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Continue reading →: Bundesliga 2044-45 – The One That No-One Wanted to WinThere were times when this should have been a formality and others when it was barely in reach. And yet, here we are; Bayer 04 are Bundesliga champions for the fifteenth time in a row. A 2-0 victory away to SC Freiburg wouldn’t have mattered had Hansa Rostock been able…
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Continue reading →: Bayer Leverkusen 2043-44 – Domestic dominance, defensive brilliance or downright luck?After winning the Bundesliga for the fourteenth (14th) year in a row, by a total of 12 points, I wanted to see how dominant we’d become over the course of this season to get a sense of how far ahead of the rest of the league we are. Sure the…
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Continue reading →: The Art of… The ArtworkI’ve had requests from a few people to show how to make the graphics I use for various aspects of my blogs. In particular, the squad age against minutes, overall minutes across the squad by position and age profile against peak age. In this blog post, I’ll take you through…
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Continue reading →: Liverpool Matters – Summer 2025 Squad Analysis & TransfersMoving on from a club legend Liverpool probably couldn’t have hoped for a better season. For Slot to come in to replace a club icon in the form of Klopp, who left after nine years in charge after reinvigorating the club, alongside FSG, into what became largely his image after…
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Continue reading →: Tottenham 3-6 Liverpool – Recreating Liverpool’s tacticAfter watching this game on TV and seeing how fluid the Liverpool team were in their movements, as well as how they exploited an under strength Tottenham side, I wanted to see if I could attempt to recreate the tactic within Football Manager. It’s worth saying that tactics, roles and…
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Continue reading →: The ‘Juan’ in the Box – my take on a 2-3-5 tacticEven before the release of Football Manager 2024, there was a lot of discourse about the new match engine and how it would enable positional play. It has allowed for formations within a tactic to now vary greatly from when a team is in possession to when it is out…
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Continue reading →: The Art of Moving OnI wrote a blog piece on this site for Football Manager 2023 called ‘The Art of Squad Building‘, in which I looked at a number of factors I utilise to initially improve, and then maintain, squad depth and quality. These included the importance of having a balanced squad, with little…
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Continue reading →: The Art of Player Data Analysis – FBref styleIn previous iterations of Football Manager, I’ve used data analysis to assess player performance at the end of a season by extracting data from the game due to a lack of analysis within the game. Since then, data analysis has become a key feature, with the additions of recruitment and…
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Continue reading →: The Art of Youth Development – Football ManagerFollowing the release of my previous in “The Art of” series, “The Art of Squad Building“, I had a number of people ask me questions regarding youth recruitment and development, so this post is going to expand further into the approaches which lay the foundations of youth recruitment and development…
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Continue reading →: The Art of Squad Building – Football ManagerThis blog acts as a follow-up, sister piece to my previous entry – The Art of the Signing. In that blog, I went through the various considerations that I undertake when deciding upon bringing someone into my squad. It hinted heavily about the importance of having a strong sense of…
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