FM Addict
Latest Posts
Aventuras Américas | Part 74 | Newcastle #1: The Bromance Continues
After five years in Italy, 77-year-old Roberto Nascimento da Silva Lazaró left AC Milan on a high by winning his fourth successive Scudetto. He had an intriguing new opportunity that he’d accepted mid-way through the 2060/61 campaign, which would take him back to England with his 17th football club and 19th role as a Football Manager.
Crazy Gang | Part 21 | Elite Winger Goes Out On A High
The Crazy Gang supporters had a summer to remember in 2037 as their heroes Eli, Rodolfo Díaz, Andrés Araújo, Valentin Schumann-Blaschke, Alan Kardec, Javier Santamaría, Theo Hernández and Vinícius Júnior and co paraded the Premier League and Champions League trophies around the streets of South London.
Aventuras Américas | Part 73 | Milan #8: Lazaró Chases League Title Number 30
Robinho Lazaró and his AC Milan players celebrated an unprecedented double-treble in the summer of 2060 – defending their Italian Supercup, Serie A and Champions League titles.
Crazy Gang | Part 20 | The Best Player In The World
AFC Wimbledon won a thrilling title battle with Liverpool to become Champions of England for the second time in 2035/36. The challenge now was to strengthen to become the dominant force in England and challenge in the Champions League.
Aventuras Américas | Part 72 | Milan #7: The Return Of Juarez The Great
AC Milan ended a 52-year wait for their eighth Champions League success in the summer of 2059 as Robinho Lazaró led an exciting crop of youngsters to an unlikely treble. And the 75-year-old was convinced to stay in Italy for another year with a bumper £125,000 weekly salary.
Crazy Gang | Part 19 | More Final Day Drama
These were exciting times at AFC Wimbledon as The Dons backed up up their maiden Premier League title by finishing runner-up in both the league and the Champions League and winning their first-ever domestic cup.
Aventuras Américas | Part 71 | Milan #6: You Can Win Things With Kids
Youthful AC Milan made an impressive start to their Scudetto defence in 2058/59, only losing twice and drawing none of their first 16 league games. But could Robinho Lazaró’s young starlets continue to impress under pressure from a much more experienced Juventus?
Crazy Gang | Part 18 | Exciting Superstar Signing
The scenes in southwest London last summer were pretty crazy, but the celebrations of 2034 absolutely blew them out of the water. The likes of Eli, Valentin Schumman-Blaschke, Andrés Araújo, Roldolfo Díaz, Theo Hernández were hailed as heroes as they paraded the Premier League trophy alongside their now-legendary manager Trebor Mahtal.
Aventuras Américas | Part 70 | Milan #5: Debut Wonder Goal
Robinho Lazaró wrapped up the 27th league title of his long and distinguished Football Manager career as his AC Milan side won Serie A in 2057/58. His next task was to keep developing the club’s exciting young prospects and defend the Scudetto.
Crazy Gang | Part 17 | FM Analysis: Craziest Premier League Season Ever?
In the aftermath of somehow sneaking a first-ever league title, it took Trebor Mahtal a little while to get his head around just how his AFC Wimbledon side had done it. And upon reflection, it was fairly clear that this was the craziest Premier League season ever.
Crazy Gang | Part 16 | Europe’s Elite & Epic Season Finale
Wimbledon supporters and neutral fans alike packed the streets of South London to celebrate everyone’s second club taking on football’s big-spending elite with their old-school approach.
Aventuras Américas | Part 69 | Milan #4: Chasing The Scudetto
AC Milan’s strong start to the 2057/58 campaign saw the club’s board dish out a new one-year contract that nearly doubled 73-year-old manager Robinho Lazaró’s wages to £95,000-per-week.
Crazy Gang | Part 15 | AFC Wimbledon In Europe!
Against all the odds, AFC Wimbledon had gone from League One mediocrity to qualifying for the Europa League in 11 years of Football Manager.
Aventuras Américas | Part 68 | Milan #3: Massive Summer Rebuild
Season one in Italy had been a rather surprising success for Robinho Lazaró. While the 73-year-old Colombian hadn’t won a trophy with AC Milan, his side came mightily close to champions Inter on the final day – securing the record-high points total without winning Serie A.
Crazy Gang | Part 14 | AFC Wimbledon’s Journey To Europe
AFC Wimbledon finished 5th in the Premier League in 2031/32, marking an 11-year journey from League One strugglers to one of the best teams in England. So I thought it’d be interesting to take a look back at the club’s rise.
Crazy Gang | Part 13 | Livin’ La Vida Loca
Our run of consecutive best finishes in AFC Wimbledon history moved to 11 as we finished the 2030/31 campaign in 8th in the Premier League. But extending that to 12 would be a massive challenge for our young but talented squad.
Aventuras Américas | Part 67 | Milan #2: Bizarre Serie A Conclusion
Robinho Lazaró had settled very nicely into the Italian lifestyle and the Italian football style. He’d bagged himself a beautiful little villa on the outskirts of Milan, and his AC Milan side had only conceded 10 goals in 22 games in his first six months in charge.
Crazy Gang | Part 12 | The Birth Of “Mahtal-Ball”
AFC Wimbledon enjoyed a 9th-successive best-ever finish in club history as Trebor Mahtal’s side came 11th in the Premier League in 2029/30. The big task now was to push for the top-half.
Aventuras Américas | Part 66 | Milan #1: Moving To Italy
Throughout his 35-year Football Manager career, Robinho Lazaró had yet to walk into a club for which he had a genuine affinity. Sure, he liked Sporting and Newell’s Old Boys but he’d never watched one of their matches before taking charge. AC Milan, however, was a completely different kettle of fish.
FM Experiment | Old Firm In England | Episode 4: We’re Going To Wembley!
Our Football Manager Experiment managing Celtic in the Premier League continues as we lead the Bhoys out onto the hallowed turf of Wembley.
Crazy Gang | Part 11 | López Wins Young Player of the Year
An 8th-successive highest finish in AFC Wimbledon history saw the club looking in really good shape to prepare for a 3rd year in the Premier League.
Aventuras Américas | Part 65 | Sporting #6: Massive Former Club Clashes
After much deliberation, Robinho Lazaró decided to stay in Portugal. He had an exciting young squad and he was keen to see how far he could take this talented group.
FM Experiment | Old Firm In England | Episode 3: Best Youth Intake Ever?
Episode three of our new YouTube series experimenting with the Old Firm moving to English football sees another, somewhat less interesting, clash between the two Glasgow rivals.
Crazy Gang | Part 10 | A Tricky Transfer Situation
AFC Wimbledon defied all the odds to survive relatively comfortably in their first-ever season in the Premier League. However, now things were about to get much more difficult, especially considering a dire conclusion to the 2027/28 campaign.
Aventuras Américas | Part 64 | Sporting #5: Unrelentingly Good Form
After two years and two league title successes in Portugal, Robinho Lazaró was really enjoying his time with Sporting CP. But, at the ripe old age of 71, he also knew that he’d be foolish not to keep an eye out for new opportunities.
FM Experiment | Old Firm In England | Episode 2: First Premier League Old Firm Derby
It’s a historic – and, admittedly, pretty controversial – moment as Celtic take on Rangers in the first-ever Old Firm derby to be played in English football.
FM Addict YouTube
This is where you’ll find links to all our YouTube content, which we run alongside our blogs – albeit a little more sporadically.
Crazy Gang | Part 9 | We Are Premier League!
The streets of southwest London were filled with jubilant AFC Wimbledon fans as Trebor Mahtal, Ricky-Jade Jones and co led their exciting young side into the promised land in May 2027.
Aventuras Américas | Part 63 | Sporting #4: The Colombian Collective
Sporting CP had enjoyed a fine start to their first title defence in 27 years. But their exciting young squad was attracting envious glances from the best clubs around the world as 2055 ticked around.
Crazy Gang | Part 8 | How Youth Development Fired Wimbledon To The Premier League
Our unlikely ascent to the big-time of the Premier League from League One in 2021 has been absolutely reliant on developing, promoting and – probably most importantly – selling youth products.
Aventuras Américas | Part 62 | Sporting #3: Building A Special Young Team
It’s safe to say that ageism is alive and kicking in football. But Colombian manager Robinho Lazaró was proving that 70-year-old managers could very much compete at the top
FM Experiment | Old Firm In England | Episode 1: Welcome To Celtic
In addition to our ongoing blog content, we decided it was time to head back to the YouTube and try our hand at a bit of video content.
Crazy Gang | Part 7 | I Love You, Ricky-Jade Jones!
AFC Wimbledon came within 1 point of the Championship playoffs in 2025/26 led by the star strikeforce of Daniel Jebbison and Jamie Donley. However, it looked like neither would be allowed to return, leaving Trebor Mahtal with a big headache in the summer of 2026.
Aventuras Américas | Part 61 | Sporting #2: Magnificent Mesquita
Sporting Clube de Portugal found themselves somehow topping the Liga Portugal Bwin heading into 2054. But these were strange times at the club as their reigning President, Jorge Santos, was re-elected and celebrated his power by splashing £12 million on some random striker.
Aventuras Américas | Part 60 | Sporting #1: A Manager In High Demand
Lazaró made so many promises to young players about their futures at the club and horrendously overpaid completely average players that he felt guilty about the pain he was inflicting on every Barcelona supporter.
Crazy Gang | Part 6 | Star Strikeforce Reunites
The aggressive Crazy Gang style of play finally saw AFC Wimbledon earn their stripes as the dirtiest team in England in 2024. We racked up a record for indiscipline in the Championship while again consolidating in mid-table and amassed 50% more bookings than any other team in the country.
Aventuras Américas | Part 59 | Barcelona #3: Slashing £230 Million Debt and £2.8 Million Wages
Having just won probably the easiest title in La Liga history, a brand new challenge emerged as Robinho Lazaró looked to address the crippling debt at FC Barcelona in the summer of 2052.
Aventuras Américas | Part 58 | Barcelona #2: LaLiga Is Easy
Despite a very dubious financial situation, Robinho Lazaró appeared to be living up to his reputation as a “title specialist” in his first six months in Barcelona.
Crazy Gang | Part 5 | Record Levels of Indiscipline
The Crazy Gang performed well above expectations to comfortably survive in the EFL Championship at the first time of asking. And we were slowly building an exciting young squad.
Aventuras Américas | Part 57 | Barcelona #1: Massive Debt
Robinho Lazaró became the second-most successful South American manager of all-time after he led Liverpool to the Premier League and Champions League double.
Aventuras Américas | Part 56 | Liverpool #3: Scintillating Southam Inspires Liverpool
Experienced Football Manager Robinho Lazaró had overhauled an underperforming Liverpool side to become the first Colombian manager to win the Premier League. He also became what has to be the first manager ever to win Copa Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana then Champions League and the Europa League.
Crazy Gang | Part 4 | A Championship Rebuild
Wimbledon were promoted to the second-tier of English football for the first time. Now manager Trebor Mahtal faced a tough task to strengthen the squad for a bid at Championship survival on the thinnest of shoestrings.
Aventuras Américas | Part 55 | Liverpool #2: A New Era At Anfield
Robinho Lazaró had enjoyed a strong start to life in Liverpool, taking his side into the second half of the 21st Century sitting top of the Premier League led by new Ballon d’Or winner Juarez. However, he had been concerned about the club’s £100 million+ debts.
Aventuras Américas | Part 54 | Robinho Lazaró’s Elite Club Opportunity
Robinho Lazaró wasn’t the only one who thought he was kind of a big deal. Upon picking up the ringing phone that broke the calm of his villa up in the Colombian hills he noticed the incoming call was coming from England.
Crazy Gang | Part 3 | Aggressive Young Men
AFC Wimbledon defied all expectations as the new generation of the infamous Crazy Gang reached the League One playoffs in their first season under new manager Trebor Mahtal.
Aventuras Américas | Part 53 | Wolfsburg #6: Wolfsburg Domination
A thrilling campaign saw VfL Wolfsburg become German champions for the first time in 39 years in 2048. Robinho Lazaró’s young side had achieved great things but the Colombian manager believed there was much more to come from this talented squad.
Aventuras Américas | Part 52 | Wolfsburg #5: Superstar Strikeforce Inspires Success
Robinho Lazaró’s exciting young VfL Wolfsburg side was more than holding its own with Germany’s big boys, sitting just two points off the top of Bundesliga heading into 2048.
Crazy Gang | Part 2 | Smashing Wimbledon Records
The Crazy Gang was alive and kicking – with the emphasis on kicking – six months into Trebor Mahtal’s reign as AFC Wimbledon. Our 4-4-fucking2 approach had us sitting nicely in League One mid-table and into the FA Cup fourth round.
Aventuras Américas | Part 51 | Wolfsburg #4: Majestic Mockel
VfL Wolfsburg came painfully close to a second Bundesliga title in Robinho Lazaró’s first year in Europe, only missing out by a point on the final day of the 2046/47 campaign. But Lazaró was excited to strengthen his young side in his second summer in charge.
Aventuras Américas | Part 50 | Wolfsburg #3: Thrilling Title Battle
A strong start to Robinho Lazaró’s first full season in Europe saw his young VfL Wolfsburg leading the way in Bundesliga heading into 2047. But could they convert their strong start into a title challenge?