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    Football Manager - April will be a fun month

    April will be a fun month

    Posted: 16 Nov 2020 07:04 AM PST

    When You Realise Vinicius Junior Is 69 Years Old, Norwich City Boss And Considered The Best Manager In World Football, You Know Things Are Weird! FM21 Experiment - 50 Years Later!

    Posted: 16 Nov 2020 04:30 AM PST

    In honor of Rob McElhenney becoming co-owner of Wrexham AFC (alongside Ryan Reynolds) I only found it fitting for him to hire a new manager - hopefully there will be lots of Charlie Work!

    Posted: 16 Nov 2020 12:35 PM PST

    Can you win the league as a beloved Children's entertainer with PSG while playing the smallest player in the game in goal? (FM 21 Beta) Part 1/however many before I get sacked

    Posted: 16 Nov 2020 03:22 PM PST

    Can you win the league as a beloved Children's entertainer with PSG while playing the smallest player in the game in goal? (FM 21 Beta) Part 1/however many before I get sacked

    Inspired by the exciting and unexpected adventures of u/Hurball's Phil Jones/Kepa extravaganzas, and with a mere week to go before the full release of FM 21, I've been inspired to test the boundaries of reality and see if it's possible to win the quintuple with PSG with a small caveat - playing the tiniest possible player in goal.

    In a tribute to the greatest entertainer of the last 4000 years, I've modelled myself after the legendary Barry Chuckle, and will try to implement as many of his footballing philosophies as possible (To me, to you, none of this tippy tappy bollocks) on my journey to dominance or the job centre. I've given him 20 on motivating and youngster knowledge, and not a lot on anything else. His 1 on level of discipline should keep Neymar and co in line.

    I'd normally keep my tactics under wraps, but as a footballing scholar who hopes to improve the beautiful game, I've decided to share them here. As you'll see, it's very offence-orientated with the odd bit of shithousery thrown in so that teams fear coming to the city of love (and leg breaking tackles).

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    Oh dear oh dear

    So where do you begin with a project like this? Well, first off, you need to find the smallest player in the world. This required loading every possible player in the game and shaving 3 years of life from my laptop's processor. It turns out there's quite a few. 392,590 odd infact. I could have google'd it but... wait, why didn't I just google it?...

    Anyway, the results are staggering, with just 4 players standing at a mighty 4'11". One of those will be my new hero. That man is to be the faceless void that is Kellan Mastour, I already feel very maternal towards him:

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    I sell all the other goalkeepers, we won't be needing those, I need to send out a message to the players that this is a revolution in the game, and it's my way or the highway.

    Quite a few players are starting to think that the highway may be the route to take, after I decide to treat myself to an immovable object of a target man in Burnley and New Zealand legend Chris Wood to help the scrubs that are Neymar and Mbappe in attack. Surrounding them with some real men should bolster our chances. A snip at £30.5m, and it'll make Gravel voice happy, so it makes me happy.

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    I decide that the best approach in a team full of prima donnas is a kind one, and implement an 'infinite tolerance' code of conduct, where there are no warnings or fines. The last thing these players need is to not be able to feed their families because they started a fight in training.

    I offload some dead wood and bring in Ryan Shawcross, mainly because I find it funny rather than for any tactical decision. When the deal was agreed, he cited the reason "that it will benefit his family financially", so he'll fit right in here.

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    Marquinhos challenges me in my team introduction because he doesn't care about my master stroke in improving the goalkeeping position. I kick a chair at him and thrash my arms at him or something like that, I'm not really sure what's going on with these gestures. The meeting ends with every player either feeling 'hurt' (hopefully literally from flying chairs) or 'offended'. We're off to a good start.

    We lose the first friendly to a team I've never heard of, but I'm not overly worried as it's probably the assistant manager's fault.

    The players aren't happy with my management of the team and confront me. They're pretty annoyed that I'm selling half the players I have no use for (goalkeepers and full backs) and not replacing them. Some more chairs get kicked.

    Unfortunately, my new players don't arrive until the 15th, and this is definitely the reason that we lose in the French equivalent of the Charity Shield to Marseille on penalties. Backup goalkeeper Leandro Paredes doesn't come close to saving one. A water bottle gets launched across the changing room.

    I decide soon after to make Neymar captain, he's always struck me as a Maldini-esque leader, with the strength and determination of an ox, carved out of marble. Marquinhos doesn't react as badly as expected, maybe I'm finally getting through to these kids.

    Our first game in the league is against Stade Br***. All 3 new signings make the team and I leave a few empty seats on the bench to remind the fans that there is always space for them in the club (and because I'm too lazy to mess around looking in the development centre). Chris 'the Kiwi Maradona' Wood scores his first after a calamitous mistake from the Booby team's goalkeeper. Some other players that I don't care about score a couple more before Wood hammers in a second. We go on to annihilate them 5-0.

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    This management lark is easy.

    Part 2 to follow if there's any interest, if not, it shall be consigned to the depths of history.

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    I sense a slight bit of bias when my assistant manager tells me the best player in training was himself

    Posted: 16 Nov 2020 09:52 AM PST

    Not sure how Joelinton feels about his squad number...

    Posted: 16 Nov 2020 12:46 PM PST

    Idea: Individual player highlight reels upon retirement where you can rewatch the best goals/moments of their career

    Posted: 16 Nov 2020 04:08 PM PST

    One thing that I think would be a great feature would be for the game to generate highlight reels for players when they retire that you could watch by going to their profile.

    Obviously generating a reel for every player in the game would be impossible. What I was thinking though is that the game could generate reels for players who reach a certain level of reputation (e.g. players who reach the point of being described as "truly one of world football's global superstars"), plus also allowing the player to generate reels for players they manage. If your star midfielder scores an absolute pearler of a freekick from 35 yards, there could be an 'Add To Highleet Reel' button available on the replay, with reels capped at 10 goals and every highlight added past that prompting you to delete an existing one.

    I'd love to be able to go back and look at the top 10 goals of my regen striker's career after he retires, and the game already has some sort of technology for objectively ranking goal quality so auto-generating reels for stars on other teams wouldn't be difficult.

    Would anyone else enjoy this or is it just me?

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    A regen from my Hertha Berlin save, listed as my key player too. He is pretty good I guess

    Posted: 16 Nov 2020 07:47 PM PST

    Rummaging through my old, old FM07 saves and found this gem

    Posted: 16 Nov 2020 04:55 AM PST

    "....and how old are you really?"

    Posted: 16 Nov 2020 06:37 PM PST

    This one was for all you who had wonderkids stolen (I couldn’t be happier the single best game I’ve ever seen was against them)

    Posted: 16 Nov 2020 04:26 PM PST

    The craziest season ever - and it's not even finished yet... Unhappy & transfer listed Mason Greenwood moves to Arsenal only to shatter every single goal scoring record imaginable. 42 goals in 29 leagues appearances. 59 goals in 41 games across all competitions. And he still has games to play.

    Posted: 16 Nov 2020 11:44 AM PST

    Your name almost saved you from mutual termination. Almost.

    Posted: 16 Nov 2020 04:39 PM PST

    Already have a nice collection of Wonderkids !

    Posted: 16 Nov 2020 04:20 PM PST

    So it's happening, Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney will take control of Wrexham AFC soon. Hope they'll launch these new kits ��

    Posted: 16 Nov 2020 10:12 AM PST

    I signed him when he was 18, I left the club 3 years later and he became a legend and probably the best player I’ve ever seen.

    Posted: 16 Nov 2020 04:53 AM PST

    The Azeri’s pulling off the greatest FM ever?

    Posted: 16 Nov 2020 03:40 PM PST

    Callum Wilson

    Posted: 16 Nov 2020 12:09 PM PST

    Make Arsenal Great Again - Implementing Wengerball in FM21 - Part 3: Results

    Posted: 16 Nov 2020 06:34 PM PST

    Make Arsenal Great Again - Implementing Wengerball in FM21 - Part 3: Results

    Arsenal is a club that, in my opinion, lost its soul when Gunners legend Arsene Wenger left back in 2017. A series of failed restructures, an inability to transition club legends into influential club roles, average players on big salaries to name but a few. Though perhaps most profoundly; Arsenal's biggest mistake was a failure to implement a philosophy that fed off of all the values that Arsene Wenger instilled in not only Arsenal fans, but football people around the world.

    This is a FM21 series that will focus on the rebuild of Arsenal's on-pitch philosophy and will also obviously explore the mechanics of the FM21 match engine to see how we can implement a coach's idea of how football should be played. Done through the main vehicles of creating an aggressive, free-flowing and expressive attacking system.

    It will focus on the pillar of Wenger's legacy - developing a young team. With individual training practices to perfect everyone's role within our team philosophy, we will still allow the players creative freedom up the pitch. We will need to support this at a world class level in all elements of our coaching setups, we will need to build the best footballing network in the world to ensure the best coaches & players continue to come in and - most importantly - develop at this club.

    It's going to look like how Arsene would have wanted Arsenal to continue to be, just with slightly different people.

    PART 3: RESULTS.

    Full disclosure, the start of the save wasn't pretty. At that time, I wanted to explore this system but with three defenders. That's all i'll say about that for now, because eventually our system of Wengerball will evolve to that point. But we weren't there at the start, and it cost us a lot of goals!

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    A three at the back formation left us to exposed.

    Conceding 8 goals in our first two games was brutal, but the game at Liverpool was a truck load of fun. Once we reverted back to our more conventional shape, we started getting some pleasing results...But I didn't expect our football to be this good.

    OCTOBER:

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    Reverting to a back four with aggressive fullbacks was what we were wanting, so we did it early.

    Let's look at a couple of games here. First, Home to Sheffield United.

    Our personnel reflects everything we've discussed in the earlier parts of the Doc - pace, power and flair up the pitch, with creativity down the spine of our team, with athleticism in positions that require it.

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    Sheffield's sexy shape is succulent.

    Notice our playmakers ratings are lower than the rest of the team. Don't stress, they are contributing.

    Our front three in games against teams that have three central defenders need to constantly drag those guys high and narrow to try and exploit space on the flanks for our wingbacks - we also see there's a juicy space for Mesut to operate in.

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    What you're seeing here is 3 to the base of 9, divided by Pi.

    This is a goal in the Sheffield game, our centre three hold a incredibly high and narrow attacking position, which occupies all five United defenders. This allows Mesut to have a free roam, where he comes and one-twos with Bellerin, who has a completely free flank. He then aggressively crosses, and our "arrive late into the opposition box" B2B midfielder smashes it home. They arrive late to create that area - highlighted immaculately (lol) - of uncertainty, where if we commit numbers, we create a goalscoring chance.

    Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gX0OtrmXFjGZasWrmcbJ3lf0TPLMDtCm/view?usp=sharing

    Our next example comes against Everton - one of our attacking performances of the season thus far.

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    Our movement will need to be laterally focused, rather than vertically.

    Stability is important, we are trying to create relationships between players and units.

    Everton employ Allan as a defensive midfielder to try and nullify the space for Ozil. Allan actually has a decent game, but we run riot.

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    MS Paint, the best a man can get.

    This look familiar? Set pieces are actually our friend as it allows our team to implement our aggressive structure without transitional pressure. Notice that Aubameyang and Lacazette are both in active goal scoring positions. Partey and Tierney hold the space (purple line). Ceballos, who heads towards the blue line, sweeps up our play and instantly plays progressive, rather than safe. Enjoy all of these goals. They are well worth the watch.

    Videos: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TL-ti_Fn6U3ATxT6GcmuYsu2AY55NLE7/view?usp=sharing

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CGTFhPdrde8ZOJ_QBYs05wj-W8tPyn7M/view?usp=sharing

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/13iq2M1d44v1NZNcfVp_HX0apqdr99Y82/view?usp=sharing

    NOVEMBER:

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    Adama Traore is unfairly explosive.

    Perhaps most pleasingly is how difficult any team is finding it to get out of their own halves against us. We are stifling a lot of our opposition, and you can see in two games, we conceded four goals but other than that, immaculate. Palace left two up front (Zaha and Ayew) and hit us a couple of times towards the end of the game. The Wolves game was Adama Traore just rinsing Gabriel, twice.

    Most of our goals come from very slick and intricate play around the 18 yard box. Because we put so many bodies around the area, most defensive teams collapse into the box, giving our wing backs the space to produce quality, and make good decisions based on where our team mates are.

    Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dLiuBwuE9HZV6MwisS6Rj1xilErIR40j/view?usp=sharing

    OK. HERE ARE THE RESULTS SO FAR:

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    Dominant.

    HERE'S THE PLAYER INFO SO FAR:

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    Morale = high.

    GAME OF THE SEASON?

    It's still early days, but we are already seeing the youngsters already at Arsenal creating moments for themselves. My favourite game of the season was the win against Wolves in the League Cup semi-final, where we played (as close as we could) XI of Arsenal academy graduates:

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    A crop of actual Arsenal players, all influenced by the era of 2008-12

    Trailing 1-0 at half time, the youngsters could have put their heads down and struggled to a loss or draw. But we revved up the lads at half time, switch back to our 4-2-3-1 and absolute chaos ensued.

    And so we finish off part three with a goal fest, all the goals from Arsenal's home boys versus Wolves for a spot in the Carabao Cup Final. See you next time:

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vxEmfB9SWPWECXzQnCLHpF9h9znuL4Ge/view?usp=sharing

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    Best read on Google Docs here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mMsQn59UjPZPQ2q8GWAqKaYxfj630fQNiljzhklNU0o/edit#

    Follow progress live on Twitch: www.twitch.tv/propirate

    And stay hydrated.

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    PART 4:
    RECRUITING FOR SUSTAINABILITY

    COMING SOON.

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    194 goals and 75 assists just from my 5 strikers is crazy. I’ve never had a goalscoring season this good on any FM game. Haaland, Greenwood, Ronaldo, Rashford and Cavani������

    Posted: 16 Nov 2020 05:08 PM PST

    Think I may struggle to make him happy...

    Posted: 16 Nov 2020 01:40 PM PST

    "Mouth-watering" North London derby for Champions Cup final ... in London!

    Posted: 16 Nov 2020 11:48 AM PST
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