Had some free time recently, started a new ML save to check what happens as far as i progress and to have back Ansu Fati , after i recoverd him in my PS4 database. Started using a mix of TP/SS, finally ended in TP again, as in SS i was tired of fighting the handicap and my controller instead of the opponent team. Now my free time is rare again, so i will progress much slower from now on.
So 1st season, started with Blookrows in PEU League. 31 December of 2019 i moved to PISA, i had a good run with PISA (serieB team), in my previous save. This time due to bad management and lack of regens in first season, things were very hard, either in TP or in SS. I wasted half the season with 50~60 TS, just fighting my own players.
So SIM-ed to end of season and decided to go to a second division i have never gone in the past. Decided to go to Extremadura, Spanish segunda. Nice team background, nice kits, too low in Clubs Ranking, they finished bottom 1st season. I started with them, without good transfers in the beginning of the season, setting as season target to win the Segunda Division. I was still fighting my players and low TS. January of 2021 signed only two players, free agent Tevez with Playmaker team role, to assign him as Captain and skyrocket the TS. Also loaned Helder Costa for RWF. The rest players were promoted from youth academy and sold all the Extremadura original ones. From youths the only remarkable was regen of Joaquin (the original one). Focused and gave priority to promote spanish players, as a type of home rule.
After a tragic begining, we retaliated and finished 2nd in the League photo-finish!
In ML 3rd season, 1st in LaLiga, we sold many players, promoted many spanish-portuguese-latin americans from academy and loaned Joao Moutinho and Dzagoev, due to their roles, to rotate Tevez cause he is 38yo now. We finished 4th and won a spot in next year CL qualification round. The milestones of first LaLiga season were, we could not win Real Madrid in neither of 4 mathces we played, 2 in League , 2 in Cup. Every time i meet them, they start some astray very fast one-touch passes and destroy me. After 1 or 2 goals they revert to all out defense mode and Courtois becomes Super Saiyan-jin God mode. Something similar happens against Valencia.
On the other hand i smashed Barcelona two times in season easily. It is amazing, how bad plays Barca, every time i meet them. Although they are premium-partners and should have a very unique team-ID, they have no ID, they play like the worst team of the world, without any teamwork. Messi is a ghost of himself, Luis Suarez and Vidal usually come in as subs, after 50', and the whole midfield of Barca plays like a ghost.
( This is weird cause i remember also Liverpool, as long as they were Premium Partners they used to play too bad and without an ID, while this year that they are semi-official team, they seem invincible! )
In my 4th season, i am 4rd in December, behind Real, Barca, Valencia won a difficult promotion to CL groups and then an other type of difficult promotion to CL knock-out stage as 1st. Still won Barca with ease and lost hands down to Real and Valencia.
In general ML observations , Tottenham and PSG are flying top each year to CL and EL cups, Jose Callejon moves to MILAN every first transfer window and he is the player that keeps changing clubs, almost every 6 months. Tevez can be signed through a Bosman transfer every August of 2019 and after first transfer window he is always a free agent with a team role, either Playmaker or Smartplayer, so he is an easy boost for your TS, if you sign him and make him captain.
That's it, from tomorrow i will be back to reality and progress much slower. Maybe if next datapack, on 4th of June , adds crucial content, i will start a new save. I different case i will keep my current save. I want to see how my regen players will behave, after they start hitting 75+ OPR and start becoming OP. Also my team now in 91~94 TS, plays usually as they should be. Almost close to how they play in exhibition mode, with some exceptions from time to time, like against REAL MADRID.
P.S.1: In the meantime, i was Greece NT manager since 2nd season. Won 2022 world cup against Brazil, 1-0. For my disappointment, the PS trophy for win an International (World CUP) Cup is removed, so i was awarded nothing for winning the WC. Then i moved to Honduras NT, in order to make them great, #again!!!!!!

, but i do not like the small NT players pool (must fix it in edit mode for a future ML) and the lack of National Anthem!
P.S.2.: On December i was entitled Manager of the year 2022, due to winning the WC obviously, but the day these titles are announced, there was only a notification for Player Of the year award and not for manager of the year, as it usually happens, when i do not win the award! Also my regened CF, Fabio Mazzeo, who was 2nd scorer in Laliga last year, was awarded as European player of the year, for the season 2021-2022. really strange. The other two nominations were also strange. A sub player from Genk was 2nd and a sub player froom PSV was 3rd. None of those 3 players, won anything important last year. Their and my teams, did not even played in a European competitions, or in PSV case, they did play, but did not pass even the group stage of CL!