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FM Experiment | Bottom At Christmas | Season 5: Metz
Season 5 of Bottom At Christmas might be the toughest task yet with FC De Metz bottom of Ligue 1 with just 2 wins and having only scored 10 goals. However, they were only 3 points from safety.
FM Experiment | Bottom At Christmas | Season 4: Torino
Having assessed his options, and having already managed in England and Germany, Big Sam decided it was time to tick off a new country. Because Allardici was headed to Italy.
Wonderkid Factory | Part 9 | Hitting Form At The Right Time
Robinho Lazaró’s focus on youth development at Colombian wonderkid factory Envigado FC was undeniably yielding results. After four years in charge, he’d led the club to its first Colombian title with a Finalización win, three Apertura runner-up finishes, a Súperliga success and three straight Copa Libertadores campaigns.
Wonderkid Factory | Part 8 | Guzmán Breaks Goalscoring Record
The brutal nature of the Colombian football season had seen Envigado FC play 38 matches at the halfway mark of the 2025 campaign. Robinho Lazaró’s young squad was exhausted, so he gave them a week off training between the Apertura and Finalización stages.
FM Experiment | Bottom At Christmas | Season 3: Union Berlin
After last season’s dismal conclusion, Big Sam was keen for a bit of Bundesliga redemption. So he decided to take over at 1. FC Union Berlin, who were very lucky to survive in 2024.
Wonderkid Factory | Part 7 | Goals Galore For Guzmán
Robinho Lazaró and his young Colombian superstars paraded the Liga BetPlay Finalización trophy through the streets of Envigado as they celebrated the club’s first-ever piece of silverware with their adoring fans.
Wonderkid Factory | Part 6 | Record-Breaking Envigado
Midway through his third season, Robinho Lazaró was loving life at Colombian wonderkid factory Envigado FC. His team was packed with promising youngsters and two stellar youth intakes gave the club’s fans plenty to get excited about in the future, even if they couldn’t be bothered to come and watch the team.
FM Experiment | Bottom At Christmas | Season 2: Schalke
Six months on from Saints glory, Big Sam holidayed ahead, spent a few months in the Caribbean topping up his tan and was now ready to discover the second team in this FM Experiment.
Wonderkid Factory | Part 5 | Envigado’s Copa Libertadores Debut
The depth of talent at Envigado FC could not be argued against. Robinho Lazaró’s young charges qualified for Copa Libertadores for the first time in club history by winning the Liga BetPlay Finalización league stage in 2023 – but, crucially, not the playoff stage that sees the trophies handed out.
Wonderkid Factory | Part 4 | League Winners But Not Champions
Despite not signing any players, Robinho Lazaró was quietly building a squad brimming with potential at Colombian wonderkid factory Envigado FC.
FM Experiment | Bottom At Christmas | Season 1: Southampton
This year, we’re bringing the Bottom At Christmas experiment back but on a bigger scale, with leagues in England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain available to choose from. First up, is Southampton!
Wonderkid Factory | Part 3 | Stunning First Youth Intake
Robinho Lazaró massively exceeded all expectations in his first season at the helm of Colombian wonderkid factory Envigado FC. His massive overachievement saw one of Colombia’s top teams Junior FC offer him an interview in the summer of 2022, which he swiftly rejected.
Wonderkid Factory | Part 2 | Massive Overachievement
Robinho Lazaró enjoyed a solid start to life in charge of Colombia’s leading Wonderkid Factory. He’d led a young team fancied for relegation – which he thought was very much misguided on the media’s part – into the top six halfway through Liga BetPlay Dimayor Apertura.
Wonderkid Factory | Part 1 | Bienvenido A Envigado
During a previous incarnation, Robinho Lazaró had led a successful campaign dominating South American and European football. But now he had his eye very much on honing the promising youth in his homeland of Colombia.
OstDeutscher Sieg | Part 7 | Searching And Failing
Ruprecht Prusseit found himself on the managerial scrapheap within two years of starting his Football Manager career. The Dresden-born coach was unceremoniously sacked when his FSV Zwickau side was dumped out of 3. Liga in dramatic fashion by local rivals Erzgebirge Aue.
OstDeutscher Sieg | Part 6 | Zwickau #5: Final Day East German Relegation Clash
Second season syndrome appeared to have struck for Ruprecht Prusseit as his FSV Zwickau flirted with the relegation places then clambered back into mid-table in the first half of the 2023/24 campaign. But luckily, he still had a B- rating with the board and C+ rating with the supporters.
OstDeutscher Sieg | Part 5 | Zwickau #4: Second Season Syndrome
FSV Zwickau massively exceeded all expectations in 2022/23, coming within one goal of promotion to 2. Bundesliga. But it wasn’t to be and now a daunting rebuild awaited Ruprecht Prusseit in his first proper summer transfer window.
OstDeutscher Sieg | Part 4 | Zwickau #3: Final Day Carnage
Fledgling and totally unqualified East German manager Ruprecht Prusseit had made a surprisingly strong start to his career, leading FSV Zwickau into third position in 3. Liga before a near two-month break for the Winter World Cup.
FM Experiment | Managing England At World Cup 2022
Our previous Football Manager Experiments focused on World Cup 2022 saw England perform pretty well, so we thought it would be fun to take on the challenge ourselves. Can we lead England to success at Qatar 2022?
OstDeutscher Sieg | Part 3 | Zwickau #2: Defensive But Attacking?
Despite having no coaching badges and zero managerial experience, fledgling East German boss Ruprecht Prusseit had made a solid start to life with FSV Zwickau.
FM Experiment | Most Likely World Cup 2022 Winner According To Football Manager 2023
Our previous experiment tested which team would win World Cup 2022 according to Football Manager 2023. But – mainly due to the fact that USA reached the previous final – we wanted to test which country was most likely to win the World Cup based on a few more trial runs.
OstDeutscher Sieg | Part 2 | Zwickau #1: The East German Adventure Begins
Our mission to lead an East German club to Bundesliga glory begins here as OstDeutsche Sieg kicks off in the full version of Football Manager 2023.
OstDeutscher Sieg | Part 1 | Willkommen In OstDeutschland
OstDeutsche Sieg (East German Victory) will see us only managing football teams based in former East Germany. Our aim is to become the first-ever Bundesliga champion to hail from behind the Iron Curtain by working our way from the bottom to the top of the German football system.
Giallorossi | Part 11 | Italian Domination
Moving to a more offensive approach had worked nicely for AS Roma as we moved into 2027 still unbeaten in Serie A. But we began the new year with a seriously tricky run of games.
Giallorossi | Part 10 | Attack Is The Best Form Of Defence
AS Roma wrapped up a third successive Serie A title in 2026, confirming their domination of Italy. Now, with the FM23 Beta period coming to a close, we decide to go all-out attack in a bid to get the best out of wonderkid Endrick.
Giallorossi | Part 9 | Final Day Drama
AS Roma came into 2026 narrowly trailing AC Milan in their bid to wrap up three Serie A titles in a row. But a string of dubious performances meant a bit of squad building was required in the January transfer window.
Giallorossi | Part 8 | Tammy Abraham: Best Player In The World
Legendary striker Cristiano Ronaldo retired in style in the summer of 2025 but didn’t leave the club, staying on as under 20s assistant manager. His retirement left AS Roma with an exciting, youthful squad as they looked to defend the Serie A title for the second time.
Giallorossi | Part 7 | Cristiano Ronaldo Retires In Style
At the ripe old age of 39, Cristiano Ronaldo was still terrorising Serie A defences, including a clinical hat-trick against his former club Juventus. But as 2024 was drawing to a close, the striker announced his intention to retire from playing football at the end of the season.
Giallorossi | Part 6 | Is Endrick The Next Big Thing?
AS Roma took Serie A by storm in 2023/24, romping to the Italian title by smashing club records left, right and centre. The challenge now was to further strengthen key areas of a team that was packed with exciting talent.
FM Experiment | Football Manager 2023 Predicts World Cup 2022
Excitement is slowly beginning to build as, strange as it seems, we’re under a month away from the start of the first-ever World Cup to take place in the middle of the European football season.
Giallorossi | Part 5 | Cristiano Ronaldo At Roma
AS Roma came into 2024 sitting pretty at the top of Serie A but with lots of games remaining due to a strangely lop-sided season in Italy. And, despite dropping points in three games, they only had a narrow lead at the top.
FM Experiment | Football Manager 2023 Predicts England’s World Cup Squad
The race is on for players to be fit and raring to go for Qatar 2022 – which begs the question, who should make England’s World Cup 2022 squad? We let FM23 decide!
Aventuras Américas | Part 100 | The End: The Football World In 2091
Seventy years ago, 38-year-old fledgling Roberto Nascimento da Silva Lazaró departed his hometown Medellín to begin his quest to become a Football Manager. Most the kids he grew up with on the streets scoffed and mocked, but Robinho Lazaró very much had the last laugh.
Aventuras Américas | Part 99 | Club América: Prodigious Youth Development
We had to target blog number 100 in this series, considering Robinho Lazaró had passed the milestone of being a 100-year-old Football Manager.
Aventuras Américas | Part 98 | Católica #4: An Inspired Signing
100-year-old Football Manager Robinho Lazaró had begun life back at Universidad Católica pretty well. He’d seen some positive signs and managed to bring in decent money for some of the club’s older players.
Giallorossi | Part 4 | Superstar Summer Signing
AS Roma secured Champions League football on the final day of the 2022/23 campaign, but had plenty of work to do in the summer if their threadbare squad was to close the gap on runaway leaders AC Milan.
Aventuras Américas | Part 97 | Católica #3: 100-Year-Old Football Manager
Would you fancy a 100-year-old man taking charge of your football club? Fans of Cruzados were about to find out if Robinho Lazaró was still up to the task!
Aventuras Américas | Part 96 | An Ode To The Greatest Of All Time
José Mourinho may consider himself “the special one” but there was no doubting that Roberto Nascimento da Silva Lazaró was “the great one.”
Giallorossi | Part 3 | Exciting Champions League Qualification Battle
A couple of months off thanks to the Winter World Cup saw AS Roma’s players return looking to consolidate their place in the Champions League qualification places.
Aventuras Américas | Part 95 | River #5: Robinho Lazaró: Greatest Football Manager Of All Time
At the ripe old age of 90, Robinho Lazaró was on the verge of the ultimate honour for any Football Manager. The wily old manager was just three points away from becoming the greatest of all time, which meant he just needed to add one more trophy to his outrageous tally of 80 cup and […]
Aventuras Américas | Part 94 | River #4: 90-Year-Old Lazaró Chases 40th Title
Robinho Lazaró was oh-so-close to becoming the greatest Football Manager of all time with his dominant young River Plate side taking Argentina by storm.
Aventuras Américas | Part 93 | River #3: Superclásico Copa Libertadores Final
Robinho Lazaró wrapped up title number 39 on his Aventuras Américas journey as his River Plate dominated the Argentinian league, led largely by the sensational form of attacking midfielder and club captain Alejo Zalazar.
Giallorossi | Part 2 | The New Totti!
Our time at AS Roma on Football Manager 23 began in a strange fashion, playing lots of away matches, banging loads of goals, getting a lot of injuries, not spending any money, but also losing two of our first five league games.
Aventuras Américas | Part 92 | River #2: Stuttering Title Bid?
River Plate were looking uncatchable at the top of Argentina’s Liga Profesional de Fútbol. They led rivals Boca by a massive 14 points with 16 games remaining, having already strolled to success in Copa Argentina.
Giallorossi | Part 1 | Benvenuto A Roma
We’re headed to the Italian capital to take on one of the city’s big two. And the Special One, José Mourinho, finds himself The Unemployed One as we take his position at AS Roma.
Aventuras Américas | Part 91 | River #1: Bienvenido A Buenos Aires!
After 51 years as a Football Manager, it had long been Robinho Lazaró’s dream to lead one of the big Buenos Aires sides. And now he finally had his chance, as underperforming River Plate looked to the title specialist as their saviour.
Aventuras Américas | Part 90 | Pumas #6: Cruz Azul Revenge
After just over two years in charge of Pumas UNAM – although it felt a lot longer given the mass of football played in Mexico – Robinho Lazaró was open to a new challenge as his days of management were limited by age.
Aventuras Américas | Part 89 | Pumas #5: 50 Years A Football Manager
Pumas UNAM fans had an unforgettable season in 2070/71 as Robinho Lazaró led their club to a remarkable cup quadruple, as well as a second successive Liga MX Clausura Final. But could the Colombian’s young squad go one step further and win the Liga MX title?
Aventuras Américas | Part 88 | Pumas #4: Magnificent Mejía and Manzotti
Pumas bid farewell to their soon-to-be superstar midfielder Nogueira for a scandalously low fee as the clock ticked over to 2071. Robinho Lazaró now somehow had to replace the Brazilian’s club-leading goals and assists with a minimal budget.
Aventuras Américas | Part 87 | Pumas #3: Cup Competition Overload
Pumas won the first league trophy of 2069/70 and finished runner-up in the second, while reaching the semi-finals of the CONCACAF Champions League during Robinho Lazaró’s first six months in charge.