Previously on SuperClub Diaries, a Champions League win in 2026 was the perfect goodbye to Paris.     Intro Last time out on the blog I teased a move to the English Premier League, with Manchester United a potential employer after my Champions League win with PSG. But in July 2026 there was another Northern Powerhouse seeking my appointment…        Everything about the Liverpool offer is better, and they are already qualified in the Champions League…exactly what this save is all about. Sorry Manchester United fans, I was headed to Liverpool with the task of ret ..read more

    Happy New Year, I had previously planned to blog my month-by-month journey as a grassroots football coach about 18 months ago. The unpublished series, before I shelved it, contained things I had learned/observed in order to act as an aide-mémoire as I continued along the coaching pathway. I still kept my little nuggets of observation in various Google docs, but instead I thought I would revisit the idea of a blog once I got my group of footballers into a more structured setting (7v7, weekly league). This way I could digitise some of the successful routines I have coached into th ..read more

Previously on SuperClub Diaries, Paris Saint Germain fell in the Last 16 of the 2023/24 Champions League. The 2024/25 Swiss Model On Wednesday 13 December 2023, European football said goodbye to the Champions League Group Stages; a system that UEFA have had in place for the majority of my life. But there’s no time for mourning, as FMers we have the opportunity to peek into the future and experience the new ‘Swiss model’. In fact, it’s been in FM for at least two editions now…yet my first experience of it came in Season 2 of SuperCub Diaries in Football Manager 2024. I had always planned to spe ..read more

    It’s the 5th of March 2024 and the 1st season of the SuperClub Diaries save is over. There’s obviously still two and a half months left of the Ligue 1 season, but the whole save hinges on the performance of the UEFA Champions League. Yet here we are out at the Last 16 knockouts stage against Manchester United or Englandshire. Pass the bucket, je suis malade. It is unsure at this stage if I will keep my job here at Paris Saint Germain. We are strolling to the title and will probably win it by 15-20 points, but I sit on a Board Approval rating of C+. So this post is carefully posi ..read more

Bonjour mes amis, I think it is fair to say that many of us are enjoying FM24, especially with the introduction of Positional Play. Positional Play in FM offers greater tactical fluidity to our sides through role rotations, I wrote more about what that means for tactics in general during the FM24 early access with CF Monterrey…    But there is still more to say on Positional Play, so I thought I would use my SuperClub Diaries series to demonstrate how I plan to use a few more of the roles that triggers certain movements in the FM24 Match Engine. I will therefore share my three PSG st ..read more

    Hola a todos! The #FM24EarlyAccess is here, and the excitement ahead of the full release is now at fever pitch. But before I go an embark on my SuperClub Diaries save, I thought I would try out some sweet tactical goodness in Mexico, with CF Monterrey. Firstly, why Mexico? Well, it’s a fairly short Opening/Closing league system with the addition of the newly re-formatted Leagues Cup containing Major League Soccer franchises. There are also no relegations + promotions right now, so it makes sense to manage in this nation for a relatively short period…rather than a long-term save ..read more

    Super Clubs Most journeyman saves, or saves in general, that I see documented on blogs or on YouTube tend to follow the pattern of starting from the bottom before working upwards to the top. My Ceuta save is a quintessential example of that. The elite clubs are instead often reserved for short stints during the beta period of the FM cycle. But for most of 2023, I’ve had super clubs on my mind. I have taken special interest in the absurd events over at Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) and Bayern Munich, where it would seem that a league title win is not enough to clear the air of contem ..read more

    Previously on Plazas de Soberanía, Ceuta tactically evolved. Intro Has this been my favourite blogged FM save? Probably not, but I am ok with that. I cannot always find the most epic save ever or have the greatest in-game moments. Alternatively, this has not been a bad save either. I set out to do a One Club Save back on FM23 release day, and here I am in September 2023 concluding things with excitement building for FM24…AD Ceuta FC have kept the Football Manager flame alight for 10 months of the year. 10 in-game seasons that have held my attention. The save has largely gone the ..read more

    Previously on Plazas de Soberanía, Ceuta survived in LaLiga. Intro Despite functionality being added to FM to allow the continuation of saves cross-edition, I know this is the beginning of the end for my Ceuta save. Season 9 (which this post covers) is my penultimate one, with the aim to finish FM23 at the conclusion of a décima season. For this reason, I thought I would have a look back on the tactical evolution we have made over the save. Why change a tactic? It is important to stress you don’t have to change a winning tactic in FM. If one works for you, then you’re free to si ..read more

Hi Readers, If you’ve clicked on this before reading the main Sports Interactive blog, from Studio Director Miles Jacobson, what on earth is wrong with you? You may have already watched some of the YouTube reaction videos too, again what’s wrong with you?!? But seriously, if you’ve made it on to my blog to read my thoughts about FM24 and beyond…you’ll already be accustomed to my general admiration and optimism around the Football Manager series. This post is not Miles’ blog verbatim, nor is it hyperbole around the death of FM, it’s rather my thoughts on the series going forward. You see, I was ..read more