For a tall nation, that’s a reasonably short intake! Also, is that a couple of feeder club players? Ajax unfortunately too far this season. It was curious though to see the breakdown of your draws, and then find out that it’s harder to read which part of the table they were against. That though is the place to concentrate on moving forward and your approach is definitely helping you get to this point (draws instead of losses, and I see wins instead of draws next step ). Going to be an exciting finish to the season

Bright start! Rosa definitely is starring this season. Has looked a quality forward finally finding his place Ako signing a new long term contract? Is this the season a GK scores 20 goals? Benfica still lurking I see. Also a fan of your squad round-ups! Interesting to see we’re the players sit in the player position filters (though wingers need no write-up!). What did Real Madrid mean when the said they didn’t like your wage budget and league expectations? Also how old is Naglesman?

Two surprises there, and there’s even a chance England isn’t the only team he loses his first team place from! Not getting out of the group stages though Kind of surprised that Tamara is the only 90+ rated player. If he left, I think he’d leave a gap in your midfield for a little time. Would you consider changing tactics? Not surprised about the bids though except that it’s Norwich doing it This was awesome to see