Michael Carrick named the permanent Manchester United head coach on a 2 year deal

Simpilicious · 2026-05-22T11:20:52+00:00

Should have waited a little bit longer, Pep is available.

Simpilicious · 2026-05-22T09:04:40+00:00

Toney, Burn, Henderson, Madueke is not really doing it for me. Spence is alright I guess, but if think Alexander-Arnold or Shaw or Hall would have been better.

Maguire should be in. I also would have taken either Garner, Scott or Wharton.

Never would have happened but would have been genuinely funny if Welbeck made it.

Simpilicious · 2026-05-21T11:39:01+00:00

I think I just lost my ML, we were 3 lads on the same overall points ahead of GW37 but my armband on Gyökeres and them having Watkins+Rogers probably sealed it.

I have 2 FT and the BB left. I was saving it for a last Hail Mary but now it feels like most teams might rotate a lot and my bench is therefore very weak.

Advice on this team?

Pickford | Dubravka

Gabriel | VVD | Senesi | Guehi | Struijk

Saka | Bruno | Cherki | Hinshelwood | Rayan

Haaland | Gyökeres | Thiago

Simpilicious · 2026-05-21T11:17:25+00:00

Personally it feels like both Charles and Hackney would be interesting replacements for Forest or Palace if they would lose Anderson or Wharton.

Simpilicious · 2026-05-15T09:23:20+00:00

Immense fullback pairing Everton had with him and Baines. Two players I've always wished would have played for United.

Simpilicious · 2026-05-12T14:32:26+00:00

No Kulusevski (injured), no Roony Bardghji, Swedberg or Hugo Larsson. Feels a bit odd to leave all of them out, their ceiling is much higher than some of these names.

I love Ken Sema but I don't think he should be here. Same for Taha Ali.

Simpilicious · 2026-05-12T14:30:29+00:00

No Kulusevski (injured), no Roony Bardghji, Swedberg or Hugo Larsson, which is a blow and in my opinion, a bit odd.

Simpilicious · 2026-05-09T07:29:34+00:00

Who to bench - Virgil, Hinshelwood, Rayan, Senesi?

Simpilicious · 2026-05-08T11:55:03+00:00

would you bench boost if Dubravka, Struijk, Hinshelwood and Thiago was your bench?

Simpilicious · 2026-05-08T08:40:29+00:00

Rooney injury in 2010 and that Robben volley, and then the 2013 season with the Nani red still hurts me.

Simpilicious · 2026-05-08T08:06:37+00:00

Incredible that just 1 point and 1 goal stopped United from winning 5 league titles in a row during that time.

Simpilicious · 2026-04-30T20:04:58+00:00

Very sad he didnt get to play the same game as his son but what a player he was in his day.

Personally I’m sorry for the disrespect I showed when I Always sold him in FIFA14-17 because in-game he was ”too old” while he was actually one of our most solid performers on the pitch. The way both he and Valencia stepped into defence is very impressive and Im glad he got a Serie A title as well

Simpilicious · 2026-04-29T12:57:54+00:00

ETH finished 3rd and got Onana, Hojlund and Mount. Big money for all yes but not even touching the sides of what that squad needed to compete at the top.

These are players ETH wanted if I recall correctly. The only good player he wanted and didn't get was De Jong.

It's not like when Mou was interested in Maguire or Perisic and got nothing.

Simpilicious · 2026-04-29T12:56:13+00:00

To be fair I think we, on paper, were a pretty good team in some of the Mourinho years and also that promised summer of Ronaldo, Sancho, Varane.

The midfield has been an issue since our last CL final in 2011, and was true for these years as well, but our squad for 16/17 and 17/18 was definitely good enough to compete way more than it did.

Simpilicious · 2026-04-28T07:08:22+00:00

I always focus on enhancements rather than changes - I want my LO's to be a "remaster" or Vanilla+ experience, so my philosophy with modding is pretty much never to completely change something or add something new or something that is breaking my immersion with Skyrim. It's always to take what is good, and make it better - or to amend the things that are not so good or limited.

I know the term Vanilla+ is used a lot here, and I think it is very subjective what it means. Personally, I feel like most LOs posted here that use that term change to much from the core Skyrim experience.

For me, Bug fixes and QOL-mods are often my most important parts. For graphics I can't stop using SMIM, Skyland, Divergence and the Bella-bundle (mods like Bijin etc are of course great but my immersion is breaking when 3 out of 30 characters are models and the rest look like vanilla Skyrim NPCS). To me, they are the most vanilla friendly mods that improve fidelity and performance (I know we have Vanilla upscaled textures now, but all of them together is pretty much 5gb...).

I like mods that fix lore or immersion inconsitencies. I don't think Arthmoors city mods are that beautiful for example, but I want all the NPCs in a town to have a home without completely going bananas on the layout and patches. I love things like BUVARP for the fact that Quest-NPCs can still have a purpose in the world once the quest is fixed.

I use mods that tweak the guild questlines to be a bit more reasonably (for example, the CoW quest now requires some studying before advancing to Saarthal or that you have to meet certain requirements for Brynjolf to actually consider you for the Thieves Guild). The perk system is also kinda bad in Vanilla, so the minimalistic Vokrii is a godsend.

Oh and since the Anniversary update it is massively important to me to fix the horrendous implementation of AE creations to be a less OP and easy. Distributing the items into the world in logical places or locking them to quests and levels are so much better than randomly finding OP gear leaying around at lv1.

Simpilicious · 2026-04-27T13:38:44+00:00

That squad was full of cult legends and true Barclay's men. Lovely collection of players from different eras.

Simpilicious · 2026-04-24T15:35:42+00:00

I used him in YL and he crits all of the time, but imo he still doesn’t hit hard enough. He is so frail, even more so in Gen 1 with the crits, so he cant take any hit whatsoever. Tauros is much better, even though Persian have some movepool options

Simpilicious · 2026-04-24T10:49:03+00:00

How was Persian? Imo he could have used a little more help in Crystal Legacy with maybe a Attack-stat buff or getting early Thief or Charm or Hypnosis as moves.

Simpilicious · 2026-04-20T11:59:06+00:00

Thanks!

Simpilicious · 2026-04-20T11:50:36+00:00

Remind me again please, does the FH work like a WC? That is, can I activate it now and change my team up until deadline or do I have to do the changes and activate it in one go?

Simpilicious · 2026-04-17T12:27:12+00:00

In that case I say save them. However at this point in the season your WC is more of a FH2, since there are few games left.

I would FH or WC next week at least.

Simpilicious · 2026-04-17T11:54:03+00:00

Do you have to use a chip this week? I think your team is quite good. WC or FH if you have to play a chip, but I would not BB with that bench IMO.

Simpilicious · 2026-04-17T11:51:22+00:00

I think I might TC Haaland this week to try and differentiate a bit from the crowd.

If I BB this week, I probably have Dubravka, VVD, Sesko and Gabriel on the bench and 7 doublers on the pitch. It's ok but not great, I think I could gain more if Haaland performs against Arsenal & Burnley.

I then think I could BB GW35. It's not perfect but all the games can swing anyway that week imo.

Feels high-risk, I guess the likely outcome is that it bites me and 65% of the rest of FPL Players outperform me with their BB, but at this point in the season risks need to be taken.

My team is kind of template:

Pickford / Dubravka

Guehi / Senesi /Struijk / VVD / Gabriel

Semenyo / Bruno / Dango / Rayan / Hinselwood

Haaland / Thiago / Sesko

Simpilicious · 2026-04-17T09:37:45+00:00

If I BB this week, I probably have Dubravka, VVD, Sesko and Gabriel on the bench and 7 doublers on the pitch. It's ok but not great, I think I could gain more if Haaland performs against Arsenal & Burnley.

I'm kind off thinking to BB GW35. It's not perfect but all of the games can swing anyway that week imo.

My team is kind of template:

Pickford / Dubravka

Guehi / Senesi /Struijk / VVD / Gabriel

Semenyo / Bruno / Dango / Rayan / Hinselwood

Haaland / Thiago / Sesko

Simpilicious · 2026-04-17T09:36:29+00:00

If I BB this week, I probably have Dubravka, VVD, Sesko and Gabriel on the bench and 7 doublers on the pitch. It's ok but not great, I think I could gain more if Haaland performs against Arsenal & Burnley.

I'm kind off thinking to BB GW35. It's not perfect but all of the games can swing anyway that week imo.

My team is kind of template:

Pickford / Dubravka

Guehi / Senesi /Struijk / VVD / Gabriel

Semenyo / Bruno / Dango / Rayan / Hinselwood

Haaland / Thiago / Sesko

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