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Brendan Rodgers Leicester 4-2-3-1 Tactics for FM21
Enjoy plenty of possession without sacrificing goals or exposing your defence. 3rd place finish in the Prem alongside winning the Europa League.
Strong Positional Play 4-3-3
This FM 2021 tactic is a blend of Klopp and Guardiola's (Arteta tactics). I created it after getting Bristol City into the Premier League.
DanskeDanske, we're falling apart to half-time
I've got a new FM story driven blog I've just started. Appreciate any feedback negative or otherwise. Thanks. [url=http...
Improving the World’s Worst National Team | Part 3: World Cup Qualifying
Andy Selva had led his new-look San Marino side to Nations League promotion with a ream of exciting new Sammarinese youngsters.
Track 17 – All Around the World
All around the world,You’ve gotta spread the word,Tell ’em what you’ve heard,You’re gonna make a better day.. Suggestion: Blogs aren’t made to be read in Twitter WordPress reader – click here to read in it’s original format if viewing on a mobile device. And hello again! That didn’t take long but of course we are now here for a good time and not a long time. Having just won the league with Angers in our 9th season, the first Ligue 1 trophy for the club in 109 years – we decided to end the save there and finish with a bang by accepting France’s offer to manage the international side for the 2030 World Cup qualifying campaign. An Irishman at the helm of Les Bleus – what could go wrong? Our missions are simple: Win the World Cup with France (which would make it their 3rd win in the last 4 tournaments) Do so with a minimum of one Angers players in the first XI (i.e. as many as possible) First order of business to contend with is our World Cup Qualifying Group and wouldn’t you know it, we are drawn alongside none other than this manager’s home nation the Republic of Ireland. Flashbacks of Thierry Henry’s handball and Irish heartbreak in 2009 will most likely haunt our dreams as we navigate this group fully expecting to finish top of our group and be seeded first for the finals next June. If you’re thinking he will probably just pick all Angers players in his first ever France squad – YOU BETTER F*CKING BELIEVE IT. We won’t dwell too much on the qualifiers seeing as we went unbeaten and in the process caused Ireland to miss out on qualification at the hands of Ukraine (our narrow draw with them probably didn’t help). What we do care about is the actual World Cup, wherein not only do we hope to lead France to glory but also put Angers on the global stage to see how our (former) players perform at international level. Let’s do this. Of course it’s the new World Cup format where it’s 3 teams in a group and 48 teams overall, how could we possibly forget that? We open our campaign in pretty good fashion – an 8-0 win over Iran which included 4 Kylian Mbappe goals is followed up with a 2-0 win over Senegal, setting up a Second Round clash with Australia. The Ozzies proved to be trickier than planned as we ran out with a 2-1 win courtesy of an Angers double whammy from Amine Gouiri and Theo. Iran, Senegal, Australia – a good warm-up run to take on the World #1 right? They said we couldn’t do it with a bunch of lowly players from Angers however we started the game with 5 of our former title winning legends – Silvestri at RB, Ait-Nouri at LWB, Giraud in the HB role, Morand in the AMC position and of course Amine Gouiri up top. The temptation to play Bernardoni and Theo was real but we couldn’t ignore the quality of Meslier and of course that man Eduardo Camavinga. Angers players + Angers tactic + Angers ex-Manager = WINNING. An outstanding individual performance from Michel Morand against a Brazil team largely made of of single-name Brazilian newgens – Football Manager at it’s finest, and suddenly sh*t is getting serious as we enter the World Cup Quarter Final. Our opponents? Where should we start? The fact that Simon Grayson is England Manager in 2030? That Rashford, Mount and Rice are all 30+ veterans of this talented England squad? How about Phil Foden being the only non-English based player in the squad where he is kicking it at Real Madrid after scoring 10 and assisting 10 last season? This will be a big test for us… A test it was but another Angers masterclass from Gouiri and Thimon made all the difference and despite a late equaliser from 33 year old Marcus Rashford, we replied instantly before putting the game away with 5 minutes remaining. WE MIGHT ACTUALLY WIN THE THING. In the other quarter final games, Spain beat Italy 1-0 courtesy of a late Mikel Oyarzabal winner; Germany overcome Argentina on penalties with 35-year-old Leon Goretzka scoring in the shoot-out (no doubt the lad is still ripped AF after 10 years of pumping iron in this save); and the surprise package of this year’s World Cup Algeria manage to overcome Portugal in Extra-Time with another of our former Angers players Jessim Pesslissard on the scoresheet. It’s been a good World Cup so far for the boys – maybe we should have stayed 😄. Brazil’s early exit means that Spain have somehow leapfrogged them into 1st place in the World Rankings already before the competition has even ended, we ourselves jumping from 10th to 5th following our steady path to the semi-final. This Spain squad is no joke – despite being littered with ridiculous Newgens from PSG, Liverpool, Barcelona and of course Newgen haven Bilbao – they also still boast the likes of Ansu Fati, Ilaix Moriba, Nico, Dani Olmo and of course the aforementioned Mikel Oyarzabal. 90 minutes from a World Cup Final….. They made us work hard for it and our players were absolutely knackered by the end, however that man Morand sparked a 3-2 win with talisman Camavinga scoring the winner on 67 minutes. It wasn’t pretty but we got the job done, so far avoiding any notorious FM penalty shootouts and we now find ourselves preparing for a World Cup Final with France, their second consecutive final having beaten Belgium last time round in 2026. It all comes down to this – can this Angers inspired French side reign supreme and most importantly – who will be our opponents?! (surely not Algeria….) 2018: France 🇫🇷2022: Germany 🇩🇪2026: France 🇫🇷2030: Uh oh…. If we were playing what comes next you might naturally guess Germany, and they are all that stand in our way in the 2030 World Cup Final, a chance for France to win their 4th ever World Cup and in doing so bring 8 World Cup winners medals back to Angers where the boys will live in infamy and never have to pay for a drink for the rest of their lives. I suppose it’s the least we can do after all they have done for us in this save right? Here we go – the last ever game to be played in this FM21 save universe…I’m not crying you are 😅 WHEN WE WIN. Over-confidence much? I mean, we scraped a league title after PSG effectively got stuck in the mud and threw it all away – greatest manager ever right? The Germans are elite – prime Kai Havertz is still only 31; Karim Adeyemi and Jamal Musiala make up a ridiculous front two not to mention WeStreamFM favourite and friend of the pod Nnamdi Collins who is a rock at the back with veteran Joshua Kimmich just ahead of him. Also, did I mention who is managing them? We make two changes – Meslier made two silly mistakes in the Semi-Final and with our stalwart keeper from 9 seasons at Angers waiting in the wings, it’s 33-year-old Paul Bernardoni who gets the nod for the final. He is also joined by our Captain and arguably best player from the entire save at Angers, that man Theo Zidane who let’s face it, has World Cup winning DNA coursing through his veins which means he gets the nod ahead of Camavinga who is lacking match fitness following our semi-final exploits. Surprisingly there is no place for Karim Adeyemi in the German starting eleven with Klopp opting for a Liverpool Newgen instead. Will the history books sway in favour of Mbappe and the misfits of Angers SCO, or is it to be Joshua Kimmich that lifts the Jules Rimet trophy in 2030? Get your limbs ready.. 0‘ – France kick off the 2030 World Cup final here at Camp Nou 2‘ – GOAL FOR FRANCE!! (Amine Gouiri) – a cross comes in from Mbappe, Morand scuffs the shot but Gouiri manages to get a foot on the loose ball to smash home and give France a perfect start to the game! France 1-0 Germany 7‘ – GOAL FOR FRANCE!! (Amine Gouiri) – it’s goal number two for the Angers Striker, or is it?! Morand plays a through ball but Gouiri is deemed to have been in an offside position by the linesman. Still France 1-0 Germany. 40‘ – Substitution for France as Eduardo Camavinga replaces the injured Theo who will be gutted to leave this World Cup final. 47‘ – Half Time, France 1-0 Germany. 45‘ – Germany get us going for the second half of this World Cup final – they will need to step up a gear if they have any hope of getting back in this game. 60‘ – Treble Substitution by Jurgen Klopp as Rausch, Adeyemi and Maina replace Kimmich, Havertz and Bachl-Staudinger. The Germans are going for it! 62‘ -Substitution for France – Mbappe is looking exhausted, what a tournament he has had. Mario Thimon replaces him. 75‘ – GOAL FOR GERMANY!! (Karim Adeyemi) – the Chelsea Striker shows why he should have started with an excellent 20 yard finish, and it’s all square with 15 minutes remaining. France 1-1 Germany 76‘ – Yellow Card for Germany (Jamal Musiala) 82‘ – Substitution for France – final change for Manager MaddFM as Striker Tanguy Renucci replaces Michel Morand. Perhaps the Manager is thinking about the possibility of penalties? 89‘ – GOAL FOR FRANCE!! (Tanguy Renucci) – unbelievable, the substitutes have changed this game as Swansea Striker (you heard me) bags what looks to be the winner as France break away on the counter from a Germany corner, with Mario Thimon running the length of the field before teeing up Renucci to slot home in the bottom right corner. Is this it? France 2-1 Germany. 90‘ – There will be four minutes of added time. 94‘ – FULL TIME! FRANCE HAVE WON THE 2030 World Cup!! MaddFM exhales and wheels back from the desk quietly. There is no suit for the Cup Final, no open top bus, no waking of children to witness greatness, no flares out the window, no Tweets or Tik Toks to be shared to capture the occasion. There is only relief and a brief sigh of content – we came to France to make our mark on domestic football and bring Angers to heights never-before-entered, and we depart France leaving only one thing behind: legacy. What a save, what a game, what a year – there’s only one thing left to do… One last time – thank you for reading, we will return soon with a brand new save and an entirely new collection of absolute nonsense and seamless Football Manager rambling. In the meantime, you can catch me on Twitter or most Mondays on the 5* Potential Podcast. Over and out, stay safe and keep FM’ing it large. MaddFM aka Paul. As always feel free to leave any comments or questions below, hit that Follow button and if you want to chat further you can always catch me on Twitter , Slack or Discord. You can also get more involved in the FM community by checking out @WeStreamFM on Twitter and Discord as well as some excellent FM content on WeStreamFM.com.
I feel like Chicken tonight!
In a major coup for them, today Blackburn Rovers have announced t...
442 Wanderers - Recreation of FM16 Haka by Zyndar
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Shanahan Ball - Treble Winning Tactic
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Shanahan Ball - Treble Winning Tactic for FM21
4231 Custom Gegen Press with inverted wing backs AND a deep lying playmaker. Score plenty, but more importantly concede very little and win trophies.
4-2-4 Full Attack & Goal
Very offensive tactic with Lots of goals and possession of the ball.
Dominating 4-4-2 by xKoMx
Created this tactic for Spurs and we are dominating with it in PL. Great offensive tactic, lots of goals.
FM Mythbusting
There are various myths and misconceptions about Football Manager, which can often cloud our opinions on the series. Many of these are down to misunderstandings of how football actually works, and how the most realistic… More
Guides
Since launching Fuller FM in 2018, I have written several guides on various aspects of Football Manager. From setting up pre-season training to protecting your save files from corruption, these guides can help you to… More
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I want to add a file to the repository, but when I fill all the fields I get this error: Error Characters '+', '/', '?',...
The Golden Generation | Chop and Change
Don't worry, the title of today's post doesn't mean I'm abandoning Vålerenga. It refers to my fourth season in charge at the club being one where things were chopped up and changed. It was time to move some players on to make way for the next raft of talent to take their place. Would this unsettle
Track 16 – Live Forever
Maybe you’re the same as me, We see things they’ll never see, You and I are gonna live forever… Suggestion: Blogs aren’t made to be read in Twitter WordPress reader – click here to read in it’s original format if viewing on a mobile device. Welcome back to Angers! It’s been a while – 31 days to be precise, the longest gap we’ve had between blog posts so far in this homegrown save adventure at Angers SCO; rest assured this save has not ended up on the FM21 scrap heap, nor have we lost the love after 8 cracking seasons in the West of France which has seen us ascend to back-to-back Champions League qualification in the past two campaigns and of course, 15 (hopefully) very enjoyable episodes here on MaddFM.com. This is no time to look back into the past however – we have much business to attend to for Season 9 and about €30 million in our Transfer Budget to do so following our 4th place finish last season which gains us automatic entry to the CL Group Stages for the third season running. As mentioned before, we do have quite a well-rounded squad which I have grown very fond of, and an annual challenge is that it continues to be tricky to bring in new players that are either interested in joining or are better than what we have already at the club – however if last season taught us anything, we are definitely lacking in quality when it comes to squad depth and we have pretty much outgrown the likes of Michael Olise, Enzo La Fée and Manu Koné who to their credit have brought us this far but will no longer be good enough to be regular starters if we are to compete at domestic and European level. Long story short – we desire (1) a creative technical versatile Attacking Midfielder who can cover any of our wide positions as well as slot into the AMC role, and (2) a left-footed Central Midfielder who can occupy the Advanced Playmaker role and pick up pockets of space vacated by our Inverted Winger/Inside Forward on the left-hand side of the pitch. Easy peasy right? Pierre Roussey arrives from Nice for a fee of €24m (50% up front) after scoring 6 and assisting 6 last season; his player screen advises he is best deployed as a Striker however his attributes are far more suited to play as a CAM or Inside Forward. He is joined by more-well-known-in-FM-circles Turkish midfielder Ömer Beyaz after he signs on a €17m deal from AZ Alkmaar who will be more than happy with the €12m profit they are making after he played just one season for the club contributing 5 goals and 7 assists in the Eredivisie. WAIT A SECOND MADD, HE IS TURKISH – that was my first reaction, however having spent 7 seasons in France with Bordeaux and Stade Brest, Beyaz picked up a French passport for himself and therefore meets our homegrown rule of having either French first or second nationality – as @Nerdphonic described on the 5* Potential Podcast, “that’s the kind of Irish I like” with regard to our approach to managing/bending our homegrown rules in this save 😄. What this does mean however is that we have finally reached a point in this save where I am extremely confident in our squad depth for the first time, we have almost got complete cover in every position which means we can almost fill a full second XI if needed; quintessential FM injury crisis, come at me bro 💪. A good mix of IRL and Newgen players, all of whom are of either French first or second nationality and amazingly none of whom have been capped internationally for France as yet, meaning Hojberg (Denmark), Gbamin (Ivory Coast), Beyaz (Turkey) and Pelissard (Algeria) are our only internationally capped players in this squad. I say this because one of our main save objectives is to have an Angers player capped at a World Cup for France (more on this later) as well as the fact that we have a Champions League Group Draw to worry about…after Real Madrid, Internazionale and Leverkusen last year it surely can’t get much worse right? Season 9 🚀 “Siri, show me the Football Manager equivalent of bursting out of the traps please..” Something has clicked. Something beautiful. And I have no idea what it is. So good is our start to the season that we literally explode to win 7 of our opening 8 games which propels us straight to the top of the league, with PSG breathing down our necks waiting patiently for us to slip up – ironic considering we went on to do exactly that when we played them in Gameweek 10 but that’s beside the point. Like us, they have started to branch into the Newgen world and although they are not as strong on paper as they once were (memory drifts back fondly to a time when they had Mbappe, Neymar, Ronaldo and Salah as their front 4) – they are still very much a force to be reckoned with having only failed to win the league twice in the past 16 seasons That slip up slightly rustled us in terms of any newfound sense of unbeatability, but we continued to battle well and most importantly keep up with the unforgiving PSG and Lyon who in every other season have eventually broken away from the chasing pack as soon as anyone around them dropped points. By Christmas we are very much in contention, and even more interestingly it is no longer solely down to the goals of Amine Gouiri who we lost for 6 weeks in October – step forward Michel Morand, Mario Thimon, Theo Zidane and Gouiri’s understudy Jessim Pellissard who all rise to the occasion to ensure we remain in second place at the end of 2028. Eurotrip 🇪🇺 Barcelona. Manchester City. Seriously. Even if there was no Super League, believe me nothing has changed in 2028 and these two continue to dominate their domestic leagues with both having won multiple titles since we started this save. Even if we can overcome Zenit and pick up 3 points in Russia in the away leg, we will need a miracle to defeat a Man City side led by Mssrs. Mbappe, Rafael Leão, Bernardo Silva and Frenkie De Jong let alone the Catalan giants who boast Ilaix Moriba, Christian Pulisic, Josko Gvardiol and Vinicius Junior in their ranks. Mind you, we nearly f*cking did it…. We got the wins we needed against Zenit along with a very unexpected victory over Barcelona and after 5 games we were level with the Catalan club on 9 points behind Man City on 12 – however a trip to the Etihad proved far beyond our means and once again we exited the competition to take a place in the Europa League knockouts, where a thumping 7-0 aggregate win over Braga was swiftly put into faded existence as Tottenham knocked us out in the Quarter Final before going on to win the competition outright. That’s Europe done for another season! Acquiesce noun to accept something reluctantly but without protest Is every season now inevitable in this save? We have continued to improve year-on-year but no matter how hard we try, PSG continue to better us in the league and the constant struggle in Europe means that there is very much a feeling of deja-vu in Angers. Are we to accept our fate as the “best of the rest” in French football and continue to go about our business while our rivals enjoy the fame and glory that comes with silverware each year? To that we say NAY. It would be easy to roll over and accept this fate, that PSG are inevitable and that no matter how many times we try to rewrite our path, we end up with the same outcome. We have worked too hard and too long to get where we are today, and something feels slightly different this year with how our squad have elevated our performance and raised our game to a whole new level. We just beat Barcelona – anything is possible, and having been knocked out of both Europe and the Coupe de France courtesy of a penalty shoot-out defeat to Saint-Etienne, our entire focus can switch to the league where our new mission is to cause as much pain and anguish for PSG as is humanly possible. Whenever PSG concede a late equaliser, WE WILL BE THERE. Whenever PSG pick up a red injury or have a player suspended, WE WILL BE THERE. Whenever PSG drop points or even think about rotating their squad to compete on all fronts, WE WILL BE THERE. As someone once famously said: They say life is a game of two halves and if you thought the first half of our season went well, the second half started almost identically – I mean it was almost an exact carbon copy as we stormed to 6 wins and two draws in our first 8 games before AGAIN losing to PSG to end our excellent run, however this time something was different… Jan – March Results: Angers vs PSG In a bizarre turn of events, for the first time in 9 seasons we see PSG taking out the proverbial bottle and very uncharacteristically starting to drop points needlessly in the second half of the season. ABSOLUTE SCENES!! Somehow with just 8 games to go we find ourselves 4 points clear that the top of the league, and all of a sudden we are leading a title race, the very fate of which lies in our own hands and this is completely unchartered territory for us lowly Les Scoistes in the West of France. What is even stranger is that normally I would be writing in depth about the heroics of individual players as has been the case in previous posts with the likes of Mathieu Cafaro, Rachid Alioui, Theo Zidane, Amine Gouiri and Mo-Ali Cho who have had some cracking individual seasons, but again we see a united team effort this time around in which the likes of Mario Thimon, Michel Morand, Pierre Roussey and Omer Beyaz all start to chip in with goal/assist contributions. Shock and uncertainty hangs in the air at Stade Raymond Kopa…do we have what it takes to keep our nerve and bring home the club’s first ever Ligue 1 title in 109 years? Naturally enough we went on to lose our next game embarrassingly in a 1-0 home defeat to Toulouse, however PSG were also in a self-destructive mood as they lost 1-0 to Dijon, and with three games to go we had the chance to seal the title away to Saint Etienne…which we DIDN’T do as they held us to a draw, meaning that we instead welcomed Lyon to Stade Raymond Kopa knowing that anything other than a defeat would clinch the title for us..even now as I type this, I still can’t believe it came down to this after 9 seasons at the helm! Sometimes it is just written. After we went down to a Fabio Silva goal on 10 minutes, I was fully prepared to go into our final game of the season and sweat out a manic season-finale away to Nantes. Thankfully the Angers players didn’t agree with me, with Amine Gouiri equalising in the 77th minute meaning we looked set to scrape ourselves to a draw and thus a league title accordingly. Mario Thimon decided that wasn’t enough however, and with the last kick of the game he smashed home a 93rd minute winner to send the Angers faithful into absolute ruptures never…
USA - MLS SS'2021 Relink! (25/11/21)
USA - MLS SS\'2021 Relink! (25/11/21) FM21 Download posted on SS Kits Forum for Football Manager 2021
Esequibia - A new country in South America!
Esequibia - A new country in South America! FM21 Download posted on Football Manager Databases - Editor Data Files for Football Manager 2021
Retro Regens for the 2001-02 Database on FM21
If you want retro regens on MadScientist's 2001/02 database, then use this FM21 mod. Retro regens are real players from today coming through as regens.
Santa Clara corrected
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Ten Hag inspired 4-2-3-1 // Ajax but it's Everton lads
Won 2 back to back Champions leagues and a Premier League with Everton. Flexible 4-2-3-1 with 2 DMs very solid at the back and great going forward.
Trotters Talent | Part 35: FIFA Best Under 21 Men’s Player
Bolton Wanderers had become Champions of England for the first time in their history in the summer of 2036. This confirmed our turnaround in the club’s fortunes, rising from League 2 to the best team in the country in 16 years.
Wavy flags with real proportions for Football Manager 2021/2020
Wavy flags with real proportions for Football Manager 2021/2020 FM21 Download posted on Other Football Manager Graphics for Football Manager 2021
532 Boom! Vertical tic tac
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