Beam me up, Scotty - Rangers & Scotland CM Story
Forum Discussion
Unfortunate, missing out on the millions of UEFA Champions League, but that group in UEFA Europa League is doable: second place for sure!
@Danimal5981 wrote:Unfortunate, missing out on the millions of UEFA Champions League, but that group in UEFA Europa League is doable: second place for sure!
Yes, I believe I have good chances here. Don't know the current level of Standard Liège though, but it should be possible to follow Newcastle through.
The millions is one thing, and I'm not too worried about that, to be honest. I don't want to go crazy anyway and already have a great deal to spend. But I do fear that this will have a negative impact on my manager rating, even if the "Reach the Champions League Quarter Final" is only a MEDIUM objective. The rating did go down to orange after the exit, but is now green again after the signing of Oli Burke. So that's the only concern really.
@JustinCase0110
Celtic clearly are not going to take the challenge lying down. 8 matches, 8 wins.
Interesting to see Aberdeen pushing Rangers for second, Are you sure Sir Alex isn't back managing them? 🙂 🙂🤔
@CO88LER5 wrote:Celtic clearly are not going to take the challenge lying down. 8 matches, 8 wins.
Interesting to see Aberdeen pushing Rangers for second, Are you sure Sir Alex isn't back managing them? 🙂 🙂🤔Haha, no I'm not sure about anything here. Aberdeen did also make a serious push in the first season though. After the 33 game regular season, Celtic had 84, Rangers 78, Aberdeen 72, Hearts 66 and then Dundee in 5th with 44. We're seeing a similar pattern now, so it seems the game does propose a challenger for the two Glasgow sides. Except the fact that the green of them does seem a bit unstoppable at the moment.
- @JustinCase0110
The Livingston game - it's always quite satisfying when all the goals are by different players... Regarding your penalty shootout experience, have a look at this:
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Career-Mode/Career-Mode-Carabao-Cup-Error/m-p/13172878#M932
It seems you're not the only one.
@CO88LER5 wrote:
The Livingston game - it's always quite satisfying when all the goals are by different players...Yes I agree. It does make certain requirements to the format in these writeups though. It can be difficult to find room for so many scorers 😉
- @JustinCase0110
Celtic seem relentless. Lots of wins for Rangers but still 5 points adrift. Wow.
@CO88LER5 wrote:
Celtic seem relentless. Lots of wins for Rangers but still 5 points adrift. Wow.Yes, there's literally no room to slip. And as long as they keep winning against 'the other 10', the head to head games just keep getting more and more important. Speaking of which, the next derby will be match 17 at Ibrox.
- @JustinCase0110 Edged just a bit closer with that old firm win.
As you said, those are going to be crucial, but you're also going to have to win against the other 10 almost all the time, from the look of it.
@CO88LER5 wrote:
Edged just a bit closer with that old firm win.
As you said, those are going to be crucial, but you're also going to have to win against the other 10 almost all the time, from the look of it.Yes I am. But luckily I seem to be able to keep a clean sheet in most games, making a pretty consistent run of wins recently. But if Celtic continues too, we could see a point lost vs St. Mirren or so, end up deciding the title. It certainly keeps the season interesting for me, even though I usually lose interest, when games become too easy with repeated 3-0 wins, for instance.
- @JustinCase0110 That's the problem with Scottish football, and playing as one of the big two. It becomes too easy.
It's the same in most of the other leagues, I think.
@CO88LER5 wrote:
That's the problem with Scottish football, and playing as one of the big two. It becomes too easy.
It's the same in most of the other leagues, I think.That's true. But at least it's rather realistic. If I'd started with St. Mirren and found myself in the same situation, I would feel it was a bit odd. Rangers and Celtic NEED to be too good for Scotland, if they want to be good enough to compete for glory in Europe.
@CO88LER5 wrote:
@JustinCase0110That's the problem with Scottish football, and playing as one of the big two. It becomes too easy.
It's the same in most of the other leagues, I think.I think two is still better than one: there are countries where there is only one real top team, which only on occasion can be rivaled and even if, that's more of an incident than anything structural: Bayern in Germany, PSG in France, Salzburg in Austria, Dinamo Zagreb in Croatia, Shakhtar Donetsk in Ukraine, now that Basel has collapsed it's only Young Boys in Switzerland. And what's extra depressing for the latter teams is that they're miles ahead of their national rivals, yet miles away from any realistic chance to get near a European trophy: it's a sort of no man's land, if you will...
@Danimal5981 wrote:I think two is still better than one: there are countries where there is only one real top team, which only on occasion can be rivaled and even if, that's more of an incident than anything structural: Bayern in Germany, PSG in France, Salzburg in Austria, Dinamo Zagreb in Croatia, Shakhtar Donetsk in Ukraine, now that Basel has collapsed it's only Young Boys in Switzerland. And what's extra depressing for the latter teams is that they're miles ahead of their national rivals, yet miles away from any realistic chance to get near a European trophy: it's a sort of no man's land, if you will...
This is true. I suppose that was also why I was drawn to Italy for my first save here in FC24. Juventus used to have the same patent on the Scudetto, but at the moment it's kind of open for business. So for someone to come in and do a Napoli, I suppose that's not very unrealistic anymore.
For the same reason, I had actually planned a save in the Eredivisie, taking charge of Feyenoord, much similar to my current Rangers save. But then I saw that both Ibrox and Celtic Park had been added to the game, and I went with Scotland in stead. I'm also not sure how your response would have been, if I'd played with Feyenoord 😉
@JustinCase0110 wrote:I'm also not sure how your response would have been, if I'd played with Feyenoord 😉
Take a guess...
- @JustinCase0110 The clean sheets continue. There is such a gulf between the Old Firm and the rest. Doesn't look like much of a challenge for much longer.
Interesting transfers, especially that Lewis Cook was a free transfer.
Good price for Cifuentes.
