Yes more football chat, but I also managed to make a good looking Breton (finally) so there's an image of her in the spoiler below. I was running into a weird issue with the vanilla races (and only the vanilla ones) messing up whenever I loaded a preset onto them but I managed to work around it by switching to a custom race and loading a preset onto that before switching back (I just had to readjust the skin and hair colour.) Also it's a shame that nisetanaka seems to have stopped modding Skyrim, I would have loved to see some more varients of bikini armour (as in the types that are missing, daedric, glass etc.) and I have 0 modding abilities and can't make them myself especially since no one else seems interested in picking it up.

Anyway the football. I saw an image going around a few weeks ago comparing how much Arsene Wenger sepnt in 22 years at Arsenal and how much Pep Guardiola has spent in 3ish seasons in charge of Manchester City (Pep has spent more by the way) and it got me thinking about my 11 season game in charge of Arsenal in FM 2019 and how much I spent in that particular save and again I spent much less than Pep spent at Man city in 3 seasons (I probably hit the £200million to £250 million mark as opposed to the near half billion mark Pep is at) but it also reminded me how lucky I got in that save when it came to youth prospects which probably contributed to me keeping my transfer costs down (also as a fun aside in my bio for Arsenal in that game I was getting called out for not signing more english players when I was focussing on promoting the youth) however I don't think my overall spend would have increased all  that much even without that.

This also got me missing that old save but I was an idiot and never backed it up when I resigned from the position as Arsenal manager, especially given how beastly that team ended up being with world class talent in every position in the starting lineup and incredibly good players as backup (except for left winger where I had a choice between two world class left wingers) and I doubt I'll ever have a team that good again, especially sad since that 11 season save with Arsenal was only my 3rd time doing 10+ seasons with one team in an FM game (I did it with Lyon in FM14 and Atletico Madrid in FM16) and I won't be purchasing a new FM game for a good few years given how burned out (and frustrated) I've gotten with them lately.

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