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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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Continue reading →: The Art of the Signing – Football ManagerThis post originates from a signing I have already made for my Bayer 04 Leverkusen side. I was appointed as manager of Die Schwarzroten after I was resoundingly sacked by the board at Genoa for starting a striker in a Coppa Italia game against Inter, whom I’d previously promised not to…
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Continue reading →: Football Manager 2023 – Genoa CFC: Mister (2)Ad Maiora Semper Ciao, and welcome back to the second half of the first season at Genoa CFC. In this piece, you’ll read about the winter transfers, see how we finished off the second half of Serie B, and the financial impact of being in Serie B alongside my transfer…
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Continue reading →: Football Manager 2023 – Genoa CFC: Mister (1)Nuovi inizi Ciao, and welcome back to my first review of my time as Genoa CFC Mister. Below, you’ll read of the nuovi inizi (new beginnings) and how I’ve already begun to assert my way on the club both on and off the field. Staff and Transfer Dealings Assessing a…
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Continue reading →: Football Manager 2023 – Genoa CFCComing to decide upon a Football Manager save is typically never an easy process, especially given the amount of teams that are available to manage straight ‘out of the box’. Though, I guess that should really be straight from download these days…. However, for me, this year wasn’t that much…
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Continue reading →: Finances in Football Manager – Southampton 2026-27 Quadruple ReviewHaving completed a season in which Southampton FC won (almost) everything, missing out only on the European Super Cup, I thought it worth a blog post to see how this affected the finances of the club, and what this could enable the club to achieve with regard to infrastructure, player…
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Continue reading →: Finances & Football ManagerThose readers who follow me on Twitter (@afmoldtimer) will possibly already know that I’ve been keeping a record of the finances in my Southampton save. As someone with a background in finance and a degree in Economics, it’s probably no surprise to anyone that I have focussed on and enjoyed…
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Continue reading →: Football Manager 2022: 4-3-1-2 – Third-man runsI made an early decision to take a break from the Football Manager blogging scene, besides my guest blogging piece for FM Grasshopper where I took a deep dive into his trequartista using the available data to show just how well he had played. I’ve chosen not to diarise my…
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