When I left you, my Kaiserslautern team had just finished their first season in the 2. Bundesliga in fourth. My plan, as I mentioned in this post, was to spend another year finishing in or around the same place in the table and then to push for promotion the year after that, simply because we couldn’t afford not to – both from a sporting point of view, but also very much from a financial perspective. We got £16mil for winning the 2.BuLi. You get £26mil for getting relegated from the Bundesliga in dead last, very bottom, 18th. As the squad grows and gets better, we need that money to keep the wage bill balanced.
Continue readingSuffering From Success
Generally speaking, winning the league is a good thing. Apart from, of course, those times when it isn’t. This was one of those times.
Continue readingCholismo in Kaiserslautern
Can you guess who I’m managing at the moment?
Continue readingEvolving A Squad
Ragnar’s Union Berlin side have just wrapped up the 32/33 season in style, winning both the Bundesliga and the DFB Pokal – retaining both from last season, as it happens. Thing is, now’s when the real work starts. Continue reading
Tactical Evolution or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Juego de Posicion.
As I mentioned in my last post I’ve been wandering around Europe as Ragnar Hjaltisson once again, plying my footballing trade at a couple of clubs. With the extra time on my hands that lockdown and a quarantine period have given me in recent months, I’ve been playing more FM than previously and I’ve had enough success with a tactical system that I’ve wanted to write about it. Continue reading
Success on a Shoestring
One of the more challenging aspects of a journeyman style save, especially when you’re a few seasons deep, is running into the AI’s penchant for financial mismanagement married with its typically less than sane approach to squad building. Here’s how I overcame that in my save.
Ragnar Returns: Season 3
I said we’d be back when Ragnar’s third season in Iceland came to a close, and here we are. Let’s have a look at how things played out. Continue reading
So I’m Playing FM20.
It’s a new game, it’s a new year (sort of) and it’s a new blog post. Now to find something to write about… Continue reading
The Saga Continues: Season 12
After the events of last season, Ragnar went home to relax and regroup for his next project. Preferably something stable. It didn’t quite work out that way, though. Continue reading
The Saga Continues: Season 11
This one, in all honesty, was a bit of a roller coaster as far as Ragnar’s managerial career goes. Continue reading
