FM21 JOURNEYMAN CHALLENGE - CLUB 3/LEICESTER - EP. 29 - Reading Between the Lines

This is a Football Manager 2021 Journeyman Challenge. In an FM21 journeyman, you start off with a lower league squad (LLM) and attempt to move up the FM21 ranks to the most Barcelona’s and PSG’s of the world. However, in my journeyman we are doing a twist. As a fan of Leeds and Marcelo Bielsa, I am attempting to mimic Bielsa’s decision making process with regard to how he signs and retains players as well as how he decides to take or leave jobs. Bielsa always seems to be more interested in the fans of the club rather than the prestige level of the club. So that could make for some interesting job moves. Of course there is his personal history as well. Interactions with the board go sour? Well, he’s left a club for less. Fans feel that a player cannot cut it at that level? Bielsa is loyal to the players to perform for him. So there will be less emphasis on transfers and focusing on building and developing the players we already have. But as promotions loom, we will of course not turn away from transfers if they make sense. Of course, Bielsa is pretty particular about the type of player that he will bring in. I am excited to see how this pans out. To add an additional twist to the series I do a “+30” where I vacation for 30 years before starting the game meaning all the players in the game are now newgens and we will create our own Ronaldos’, Messis’ and Ronaldhinos’.

We are currently with our third club having taken the Leicester City job. Leicester has struggled in recent times having only reached the Premier League on two occasions over the past 20 years. Talk about a fallen giant. We did win the Championship handily in my first season and have returned Leicester to the Premier League and then in Season 2 we were a top half side with a 9th position finish. It’s time to build on that if we can.

With our first two clubs I have behaved in true El Loco fashion, we left our first club, Volyn Lutsk, in the middle of the night a mere two days before the start of a new season to head off to the Bundesliga with Eintracht Frankfurt, a side that had just one league win in over a century.

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