One Season to Win It All - Let’s Build a Superteam! FM26 Arsenal

Thanks for the support as a channel

member James Holland. Well, after the

disaster that was the Champions League

final, we've now got the summer transfer

window ahead of what will be the final

season of this FM26 beta save. So, we

need to go into this transfer window

with a plan because we have to win the

Premier League and the Champions League

next season. Step one of the plan is to

never again be caught in Spurs colors.

I think that one gets the job done. And

then step two is to continue rebuilding

this squad in my image. We've got £34

million to spend, which doesn't feel

like anywhere near enough money. And

we're maxed out on our wage budget, but

we do have a lot of salailable assets.

If we have a look at the loan players

we've currently got out of the club,

Fabio Vieiraa, definite, definite sell.

Mel Marino, definite sell. Um, Kir

definite sells. Enchenko definite sell.

Reese Nelson, there's lots of players we

can sell and there's more of them

knocking around in the first team squad

as well. If we look on the fringes of

the first team squad, we've got Gabriel

Jesus who's played five games all year.

He can go. Nani Maduke only started

twice. He can go. Norard's already on

the transfer list. He can go. Trussard

can go. Pretty much the only ones we're

going to be keeping. Hapier is coming in

permanently. Mourinho played most of

those games. Else scored plenty of goals

for him as well. He's he's a goal

machine, isn't he? Um, but everyone from

Moscara up apart from Mourinho will be

part of next season's squad. Everyone

from Trasard down won't be if I have my

way. Um, Kea's fine as a backup

goalkeeper I guess or a backup backup.

We've got Rya as our backup. Um, and

Costa isn't much better than him as

we've learned. Um, so maybe we move Keer

on as well. We probably don't need to be

spending £100,000 a week on a third

choice keeper. So actually yeah,

everyone from Keer down we're going to

try and get rid of and if we get

anywhere near their values

them plus the players who are out on

loan will be coming back. It's like 200

million pounds of a player at which

point we can have some fun doing some

spending and there's not obvious areas

of the squad that we need to strengthen.

The squad is pretty good throughout.

According to the squad planner, our

weakness is at right back. I would argue

Yuri Timber and Ben White isn't that

much of a weakness. So, I think we are

pretty strong throughout the entire

squad. So, I guess we're just looking

for the odd superstar here and there to

really sprinkle some magic on the place

because it is a solid squad that if

Liverpool hadn't been so relentless, we

would have won the Premier League. And

if I hadn't have been fmed in the mother

of all fmings, we'd have won the

Champions League. Well, we're close.

We're just not quite there. So,

let's do some kind of transfer window

magic. And for those of you wondering,

it does look like the end of season

review has changed shape in FM26. Rather

than it being the PowerPoint

presentation we got before, um, we've

got one big email that has clickable

boxes in it and you can go into in a

little bit more detail. So, I I resent

the fact they say we've failed that

expectation. We were supposed to be

title challenges and we finished second.

How how have we failed that one then?

So what you meant is win the league. Um

we did meet the reach quarterfinal of

the Champions League expectation. The

board don't care about the Carabel Cup

and weirdly we failed the no

expectations there as well. Um but on

the whole we're doing all right.

Moneywise we are looking good and the

goals for next season. Um if we have we

got competition vision stuff. Let's try

and negotiate this because I don't feel

like we've been given all the

information. So, they want us to

increase commercial revenue. Yeah. Blah

blah blah blah blah. Sign players under

23 for the first team. So, that's

something to bear in mind for this

summer. They'd rather we sign young

players and certainly no players over 30

for the first team. Um, as far as

competition stuff goes, there's no me

competitions on there. Oh, here we go.

So, that was this season. next season.

They want us to win the Premier League

and challenge for the Champions League.

So, I guess they their goal is the same

as mine. We've got to win the Premier

League this year. It's actually a higher

priority according to that than the

Champions League. We've only got a

challenge for the Champions League. We

must win the Premier League. So, let's

tell the boys that. Um, we are going to

win the Premier League. Odigard loves

it. Um, that'll do. Meeting over. Glad

you all came in today. Now you can go on

your holiday. You can go back to your

holidays now, lads. Off you pop. Um

yeah, pre-season start date. Um I don't

know, whatever the normal one is. We'll

have five weeks of preseason, please.

They failed. Um it's of course the World

Cup this summer as well, so our

preseason is going to start before some

of the players are back, but we're not

going to worry too much about that. I

hope everyone going to the World Cup

fails so that we can have them for as

much of the summer as possible. Right.

transfer window doesn't open for a

month. I will do my best to try and sell

some players before then, but

anecdotally, according to the internet,

selling players seems to be quite hard

on FM26. So, we might have to wait until

the window opens on the 1st of July

before we can really properly get

started with our business because 30

million pounds to spend is pointless.

We're not going to be able to bring

anyone in for that kind of money. So, we

need to focus on selling first.

See, I'd quite like to sign him

and we probably could get him for the

price that we've got. The problem is he

doesn't come in and make us better

straight away. That's very much a

signing for the future.

H

we'll have a ponder. I'm not going to

jump into that immediately. I'm also not

against Ryer going to Newcastle for big

money and we'll keep Ker as our backup.

We don't need we don't need two good

backups to um to Costa and I don't

really mind which of the two that we've

got we keep because they're just the

backup. Um so if it's better to sell Ry

financially to allow us to spend the

money elsewhere then I don't mind doing

that when the time comes. Um there you

go. Let's give Chuan a pat on the head.

You've been a good boy. Well done. Well

done for being a good boy. Right. I

really will disappear for a bit and try

and do some business now. do just want

to point out this is a very alarming

screen. It's a long time since I've been

jump scared by Football Manager, but we

get a headline in Arsenal release five

players. I'm not reading it all. I did

notice the faces of five players on the

screen though, Rya White, Celiba,

Gabrielle, Timber. And I'm like, we've

done No, it's not. It's these these

players listed here. These are examples

of five players still part of our 26

mania squad.

I mean

why?

Well, we have made it through to the 1st

of July. We have managed to get some

transfer business done. Um we've uh Kior

and Zenchenko have both gone through

permanently. Zenchenko on a free trans

transfer to Marseilles. Kir has gone to

Porto which I think was pre-arranged for

25 million same as Hin Capier was

pre-arranged coming in for 40 million

from Leverkusen. Leandro Trussard has

gone to Real Madrid for 44 million. Um

you can also see it has on here now I

might have to move my head. I'm the

invisible man momentarily but I quite

like the way it shows what we've sold

them for and whether we made a profit or

loss on them. I think that's quite cool.

Presumably that's for FFP stuff as well,

which I haven't even dug into the FFP

stuff in this game properly just yet.

I'm back. Uh, we also sold Norard to Al

Tyoon for£16 million and a couple of

youngsters have gone as well. So total

sales of 85 million plus the 40 million

in that I think came out of last

season's transfer budget because it was

already pre-arranged means that we now

have 94 million to spend and a whole

load of wage budget to play with. Plus

there's still some ongoing outward

transfers as well. We've accepted 38

million pound offers from Paris and

Bayern Munich Anatico Madrid for

Madaweki. We've also accepted a couple

of 18 million pounds offers for Rhys

Nelson. So we could potentially get that

even higher and there's probably a

couple more players we wouldn't be

really offended with letting go as well.

If we have a look at what it does to the

squad planner, um it's it's relatively

unchanged. The the key players that

we've got are still the key players. I

mean, we could probably do with another

right back, especially if Ben White

leaves and we've got interest in Ben

White. If Juventus want to give us big

money for Ben White, we can go and get

another really good right back and he

can properly compete with Timber. Marino

is back and after scoring all those

goals out on his loan has now become a

striker. He didn't have striker on his

uh on his list of positions before, but

presumably he's been playing as a

striker. Eight goals in 14 games. Um so

he's now in the mix as a rotation

striker option for us. We're going to

try and sell Jesus, but nobody wants

him. I'm not completely against having

Mourinho stick around as the third

choice striker, fourth choice central

midfielder. Um, so I'm thinking if white

goes, we buy a right back. We certainly

don't need center backs or a left back

because we've got Lewis, Skelly, Timber,

and Hinapier.

Um, so I think we probably

then look a little bit further forward

and see if there's areas that could

potentially be upgraded. Maybe you can

upgrade Ramos to get another really

elite striker to properly complete

compete with Yarez. As we saw in a

Champions League final, Ramos has had

his moments, but on the big occasion, he

kind of bottled it a little bit. Maybe

we could get a really elite level left

winger, although Martinelli did show in

that Champions League final that he is

certainly has the potential to become

that. I'm not against letting Eza go. Um

certainly with Mount being in, he seems

to be he seems to fit better into what I

want to do than he does. Um, so we could

potentially do some shifting around of

players in these areas as well. But like

I say, there's still no super obvious

squad weakness. It's more a case of

getting players that better fit how I

want to be playing

and figuring it out from there. If we

have a look at the Premier League, um,

the obviously the board have told us

we've got to win it. The season preview

still has us second. Um, and we don't

have as much in the dream. I mean,

Martinelli, Rice, and Sack are all in

the Dream 11, as is Celiba and Lewis

Skellyy.

So, I mean, Martinelli, I think, has

probably done enough to justify sticking

around. He's the best left winger in the

Premier League, apparently. I think

that's maybe the area. Maybe we need to

even upgrade on Yarez and go and try and

find

a really, really good striker. The only

problem is most of them got sold the

summer before.

I mean Dembele maybe Man City you're

after Dembele can't afford him.

Um

Toro Martinez maybe

we need to we need to have a ponder

about this. We're not rushing into

anything that's for sure. Right. That is

Madoki gone as well for £38 million

which puts our budget now up to 130

million and we've just had an offer from

Chelsea for Fabio Vieiraa as well. So

fingers crossed we also get him out the

door

and then I really do need to figure out

who I'm going to buy. I'm just doing a

lot of I'm getting rid of all the squad

depth that Arsenal have built up over

the last couple of seasons and then I

really do have to buy some players. I

just don't know what to buy this. Even

even with all these players leaving,

what we've got left is still really

good. I don't know where we need to

strengthen.

Fabio Vieiraa has now gone as well. Gets

Why is our budget? Oh, because for some

reason the game has decided to faff

around with this. I don't need 2 million

pounds spare in my wage budget. That's

insanity. Um, even leaving that much in

there is bonkers. But yeah, we've got

we've got a lot of transfer budget to

play with. Now, we did just try and sign

Nathan Dat um and the board blocked the

deal, which is annoying. And now we

can't put another offer in for a lower

amount. So,

oh no, now we can. Let's Let's make an

off. Can we? No. No. It doesn't let me

adjust the previous offer that we had.

So, that's annoying. And while that's

going on, I've got my director of

football trying to sign Chimikass for

me, a 30-year-old who literally goes

against the club requirements of not

signing players over 30. So, that's

nice. We're continuing to get rid of

players. We're hemorrhaging players and

still haven't made a single signing.

I'm going I tell you, I'm going to pull

something off spectacular. This isn't

going to be a repeat of the Champions

League final debacle. We are going to do

something.

I hope. Well, I am thinking this is a

bug because he's got a 41 million pound

release clause. There's no way for me to

just offer it that I can see,

which is really annoying.

Um, I guess we just have to wait for

that previous offer to time out. I've

tried going through and making an

inquiry. They just rejected it. I've

tried um adding him as a transfer target

and the board say we can't afford him.

So, I think we just have to wait. Time

will pass and we should be able to just

pay his release clause. Meanwhile, we're

trying to sign this guy 32 million

pounds. Um just as a another option up

front who can also cover the attacking

midfield areas because obviously we're

losing Madoki. um Jesus, although we

haven't actually sold Jesus yet, but

we're gonna be a Trussard is gone, so

it' be handy to have someone who can

cover a few of those positions. I don't

really expect him to start anywhere, but

he can cover multiple positions where

we're maybe losing a little bit of

strength in depth. So, that's the

thinking there. And that's Reese Nelson

gone for 18 million just as Martinelli

picks up an injury. Luckily, it's not a

serious injury. Um, but yeah, we

continue to accumulate

a crazy amount of money. We can't even

put more money into the transfer budget,

which is going to be annoying. We need

to spend some money on wages. Um, that

Yeah, we are we are getting there with

clearing out the Deadwood, that's for

sure. Oh, we've got some offers in that

we don't want to accept,

right,

we're just we're not selling timber to

Bayern Munich.

That's easy. He's not going to get

grumpy about that, I don't think. Real

Madrid in for Saliba. I mean, it's not

nearly enough money. We don't We've got

no interest in selling him anyway. I

hope neither of them are going to get

grumpy that I've turned those deals

down. I guess we'll hit continue and

find out.

Um, oh, that deal is about to go

through. Uh, but it doesn't look like

There you go. Celiba's linked with the

move, but he's not saying he wants the

move. So,

Marino may run down his You know what?

Let's sell Marino.

I'm not giving him a new contract at 30.

So, no one wants him. Right. Well, let's

offer him out then because I can see

somebody wants him.

Pa Noe, that's Napoli, isn't it? Napoli

want him. I will do the uh the real name

fix for clubs once the full game is out.

By the way, I know a few of you have

asked. Um, I try not to mod the game at

all during the beta because obviously

it's buggy enough as it is. We don't

want to give it even more reasons to

break. Um, but there you go. Vtor Rock

is coming in. So, let's accept that and

then meet our new signing,

which we're going to celebrate by Marino

immediately getting injured, which is

annoying by no Eza getting injured.

Mourinho not wanting to uh attract any

interest. Gabrielle can welcome him in.

And this is our new striker/attacking

midfielder. Very much my kind of

striker. Very pacy, very physical.

Little bit shorter than what I would go

for. Um, but four stars of current

ability puts him right up there with

Yarez. In fact, better than Jockarez as

the best striker at the club. So, I

mean, that's some that's some proper

competition for places. I wasn't really

thinking in terms of replacing Okarez

when I signed him. Um,

can we do that? There you go. In fact,

yeah, in the role that I guess because

we play as a target forward, he's not

going to fit fully, but we can set him a

a personalized role, but now we really

do want Jesus Marino out

and then we can focus on adding some

depth elsewhere. We've still got a ton

of cash to play with. Well, we finally

have our man. We were able to get him in

the end. Uh Nathan Dat just turned 18 as

well. So we're actually able to bring

him in straight away. Two stars current

ability, fivestar potential. We just

paid his 41 million pound release

clause. He's not going to be ready to

come in and play in the team straight

away. Um but maybe as the season goes

on, who knows? Um let's have a look how

he then fits into our squad depth on

here. There he is all the way down

there. Um, but we are now actively

trying to get Mikuel Mourinho out of the

way. And I mean, he'll get better. He'll

get better in time. We've had one come

in and look great. Maybe uh maybe Dat

will will push on as the season goes on

and certainly hits that board goal of

signing young players for the future.

We've still got an absolute ton of money

to spend. So, I guess we continue

filling. We really need a right back.

The problem is in the age profile we're

looking at to under 23s, there is no

right back we can get. It's interesting

that Lamin, in fact, that's doubtful. Is

he persuadable?

Lamin is persuadable. Barcelona aren't.

He's listed as not for sale, but Lamin

could be persuaded to sign for Arsenal.

I mean, should we try? We should

probably try, shouldn't we?

Um,

have 120 million? No.

Okay,

he's got an 864 million release clause.

We're probably not going to pay that.

I'd quite like a utility defender, like

a Urian Timber clone,

but such a thing doesn't seem to exist.

He's probably the closest to that that

exists.

He maybe

Kobe Mayo is an interesting one. We

don't need We've just signed a

midfielder. We don't need another

midfielder.

I don't know what we need. We've got a

very good squad. This is the problem

with starting at a team that's already

good. I don't really know what we need

because everything is fine, but we

didn't win anything. So, it's obviously

not. Oh my word. A player we signed just

to be a young player has just won the

World Cup golden boot. Eight goals in

seven appearances for VTOR for Brazil at

the World Cup. He's Brazil's starting

striker.

Won the golden boot. They didn't win the

World Cup. He's finished runner up in

the World Cup. Belgium winning the World

Cup. So, I've had a few people asking,

"Does the does the international stuff

still get played?" Yes, it does. You

just can't manage it yourself. Um, but

yeah, he's he didn't win goal of the

tournament. Um, I mean, we've we've had

So, hold on. We've had Sacka win goal of

the tournament. We've got the best young

player and the top goalcorer

and Rock is in the dream team as well.

He genuinely might be our starting

striker,

which definitely wasn't the plan.

Interesting. Right, we are all Leads

fans for this upcoming season. Mik

Mourinho's join them on loan for the

season. They're only paying 60% of his

wages, but if leadeds survive in the

Premier League, they are paying 63

million pounds for what will then be a

31-year-old Mikuel Mourinho, which is

phenomenal business. If we manage to

pull that off, we need to do everything

we can to help leads stay up in the

Premier League. When is getting better

and better, by the way, we need to use

him even more next season. So, probably

don't need to be bringing any more wide

players in. Looks like the uh the thing

that was in FM24 is still here as well

cuz we've got the ML Marino money in our

budget now. Um

159 million to spend. Still no obvious

place I need to spend it. Um I am still

very much focused on under 23 players.

It might be time to broaden the search a

little bit

because we've signed two under 23s now.

Let's push that up to 27 and see if we

can find a really good right back

because I'd really like a really good

right back. I mean, Nuno Mendes, do we

want to spend 100 million pound plus on

a left back?

Bald's there as a left back as well.

Reese James we could get for 80 million

apparently.

I mean,

would he come? Would Chelsea sell him to

us? No.

Uh because of the rivalry, they put the

price up massively. Yeah, we're not

going to pay that for him. I would have

paid 70 or 80 million for him, not 170

million. That's bonkers.

Um

I still don't know

how I can improve this team because it's

already very very good.

Maybe him.

H

couldn't we have him for a reasonable

price?

See, I don't want to pay £100 million

for a right back.

But I think anything we buy to improve

this team is going to cost us that kind

of price.

Goodness me, it's difficult. Well,

somehow I've let this slip through the

net. Um, Henapier's not got a work

permit. We've just applied for it now.

Um, but Gabrielle's still on holiday

after the World Cup. In Capier has no

work permit. So for the community show

referend to play Ben White at center

back. I guess we could play Mascara.

Where's Moscara? Moscara is there. Thing

is, Moscara in game not as good as

Moscara in real life. Maybe we need a

center back. If Hinapier doesn't get a

work permit, we need a center back. And

we've also got Rock and Yakarez both

injured. So Ramos is going to get the

nod for the community. I'm not going to

play the match on the video and we're

going to get through to transfer

deadline day. Um, but this is our first

time playing Liverpool. This season,

last season, our first time playing them

didn't go very well. So, fingers crossed

we've improved.

There's not much in the way of new faces

in the team. Right. Hapier does now have

a work permit. I don't know how his work

permit managed to lapse, but his work

permit is sorted as far as the Community

Shield went. Much closer than when we

played Liverpool last season. This time

they only beat us on penalties and

that's without our first two strikers

being available for the match. So I

think we're getting better. The season

is about to start and we still haven't

made I was going to say we haven't made

a huge high-profile signing. We've

literally signed Brazil's striker from

the World Cup who's just finished World

Cup top scorer. So I think we probably

have made a big high-profile signing,

but I want a big 100 million pound

siding. But I want a 100 million pound

caliber player.

Um, it looks like my director of

football's making an offer for somebody.

Gabrielle's back. Um, and we've made an

offer for I mean, we don't need him.

Just an average defender, a last resort

defender. Director of football transfers

in FM26.

Not nearly as good

as uh as FM24.

I'm going have to do a lot more of this

work myself. Ah, we've got an offer for

Jesus. Yeah, we we'll take any offer for

him. Just get him out. Doesn't matter

that they're not paying any of his

salary. Um, we just want to clear the

squad spot

because otherwise as a highly

influential player, he's going to be a

grumpus when he doesn't even get on the

bench. There you go. There's a headline

signing. Ryan Flamingo, elite center

back is in from who did we did it not

say who we signed him for? Fire Nord I

want to say. Was it Fire Nord? PSV same

thing. How you doing Dutch people? Um

but yeah, he's in for67 million. We

didn't need him and I think that's the

problem we had everywhere. But I'd kind

of set a chain reaction off in my brain

for when I was looking at the um when I

was looking at the community shield that

we didn't I didn't want to use Mascara

because Mascara is not as good in game

as he is in real life. So let's replace

him. So we've basically replaced Moscara

in the squad with a guy who is better

than him. So we now have a first reserve

for Celiba and Gabrielle. Um, we can

have Flamingo on the right, Encapier on

the left, Mascara basically just the

third choice right back for us now. And

that's fine. It's okay to have that. Um,

we've still got money left. We could

still probably go and buy a right back.

We got so much money in our wage budget

um that we can put over into transfer

budget. I mean, there you go. We could

go and spend 80 million pounds on a

right back still. I just don't know who

that right back might be. Kundai is the

only one really that

is a potentially realistic option. I'm

just not sure that we need him.

I mean there's Liv Romento.

Livermento is quite handy because he can

play both sides.

Maybe we'll try and sign Livermento. How

much can we get Livermento for?

Um 80 to 96 million. I mean it will take

all of our remaining budget but we may

as well spend it. And we want to win the

league this year. So,

let's go and get Liv Romento. And there

we go. Liv Romento is in 94 million

pounds. Um, it's 70 rising to 94. I'll

have you know, I've not completely lost

my mind, but the fact that he's an elite

level fullback on both sides. Um, it

just provided us cover in two areas that

we absolutely needed cover. If we have a

look at our squad planner now, um he's

probably

I mean he might end up being our

starting right back. Um but he's also

right up there competing at left back as

well. And I think we've just given

ourselves upgrades across the team. This

is now the squad, boys and girls, that

is going to win it all. Um we've started

the season pretty well. Uh two wins,

beat Leicester 2-1. Um thumped Fulham

6-1 away from home. big test against

Manchester City. Now, I am still going

to run us through to transfer deadline

day um just in case any more business is

done, but I don't anticipate anything

else happening unless Real Madrid come

in and offer us like 200 million for

Celiba, who for the first time we could

probably consider selling if the price

was good enough, but it would have to be

an insanely good price. See, there you

go. Timber is now unhappy. He turned

down like 60 million from uh from Bayern

Munich for him earlier in the summer and

now he's effectively a reserve in all

positions and he's going to have to

accept it.

Um

you know what for now I'll put him back

to his previous squad level because I

don't even know if I'm going to like

Livermento yet. I know I've spent 94

million on him but Timber might continue

to start so let's not upset him

unnecessarily early. I'll meet you on

deadline day unless something mad

happens before then. And with that, we

have made it to the end of the transfer

window with our biggest sighting being

Tino, Liv Romento, Flamingo pretty close

as well. And they're actually two of the

biggest transfers in the entirety of the

Premier League. Um, do we get any There

you go. 1.2 billion pounds was spent in

the Premier League. Quite a lot of it by

us. We need to win the thing this year.

We ended up spending 251 million

bringing in 164 million in the other

direction. Jesus did go on loan to Le in

the end and that was the only other

significant out and of course you saw

all the ins as they arrived and that new

group of players have started the

Premier League season very well. We have

four wins including a 4-2 win over Man

City that included a Mason Mount

hattick. He's going to go down as siding

at the save. Mason Mount is incredible

and the Premier League table looks like

this after four games. So, us Liverpool

and Newcastle all with 100% stats and uh

how soon do we play any of them? We play

Liverpool away there. Newcastle at home

there before then of course we've got

the Champions League getting back

underway as well. The toughest game

we've probably got is the first one up

away against Bayern Munich. And you can

see the rest of our Champions League

fixtures on there. So I think tomorrow

we're probably going to play Liverpool

in a Champions League game and we need

to win them both because we need to win

them both as in both of the competition.

So fingers crossed we shall. But we'll

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