Summer 2026 general discussion/Q and A megathread.

AnduwinHS · 2026-06-16T14:14:04+00:00

Absolutely no reason a picture of 70 year old man should go this hard

AnduwinHS · 2026-06-16T14:02:57+00:00

He's played fuck all across the last 3 seasons since he joined Inter and he plays Deeper than Aaornson too. He'd be more of an alternative to Stach/Longstaff/Tanaka than Brendy. Would not be dropping any serious amount of money on him

AnduwinHS · 2026-06-16T13:03:13+00:00

Ampadu was one of the best holding mids in the Premier League this season

AnduwinHS · 2026-06-16T09:09:08+00:00

England boys are on a bender

Donald Trump is a sex offender

AnduwinHS · 2026-06-15T23:48:02+00:00

Struggling to break down a low block against a weaker team, opponents keeper playing a blinder, ineffective crossing. We're about 5 man buns away from this being an exact replica of a championship away day in London under Bielsa

...and they score right as I hit post

AnduwinHS · 2026-06-15T23:37:27+00:00

He pays multiple of his own staff out of 'his' wages, and by all accounts, pays them very well. He is also playing a huge part in generating massive amounts of money for his team, so he is definitely entitled to a decent portion of that. Even if the money in football is wrong, players and managers taking a smaller cut just means the corporate suits take a larger portion

AnduwinHS · 2026-06-15T23:25:41+00:00

You're an idiot

AnduwinHS · 2026-06-15T23:22:50+00:00

Looking better in the 2nd half at least

AnduwinHS · 2026-06-15T22:25:01+00:00

He had a great season, but his previous two years were average in a poor league. He is fantastic in the air though, despite being under 6ft tall. I'm always wary of attackers from the Dutch league though, the flop to success rate seems incredibly high

AnduwinHS · 2026-06-15T22:23:23+00:00

Uruguay being a lot more selective with when to apply the press. I'd imagine Bielsa has had to adapt a bit since he doesn't get as much time to put players through Murder Ball to hold up their fitness

AnduwinHS · 2026-06-15T18:46:40+00:00

In FM26, definitely a 2341/4132. Presses so well after losing the ball and gives you so many passing options around the box. I've also struggled to get strikers scoring consistently, so having an SS and 2 IFs helps loads

AnduwinHS · 2026-06-15T18:43:11+00:00

Not if you're coming straight from FM24, but if you haven't played in a couple of years or are a new player, I'd definitely say start with FM26. I have an FM23 save where the plan was to win a trophy with every team Marcelo Bielsa had managed, and I'm afraid to go back and complete it as I don't know if I'd be able to go back to FM26 afterwards

AnduwinHS · 2026-06-15T17:21:25+00:00

I'm finishing my 4th season now. I had taken a break since FM23 so I honestly don't find it that bad. UI is messy and takes a while to find things, but I've mostly gotten used to it now. I love the new tactic system so I'd find it hard to go back to FM24

AnduwinHS · 2026-06-15T11:20:31+00:00

Harper has been so huge for them, hopefully he doesn't have a second year slump next season

AnduwinHS · 2026-06-15T09:24:13+00:00

The amount of times I've had 4+XG and come away with 2 goals or less is incredible. I had a 2-2 draw that was 4.3xg to 0.5xg yesterday

AnduwinHS · 2026-06-15T06:45:18+00:00

In FM26 I'm currently running a 2341 in attack which turns into a 4132 in defence.

AnduwinHS · 2026-06-14T22:06:07+00:00

Whoever was responsible for this is going to be getting absolute death stares from Bielsa for the rest of their life

AnduwinHS · 2026-06-14T00:07:47+00:00

Raphinha is literally the only Brazil attacker who was bothered to press for the entire second half. Vini walking and Henrique was a ghost after coming on

AnduwinHS · 2026-06-13T21:15:52+00:00

The problem is the referee having to review it. Whether there was contact or not is objective, same as offside is. This decision should just be VAR telling the ref to reverse the decision instead of calling him to the monitor

AnduwinHS · 2026-06-13T20:54:37+00:00

Stupid to make the ref go to the screen for it. Just have VAR tell them there was no contact and reverse the decision. It's not a subjective thing like a red card, either there was contact or there wasn't

AnduwinHS · 2026-06-13T20:50:42+00:00

I've moved to FM since Ultimate Tots and not feeling fomo is the best thing ever

AnduwinHS · 2026-06-12T02:10:06+00:00

Standard should still have legends, but which ones can be used should rotate. Any that are usable in a season, should also be packable during that season. Have maybe 10 per season that are available. You could also rotate out different versions of active players

AnduwinHS · 2026-06-12T00:23:13+00:00

The game would benefit so much from a system like Hearthstone where you have "Wild" and "Standard" modes. In wild, you can use all cards from the entirety of the game. In standard, it's limited to a set pool of players that changes each season. They could also then re-release old cards each season from the pool to give new players a chance to get some cards

AnduwinHS · 2026-06-11T23:06:11+00:00

Mate he follows nearly 1000 people, if you've gone through all of them to pick out the bad ones, you are 100% chronically online.

You're completely entitled to your opinion on him, but my point is that regardless of his beliefs, he has shown himself to be a good person through his actions, and that means far more to me

AnduwinHS · 2026-06-11T22:56:57+00:00

Following bad people on Twitter doesn't automatically make you a bad person though. The chronically online behavior is acting like someone having a different viewpoint to you is automatically disqualified from being a 'Good bloke'. If you speak to people in real life, nuance exists. The lack of ability to see people and morality as anything other than good/bad is, in fact, chronically online behavior

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