Career Rossoneri Toffees - A Goaltopia Attempt - The End

Ian · February 10, 2021

On 10/02/2021 at 06:11, hhooo said:

The boards of different clubs might have different priorities or hidden stats of some sort. Getting upgrades or affiliates in Korea was a nightmare, but in Atalanta it was very easy, the board gave me the last two training upgrades in the first half of the first season.

Gvardiol has always been on my radar in a new save, but he's usually too expensive and I often opt for Bornauw instead. Not as good on the ball but he's very good physically and mentally.

It gives me a perverse pleasure to see Richarlison lagging behind as I had predicted, but I'm glad the others are doing well!

Yeah it was a slog getting the facilities up here but I did read in the general thread people taking about if one of the youth or training facilities gets too high then you have to bring the lower one up before the higher one will be accepted again. So I may have fallen into that trap and have been going for the wrong one for years. We’ll never know now though.

He looks like he’d be great if got at the beginning of the game to develop. I’ll look out for Bornauw as well as he’s new to me.

I’ve come to accept that Richarlison is only really going to be a ‘in the 20’s’ man here with this system. I think perhaps it’s time for Maldini to shine and replace him in the preferred three.

Edited February 15, 2021 by Ian

Ian · February 16, 2021

Hello and welcome to the latest update of this Goaltopia attempt with four players. I finished season seven a few days ago and meant to do a single update for that over the weekend but never got round to it. I then completed season eight so thought today that it made perfect sense to just do a little double update. I had a few ideas of potential changes to the system for season seven and at one stage I was going to open up a test save I have at Real with great players to try a few things there but in the end I just decided to try a few things as I was going here as I just want to play this career to a finish at this stage. So basically, keep that in mind when it comes to our numbers and how they may differ a bit to what you’d expect based on previous seasons.

Season 7

We’ll get straight into action with the transfers.

Transfers

I mentioned last time that Kessié would be leaving so my main priority was to replace him which proved a little frustrating as I had trouble finding a decent replacement. I had wanted to sign that great Hungarian player but after agreeing the fee we then couldn’t agree terms with the player so a different approach was required. I ideally wanted a peak aged player to come in to try and prevent there being a major drop off in our form but there just wasn’t anyone available which was frustrating. In the end I decided to push Bellingham from the right to mainly play in the centre of midfield and brought in a young wide player to try and develop. We’ve got a few players about 27 or 28 so there’ll be plenty of work to do over the next few years as I attempt to build the next squad so hopefully we can keep the returns decent throughout these troublesome years.

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Team Performances

A wee slip up in the quarter final of the Champions League was the only blot on our copybook and it was Dortmund who broke our hearts. A few too many draws in the league for my liking but a decent enough season in all.

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Rossoneri Toffees

Maldini really came of age this season and this was the highlight game for him.

He ended up with the best return out of the foursome with 38 goals, Leão and DCL weren’t far behind and it won’t come as much of a shock to many to discover that Richarlison was at the back end with 21 goals. Just 126 goals in total for the boys this season but much less game played so difficult to be too harsh on them. I tried a few times during the season to extend the players contracts but they wanted such extreme amounts and we just couldn’t manage it. Toward the end of the season we had that message saying that Richarlison expected a new deal coming from his agent; I went in and what they wanted was much less than they wanted previously so job done and another five years for him. The same happened with Leão shortly after so that just left DCL with only one year left on his deal but I can already confirm that he signed a new deal along with Maldini early into season eight so we should have another five years left.

We move straight on to the next season now.