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With all of the negative stories I’ve noticed on this forum lately I thought I’d share something positive to counter the balance. 

X player decides he wants to leave, go to a bigger club even though he’s a big cog in a very successful team, in this case the player is Tonali, and he’s won Europa, CL, league titles, and cups with my RB Leipzig. 

Now for about 2 years he’s stated he wants to go to a bigger club, thing is he’s the heartbeat of my team, averaging over an 8 rating per game, something like 25 assists per season, an absolute monster. Gets down to 16 months and I can see he’s not gonna change his mind. Bought him for 11m so negotiate a fairly high fee to sell him, 85m with add ons and off he goes to Man City. 

At time of selling him I’m awaiting the first knock out round draw of the CL. It’s written in the stars, of course I’m drawn against City. 

Anyway, I need to rebuild, and fast, I’m much weaker having lost Tonali. 

I make wholesale changes, decide to completely revamp my midfield and formation too, I decide I need more control in the middle now, more numbers. Moving away from a direct counter attack team to more of a slower build up / more patient team, but one that can still play a through ball if needed. 

This means I change from a 5-1-2-2 to 4-1-3-2 - however I  keep the DLP role as its still  fundamental to how I like my teams to play, I just remove one CB as I notice teams only play 1 striker against me, so having 3 CBs is overkill and as I need to control the game more I decide to go with one more man in the middle. 

I start scouting a DLP, in this case, I’ve got my eyes firmly on Eduardo Camavinga, I end up getting him for 64m, he’s only 19 and can be an integral member of my teams for years, money well spent. 

I also need an attacking player to play on the left of my flat 3 midfielders, who all sit ahead of my DLP, I end up going slightly crazy, probably still hurting from the Tonali sale, in an act of somewhat desperation I splash 128m on Kai Hertz. He’s more suited to the AMC role but I reckon I can train him to play well in the Mezella (A) role. 

Anyway what happens next is some of the most delicious football I’ve ever seen on FM, flicks, tricks, lovely triangles, volleyed goals, over head kicks, simply amazing. My four midfielders just click, like Barcelona circa late 2000s

Camavinga picks up where Tonali left off, averaging a rating of over 8 per game, still same amount of assists but chips in with a few more goals. 

Kai Hertz, what can I say, he’s almost as prolific as a support striker getting roughly 15 goals from about 20ish games. A truly magnificent player. Oozes class and has a silky left foot that offers natural balance to my team as I was previously playing a right footer on the left side of my midfield. 

Midfield is as follows:


DLP (S) - Eduardo Camavinga

Mezella (A) MCL - Kai Hertz

B2B (S) MC - Gedson Fernandes

Mezella (A) MCR - Dominik Szoboszlai 

So we come up against City, new rules mean Tonali can face us even though he’s played CL games for me, first leg we beat them 2-1 at home. Nicely poised for the away leg. We take an early lead at the Etihad to go 3-1 and then Tonali does what he does best, assists a goal for City to make it 1-1 on the night, 3-2 to me on agg. Happy to say I hold out and go on to win the tie, then beat Napoli, Liverpool, and Barcelona to clinch the CL. 

To cut a long story short, and the point of this post, the message that finally got rid of all my pain at losing my star player is when after a long slog of season, up pops up in my inbox something along the lines of “Having won back to back CLs, RB Leipzig are now the most reputable team in the World” - have that Tonali, boy did you make a mistake leaving  us, on form, we’re currently the biggest club in the world! 

A big beaming smile on my face appears and I finally exorcise the demons of unrequited player love...don’t you just love it when that happens. 

Whilst I couldn’t see it at the time, Tonali leaving was a blessing in disguise, it forced me to rethink my tactic, improve it, get better balance to my team, play better football, and ultimately, get better and more consistent results. Rebuilding is an inevitable part of the game, whether you’re forced to do it or not, it’s gonna happen. Next time I’ll go with along with it with a lot less trepidation. 

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Dagenham_Dave

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This would have been a better story if it had been another club other than Franchise FC. :herman:

But on the whole, I agree, it's moments like this that make this game amazing. For all the (mostly undeserved) flak they take on here, SI continues to knock the management genre out the park. 

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16 minutes ago, Dagenham_Dave said:

This would have been a better story if it had been another club other than Franchise FC. :herman:

But on the whole, I agree, it's moments like this that make this game amazing. For all the (mostly undeserved) flak they take on here, SI continues to knock the management genre out the park. 

Yeah it’s an amazing game, I obviously follow real football as a hobby, but even that has its flaws too, so using same logic, why should FM be any different. 
 

ps I know RB Leipzig are universally hated, that’s why I went there. Kinda like being the bad guy of football. 

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Man spends £200m and team gets better....... not quite a twist on M Night Shyamalan but always good to see City get done over.

And I'm with you on having to let some players go, it hurts, but can definitely unlock something new, be it forcing you to change and get better, or that it forces you to give a  youngster a chance who just smashes every expectation :D

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Nice story!

Camavinga is an absolute beast in my current save. Started at Lyon where i got him for 21M or so. Helped me win the title in my 5th year there. I moved to Atletico Madrid. Immediately signed him (for 91M) and he helped me win La Liga in my first season. In my 3rd season there, Man City bought him because of his 115M release clause. After three years of Atletico i moved to Tottenham. Just done my 1st year. Finished 3rd, while City where 5th. Unhappy about not playing CL i bought him again with Spurs. 

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Liamgannon

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8 minutes ago, Mitchutd said:

Man spends £200m and team gets better....... not quite a twist on M Night Shyamalan but always good to see City get done over.

And I'm with you on having to let some players go, it hurts, but can definitely unlock something new, be it forcing you to change and get better, or that it forces you to give a  youngster a chance who just smashes every expectation :D

Lol technically only around 115m when you take into account fee I got for Tonali. Yes I did just hit you with net spend logic. :cool:

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7 minutes ago, PhydomiR said:

Nice story!

Camavinga is an absolute beast in my current save. Started at Lyon where i got him for 21M or so. Helped me win the title in my 5th year there. I moved to Atletico Madrid. Immediately signed him (for 91M) and he helped me win La Liga in my first season. In my 3rd season there, Man City bought him because of his 115M release clause. After three years of Atletico i moved to Tottenham. Just done my 1st year. Finished 3rd, while City where 5th. Unhappy about not playing CL i bought him again with Spurs. 

Yeah he’s amazing, only reservation is my scout says he’s injury prone, hoping he’s able to play consistently for me.  How do you find him in that respects? 

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8 minutes ago, Liamgannon said:

Lol technically only around 115m when you take into account fee I got for Tonali. Yes I did just hit you with net spend logic. :cool:

Net spend is the lowest of blows!

Surely mentioning net spend is a sackable offence at a RB club!

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4 hours ago, Liamgannon said:

Yeah he’s amazing, only reservation is my scout says he’s injury prone, hoping he’s able to play consistently for me.  How do you find him in that respects? 

Doing ok. Mostly minor 1-3days injuries but he has broken a rib last season and his toe the year before. Needs to drink more milk ;)

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32 minutes ago, PhydomiR said:

Doing ok. Mostly minor 1-3days injuries but he has broken a rib last season and his toe the year before. Needs to drink more milk ;)

Yeah having the same issue. Little niggly injuries that always happen before big games. Hoping he grows out of it once he builds up 

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