kidthekid Posted October 25, 2018 Share Posted October 25, 2018 Truly top stuff. Congrats on the Europa league. And seeing the prices or Christensen and Kimpembe, 101 mil is low for De Ligt. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 25, 2018 Author Share Posted October 25, 2018 1 hour ago, kidthekid said: Truly top stuff. Congrats on the Europa league. And seeing the prices or Christensen and Kimpembe, 101 mil is low for De Ligt. Thanks and that's actually what I was thinking too when I saw the Christensen figure! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 25, 2018 Author Share Posted October 25, 2018 October 2021 No goals conceded and another fantastic win in the CL. No longer 100% in the league, but that's the only thing to complain about... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
john1 Posted October 25, 2018 Share Posted October 25, 2018 How much money would you be tempted to sell De Ligt, if you have to sell him? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 25, 2018 Author Share Posted October 25, 2018 14 minutes ago, john1 said: How much money would you be tempted to sell De Ligt, if you have to sell him? Good question... I was definitely thinking about it when Chelsea offered 90M but when I decided to just say no it was easy to say no to 100M as well. I would say if a club would offer something like 125m+ I would have to accept but I don't know until I get the offer what I will actually do Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 25, 2018 Author Share Posted October 25, 2018 November 2021 Two more amazing CL wins - but after more than 50 unbeaten Eredivisie games, we lose two... in a row! Right now some back-up players simply are not performing at an acceptable level, especially on the attacking end of the pitch. Last year's topscorer Cosimo Marco da Graca right now has an average rating of 6.48 It doesn't matter too much for the standings... we are still very safe at the top, provided we win the games in hand. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
walterjocoski Posted October 25, 2018 Share Posted October 25, 2018 Hello, Marc. I'd like to ask you two things: 1. What tactic are you using? 2. How do you manage your trainings? btw, you're doing well with a great club. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 25, 2018 Author Share Posted October 25, 2018 8 minutes ago, walterjocoski said: Hello, Marc. I'd like to ask you two things: 1. What tactic are you using? 2. How do you manage your trainings? btw, you're doing well with a great club. Thanks mate. I haven't changed my tactic since the first season, when I found success with a slight adaptation of the gegenpressing tactic. I let my ass man do the training schedules. At first I just thought it was a bit overwhelming honestly. It really seemed and seems to work out to let him do it so I don't really see the point of interfering now! The only thing I do myself is individual assignments, I train them in the role I want them to play, sometimes alongside any particular additional focus. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 25, 2018 Author Share Posted October 25, 2018 December 2021 An absolutely amazing win in the CL, again! But two more losses in the Eredivisie, again. Really weird contrast going on now... Incredible to look at this, really. But this, not so much. Overtaken by Feyenoord... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
john1 Posted October 25, 2018 Share Posted October 25, 2018 What happened against Heracles?! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 25, 2018 Author Share Posted October 25, 2018 13 minutes ago, john1 said: What happened against Heracles?! A similar story like the other league losses, we still dominated but just overall bad performances. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
john1 Posted October 25, 2018 Share Posted October 25, 2018 Typical FM Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 25, 2018 Author Share Posted October 25, 2018 January 2022 Totally crazy month, the amounts of offers I got... and I accepted probably too many. The two I'm not sure about are Dolberg and Ziyech - but there are reasons to sell them. Dolberg is no longer the best striker at the club, and as an AML he is also not perfect. Still though, he has always performed amazingly well for me so it might come back to haunt me, especially as my strikers right now are not really performing the way they should. Ziyech is a good player and is worth more than what I got, but he is 28 and has always performed inconsistently for me. There are many talents at the club, but I did decide to go for some more experienced players to fill the gap in Izquierdo, Watkins and Miranchuk. Edit - there were games to play as well.... Ouch, a lot more points dropped. Only beat ADO, twice... 5 points behind Feyenoord, wow. Can still catch up but really need to get back to winning ways soon. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 25, 2018 Author Share Posted October 25, 2018 February 2022 A lot better, and a pretty good start to the tie with Valencia. Hope for more... Back in first and since Feyenoord now has had a slump of form we are safely back in first - although PSV has been catching up over the last months. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 26, 2018 Author Share Posted October 26, 2018 March 2022 + Youth Intake That's remarkable if you look at it! Through to the QF's of the Champions League, to the final of the Cup and stable in the league. Not the best intake - no apparent superstars here, and the best talents are all strikers... I signed up some of the lesser ones because they had good personalities and I can't really let an Icelandic GK slip... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 26, 2018 Author Share Posted October 26, 2018 April - May 2022 We just weren't in good form here, very poor results here in the end. The Atlético game wasn't that one-sided, but well 4 low-cross goals from them plus a penalty... Happy to get a good ending with the cup final though. We just did enough to get the title, as PSV lost on the last day... Reserves won yet another title, although for most of the season VVV led the league. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
uddag_s Posted October 26, 2018 Share Posted October 26, 2018 21 hours ago, MarcxD said: Of course. The number of transfers hasn't been crazy but they've pretty much only did big deals. Also noteworthy that this summer Klopp left after winning those trophies, Allegri is the new manager. Thanks mate, really enjoying your save. Keep it up Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 26, 2018 Author Share Posted October 26, 2018 Season Review 2021-2022 + Game World Update Down turn compared to previously, domestically anyway. But we got further than we have been so far in the Champions League and we still won all domestic trophies. Second straight manager award Game World... Napoli lost the Europa League final for the second year in a row, and Chelsea got their second win this save. Look who's won their third CL in four years, and played in all four CL finals... National Champions: Austria: Red Bull Salzburg Belarus: Dinamo Minsk (2021) Belgium: Club Brugge Bulgaria: Levski Sofia Croatia: Dinamo Zagreb Czech Republic: Sparta Prague Denmark: FC Midtjylland England: Liverpool Finland: KuPS (2021) France: Monaco Germany: Dortmund Greece: PAOK Hungary: Ferencváros Iceland: FH (2021) Ireland: Shamrock Rovers (2021) Israel: Beitar Jerusalem Italy: AS Roma Northern Ireland: Coleraine Norway: Rosenborg (2021) Poland: Lech Poznan Portugal: FC Porto Romania: FC Viitorul Russia: Spartak Moscow Scotland: Celtic Serbia: Partizan Slovakia: Slovan Bratislava Slovenia: Maribor Spain: Real Madrid Sweden: Malmö (2021) Switzerland: FC Basel Turkey: Fenerbahçe Ukraine: Dynamo Kyiv Wales: TNS Astonishing dominance from Liverpool, but a bit more variation this year around in Germany and Italy, while it is surprising to see PSG not win the title for two years in a row. Pretty long dry spell for Barcelona now... who finished in third behind the two Madrid teams. The World Cup will be held in november-december 2022 in Qatar (no change in this fm!) so next season is going to be a bit different. I forgot to post the 100m+ transfer of this last january in Kingsley Coman's deal to Chelsea so I thought I would just post the biggest transfers so far. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PortgasDiAceOP Posted October 26, 2018 Share Posted October 26, 2018 great save man and really tempting for me to start one with ajax. Could you post the transfers olympiakos did? THanks in advance Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 26, 2018 Author Share Posted October 26, 2018 2 hours ago, PortgasDiAceOP said: great save man and really tempting for me to start one with ajax. Could you post the transfers olympiakos did? THanks in advance Thanks! Of course, but the Greek league is only on view-only so that might have influenced the amount of transfers they have done. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 26, 2018 Author Share Posted October 26, 2018 Pre-Season + August 2022 As always I got in some more talents, with Cihan Aydin the most exciting of the lot. On the last day of the transfer market I decided to get in a new goalkeeper as well for a decent sum. No big outgoings this time around, just some players not up to things anymore and loan fees. Got rid of Watkins and Carter-Vickers after buying them last season, they were both dreadful. This was the annual big De Ligt offer. Four 100m+ transfers this summer and almost a second 200M one, PSG made a profit on Mbappé. We did quite well in the friendlies, but had to get to the super cup pretty quickly as this season is a weird one with a world cup break in the winter. Did amazingly well in the opening match against PSV but were shocked by NEC next... This happened in the 6-0 match against PSV... The CL group we have been drawn in is going to be tough. Porto are on a long streak of winning the Portuguese league and while Barca haven't won La Liga in a while, they are always a strong team. Rennes the unlikely team from Ligue 1. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
john1 Posted October 26, 2018 Share Posted October 26, 2018 Tough CL group, can't see any reasons why you can't get to knockout round Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 26, 2018 Author Share Posted October 26, 2018 39 minutes ago, john1 said: Tough CL group, can't see any reasons why you can't get to knockout round Haha thanks for the confidence Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 26, 2018 Author Share Posted October 26, 2018 September 2022 Fantastic start to the CL, disappointing to lose another game in the league though! I think the game just took the last CL group game and took it forward so it doesn't interfere with the world cup, which explains why we started with the Barcelona double. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
john1 Posted October 26, 2018 Share Posted October 26, 2018 Massive win over Barca Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 26, 2018 Author Share Posted October 26, 2018 38 minutes ago, john1 said: Massive win over Barca Definitely some nice goals too, although I can't seem to show them as uploading them keeps bugging out Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 26, 2018 Author Share Posted October 26, 2018 October 2022 Very good stuff this month, important win over Porto as well. Awesome to see youth product Roxey Hasselbaink performing so well in his first season in the first team squad. Interesting table... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 26, 2018 Author Share Posted October 26, 2018 November - December 2022 Decent Dutch performance, but in the end France got themselves a repeat World Cup success. A bit of an overkill with friendlies if you ask me, but as far as the real games are concerned we did okay. Need to get something from the last CL game, for once in January. First real injury wave of FM19... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
john1 Posted October 26, 2018 Share Posted October 26, 2018 Surprised to see Vitesse, doing well Can I see screenshot of Da Graca? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 27, 2018 Author Share Posted October 27, 2018 11 hours ago, john1 said: Surprised to see Vitesse, doing well Can I see screenshot of Da Graca? I was too, as they were winning game after game. They seemed to have stopped doing that now though! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 27, 2018 Author Share Posted October 27, 2018 January 2023 One new signing.... another striker, but as Da Graca and Joveljic are both now injured I could use one. Let's see how they all develop in the long term. Two sales - talented right back Gustavo was sold as he is considered as very inconsistent and I don't think he will ever reach his potential, decent sum too. Schwolow was back-up GK so that's a pretty nice sum for a 30 year old player I bought for 3M. Fantastic result against Rennes, but some poor games against title rivals PSV and I guess you could call Vitesse that too! So that means PSV are looking very good on the table, while we have the same amount of points dropped as Vitesse... We did do very well in the CL group and finished first, Barcelona just missed out. Poor Rennes Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 27, 2018 Author Share Posted October 27, 2018 February 2023 Really good run including a big away win in the CL, but sucks to drop some points in the end anyway. That means the league is very very close... Vitesse doing amazing still, and PSV have dropped just enough points so that they are on the same amount of points dropped as us. Three way title race for now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
deltablue Posted October 27, 2018 Share Posted October 27, 2018 The Danes did well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 27, 2018 Author Share Posted October 27, 2018 33 minutes ago, deltablue said: The Danes did well. Definitely, no wonder with my former players Dolberg and Kristensen... (and former ajax star Eriksen) Having €210M transfered Andreas Christensen doesn't hurt them either I guess! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
john1 Posted October 27, 2018 Share Posted October 27, 2018 3 hours ago, MarcxD said: I was too, as they were winning game after game. They seemed to have stopped doing that now though! He looks decent, Is he a regen? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
john1 Posted October 27, 2018 Share Posted October 27, 2018 Decent month, good to see you beat Chelsea in first leg, surprised Barca, didn't get through Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 27, 2018 Author Share Posted October 27, 2018 4 minutes ago, john1 said: He looks decent, Is he a regen? No, he starts at Palermo, but on loan to Juventus, probably with a buy clause. I bought him from Palermo for 4.4M 4 minutes ago, john1 said: Decent month, good to see you beat Chelsea in first leg, surprised Barca, didn't get through Because of us, Porto beat us once but Barca didn't. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidthekid Posted October 27, 2018 Share Posted October 27, 2018 Great progress as always. The league has been really competitive in the past two seasons. How the other teams doing in Europe? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 27, 2018 Author Share Posted October 27, 2018 4 minutes ago, kidthekid said: Great progress as always. The league has been really competitive in the past two seasons. How the other teams doing in Europe? Thank you. PSV is really the only other team to make it to the knock-out rounds (in the Europa League), but gets knocked out pretty quickly. The other teams get some wins here and there, but not really much to write home about. Yet. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 27, 2018 Author Share Posted October 27, 2018 March 2023 + Youth Intake Very up and down month, with us making it way too difficult for ourselves in the league. We did beat Chelsea in the CL! Very important that we managed to beat Vitesse at the end of the month as well, although it was a close game. Manchester derby... Dortmund will be tough - reigning Bundesliga winners. It could very well go to the last matchday to decide who's going to win the Eredivisie. The worst intake so far, nothing great here as far as I can judge. Perhaps one of them will surprise me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gramsci Posted October 27, 2018 Share Posted October 27, 2018 Hi, can you a screenshot of Frenkie's stats right now? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 27, 2018 Author Share Posted October 27, 2018 7 minutes ago, Gramsci said: Hi, can you a screenshot of Frenkie's stats right now? Here he is. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 27, 2018 Author Share Posted October 27, 2018 April 2023 fantastic month as we not only won all Eredivisie games, we beat Dortmund and even managed to beat Liverpool at home! They should still beat us in their stadium but you never know... And we won the cup! PSV screwed up so now we just have to win the last game - Twente away. PSV play AZ at home, while Vitesse go away at Groningen. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
john1 Posted October 27, 2018 Share Posted October 27, 2018 Superb results in Champions League Hopefully you can finish the job off at Anfield. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 27, 2018 Author Share Posted October 27, 2018 May 2023 Just one step too far against Liverpool, but we did grab the title. Another straight title for the reserves. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodesire Posted October 27, 2018 Share Posted October 27, 2018 Fantastic effort! Going deep into Europe now! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 27, 2018 Author Share Posted October 27, 2018 27 minutes ago, rodesire said: Fantastic effort! Going deep into Europe now! Cheers! Just missing that bit of class for now, but it might very well happen within a few seasons. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcxD Posted October 27, 2018 Author Share Posted October 27, 2018 Season Review 2022-2023 + World Update Maybe apart from the first season the toughest league win yet; we are dropping too many points and other teams are doing quite well. It's certainly not a given that we win the league every year. I was planning on letting Tadic go after this season but this might've been his best yet, at 34 years old... He signed a one year extension which also makes him a u-19 coach. Other notable must be Hasselbaink, very impressive first season from the newgen. De Ligt and Van de Beek the first to cross the 200 games mark Hopefully many more to come. Got myself another manager of the year award - although imo it probably should've gone to Peter Bosz. Game World Update Barcelona won the Europa League, so at least they had some success. Still with Messi and Suárez! The latter signed a new deal, so he will play for them at the very least until he is 37. Still the only team this save that has managed to beat Liverpool in a knock-out game... second final of these two that United won. 5 straight CL finals for Liverpool, 6 if you count the IRL 2017-2018 season! National Champions: Austria: Red Bull Salzburg Belarus: BATE (2022) Belgium: Club Brugge Bulgaria: Ludogorets Croatia: Dinamo Zagreb Czech Republic: Slavia Prague Denmark: FC Midtjylland England: Liverpool Finland: HJK (2022) France: PSG Germany: Bayern Greece: PAOK Hungary: Vidi FC Iceland: FH (2022) Ireland: Shamrock Rovers (2022) Israel: Maccabi Tel-Aviv Italy: AS Roma Northern Ireland: Crusaders Norway: Molde (2022) Poland: Lech Poznan Portugal: FC Porto Romania: U Craiova Russia: Spartak Moscow Scotland: Celtic Serbia: Partizan Slovakia: Slovan Bratislava Slovenia: Olimpija Spain: Real Madrid Sweden: Malmö (2022) Switzerland: Young Boys Turkey: Fenerbahçe Ukraine: Shakhtar Donetsk Wales: Connah's Quay Liverpool stil won the Premier League though, so their amazing dominance continues. Most of the other big leagues got their usual suspects back in first. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PT-KK Posted October 27, 2018 Share Posted October 27, 2018 Porto actually became the first team to win 6 in a row in Portugal. Liverpool is a force to be reckoned, now more than ever. And it's the first time that I see Roma doing anything of value with an AI coach, they were always battling for survival in Serie A in FM18. Who is the manager now? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
john1 Posted October 27, 2018 Share Posted October 27, 2018 Pretty decent season SI must have put drugs cheat on Liverpool players since they winning Premier League and Champions League Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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