Career A Strikerless 1kc attempt...completed - The End!

[Rob]

Strikerless challenges massively appeal to me. Getting a Strikerless 1kc, or at least in goals in to the 900s, appeals to me the most. Back in FMM2018 Asensio got 893 for me and was an utter phenomenon. He was the focal point of a Strikerless Bonanza with Lemar and Coman where we got a Strikerless Triple Threat and Double Trouble too. 

But in this challenge I just want one Strikerless player who can smash as many goals in as possible and set a score high up @Foxy‘s leaderboard that will set a benchmark for people to try to surpass. For this I will need all the help I can get, which means:

• A big club in an easier league;
• A striker young enough to play for 17-20 years;
• A club with a good pot of cash, as this’ll need one or two big squad refurbishments;
• Mostly importantly, a player who fits my tactic. No point trying this if they don’t slot in properly!

So which club did I pick?

Yep, I went obvious - I opted for PSG. They play in an easier league, they have money to burn, and they are attractive enough to get whomever I want in. Their facilities and youth structure are both two grades off top notch so they’ll need improving.

As for the player?

I went for Joao Felix, who joined us for £54m. I liked the look of Dortmund’s English sensation Sancho, Meier from Bayern, Man City’s Foden, and even thought of going for someone a little older like Bailey, but opted for Benfica’s starlet.

His physicals need improving, but he has the basics to turn out awesome, especially with the new focussed training system. His aerial and stamina are two of the things I hope are improvable.

I have four mini-targets:

• 100 goals when he is 20;
• 425 goals when he is 25;
• 750 goals when he is 30;
• 1,000 when he retires

So there we go. That’s the set-up. Wish me luck!

Edited December 16, 2018 by Rob2017

[FuddledFox]

Good luck fella, if anyone can get a strikerless 1k it will be you ☺

[Nucleus]

All the best mate. The Portuguese are taking over this year!! 😛

[Titjes]

Good luck mate, great player

[Rob]

37 minutes ago, Foxy said:

Good luck fella, if anyone can get a strikerless 1k it will be you ☺

Thanks for your faith. Hopefully my mini targets will get me there.

4 minutes ago, Nucleus said:

All the best mate. The Portuguese are taking over this year!! 😛

Thanks. Yeah their national side should be awesome in five years time.

2 minutes ago, Titjes said:

Good luck mate, great player

Thanks buddy. I certainly have high hopes with him.

Edited November 17, 2018 by Rob2017

[BatiGoal]

Looking great, the club, the player.. in the bag already this one 😄

[Rob]

1 minute ago, BatiGoal said:

Looking great, the club, the player.. in the bag already this one 😄

Thanks. Practically completed it as soon as we started 😭

[fRESH]

Good luck mate ! Great player choosen. This should be easy.

[Rob]

26 minutes ago, fRESH said:

Good luck mate ! Great player choosen. This should be easy.

I hope you are being sarcastic! But thanks anyhow.

[Rob]

Season 1

My main target in season 1 was simple: survive. I’m introducing an unusual tactic with a young not-yet-very-good attacking midfielder as its centrepiece, to a club that expects you to win everything. Anything except a good amount of success wouldn’t be enough. 

My second target was equally as simple: get enough goals to contribute to my ‘100 goals at the age of 20’ mini-target, which basically gives me two seasons.

Transfers were aplenty. At PSG you essentially get two transfer budgets in the first season, so all of it was spent. Pogba was a real bargain at £84m as he was transfer listed. Felix needed his buyout clause matched to come on over. It did feel weird selling Mbappe though. There was no profit-making signings here - everything was for a squad makeover. 

Spoiler

We won the league easily, only losing one game, which was essential to my survival. To be fair, if you don’t win the league with PSG then you deserve to walk the plank. Arrrrrr me hearties! We also won the League Cup and Charity Shield. 

The Champs Cup tripped us up in the quarters, but that didn’t bother me that much. Without wishing to sound all a bit ‘never fancied her anyway’, it allowed me to play Felix longer in the easier league matches as his stamina was still not great at this stage. I’d rather that than having to sub him off all the time and not maximising his efforts against the naff teams.

 

So how did Felix do? Well, in December he got this award:

Yep, after six months of my management he was already a better Portuguese player than Ronaldo. Pffttt, nothing weird about that at all.

 

And at the end he got two more awards:

Which means he must have done ok, surely? Well he got 48 in 56 games (a -8 season), which I was delighted with. 

He assisted 20, which is a by-product of playing a Strikerless formation and something you can’t stop. My generic rule:  score more team goals and your main player will score more goals. 

His attributes at the end of the season had improved immensely. For someone who the coaches originally said was poor aerially he rose to 14 quite quickly. In fact, his attributes have risen across he board but mostly towards the end of the season. The stamina still needs improving though.

 

48/1000 done.

952 remaining.

 

Bonus Challenge

As a bonus, this first season also counts as an attempt at Foxy’s One Season Strikerless challenge. I’d like to add Pavon and Di Maria as my other two attacking midfielders. 

 

So, from the league we have:

101+75 = 176

 

From the players we have:

48+20 = 68

23+19 = 42

16+23 = 39

Which gives us a total of 325. A decent amount, but certainly beatable. Please add me to the board @Foxy - thanks! 

 

Thanks for reading.

[kylieboi88]

Wow! Looking forward to how this pans out. Never tried a strikerless tactic before, but Felix is a quality player when he gets older. 

Best of luck mate definately following this!!

[Scratch]

Haha, back with the strikerless, hey mate? Not unexpected! And I have a feeling you'll crack the 1KC this time around. If anyone can do it, it's you! Great start, player looks great too, going all the way here mate!

[BatiGoal]

Felix ain't joking around, this kid means business 😮

[FuddledFox]

Great first season mate and I have a feeling that this is the career you will smash that 1k.

Added you to the one season leaderboard for the first time and I bet not the last time this year 

[Rob]

9 minutes ago, kylieboi88 said:

Wow! Looking forward to how this pans out. Never tried a strikerless tactic before, but Felix is a quality player when he gets older. 

Best of luck mate definately following this!!

Give Foxy’s one season challenge a go as a starter. It’s great fun. Makes you view the game completely differently. Thanks for wishing me luck!

3 minutes ago, Scratch said:

Haha, back with the strikerless, hey mate? Not unexpected! And I have a feeling you'll crack the 1KC this time around. If anyone can do it, it's you! Great start, player looks great too, going all the way here mate!

Thanks mate. I’m so predictable, but I just want to get one done. Someone may come in later and beat it, but it would’ve cool to be the first. It’ll be close hopefully. 

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13 minutes ago, BatiGoal said:

Felix ain't joking around, this kid means business 😮

Without wishing to spoil too much, he gets a lot better. I couldn’t believe how much he improved so quickly.

9 minutes ago, Foxy said:

Great first season mate and I have a feeling that this is the career you will smash that 1k.

Added you to the one season leaderboard for the first time and I bet not the last time this year 

Thanks mate. Fingers crossed. 

[mrpanzani]

whoo amazing 

Best of luck , what's the tactics please

[Rob]

14 minutes ago, mrpanzani said:

whoo amazing 

Best of luck , what's the tactics please

Thanks. 50 grand and the tactic’s are yours.

[Nucleus]

Average start, expected a 100 goal season at least

[Rob]

1 minute ago, Nucleus said:

Average start, expected a 100 goal season at least

Moral support. Cheers bud 😭

[JohnyBravo]

Great start, 1k should be possible.

[Rob]

6 minutes ago, JohnyBravo said:

Great start, 1k should be possible.

Cheers. I’ve got a few seasons in the can already so will post season 2 later.

[Rob]

Season 2

As sad as it sounds already, each season now is about three things:

 

• Keeping Felix fit;
• Improving the quality of the squad;
• Improving Felix’s attributes

 

Everything else - trophies, job security, and more importantly goals - are the by-products. 

 

Two players joined this year. Asensio is one of the best in the game and is also a brilliant back-up if Felix is injured. I think Nuke also got him cheap in his save. Bargain. Scarpa is a squad player and only plays if absolutely necessary, but the depth is required. A couple of stinking turds left.

We won everything bar the League Cup. I had made a couple of tactical tweaks that tightened up the ship but also kept the goals flowing. 

We scored 111 in the league which is an improvement on the 105 last year. Felix also got his first ever four goal haul. 

He also pretty much did a clean sweep on the trophies, except for Best in Europe.

It’s not surprising considering that at the end of the season he looked like this: 

Those greens! The new training is weird, mind you. I focussed mostly on stamina and that barely improved, with the other time on dribbling and shooting, but everything seemed to improve at the same time. I barely trained aerial and that went to 16. He is 20 and already looked excellent.

 

So how did he do? My target was that at the age of 20 he would have 100 goals. He got 48 last season so we needed 52 this season.

58 in 58. A 0 season - a goal a game. 20 assists again with a slightly improved average rating. Job done.

 

106/1000 goals scored.

894 to go.

 

Thanks for reading.

 

Edited November 18, 2018 by Rob2017

[Nucleus]

That’s one target down and it makes the others a little bit easier. Keep it up mate! 

[Rob]

2 minutes ago, Nucleus said:

That’s one target down and it makes the others a little bit easier. Keep it up mate! 

Thanks mate. 425 at the age of 25 is the nsxt one. Let's hope we get there.

[Nucleus]

4 minutes ago, Rob2017 said:

Thanks mate. 425 at the age of 25 is the nsxt one. Let's hope we get there.

64 goals a season on average. Should be a doddle if he stays fit 😛

[Ashez]

Smashing stuff mate! This is certainly the most possible I've felt this idea is as from my tests the AMC roles are a lot better than last year. 

[Rob]

9 minutes ago, Ashez said:

Smashing stuff mate! This is certainly the most possible I've felt this idea is as from my tests the AMC roles are a lot better than last year. 

Absolutely. I’ve got a few more in the can that I’ll put out soon. 

[Ashez]

Just now, Rob2017 said:

Absolutely. I’ve got a few more in the can that I’ll put out soon. 

When I get to updating I might have some results that catch your eye as well 😛

[Rob]

11 minutes ago, Ashez said:

When I get to updating I might have some results that catch your eye as well 😛

Ooooohhhh another Strikerless attempt?

[Ashez]

1 minute ago, Rob2017 said:

Ooooohhhh another Strikerless attempt?

No but an AMC did do pretty well for me (Emenike save), enough that I did actually dabble with a short test but this is your beat haha. 1k from AML/R has been my unicorn since 2015 but from AMC didn't appeal as much until last year.