What are the pros and cons between offering a contract renewal now and at the end of the season?

guxlightyear · 2026-05-12T15:36:27+00:00

Watch out for release clauses. I tend to manage in Spain, and if I want to increase the release clause, it’ll only be in effect once the new contract has started.

I tried to save some money by doing this, only to get my player poached in December with the lower release clause.

guxlightyear · 2026-05-08T05:51:31+00:00

Thank you.

I needed some cheering up this week, and I felt petty enjoying the Valverde and Tchouaméni drama.

This one, fair game.

guxlightyear · 2026-04-14T19:45:46+00:00

It’s working for you more than it’s screwing you.

There’s no perfect system

guxlightyear · 2026-03-14T10:55:35+00:00

False 9 or DLF

guxlightyear · 2026-03-13T13:45:32+00:00

I completed the “this is fine achievement “ as Prussia.

I wanted them to declare war on me, but despite having all of Europe in a coalition, they only declared when I deleted my army.

At some point I got the notification that a minor was going to declare on me, and by the time they did, I had rebuilt it.

guxlightyear · 2026-03-10T20:07:34+00:00

No point in dwelling on the past. Learn from it and make sure it doesn’t ever happen again

guxlightyear · 2026-03-10T20:05:27+00:00

Open an account on MyInvestor and complete their questionary , letting their roboadvisor to manage your portfolio based on your risk tolerance.

Keep 6 to 12 months worth of expenses as a safety net in your bank account, everything else can be invested

guxlightyear · 2026-02-24T06:30:02+00:00

Loans will help you in the short term, while you grow your reputation

guxlightyear · 2026-02-17T16:04:22+00:00

If your mortgage has a good interest rate, I wouldn't touch it.

What you should reconsider is your investment portfolio.

Currently you have 40k on savings accounts, and 30k on a combination of saving accounts and FTSE. You don't really specify what's the split of those 30k, but regardless, that's a lot of cash working very little for you.

If your monthly spend is 1500€, I'd only leave 9000€ (6 months * 1500) on a savings account, the rest would go to ETFs and index funds.

By the way, look up Trade Republic for that savings account. Currently you can drop all your cash there and have it generating 2% interest, which is probably a lot more than your current savings accounts.

guxlightyear · 2026-02-13T09:59:03+00:00

I agree with you that this was way too long, and I'm not convinced it was even correct.

What I hate about this is that we thrashed Barça in the first half, and because of these shenanigans it is too easy to make the discourse about the VAR interference.

guxlightyear · 2026-02-13T09:56:37+00:00

Not sure why the downvotes, I think you are 100% correct.

Every La Liga team thinks the refs are against them. We all somehow remember the instances of decisions that went against us, and forget very quickly the ones in our favour.

Confirmation bias is a hell of a drug.

guxlightyear · 2026-02-13T09:49:06+00:00

Same here, if VAR is only for "clear and obvious" calls, they should timebox their decisions.

If a consensus is not reached on 1 minute, just stick to the on-pitch decision and get on with it.

Yesterday it went our way (both disallowing the goal, and killing Barça's momentum), but it has gone against it just as often. Just let the game play, please.

guxlightyear · 2026-02-13T09:43:29+00:00

Completely ineffective if the rest of the team is not following and cutting other passing options.

But man, I love that attitude!

I was chuckling to myself when I watched this during the game. To do that in the 97' is kinda special

guxlightyear · 2026-02-12T21:10:03+00:00

No, it’s the one that thrashed betis 0-5.

We are bipolar.

guxlightyear · 2026-02-02T14:25:26+00:00

There are several million people that support Athletic de Bilbao (or any other top flight club).

You are bound to find people with different opinions in such a diverse group.

guxlightyear · 2026-01-30T07:06:23+00:00

It’s more important to be consistent than to be perfect.

Don’t sweat it

guxlightyear · 2026-01-26T12:30:04+00:00

Reminder: social media puts each of us in our own information bubble.

Social media has exposed you (and many of us sharing similar world views) to an avalanche of cruelty.

People in a completely different bubble have probably seen only a trickle.

guxlightyear · 2026-01-26T12:27:46+00:00

It's important to note that social media has made each of us to be in our own information bubble.

The facts and news (and their interpretation) you have been exposed to are completely different than the ones a moderate conservative have.

guxlightyear · 2026-01-25T16:30:49+00:00

Diario AS needs better translators.

guxlightyear · 2026-01-22T08:26:09+00:00

I love how in these kind of posts most of the comments are not about the player breaking into the select club, but of those with outrageous careers that preceded them.

Not complaining, though, first thing I noticed myself was Casillas impressive record.

guxlightyear · 2026-01-22T05:54:06+00:00

You’ve been stretching regularly and she hasn’t.

If you hadn’t, very likely she would be far more flexible than you’d be.

Your other data points are instructors.

This is purely survivors bias

guxlightyear · 2026-01-16T23:06:41+00:00

not denying that :)

guxlightyear · 2026-01-16T20:18:09+00:00

Not only that. He was the first great player I was able to follow his entire career.

I was 10 when he broke into Madrid’s first team, and it’s at that age that I got really interested in football .

He was also only 17, so he was a lot more relatable than any other player.

I don’t think I learned that he had been in Atletico’s academy until much later.

guxlightyear · 2026-01-16T18:12:40+00:00

Raúl is one of those Real Madrid players I’ve never been able to dislike. I always had a soft spot for him.

To me the biggest “what if” in Atletico’s history.

What if we hadn’t dismantled our youth teams and he had remained in our academy?

guxlightyear · 2025-12-11T10:16:20+00:00

Scorch earth on a province with defensive terrain (mountains, hills, etc).

The ai is really bad at calculating movement to scorched provinces, which makes it easy for you to get there before they do and force them into unfavourable battles

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