Career Foxy has (League) Standards - Season 5 🇪🇸

[FuddledFox]

 

Season 3 - Serie A 🇮🇹

I’m starting to rattle through the seasons now at least by my standards. This is because I’m enjoying the save but also because Germany is a much more relaxed league to manage in due to less games compared with other leagues especially England which can turn into a real grind.

This seasons task was to get 90 or more league points and I decided to go for players from Serie A. So far I have missed out on both sets of bonus points by a single goal in season 1 and 2 so hopefully it will be third time lucky.

Transfers

I struggled to offload players this summer with my lads from Portugal not being popular with other clubs. This seriously limited my spending power and although I still spent over £200m it was tough and go whether I would get a 25 man squad. In the end I had to rely on loans more than I would have liked.

In the end I only sold £51m worth of players although there were a few P/X as well.

 

I managed to sign Belotti on a Bosman which was one of the reasons I choose to go for Italy this season and then some other stand out deals include Milik joining in a straight swap for Ricardo Horta and former Cardiff City flop Cornelius coming in from Parma.

 

Task 1 - Sign Players From 10 or More Clubs ✅ - I make it 12 different clubs I signed players from so I get the extra 20pts from that task.

This was the full squad for the whole season.

On the whole I have managed to clear out the first team every season but I still had a few players from season 2 in the reserves by the end of this season.

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Competitions 

My main emphasis this season was on league games so I could try and get the bonus points and it did show as I was knocked out of the German Cup early and then I went out of the Champions League group stage and into the Europa League. I made the Europa final and then lost for the first time in this save to Dortmund.

German Super Cup

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German Cup

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Europa League 

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Season 3 Task - - Varied number of points: You need to get 100pts league points or more if managing in England, France, Italy and Spain or 90pts league points or more in Germany and Portugal and if you do those league points will be halved to give your bonus points.

So to get the bonus points I needed to get 90 or more points in the league so that means over the 34 game season I could only drop a maximum of 12 points if I wanted to actually get some extra points on my total. The more I can get over 90pts the better as it will be worth more bonus points to me.

For the most part we were very consistent but we were prone to an error as 3 draws and 2 lost games shows as we got to 6 games of the season left. 

 

At this stage that meant that in the final 6 games I couldn’t drop a single point as I had 18 left to play for and I needed exactly 18 to get to the 90 point mark. This was the games I had left to play and in all honesty they all look winnable to me. The Lille game was something of a distraction but the blank weekend in between those games made life and squad management easier.

 

These final 6 league games were not without drama though.

Bayer have given me trouble all through this save so far and we left it sphincter clenchingly close in this game as Milik scored two, missed a penalty, had one chalked off and then Okwonkwo and left back Igor won us the game in the final minutes.

 

It was another late show at Augsburg as well as we needed two goals in the last 15 minutes to win the game.

This did get us to the final game against Freiburg just needing one more win to secure 90 league points and 45 bonus points.

 

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Belotti was the hero and for the third time of asking I secure the season bonus points!

When Freiburg got one back I did think they would equalise though and again I would miss out by one solitary goal but finally luck was on my side.
 

 

That gives me 45 bonus points as my league points have to be halved so this isn’t the biggest bonus going during the challenge but at least I have finally got some.

Points

Wins: 42 x 3 =126pts

Draws: 6 = 6pts

GD: 95pts

Task 1 - Sign players from 10 clubs = 20pts

Season 3 Task - Score 90 or more league points = 45pts

Season Total = 292pts

Season 1 = 211pts

Season 2 = 257pts

Season 3 = 292pts

Challenge Total so Far = 760 points

Manager Profile which has some disgusting red numbers on it.

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Season 4 Task - Worth 50 points: Have a defender and midfielder score a combined 50 goals in all competitions with each of them having scored at least 10 of them. The defender must be natural (light green) as either a CB or FB and not be green any further forwards than the defensive midfield strata (DM, WBL/R) at any point during the season. The midfielder must be natural as a CM or WM and cannot have any green as a striker at any point during the season.

Thanks for reading.

[Rich]

Another great season there Foxy Lady, some lovely transfer business. I’m sure there will be more of the same next season.

Also I agree Germany is so much nicer with fixtures, I enjoyed managing there this year.

[Ian]

Haha, we were on about Belotti in my save and then I come into yours and see you using him too. Hat trick hero as well so can’t get much better than that. Milik is another one I quite like too.

A very solid league campaign with those players and nice to see you get those bonus points this time.

[Albionic]

Great work foxy, good to see you finally getting that bonus point and the luck going your way!

[FuddledFox]

1 hour ago, Rich said:

Also I agree Germany is so much nicer with fixtures, I enjoyed managing there this year.

It just feels much less of a grind and that’s what I needed to get my enjoyment of the game back I think.

33 minutes ago, Ian said:

Haha, we were on about Belotti in my save and then I come into yours and see you using him too. Hat trick hero as well so can’t get much better than that. Milik is another one I quite like too.

I thought the same earlier when I saw you use him that he hasn’t been seen much lately and then two posts in one day for Belotti.

Milik is great but the big surprise was Cornelius who scored nearly as well as the two bigger names.

32 minutes ago, Albionic said:

Great work foxy, good to see you finally getting that bonus point and the luck going your way!

Thanks mate.

[broodje kip]

Impressive season again Fox lad.

[Kanegan]

Finally the bonus. Well done again Foxy. 

[geordiekrispy]

Nicely done! I'm finding Germany a nice change of pace too, there doesn't ever seems to be that period where you're playing 2 games a week for what feels like months on end and you're having to rotate really heavily so your players don't get injured or too tired.

[FuddledFox]

9 hours ago, broodje kip said:

Impressive season again Fox lad.

Thanks Kip lad.

8 hours ago, Kanegan said:

Finally the bonus. Well done again Foxy. 

About time for a bonus! Thanks Kane.

8 hours ago, geordiekrispy said:

Nicely done! I'm finding Germany a nice change of pace too, there doesn't ever seems to be that period where you're playing 2 games a week for what feels like months on end and you're having to rotate really heavily so your players don't get injured or too tired.

I agree and it’s good because you can keep your better players on the pitch for longer because they get more rest. I think with this challenge some seasons would suit a longer season so for example season 2’s task would have been simpler in a league with more games but then possibly season 1 task is better with less games.

[Chris]

Must have had your heart in your mouth for alot of those final games. Glad you got your bonus, let's hope your form continues 😁 kiu

[hhooo]

Cornelius is one of my favorite bargain strikers in the game - perfect substitute striker for challenges with his high teamwork and plays with Back to goal trait. Playing him as a T up front is one of the few times I've ever seen someone play a cutback for another player running into the box. 

[FuddledFox]

6 hours ago, Chris said:

Must have had your heart in your mouth for alot of those final games. Glad you got your bonus, let's hope your form continues 😁 kiu

The Bayer game was the dictionary definition of a rollercoaster of emotions.

5 hours ago, hhooo said:

Cornelius is one of my favorite bargain strikers in the game - perfect substitute striker for challenges with his high teamwork and plays with Back to goal trait. Playing him as a T up front is one of the few times I've ever seen someone play a cutback for another player running into the box. 

He’s definitely a good player although I wouldn’t have seen any cutbacks if they happen as I’m one of those rare people who doesn’t watch the highlights and play commentary only unless I’m testing things that I need to actually see work that is.

[FuddledFox]

Season 4 - Ligue 1 🇫🇷

I had a choice of 🇪🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 or 🇫🇷 for this season and decided on France simply because I think this is a relatively easy task for the bonus points and there was a defender in the league who I have wanted to use to score a few goals for a while.

Before I show all my transfers these are the two players I have picked for the task and a reminder of what the task was.

Season 4 Task - Worth 50 points: Have a defender and midfielder score a combined 50 goals in all competitions with each of them having scored at least 10 of them. The defender must be natural (light green) as either a CB or FB and not be green any further forwards than the defensive midfield strata (DM, WBL/R) at any point during the season. The midfielder must be natural as a CM or WM and cannot have any green as a striker at any point during the season.

As my defender I went with Kevin Danso as he has some ability up front although it isn’t green so he qualifies for the task and he is a good player. My plan is he will play upfront as a TM most of the time.

 

My midfielder choice won’t need any introduction either as I went with Aouar because he isn’t the best goalscoring midfielder around but he is good and I am certain he can score the goals required to complete the task.

 

Transfers

A few of the lads from season 2 who I couldn’t sell left this season and in total I only managed to raise £179m which is why I ended up with a few P/X as well to get deals done and create a complete squad.

 

With the money raised on sales and that the board gave me I managed to spend £271m to build a squad which is decent enough sounding but split 25 ways doesn’t mean much per player bought. Aouar was my biggest outlay at £60m plus a player and I was able to bring in three bosmans that I had arranged in the previous January.
 

This gave me a 25 man squad for the season which remained the same the whole way through. I think it was probably the weakest squad I have created so far based both on the money I had to spend and just the quality of the players available to buy. This doesn’t bode too well for next season when I will be fishing in the more expensive waters of either the Premier League or La Liga as these lads might not raise a huge amount of money.

 

Task 1 Worth 20 Points - Buy players from 10 or more clubs: Again I completed this task with 13 clubs being represented.

 

Competitions

I said I felt this is my worst squad so far but we did manage to get out of our Champions League group unlike last season. We made it all the way to the semi finals and for the second time in 4 seasons we were dumped out at that stage by Barcelona. Domestically we won the league at a canter, picked up the Super Cup but Bayern knocked us out at the semi final stage of the German Cup.

League

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Champions League

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German Cup

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Super Cup

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That just leaves the season task to complete and for once there was no drama as both lads got the job done with some time to spare.

As per the rules I didn’t train either players to be strikers as you can see here.

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They had the 50 goals needed by late April and secured me the 50 bonus points.

 

They finished off with 54 goals in total as I put Danso back to CB to finish off the season.

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Points

I added 252pts onto my total this season which is actually less than season 2 when I didn’t complete the task and so missed out on 50pts!

Wins - 37 x 3 = 111pts

Draws - 10 = 10pts

Task 1 = 20pts

Goal Difference = 61pts

Season Task = 50pts

Season Total - 252 points

Season 1 - 211pts

Season 2 - 257pts

Season 3 - 292pts

Season 4 - 252pts

Challenge Total - 1012pts

Manager Profile

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Season 5 Task - Worth 50 points: You must not fail to win more than 3 games all season in all competitions. You will need your manager profile from the end of season 4 and the end of season 5 to prove this or show all your seasons results.

Thanks for reading.

[Rich]

Another great season there Ruel, great going with the challenge and well done getting over 50 goals with the two lads.

[broodje kip]

Impressive season again Fuddler. 50 goals combined are very great!

[Albionic]

Well done foxy, a great season, particularly with the relative lack of money you had to spend, and congrats on the the bonus.

[Woody]

I think it just proves you have an eye for talent a reasonable prices. 

Well done Mr Brush👍

 

[FuddledFox]

6 hours ago, Rich said:

Another great season there Ruel, great going with the challenge and well done getting over 50 goals with the two lads.

 

6 hours ago, broodje kip said:

Impressive season again Fuddler. 50 goals combined are very great!

Cheers lads, I was kind of hoping for a few more from Aouar and if I’m honest but they got the job done anyway.

4 hours ago, Albionic said:

Well done foxy, a great season, particularly with the relative lack of money you had to spend, and congrats on the the bonus.

Thanks, I think the money is going to get less for the next two seasons as well because I don’t have many high value assets to sell.

2 hours ago, Woody said:

I think it just proves you have an eye for talent a reasonable prices. 

Well done Mr Brush👍

That eye for talent is going to be needed even more in Spain and England to try and put together squads with the money I will have available.

[Ian]

Plenty of those players I’ve never heard of to be honest so a very solid season indeed. Danso was a great pick for the centre back scorer too with nice movement.

It’ll be interesting to see what kind of squad you end up with in the next couple of rounds.

[FuddledFox]

On 28/02/2021 at 21:25, Ian said:

Plenty of those players I’ve never heard of to be honest so a very solid season indeed

Same for me but they did ok tbf to them.

On 28/02/2021 at 21:25, Ian said:

It’ll be interesting to see what kind of squad you end up with in the next couple of rounds.

I’m dreading having to shop in the Premier League especially as I’m having a lot of problems with players that just won’t negotiate at all despite being at smaller clubs on very low wages.

[FuddledFox]

Season 5 - La Liga 🇪🇸

I had the choice of La Liga or Premier League players this season and I choose to go the Spanish route in an attempt to get the bonus points on offer this season. This season was all about winning, winning and more winning as I could only fail to win 3 games if I wanted the bonus points which is a tough ask when it’s an all new squad.

I will start with the season task for this update.

Season 5 Task - Worth 50pts: You must not fail to win more than 3 games all season in all competitions.

We had a tough start as we took on Bayern in the Supercup and despite a 1-1 draw we took the cup with a penalty win which shows as a win on the fixtures so that good enough for me. That was the start of a 9 game winning run as we looked ridiculously tight at the back as well as scoring goals as well. 

That run was ended by Chelsea in the CL though and we lose our first life.

That draw didn’t slow us down too much though and the fine form continued with 10 more wins before another 0-0 draw this time in the league meant we lost a 2nd life.

 

We got to the winter break winning the rest of our games after that draw but in early February we lost our first game away at Dortmund. This means we would need to win every game for the rest of the season.

 

That wasn’t very likely but we did go on a 7 match winning run before Bayern beat us and confirmed that we wouldn’t be getting the bonus points this season.

Despite not getting the bonus points this season it was probably our best season so far as we had our most wins as I just focused the team on being balanced with lots of clean sheets even though we weren’t so prolific with just a +95GD over the whole season.

We also won everything for the first time this season including the Champions League which had so far eluded me.

Bundesliga 

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German Cup

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Champions League

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This is definitely the best squad I have put together and the most pleasing thing is that it was the cheapest as well except for season 1 when I was able to use the squad I inherited.

My squad from season 4 only managed to raise me £125m which is why I was limited on what I could spend this season.

 

I had some money spare in the wage budget and then the money the club gave me so I was able to spend £223m on my squad which also included a few loans which I had to bring in just to bring up the numbers.

 

 

Task 1 - Worth 20pts - Sign players from 10 or more different clubs ✅

Here is the pick of the players I got.

Defenders

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Midfielders

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Attack

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Player Stats

We really spread the goals and assists around which was fine by me and suited what I wanted to do which was simply win games.

Points

Wins: 54 x 3 = 162pts

Draws: 6 = 6pts

GD: 95pts

Task 1: 20pts

Season Task: ❌

Season Total: 283pts

Challenge Total so Far: 1295pts

Manager Profile

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There is now just one season left and I have to rebuild my squad using players from the Premier League.

Season 6 Task - Worth a varied amount of points: Have a player both score 30 goals and get 30 assists in all competitions. If he achieves this you get his total goals and assists as points so 50 goals and 30 assists would be worth 80 points.
 

Thanks for reading. 

[Albionic]

Great work mate, another fantastic season, sure you will finish strong next season!

[Woody]

Another fab rebuid.

Well done mate.

[Rich]

Great season Ruel, brilliant job of rebuilding and winning. Good Stuff.

[Ian]

A very solid season indeed. It was always going to be a tough ask for the bonus points but all you can do is give it a shot. 

Some interesting signing and Valverde was a great bit of business.

[broodje kip]

Impressive season 🦊. Unlucky again with the bonus. It’s very hard when you have to keep rebuilding but that’s the fun of the challenge 

[FuddledFox]

Thanks for the comments @Albionic @Woody @Rich

15 hours ago, Ian said:

Some interesting signing and Valverde was a great bit of business.

Valverde has to be the best signing I have made in this career I would say especially as he was on a Bosman and hopefully will net me £50m+ when I sell him.

6 hours ago, broodje kip said:

Impressive season 🦊. Unlucky again with the bonus. It’s very hard when you have to keep rebuilding but that’s the fun of the challenge 

The squad rebuilds on this challenge definitely create a new dimension and make things more interesting as the Tasks would be pretty easy on a normal save where I could develop wonderkids and build a super squad.