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    December 18, 2020

    Football Manager - Panic buys just before transfer window deadline. ��

    Panic buys just before transfer window deadline. ��

    Posted: 18 Dec 2020 06:09 AM PST

    Had to do a double take there

    Posted: 18 Dec 2020 12:03 AM PST

    What's the worst that can happen?

    Posted: 18 Dec 2020 08:58 AM PST

    Finally I can share these awesome kits I've made for Lochness FC. I recreated the original kits for a long term save request and I can say that it is (for now) the request I enjoyed the most! Look at these crazy beauties!

    Posted: 18 Dec 2020 02:23 PM PST

    Won the league at Anfield with my very own Aguero moment!

    Posted: 18 Dec 2020 12:09 PM PST

    Finally got my setup! This weekend im going to fix the projector, but this first game "on the wall" was a complete thrill!

    Posted: 18 Dec 2020 02:56 PM PST

    The Art of the Deal

    Posted: 18 Dec 2020 07:31 PM PST

    Place your bets everyone.

    Posted: 18 Dec 2020 07:33 AM PST

    First season without my star striker isn't going well. I like to keep my brother updated because you have to enjoy the good things while they last.

    Posted: 18 Dec 2020 11:30 AM PST

    One of the best things I have Done so far this fm ( in my first session)

    Posted: 18 Dec 2020 12:10 PM PST

    Pain and only pain (fun game: guess who i am)

    Posted: 18 Dec 2020 06:47 PM PST

    Start off unemplyed. Some how land the Derby job. 20k budget, Minus 20k wage starting off. Mid point of the season, sitting 1st in the league, and they hit me with this shit.

    Posted: 18 Dec 2020 12:00 PM PST

    A 3y/o Man of culture

    Posted: 18 Dec 2020 12:20 PM PST

    Best wonderkid I’ve ever got. Mid season and already my back up striker at 15 years old

    Posted: 18 Dec 2020 07:12 PM PST

    Has anyone purchased and played FM21 touch on switch? Is it worth a buy?

    Posted: 18 Dec 2020 04:36 PM PST

    Just a general question to find out if anyone has played this year's FM game on switch? The last FM I played was 19. I'm looking to return to the series and I was just wondering what the general feeling towards 21 is and what new features are included?

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    Never seen this one before, but good on them !

    Posted: 18 Dec 2020 06:56 AM PST

    Is there anything worse than an eccentric keeper?

    Posted: 18 Dec 2020 07:59 AM PST

    I'm managing a plucky team in Singapore (that have 4 keepers in the squad for some reason), and the assman keeps telling me to put the main keeper in goal and not the backups.

    Fine. I put him in goal, even though he has a high eccentricity rating and I don't like his face.

    The dude collects a ball in the aftermath of a mediocre striker's tepid kick, waits till everyone begins to walk back, then proceeds to wander to the side of the goal, and then BLASTS the ball into the stands giving the opposition a free corner.

    "This motherfucker..." I muttered under my breath before immediately putting him on the Unwanted list as 'sell at half value'.

    He demands to know why, and I bluntly tell him "that's football" but he's having none of it. Now the team morale is dropping because of this twat.

    Why does Warriors FC have 4 damn goalkeepers in the first place sucking up wages, and why is one of them the reincarnated Joker from The Dark Knight!?

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    Room for 3, can you make a case for any club to join my not-so-super league?

    Posted: 18 Dec 2020 07:43 PM PST

    A Career in FM20

    Posted: 18 Dec 2020 09:42 AM PST

    It was Lockdown that inspired me to buy a new laptop and FM20 in what turned out to be one of the best decisions of the year. The career that followed is the longest and most enjoyable I've had on any FM since Championship Manager 2, and kept me sane on many dull days in isolation. I loaded up as Charlton, my favourite team, and started with no clear plans or targets in mind, other than avoiding relegation in 2019-20 (something which in reality, Charlton eventually failed to do). I also certainly had no plans to end up writing up my career, so wasn't taking screenshots, and have pieced together the story from memory and the history the game retains. Hope you enjoy reading as much as I enjoyed playing!

    Charlton 2019-20 to 2027-28

    The budget was small and the squad limited, but the free transfer signing of an ageing Yaya Toure plus the goal threat of Jonathan Leko on loan from West Brom was enough to secure 15th in the Championship playing a decidedly naïve 4-4-2 Wing Play style.

    The following two seasons were spent with Rhian Brewster and Oliver Skipp on loan and carrying the side to 8th and then 5th in the Championship. Conor Gallagher was added on loan midway through 2021-22 and his class told, as we snuck into and then won the playoffs, thus securing an unlikely promotion after three full seasons in charge.

    It was at this point that I made probably the riskiest transfer of my whole career, committing £20m to sign Gallagher permanently, with a 50% of next transfer (not profit, transfer!) clause owing to Chelsea and a Relegation Release Clause that he insisted on in his personal terms set at £13m. Yes, should we go straight back down, as we were strong favourites to do, the one season of Gallagher would cost the club a staggering and utterly unaffordable £13.5m! But we didn't plan on going straight back down; we were risking it all for glory!

    In that first season in the Premiership we managed to scramble and scrabble our way to the magical 40-point mark, which in the end thanks to the poor quality of some of the other teams was actually enough for 14th place and a 10-point safety margin. Gallagher would be staying and the club's financial future now looked a lot rosier!

    Over the next five seasons at Charlton, we would finish 5th, 7th, 7th, 4th and 4th in the Premiership, going on a run to the 2024-25 Euro Cup Semi-Final and wining the 2026-27 FA Cup with an extra-time goal against the run of play against Man Utd. The last season or two saw us finally move on from our childlike 4-4-2 and begin playing 4-1-4-1 DM Wide in a Tiki Taka style. The new tactics improved results slightly, but it remained incredibly difficult to close the gap on the big few clubs and we never had a realistic look at a league title. I was hoping that Champions Cup qualification might level the financial playing field, but even after a couple of seasons of sneaking into 4th our wage budget remained around £1.2m per week as compared to £5-6m at the top and I began to despair of ever making further progress with Charlton. Thus it was that my mind started to wander, and instead of auto-dismissing job interviews out of hand, I began to attend, until...

    Man City 2028-29 to 2030-31

    Man City had had an appalling 2027-28, finishing 8th an absurd 18 points behind my 4th-placed Charlton and thus qualifying for no sort of European football at all. Enter yours truly, who was horrified to find that in the previous season they had managed to spend £495m, mostly collecting 3-star central midfielders with £50m price tags, of whom the squad had about eight! They also had the laughable Richard Mageeson, a striker/right-back who scored 2-3 goals a season with the game assigning him a massive value since he was equally adept in either of his natural positions, being well able to occasionally average about 6.8 in either for a mid-table Premiership club. Mageeson was immediately and acrimoniously offloaded (to Charlton, for £54m). A couple of ageing stars on mega contracts (Laporte, Bernardo Silva) were pushed out on the cheap, much to the dismay of the board and fans. In came Damiano De Rosa (following me from Charlton, Damiano will be awarded his own section later!) as well as Tsygankov, the best transfer-listed right-winger available (£45m for a 31-year old, otherwise the squad has no AMR) as well as a few other key additions. Overall in 2028-29 we spent £337m on new signings and raised £336m from player sales in what amounted to a much-needed total rebuild.

    Rebuilding the squad in the transfer market was one thing, but we also faced extreme dissatisfaction from the quality players that we did want to keep due to the fact that we were completely out of Europe. Most played under the promise that we would qualify for the Champions Cup, whereas Esposito played the whole season unhappy, scored only 13 league goals at an average of 6.94, and then departed for Barcelona on an £120m deal. Despite turning in probably the worst season of an otherwise stellar career, Esposito did lead the line well enough for us to go into the final day with an outside shot at the title, only for us to lose and finish 2nd, 3 points behind Liverpool. Promises therefore kept, most of our players would be happy going forward, but there was a problem (which is probably a known bug at this point) with Phil Foden. At the time of writing, Phil Foden is England's all-time most-capped player, having reached 180 international appearances! Back in 2028, he was the only member of the squad happy to be promised just Euro Cup qualification – a promise he interpreted as not having been kept when we went one better! It would be a further year before he would finally decide he was happy at the club despite this betrayal!

    Next season, as Esposito left, £100m was straight reinvested in his replacement, Ayoub Mansour. Ayoub would go on to score 321 goals in 520 appearances for Man City as well as 159 goals in 187 appearances for Italy, winning the 2030, 2034 and 2038 World Cups (in tandem with De Rosa). He scored both goals in the 2029-30 Champions Cup final (my first win of Europe's biggest prize) and the winner the following year, after 105 goalless minutes against his former club Inter Milan. With the ridiculous resources of Man City now being put to good, if sometimes frivolous use (£111m for a 2nd choice left-back anyone?) we got stronger and stronger, winning back-to-back league titles and winning every competition we entered in 2030-31. As I sat there at the pinnacle of Europe, I saw no challenge before me, the near certainty of sweeping every competition again dulling my hunger to go on. English football had been conquered, and thus it was time to answer the call...

    Real Madrid 2031-32 to 2033-34

    Ah, los merengues! How can it be that you haven't won La Liga in 11 long years? The squad that I inherited was packed with quality, apart from the lack of a world-class striker. Having somewhat wildly overpaid for the best striker available at short notice (£130m for Gilson from Paris SG) and brought De Rosa and world-class centre-back Cherubin Wembangamo with me from City, I was able to easily end this long barren spell at the first time of asking. We also won the European Champions Cup in my first season, before losing to a Mansour-inspired Man City in the final the following year. For my third year in Madrid, things became even easier when the incoming president bought two world-class players who fit the system and didn't come out of the transfer budget (one I had even been thinking about signing anyway).

    It should be noted at this point that I have still not managed an undefeated league season, with the closest being a one-defeat season in the second year at City. In the two full seasons in Madrid we lost just twice and then once in the league. At the end of the second season we also picked up my first Club World Championship, which set me to thinking about what is left to achieve. Clearly an undefeated season would be nice, and once I saw the free additions for year 3 in Madrid I thought it had to be on the cards. I also settled on an ambition to eventually win the league and domestic cup in all of the top five European countries. Having taken a look around Europe, I found that Paris SG had never been troubled in the Ligue 1. To win that with a club other than PSG would take multiple years of chipping away at their utter superiority. In the Bundesliga, FC Bayern almost always won it, but occasionally they were at least in a battle with Dortmund. In Serie A, Roma, Inter and AC Milan were trading titles and fighting close battles annually, so there were a few more club openings to look out for there. With no good vacancies floating about, I set out on the third year in Madrid hoping to go undefeated. We got to P20 W18 D1 L1 – the devastating loss coming after David Lafuente (AML wonderkid activated off £77m release clause at Real San Sebastian) savagely and totally unnecessarily scythed down the opposing right back in the 10th minute away at Malaga. So, we won't go undefeated, there's nothing to stay for, and there's one job available that surely offers a fantastic chance to add another nation's league and cup double...

    Zebre 2034-35 to 2035-36

    Back in the early days at Charlton I wasn't paying much attention to what was going on in other countries, but I had vaguely been aware of a club called Zebre repeatedly winning Serie A, making big moves in the transfer market and making a mark in Europe. It was only now that I actually looked into it and realised that it was in fact the grand old lady of Turin... and how she has now fallen. There has been no league title in ten years, and the job is available because a run of just two points and two goals in the last six games has dropped her down to a tragic 10th in Serie A. The interview process revealed that there would be little to no money to spend, but that next season a title challenge would be expected. After my last two experiences, I was happy to agree. Neither City nor Real had won the league for years when I took over, and both were transformed into world-beaters within a couple of seasons. Surely the same could happen here? Surely the low budget was due to taking over in January, and there would be money for De Rosa (hopefully) and whatever gaps needed to be plugged in the summer?

    The 'gaps' to be plugged in the current squad seemed severe, and of course there was no money to spend now, so the last few days of the transfer window were spent in an increasingly desperate search for loans or frees to arrest the alarming freefall the side was in. With just a few hours to go until the transfer deadline, the answer to the club's short-term prayers materialised, not beneath the baroque colonnades of Northern Italy, but amongst the glitz and glamour of the French riviera. In a move that I have not seen before or since, and presumably inspired by an utter financial Armageddon, AS Monaco placed nearly their entire playing staff on both the transfer and loan lists simultaneously. Within minutes, talented midfield playmaker Hannibal Mejbri and pacy hitman Jonathan Onuu, both bona fide French internationals, were winging their way to Zebre. They would score 7 goals in 16 games and 5 goals in 13 games respectively. The other loan signing through the door, with just minutes to spare, was my former Charlton centre-back Xavier Mbuyamba on a £150k p/m loan fee from Everton. With this emergency spine running through the team we went P16 W10 D3 L3 in the remainder of the season and surged from 10th to 4th in the table, thus securing Champions Cup football and surely one of my finest and most unlikely achievements to date? Or so I thought...

    On to the summer and the rebuild proper. But there's no money! Dreams of putting De Rosa into his rightful place in the side evaporated as I read and re-read the transfer budget, looking for extra zeroes. And they expected a league title challenge with this? Even with £30m raised from selling star AMC Aristide Maio to Roma (AMCs who are only bright green in that one position are always sold on as they don't fit into the 4-1-4-1 DM Wide, and in my experience attract high valuations with the AI managers) the money had to be spread thin, as we made cut price upgrades throughout the first-team. Some of these upgrades I knew for a fact would not have made my Man City or Real squads - because they were from my Man City and Real squads! Future prospects Fouyessini Kone and Fadil Advic (both from Madrid on loan) will be first-team regulars at Zebre... George Moss (Man City backup keeper, signed for £5m) will be first choice between the sticks... Vladimir Jaros, a not-yet-made-it centre-back who I signed for City for £4.5m as a 17 year-old from will at least work out financially for my former club, as Zebre will now be paying £525k per month (!) as a loan fee. Even an ageing Vinicius Junior on loan from Madrid (where I had been running down his contract) will now play most of the games in Serie A. Yes, overall it was a hodgepodge of desperate moves and short-term solutions, but one that I was proud of when all was said and done. The assembled squad was unlikely to challenge the dominant Roma side over the course of the season, but the board couldn't be serious about that given the financial constraints, could they?

    As it went in the league, we finished 3rd, 11 points behind Roma and just 2 behind Inter. Particularly impactful was a striker injury crisis between January and March during which we also got dumped out of all cup competitions, which also meant that we ended up failing every single competition target set out by the board. In the last few weeks of the season as Roma kept winning and any mathematical chance of catching them finally disappeared, my performance grade suddenly dropped from a C-minus to an F! Now I'd had transfers rated F before – try paying £195k p/w towards club legend Ederson's wages in order to offload him to Galatasaray (he was 36 and declining, and I found City an absolute world-beating replacement who would go on to make 503 appearances for the club) - but never an overall board rating. I then discovered another part of the game, the 'why should we give you more time?' conversations. For each of the final three games, the press speculated that I needed a win to save my job, and three times the boys delivered, 2-0, 2-0, 2-0. Done it I thought, another summer rebuilding and next year we will be closer... but no, the very next day I was unceremoniously sacked! Let the records show that at the time of writing, this 3rd place remains Zebre's best finish ever since. But now with my reputation sullied and my ambition to add a country to my 'won-in' list in tatters, I needed somewhere to start over. Gone were the days of waiting for PSG or Bayern, I needed work and I needed it now. Back to England...

    Chelsea 2035-56 to 2037-38

    In the context of my European ambitions, returning to an already-conquered country might seem like an unnecessary step, but Chelsea were at least in the Euro Cup (I had not yet won Europe's second-choice continental competition) and frankly I needed somewhere to rehabilitate after the ignominy of my sacking in Turin. When I arrived, there had been no league title in almost 20 years (indeed none under an AI manager at all!) This might be partly due to how incredibly strong the Man City squad I left behind is, but still they should be doing better, the squad has plenty of quality and I've never seen such stock-piling of hot prospects, we have entire teams of Premiership quality players out on loan all over Europe. My three seasons in Chelsea must be considered separately, as there were some surprises along the way during my time in London.

    Season 1 (2035-36) - my immediate observations on arrival are that we have a world-class first ten... but no goalkeeper. NO GOALKEEPER? What HAVE they been doing? Alright there are two teenagers with some potential, and I can see they played last year with a Championship-quality 'keeper they have recently sold to Crystal Palace, but when they were spending £96m on defensive superman George Oliseh last season, or £60m on Paul Parker the season before (Paul was a release clause player I had been coveting when I left City for Real, by the time I got the Real job, it had already been activated by Charlton), did they never once think "hey, a half-decent 'keeper might be nice?" Obviously not.

    First things first, £42.5m for the best goalkeeper available at short notice, Vivaldy Matondo. Next, to Madrid. Deep in the heart of the De Rosa mansion in the hills overlooking the Bernabeu, the phone rings. Damiano pads across the marble, wincing slightly at the soreness in his back from carrying Real to two more titles. He lifts the receiver to his ear and hears a familiar voice saying "One more time, old friend?" Minutes later he is in a chauffeur-driven limousine, on his way to the airport; destiny awaits.

    The third transfer we need is a natural DMC. Again, it is a case of best man available. Barcelona are offering Federico Appella, a 31-year-old Italian international at £42.5m and even though he will have no resale value after one contract, he is needed in London yesterday, he is in. To compensate, Suat Ozalp is sold for £52m (not the last time I will arrive and immediately sell this guy). After selling a few U23 players we actually have no net transfer outlay for the season, but now the squad is ready to play my way.

    And play my way, they do! With the tiki taka controlling possession and conceding almost a thing of the past, we win the league and Euro Cup double with ease. Let me introduce you to Joao Carlos. This talented Brazilian superstar was a Minimum Fee Release Clause (Foreign Clubs) that I activated back at Charlton in '27-28 (£25.5m). He played one season for me and was starting to show his potential when I moved on. He spent three more seasons improving at the Valley before joining Chelsea for £87m and he has spent three more years improving here when I arrive. In my first season, he is fabulous, 22 goals in 27 games at an average of 7.43. He is backed up by ageing but still deadly Italian AML Maurizio Manfredi who also plays the season of his career. With the midfield ticking under De Rosa and Appella whilst Oliseh and his colleagues are imperious at the back, the entire team is fantastic all season. After the painful end at Zebre, it is refreshing to be back to title-winning ways, and whilst it has come quicker and easier than expected, the future looks very bright at Chelsea.

    There's no PSG, Bayern, Roma or Inter job available, so we will carry on in West London. Season 2 (2036-37). We add a 5-star playmaker by the name of Ismet Merkaj for £80m, but other than that we don't need much, do we? There follows the most frustrating season of my career, and I am still at a loss to explain what happened. In a nutshell, my good players played bad. Not just once, but again and again consistently for an entire season. Joao Carlos scored 6 goals in 33 appearances at an average of 6.86. There were honestly games that I laughed whilst watching. He would have an open goal from 5 yards and blaze over, he would miss a crucial penalty; it got to the point where I just knew he was going to miss a sitter as soon as the highlight started. This was the biggest season-on-season change in performance level that I'd ever seen, and I didn't have a backup plan worth mentioning (the aforementioned Paul Parker managed 8 in 26 at 7.01). Oliseh and co did their bit, as we conceded only 22 goals in 38 games, only one more than the previous season, but if you aren't scoring, you aren't winning. Eventually we finished third in the league and did nothing in Europe, our only silverware the unwanted Carabao and European Super Cups. A season of shame, but luckily the board seem unconcerned and were more than happy for me to put it right.

    Season 3 (2037-38). First of all, I have had enough of seeing my boys control possession game after game after game, have 28 shots to the opponents 1, and draw the game 1-1. I know it happens all the time in FM, and in real life, but something has to change at Chelsea. The two big things identified are the tiki taka, and the striker. First, tactics. I ended up saving the 'Chelsea Gegenpress 2037' and using it for the rest of my career. Here's how to do it, if you too want your team to win! 4-1-4-1 DM-Wide Gegenpress. In possession; pass into space, play out of defence, focus play through the middle, overlap left, overlap right, extremely high tempo. In transition; take short kicks, distribute to center backs, counter, counter-press. Out of possession; higher defensive line, much higher line of engagement, extremely urgent, prevent short GK distribution. De Rosa will end 12 years of playing as a carrilero and will now play box-to-box, with a creative mezzala alongside him. Whoever plays upfront is now a Pressing rather than Advanced Forward. Both wingers are Inside Forwards (support). Two ball-playing centre-backs, two attacking wingbacks, and an attacking sweeper keeper and we are good to go.

    Joao Carlos is transfer listed and finally sold to Barcelona for £78m. He will do fine for them for the next five seasons, and I will never understand what happened to him in '36-37! I'm not even signing a replacement. Parker will play, with support from some of the hot prospects who have been out on loan, and some of the young superstars coming through. Meanwhile, the game is insistent that I activate the £63m release clause for Pietro Vanacore, a Swiss left-back. Sometimes you just feel the game telling you that you have to do it. In this case, the press have been rumouring us to sign him incessantly for six months, my scouts are adamant that he is the world's best DL, and the money is just sitting there. Along with a few other signings, plus Serge Bakayoko promoted from the U23s to rotate in the DMC role, I'm happy with the overhaul, and we will see what the switch from tiki taka to gegenpress does for our fortunes.

    Cut to the mid-point of the season. Paul Parker, out of nowhere, has scored 16 goals in as many games at an average of 7.91! Don't forget he has been a disappointing understudy for years, and I'm still not convinced he is THAT good compared to some of the superstars I have had – we are not talking a massive octagon here, just incredible form in a system that is taking the league by storm. Real Madrid come in for him with a frankly ridiculous £156m bid and I can't say no! I'm convinced it is the system, not the player, and my former U23 strikers will finish the season (after a failed 'all-my-money' bid for Carlos Alberto at PSG – our time will come my friend). Our final tally in the league is P38 W29 D8 L1, with 100 goals scored and just 14 conceded all season. With Man Utd beaten in the FA Cup and then Champions Cup finals in back-to-back weeks, I am once more on top of the world looking down. Our net transfer revenue is a profit of £218m. Meanwhile we have continued to add future world-beaters to the youth teams in every position, and I'd have to say that the transformation of Chelsea into a team that will be dominant for years to come is now complete. They will go on to win 5 of the next 7 Premiership titles, but they will do it without me, because a job off the shortlist has come up, and I am heading back to Italy!

    Roma 2038-39

    I would like to apologise to the fans of Roma for what follows. They have just finished a run of 5 straight league titles by slipping to second, which is why they want a change of manager. As soon as I arrive, I can see what has happened, their dominant squad has begun to age. It is ready to disband and a youth-focused rebuild is needed over the next several seasons. But I don't have several seasons... I need to win now, and I'm going to do it!

    First, to transfers. Chelsea are willing to let a 31-year-old George Oliseh follow me to Rome for £42.5m. Madness, but I know for a fact that means at least one season conceding very, very few goals. Liverpool have a 30-year-old world-class DMC, only £68m. There's no DMC in the squad so the deal must be done. That's over £100m gone already on players who are at their peak but will soon be passed it and will have no resale value. There's a couple of AMCs to sell to raise some money, but overall this is hardly a transfer window I can be proud of, it's incredibly short-sighted and has leveraged the club's future for a one-season shot at glory, so sorry about that!

    My world-class but ageing squad wins a titanic league tussle with Inter, finishing with 97 points compared to their 94. This is significantly aided and abetted by one of my young 3-star strikers' development progress bars taking the most ludicrous and sudden lurch upwards that I have ever seen halfway through the season. Emmanuel Michaud went from a squad player with some promise to an unstoppable phenomenon almost overnight and for no discernible reason. He scored almost a goal a game for the rest of the season. As well as completing a league and cup double (with an 108th minute winner against Inter) and thus negating the need to continue managing in Italy, we also manage to haul Roma all the way to the Champions Cup Final, where we meet the immovable object of my old Chelsea squad, and fall to a 0-1 defeat. Along the way, we somehow beat PSG in the first knockout round, which surprised me at the time, and even more when I took over there next season. Before we get onto that though...

    England 2038-39

    International management hadn't been on my radar, but I knew England had been a top-three side consistently. After somehow managing to lose in the 2038 World Cup Quarter Finals, they were looking for a new manager. It was at that moment that I suddenly realised that my ambition to win every big competition out there must clearly include the Euros and the World Cup! I lost my first match in charge, away at Germany in the International League, but things turned around quickly from there. I managed England simultaneously with my club career, and I've broken down the international spell into two interludes here as well. Let's meet some of the players. George Oliseh is at the back, thank goodness. Josh Bowyer is the captain and first choice striker; Josh was a minimum fee release clause that I activated back at City, although we barely overlapped before I moved on. My scouts have maintained ever since that he is a 4.5-5 star player, literally one of the world's best strikers, and yet in his club career he spent five years as an understudy at City and since then has languished at West Ham as a 20-goal-a-season striker but picking up no meaningful club honours. Anyway, my coaches and scouts are all sure he is better than Paul Parker and the several other exceptional strikers I have to choose from. At the time of writing Josh has 67 goals in 90 caps for England, so I'm going to say my coaches were right. There is quality in every other position, and after that opening hiccup we win every other game for the next two years to ultimately win the International League and qualify for the Euros. Meanwhile, the one season smash-and-grab at Roma is over. Again, I would like to apologise; thanks in a large part to my 'win-now' mentality during that one season, Roma have not managed to win the title again since. In sharp contrast to the world-dominating squad of youth and promise I left behind at Chelsea, Roma's swiftly-ageing former superstars fell as low as 7th in Serie A within six years. But that is all behind me, I have moved on to one of the two jobs that I continue to covet...

    Carlos Alberto 2039-40 to 2041-42

    Alright, perhaps I should have labelled this segment Paris SG, but really this is the Carlos Alberto show. To date in my game, PSG have never not won the league-cup double, so I can say with some confidence that I will only need to stay for a season. Of course, the previous manager didn't get sacked due to performances, Poch left for the Real job (after I declined the interview). Since the Paris job never becomes available due to performance, you have to take it when you can get it, so here I am.

    Carlos Alberto, at the time of writing, has 314 goals in 385 league games for Paris SG. He has 134 goals in 141 caps for Spain. At his peak, which happily coincided with my arrival, he was scoring at least a goal a game at an average of over 8.00. In what ended up being two seasons for me in the French capital he scored (including cup competitions) 60 and then 55 goals. Now that is enough for anyone, but Carlos Alberto is not done there, he has even more to give. As the ultimate team leader and captain he is able to repeatedly talk to his world-class colleagues about their new contract hopes, and keep them all happy as I proceed to vastly underpay them! I was able to fill out my unbelievable squad to the point where I truly felt I had two of the world's best players for every position, even going so far as to have Vanacore rejoin me from Chelsea (£85m), all of which is only possible because Carlos Alberto has persuaded two of the world's best right-backs to keep playing happily on their £100k p/w wages when they could probably get five times that on the open market. Same goes for all four world-class centre-backs, half the midfield, three of the world's five best left wingers, and so on. Honestly, with Carlos Alberto himself scoring the goals, his team should be unbeatable, I am just along for the ride.

    The league line in my first season in Paris reads P38 W38 D0 L0 F135 A8. Forget about the quest for an unbeaten season, cut straight to winning every single game! In fact, the only game that didn't end in victory all year was the first leg of the Champions Cup semi-final (1-1 in Madrid), but we still managed to win Europe's biggest competition with ease. So why, I hear you wondering, did I stay for season 2? The answer is that season 2 will end with the Club World Championship, and I highly fancy winning another one of those. Bit of a step backwards in season 2, P38 W36 D1 L1 F128 A9. Honestly, can't get the staff these days. Won everything else, won the CWC (Chelsea in the final 3-2, an 89th minute winner from one of those right backs). Not much of a story to tell, definitely time to move on, and with no fresh club challenge on the horizon, I spent a season with only the England job to keep me busy.

    England 2040-42

    No international team can ever have won the European Championship more easily than my England boys did in 2040. First game, with my absolute first-choice squad, we carved up Carlos Alberto's Spain 3-0. The two other group games were Kosovo (5-1) and Russia (4-0) and I played them with essentially the weakest first-XI I could pick out of my 23-man squad (being very conscious that the games come thick and fast and that anyone playing all seven games will be going off at 89% condition in the final). Second round, Germany, not a big threat, but a good team and really my first-choice boys need a game to stay match sharp! 4-1. Quarter Final – Scotland (2-1), Semi-Final – Austria (2-0) - honestly how did these teams get this far, they are rubbish; both are dispatched by the second string. All of which means my best XI has only played two games before the final. Carlos Alberto, meanwhile, has single-handedly dragged Spain through to the final, bagging 7 goals along the way. Now running on fumes, and playing 1v11, there is little he can do as we win the final 4-0!

    In 2041, we win every game en route to defending our International League title and qualifying for the World Cup, and I enter the World Cup with plans to follow the formula from two years ago and save the first team for as long as possible. This plan soon goes awry. In order to have two DMCs in the squad, I have gone in with only three central midfielders, one of whom gets injured in the opening game and will be out for the tournament. I can't play the remaining two for the whole of every game, so we are left with a series of hodgepodge stop-gaps throughout the remainder of the tournament. Paul Parker will play two full games as the mezzala, for which he has no proficiency at all. Oliseh (who by the way is now almost past it at 36) will play a game in front of the back four so that one of the DMCs can fill the void further up. Basically, the rest of the tournament is some desperate squad management, and from the third round on, the games get tough. Holland are beaten 1-0 thanks to a 77th minute goal. Next is France, who with half my PSG squad are probably the better side, but we scrape by on penalties. In the Semis we play Argentina. We end the game with nine men after both my right-backs are sent off and Paul Parker plays 120 minutes in central midfield (so far as I know, his second game ever in the position) and scores both goals including the 120th minute winner – scenes! So, we enter the World Cup Final... England-Germany... couldn't be bigger. We enter with a left-back playing right-back, a left-winger playing in the middle, the other central midfielder kicking off on 89% condition, basically struggling to put a team out at all! At this point I would like, on behalf of the nation, to thank the incredibly talented Ludger Schade (mezzala-extraordinaire of my PSG side) for the violent two-footed neck-high challenge with which he got himself sent off after 31 minutes. Ludger, we couldn't have done it without you. We go on to win 5-0 (!) and thus begin the celebrations... champions of the world! Of course, I have no time for celebrations; in fact, I promised in an interview a few days ago to give up my international job, if given the reins at...

    FC Bayern 2042-43 to 2043-44

    Let's face it, this is the one job I need, and it comes up for only the second time in ten years. It hasn't come up due to results, they've only failed to win the Bundesliga once in that time, and they aren't about to get worse now. We have the best squad in the league, the biggest wage bill by far, a massive transfer budget, in fact it is shameful that I manage to lose the season-opening Supercup to Dortmund. After that, it is pretty much plain sailing, winning the title by 13 points. The most interesting games of the season are the last two, starting with the DFB-Pokal Final against Dortmund. Dortmund by the way have the league's best-performing player (Sven Traut P31 G9 A14 POM 9 AVR 7.56) and even though we carved them up twice in the Bundesliga, they take us all the way to penalties here. Bearing in mind that I will have to spend a whole additional season (at least) in Munich if we lose it is pretty tense stuff. Result reveal to follow. The final game of the season is the Champions Cup Final against (two guesses...) Chelsea. We are underdogs in my eyes, but with the clock showing 90:00 we are winning (!) 1-0... hang on boys! Nope, Chelsea plunder a (deserved) 92nd minute equaliser, and this game too, eventually goes to penalties.

    Results reveal: we win the DFB-Pokal, we lose the Champions Cup. This, of course, is the very preferable way around for me personally (though probably not for the fans!) although I do now have three Champions Cup Final defeats on my resume, all to my own former teams. I figure I should win the Supercup at the start of the next season, and then that will be it... I will have won every major tournament in England, Spain, Italy, France and Germany as well as the European Championships and the World Cup. The end? Actually, a new ambition has formed in my head. With nothing left to chase, I now dream of returning to Charlton (who have remained top-half of the Premiership all this time) and finishing the job there.

    I'll wait for that job until at least the German Supercup is won, but domestic success will not be hard to come by with Bayern, especially after I commit most of my transfer budget on Sven Traut (£105m) which is as much about weakening Dortmund as strengthening Bayern. The Supercup goes to penalties (what is it about this side?) but luckily we prevail once more, so now there really is nothing left to stay for. An undefeated season perhaps? No, we have lost once at the halfway stage when the Charlton job comes up as they have slipped to mid-table. It's destiny. I'm coming home!

    Continued in follow-up post due to character count.

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    Cloud save doesn't show up.

    Posted: 18 Dec 2020 05:04 PM PST

    So I saved my career in cloud, waited a little and even checked if I can load it, but it turns out that I can only see a save on the device that I saved it on. On another device the save just doesn't seem to show up in my cloud saves. When I go to properties it says that I use 364 out of 589 mbs available for cloud saves, so I guess it synced. Did anyone have the same problem, did you manage to solve it?

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