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Finally got out of the Championship hell! Crazy crazy season!

Last day on the summer transfer window and Atalanta stole my best player beating the release clause, luckily in the winter one i got a great bargain in Gutierrez.

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Lets see how the Premier League treat us.

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Another season went by and once again I came short, let's see how next season shapes up.

Here are all my transfers

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As of right now my team is as good as I can get it to be in the championship, i'll try to get some loanees to help us to get to premier league and get some better players.

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13 horas atrás, Mark_w disse:

It's a fair point, and the current rules don't really take into account the fact that transfer fees have been inflated. But I am also a bit reluctant because I want it to be challenging, Leicester winning the league shouldn't have happened based on finances and I want to reflect that in the challenge. If it's just done on net spend someone can sell a talented regen for silly money and go on a real spending spree and that's not true to Leicester's success. For the time being I'll up the limit to (I make it 95m?) as transfermarkt is probably going to be more accurate than the calculation I did in my head! And then if a few more people give it a go and nobody is completing the challenge I'll rethink those rules.

I totally agree with you about the finances but like I said i'm just worried about the challenge. 

Let's see if someone is able to do it!

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@Mark_w I was thinking about the transfers of Leicester and through those 8 years (according to transfermarkt) they spent 105,74M and only had 25,22M in sales meaning they had a -80,52M in transfers. Maybe we can change the rules a bit and adjust the rules to football manager letting us have the same balance of -80M between purchases and sales of players, maybe even adding a penalty for someone that overspends. That way maybe we can make this challenge a tiny bit more feasible, tell me what you think!

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@Mark_w Thank you for adding me to the graph and congrats on that Liverpool win!

My third season was bloody awful, I lost my best player due to injury in the whole second half of the season and had to make some desperate transfers.

Lets see if he comes back alright.

We still finished in 10th place and have a way better team to try to get promotion next season.

Here are all the transfers.

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And this is my starting 11 from the last game of the season

Let's see if the boys stepup from this season and get that promotion spot!

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Here's my second season.

We managed to get to the 6th place and to promotion battle.

We had an unbelievable season all along that got kinda ruined by some injuries and lack of squad depth.

When we were on our best form we got the win of the season against Leicester.

In the end we also did amazingly well going into the playoffs in which I chose to put my worst players on the final (I need to get that sweet points!)

This is my squad at the end of season 2

And here are all of my transfers

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Even though we are doing really well I'm starting to get worried about the player that needed to be relegated with the club to League One, at this moment only Ben Wiles has a chance to be in my final premier league squad. You can see I let Viktor Johansson leave on a free but he was so terrible for me...

Let's see how this season goes, I still need a full revamp on my midfield and defensive line.

 

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Can't wait to see your progress as well!

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Hi there! Great save idea!
Here's how my first season went.
Rotherham, it is to take Premier League down!

 

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Pre-season started terribly for me so did my first half of the season.
In the beginning, I only got Ethan Laird on a loan, a right-back from Man United that I planned on using in the left defender spot but even that came to a halt in January when Solkjaer took him back from playing in the wrong position.

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In the desperation of finding a good tactic, I found Eddy Sylvestre for free hoping he was gonna be my savior but even he alone couldn't help Rotherham going into promotion places.

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December came and the scores were abysmal, I was in 6th place and the board started having talks about sending me home.

There completely desperate I went to find some loanees to help my journey.

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When everything was starting to go well Derby came and took Molosunde paying his full release clause but I didn't care anymore, my three golden looanes were going to be my lifeboat and nothing could stop us!

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In the end, we got there and guaranteed promotion with second place.

And here it is my mighty team, my beautiful stallions!

 

I'm having a blast with this challenge, wish me luck for second season!

Ps: While searching for a Number 10 i found this madlad and he's going to be joining us in the 2023-24 season!

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