Carambau Posted September 14, 2019 Author Share Posted September 14, 2019 (edited) Pre-Season 2024/2025 In & Out Reynet is not getting younger and we sold our prospect Gusev, so we had to bring in a new number one goalkeeper. Diaz fits the bill. Abdellaoui is a highly talented right back who should be able to make the first team at least a few times. The other 2 are signings for the U19 team. Boom! Guiagon leaves us for Juventus. We get 30M right away and he was too keen on the move to refuse. Let´s see if we can cope without him. The rest are loans. New Signings Our new number one. The talented right back. Players Promoted From The Youth Team He was the best player in our successful U19 team last season. A backup for the left back position. Won´t get much playing time I´m afraid. Loan Players Returning He comes back from his loan at Tours and now seems ready for some first team action. He had a good loan at Amiens. Edited September 14, 2019 by Carambau Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carambau Posted September 14, 2019 Author Share Posted September 14, 2019 (edited) Pre-Season 2024/2025 First Team Squad Goalkeepers Reynet is on the decline. Diaz will take his place. Esteve will feature in the U19s as well. Defenders Mashaba has established himself as the new leader of our defence. Mathieu and Abdellaoui will battle it our for the RB position. Midfielders We have to fill the hole Guiagon left behind. Hopefully young Durand can step up. Strikers FOUR strikers. Everyone will get his chance at some time next season. Pre-Season Friendlies Not very convincing. Let the new season begin! Edited September 14, 2019 by Carambau Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
deltablue Posted September 14, 2019 Share Posted September 14, 2019 That was an interesting season, getting so close to PSG after a great season and Monaco being unbeaten. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carambau Posted September 14, 2019 Author Share Posted September 14, 2019 12 hours ago, deltablue said: That was an interesting season, getting so close to PSG after a great season and Monaco being unbeaten. Thank you! Yeah, but I would have enjoyed the boredom of us winning the league just as much Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Costly Posted September 15, 2019 Share Posted September 15, 2019 What a fantastic season - so unlucky to come away with no silverware. Shows how good you did that Monaco went unbeaten and still finished behind you. If your players can set up again, there's no reason you can't give PSG a fright at the very least! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carambau Posted September 15, 2019 Author Share Posted September 15, 2019 1 minute ago, King Costly said: What a fantastic season - so unlucky to come away with no silverware. Shows how good you did that Monaco went unbeaten and still finished behind you. If your players can set up again, there's no reason you can't give PSG a fright at the very least! Thanks a lot You´re right - I should take the positives from that close call and attack even more this season. And somehow I have the impression PSG are on the decline or at least in some sort of transition phase which we (and surely Mourinho...) could possibly take advantage of... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carambau Posted September 15, 2019 Author Share Posted September 15, 2019 (edited) Attack! We decide to splash out the money we got for Guiagon and sign this austrian national team striker for 25M! He seems the real package and I´m pretty confident he can help us and provide the goals we need to challenge for the league title. Edited September 15, 2019 by Carambau Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott92507 Posted September 15, 2019 Share Posted September 15, 2019 I play FM Touch and the youth intake in that game seems a lot different from the full game’s. I get fewer kids and just a list of names/positions/birthplaces. I need to check each player individually to see their attributes. I wonder what would happen if I released most of my reserve team (Touch has just one reserve team, does the regular game have more?); would my GM get a bigger youth intake or hire a bunch of backups so I could field a reserve team? Tough break, losing to PSG by a point. Sabotage them. Start bidding on their players with no intention of buying them. Make them unhappy at PSG. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carambau Posted September 15, 2019 Author Share Posted September 15, 2019 44 minutes ago, scott92507 said: I play FM Touch and the youth intake in that game seems a lot different from the full game’s. I get fewer kids and just a list of names/positions/birthplaces. I need to check each player individually to see their attributes. I wonder what would happen if I released most of my reserve team (Touch has just one reserve team, does the regular game have more?); would my GM get a bigger youth intake or hire a bunch of backups so I could field a reserve team? Tough break, losing to PSG by a point. Sabotage them. Start bidding on their players with no intention of buying them. Make them unhappy at PSG. Unfortunately I think what you wrote is correct... You get fewer players and you only have one reserve team. Firing all reserve players didn't Change anything sadly. At least that was always the case in my FMT saves on my Switch Sabotaging PSG sounds like a sneaky nice little idea Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott92507 Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 (edited) Oops. Somehow I posted an update here instead of in my thread. I deleted the content. Sorry! Edited September 17, 2019 by scott92507 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carambau Posted September 17, 2019 Author Share Posted September 17, 2019 (edited) No worries Edited September 18, 2019 by Carambau Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hootieleece Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 PSG seems to be a machine...there always seems to be a team in every league that is unbeatable UNTIL it becomes your team...then the ME seems to find new and weird ways for you not to win. (confirmation Bias) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carambau Posted September 18, 2019 Author Share Posted September 18, 2019 I made the same experiences in a lot of past saves in my FM playing history. But still the game´s fun - weird somehow ? Nevermind. I´m enjoying this save very much so far and I guess the next update could happen this weekend - if I will find the time Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott92507 Posted September 19, 2019 Share Posted September 19, 2019 In my Ross County career, it took several years of finishing behind Celtic to finally unseat them. Those years were probably key, because second place meant a place in the Euro Cup, which meant more money and a boost in the team’s reputation. And then the Scottish Premiership got two places in the European Champions League, so Ross County received even more prize money and more boosts to reputation. And the board approved a couple of stadium upgrades, so we were selling more tickets and making more money. Finally, we won the league and have been on top for nearly 10 seasons now. (We even reached the Champions League final three times, and won it all once. That save started with a salary budget of about 1 million pounds, and the team now spends 62 million.) All that is to say, if each season your salary budget and team reputation grow, you can overtake PSG. Avance, Toulouse! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carambau Posted September 19, 2019 Author Share Posted September 19, 2019 7 hours ago, scott92507 said: In my Ross County career, it took several years of finishing behind Celtic to finally unseat them. Those years were probably key, because second place meant a place in the Euro Cup, which meant more money and a boost in the team’s reputation. And then the Scottish Premiership got two places in the European Champions League, so Ross County received even more prize money and more boosts to reputation. And the board approved a couple of stadium upgrades, so we were selling more tickets and making more money. Finally, we won the league and have been on top for nearly 10 seasons now. (We even reached the Champions League final three times, and won it all once. That save started with a salary budget of about 1 million pounds, and the team now spends 62 million.) All that is to say, if each season your salary budget and team reputation grow, you can overtake PSG. Avance, Toulouse! Thanks thats my hope... growing and not losing patience. Money is not a concern as we got around 70M in the bank. As you know i am rather reluctant to spend big, so hopefully our new austrian striker can pay us back in goals Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carambau Posted October 2, 2019 Author Share Posted October 2, 2019 (edited) Season 2024/2025 First Half Of The Season Damn PSG. We manage to win all our games but one. And of course its THEM we lose against. But wait, this was away. You will come to visit us in 2025... We are top of the league going into the short winter break, 5 points ahead. Losing only one game helped of course. PSG have not lost a game, but dropped points elsewhere with 4 draws. Meanwhile, Monaco fired their manager Mourinho as they sit only on 5th. I would say it´s now or never for us. Our new striker Buchholzer finally seems to be the real deal. He´s scoring and scoring. Hope he continues to do so. ASSE were a piece of work but in the end we prevailed. Next are Dijon on the quarter finals. Man Utd were tough, as were Valencia, but luckily the latter dropped points against Fenerbahce. We did not. This is gonna be very hard. Club News Our U19s also made the next round. They will play Malmo FF. Edited October 8, 2019 by Carambau 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hootieleece Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 Let's do this Ligue Un for Toulouse! Down with PSG and their Oil Rich Overlords...it's all about Art and Toulouse-Lautrec! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carambau Posted October 3, 2019 Author Share Posted October 3, 2019 8 hours ago, Hootieleece said: Let's do this Ligue Un for Toulouse! Down with PSG and their Oil Rich Overlords...it's all about Art and Toulouse-Lautrec! That's the spirit! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carambau Posted October 7, 2019 Author Share Posted October 7, 2019 (edited) Season 2024/2025 Second Half Of The Season Winter Transfers Our long time number 1, Reynet, did not want to play second fiddle to Diaz and forced his move. Goodbye, Baptiste! No defeat and just 4 draws. No one expected we could hold on to our lead that easily. Once we were rolling, there was no stopping us. Even when tiredness became an issue or injuries tried to stand in our way, the called upon players delivered magnificently. The decisive match of the season was the one against PSG. Winning that meant we could put a bigger cushion between us and them and that helped us much psychologically I am pretty sure. From then we did not concede a goal in the league until march. Buchholzer could not quite keep up his goal rate from the first half of the season, but then Durand came to the rescue and scored for example. Or Simon. Or Aubert. Or Reynoso. Our defence crumbled just a bit at the end, meaning less shootouts, but skipper Mashaba, Girard, Abdellaoui, Mathieu, Laraque and veteran Jullien still were able to build a wall that was impossible to climb for most teams. And then there was Diaz in goal. The hunger for success was immense and we knew this would be our best chance in years. We did what we could and in the end it paid off. Ligue 1 Champions 2024/2025: Toulouse FC! Ok, PSG had an unusually bad season with 3 defeats and 5 draws, but we were there when it mattered. We won it for our passionate fans!! The very first Ligue 1 championship for Toulouse FC! OL defeated us after penalties. A bit unlucky though - their equalizer came in the last minute and that broke the lads. They were already not fully match fit as the last match had been 2 weeks before, had to go the full distance now and then just could not keep up the concentration in the end. There are worse things than to go out in the 10th round of the Coupe de France. We had some lucky draws to be honest. Then it was - of course! - PSG in the final... Spoiler ...and we beat them! Just because their penalty takers were worse than ours. Anyway - the double is ours! Double humiliation for PSG (They still won the Coupe de la Ligue but who cares about a minor title like that...?) Not a bad UEFA Champions League season. We were the underdog against Atletico, but thanks to a great first leg we were able to overcome them and went on to meet Liverpool in the quarter finals. They outclassed us. The first leg was a tight affair, but only because their shooting was so off the mark, the second leg was over after they scored in the 5th minute. And then they went on to win that damn thing. Season Stats & Awards Youngster Girard scoops the awards this season. Buchholzer the best signing. I agree. The season stats for our team. Our Austrian striker wins the golden boot. Europe, watch out! Buchholzer is rising! Our new keeper Diaz draws the plaudits. Take that, PSG! Last, but not least. Youth Intake Another Durand who could make his way into our first team soon. Club News PSG defeat our U19s in the UEFA Youth League quarters. Ahahahahahaha... Nope. I wonder what will happen next... Edited October 8, 2019 by Carambau 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hootieleece Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 Toppling PSG is an Achievement in itself and Quarterfinals of Champions League isn't too shabby. Hopefully the Takeover will mean more money, but usually Consortium's seem to drive you further into the red or have horrible plans for team (like sign big stars when doing a youth save etc.) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidthekid Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 103 points is pretty astonishing. Top work!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott92507 Posted October 8, 2019 Share Posted October 8, 2019 w00t! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carambau Posted October 8, 2019 Author Share Posted October 8, 2019 14 hours ago, Hootieleece said: Toppling PSG is an Achievement in itself and Quarterfinals of Champions League isn't too shabby. Hopefully the Takeover will mean more money, but usually Consortium's seem to drive you further into the red or have horrible plans for team (like sign big stars when doing a youth save etc.) Thank you Yes, the season could´ve gone worse I´m really excited about whats going to happen at that takeover. Maybe the new owner will fire me? Seen that before... 12 hours ago, kidthekid said: 103 points is pretty astonishing. Top work!!! Thanks PSG-esque, it seems... 9 hours ago, scott92507 said: w00t! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaunwwfc Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 @Carambau your achievement is superb! What is most inspiring for me is the fact you have stuck to your principals, with what i can assume is the preset fluid counter attack? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carambau Posted October 10, 2019 Author Share Posted October 10, 2019 11 hours ago, shaunwwfc said: @Carambau your achievement is superb! What is most inspiring for me is the fact you have stuck to your principals, with what i can assume is the preset fluid counter attack? Thank you, @shaunwwfc Yes, the tactic still suits my players very nicely. Don´t know why, but that season the opposing teams seemed to play more attacking against me which played into the cards of this style so good hence the successful season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rouflaquettes31 Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 Congrats! I just read all your carrer. I made my save with TFC also ans it was so difficult to beat PSG. It needs more than 100 points! The error is forbidden!. Your firts season wa impressive, especially because some players are not so strong. Wat is your objective in european competition? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carambau Posted October 10, 2019 Author Share Posted October 10, 2019 6 minutes ago, rouflaquettes31 said: Congrats! I just read all your carrer. I made my save with TFC also ans it was so difficult to beat PSG. It needs more than 100 points! The error is forbidden!. Your firts season wa impressive, especially because some players are not so strong. Wat is your objective in european competition? thanks, @rouflaquettes31 Yeah, I think we did it this season because everything came together - we winning almost every game and PSG being weak. I think it might look differently next season... Europe? Good question. We are not good enough yet to win anything there, I know that. Maybe with luck we could make the semis sometime... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaunwwfc Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 On 09/10/2019 at 21:03, shaunwwfc said: @Carambau your achievement is superb! What is most inspiring for me is the fact you have stuck to your principals, with what i can assume is the preset fluid counter attack? I am a big fan of counter attacking football so it is really refreshing seeing someone be so successful with it. A big nod to the preset style within the game too, perhaps I have been over complicating trying to create a tactic such as this. Your making me want to start a similar save! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carambau Posted October 16, 2019 Author Share Posted October 16, 2019 On 11/10/2019 at 09:13, shaunwwfc said: I am a big fan of counter attacking football so it is really refreshing seeing someone be so successful with it. A big nod to the preset style within the game too, perhaps I have been over complicating trying to create a tactic such as this. Your making me want to start a similar save! Thank you, it is nice to hear that this story inspires you Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carambau Posted October 27, 2019 Author Share Posted October 27, 2019 (edited) Pre-Season 2025/2026 In & Out We needed more instant quality on the DC position, that´s why Todibo was signed from Barcelona. Spinazzola can cover both sides and thats why we brought him in, a good backup. Don´t know exactly why we decided to get Larsonneur, I guess because he was free, has a certain amount of experience in Ligue 1 and all our 3rd choice keepers are out on loan... Mostly loans to get the youngster more playing time. Porozo, Romildo and Diakité are the only ones to leave for good. Not that these were big losses. New Signings A ball-playing defender. He will improve our defence. He should be a decent backup wingback for both sides. 3rd choice GK. Hope he never has to play. Players Promoted From The Youth Team This guy was the cream of the crop of last season´s U19 team. He basically ran the show. Now it´s time to introduce him to the 1st team. Loan Players Returning Last year he was at loan at Sevilla and managed to score 5 goals in 19 appearances. Edited October 27, 2019 by Carambau Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carambau Posted October 27, 2019 Author Share Posted October 27, 2019 (edited) Pre-Season 2025/2026 First Team Squad Goalkeepers Diaz had a great last season. Adelaid may be playing the cups. Defenders Todibo can surely strengthen our central defense alongside Mashaba. Jullien is declining and this may be his last season here, same goes for Sylla. Laraque in contrast made some big improvements last year. New signing Spinazzola covers the sides as a backup, for Girard and Mathieu are the starters here. Abdellaoui will want a word there too though. Midfielders Not many changes here. Youngster Levavasseur (see Defenders) is the only new addition. Jouaux is more a striker. All in all, our midfield a nice mix of youth and experience. Strikers Luca Jouaux should appear here. Buchholzer will start of course. Boulay will play in the early rounds of the cups I guess. The odds are on Buchholzer this season! Pre-Season Friendlies Not very convincing once more. Hope the new season will be better. Club News No takeover then. And I am glad about that! It could have been so sweet! Big Messi in Toulouse! But then the board blocks my contract termination of our current U19 manager... Edited October 27, 2019 by Carambau Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carambau Posted November 12, 2019 Author Share Posted November 12, 2019 (edited) Season 2025/2026 First Half Of The Season It´s of course PSG. And Guingamp, strangely. I guess we had to draw against someone. Our defense looks very tight once more, Todibo looks like a good partner for Mashaba. Looks like we are having another great season. Five points! If we can keep going, another title reckons. But it´s only the first half of the season and there are a lot of games to play... Buchholzer is on good form again, scoring 15 in the league already. Suprisingly, wingback Spinazzola is the man with the best average rating of 7.29. A steal, I guess. Here we go again. I fielded a youth team. I don´t care anymore. Only Atletico were able to match us. Italian teams are always hard to play against. Club News Those damn assholes wanted to unsettle him and they succeeded. He is angry I canceled negotiations and wants to leave. I won´t let him though. We will see how this unfolds. Here comes the takeover. But no investments! He "wants to make a difference" though... sounds like a politician! At least Baxter´s contract gets renewed. Edited November 12, 2019 by Carambau 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott92507 Posted November 15, 2019 Share Posted November 15, 2019 Carambau, I imagine your club is very profitable. If the takeover was hostile, the new owners may just want to drain the club’s profits. But it was probably a matter of the old owners wanting to cash out and the new owners wanting to expand the potential of the club. (Not that the game considers these real-world nuances.) Have you had a stadium expansion or a new stadium? In one of my saves, I finally got a new stadium when I got new owners. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carambau Posted November 17, 2019 Author Share Posted November 17, 2019 (edited) On 15/11/2019 at 16:20, scott92507 said: Carambau, I imagine your club is very profitable. If the takeover was hostile, the new owners may just want to drain the club’s profits. But it was probably a matter of the old owners wanting to cash out and the new owners wanting to expand the potential of the club. (Not that the game considers these real-world nuances.) Have you had a stadium expansion or a new stadium? In one of my saves, I finally got a new stadium when I got new owners. Makes perfect sense what youre sayin, we are quite profitable indeed. Lets See for how long... And no, no Stadium expansions nor any plans yet. Edited November 17, 2019 by Carambau Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carambau Posted December 2, 2019 Author Share Posted December 2, 2019 After some contemplating, I decided to call it quits on This save. Just got FMT20 and cant seem to find any motivation anymore for The Toulouse Project. A big thank you to all the readers and posters of this thread. I hope you were at least a bit entertained. Maybe there will be a FMT20 story here, havent decided yet. Cheers! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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