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Toulouse Troubles - 09 - Urika Moment!
Toulouse Troubles – 09 – Urika Moment!
Magic 105.4 is gently playing in the background, playing songs straight out of the Sunday stress-busters playlist and I find myself staring at a 2D match engine, like many others I’m sure on a Sunday afternoon. I’m patiently waiting for my Toulouse team to beat the opposition team 3-0 and go onto win every competition and I find myself getting really bored. (more…)
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Hello fellow FM’ers and thank you once again for joining me for what is going to be the my final Toulouse post as I close down the save at the end of what is my 3rd season in charge.
Looking back over the save one could conclude that is has been relatively successful. I managed to turn Toulouse from a weak team that has historically been battling with other teams to stay in the division to a team becoming much more competitive and pushing for A Europa League spot twice in this three years. The Europa league was a good experience for the club and also myself. We found it very competitive but not as strong as thought it was going to be compared to some of the teams in Ligue 1 like PSG, Lyon, Monaco and Marseille.
If I were to be completely honest with myself I felt that I hadn’t managed to nail down  my tactic and style in the first season we would have done much better but instead I was snatching at different tactics and approaches which made us very inconsistent.
We never really experienced a cup run at all and only managed to get to a single Quarter final of  the French Cup but again down to my tactical inconsistencies we never amounted to very much.
Overall, it sounds as if the save wasn’t very successful however, I was able to improve the stature of the club and that was probably solely due to the activity in the transfer market, which saw players like Sisto, Kakuta, Lorente, Manquillo all come into the club and propel us forward. We also managed to get rid of a lot of deadwood across both the playing and coaching staff too. One highlight of the save was bringing in Andrija Zivkovic from Partisan for £1.9m and selling him to Wolfsburg for a record fee of £34m – although what I hadn’t realised at the time, was Partisan had put in a sell-on clause of 15% into the sale, which meant they received something like £13m  or so as part of the deal, I need to watch that in future saves.
Toulouse do have a fantastic youth setup and I was a little disappointed I wasn’t able to bring any players through but the youth intake in the second and third and final season looked decent. Some of the lads were probably only a couple of seasons away from stepping up into the first team to cover injuries and suspensions.
I’m not going to spend anytime on my tactical approach however, what I realised as the save was ending was a team that attacked and defended as a team and put pressure on the opponent with attacking football but it never quite worked. I think this was because of always keeping the team shape on flexible and sometimes fluid. What I should have done was gone for Very Fluid team shape with an Attacking mentality in order to achieve this and then just tweak the player instructions if I needed too.
This is going to be the basis for any tactic I use in the future and I may be inclined to come back to Toulouse in #FM17 when the full game is released.
Well that’s enough reminiscing I think and now let’s look at how we finished off the season and the save. Well as we have l previously mentioned due to another season with my inconsistent tactical approach we didn’t improve from last season and at the end we were battling for 6th spot to get into Europe. Unfortunately, we were beaten by St Etienne away and Montpellier beat FC Lorient 2-0 to beat us to the line and so we finished in 7th place. Despite the loss on the final game of the season we remained competitive with a very respectable top half finish.
I have created a gallery of a few screenshots to take you through how well some of the players performed during the last season, most of which were signings I made in the summer with the proceeds from the Zivkovic sale.
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So not a brilliant save but what it does highlight very clearly is that you have to know what you want to achieve and stick to it, wholesale changes willy nilly just don’t just work. FM is all about preparation and credit to Miles and the team to making it so realistic. I have read and watched a lot of blogs and YouTube videos which seem to suggest that when starting a save FM managers tend to stick with what a team is good at based on the players available and although for lower league management this is probably a no brainer I’m not sure this is applicable to teams in top divisions. The players should be able to take direction and adjust to a new approach otherwise they’re probably not good enough to be at the club. With my very fluid attacking base this is also how I am going to play FM in the future.
I will be imprinting my approach on the squad and in theory this will make it quite clear though player attributes and their performances if they are good enough to do what I want and if they are great and if not then we move them on, simple!
I have decided against playing FM17 with my beloved West Ham and gone with Arsenal instead, purely because of the quality they have in the squad and I want to be more creative with my tactics and what better team to try than Arsenal. The other reason is West Ham seem to have purchased lots of players to give them maximum cover for every position this season as a result of the latest few seasons being plagued by injury and although I respect the approach I think West Ham have brought in too many mediocre players instead of any real quality but that is a totally different discussion.
Once the beta is over I am either going to revisit Toulouse or I am going to head to Germany and experience the Bundesliga which is new to me or start unemployed and let FM decide my fate I’m not sure yet.
Well that brings this final post to a close and over the period leading up to Christmas I will be doing some work on the blog to give it a fresh look and hope to get more content posted and hopefully you will join me for that, which leaves me to say thank you for reading and I hope you all enjoyed FM16 as much as I did and also enjoy FM17 too.
Thanks Matt
The Toulouse Tales Episode 08: Season End Update Hello fellow FM'ers and thank you once again for joining me for what is going to be the my final Toulouse post as I close down the save at the end of what is my 3rd season in charge.
 FM17 Is just round the corner and there has been some controversy this year around the sheer lack of released features from SI. To be honest, I don’t really mind too much the lack of features because every year I buy the new FM and every year I enjoy it more than the previous version.
It does take me a while to understand the match engine and FM16 I found the hardest but I have still enjoyed the game.
Before I move onto my save update, all I am going to say “In Sports Interactive I trust!”
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Last season was brilliant for Toulouse FC and to recap we finished in a glorious 3rd place clinching a Champions League place! So we’re half way through the second season and I should really tell you how we’re doing and how well we’re doing in Europe!
Ok, Champions League we did ok. We beat PSV in the Champions League Best Placed Qualifier 5-2 over the two legs which was pleasing.
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What wasn’t pleasing was our Champions League Best Placed Playoff  tie with, wait for it……………… FC Barcelona! Oh joy, and they did exactly what I thought they would play a full strength squad for both legs and we were annihilate by them. The final score over two legs was 7-2!
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And that was our European adventure, which ended as quickly as it had started however, what I hadn’t realised straight away was that we had dropped straight into the Europa League and I thought that’s not too bad and quite fancy a run in the Europa League.
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We somehow managed to finished 2nd a point ahead of Fenerbahce. It came down to the last group game where we had to beat Shakhtar to claim second which we did with a comfortable 3-1 win. The other results were s follows:
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Now I’ll move onto the league update and I thought I was going to struggle a little bit this season as a result of the extra games on a Thursday night followed by our normal league fixture. I didn’t bring in that many players in the summer transfer window all bar a loan deal for Gabriel Jesus with a view to a £6.75 future payment – I have seen this guy turn into a world-class player in previous FM16 saves and I needed some cover for Ben Yedder too.
I tried to stick to my tactic that was so successful last season but it just didn’t work. With a fluid shape we were far too adventurous against big teams and not enough against the smaller teams and we’re getting opened up too often and conceding goals I couldn’t come back too. Now I need to admit I feel like I’m cheating because I have borrowed someone’s tactic which I really didn’t want to do but let’s just say I needed some consultancy so I went to a very experienced guy called Mr G.Oogle and he found me a tactic that I can only describe as a 442 diamond with the second striker being deployed as an Inside Forward, see screenshot below:
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The tactic has two variations so I got a bogof really, a left and right version and all this does is change the wing Inside Forward is on and so the full back behind has a support duty instead of the attack duty the full back has on the other side.
Many thanks the creator Marley17 and I found it on FM Base and the link is below if anyone is interested.
http://www.fm-base.co.uk/forum/share-download-fm-16-tactics/355963-4-3-3-best-tactic-simple.html
The tactic does have a total of 12 team instructions which I tended to stay away from but maybe with only having top quality sporadically placed in my team maybe it’s what is needed. My squad has strength and depth in the central areas and not a lot of quality wide bar Zivkovic so only having a single wide player makes sense and use the full backs as the width seems to work. The only criticism that I don’t like of the tactic is that it plays fairly narrow as per the team instruction so I decided to change this to wide to exploit that space out wide due to have 4 midfield players all central and it does seem to work.
The players took to the tactic well from the start with an accomplished familiarity which was nice to see. It only took 3 or so games to be fully fluid with the tactic. Had the team not been as familiar with it I don’t think I would have used it.
The consistency was so much better as a result of the change in tactic and we have only lost one game in seven across all competitions, which was a cup game and we lost on penalties to Caen. I don’t quite know how we lost it with the high shots on target but alas we did lose and we move on. Up until the introduction of the tactic we were hovering precariously above relegation and after 20 games were now sitting in 4th on 31 points and only 5 points behind Marseille in third place.
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Since switching to the new tactic we have only drawn a single game and all of the rest in the league have been victories, so the other 6 draws which are massively affecting our league position are holding us back. I hope now we have sorted that out we won’t suffer too many more draws and any losses if we can remain consistent.
I have just reached the January transfer window and after being very sensible in the summer i managed to get a nice budget of £10.25m to play with and i couldn’t resist the urge to improve the squad. I have strengthened the squad with 4 players and they are below:
Nicola Leali – Bought for £400k is now worth £600k
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Erik Durm – Bought for £3m is now worth £9.75m
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Papa Alioune Ndiaye – Signed for £2.9m is now worth £6.25m
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These three additions should give me some flexibility within the squad and I am hoping that we can achieve another Champions League place for the second year on the trot. I will provide another update at the end of the season and I’ll go through how we finished in the league and of course how far we managed to get in the Europa League as well as the cups.
We will be doing some significant recruitment in staff positions in the summer as a result of 8 staff members leaving when their contracts expire and to be honest i’m quite looking forward to replacing them.
     The Toulouse Tales Episode 07: Mid-Season Update FM17 Is just round the corner and there has been some controversy this year around the sheer lack of released features from SI.
Hello and welcome back to my second update of my Toulouse series (Second attempt).
Before I dive head first into the End of Season 15/16 update I want to start by saying how much I have enjoyed this save so far. Not just because of the short-term success that I have experienced, which I’ll come onto shortly, but by making a complete pig’s ear of the first attempt and then having a go at fixing it in the second attempt.
I haven’t done a lot differently to the first attempt except be more consistent with my tactical approach. I have probably been slightly more adventurous with my approach to training, tactics and transfers.
Ok, back to end of season update. Are you ready for this? We finished 3rd! Yes you read that correctly in the first season we finished in 3rd. I didn’t make any changes to the data using an in-game editor, I actually managed to get Toulouse to 3rd in my first season in charge. How did I do that I hear you ask? well, I am glad you asked and I shall tell you, I havent got a clue.
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The 3rd place finish has come about after only bringing in a one player, Zivkovic. Additionally, I must add with Wissam Ben Yedder out injured for 8 months in total which was pretty much the whole season with damaged cruciate ligaments. We still managed to defy the odds and finished 7 places above the media expected 10th place. As you can see we were quite comfortable in 3rd with Monaco 9 points behind but we were too far behind Lyon and PSG to really threaten their superiority this season.
In the last 15 games of the season we only lost once to Angers on the last game of the season. The players must have been thinking of Yachts in the Caribbean or holidays to Dubai as they just didn’t show up. To be fair to Angers, they applied early pressure and didn’t look like a team who were in the bottom three and about to get relegated. Not only did Angers manage to beat us they also beat the drop and finished 1 point above the 3rd relegation place on 33 points. We must have had friends in the Angers team and gave them a win, aren’t we nice!
To be honest the match was pointless, we could not catch Lyon in second place and Monaco in third couldn’t catch us either, but it would have been nice to finish on a win.
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So how did we manage to get 3rd? Well, good question…
Pesic scored 20 goals in the league, second highest goal scorer for the season.
Zivkovic’s 18 assists was the second highest in the league.
4 of our players found themselves in the Stars of the Season award – proving we had a team full of confidence.
I think our success is partly due to my tactical stubbornness, I didn’t change the tactic once and yes we didn’t win every game but we were consistent. Similarly, when we were not at our best I only changed the personnel and left the team instructions as they were. Occasionally I’d push the defensive line up one notch to normal from its default slightly deeper and added tight marking if the opposition were getting too much space. Other than that every game was played with a fluid team shape, control mentality in an asymmetric 4412.
The tactic just seemed to bring the best out of our players. Distribution from the goalkeeper was wide to the fullbacks. The fullbacks with a wingback role and attack duty were our out-and-out wingers and we’re rarely marked. This was because both of our wide midfielders were instructed to sit narrow which ultimately took the opposition midfielder away. To accommodate such attacking full backs I employed a CMD and half way through the season changed this to a DLP on defend duty to give my centre backs a passing focal point. In addition, the CMD role was moving up with the rest of the midfield far too much and made us susceptible to more long balls being played in behind us. Next to the DLP I had a box to box midfielder who plagued the opposition with vertical runs straight into the box. He didn’t score that many goals but did on occasion pop up with a goal or two. My AMC was a trequartista who just found pockets of space, combining that with an advanced forward who pushes the opposition defensive line back to create space for the trequartista.
So before moving on have a look at the gallery below to see exactly why we came third.
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One negative point I noticed over the course of the season was the number of the fouls we committed. I am either going to change the general training to defending to improve the team in this area or add a team instruction to stay on feet to see if we are diving in too much.
Set pieces also need some work after my assistant kept telling me we have too many players marking posts although, I don’t remember setting this and I don’t remember conceding too many goals from set pieces.
Oh and by the way not only did we achieve the Overachiever Award I also won Manager of the Year and saw my reputation go from 2 stars to 3.5 stars, happy days.
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So tactically, we are going to stay as we are for next season. I don’t want to rock the boat too much and I don’t want my players to have to learn something new. Looking at the familiarity of the tactic it’s still completely familiar right at the beginning of pre-season so, we are going to work on teamwork instead of match tactics.
Moving on to the returning loan players, this will be like signing 5 new players so I am going to ensure the I don’t make too many other changes to the squad. The two players who I think will go straight into the team is Sylla a 22-year-old left back and Aguilar 31-year-old midfielder. Sylla should do a superb job overlapping Zivkovic and Aguilar will slot in at the centre of midfield as my Deep lying playmaker with his attributes. I will also use Aguilar to tutor the players who are going to be his direct replacements in Blin, Machech and Bodiger. I think Bodiger is the closest to a replacement but if he doesn’t progress well enough I will need to find one. Michael Carrick was available on a free transfer and did only want £28k a week but we is 32 and I need to look to the future unfortunately. Tom Carrol was also an option on a free transfer too but he still is but wanted £30k a week and I wanted to secure my existing players to long-term contracts before any new signings first. I know I can probably push the wage budget a bit higher as I’m not looking to bring in any players with a fee and with the extra Champions League to money, assuming well get through the early qualification.
Preseason started well, with a 0-0 draw with Dortmund and a 3-0 win over Le Harve, we’ve started exactly as we’ve finished last season. I am a little bit concerned that we will struggle down the right after Tisserand returned to Marseille and all the available right backs are too expensive on all fronts it would seem, transfer fee, loan fee and wages so well stick with what we have for now.
Our season goal this year is to get European qualification though league position and to be honest if I can qualify  for the Europa League this season I will be extremely happy.
We have done well in the first season but we still need a lot of work and I have identified some areas below, and i hope to begin putting in steps to resolve some of them over the next few seasons.
1 – The club Financially ok but needs improvement
2 – We have got Great Youth Facilities but we need some better coaches
3 – We have a large Backroom staff with lots leaving at the end of the season
4 – We still have a few backup/rotation squad players on unrealistic wages
I am looking forward to sorting out the backroom staff at the end of the season which has been made easier by the majority of them leaving at the end of the contracts but other than that we will need money to fix them. I hope you have enjoyed the end of season update and I will be back shortly with a mid-season update. I am also going to and bring you a relatively short tactical piece going into more detail about the Toulouse tactic, so look out for that too.
Before ending the post I wanted to bring you a few screenshots of the manager movements that have happened at the end of the 2015/16 season in this save and I wanted to say “Who says Football Manager isn’t realistic!”
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Thanks for reading and see you soon, Matt
Toulouse 06 – End of Season 15/16 Update Hello and welcome back to my second update of my Toulouse series (Second attempt). Before I dive head first into the End of Season 15/16 update I want to start by saying how much I have enjoyed this save so far.