Angus Osborne

I started doing in this in previous versions of FM (but haven't really done it in FM23). Setting up the man-marking properly is too much work for me in FM, but I think the basic principle of -1 in attack and +1 in defence works really well with a pressing style. I used to fudge it a bit and use a HB or DM(D) instead of a third centre defender

... but this. Try watching football rather than reading the headlines on the back page of the Daily Mail.

Looking at your team you're possibly not looking at it objectively (but then neither am I). Bielsa is a beautiful man, but by no means a perfect coach. His Leeds played some wonderful football, beyond their apparent talent. The "inevitable" exhaustion had an awful lot do with his extreme fussiness over buying new players and rotating the squad. Maybe there's a perfect DoF somewhere who could overcome that, but I think Victor Orta did as well as anyone ever has. So basically I agree with everything you said except the creativity comment :-) Leeds fans will never love another manager who loses 6-3 to Man Utd a hundredth as much as we love Bielsa

I don't think that Bielsa-ball can be properly simulated in FM. As a human manager in FM you can achieve more than Bielsa has in real life, apart from the beauty

If you change your CMs to DMs then DLP(D) and Segundo Volante would be about equivalent to what you have now.

It is going to trigger when 57 days up. There will be a chat with the player, but none of the options will make him happy.

I have no idea if it will be functional, but make the left DMC an MC who goes forward instead, a Mezzala might be an interesting option.

I don't go to that level of detail sorry! I occasionally man mark an opposition player, but I worry about that player being switched to another position and my defence becoming vulnerable until I realise

Press Outside

It must be possible, because he can see in opposition previews that players in AI can have good partnerships, but I think it's going to be statistically very unlikely to occur. It seems there has to be a fairly high number of games played together to get the good partnership link, and how often do youth players, who play together a lot, continue to play together a lot in the first team, without a significant break?

I'm using it, but I would love it if there was a feature where it had my squad listed and I could drag and drop the players into positions in the tactic

Suspect this is small beans, but I broke the Serie A single season goalscorer record with Sebastiano Esposito scoring 35 at Atalanta in. Went undefeated too