lfds89

Quick Update: Managed to find a way to setup an algorithm to create my squad plan by choosing the best eleven and rest of the squad subject to positional rating. Also calculates the best alternate team. It's flawed, and sometimes I need to adjust, but it gets quite near the optimal solution. First, I start with the table with my best players ability rating by position ABILITY SK IWB CB WB DM CM MEZ W IF AF Juan Acosta 29 64 66 57 61 60 60 59 60 60 Killian Beaurain 71 50 51 46 53 54 50 52 49 46 Maximilian Beier 28 64 60 62 64 66 69 69 70 71 Jaka Bijol 26 65 70 58 63 63 62 61 61 62 Bruno Luís 74 48 50 44 51 51 47 49 46 43 Cesare Casadei 25 71 70 68 72 73 73 74 74 74 Dani 31 61 50 64 65 65 64 68 66 64 Karim Daoud 30 67 61 65 67 69 72 73 74 75 Junior Edom-Miath 28 62 65 55 59 58 58 57 58 59 Kyano Huberty 25 58 50 56 58 60 63 64 65 66 Tomás Jofré 29 74 74 67 74 72 69 70 68 66 El Kerim Jokić 25 60 51 63 67 67 63 67 64 60 Ourdy Kitoko 26 60 55 58 65 66 63 66 63 60 Rainer Krüger 25 68 62 72 72 74 74 76 75 74 Luiz Henrique 28 63 65 60 60 58 58 58 58 58 Alexandr Lukichev 30 71 74 65 67 68 70 68 70 72 Marco Manuzzi 26 63 58 62 67 67 67 70 68 66 José Javier Mateo 25 58 50 60 58 58 62 62 64 65 Gérald Miath 25 58 53 58 60 63 66 67 68 69 Andrei Nagy 28 74 74 68 74 73 71 72 71 70 Nathaniel Opoku 25 67 66 69 72 71 68 71 68 65 Zoran Petreski 25 61 53 59 64 65 65 68 67 65 Ivan Podstawski 24 62 55 61 62 64 69 70 72 74 Jacobo Rivas 26 63 68 55 60 57 57 57 57 58 Tomás Sala 64 38 41 38 40 41 38 38 37 35 Lazar Samardžić 25 66 59 69 69 70 70 72 71 69 Peter Sebek 29 70 70 64 67 66 68 67 68 69 Hugo Sueur 26 58 50 57 61 63 64 66 65 65 Francisco Tejeda 25 59 52 62 61 61 62 65 64 63 Kyllian Terrien 26 59 53 62 59 60 63 65 65 65 Guilhem Thomas 26 59 53 57 60 61 63 65 65 64 Fernando Vidal 30 70 66 66 70 69 70 72 71 71 Vini 27 69 63 73 73 74 73 76 74 73 Mettin Vormer 30 70 62 69 73 74 76 78 77 77 Lovro Zvonarek 27 65 61 62 68 69 68 69 68 66 Then I have a table with indexes for each all the 11+11 positions and Libre Office solver has a solver option with a SCO Evolutionary Algorithm. It basically tries multiple combinations and chooses the best over many iterations. The solver aims to maximize the sum of the first eleven ratings, then maximize the sum of the other players that make the squad. I had to add a negative sum to account for repeated players (they will have a big decrease in rating and will no longer be the best solution). End result is this: 1st Eleven and Squad GK Bruno Luís 5 74,2 RB Tomás Jofré 11 73,6 RCB Alexandr Lukichev 16 73,8 LCB Peter Sebek 27 70,4 LB Vini 33 72,7 DM Andrei Nagy 20 73,8 CM Nathaniel Opoku 21 71,1 MEZ Cesare Casadei 6 73,5 RW Mettin Vormer 34 77,6 LW Rainer Krüger 14 75,1 ST Karim Daoud 8 75,2 GK Killian Beaurain 2 70,9 RB Maximilian Beier 3 64,4 RCB Jacobo Rivas 24 68,2 LCB Jaka Bijol 4 69,9 LB Francisco Tejeda 29 62,4 DM El Kerim Jokić 12 66,7 CM Marco Manuzzi 17 67,4 MEZ Lazar Samardžić 26 69,8 RW Fernando Vidal 32 71,6 LW Gérald Miath 19 67,9 ST Ivan Podstawski 23 74,0 Doing the same with the alternative eleven. But this time also adding a negative sum to account for the player in the first eleven in the same position (only CB's don't work out this way because the calculation is the same for RCB and LCB). Alternative Eleven GK Killian Beaurain 2 70,9 RB Andrei Nagy 20 73,7 RCB Peter Sebek 27 70,4 LCB Alexandr Lukichev 16 73,8 LB Rainer Krüger 14 72,2 DM Tomás Jofré 11 73,9 CM Cesare Casadei 6 72,6 MEZ Vini 33 73,3 RW Karim Daoud 8 73,5 LW Ivan Podstawski 23 71,9 ST Mettin Vormer 34 76,9 Funny that Beier is most useful as RB, according to the algorithm. Also, shows my problem with the LB position. I've been retraining Vini but he's still far from being natural at this position and Lukichev is right-footed where I need a more offensive and wide player, so he doesn't really fit as well as he could. Will need to find a better fit than Tejeda as a backup. On the alternative eleven, the algorithm chooses Krüger, but he's too valuable in midfield for me to think about using him elsewhere.

Good luck, Warlock!

Mid-Season Report AWARDS That's the second time Marseille has a Golden Boy award. First one was Rahbek in the season I was at Liverpool. Totally deserved. You'll see on the coming screens why. COMPETITIONS We are on a roll in the league. Pods has 16 goals in 9 games. We have 2 draws, the rest are wins. 9 points to 2nd and 14 to 3rd. In the CL, we are not doing as well. Lost to Barcelona 2-1 and also lost to At. Madrid 2-1. But our worst game was against Liverpool where we were comfortably winning 2-0 and let them draw in 5 minutes. We have to play against Zagreb and Man Utd. We have to win against Zagreb, and do our best against United. We won the Supercup against my former team, Liverpool. Felt good to show them after they let me go. PLAYERS Funny that Vormer was concerned about his playing time after recovering from injury and he's third in the team in minutes played... Lazar might get your attention with 18 assists, but they are inflated by 6 assists against a minor team in the cup game we won 19-0. He had 6 assists and 4 goals! Speaking of Lazar, he was on the last year of his contract and he was a problem as exposed on the last posts. We negotiated a new contract with him as he was deserving it and managed to lower both his wages and his bonuses, so he's now more in line with what his quality deserves. Beier and Casadei are now the "negative" outliers. TRANSFERS The winter transfer window is now open. We don't need to buy anyone for the first team, but might sell if there are good offers. We have some youngsters coming in and used the Joker transfer window to get a 5-star potential French player in. Guilhem Tomas, from Clermont. You can see on the previous posts, I talked about him. He was valued 40M but over the course of the season his value dropped to 12M and we decided to go for him, but let him play the rest of the season at Clermont (2nd tier).

PLAYER ANALYSIS I went through some stats and decided to create a visualization to show and put my players into categories. I have divided the game into 4 moments: winning the ball, keeping the ball, creating a chance, and finishing the chance. For those moments I chose 2 stats to represent each: Possessions Won and Headers Won; Passes Completed and Pass Accuracy (%); Open-Play Key Passes and Dribbles; Shots on Target and difference between Goals and Expected Goals (G-xG). I converted them to z-scores so I could see how players deviate from the average of my team in each category. In this case, opted to select only players with 500+ minutes (I'm in November in-game, 13 league games into the season). I have also excluded the goalkeepers from this. [Blue]: Possession Won and Headers Won [Orange]: Passes Completed and Pass Accuracy [Pink]: Dribbles and Key-Passes (Open-Play) [Gold]: Shots on Target and G-xG Only shows stats where the players score above average (positive values) The defenders mostly fall into the first two moments. My only offensive fullback is Tejeda. Hope Vidal and Vini can change that a bit. Jofré has also been out injured and he can be a bit more offensive than Sebek and Nagy who have been playing on the right. In the midfield line, I've been using Lazar as a winger sometimes and it shows in his importance for the last 2 moments. Casadei is the more versatile player and he has played in every midfield position, so his involvement in every moment shows. Kitoko is still very young and learning, so now he participates in the game but isn't much of a defender nor he's dribbling much. Opoku shows a problem I have in my tactic. My DM isn't particularly active anywhere... I have tried to play him as DLP sometimes so the ball would move through him more and he could play more risky passes, but sometimes I'm afraid of losing the team balance and losing possession in deep positions, so as long as we keep playing as well as we are doing, I feel I have to "sacrifice" the player in this position to this grey zone. Upfront, Vormer is an incredibly creative player; Beier does it all as Daoud; and my forwards are there to score. I prefer forwards who can make an impact in the air, so I'm happy with the contributions of Daoud, Beier, and Pods in that subject. Miath's dribbles come from having some minutes in Vormer's position and an immense game where he had 4 dribbles and scored 4 goals. Important Note: headers won shows in most of my players and probably I should rethink the stats, but it also shows how physicality is important in the game and my team. TOP50 The Top50 players in the world were announced and even with the CL win we don't have any player in the list. If it serves of any consolation, Tozé Sá Martins and Rahbek whom I both sold to Man City are on the list. CONTRACTS Regarding the wages: Sebek accepted a new contract without the compromise of playing him as BPD. The wages were a bit over what I wanted, but looking into the squad as a whole isn't particularly deviating. This is the summary of the situation for the 3 players. Previous contract (reminding that monthly expenses = wage + 4* appearance fee); what was their expected monthly expenses based on their quality (with my BPR metric) and their new monthly expenses.

After the market closed, I decided to check the relationship between the monthly expenses [wage + 4* appearance fee] of each player and their respective Rating (my metric BPR). I did a graph with both values normalized with z-score for every player with BPR over 63 [every player in the first team and loanees who might make it soon]: Older players are naturally over the line, I'm not worried about them. Since we have a lot of wage and transfer budget available, I'm keen on renewing with some guys on the lower end. Name Monthly Expenses ME^ Dif ME^,ME Vini 426 000,00 € 594 491,88 € 168 491,88 € Rainer Krüger 241 000,00 € 581 744,72 € 340 744,72 € Ivan Podstawski 154 000,00 € 448 810,09 € 294 810,09 € Fernando Vidal 82 200,00 € 403 284,54 € 321 084,54 € Killian Beaurain 262 000,00 € 390 537,38 € 128 537,38 € Peter Sebek 245 000,00 € 382 039,28 € 137 039,28 € Marco Manuzzi 86 500,00 € 328 622,62 € 242 122,62 € El Kerim Jokić 39 900,00 € 239 392,53 € 199 492,53 € Jacobo Rivas 58 800,00 € 202 543,61 € 143 743,61 € Zoran Petreski 28 100,00 € 150 162,44 € 122 062,44 € Vini (LB/LW/RCM) has some increases coming through his contract. Rainer Krüger (RCM) just arrived so I'll leave it like that for the time being. Ivan (ST) has been our starter ST so he's the priority. Then I'll check with Vidal (RB/RCM/ST). Beaurain (GK) just arrived. Sebek (CB) signed a new contract just 1 year ago and demanded an important player role. It's tricky because he's good and my first option from the bench but hasn't been good enough to be a starter. I'll probably try to offer a new contract after the winter transfer window. Manuzzi (CM) is on loan and although he has decent attributes, I don't see him as being part of the team in the future. Tried to sell him this season but couldn't find decent offers. Most likely won't get a contract. Rivas (CB) just arrived as he's a prospect. Maybe next season I'll offer him a new contract if he gets some game time. Petreski (CM/RW) was someone my scouts found for free and I'll eventually sell him for some profit. A bit later: Ivan accepted a 332k monthly wage until 2037 (5 years) with 15k in appearance fees and a 10% wage rise every year [Season +1: 365k; Season +2: 401k). Vidal has a new contract for 5 years as a squad player worth 221k/month with a 13k appearance fee and with a rise to 289k after 20 games and 378 after 30 games. He'll be around the expected monthly expenses after his 30th match. By the time both get to the target wage, they'll be better and likely deserving of more. In the meantime, Sebek developed some concerns over his contract, so I talked to the agent: Not very kind... Being among the most noteworthy is ok, although I hoped to revert that; playing him as BPD not so much as I need him as RB; and the demands are a bit over the expected unless he accepts on the lower end of the interval. The interaction isn't great either: I can accept; adjust wage; adjust playing time; or remove promises but increase wage. Not having a middle ground answer like: "Ok, I'll accept the wage, accept the status, but don't accept the position/role promise" or "You'll be regarded as a first-team player but need you to be versatile and we'll see about the wage" is making me feel a bit powerless about this negotiation. I stalled and I'll get back to this later.

For the new season, I wanted to "frenchify" the team. We only had 2 French players (Opoku and Daoud) as permanent members of the first team and 2 youngsters (Kitoko and Sueur). Going through the outgoings first: Alexis McAllister (LCM) was a decent servent of the club, but I didn't value him enough to give him a new contract at 33. Quinten Timber (DM/CB/RB) was brought in last season for 30M, and although he can play multiple positions (so it's nice to have him as backup), we can do better. Luckily, Aston Villa was interested and offered 50M so we could still profit on a 31-year-old player. Then, it was the already expected selling of Rahbek (ST/RW). The best deal available was 150M with 30M in appearances and 25% on profit. It's a club record and he wanted to leave, so I took it. Then we had Kobel (GK). He's 34 and was brought in for 35M last season. I needed the create space for Bruno Luís to develop and also had a deal in place for a French backup GK, so he left for 19M. Still a decent fee for his age. Lastly, Thierry Correia (RB), 33. Also brought in last season, at least he was on a free. Decided to sell him for 11M to Porto. Sold 4 non-French players and released another one, 4 of them past their prime, and a big transfer. Also sold some players who had been on loan for the season for over an additional 30M. Regarding the transfers in: I've already written about a French backup and he already appeared in the previous post: Kyllian Beaurain (GK), 24 at the time of the signing. He was playing for Frankfurt, having come through the Toulouse ranks. A bit worse than Kobel, but good enough for a backup. Spent 14M on him. Then it was Krüger (RCM), 22. Metz got relegated so he had a relegation clause of 30M. Reports from my scouts suggested he had high potential with a valuation of 4,5 starts. My BPR metric pointed towards an already first-team quality player, so it was an easy decision. Cannot say he's a direct replacement for McAllister, but moved a few pieces and he now fits as the RCM in a Mezzala role where he will battle for a place with Casadei. You can see it was a good bet as his valuation has risen to 100M by October. This was it as far as transfers in, but I also added 3 players who had been on loan: homegrown Miath (ST), Edom-Miath (CB), El-Kerim Jokic (DM/CM) and Vidal (CM). Miath is a clear downgrade from Rahbek and he's not the type of player I look for in the ST position as his speed and physicality are quite below the level I need, but he has the potential and he scores so I'll give him a chance has a backup ST. He also counts for the homegrown quota which is relevant. Edom-Miath hasn't developed has much as I wanted, but has a 4th CB he's good enough, so I'll keep him around the team and move Sebek to RB to replace Thierry Correia. El-Kerim Jokic will be competing for a place in the DM position with Opoku, replacing Timber. He had a nasty injury late in the previous season which made him miss the preseason as well, so he'll be eased into the team. His low attribute for defending is a concern, but most of the time the team is dominant, I mostly need an attacking player rather than a defensive one in this position. Vidal is the last add-in to the team. He played as AF and AP last season on loan at Celta de Vigo but I think of him as an option for the RB position. Decent aerial, physical and defensive presence. Can make an impact on attack. Speaking of changing positions, I'm also retraining Vini to play as LB. He's one of my best players, but I can't find an offensive LB, so I'll try him there. Lukichev at the moment is our starting LB but I want to play him in his natural position (CB). Our second option is Tejeda who isn't good enough. Overall, that's 5 non-French players out and 4 in (Beaurain, Krüger, Miath and Edom-Miath). It's not massive but it's a step in the direction we want to go. For the next few years, I don't have many players ready to get into the team just yet, but the academy has been producing decent talents and we are poaching some players from other teams, so it'll come. In the meantime, I plan to integrate Sueur (RW) or Terrien (RW/ST) in the next season; Lassalle (ST) in 2/3 seasons; and Charron (GK) as well in 2/3 seasons. Jazouli (LW) is deemed 5-star potential by my AssMan, but he isn't developing as fast as expected. I'll try and find some defenders, but there aren't many quality defenders in the game. Maybe some are good enough for backup, but I don't see anyone near the level for my first team. All the 3,5+ potential French defenders in the game who are under 25: Mendes and Edom-Miath are my players; Thomas (RB/RW) has 4 for defending; Settineri (LB) has 9 for first touch and dribbling; Bâ (CB) has 5 for jumping...

I've made some changes to the spreadsheet as I've said before. I added a new comment on the evolution tracking sheet to check for high-potential players (players with a higher-than-expected evolution in 1 season). I've added a column that shows every position the player is good enough to play in (over a threshold or above 98% of the best position rating) And since I find some roles are a mix of 2 positions, I also added a calculation for every role: This then allows me to check the depth in each position based on a minimum rating: (some transfers-in already included) I've also reviewed how the rating has evolved from season 6 to season 10 with some players and reworked the math behind the calculation and I also have a board for every role in potential and the depth in every role. The Potential check on the evaluation page is also calculated differently. All these updates were also done on the spreadsheet for scouting. This then leads to a sheet comparing my top 10 players in each position and the top 10 players in the scouting spreadsheet.

Great goal. Love the patience on the build-up.

Way better than expected. We were the best team in Europe. We had some problems in the Semi-Final of the UCL, but after beating AC Milan, it was between PSG (who we had beaten in the League, in the Cup and in the Supercup) and Real Madrid who played a 4-3-3 the formation we are most comfortable playing against. UCL: In the League, 14 wins and 3 losses and a monstrous month of February with 22 goals scored in 4 matches. Clearly the best season I had in any FM. The Danish monster I don't expect to keep him for next season. I'm thinking about changing things up a bit. The youth team also won the Youth League: And a few youngsters played their part on this season's success: Kitoko, Sueur and Gabriel have come through the academy. Next year, I'll add a few more homegrown players and French players so I have a more "domestic" team. And everybody with 800+ minutes. Noticeable that Vormer, Zvonarek and Daoud are expected starters but have suffered long injuries and we still managed to be this good without them. Credit to all the subs that came on for them, mainly Beier who played as LW, RW and ST throughout the season. Over 10g+10a: Max Beier and Rahbek. Was expecting Vormer to score more often and Daoud to assist more. Casadei was also near. And also the overall career stats: Season Year Club League Position Cup Stage CC Stage League PPG League Win % League GF League GA 01 2022/2023 Sertanense PT4 1st TdP First Round DNP - 2,27 69% 70 32 02 2023/2024 Sertanense PT3 3rd TdP Sixth Round DNP - 1,56 44% 33 26 03 2024/2025 Sertanense PT2 3rd TdP Third Round DNP - 1,76 50% 59 36 04 2025/2026 Sertanense PT1 9th TdP Third Round DNP - 1,29 35% 46 50 05 2026/2027 Marseille FR1 3rd CdF Third Round UEL SF 1,79 50% 70 37 06 2027/2028 Marseille FR1 3rd CdF Finalist UCL QF 2,06 62% 82 30 07 2028/2029 Marseille FR1 1st CdF 11th Round UCL R16 2,38 76% 84 19 08 2029/2030 Marseille FR1 1st CdF Winner UCL QF 2,41 74% 86 26 09 2030/2031 Liverpool EN1 6th FA Finalist UCL QF 1,74 50% 62 36 10 2031/2032 Marseille FR1 1st CdF Winner UCL Winner 2,44 79% 104 32 The career top performers: Season Year Club Most Goals Most Assists Most POM Highest AvR 01 2022/2023 Sertanense Karamoko – 31 Quaresma – 9 Karamoko – 8 Kisley – 7,42 02 2023/2024 Sertanense Karamoko – 23 P Mendes – 10 Karamoko – 5 L Madeira – 7,26 03 2024/2025 Sertanense Karamoko – 21 Miccoli – 8 Karamoko – 7 Karamoko – 7,10 04 2025/2026 Sertanense Karamoko – 22 Costinha – 9 Costinha – 4 Karamoko – 7,02 05 2026/2027 Marseille Beier – 30 A Harit – 12 Beier – 10 Beier – 7,34 06 2027/2028 Marseille Beier – 41 A Güler – 17 Beier – 9 Beier – 7,38 07 2028/2029 Marseille Beier – 39 M Vormer – 18 Beier – 11 Beier – 7,53 08 2029/2030 Marseille Beier – 45 L Samardzic – 15 Beier – 14 Beier – 7,55 09 2030/2031 Liverpool Darwin – 19 Harvey Elliot – 9 Harvey Elliot – 4 Darwin – 7,19 10 2031/2032 Marseille Rahbek – 48 L Zvonarek – 21 Rahbek – 14 Rahbek – 7,66 And the financial/attendance situation: Season Year Club Income Expenditure Profit Avg Attendance 01 2022/2023 Sertanense 1 353 447,00 € 1 411 118,00 € -57 671,00 € 662 02 2023/2024 Sertanense 1 485 040,00 € 1 942 059,00 € -457 019,00 € 1266 03 2024/2025 Sertanense 9 730 336,00 € 11 047 343,00 € -1 317 007,00 € 1876 04 2025/2026 Sertanense 6 747 649,00 € 7 290 128,00 € -542 479,00 € 5296 05 2026/2027 Marseille 269 469 620,00 € 252 138 019,00 € 17 331 601,00 € 56937 06 2027/2028 Marseille 424 402 996,00 € 360 698 906,00 € 63 704 090,00 € 62557 07 2028/2029 Marseille 442 381 644,00 € 431 762 494,00 € 10 619 150,00 € 61342 08 2029/2030 Marseille 461 276 053,00 € 434 403 627,00 € 26 872 426,00 € 63857 09 2030/2031 Liverpool 628 881 818,00 € 862 201 336,00 € -233 319 518,00 € 59498 10 2031/2032 Marseille 607 322 846,00 € 555 843 675,00 € 51 479 171,00 € 64334 And a look at the most-used players over the 10 years of managing: Name Position Apps Goals Seasons Club Daniel Azevedo GK 78 0 23-26 Sertanense Tomás Jofré RB 86 0 29-30/31-32 Marseille Andrei Nagy CB 180 10 26-30/31-32 Marseille Luís Ferreira CB 121 11 22-26 Sertanense Giuseppe Pezzella LB 153 1 26-30 Marseille Kanya Fujimoto CM 135 21 26-30 Marseille Ludovit Reis DM 133 7 26-30 Marseille Lovro Zvonarek CM 126 12 28-30/31-32 Marseille Mettin Vormer RW 120 16 27-30/31-32 Marseille Karim Daoud LW 172 59 27-30/31-32 Marseille Maximilian Beier ST/LW 225 176 26-30/31-32 Marseille Now dominated by Marseille players, with Beier being the first to break the 200-game barrier. I'll leave the spreadsheet update to another post as this is getting too big.

It's always the problem with youth-only saves, either you are lucky or there's no real workaround. In the save I'm playing (journeyman type), I'm slowly trying to go that way, forcing myself to have and play more youngsters but it's very tricky.

The first time I've seen this message I don't need to add the season is going wonderful. I've also kept working on my spreadsheet and I'll soon write an update with the end of the season and all the changes.

Pretty decent run in the league phase. The knockout phase is always tricky. The best players can always make a difference in every play.

Mid-Season Update Competitions: Ligue 1 Massive contribution from one of the best players I ever had in FM: Niclas Rahbek. UCL: Particularly interesting that are youngsters are thriving in the UCL: Podstawski, 18, 4 goals + 2 assists; Kitoko, 16, 2g + 1a; Sueur, 17, 1g+1a. Winter Transfer Window Quite busy, but we managed to make some interesting deals: OUT A bunch of reserves with limited potential; Lucas Pires was our reserve LB and Tozé was our rotating DM and RW, but not exactly the first choice. IN Machuca, Triki and Hubery are U17 players. Petreski is a 21-year-old who can still develop and either be a backup or at least be sold for profit. The same goes for Johansen. Vini is the replacement for Tozé. He can play both as MEZ-A and LW. Tejeda is a winger turned LB. He isn't top quality but with the lack of attacking WBs, I decided to try him out. Dionisi is a piece of business. He has english nationality, has decent potential and was available for just 2M. Got him in, loaned him to Toulouse, and expect to profit a lot from his sale to a Premier League team. Tactics I have settled with my 4-3-3 DM Wide. In possession is a 2-1-3-4. I've also created the inverted version to cause different types to problems, but haven't used much. Regarding my spreadsheet, I've changed a few things: Added a calculated Potential Rating: a very simple formula just based on a linear evolution until a players is 23 (as expected doesn't work very well for GKs, but it's a work in progress). Added a personality check and a potential check. On the Squad Analytics Tab, I've changed the Ability and Potential to the BPR values from the table above (instead of the scout assessment). This way it's calculated automatically once I upload my squad. I've also created an Evolution screen to track my players' development from the beginning of the season (or when they got in the squad):

Quick Update: I got back to Marseille. Initially, I was thinking about waiting for a different type of job, maybe in Italy or Spain, but clearly, Marseille was the best job available and already had a squad built with my ideas. 2 new visuals to study my squad: The first one is based on "Talent Analytics". Based on ability and potential, I set my players into categories. Then with the risk/impact binomial, I can check if I need to be looking at someone to cover an eventual exit. [Risk: 2 for players with someone interested; 3 for players who already have an offer or said they want out] | [Impact: this is more on feeling - 2 if I feel I have a sub, but I'm not 100% sure he can replace him; 3 - 2nd best is nowhere near in quality ] The second one is an overview of all the players with a contract. [Monthly Expenses: Monthly Wage + 4* Appearance Fee] [Wage Group Limit: Based on the 30+30+30+10 division of wages] [Best Rating: I have a calculation for each position based on the octagon attributes] [Total Rating: All octagon attributes added] [Prob Columns: Checks for potential issues with players - Age if they are equal or over 31; Wage if they are over their wage group limit; Rate if they are below 72 in best and 60 in total - then they add to the 4th column]

An interesting turn of events... After the post-season meeting with the board, I was called for another post-season meeting with the board and they decided to sack me. Oh well...