Emulation

Emulation

This challenge is that I will try to emulate some of the greatest teams in the History of Football. Everyone has there own opinion of what is the greatest club side in History, is the Manchester United side of 1999, the Barcelona side of recent years or the Real Madrid side of the 1960's. For the first part of the challenge I will be taking over at Ajax to recreate the total football.

What is Total Football?
Total Football is the tactic created by Rinus Michels, a famous Dutch manager who took charge of Ajax and Holland during this successful time. Total Football involves all players in the team, apart from the goalkeeper, being able to switch around, attackers will have to be defenders and vice-versa.

How successful was it?
By using total football, Ajax won 3 League championships in a row with this tactic, but even more impressive was that they won 3 European championships a row using it as well. The Dutch national team also came runners up in 1974 world cup using Total Football.

Ajax Now
Ajax now are in a position where they have just won there 3rd league in a row and things are looking good on a domestic front, however they failed to make it out of the group stages in the champions league, and it will take a huge effort for Ajax to win the Champions League once, never mind three times in a row.


This is my version of the total football tactic, although the original total formation did not have a particular formation the closest it would of been is this, I have set it to very fluid to help to re-create the total football tactic. These are the current players I will be using, but I will be looking to strengthen the squad with a couple of transfers.


As you can see my current Transfer budget is £10.4 Million, this should enable me to improve a few positions, although this is not enough to enable me to win the champions league, it should be enough for me to sort out the weak links in my team, I would like to sign a Centre-Back, a Central-Midfielder and a Striker

My Aim

My aim will be to win 3 league championships in a row, but the most important aim of the challenge will be to win 3 champions league in a row while using total football tactic.

Yep, Total Foodball is THE Tactic, thanks ;-)

Good luck

Good start, be interesting to see how this pans out