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Career Scratch Goes Crazy: 2KC✔️ + 1KC❌ + Assists 1KC✔️ [Done]


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11 minutes ago, Scratch said:

Also, it's about time an Aussie managed Holland. After all, 5 of the last 10 managers of the Australian team have been Dutch, but Holland either couldn't take the hint or hasn't been taught about sharing

Nothing to do with taking or not taking hints, mate, we don't take Aussies cause no one understands them 😄

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22 minutes ago, BatiGoal said:

Nothing to do with taking or not taking hints, mate, we don't take Aussies cause no one understands them 😄

Fair enough... 😄

The players are going to have to go through a pretty gruelling training process, a bit like this:

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Top marks to Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain - shame he's not Dutch, he'd be the captain...

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1 minute ago, smoggy90 said:

Great news on the INT job mate, that will help no end and still fairly early days so plenty of time.

Thanks mate, just got to get them all to speak Strayan... Unuvar has it down pat now, so looking for him to be a leader! 🤣

Seriously though, it's great to get it this early. No games scheduled yet (I guess some will be added on 1 Jan), but I've been busy sorting out the squad. Not as good as I thought it would be... And some players like Depay are useless to me with my current formation... Anyway, I'm sure it's gonna help a lot so shouldn't complain!

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24 minutes ago, Scratch said:

but I've been busy sorting out the squad. Not as good as I thought it would be

😠 I'd fire your Strayan butt on the spot!! 

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Update - Season 4

It's that time of year where I get a bit of time to play, but not so much to write things up. I've almost finished season 5, so I better get this season 4 update posted!

I should mention for those that don't read the posts between season updates: The Dutch begged me to come manage them. After much deliberation, I finally decided that I'd help them out. So I now manage Unuvar at the ITN level.

 

Transfers

Just when the team was getting pretty stable, I need to overhaul it again, this time to bring some Dutch players into the squad. Here are the transfers:

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The Dutch players this years don't seem as good as in previous versions which is a shame. For example Gravenberch looks promising but is blighted by being Inconsistent. It's the same for most good young Dutch I looked at - they are either inconsistent, struggle in big matches, are relaxed (which I now know is a big no no in Scotland), etc.

I still signed quite a few promising youngsters: Gravenberch (despite his inconsistency), Ihattaren, GK Pierie, LB Pierie, Kuipers, and Vormer. There were many others I would have signed so I could train them up in the right position (so many IFs, where I need Wingers), but a lot were out of reach. One of these was Kluivert, who was not for sale at the beginning of the season, but things went south and he ended up being transfer listed and unhappy, so I picked him up for only £17M.

Apart from that, the big signing was Pickford. We had quite a few promising young goalies, but GK development is so inconsistent that I decided to buy a more established player. Mvogo and Dewhurst went out to make way for Pickford, along with a bunch of other fringe players not getting game time. Some tough choices there, including some of the few remaining Scots like Mikey Johnston and Lewis Morgan.

The big departure was Wijndal, one of the few Dutch players I had from the start. I would have loved to have kept him as he is far and away the best LB we have (both Celtic and Holland), but I rested him once too often. I promised him game time, which lead to him backing down, but also reduced his professionalism (once again: important in Scotland) and then he decided he couldn't trust me (WTF? At least wait for the next game to see if I keep my word son!)

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I also lost my second LB, Reguilon because of mentoring gone wrong. The player he was mentoring felt he couldn't learn any more from Reguilon and therefore decided to hate him, which lead to him becoming an outcast... 🙁

 

Club Results

We won everything again, including the Champions League. Yawn...

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Injuries

Vignato stayed injury clear this year, but both Unuvar and Koita had a couple of injuries:

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We were pretty lucky as only one was a month long and that was after the season finished. I still don't like month long injuries as players often seem to have an attributes decrease that they then have to earn back, but I guess if you're gonna have one, that's the time to have it.

 

Development

Unuvar: Thanks to the latest update, the "needs to mature" message disappeared and he massively powered up and is now looking like a champion. He's still gets the feels pressure of first team football way too often though.

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Koita: No much progress now, but maybe a little bit of development still to come.

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Vignato: I think he's also close to maxing out, but still a little bit of development to come.

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Unuvar 2KC

Unuvar scored 78 goals from 49 games. The ratio is improving, but we need more and soon...

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At the ITN level, he started with 0 goals from 8 games when I took over. He scored 7 goals in 4 games under my management (no date on the end of season shot sorry, took it in game I guess):

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Koita 1KC

Koita scored 50 goals from 51 games:

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Not really enough, but I'm not worried about him yet - I think this number will improve.

 

Vignato Assists 1KC

Vignato provided 81 assists from 54 games:

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Another steady season and more to come, well on track.

 

Progress

Season Club (U) INT (U) Total (Unuvar) Goals (Koita) Assists (Vignato)
01 44 N/A 44 24 29
02 65 N/A 65 56 76
03 73 N/A 73 62 78
04 78 7 85 50 81
Total 260 7 267/2000 192/1000 264/1000

 

The Future

As ever, the question is whether the two strikers can score 3K between them. I was aiming for about 160 per season at an absolute minimum and they only managed 135 this season. Hopefully with them maturing a little and with the ITN job we'll get the jump we need. Jury's still out though...

 

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3 minutes ago, Lord Danish said:

Vignato doing impressively, while the other two needs more improvements in their goals

Yeah, almost finished season 5 and Unuvar has a been a little better, not so much Koita - together not a lot more. Still have 6 games or so left in the season and then the Euros from memory, so might turn out alright. But it's going to be tight.

I'm not too worried yet, because I normally find strikers start scoring more when they hit 23, etc and Unuvar is only 20. Once he ramps up a bit, then he'll catchup and I'll probably be able to play Koita more as well. That's what I'm telling myself anyway! 😄

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Still going great mate, like you say it is when they hit 22/23 that you want to start hitting some serious big number consistently and i'm sure you will.

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5 hours ago, smoggy90 said:

Still going great mate, like you say it is when they hit 22/23 that you want to start hitting some serious big number consistently and i'm sure you will.

Thanks mate - sure hoping that's the case...

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Those assist stats are insane! Considering his 10 teamwork too. I started my 1kc with Celtic & none of my wingers are anywhere near those numbers. Your tactic must be very good.

Enjoying reading this. KIU! 

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5 hours ago, Dai_ said:

Those assist stats are insane! Considering his 10 teamwork too. I started my 1kc with Celtic & none of my wingers are anywhere near those numbers. Your tactic must be very good.

Enjoying reading this. KIU! 

Thanks! I'm using the same tactic as last year and it seems to force the ball to the wings even though I don't turn on the down the sides or right side options on. Actually if I turn them on, the tactic is much less effective. I won't go through the whole thing again, details are in this thread (not the OP, you have to read all my comments in there): 

But... I have WBs behind Ws with Defensive on so they don't normally get forward much, leaving crosses to the Ws. My mid line is CM AP CM. Backline is WB CB CB WB, so the WBs are the outlet. They run forward a bit, either pass through to the W or inside to the CM who then often passes on to the W. Either way, there are a lot of crosses from the Ws and with an Aerial 20 striker, that means lots of assists.

Oh here's an eg from last year:

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I have a feeling that the ball goes through the middle slightly more in 20 than it did in 19 and my W is getting slightly less assists than I got back then, but it's not a lot less and it might just be my mix of players...

Anyway, most people think I'm crazy playing Defensive, but it seems to work!

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Update - Season 5

So, for the last couple of updates I've been saying: "looking good, a little below pace, but it'll pick up". I'm still waiting for it to pick up... Will this be the year?

 

Transfers

Much more settled this year. Here are the transfers:

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The main player going out was Miranda, another outcast due to mentoring... This was actually a big blow, because after losing our main two left backs last season (Wijndal and Reguilon), Miranda dropped back from the left wing position to become our number one LB, backed up by Pierie who I'm developing for the Dutch national team.

The only way to counter that loss was... to bring Kieran Tierney back to the club!

He's been a mainstay of many of my careers in the last few versions and I was quite sad that he was no longer at Celtic in FMM20. I tried to buy him a few times, but he was always way out of reach. However, after 4 seasons his time was up at Arsenal and we were there waiting for him. He didn't look as good as I'd have expected, but it said he still has lots of potential to develop. At 26 he's running out of time to reach that potential (development will be slow), but I couldn't pass this up.

 

Club Results

We won everything again, including the Champions League. Yawn...

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ITN Results

Euro 2024 was Holland's first major tournament with me in charge. Could I help them overcome their own self destruct mechanism and give them a chance of winning?

I can just see @BatiGoal roll his eyes at that, but these lads lack a little professionalism. Exhibits A, B and C :

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Half the starting line up cocky / overconfident when facing the 7th, 5th and 2nd ranked teams in the world... In a major tournament... The Belgium game was the semi final. If you're not able to focus for that, then you need to wake up and question whether football is for you.

In the overconfident group were our starting CBs van Dijk and Ake and a bunch of Celtic players including Kluivert, Gravenberch, Ihattaren and even Unuvar himself. These players are able to focus when playing away to St Mirren, but not the Euros semi final?

I think when they get together, some sort of Dutch entitlement kicks in and they think that they are better than everyone else... Either that, or maybe SI Games have got something wrong here. Anyway, let's see how they went:

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They got through the group, but dropped the game against Croatia (which the lads had thought they'd cruise through):

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The next major hurdle was England in the quarter final, where penalties were required to overcome the 'easy' opposition.

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We then beat Belgium 1-0 before facing Spain in the final.

The lads got their shit together for this one and everyone was focused. Unfortunately our jack in the box Unuvar was tired by this point and didn't pop up and score for us like he normally does. With the scores 0-0 after 120 minutes, we headed to penalties:

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So... I guess Holland are better than everyone else after all? 

 

 

Injuries

They all had injuries this year: Univar 3 weeks and 10 days; Koita 3 weeks; Vignato 1 month and 1 week.

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In FMM20, month long injuries tend to result in lost attribute points and that proved to be the case for Vignato. Fortunately he only lost points for Passing and Tackling, not his more important attributes like Crossing, Movement, Dribbling, Pace, Stamina.

 

Development

Unuvar saw some more development this year (Stamina, Pace, Movement, Shooting all up), but has now slowed down:

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Koita is up a point of Strength, but down a point of Shooting and now only improves a couple of points each game:

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Vignato is up a point of Creativity, but down on Passing and Tackling due to the injury:

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Unuvar 2KC

Unuvar scored 82 goals from 47 games. The ratio is still improving, but we need to keep him on the pitch more...

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At the ITN level, he started the season with 7 goals and scored a further 20 goals:

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Koita 1KC

Koita scored 46 goals from 52 games:

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Once again, not really enough, but I'm still not too worried yet.

 

Vignato Assists 1KC

Vignato provided 72 assists from 48 games:

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Ratio slightly down and not as many games, but he's cruising it at this point.

 

Progress

Season Club (U) INT (U) Total (Unuvar) Goals (Koita) Assists (Vignato)
01 44 N/A 44 24 29
02 65 N/A 65 56 76
03 73 N/A 73 62 78
04 78 7 85 50 81
05 82 20 102 46 72
Total 342 27 369/2000 238/1000 336/1000

 

The Future

So, total goals for the two strikers was just below 150, whereas I'm looking for 160 minimum. We're getting a little further behind where I'd like to be, but I'm not ready to start panicking yet. Unuvar should be able to play more often soon and hopefully that will give us the goals we need.

At this point though, I'm expecting we need to play 20 seasons minimum to make it...

 

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Doing very well here. Also nice greens on your main players, nothing wrong with their development atm. Credit to your coaching staff. 

1 hour ago, Scratch said:

These players are able to focus when playing away to St Mirren, but not the Euros semi final?

THE St Mirren, winnner of the Scottish Cup x3. Always tough. What has Belgium won? 😆

1 hour ago, Scratch said:

So... I guess Holland are better than everyone else after all? 

Duh 😉 Congrats. Excellent win. 

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49 minutes ago, BatiGoal said:

Doing very well here. Also nice greens on your main players, nothing wrong with their development atm. Credit to your coaching staff. 

Thanks mate. Only the best staff and facilities here! Although, really I can't go wrong with these players, they are all guaranteed to be good, so they'd probably turn out this way no matter who the coaches were. I could probably offer The Nutmeg a job and it wouldn't slow this lot down!

I left this comment way back on the first page, but I'll repost it here in case you missed it:

They are also very good, which is what I'm going to need with this crazy target. I'm not using my scouting app on this save for obvious reasons, but I have started a number of saves while using it and couldn't help but notice some players who stand out as having consistently high PA: Cherki, Unuvar, Koita, Gouiri, with Vignato slightly behind them.

Even if I got under-powered versions in this save, they are still going to be good enough to give it a real crack at the target. Forget Mason Greenwood - the best PA I saw for him was around the same as these players' worst...

So, yeah, they were always going to have lots of green. But that's the only way I could even think about such a crazy target...

56 minutes ago, BatiGoal said:

THE St Mirren, winnner of the Scottish Cup x3. Always tough. What has Belgium won? 😆

Don't make me go get a screenshot of their best player and compare it to Belgium's worst... Also worth pointing out that before Holland appointed me they were 19th or so in the world, while Belgium are 5th... So, yeah, Belgium may be crap, but Holland... Never mind though, I'm fixing it for you! 😜 

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35 minutes ago, Lord Danish said:

Developing impressively could get better score if playing attacking football maybe ;) 

Thanks mate! Yeah, I keep telling myself that I should try an Overload 2 2 1 4 1, but I'm saving that for an emergency. 😄

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Update - Season 6

We enter season 6 behind the pace, but with 5 seasons of steady improvement behind us.

We're not that far behind where we want to be and if we continue to improve, sooner or later we'll reach the numbers we need - the only question is whether that will come in time.

 

Transfers

Here are the transfers:

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The main exit was Beccacece, a magnificent player who just couldn't get motivated for the SPL. I loaned him out several times, before realising there was no point. I'm also loaning out a lot of other players that I'm not quite willing to write off, but I think there may be a culling next year.

Not much coming in, mostly Dutch youngsters. Gomez though was Argentinian, highly rated, very good base stats, high price and lots of potential to improve, so I brought him in, even though I don't really have room for him.

 

Club Results

We won everything ag... Wait a minute! What's that? We got knocked out of the Champions League in the Semi Final by Barca? Damn...

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ITN Results

We made it to the International League final, despite really having a fairly average side at this point. We couldn't win it though, going down to England. We had way more shots, but couldn't finish them off and they got the winner in extra time.

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Injuries

They all had injuries this year:

  • Koita had a month long injury, along with two short ones back to back.

  • Vignato had a month long injury (missing 9 games)

  • Univar a 10 day injury (missing 4 games)

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Didn't enjoy those long ones... 🙁 Could be worse though.

 

Development

Unuvar developed well over the year - I've focused on Stamina and finally got it to 20 - but he now gets only 1 or two points per game:

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Koita is still developing but so slowly that the only difference from last year is a single point of Stamina:

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Vignato is still developing, but is exactly the same as last year:

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Both Koita and Vignato got an update during the year, but then lost most of what they gained via injury. At their rate of development (only 1 or 2 points per game), it's really hard to earn those attribute points back.

I also find it very interesting that after 6 full seasons, none of the three are fully developed. In FMM19, they would have been done by season 3. There is more going on than just the "needs to mature" block, because that wasn't a significant factor for Koita or Vignato. I think this is more realistic, so I like it!

 

Unuvar 2KC

Unuvar scored 89 goals from 52 games. Still some way off 100 goals at club level, which is what he needs to do, but still improving.

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At the ITN level, he started the season with 27 goals and scored a further 11 goals:

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Koita 1KC

Koita scored 49 goals from 51 games:

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Once again, sticking to that 50 goals per year pace

 

Vignato Assists 1KC

Vignato provided 76 assists from 50 games:

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A good return given the month out with injury.

 

Progress

Season Club (U) INT (U) Total (Unuvar) Goals (Koita) Assists (Vignato)
01 44 N/A 44 24 29
02 65 N/A 65 56 76
03 73 N/A 73 62 78
04 78 7 85 50 81
05 82 20 102 46 72
06 89 11 100 49 76
Total 431 38 469/2000 287/1000 412/1000

 

The Future

Vignato is cruising and will complete the 1KC after 13 or 14 seasons.

As for the other two lads, we're in the same place as before: decent return, not far behind the yearly totals I want (160 goals combined), but need to step it up before we get too far behind the curve.

If we go 20 seasons, then they need to average 160 between them for the next 14 seasons to scrape over the line. Of course they will slow down near the end, so need to be scoring at even more than 160 now to have any hope.

I'm starting to get worried...

 

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Wow Scratch just caught up to this, let's go back to the beginning! Your mad, raving mad!! You must be praying for a miracle each season as it comes to an end, your stats say they should walk past everyone, but this year, as I see it isn't as kind in regards to shots vs goals ratio, I've played games in my own challenge where I've had over 25 shots and only scored 1 goal! How does that happen?

Anyway continue as you are mate, Lady Luck might just shine over your roof sometime soon and give you the numbers your looking for, fingers crossed for you mate 🤞

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On 08/01/2020 at 17:56, Cockers2505 said:

Wow Scratch just caught up to this, let's go back to the beginning! Your mad, raving mad!! You must be praying for a miracle each season as it comes to an end, your stats say they should walk past everyone, but this year, as I see it isn't as kind in regards to shots vs goals ratio, I've played games in my own challenge where I've had over 25 shots and only scored 1 goal! How does that happen?

Anyway continue as you are mate, Lady Luck might just shine over your roof sometime soon and give you the numbers your looking for, fingers crossed for you mate 🤞

Thanks @Cockers2505 - sorry for the slow response, I've been away for a week with limited online time... Yeah, I'm fast coming to the conclusion that I must actually be mad! 😄 

To be honest, I haven't paid a lot of attention to the shots to goal ratio. It doesn't seem significantly worse for me this year. But then the majority of my goals come from 6 yards out, with my 20 Crossing winger landing the ball on my 20 Aerial striker's head - so maybe it wouldn't affect me as much? I'll keep a closer eye on it from now on though...

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46 minutes ago, Lord Danish said:

The only positives here is Vignato’s assist. Unuvar doing very badly there.... 

LOL, he's doing okay, just a little off the pace. I'm still optimistic. 🙂 

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Update - Season 7

I had an FMM break while away on family holiday recently. Typically that kills the career I'm playing, but I managed to get back into this one, albeit a little slowly. It was a good season, so hopefully it's full steam ahead from here.

 

Transfers

Here are the transfers:

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After being quieter in recent years, we went a bit wild on the outgoing side of things. We'd collected quite a few world class players who were just fringe players for us and it was time to clean house.

The biggest name to leave was Fati, a truly world class right winger. He wasn't going to dislodge Vignato and he reacted badly when I told him that. Ironically, I sold Kluivert purely so Fati could be the clear backup for Vignato, but once he started disrupting training, he was done at Celtic.

The big name coming in was Donnarumma, but ... he went straight back out. Picking him up on a free seemed too good to pass up, but he lost some of his attributes on joining, had already maxed out his development and really wasn't any better than our existing options. So he couldn't get a game here...

 

Club Results

We won everything except the Club World Championship, where we got knocked out at the Quarter Final (don't have a screenshot of the game though, so forget who knocked us out).

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ITN Results

Last time around I reported we lost the final of the International League. This time we lost the final of the World Cup, with Spain too good for us (Fati getting the last laugh on us).

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Our team is still pretty weak in some areas, so we're overachieving by making it to such finals, but we really better win the next one before we get a name for ourselves...

 

Injuries

This was a great year injury wise, with both Unuvar and Koita staying injury free (about time!) and Vignato only picking up minor injuries (he had 3 of them, but 10 day was the max).

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Development

Unuvar finally maxed out his development, but not before having two underwhelming updates (one was +1 Decisions and Tackling, the other +1 Passing):

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Koita is still developing very slowly, but didn't get enough update points to actually unlock an update this year (apart from a separate Leadership one):

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Vignato is still developing very slowly, but only had one update (+1 Passing):

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Unuvar 2KC

Unuvar scored 106 goals from 55 games, his best yet, due in part to being able to stay on the pitch longer.

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At the ITN level, he started the season with 38 goals and scored a further 29 goals (a lot of easy ITN games this year):

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Koita 1KC

Koita scored 41 goals from 60 games, his worst ratio ever and a direct result of Unuvar getting more pitch time instead of him.

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Vignato Assists 1KC

Vignato provided 77 assists from 53 games:

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Progress

Season Club (U) INT (U) Total (Unuvar) Goals (Koita) Assists (Vignato)
01 44 N/A 44 24 29
02 65 N/A 65 56 76
03 73 N/A 73 62 78
04 78 7 85 50 81
05 82 20 102 46 72
06 89 11 100 49 76
07 106 29 135 41 77
Total 537 67 604/2000 328/1000 489/1000

 

The Future

More goals this year than ever and I'm confident that Unuvar is going to have some strong years now, which will put him back on track for 2K.

The glaring problem of course is that if the focus is on Univar, then Koita will slowly slip behind and not be able to make it. I'm holding to the idea that it will be easier for him to catch up if needed (ie give him focus for a season and get 100 goals), but it's looking grim right now.

 

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Great season mate and into that 100 club goals is a big step! Hope he stays on the pitch enough to hit those number consistently. Great work!

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Great progress, 100 goal seasons are always a beautiful thing. 

Good news that you were able to get back into the save after your holiday. Many a save are waisted after taking a break. 

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4 hours ago, smoggy90 said:

Great season mate and into that 100 club goals is a big step! Hope he stays on the pitch enough to hit those number consistently. Great work!

Thanks mate! I think he should be able to hit that number in Scotland every year, as long as he's not injured. He does have the very rarely injured thing, so hopefully he shouldn't have too many problems - I've actually been a bit surprised how many injuries he's had so far, but maybe that's because he's young? Not sure. Anyway, fingers crossed! 

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24 minutes ago, billy2shots said:

Great progress, 100 goal seasons are always a beautiful thing. 

Good news that you were able to get back into the save after your holiday. Many a save are waisted after taking a break. 

Thanks mate! Yeah, I seem to waste a good career every year. Last year it was what would have been the first 1KC in China. It was insane how easy it was there too. I love the SPL for 1KCs because how weak the league is, but China was even easier. But I threw it all away thanks to holidays...

But this time around I had to keep going. I was on track to do a 2KC / assists 1KC in 19, but gave that up because 20 came out. Really need to finish this or I will stop believing in myself! 😄

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21 minutes ago, Lord Danish said:

Nice work from Unuvar 

Thanks! He's definitely good enough to score even more in the SPL. But of course the problem is that while he's scoring, Koita's not... So we'll have to see how it goes...

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Vignato is incredible. I've tweaked my tactics slightly after reading through a few of your tips on the thread you pointed me towards (still can't bring myself to use defensive though 😂) and he's providing around 50 assists a season. Not quite ready to compete with you just yet. Might be because I cant get my chosen strikers aerial ability to rise as fast as you seem to be able to. 😡

 

Keep it up, pal. 

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