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Continue reading →: The Art of Data Analysis in FM26 – Position RadarsThere’s a certain type of manager who doesn’t fully trust a scout’s star rating or a recruitment analyst’s A+ verdict without knowing why it’s been given. If you’re the sort of player who’d rather look at what someone has actually done on a pitch than what their attributes tell you…
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Continue reading →: Football Manager 2026 – Just how bad is the AI at buying for the future? And am I Chelsea?I think we can all agree that there are a great many things wrong with Football Manager 26, and skins like Ctrl 26 v1.8 only go some way to improving the look of the game. Many have written articulate responses about their feelings in review of the new version of…
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Continue reading →: Bayer Leverkusen 2047-48 – InvinciblesAfter years of domestic domination with 18 straight Bundesliga titles, Bayer 04 went a step further with an invincible season, their second across that spell. With 102 goals scored and only 15 conceded, it led to a 94-point season. The invincible season’s biggest threat was when Bayern were 2-1 up…
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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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