I'm managing Atalanta in an online network save, joined end of January first season when the position became available. My goal is to create a team of home grown wonderkids, with a bias to Italian players. The starting squad is already brilliant with great youngsters, so just set about signing wonderkids with a short term target of winning the League and deep run in Champions League for season 2. Had half a season to rescue their poor season and managed to climb into the champions league spots that allowed me to hold on to some of the key players for Season 2!
Started brightly for second season. Notably sold Koopmeiners for £80m to Man Utd in January to allow for more signings and increase wages. Final game of season 2 was a league title decider against Milan, just needed to avoid defeat to claim the title, managed a 1-1 draw. Followed this up with a Champions League trophy by (luckily) edging past Man Utd in the final who wasted multiple chances - the sale of Koopmeiners didn't come back to haunt me fortunately!
Season 3 my younger players had grown and were now comfortable playing and winning games home & away, with a huge undefeated run. Ended up running away with the League title. Unfortunately, lost to a strong Bayern side in extra time due to some injuries and tiredness in the Champions League final (4-2 AET). Managed a lot of heavy rotation so my wonderkids were getting good amount of game time.
Now into the summer window for season 4. I've finalised the return of Bastoni for ~£80m much to the delight of the fans and board (my board now has huge expectations to basically win everything). Apart from that crazy signing, my focus remains on finding regens to develop, and to move on a few players if any decent bids come in - as I'm now ready to integrate some of those wonderkids I signed in Season 1 and 2.
I recommend giving Serie A a go on FM22 if you haven't already. Just the non-eu transfers can be a bit of a hinderance as you can only sign 1 or 2 per year. Lucca is a must have signing and should be a priority.
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I'm managing Atalanta in an online network save, joined end of January first season when the position became available. My goal is to create a team of home grown wonderkids, with a bias to Italian players. The starting squad is already brilliant with great youngsters, so just set about signing wonderkids with a short term target of winning the League and deep run in Champions League for season 2. Had half a season to rescue their poor season and managed to climb into the champions league spots that allowed me to hold on to some of the key players for Season 2!
Key players: Musso, Demiral, Toloi, Palomino, Zappacosta, Gosens, Koopmeiners, Freuler, Muriel, Ilicic, Zapata
Started brightly for second season. Notably sold Koopmeiners for £80m to Man Utd in January to allow for more signings and increase wages. Final game of season 2 was a league title decider against Milan, just needed to avoid defeat to claim the title, managed a 1-1 draw. Followed this up with a Champions League trophy by (luckily) edging past Man Utd in the final who wasted multiple chances - the sale of Koopmeiners didn't come back to haunt me fortunately!
Key players: Musso, Demiral, Niakhate, Romero, Zappacosta, Gosens, Pessina, Freuler, Muriel, Lucca, Zapata
Season 3 my younger players had grown and were now comfortable playing and winning games home & away, with a huge undefeated run. Ended up running away with the League title. Unfortunately, lost to a strong Bayern side in extra time due to some injuries and tiredness in the Champions League final (4-2 AET). Managed a lot of heavy rotation so my wonderkids were getting good amount of game time.
Now into the summer window for season 4. I've finalised the return of Bastoni for ~£80m much to the delight of the fans and board (my board now has huge expectations to basically win everything). Apart from that crazy signing, my focus remains on finding regens to develop, and to move on a few players if any decent bids come in - as I'm now ready to integrate some of those wonderkids I signed in Season 1 and 2.
Current team:
GK: Musso / Mamardashvili / Carnessecchi
DCR: Demiral / Scalvini / Amey
DC: Bastoni / Niakhate / Lovato
DCL: Romero / Carboni
WBR: Maehle / Esteves
WBL: Gosens / Ruggeri
DMC: Pessina / Ivan Ilic
DMC: Ricci / Swedberg
FC: Alvarez / Esposito
FC: Lucca / Piccoli
FC: Arezo / Muriel
I recommend giving Serie A a go on FM22 if you haven't already. Just the non-eu transfers can be a bit of a hinderance as you can only sign 1 or 2 per year. Lucca is a must have signing and should be a priority.