Girona FC – S4,4: Season Review & Planning for Europe

FM22 Analytics, tactics and soccernomics

We had a good season!! After finishing 9th and then 8th the last two seasons, we managed to make the leap up to a 6th placed finish and now have the rather daunting prospect of European football next season to look forward to.

How did we make the leap of 13 extra points whilst spending only £2.7m?

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Girona FC – S4,3: End of season 4. Cracked it!

FM22 Analytics, tactics and soccernomics

We left the last update occupying 7th place, 5 points ahead of Athletic Bilbao with 3 months to go.

Our defence was solid but we were struggling up front since the departure of Ganago. As a result our form was a bit up and down.

We needed to find some goalscoring form if we were going to hang on to 7th place.

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Girona FC – S4,1: Tactics, signings and a good start.

FM22 Analytics, tactics and soccernomics

After finishing 9th and then 8th in La Liga we’re desperate to make the next step and qualify for European football. In fact, if we don’t do it this time I’ll see it as nothing but adject failure.

The only issue is I have no transfer budget and we have the lowest wage budget in the division.

Here we go.

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Girona FC – S3,3: Europe or Bust?

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A lot has happened in the last few days in the virtual world of Football Manager.

After taking a step back and realising we’d won only 1 of our last 8 La Liga games it was time for a change.

There’s been highs, there’s been lows…

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Girona FC – S3,2: Inconsistency & the Stengs effect

We finished the previous update sat in a healthy 8th place after 12 games. We’d made some tweaks to our midfield roles and were hoping to be in the European places when the January transfer window closed.

Let’s find out if we succeeded in our aims or if we laid a big fat egg.

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Girona FC – S3,1: Starting season 3 & tactical tweaks.

FM22 Analytics, tactics and soccernomics

With new signings and an aim of challenging for the European places we went into season 3 full of vigour and promise.

It started really well, quickly flirted with average and then went quite badly…

But, did we get the season back on track?

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