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Our City Our Team – Introduction
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We’ve all dreamt of building a club from scratch when playing Football Manager. Often we just take an existing club and rebuild it with new, fresh, often very young, players. In some cases we create a new club in the editor and put into a league system to really build it from scratch. But there’s […]
El Ciclón – S01E03 – Unbeaten season?
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Welcome back to this series about fictive manager Alec Leamas and his adventures in South America, more specifically in Paraguay with Cerro Porteño. If you missed the previous episodes in this series, you can catch up on it HERE. Now we take a look at the Clausura, or the Closing Stage if you will, the […]
El Ciclón – S01E02 – Apertura dominance
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Welcome back to this series about fictive manager Alec Leamas and his adventures in South America, more specifically in Paraguay with Cerro Porteño. If you missed the previous episodes in this series, you can catch up on it HERE. Now we take a look at the Apertura, or the Opening Stage if you will, the […]
El Ciclón – S01E02 – Squad analysis, transfers & tactics
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Welcome back to this series about fictive manager Alec Leamas and his adventures in South America, more specifically in Paraguay with Cerro Porteño. If you missed the previous episodes in this series, you can catch up on it HERE. It’s time to take a look at the squad for the upcoming challenges. Before we dig […]
El Ciclón – S01E01 – Behind the scenes
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Welcome back to this series about fictive manager Alec Leamas and his adventures in South America, more specifically in Paraguay with Cerro Porteño. If you missed the introduction to this series, you can catch up on it HERE. Now, it’s time for Leamas, and you, to get familiar with the backroom staff and tactics that […]
El Ciclón – Introduction
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After winning the Champions League and dominating the La Liga with Real Betis, it’s time for a new challenge the last couple months before Football Manager 23 is due. Fictive manager Alec Leamas (more on him here) will continue coaching in a Spanish speaking country, but this time he moves out of Europe and settles […]
¡Viva el Betis! – EP15 – The End
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Finally, the pulse have settled down after that epic ending on the season. And en epic ending on this save. Like stated in the introductory post, I had no thoughts about blogging about this save as I had not done that in many years while playing Football Manager, but the FM community got me on […]
¡Viva el Betis! – EP14 – Three-peat? Champions League? Copa del Rey?
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It´s time for the home stretch? Can we make it three in a row in the league? Can we finally win the Copa del Rey? Can we compete with the big guys from England in Champions League? Let’s find out! ¡Vamos! January We ended 2026 with seven wins in a row after that loss to […]
¡Viva el Betis! – EP13 – January transfer window
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We are in a great position in the league and we have advanced the cups, but there´s always room for improvement. Let´s take a look at what we did during the January transfer window. ¡Vamos! Transfers in As the season went on, we felt the need to strengthen our squad out wide as we’ve started […]
¡Viva el Betis! – EP12 – August-December review
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With pre season done it´s time to start what matters the most – the competitive matches in the league and other tournaments. For us, this fall consisted of the league and Champions League group stage as we don’t enter the Copa del Rey until after 2026 have turned into 2027. This post will be a […]
¡Viva el Betis! – EP11 – Preseason & tactics
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It´s time to take a look at how the friendlies played out and how we look to line up this coming season. And we have made some tactical changes compared to last season. ¡Vamos! Like last year we went on a tour to the United States of America during preseason. We started with a week […]
¡Viva el Betis! – EP10 – Summer transfers and The Squad
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It’s time to take a real jump into the coming season. The summer is over, the transfer window has shut close and it’s time to present the signings, tell you who have moved onto another club and go through the squad that will try to make a three-peat in LaLiga and finally lead us to […]
¡Viva el Betis! – EP9 – Awards, Stats and Transfer Thoughts
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We look back at the season that just passed by, take a look at which payers won awards, the stats for the players in the squad and also I´m thinking out loud about what we want to do with the squad regarding transfers in and out during the summer. ¡Vamos! AWARDS We start off with […]
¡Viva el Betis! – EP8 – January-May review (Campeones?)
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It´s time for the home stretch? Can we compete in the league and cups, both domestically and continental? How good is Nabil Fekir really? ¡Vamos! January Talk about a good month in the league. Sure, “only” four matches played but we did not concede one goal during the month of January, which most certainly made […]
¡Viva el Betis! – EP7 – January transfer window
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We are in a good position both in the league and the cups, but there´s always room for improvement. Let´s take a look at what we did during the January transfer window. ¡Vamos! Transfers in It was a choice done by us to go into the season with only three first team strikers as we […]
¡Viva el Betis! – EP6 – August-December review
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With pre season done it´s time to start what matters the most – the competitive matches in the league and other tournaments. For us, this fall consisted of the league and Champions League group stage as we don’t enter the Copa del Rey until after 2025 have turned into 2026. This post will be a […]
¡Viva el Betis! – EP5 – Preseason & tactics
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If you read through the previous posts in this series, you’ll already know I´m five seasons into this save, heading into season number six (2025/26). In this post, we will focus on the preseason, including the Uefa Super Cup final against Champions League winners Manchester City. In other words, we are up to date! ¡Vamos! […]
¡Viva el Betis! – EP4 – The Young Guns
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In the previous episode of this blog about my save with Real Betis, we took a look at the squad, where a couple young players were included, mainly those out on loan that would have competet for a spot in the First Team otherwise. In this post, we’ll take a look at eleven prospects that […]
¡Viva el Betis! – EP3 – Summer transfers and The Squad
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In the previous episodes of this blog I have covered the first five years of this save, we have taken a look at the club, the club culture, the manager and the goals for the save. Now it’s time to get back into present time. This post will cover the summer transfer window and the […]
¡Viva el Betis! – EP2 – Where we at
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If you read through post one and two in this series, you’ll already know I´m five seasons into this save, heading into season number six (2025/26) with the summer transfer window and preseason around the corner. With that in mind, I thought this would be a great opportunity to give a little bit of a […]
¡Viva el Betis! – EP1 – Five Season Review
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As stated in the introduction post, you can read it here, I had already played five season on this save before I decided to start this blog. In this post I will swift through the previous seasons to bring you up to date with how it has been going and where we are heading into […]
¡Viva el Betis! – Introduction
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I had no plans on starting a blog when I started this save, and therefore I have already played five seasons with Real Betis, with the 2025/26 season around the corner. This post will function as an introduction to this blog series, to my manager profile and the club. We start things of with a […]
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