E96: August in Portugal, a very Football Manager 23 Champions League experience, glory days for Brazil

12/02/22 • 81 min

It's August in Portugal and our first Football Manager 23 Champions League experience doesn't start well.

With pre-season behind us, it's time to start our league run properly and we do just that by clearing out all the league fixtures in August and get a feel for what way the opposition is setting up in Liga Bwin.

Robbie's struggling with suspensions, Shane's new signing is leading the goalscoring charts and Ken's got more Champions League qualifying games to get through if he's to join the lads in the group stages.

We'll go through the eventual Champions League draw, take a look at what's been happening this past week for some of the Football Manager community and ahead of introducing you to some bonus content, we somehow wind up reminiscing about the glory days in Brazil off the back of the recent documentary on Ronaldo.

There is some strong language in there, check the website for screenshots and more updates and as always, thanks so much for your ears. Committing to a podcast is a big ask of your time and time and again you continue to hit play, so thanks for keeping us company this year.

Follow the podcast on Twitter @fmfshow while Ken's under @tacticalmanager and Shane's at @sirsok1. As for Robbie, he tells us he's working on it!

It's August in Portugal and our first Football Manager 23 Champions League experience doesn't start well.

Follow the podcast on Twitter @fmfshow while Ken's under @tacticalmanager and Shane's at @sirsok1. As for Robbie, he tells us he's working on it!

Previous Episode

E95: I'm the gaffer and what I say goes, despite what the assistant manager thinks #FM23

We're kicking off the league proper in Portugal this week so brace yourself for a rant about transfers, setups and conceding goals from impossible angles.

After a decent pre-season run for our three Portuguese amigos, we're getting set to kick off Liga Bwin proper, which means there are a few decisions to be made - what gaps need to be filled, who can we sell to raise a few quid, and how do you get your defenders to push up or spread balls out to the wings?

There's a steep learning curve in Football Manager but when you're flung in at the deep end you'll find out it's sink-or-swim very early on. Ken's got some Champions League football to look forward to as Monaco provides the first of two obstacles to group-stage qualification and for some reason, there's a bizarre number of pre-season injuries stacking up.

Oh, and as for gripes about goals, this is the whopper conceded by Shane this week.

It's slow-moving with three of us navigating pre-season but as the league starts, we're all on the same match-day buzz for the next few weeks. With some strong language peppered throughout, it's on to this week's edition of The Football Manager Football Show.

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Contains strong language.

Follow the podcast on Twitter @FMFShow, follow Ken @tacticalmanager or Shane @sirsok1.

Next Episode

E97: It's our first Football Manager 2023 transfer deadline day and there's a new King of Portugal in town

We're moving from August into September and we've got not one but two host-v-host games as Ken has to take on Robbie and Shane in one fortnight. We've got Champions League action, deadline-day dilemmas and more in another sweary, ranty week in the world of Football Manager.