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2019/20 Segunda División B4 Mid-Season Review Despite struggling with cohesion for several months we've managed to reach 5th place halfway through our first season! We have the joint-least amount of losses (2) and the 3rd-best defense in the...

2019/20 Segunda División B4 Preview After a long summer of heavy player and staff recruitment, F.C. Valdelavilla looks set for a promotion battle in its debut season! With title odds of 7-1, the media has given us a predicted finish of 5th-place,...

F.C. Valdelavilla La Liga fans have long criticized the direct, physical tactical style of the English Premier League, labelling it "long ball." Their preference for a patient, more technical possession-based style has produced some of the most...

To settle the debate once and for all, I've created an English club, named F.C. Valdelavilla, and placed them in the Spanish pyramid with a specific club vision and culture revolving around recruiting English/U.K.-based players and staff who fit the tradi...

2025/26 Season When I created Cristionel Messnaldo, I used all of the best attributes from Messi and Ronaldo including the mental ones such as loyalty. As such, Messnaldo inherited Messi's loyalty rating of 18 and seems perfectly content to spend h...

2024/25 Season Messnaldo has now entered his prime, though he's been the best player in the world since the age of 18. At 25 years old he has continued his impressive international record with 50 goals in 66 caps, and it seems he will go down in th...

2023/24 Season At 24 years old, Cristionel Messnaldo is now approaching the prime of his career when he really has a chance to put himself up there alongside his biological fathers as one of the greatest players of all time. To date, Messnaldo's tr...

2022/23 Season Messnaldo has extended his contract with Spurs until 2027, and the possibility that the best player to ever play the game will remain at Spurs for his entire career is becoming more and more likely. He's now on £275,000 per wee...

2021/22 Season Messnaldo's value has now stagnated at £91m rather than dropping after a productive season as Spurs' best player. He's contracted for another 3 years, but with interest from 2 clubs he could end up moving on before th...

October Update League Table I've had a busy few weeks off the field so I haven't made as much progress in this save as I expected, but since I have reached the current stage of the real Bundesliga (7 games in) I thought it'd be fun to giv...

2027 Gold Cup Review - The End Results The Gold Cup started off well, as expected, and we breezed through the group stage to face our neighbors, Canada, in the quarter final. This seemed like a pretty straight forward competition, and I knew the final w...

Lol, didn't mean to bombard you. This one wasn't meant to be a story I just wanted to test the seasons feature on here. I fell behind on Operation Nine Elms posts before getting sacked by the USA national team so I haven't gotten around t...

2020/21 Season Messnaldo's value has dropped another £1m, though he's actually extended his contract to 2025 which is surprising considering the state of Spurs in this save. He quickly realized his mistake, though, and he's now unh...

Season Preview We're predicted to finish 4th in our debut season in the Bundesliga, ahead of impressive squads such as Schalke, Borussia Monchengladbach, and RB Leipzig. The team has blended well together in the pre-season so if we can start with a...

Strikers Michy Batshuayi Current Ability: 144 Potential Ability: 155 Michy Batshuayi began his career with Standard Liege in Belgium, making his professional debut in 2011 at just 17 years old. Batshuayi soon became a regular for the club and scored an...

Left Wingers Marko Marin Current Ability: 130 Potential Ability: 147 Nicknamed "the German Messi," which inevitably seems to set young players up for failure, Marko Marin attracted global attention when he broke into the Borussia Monchengladba...

Right Wingers Alen Halilovic Current Ability: 125Potential Ability: 146 Alen Halilovic is a fairly recent wonderkid flop, having made his professional debut for Dinamo Zagreb during the 2012-13 season at just 16 years old and impressing so much that Bar...

Attacking Midfielders Ryad Boudebouz 135140 Ryad Boudebouz broke into the Sochaux first team in Ligue 1 at just 18 years old, and became a regular starter afterwards due to his impressive talent at such a young age. Naturally the hype followed, with EA...

Lol damn is Michael Johnson still around?? Seems like ages ago I've heard anything about him

Center Midfielders Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain Current Ability: 147Potential Ability: 154 Oxlade-Chamberlain is one that rings close to home, as Ox now plays for my favorite club Liverpool. Like several other names on this list, Ox came through the Southamp...

Defensive Midfielders Johannes Geis Current Ability: 132Potential Ability: 147 Johannes Geis will join Serdar Tasci in fulfilling the minimum German player quota for the squad registration, which is 12. I don't believe I'll reach this mark but...

Left Backs Fabio 123132 Like his twin brother Rafael, Fabio was signed and developed by Sir Alex Ferguson's Manchester United; but unlike Rafael, Fabio failed to break through into the first team and was subsequently sold to Cardiff. He now plays f...

Ah good call, I hadn't thought of him. There's a few players in China that I'll be looking at for this squad like El Shaarawy, it's so interesting seeing where all these wonderkids ended up

Yeah Fergie said that about Jones too! Crazy, I think Morrison will get an honorable mention when I get to the center midfielders but I don't think he'll be good enough for the final cut

Center Backs Serdar Tasci Current Ability: 129Potential Ability: 146 Tasci will walk into the FCG Wunderkinder squad due to his German nationality (and our lack of German options) as well as his past status as a wunderkind in Germany as he broke into th...

Right Backs Antonio Barragan Current Ability: 126Potential Ability: 144 Barragan was touted as a potential star back when he moved from Sevilla to Liverpool in 2005 at just 18 years old despite having never played a first team game for Sevilla. He faile...

Yeah Freddy Adu was one of the first names I thought of as well, and I'm not sure if he'll be included in the next FM as the last club he played for was the Las Vegas Lights in 2018 but he's still in the FM 19 database so maybe I'll...

Goalkeepers Joe Hart Current Ability: 130Potential Ability: 163 Joe Hart is a man who needs no introduction, and you are all probably familiar with his quick decline from England and Man City mainstay to Burnley backup. At one point Hart had a FIFA pote...

Introduction Fußballverein für Gescheiterte Wunderkinder (FCG Wunderkind) will start in the German Bundesliga in the 2018/19 season with a yet-to-be-named squad of 25 (plus any players still 21 or younger) players who were previously identif...

For this story I'm trying to put together a respectable squad for the newly-founded German club "Fußballverein für Gescheiterte Wunderkinder" which directly translates to "Football Club for Failed Wonderkids" if Google Translate is correct. The shortened...

2026/27 Season Review Season Preview Despite finishing 6th the previous season, the press gave us title odds of 400-1 which placed us in 16th in the Season Preview. This was still an improvement from last year, though, as our title odds were previously...

2026 World Cup Review Results We went into the World Cup with cautious optimism after beating Germany 3-0 in a friendly, but we went on to have a rather mediocre campaign. We started off strongly with a 4-0 win against Turkey, before being upset by Ivor...

2025/26 Season Review Season Preview I've decided to scrap the season preview as well as the mid-season review posts to streamline this save even further so from now on I'll only be posting season reviews and high-profile international competi...

2024/25 Season Review Table Our second year in the Premier League was difficult, but we finished in the same position as last season (13th) despite only managing 45 points with a -15 goal difference rather than the 49 points and -13 goal difference we a...

2024/25 Season Preview Our odds remain unchanged from last season, though we're not at the bottom of the Season Preview this year. Considering how we did last year I'm not too worried as I think I've strengthened the squad in all the righ...

2023/24 Season Review Table In classic Nine Elms fashion, we overachieved massively in our Premier League debut season, finishing 13th with 49 points, nearly double the amount of minimum points we would've needed to survive. Obviously 40 points is...

2023/24 Season Preview The press has little faith in us ahead of our debut season in the Premier League, putting our title odds at 1000-1. Considering we've overachieved every single season since the beginning of this save, it's not so farfetc...

2022/23 Season Review We did it boys, 4 promotions in 5 seasons, all without playing a single play-off game. I've never had such a successful run through the lower leagues in any of my past saves but that's likely because of the club infrastru...

2022/23 Mid-Season Review Results A very strong start to our Championship campaign catapulted us into the promotion battle, and we maintained the strong form throughout the entire first half of the season. This season is unique due to the 2022 winter Wo...

2019/20 Season Messnaldo's value has fallen by £1m, likely because he now has 3 years left on his contract rather than 4. He's now 20 years old, and has remarkably already made 24 caps for Spain, scoring 19 goals! That's a very imp...

Well he inherited Messi's loyalty attribute which I believe is 18 or 19, so he could potentially stay with Spurs for his entire career, though it seems like they are struggling at the moment so if they fail to secure a Champions League spot at any...

2018/19 Season Surprisingly, Messnaldo decided to sign for Tottenham Hotspur over one of his favorite clubs, Real Madrid. Maybe it was the lucrative 5-year £275k per week contract he was offered, though I would expect Real Madrid to be able to bi...

Cristionel Messnaldo Born in Zaragoza (roughly between Barcelona and Madrid) on April 16, 2000, Cristionel Messnaldo has since become the best football player in the world at just 18 years old, despite never having played before. His attributes have set...

As football legends Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo approach the final years of their illustrious careers, I have decided to let their legacies live on in the form of Cristionel Messnaldo! Using a combination of their highest attributes as well as vari...

2022/23 Season Preview The Season Preview has us in the relegation discussion, but I think we'll be able to continue our tendency to overachieve and we could secure a mid-table finish in our first Championship season. The board is expecting a minim...

2021/22 Season Review Table Just as I had hoped, we secured the title following a strong run of form throughout the second half of the season. Though we struggled between November and December, we managed to get back on track once some of our players re...

2021/22 Mid-Season Review Results We maintained a strong run of form throughout the majority of the first half of the season, but we've struggled in the last few League One fixtures which has seen us drop several places down the table. Table We...

2021/22 Season Preview [/url] Our squad has significantly improved in terms of quality and depth from last season, so we're now promotion candidates with 7-1 odds to win the title. This is a promising start! Board Expectations The board have se...

2020/21 Season Review Table We finished in a very respectable 10th place in our first season in League One, despite the media predicting us to be in the relegation fight. We never really looked like relegation candidates throughout the season, and remai...

Nine Elms Class of '25 This year we've signed 6 new youngsters to the Nine Elms academy, with 2 players standing out as potential future first team players. Richie Hewitt Hewitt has the highest current and potential ability of the 6 youth ca...