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oneniltothearsenal

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Season 10 March Update

@P-Nut 's transfer seem to be paying off. @RedTiger @Enigma_87 are in the mix trying to be the first back-to-back league winners. @BeforeKeanetherewasRobson seems to be solidifying a solid league position. @NM is in the mix again, maybe this will be his year? @Gio is making a comeback and @harms and @antohan are having sad seasons.
 

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Nice still hanging in there.
We are keeping the flag flying in Europe. Interesting to see how the Legends have faded now though. Good luck with your league challenge. I’m only three points back but we all know at this point I’m destined to never win it.

@oneniltothearsenal What the blazes happened to Tuppet’s team? Only 3pts last season and only 4pts this season after 25 games. How can they be so bad?
 

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I’m even tired of complaining now.

Overall I can for sure say this — the bet on all-rounders (Di Stéfano & Zizinho) was a huge mistake. It seems like specialist players with specialist roles were the one to target. Di Stéfano only broke into league’s best chance creators once, I think! And never got even close to being in goalscoring charts aside from one odd appearance at the beginning of the season.

Scarone retired and the team fell apart completely. He was probably my best player since the restart, almost leading me to the European trophy. My other player that at least sometimes found himself amongst the best, Picchi, left on a free years ago...

What would be the best comparison? Leeds? Arsenal?
 

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I’m even tired of complaining now.

Overall I can for sure say this — the bet on all-rounders (Di Stéfano & Zizinho) was a huge mistake. It seems like specialist players with specialist roles were the one to target. Di Stéfano only broke into league’s best chance creators once, I think! And never got even close to being in goalscoring charts aside from one odd appearance at the beginning of the season.

Scarone retired and the team fell apart completely. He was probably my best player since the restart, almost leading me to the European trophy. My other player that at least sometimes found himself amongst the best, Picchi, left on a free years ago...

What would be the best comparison? Leeds? Arsenal?
I think a lot of it also comes down to the manager lottery. Lots of us lost our managers early on and the new managers ripped up the playbook, used players weirdly or destroyed long term planning. I selected a bunch of players Like CR7, Neymar, Ramos who I knew would be young at the start but 5-6 seasons in be amazing. Well I think all of them got released on a free as we changed managers about 6 times. I went big early on on Leonidas, thinking it’d give my team a reliable goal scorer. From what I can tell, he barely played and was released on a free.

And what about Maradona or Messi? Neither of them ever seem to feature on any of the leaderboards. Lord knows what’s going on at these clubs.

@oneniltothearsenal I’ve never asked but any chance I can see a screenshot of my squad and also tactics/usual line up when you have time? Also, who is my manager?
 

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Mine team is freefalling now :lol:
Never seem to sign anyway and always sell the odd player.
Is Simeone still in charge?
No. Most temas have been switching every 1-2 years. Its very, very rare to even keep a manager 3 years.
You now have Mourinho.
I should be a manager update but more pressed for time this week and just trying to power through.

We are keeping the flag flying in Europe. Interesting to see how the Legends have faded now though. Good luck with your league challenge. I’m only three points back but we all know at this point I’m destined to never win it.

@oneniltothearsenal What the blazes happened to Tuppet’s team? Only 3pts last season and only 4pts this season after 25 games. How can they be so bad?
As punishment for violating Fair Play, I removed Tuppet's backend sugar daddy (every other team has one) and gave him some debt to manage. He was slowly unable to afford the massive wages of the legendary players. He had a big exodus the last 2-3 years and now he just can't compete after Schiaffino and Bican left.

I’m even tired of complaining now.

Overall I can for sure say this — the bet on all-rounders (Di Stéfano & Zizinho) was a huge mistake. It seems like specialist players with specialist roles were the one to target. Di Stéfano only broke into league’s best chance creators once, I think! And never got even close to being in goalscoring charts aside from one odd appearance at the beginning of the season.

Scarone retired and the team fell apart completely. He was probably my best player since the restart, almost leading me to the European trophy. My other player that at least sometimes found himself amongst the best, Picchi, left on a free years ago...

What would be the best comparison? Leeds? Arsenal?
There were a lot of learning experiences here for sure that none of us (least of all me) could have predicted when I did this draft.

Is this the same save from the start of the thread in 2017?
Yes! I resurrected the save with some luck and continued it now, years later :D
 

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Is this the same save from the start of the thread in 2017?
Yes. Although first run of season 2 was lost and so redone when this was relaunched. But it has the original draft and completed season 1 base.
 

oneniltothearsenal

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I think a lot of it also comes down to the manager lottery. Lots of us lost our managers early on and the new managers ripped up the playbook, used players weirdly or destroyed long term planning. I selected a bunch of players Like CR7, Neymar, Ramos who I knew would be young at the start but 5-6 seasons in be amazing. Well I think all of them got released on a free as we changed managers about 6 times. I went big early on on Leonidas, thinking it’d give my team a reliable goal scorer. From what I can tell, he barely played and was released on a free.

And what about Maradona or Messi? Neither of them ever seem to feature on any of the leaderboards. Lord knows what’s going on at these clubs.

@oneniltothearsenal I’ve never asked but any chance I can see a screenshot of my squad and also tactics/usual line up when you have time? Also, who is my manager?
Manager is Beskov
this isn't a total usual lineup since Sinisa starts for you usually

 

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@oneniltothearsenal can you share a screen of our team and formation if it isn’t too much time for you? Seems we have been busy in the market last two windows and wonder if we utilise Lampard and del Piero
 

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Well deserved. You'll need to show us the all-time 11 for each club. Have a feeling our trio of rumminege, shevcko, stoichkov will be in it
 
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Back to Back Europa wins? Plus also won a CL...all within past 5 years! Yay.

Plus I also see Stevie G made it to my team somehow. :lol:
Stevie G won the league?! Only in a simmed world….
Well deserved. You'll need to show us the all-time 11 for each club. Have a feeling our trio of rumminege, shevcko, stoichkov will be in it
Laudrup must be, been carrying my team for years
 

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Does it reward attacking play? Goals FOR?

Or maybe Tuppet rewrote the code so in a tie, the team with the most Ts, Us, Ps and Es in their name, won.
Not far from that, at one point I had figured it was inverse alphabetical order.

Didn't hold elsewhere, but could be a combo of GD/GW and that after.

May well be just whoever got there first.