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Good point - it's been either the 4-3-3 with a DM, 3-4-2-1 or the old 4-4-2 diamond. I think because they are in the Regista role and they both take corners, the combination of the progressive passes you get from that role and the corners gives them a bit of a bonus rating.

Lovely photo of a castle in Trento from a travel blog called Almost Ginger. Lucky I am completely 100% a ginger, but what a lovely castle. SEPTEMBER 2023 UPDATE Game 1 vs Juventus Knowing we were going to be up against it from kick off, I made a few tweaks to our set up to try to negate that. Firstly I changed my Wide Centre Backs from attack to defend duty, as much as I loved the overlap, I knew Juventus had the quality to exploit the space left compared to other teams. My other change was moving my Advanced Forward to a Pressing Forward on attack duty, to hassle the defenders as Juventus played from the back. If I could make Juventus have to play longer earlier in their progression, then I was happy with that, even though they’d probably have the players to make it work. As expected, we were well beaten, with Juventus matching their xG, however I was very happy with us getting one up on them on the possession side of things. Their first came from a high press from a kick off and us trying to play from the back and our keeper misplacing it to their left wing back who intercepted and scored a cracker. The second came from good play down the right wing and a bullet header by their huge lump up front (as both an Englishman and Australian, I can’t help falling in love with a big lump of a number 9). Watching the game I could see that their defenders did take their time getting the ball forward, playing with a pretty low tempo, so with 15 minutes left in the game, I cranked up the pressing duties in the “out of possession” team instructions, moving from a mid block to a high press, and my defence to ‘Step Up More’. We then caused a bit of panic and got a goal back in injury time from a throw in set piece. Overall, I can't complain too much. Though we did have a nice piece of news from the game. Bums on the seats, you love to see it. Game 2 vs Reggiana A game against one of the fellow promoted teams that we beat 1-0 last year in the Serie C Super Cup. It was history repeating itself picking up the 1-0 win here. Back to our usual style of play and we did a great job holding the ball, outpassing them by just over 200 passes. We won by a late penalty in the first half which did inflate the xG but we had the better chances. Am a little disappointed by the amount of shots we gave up and our own wastefulness, but I am not going to complain about picking up three points on the road against a team we are predicted to fight against for relegation. Game 3 vs Consenza A comprehensive win at home against the southern brethren from Consenza who take their long trip home without troubling the scorers. Over 250 passes more than them, restricting them to only 1 shot on target with over double the progressive passes. Lovely stuff. We got off to a flyer with some incisive passing leading our left wing back to slot a beautiful through ball to Spalluto to score his first goal for the club. We then consolidated our lead with a goal from a corner set piece, a near post header being parried straight into the path of captain Brighenti lurking at the far post. You love to see it. Game 4 vs Palmero A two day break and we were down to Sicily to recent City Group acquisition Palmero F.C. Because of the short turnaround, I have swapped the whole outfield team out to the backups, risky I know, but I do often like to play my second teams I do have a soft spot for Palmero as iconic Australian Mark Bresciano lined up for them in the late 2000s who was a regular pick up for me in the FM games of that era. Brilliant in the number 10 with exceptional technical attributes. They have picked up fellow Australian Ajdin Hrustic on loan from Hellas Verona to add a bit of intrigue to it. We had a shocker, outplayed and lucky to only lose by one goal. We didn’t have one shot on target, our pass map shows we barely got the ball forward. But considering it was our second team, I am not too disappointed, however it does shake my confidence in them a bit if they need to step up again. Game 5 vs Brescia We ended September with a 2-2 draw. We dominated the first half with Spalluto scoring a lovely goal that started from our keeper Marchegiani and 9 passes later it was in the back of the net. Two mistakes in quick succession were swooped on Brescia’s marksman Florian Aye, being fed in quite nicely by the Australian right back Fran Karacic and we found ourselves behind with 13 minutes to go. A change to a high press and stepping up gave us a turnover in the final third and our captain fantastic Brighenti rolling back the years by ghosting past their static centre backs with a quality finish to give us a well deserved point. So September has come and gone with seven points from four games, which I would have taken at the start of the month with the likes of Juventus and Brescia on the fixture list. We seem to be holding our own which is great, and the high press tweak to the tactic when we are pushing for a goal seems to be beneficial, but we may see a tweak if things don’t pick up. Our fixture list for October looks like Hoping to pick up 5-6 points here. PS. I have played around with how to present the update with the above match reports. Always keen for feedback if it works/doesn't work. All feedback is good feedback. Until next time.

Yes it is probably up there with International Management as my two biggest issues with FM in general. In the past my set pieces has essentially been near post outswingers to the biggest lump on my team, but this save I've tried to provide some variety. One of yours of having the decoy and ping the other post was very influential, so once again thank you for that! FM Creators. Assemble! For Juventus it was an interesting off season - their ins and outs this season are here. Seven of their starting eleven right now have either asked to leave or are exploring their options at the end of the their contract this season so it'll be interesting to see if they can hold onto them before their inevitable promotion. Regarding the standard of Serie B, it seems we are holding ourselves well so far, but it is still early days. The speed of play is the only difference I can see so far, but nothing too tough to handle. It seems a lot of teams are scared to attack, which could just be the old school defensive Italian ways. I'm sure when (if) we get to Serie A, the standard will get that little bit difficult.

Just got up to date. What an adventure! Can't wait to see how the manager landscape ends up at the end of the season. Could be some very big fry to land!

Hail Caesar August-us Meet Octavian, more commonly known as Augustus. He is considered to be the founder of the Roman Empire and arguably the greatest political leader in history. Seems apt to have a photo of him for this write up of how August went, considering he is the reason why the eighth month is called what it is. Couldn’t miss the opportunity as an Ancient Rome nerd to make that reference. Today’s blog will run through how our first month in the second tier of Italy went. Has life started well for the Englishman living in the Italian countryside? Let's find out. To quickly recap last season, we won the Serie C Supercup, beating the other teams that were also promoted. The teams that went down were Cremonese, Torino and a small team called Juventus that never recovered from the 15 point penalty that had been imposed on them. So considering we won quite convincingly against the other promoted teams, surely the media would place us above them for their predicted table right? Nope, not even close. I like to think is how the conversation went between my avatar self and the Juventus coach Photoshop is not my forte but I couldn’t help think of this scene in Avengers: Endgame. Another chuckle for me was looking at the Media’s Dream Eleven Or as you can call it, the Juventus starting lineup (spoiler alert, there is one change as you will see later) We’ve doubled our season ticket membership which is lovely, but around 500 is not ideal for a solid income stream. I hope we can consolidate this season so I can keep the home attendances to a level where we don’t go too far into the red. August Results Italian Cup - Round One versus Mantova (Serie C) Goal 1 - beautiful ball by my captain in the DLF role to Luis Hasa in the Mezzala role who scores a cracking goal on debut Goal 2 - nice build up play and once again a lovely through ball by our captain to Hasa who slots it past the keeper Goal 3 - saw us win the ball up the friend with our right wing back crossing the ball for Hasa who scores a hatrick on debut! Not bad for the second choice! Thanks to this win we were able to meet one of our objectives in our first game of the season! Who says this would be hard. Italian Cup - Round Two versus Empoli (Serie A) Goal - great ball from my RWB through to my AF-A (Spalluto) who finishes it nicely for his first goal for the club Red Card - while the scores are level, our substitute RWB decides to go full Tekken on their player resulting in a red card We fall short, however we do a great job up against a much stronger team on paper. Can’t help feel we had a chance here though Serie B - Game One versus Cremonese (H) Goal 1 - love a good set piece goal Goal 2 - rinse and repeat! @keysi Goal 3 - nice build up and a quality debut goal by Barberini What a great start to the league season beating a relegated team from Serie A. Strong performance but they were down to 10 for a while. Serie B - Game Two versus Benevento (A) Goal - what a goal from outside the box from our Haitian squad player Attys. A great result considering it was two days after the first game of the season, so I had completely rotated my team against a team that are predicted to challenge for promotion. End of Month Our backup Mezzala, Luis Hasa, who scored a hattrick in the first round of the Cup wins the U19 player of the month award with one assist in the two games so far. The end of August comes the closing of the transfer window. Juventus shows that it still has top European money outspending us by…. well €106 million. Goodbye Szczesny, I'm sure your back up will slot into the Media Dream Eleven easily. We're small fry indeed, I wonder who we are up against next. Brilliant. Happy September all. Until next time.

Excited for it!

A New Season Is Dawning - Preseason The Englishman in Northern Italy is settling in nicely and learning some of the local lingo to expand his ability to order anything other than a penne carbonara. Reports are saying his fiancee, waistline and cholestesterol levels are welcoming this move. Previously on FM23, I spent some time detailing the way I go at looking at squad depth and potential signings. Thankfully this update will be shorter for everyone’s benefit. For preseason I focus on two things; squad cohesion and getting some much needed income. Let’s take a quick look at what this means and what approach I take. Squad Cohesion There is a lot of focus on tactical familiarity in my preseason training approach. Considering it seems we have lost the ability to decide when preseason start (happy to be corrected if I am wrong), I adapt to how many weeks I am given from day 1 to the first competitive day of the season. For Season Two of my Trento save I had five weeks, so my approach went as follows. As you can see the title of the schedule is a different to the week because of the shorter preseason that I usually expect. Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 My approach is essentially, first week ease into it, second week really crank up the fitness side of things and finish off with the first friendly. Third week starts the two friendlies a week period as I am a firm believer in getting that tactical familiarity and squad cohesion up, and the best way in my opinion is by playing games. Usually my identified first team will play 45-60 mins with a swap to the second team for the rest of the game. Week four is similar but cranking up the longer first team minutes up to 60-70 mins. Week five had a slight change with more tactical training as we were starting our first competitive game that week. You will see a consistent theme that every game will have Match Tactics, Teamwork and Match Preview on the day before the match, and Recovery and Match Review the day after. I am not subtle at all with my focus on squad cohesion, some would say its overkill, but a cohesive team is more important that anything else in my eyes. Friendlies As mentioned above, I had six slots lined up for friendlies, so off I go to the schedule screen to set them up. I always take control of my friendlies, because there has never been a time in my FM career that the staff have had any semblance of a strategy for friendlies. May not be realistic, but this is the way I do things. As you will see when you find an opposition for your friendly, it shows the cost it will be to get them to play and the income you will receive. Now my tip here is that going for the highest income isn’t always the smartest idea, as more often than not, the cost will be higher, meaning your ‘profit’ per friendly is not the maximum it can be. So it is worth selecting a range of teams to see what is the maximum difference between income and cost. And always, always select home, the exception to this is of course if we are invited to partake in a friendly, then let them pay us for that privilege. So how did my preseason go? Not bad at all, being unbeaten against 3 Serie B teams, 2 Serie C teams and 1 non-playable team. Considering we had a bit of a clear out with 9 out of 25 or so players replaced as shown in my previous blog, my Team Cohesion in the Dynamics tab was in the green, but not as high as I’d like, however due to my success last year, the Club Atmosphere and Managerial Support are looking very healthy. How we're setting up We’re ready to lock and load for the season with our first team looking like this - once again thanks to @Cleon for the inspiration for the formation which is spoken most exceptionally at https://www.viewfromthetouchline.com/2023/03/13/the-blades-revolution/ and to fellow SI forum blogger @SixPointer and FM Rensie (@FMRensie on Twitter and on https://coffeehousefm.com/fmrensie for some great tips regarding corner routines, which is going to be significant for me with my Board’s requirement for making the most out of my set pieces. Role Suitability Calculator Template On a final note, here is a downloadable zip folder link to the Role Suitability by Attribute spreadsheet I talked about in my last blog, with the two views that you will need. It has instructions in there for you to use and I hope you get some benefit from it. As mentioned a few times, I am like a magpie in that I see shiny awesome things by other creators and mould them to myself. So I always want to be clear and upfront, with me crediting the person where the idea came from. This one I can’t for my life remember where I got it from, but full credit to them for it. Role Suitability by Attributes Calculator.zip We start our competitive season against a Serie C team we played in our first friendly of the preseason, beating Mantova 3-1. A win will see us up against Serie A team Empoli in the first proper round of the Italian Cup. Until next time.

Appreciate it!

If I can work how to do it, will do for the next blog! I do note that FMScout has just uploaded one to their website that has a similar element in it as part of a broader spreadsheet that takes into account finances and others, so that could be helpful in the mean time.

Yeah they had the 15 point deduction at the start of the season and it went from there. Hasn't stopped them signing a few players for 40 million though. Looking forward to the challenge though. Have have them third game of the league season.

The Summer Break - Stocktaking and Recruitment Process Previously, we saw the Englishman in the Italian Alps finding some success like Michael Caine and his army of Minis when he led A.C. Trento to a domestic treble of sorts. Trento lifted the Serie C/A, Serie C Cup and Serie C Supercup trophies with only 2 losses across the season. Eat your heart out Sir Alex Ferguson, this is the proper Treble. The promotion to Serie B does ease some of the pressure of the finances with about €1.3 million coming into the coffers. But as you see below, we are still in the red, and with no indication that we will be increasing our income through bums on seats. We know there’s no chance in hell that our poor facilities will be getting any upgrades any time soon. Coupled with a fair assessment that the playoffs was arguably where we should have finished, our team needs a bit of a refresh to survive in Serie B. Off we go! But before getting into the nuts and bolts, let's check what changes to our Board Vision have popped up. So as you can see, possession football and signing players under 23 for the first team are preferred with set pieces and defensive solidity favoured. The under 23 signings is very pertinent as Serie B rules state that I can have a maximum of 20 players who are over 23 years old so this will be something to keep an eye on. We also were in the top 3 teams for possession last year and conceded the least in Serie C/A, so the plan is to keep the same tactic going, with a stronger emphasis on the set pieces. How I go about my transfer business - how to Excel in transfers Sorry for the Microsoft puns, I hope it doesn’t change your Outlook on this blog. Worth it. I am a numbers guy, even though I have moved to more of the collection and interpretation of it in my real life. So knowing that the star rating in FM is based on the limitations of our Scouts and Assistant Managers, I was looking for a way to look at a player’s suitability for a role solely based on their attributes. Off I went, but long story short, a few years ago I found a spreadsheet that does the job. Because it has been such a long time, I have lost the name of the original creator, so I can’t credit them. But I am indebted to them. What does this look like? So this is a spreadsheet that contains every single attribute and role, so it is over 130 columns wide. As you can see in the image, each role contains a formula, for this one it is the Wide Centre Back in Attack duty. Essentially what it does is weight the key attributes compared to the secondary attributes for a role and turns it into a score out of 100. So a 50% essentially means they are on average a 10/20 for all the role specific attributes. I print screen from an “all attributes” squad view, open it as a web file and copy and paste it into the spreadsheet. So you get something like the below At the start of each save, I do this analysis and pick my first XI/Second XI based on that and then allocate training roles to those positions. You will also see that I have a DNA score for each player as well that I identified in the opening post (Concentration, Determination, Team Work, Work Rate, Natural Fitness). This is not to say that I don’t use the scout or coach reports, these are the only ones that identify the hidden traits that become a point of differential between players (e.g. consistency, injury prone, fear of big games and adaptability). A case study in Season One - Giovanni Terrani Say hello to Giovanni Terrani The attribute based search showed that my attacking midfielder/striker Giovanni Terrani was our best rated Mezzala at 60% even though he wasn’t suitable as a midfielder. So I allocated the Mezzala Attack position training at the start of pre-season and got him match experience in the friendlies. He wasn’t happy at first, but I kept at it and he ended up with 14 goals, 9 assists at an average of 7.15, the highest goal involvements of his career. As you can see now, he is considered a decent Serie B player. Lovely stuff. One thing I haven’t done in the past is do a comparison of how they’ve progressed over the years. In season one, the older players have slightly reduced ~1% while the youngsters have grown by a couple %. I will do this each year to see how they go. The recruitment process As mentioned in the first blog, we were only able to retain one of our loanees from last year, but the good news was that it was Nicolò Cudrig, the best performing player for striking threat in both Serie B and C leagues based on a minimum of 1000 minutes played. A quick look at our team saw that we were light in depth across the squad, especially in the middle of the park and centre back. Off to the player search screen we go! Noting I have put a restriction on myself to only sign players of Australian, Italian or Irish nationality, this was my opening parameter, along with only picking players that were at least ‘slightly interested’ in coming to us. With our finances pretty shaky, I made the decision to look at unattached players as well as players under 23 to ensure we keep on the right side of the league rules and our Board Vision. So we had 155 players that met the criteria above. I used an all attribute view, print screened it and added it to my spreadsheet to see how they stacked up in the roles I played and how they compared to my current squad. I also used @FMStag's Player Performance Calculator to see how they went in Season One (Key tip - make sure to do this before the new season starts so you can have those stats, even worth having a separate save version of this to use as a point in time data point). My point here is that I use both an attribute and statistical view into identifying my targets, with the following being my points of differentials: Personality - positive will trump negative, even if the negative has a few points over the other DNA - particularly Determination and Natural Fitness Injury Proneness - can’t afford to have players in the treatment room getting a wage without playing. Summer Signings - click on the name to see their profile and attributes. Gabriel Meli comes in on a free from Empoli to challenge my starting keeper. Antonio De Cristofaro comes in from AZ Picerno to be my starting Box to Box midfielder. Doesn't like the big matches but hopefully that can be managed Christian Barberini comes in from Latina to be my backup Regista, with the aim for him to replace my current one who is starting to decline Luis Hasa comes in from Juventus on a free to be my backup Mezzala, looks handy and has some solid potential Davide Zugaro comes in from Inter but has been sent on loan many times it seems that it doesn’t come up in his career stats. Will be my backup LWB with a plan to challenge for the first team soon Patrick Enrici comes in on loan from Lecco that were relegated from Serie C. Shall be very handy if he performs to his potential. Have a cheapish optional future fee as well. Will play as starting CD in the cover role Nosa Obaretin comes in on a free being released from Napoli, back up WCB-A, expecting good things from him, especially with that height and jumping reach Samuele Spalluto comes in on a free being released from Fiorentina to be the starting AF-A. Looks very handy. Former wonderkid Nicolo Armini was picked up after being released from Lazio. He originally wanted 9k a week but did the old get him on trial and he then wanted 3.2k a week. Still the most expensive wage we have but will be worth it. Will play in the WCD-A role A later signing just before the start of the season was Jacopo Pellegrini who came on a free after being released by Sassuolo. He will be a starting AF-A but have him as my backup in the DLF-S role for the time being Our squad depth looks like I feel confident for the season! As Roy Kent says very well "FARKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK" Next update will be a quick look at the tactics/training and how we went for our friendlies. Until next time!

Cheers José! Yes that is the planned next post to deep dive into that. Hopefully can post tonight my time!

Welcome to Arsiè, Englishman The inspiration for this save comes from my fiancée whose heritage is Irish and Italian. You know, your stock standard Australian catholic. Arsiè is a very small comune of about 2,000 people in the North East of Italy about 80kms north west of Venice. Her Italian side of the family come from here, where their family name is seen through the streets and throughout the cemetary. Along with other names of people that also moved to their small town in country Victoria. Migrant life, you love to see it. For this save and the FM versions of ourselves, due to unforeseen circumstances, we've had to move back to her ancestoral Italian home. With my coaching badges, sunny charm and determination to not be unemployed. I put the feelers out for jobs in football. But to make things interesting, the main parameters for the save are to only sign players of Australian, Italian or Irish nationality as a nod to the reason why we are in Arsiè, my darling fiancée. But before I begin I must thank a range of people including FMRensie for the skin, @FMStag for his wonderful statistical analysis that I have used for a while now, and all the people that I have followed over the years and those who have put up with my updates on FMSlack (looking at you @youthintake, @Oaky-FM et al.). Note - I am on Season Two, so this is a summary of Season One before I go into full swing of Season Two. We begin at A.C Trento in Serie C/A. Why Trento? Trento is 70kms west of Arsiè, or just under an hour's drive. Keeping it nice and close to our new home. Trento is the third largest city in the Italian Alps and is the capital of the automonous provence of Trento. Which fits nicely with where we actually live in Australia, in the Victorian alps in a place that is famous for a bushranger/highwayman who was anti-establishment. It also goes by Trent, so kudos to all you TAA, Trent Crimm and Trent Bridge fans. A background Established in 1921, the current version of Trento has been around since 2014 as it has been dissolved many times throughout its lifetime due to bankruptcy. So I assume everything is hunky dory right? Fan-bloody-tastic. Needless to say, things aren't great facilities wise, finances and stadium. Can't wait to get into it! Board Vision isn't too bad, allowing me to implement a tactical style and impose my own print onto the club. Like most FMers, identifying a club DNA is something I like to do. Some people like to pick a club DNA based on the tactical style or the players they have at the club at the moment, however I take a different approach in that I want the same core five attributes in any formation/style I play. These are Bravery - want players who don't shy away from the hard graft Concentration - switching off is not my cup of tea Determination - determined and hard work trumps talent always Teamwork - collective is greater than the individual Natural Fitness - quick turnarounds means I value players that can turnaround quickly. Now for the tactic, I was lining up a way to play with Wide Centrebacks and wanted to play with the Regista for the first time in FM ever. So I have to give a huge shout out to @Cleon,Dan Gear and co over at View From The Touchline (https://www.viewfromthetouchline.com/) for the magnificient write up on the Regista role and also the Sheffield United formation for their save. So my formation is based on that, with a few changes to Player Instructions and Team Instruction to play with Set Pieces as I do enjoy that. I expect to amend this as I go, but yes, cannot underestimate how influential VFTT has been for this. How things are going - Winter Break Check In Not bad at all for a team predicted to challenge for playoffs Results have been good - after a loss in the opening game where we got hit by two set piece plays. We responded well, as you can see our forward duo of Brighenti and Cudrig were doing wonders. But we found goals hard to come by when they weren't firing/weren't playing. We also made it through to the Serie C Cup quarters with ease. With prize money only coming from the Serie C Cup and coming first in the league, it is a great start considering we are a bit hamstrung with our income. Bleak is an understatement. In January we are €1.5 million in the red with projection down to €6 million by 2024/25, I am not in a good position. The good news is that we were able to lock down most of the first team that had their contract expiring on lower wages, which helped us a little bit. But extra emphasis on winning the league and the cup to get some income becomes so much more urgent. I have been enjoying the way my Regista has played, I retrained my 33 year old attacking midfielder Cristian Pasquato to that role and he has been making some delightful assists. Some of them can be seen here and here. As mentioned above, @FMStag is one of the greats for the use of data in Football Manager and it has enhanced the way I look at the game. I have chatted with FMStag for couple years or so now, about ways to look at data, but my work can't compare to his magnificent Player Performance Calculator and What Does Good Look Like metrics that has put together. Check out the awesome work on https://fmstag.com/statistics-what-does-good-look-like-in-fm23/ and https://www.fmscout.com/f-performance-calculator.html. I compared out of 661 players that have played minutes in the three Serie C leagues and found that: my starting RWB playing as a WB-A, on loan Tomasso Barbieri is 9th for Creative Output my starting LWB playing as a WB-S, Alessandro Fabbri is 5th for Creative Output my starting DLF, captain Andrea Brighenti is 4th for Striking Threat my starting AF, on loan Nicolò Cudrig is 1st for Striking Threat How things are going - End of Season One Check In Things went pretty well to be fair. As you can see from below, we did dry up a little bit with our scoring at times, but we could rely on our solid defence ensured we kept the points coming. We also won the Serie C Super Cup which is a little competition against the other two winners in Serie C leagues. How my players stacked up - @FMStag style End of season stats for Serie C players playing over 1000 minutes, using FMStag's metrics. Of note we have the best striking threat and creative output of the league. I am going to compare them with those who played 1000 minutes in Serie B as just an opening position to see where stack up, before pinpointing any specific upgrades we need. Red font are those on loan. We only kept Nicolò Cudrig from them for Season Two as the rest the parent clubs wanted them to experience "new environments". Pol Garcia is arguably our best player, and his ratings across Defensive Performance, Creative Output and Striking Threat is top notch for someone playing in the WCB-A END OF SEASON ONE So we won what we needed to give us some hope financially and are in a position now where we can earn some better income with better teams = more attendance, higher TV revenue and other forms of revenue I hope that will come. Shouldn't be too bad, right? Fudge. Next update will be a look at my approach to signings before going into the preparation for pre-season and our pre-season friendlies. Thanks for reading, feedback appreciated!

My saturday has been reading this blog from the start to now, fantastic job mate! Love the way you've articulated ways I've played this game in a way I could never do. Hope this season goes well and the players blend early. Have you updated your training since the change in formation, or does it still hold up nicely?

Gotta love getting some key injuries at the not ideal times! How does the squad depth look like coming into the sharp end of the season?

I literally thought that was a typo - what a second half comeback! One for the ages.

Great deep dive, especially the response to my question. Look forward to see whether your tweeks help nullify that weakness.

Always a highlight when I see there's an update on this save. Good signs overall, where are you thinking is the place you need a bit of improvement?

Cheers for sharing the tactic, do enjoy a sticky beak as people's tactics to learn from. Good luck for that final run!

Gonna bring in Craig Goodwin aka the Pavard tormentor for 9 minutes in?

I'd been tempted to see how a F9 would go, especially with one of your AMs on attack duty. However I'd go with @_Ben_ as a default.

Looks like some excellent bargains there!

Really enjoying this. Great points about using data,it is still frustrating we still have to involve external ways to get the output we want to see, but really good to see it in action. Which player role are you most impress with so far?