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2021/22 Segunda División Mid-Season Review
After a precarious start to the season, we managed to pull ourselves out of the relegation zone with an impressive turn of form, currently sitting in 17th halfway through the season. If we can ride this m...
2021/22 Segunda División Preview
The Season Preview has us predicted to finish in 15th, though for some reason there are 3 teams missing from the table in the preview. With 22 teams in the league total, it's my goal to avoid the drop and atte...
2020/21 Segunda División B2 Review
We pretty much walked the title this year, finishing 20 points ahead of the runner-up with a tally of 89 points, a 37 point improvement on last season. We were then seeded for the 1st playoff round which we won,...
2020/21 Segunda División B2 Mid-Season Review
We're currently 7 points clear at the top halfway through our second season after a very strong start. However, my board remains disappointed with our performance in the league as a result of the...
Yeah that's the plan, I think if I win promotion and keep everything else in order they'll give me the "benefit of the doubt" or whatever and show some leniency. Apparently they're disappointed with my results on the pitch even...
So I'm currently using a created club in the Second Division B2 in Spain, and after having no issues last season I'm now in danger of being sacked despite meeting all of my expectations. The board expects me to "challenge for the title"...
Potential Save-Ending Bug
Before the season started, I outlined my goals for the upcoming season to the new squad, selecting the only available option to me which was to win the title of the Segunda División B2. Several players then voiced their...
2020/21 Segunda División B4 Preview
After another long summer of heavy recruitment, we now look ready to mount a serious title challenge with our title odds set at 5-2 by the press, putting us in the favorite's position for the title. This is...
2019/20 Segunda División B4 Season Review
After a strong first half of the season in which we amassed 31 points, we only managed to gain a further 21 from our last 19 matches. While I did strengthen the weaker areas of the team in January, our agi...
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
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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
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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...