Season 9: PLAYER ROLES MEETS FORMATION MATTERS EPISODE 10: 4-4-2B meets Player Roles

From one 4-4-2 variant straight into the next, I hope you're not getting bored (I mean, how could you?), cause we're about to go over quite a few different types of formations that you may not have known are all a by-product of the 4-4-2... We start off with the 4-4-2B. A formation that has … Continue reading Season 9: PLAYER ROLES MEETS FORMATION MATTERS EPISODE 10: 4-4-2B meets Player Roles →

SEASON 8: THE RANDOM SEASON EPISODE 13: THE FORGOTTEN ROLE PT.2 (Box to Box Roles)

(UPDATE: SUMMER 2025) The season of randomness just keeps on giving! You'd think by now that I'd have ran out of ideas for this season, but, in the spirit of the great Johan Cruyff: "Football is a never ending cycle of tactical and philosophical revolutions" (I don't even think he actually said that... 😅). In … Continue reading SEASON 8: THE RANDOM SEASON EPISODE 13: THE FORGOTTEN ROLE PT.2 (Box to Box Roles) →

SEASON 8: THE RANDOM SEASON EPISODE 6: THE FORGOTTEN ROLE (INVERTED FULLBACK)

(UPDATE: WINTER 2025) Today's episode keeps up with the overall idea of complete randomness (shit, I don't even think that's a word, lol). There's continuously a bunch of new roles that are being added to the game of Soccer year by year thanks to tactical revolutionaries such as Pep Guardiola, Thomas Tuchel, Julian Nagelsmann and … Continue reading SEASON 8: THE RANDOM SEASON EPISODE 6: THE FORGOTTEN ROLE (INVERTED FULLBACK) →

Season 8: The Randon Season Epiosde 5: The best starting X1 within SMW

You may be wondering what the above image is all about… Well, let’s just say that we’ve got some quite tactically intellectual people within the Soccermanagerverse! A good mate of mine has been following the journey of the SMB since day 1, and we’ve been in constant interaction with each other ever since we first … Continue reading Season 8: The Randon Season Epiosde 5: The best starting X1 within SMW →

Season 7: SMW Superstars Episode 26: Fede Valverde

By now, I should be on a mini vacation as well as prepping for season 8, but that's simply not the case due to Soccermanager surprising us with some new additions to the world class (94+) bracket! In today's episode, we have a player who I am a huge admirer of, and is one of … Continue reading Season 7: SMW Superstars Episode 26: Fede Valverde →