Career Rossoneri Toffees - A Goaltopia Attempt - The End

George Traistă · January 28, 2021

Richalison doesn't seem to get more traction, he did improve a little but... I remember @hhooosay something about having trouble with him not delivering.

Hopefully season 3 is just a hickup and everything will get better from now!

Edited January 28, 2021 by George Traistă

Woody · January 28, 2021

Shame about the drop mate but you're going strong.

Ching up and i'm sure s4 will be much better. 👍

Rich · January 28, 2021

Great second season Ian, shame about the 3rd but I feel like there’s always that one season, so hopefully push on again now in the 4th 😁

Kanegan · January 28, 2021

Great going Ian. All seasons are not equal so nothing to worry though, you are getting plenty of goals from the right people.

broodje kip · January 28, 2021

Great season 2 Ian. Very unlucky with the season 3. I really wonder whether you play Maldini or Richarlison as the starter? Maldini seems to be getting better contributions but I remembered you said that he’s playing as a substitute.

hhooo · January 29, 2021

7 hours ago, Kanegan said:

Great going Ian. All seasons are not equal so nothing to worry though, you are getting plenty of goals from the right people.

Some seasons are more equal than others, you mean.

And yeah bench Rich, he's not going to get any better from here out. Give Maldini the starts and he'll probably be better.

Rob · January 29, 2021

Some fantastic transfer business again, one good season and another one great. Looking forward to season 4.

Ian · January 29, 2021

16 hours ago, George Traistă said:

Richalison doesn't seem to get more traction, he did improve a little but... I remember @hhooosay something about having trouble with him not delivering.

Hopefully season 3 is just a hickup and everything will get better from now!

Thanks George, yeah it looks like 20-30 will be the norm for Richarlison during his peak years in this system. He seems decent but he’s certainly not fantastic.

16 hours ago, Woody said:

Shame about the drop mate but you're going strong.

Ching up and i'm sure s4 will be much better. 👍

Thank you Woody, hopefully season four will be better. Well I know if it was or wasn’t as I’ve played it but I won’t give anything away until I post the update later.

16 hours ago, RichD said:

Great second season Ian, shame about the 3rd but I feel like there’s always that one season, so hopefully push on again now in the 4th 😁

Thanks Richard, yeah hopefully we can push on.

16 hours ago, Kanegan said:

Great going Ian. All seasons are not equal so nothing to worry though, you are getting plenty of goals from the right people.

Thank you Kane, the goals do seem to go to the right people so guess it’s just a matter of hoping there’s enough team goals.

10 hours ago, broodje kip said:

Great season 2 Ian. Very unlucky with the season 3. I really wonder whether you play Maldini or Richarlison as the starter? Maldini seems to be getting better contributions but I remembered you said that he’s playing as a substitute.

Thanks Danish, I have been debating who to favour out of the two. I’ve played season four already so can’t say much more on it until I post that update but it’s something I was thinking about after finishing season three.

8 hours ago, hhooo said:

Some seasons are more equal than others, you mean.

And yeah bench Rich, he's not going to get any better from here out. Give Maldini the starts and he'll probably be better.

The only concern I have with favouring Maldini is that that would probably mean I’d have to play him in the T position which would then mean Leão would have to go up top. Leão is probably the best out of the four and the T position is probably the best position in this system so that’s the conundrum.

3 hours ago, Rob said:

Some fantastic transfer business again, one good season and another one great. Looking forward to season 4.

Thank you Rob, I’m determined to catch up on this so the season four update will come later on today.

Ian · January 29, 2021

Season 4

This turned out to be a bit of a frustrating season in truth so I’ll just crack on.

Transfers

I wanted to lower the age of the squad a bit as there were a few players nearing 30 and I didn’t want to get caught out with too many older players. Davies came in to replace Goosens on the left and I brought in Jude Bellingham to play either in the centre of midfield or out wide as a replacement for Hateboer who I think eventually left in January. I’ve wanted to sign Valverde for a few years but could never manage to get it done so it was nice to finally sign him this year and that’s more or less it apart from a few free transfers to cover us in a few positions.

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Team Performances

The best place to start here is with the injury crisis we suffered towards the end of January. We had three of the four challengers out for a few weeks at the same time as well as a good few other key players so it turned out to be a bit of a slog.

We ended up winning everything again and we were much more dominant in the league this year in terms of results but not so much in terms of goalscoring as we scored much less goals than last season. The cup finals were all fairly comfortable and Leão ended the season in fine style with a nice hat trick against PSG to send us to Champions League glory in the final.

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Manager

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Rossoneri Toffees

Our challengers suffered much more this season with injuries and ended up playing in much less games than previous seasons so it probably won’t come as much of a shock to learn that they didn’t produce an abundance of goals. Here are most of the injuries and it’s generally shorter injuries rather than longer ones but I’m not sure which I prefer to be honest.

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Even before the injury troubles properly began it never felt like we’d beat the season two return but the next best return of 119 seemed very doable. Couldn’t manage it in the end as between the four players they could only manage 108 goals but as I said above I can’t be too harsh on them or myself as they did only play in a total of 191 games which is 25 less than they managed last year. Richarlison managed his usual kind of return with 24 goals, DCL put up a fairly poor (for him) return of 31, Maldini wasn’t great either with just 15 but Leão did very well with 38 considering his injury troubles.

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Score

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Season 1

Dominic Calvert-Lewin: 36 goals in 59 games

Richarlison: 27 goals in 57 games

Rafael Leão: 40 goals in 58 games

Daniel Maldini: 5 goals in 54 games

Season Total: 108 goals in 228 games

Season 2

Dominic Calvert-Lewin: 50 goals in 56 games

Richarlison: 23 goals in 50 games

Rafael Leão: 49 goals in 60 games

Daniel Maldini: 26 goals in 59 games

Season Total: 148 goals in 225 games

Season 3

Dominic Calvert-Lewin: 39 goals in 54 games

Richarlison: 24 goals in 50 games

Rafael Leão: 37 goals in 58 games

Daniel Maldini: 19 goals in 54 games

Season Total: 119 goals in 216 games

Season 4

Dominic Calvert-Lewin: 31 goals in 53 games

Richarlison: 24 goals in 52 games

Rafael Leão: 38 goals in 42 games

Daniel Maldini: 15 goals in 44 games

Season Total: 108 goals in 191 games

Overall

Dominic Calvert-Lewin: 156 goals in 222 games

Richarlison: 98 goals in 209 games

Rafael Leão: 164 goals in 218 games

Daniel Maldini: 65 goals in 211 games

Grand Total: 483 goals in 860 games

Final Thoughts

A bit of a frustrating season with the injuries and what not and I was very unimpressed the other day when I completed the season but once I properly looked at the numbers I realised it wasn’t actually quite so bad. We move on now and hope for better next year. I’ve got a few signings earmarked so hopefully they’ll kick us on.

Thank you for reading.

Rich · January 29, 2021

Ohh them injuries are very frustrating there Ian, would have easily had your best season without them injuries.

Great deal for Davies, 9k plus Merino is brilliant. Valverde is very good as well. Hopefully no injuries next season so you can get a great total.

Rob · January 29, 2021

Great score considering injuries. You got a bit of an arse kicking there. The Goose and the Hat didn’t last long!

broodje kip · January 29, 2021

Great score Ian. Very unlucky with those injuries. Lets hope there’s nothing much like that in season 5.

Kanegan · January 30, 2021

Another great season. Injuries are always a nasty thing. Hopefully season 5 is better in terms of injuries.

Ian · January 30, 2021

16 hours ago, RichD said:

Ohh them injuries are very frustrating there Ian, would have easily had your best season without them injuries.

Great deal for Davies, 9k plus Merino is brilliant. Valverde is very good as well. Hopefully no injuries next season so you can get a great total.

Thanks Richard, they were indeed and it was just as much the injuries throughout the rest of the squad at the same time that annoyed me. I even had a quick look to see if I’d missed some of my physios retiring but no they were still there 😂

I am getting that bug where some of my staffs badges just drop from gold to silver and I do wish they could sort that out.

15 hours ago, Rob said:

Great score considering injuries. You got a bit of an arse kicking there. The Goose and the Hat didn’t last long!

Thanks Rob, yeah the FMM gods had it in for me that’s for sure 😂

Yeah just two seasons for those two. I think they were arriving at their late twenties so i had a look to see if I could bring in similar quality youngsters and Davies was perfect as a replacement for The Goose and Jude seemed like a good option as he can play both sides and in the middle too. Out of the two wide Atalanta boys I do slightly prefer The Goose but both are brilliant. I’m very happy with all of the options I’ve had in the wide areas on this save and now we have Hernandez and Davies for the left and Saelemaekers and Bellingham for the right plus Grealish for either side if needed. They’re all as good as each other and to a degree that I don’t think I’ve ever had as usually I have a clear first and second choice player for most positions.

13 hours ago, broodje kip said:

Great score Ian. Very unlucky with those injuries. Lets hope there’s nothing much like that in season 5.

11 hours ago, Kanegan said:

Another great season. Injuries are always a nasty thing. Hopefully season 5 is better in terms of injuries.

Thank you both, I played season five last night and I can confirm that we at least didn’t have the major injury problems.

Ian · January 30, 2021

Season 5

After last season's injury ravished campaign I went into this season with no idea how things would go. I was hoping that with the injuries we suffered last year, perhaps that would mean we would have a much cleaner season this time out but things don’t always work out that way. The only thing I forgot to mention last time that was a real plus was getting DCL, Richarlison and Leão to sign new five year deals. DCL was easy going and we had no trouble there but Richarlison had wanted a whopping £425k a week and for the whole of season three I was genuinely thinking that he would never budge and I knew he’d have to as we would never pay that for him. Luckily at the beginning of season four with a full budget available I was able to get him to sign for £350k a week and a hefty sign on fee. Leão was happy to sign for £140k a week which given his quality I found rather surprising but there you go.