Breaking the Habit - A Man United rebuild

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@thurlow885 wrote:

He was a lot more expensive and playing in Spain I think in my career can't remember off top of my head but definitely wasn't at Arsenal. Think he was 83/84 ovl not much higher than Gordon at time but fee they wanted was over 45mil

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Yes, that is way above the fee Arsenal required in mine. But there is a logical explanation for that.

You know I started in the 2023 summer in game, but in the 2024 summer in the story, meaning that the story was actually a year ahead. And since the beginning of my save, I had noticed a fair few headscans being added in the game, among others for Teden Mengi, whom I would like to bring back to the club. So I quickly had an urge to start over, but also wanted to keep the story going for some time.

In the end I finished the season and went into the new season to play the Community Shield, also to see the draw for the UEFA competitions. And then I went out of the save, made my in game transfers manually, promoted and relegated the clubs that was supposed to do that and voilá. Now I've started a new save, once again in 2023 in game, but with the story continuing from 2025. I haven't done it like this before, but I saw it as a way to avoid wanting to start over already. And there are also some perks to it, with opponents being recognizable for a bit longer and players being 2 years younger in game than they are supposed to be in the story. I expect this to be the last time doing this though. I also want to promote some academy graduates at some point.

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@CO88LER5 wrote:
@JustinCase0110
One question, which I might regret asking...

If you have started a new save, what European competition are United in (surely, the Champions League if you've started from 2023 again?). They can't be in the Europa League, can they?

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Your able to edit all that as you start a career when enabling European Competitions, can change who's in which competition and groups etc so I'm assuming @JustinCase0110 did that 

A good question, in case you didn't know about it, @CO88LER5. But @thurlow885 is correct. Groups are editable, when starting a career, and it's possible to promote and relegate teams too. So I did that to make the new season reflect the season I was entering. I also made a few transfers beforehand - for instance Nico Williams to Liverpool, which I had mentioned at some point in the story. Other transfers made in game was something I was happy to allow to return to default, perhaps making the teams become a bit more recognizable.

Funny thing. My first idea was actually to go in and look at every league and try to figure out who would enter Europe and make my own groups from that. For all three competitions. But then I stopped and realized I could just enter the new season and skip the first months to have the game create it for me, haha. Much easier that way. I couldn't copy/paste it 100% though. Sometimes it said that no more clubs from some nation could be selected. That was kind of strange, since I only tried to select the same number as had been in the draw made by the game itself.