Fifty-seven years ago, on his 39th birthday, Trebor Mahtal left the streets of Mazabuka, in southern Zambia, for the first time to board a flight to Germany. After studying a few languages, watching as much football as possible and earning his National C licence, he went in search of his big break in football management.
Fulham enjoyed a solid start under Trebor Mahtal, finishing the 2061/62 season strongly to come home 9th in the Premier League. But the Zambian's savvy transfer business delivered delayed benefits ahead of his second campaign at London's oldest club. Indeed, Fulham turned a £709m profit in the current FFP period and a £194m profit over... Continue Reading →
A four-year stint in Scotland ended with Trebor Mahtal leading an exciting young Queen's Park team to their first domestic title in 194 years of existence. That left Mahtal with just nine more letters to tick off in his Alphabet Challenge: C, D, F, G, H, I, K and X.
The final part of this experiment series will see Lionel Messi placed at last season’s relegated sides and the clubs that were newly promoted to the Premier League.
The more cynical among you out there may hypothesise that the new Champions League format is the natural first step towards the European Super League. So we tested out a new format in our first FM23 Experiment.
Leeds United had reached heady heights heading into the 2024/25 campaign, with our Euro Cup success leading us into the Champions League and a +£300 million transfer budget at our disposal. We began the Summer by selling off a few players that weren't quite cutting it. This saw midfielder Alessandro Cortinovis move to Derby for... Continue Reading →
Leeds United moved into 2023 having easily secured qualification to the knockout stages of the Euro Cup. This was secured as the 2022 World Cup was taking place in Qatar and the competition was won by France, who lifted the trophy after a penalty shoot-out victory following a 0-0 draw with Italy - which was... Continue Reading →
Leeds United went into 2020 sitting pretty in eight place in their first season back in the Premier League after a strong run of five wins and a draw through December had catapulted them up the table. I didn't see much need to spend in January, instead waiting for the summer when it looked like... Continue Reading →
Having won The Championship title at the first attempt with Leeds United plenty of rebuilding and strengthening was likely to be needed to compete at Premier League level. That began with offloading a whole host of players that weren't going to be up to the task beginning with Eunan O'Kane, who I'd really struggled to... Continue Reading →
Having wrapped up a sixth-placed finish in Serie A in season one, a busy summer was now ahead with a mass of players returning from loans and several players becoming unsettled.
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