The Catalan FM
@thecatalanfm.bsky.social
📝 Football Manager written content in catalan and english. FM player since FM07. Almost 20 years later I want to tell you my stories. #FM24
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@thecatalanfm.bsky.social
· Oct 17
THE CATALAN FOOTBALL CHALLANGES FOR FOOTBALL MANAGER 2026
Catalonia has one of the richest football traditions in Europe. Some of Spain’s very first clubs were born here — Palamós (1898), FC Barcelona (1899), and Espanyol (1900).Yet today, only three Cata…
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Seeing so many Football Manager 26 save ideas from other creators, I wanted to make my own.
All inspired by Catalan football clubs.
From Barça or Girona to Sant Andreu or Olot.
📝 Read it here:
thecatalanfm.wordpress.com/2025/10/17/t...
All inspired by Catalan football clubs.
From Barça or Girona to Sant Andreu or Olot.
📝 Read it here:
thecatalanfm.wordpress.com/2025/10/17/t...
FM26 Beta is finally out!
I’ll keep playing FM24 for now and follow the community’s saves and stories. My FM26 save is already planned, save reveal coming November 4th. Between November and December I’ll get FM26 and start the journey.
I’ll keep playing FM24 for now and follow the community’s saves and stories. My FM26 save is already planned, save reveal coming November 4th. Between November and December I’ll get FM26 and start the journey.
October 23, 2025 at 8:25 PM
FM26 Beta is finally out!
I’ll keep playing FM24 for now and follow the community’s saves and stories. My FM26 save is already planned, save reveal coming November 4th. Between November and December I’ll get FM26 and start the journey.
I’ll keep playing FM24 for now and follow the community’s saves and stories. My FM26 save is already planned, save reveal coming November 4th. Between November and December I’ll get FM26 and start the journey.
Seeing so many Football Manager 26 save ideas from other creators, I wanted to make my own.
All inspired by Catalan football clubs.
From Barça or Girona to Sant Andreu or Olot.
📝 Read it here:
thecatalanfm.wordpress.com/2025/10/17/t...
All inspired by Catalan football clubs.
From Barça or Girona to Sant Andreu or Olot.
📝 Read it here:
thecatalanfm.wordpress.com/2025/10/17/t...
THE CATALAN FOOTBALL CHALLANGES FOR FOOTBALL MANAGER 2026
Catalonia has one of the richest football traditions in Europe. Some of Spain’s very first clubs were born here — Palamós (1898), FC Barcelona (1899), and Espanyol (1900).Yet today, only three Cata…
thecatalanfm.wordpress.com
October 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Seeing so many Football Manager 26 save ideas from other creators, I wanted to make my own.
All inspired by Catalan football clubs.
From Barça or Girona to Sant Andreu or Olot.
📝 Read it here:
thecatalanfm.wordpress.com/2025/10/17/t...
All inspired by Catalan football clubs.
From Barça or Girona to Sant Andreu or Olot.
📝 Read it here:
thecatalanfm.wordpress.com/2025/10/17/t...
Season 2 finale.
Direct promotion, playoffs... or another year in the 6th tier?
Three games. No excuses.
Follow the journey here:
community.sports-interactive.com/forums/topic...
And if you want to read right from the start, click below👇
Direct promotion, playoffs... or another year in the 6th tier?
Three games. No excuses.
Follow the journey here:
community.sports-interactive.com/forums/topic...
And if you want to read right from the start, click below👇
August 1, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Season 2 finale.
Direct promotion, playoffs... or another year in the 6th tier?
Three games. No excuses.
Follow the journey here:
community.sports-interactive.com/forums/topic...
And if you want to read right from the start, click below👇
Direct promotion, playoffs... or another year in the 6th tier?
Three games. No excuses.
Follow the journey here:
community.sports-interactive.com/forums/topic...
And if you want to read right from the start, click below👇
NEW FM STORY!
After a break from Football Manager, I’m back. This time with my hometown club: UE Figueres.
I’ll be posting updates on the Sports Interactive forums, but you can also find a link via my blog.
👉 Read the story here:
community.sports-interactive.com/forums/topic...
After a break from Football Manager, I’m back. This time with my hometown club: UE Figueres.
I’ll be posting updates on the Sports Interactive forums, but you can also find a link via my blog.
👉 Read the story here:
community.sports-interactive.com/forums/topic...
[FM24] "La Tramuntana ens arrauixa" - The UE Figueres rebuild story
Intro Figueres is my hometown—where I was born, raised, and where I fell in love with football. I don’t live there anymore, but I still follow the football club from my city. A small city in northern ...
community.sports-interactive.com
July 18, 2025 at 2:54 PM
NEW FM STORY!
After a break from Football Manager, I’m back. This time with my hometown club: UE Figueres.
I’ll be posting updates on the Sports Interactive forums, but you can also find a link via my blog.
👉 Read the story here:
community.sports-interactive.com/forums/topic...
After a break from Football Manager, I’m back. This time with my hometown club: UE Figueres.
I’ll be posting updates on the Sports Interactive forums, but you can also find a link via my blog.
👉 Read the story here:
community.sports-interactive.com/forums/topic...
3 Benches first season's over. Check the season finales here!
June 7, 2025 at 12:20 PM
3 Benches first season's over. Check the season finales here!
Really focused with FC 25 until the end of the season. Then I'll start writing about the FM saves I have in mind.
Centrat en l'FC 25 fins a final de temporada. Quan acabi començaré a escriure sobre les partides a l'FM que tinc en ment.
Centrat en l'FC 25 fins a final de temporada. Quan acabi començaré a escriure sobre les partides a l'FM que tinc en ment.
May 19, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Really focused with FC 25 until the end of the season. Then I'll start writing about the FM saves I have in mind.
Centrat en l'FC 25 fins a final de temporada. Quan acabi començaré a escriure sobre les partides a l'FM que tinc en ment.
Centrat en l'FC 25 fins a final de temporada. Quan acabi començaré a escriure sobre les partides a l'FM que tinc en ment.
Started 2 FM saves, but for now I'm more focused on EA FC 25 and the 3 Benches series.
I've also started sharing the gameplay to go along with the story.
Check out the latest one: The full match of El Clásico – the battle for the top spot. 🎥⚽
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oef...
I've also started sharing the gameplay to go along with the story.
Check out the latest one: The full match of El Clásico – the battle for the top spot. 🎥⚽
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oef...
EA FC 25 | EL CLASICO - BARÇA vs REAL MADRID – FULL MATCH | 3 Benches
YouTube video by The Catalan FM
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May 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Started 2 FM saves, but for now I'm more focused on EA FC 25 and the 3 Benches series.
I've also started sharing the gameplay to go along with the story.
Check out the latest one: The full match of El Clásico – the battle for the top spot. 🎥⚽
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oef...
I've also started sharing the gameplay to go along with the story.
Check out the latest one: The full match of El Clásico – the battle for the top spot. 🎥⚽
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oef...
Barça 24/25 is already a cult team. One that will be remembered forever, no matter what happens in the remaining 45 minutes or at the end of the season. The most entertaining team football has given us in at least the last 15 years. Pure Cruyffism.
April 30, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Barça 24/25 is already a cult team. One that will be remembered forever, no matter what happens in the remaining 45 minutes or at the end of the season. The most entertaining team football has given us in at least the last 15 years. Pure Cruyffism.
The day after Sant Jordi in Catalonia, a day to celebrate love with books and roses. A perfect time to share the new (and final) Choose Life episode.
The journey ends here, after my laptop died mid Liverpool - Arsenal.
📖👇
thecatalanfm.wordpress.com/2025/04/23/c...
The journey ends here, after my laptop died mid Liverpool - Arsenal.
📖👇
thecatalanfm.wordpress.com/2025/04/23/c...
CHOOSE LIFE – SEASON 3: FEVER PITCH. EPISODE 2: A NEW STAR FOR A NEW ERA
All successful teams need their star, their beacon, their reference. With the current Arsenal that Arteta started fading out – and that in this game managed to win 5 titles with Ancelotti – Giorgos…
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April 24, 2025 at 6:31 AM
The day after Sant Jordi in Catalonia, a day to celebrate love with books and roses. A perfect time to share the new (and final) Choose Life episode.
The journey ends here, after my laptop died mid Liverpool - Arsenal.
📖👇
thecatalanfm.wordpress.com/2025/04/23/c...
The journey ends here, after my laptop died mid Liverpool - Arsenal.
📖👇
thecatalanfm.wordpress.com/2025/04/23/c...
2 more chapters of this, if anyone's interested.
3 BENCHES
The first chapter of my EAFC25 chronicles is now in English.
Step into the simulation of the 24/25 season with 3 different coaches, starting with Hansi Flick.
Read it here:
thecatalanfm.wordpress.com/2025/01/21/3...
The first chapter of my EAFC25 chronicles is now in English.
Step into the simulation of the 24/25 season with 3 different coaches, starting with Hansi Flick.
Read it here:
thecatalanfm.wordpress.com/2025/01/21/3...
3 BENCHES – INTRODUCTION AND CHAPTER 1
I’m starting a new writing project. This time, it isn’t about Football Manager, though I won’t stop playing it. It’s a different concept: while in FM, I create a new manager with a unique ide…
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March 9, 2025 at 9:33 PM
2 more chapters of this, if anyone's interested.
Another club, another Choose Life season.
Last 3 months of the 31/32 season and Giorgos arrives at Arsenal with one mission: guarantee European football next season at the Emirates. Can he turn things around?
Read it here: thecatalanfm.wordpress.com/2025/03/02/c...
Last 3 months of the 31/32 season and Giorgos arrives at Arsenal with one mission: guarantee European football next season at the Emirates. Can he turn things around?
Read it here: thecatalanfm.wordpress.com/2025/03/02/c...
CHOOSE LIFE. SEASON 3: FEVER PITCH. EPISODE 1: THREE MONTHS AND ONE GOAL.
INTRODUCTION Giorgos Palagostecoglou arrives at Arsenal for the final three months of the 31/32 season, taking over at a challenging time for the club. Despite winning their first-ever Champions Le…
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March 2, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Another club, another Choose Life season.
Last 3 months of the 31/32 season and Giorgos arrives at Arsenal with one mission: guarantee European football next season at the Emirates. Can he turn things around?
Read it here: thecatalanfm.wordpress.com/2025/03/02/c...
Last 3 months of the 31/32 season and Giorgos arrives at Arsenal with one mission: guarantee European football next season at the Emirates. Can he turn things around?
Read it here: thecatalanfm.wordpress.com/2025/03/02/c...
After this preseason I bet I will clearly lose the first league match.
February 28, 2025 at 9:59 PM
After this preseason I bet I will clearly lose the first league match.
It’s a joy watching Pedri play football.
February 9, 2025 at 8:52 PM
It’s a joy watching Pedri play football.
First game with Arsenal in Choose Life series. Europa League round of 16 vs Porto, first leg.
Love the flow of the team with the new tactic after just 3 days in charge and the quality of the players. I feel good things are coming.
Love the flow of the team with the new tactic after just 3 days in charge and the quality of the players. I feel good things are coming.
February 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
First game with Arsenal in Choose Life series. Europa League round of 16 vs Porto, first leg.
Love the flow of the team with the new tactic after just 3 days in charge and the quality of the players. I feel good things are coming.
Love the flow of the team with the new tactic after just 3 days in charge and the quality of the players. I feel good things are coming.
Semisonic sang in Closing Time, "every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end," and that’s exactly what this new Choose Life episode is about: closing times and new beginnings.
With no news on Football Manager 2025, read here about the new direction in Giorgos' career:
With no news on Football Manager 2025, read here about the new direction in Giorgos' career:
CHOOSE LIFE SEASON 2 EPISODE 5 – EVERY NEW BEGINNING COMES FROM SOME OTHER BEGINNING’S END
The 30/31 season will be the last one for Palagostecoglou at Aston Villa. Despite overcoming the rough start to the season, some unresolved issues remained, eventually leading to his resignation. L…
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February 2, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Semisonic sang in Closing Time, "every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end," and that’s exactly what this new Choose Life episode is about: closing times and new beginnings.
With no news on Football Manager 2025, read here about the new direction in Giorgos' career:
With no news on Football Manager 2025, read here about the new direction in Giorgos' career:
3 BENCHES
The first chapter of my EAFC25 chronicles is now in English.
Step into the simulation of the 24/25 season with 3 different coaches, starting with Hansi Flick.
Read it here:
thecatalanfm.wordpress.com/2025/01/21/3...
The first chapter of my EAFC25 chronicles is now in English.
Step into the simulation of the 24/25 season with 3 different coaches, starting with Hansi Flick.
Read it here:
thecatalanfm.wordpress.com/2025/01/21/3...
3 BENCHES – INTRODUCTION AND CHAPTER 1
I’m starting a new writing project. This time, it isn’t about Football Manager, though I won’t stop playing it. It’s a different concept: while in FM, I create a new manager with a unique ide…
thecatalanfm.wordpress.com
January 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM
3 BENCHES
The first chapter of my EAFC25 chronicles is now in English.
Step into the simulation of the 24/25 season with 3 different coaches, starting with Hansi Flick.
Read it here:
thecatalanfm.wordpress.com/2025/01/21/3...
The first chapter of my EAFC25 chronicles is now in English.
Step into the simulation of the 24/25 season with 3 different coaches, starting with Hansi Flick.
Read it here:
thecatalanfm.wordpress.com/2025/01/21/3...
Començo un nou projecte escrit: mentre que al FM creo un nou entrenador amb una identitat pròpia, aquí simularé tres entrenadors reals durant la temporada 24/25 amb l'EA FC25.
Benvinguts a 3 BANQUETES.
Capítol 1: Hansi Flick i la Supercopa
thecatalanfm.wordpress.com/2025/01/17/3...
Benvinguts a 3 BANQUETES.
Capítol 1: Hansi Flick i la Supercopa
thecatalanfm.wordpress.com/2025/01/17/3...
3 BANQUETES – INTRODUCCIÓ I CAPÍTOL 1
Començo un nou projecte escrit. Aquest cop, no gira al voltant del Football Manager, tot i que no deixaré de jugar-hi. És una idea diferent: mentre que al FM creo un nou entrenador amb una identita…
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January 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Començo un nou projecte escrit: mentre que al FM creo un nou entrenador amb una identitat pròpia, aquí simularé tres entrenadors reals durant la temporada 24/25 amb l'EA FC25.
Benvinguts a 3 BANQUETES.
Capítol 1: Hansi Flick i la Supercopa
thecatalanfm.wordpress.com/2025/01/17/3...
Benvinguts a 3 BANQUETES.
Capítol 1: Hansi Flick i la Supercopa
thecatalanfm.wordpress.com/2025/01/17/3...
We're going to Wembley for the first time!
January 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
We're going to Wembley for the first time!
This Christmas holidays I had time to play #FM24, start the new season and write about it. I had to write because it's the first time I feared about losing my job.
Read about the first half of the 30/31 season here:
thecatalanfm.wordpress.com/2025/01/10/c...
Read about the first half of the 30/31 season here:
thecatalanfm.wordpress.com/2025/01/10/c...
CHOOSE LIFE – SEASON 2, EPISODE 4: UNDER PRESSURE
Tottenham Stadium – 5/10/2030 – 15:00“Kulusevski with the corner kick… Guzmaaan! 1-0 to Tottenham!”“Roque. To Wirtz… he’s not offside… and Wirtz DOUBLE THE SCORE!”“Wiiiirtz!! SENSATIONA…
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January 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
This Christmas holidays I had time to play #FM24, start the new season and write about it. I had to write because it's the first time I feared about losing my job.
Read about the first half of the 30/31 season here:
thecatalanfm.wordpress.com/2025/01/10/c...
Read about the first half of the 30/31 season here:
thecatalanfm.wordpress.com/2025/01/10/c...
Ending 2024 with the work done. Fresh out of the oven, the 3rd episode of the 2nd season of Choose Life.
The 29/30 season of Aston Villa, the reigning European champion.
Happy New Year to everyone, and many successes in FM! 🏆🎉
thecatalanfm.wordpress.com/2024/12/31/c...
The 29/30 season of Aston Villa, the reigning European champion.
Happy New Year to everyone, and many successes in FM! 🏆🎉
thecatalanfm.wordpress.com/2024/12/31/c...
CHOOSE LIFE SEASON 2. EPISODE 3: THE BEST OF THE REST
From the Bluesky account, I have already been updating how the 29/30 season, the second for Palagostecoglou at Aston Villa, has progressed. Therefore, this season’s summary will be shorter th…
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December 31, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Ending 2024 with the work done. Fresh out of the oven, the 3rd episode of the 2nd season of Choose Life.
The 29/30 season of Aston Villa, the reigning European champion.
Happy New Year to everyone, and many successes in FM! 🏆🎉
thecatalanfm.wordpress.com/2024/12/31/c...
The 29/30 season of Aston Villa, the reigning European champion.
Happy New Year to everyone, and many successes in FM! 🏆🎉
thecatalanfm.wordpress.com/2024/12/31/c...
Also it was my birthday on saturday and my girlfriend brought me here.
Barça played so well, it was such a shame the final result. Really in love with this team, in Flick we trust.
Barça played so well, it was such a shame the final result. Really in love with this team, in Flick we trust.
December 26, 2024 at 9:58 AM
Also it was my birthday on saturday and my girlfriend brought me here.
Barça played so well, it was such a shame the final result. Really in love with this team, in Flick we trust.
Barça played so well, it was such a shame the final result. Really in love with this team, in Flick we trust.
On Christmas Eve in Catalonia we have “el tió”, a magic trunk we beat with a stick while singing his song so it defecates christmas presents.
No FM25, but he’s pooed me this. I’ve already got few challanges in mind. 😊⚽️
No FM25, but he’s pooed me this. I’ve already got few challanges in mind. 😊⚽️
December 26, 2024 at 9:52 AM
On Christmas Eve in Catalonia we have “el tió”, a magic trunk we beat with a stick while singing his song so it defecates christmas presents.
No FM25, but he’s pooed me this. I’ve already got few challanges in mind. 😊⚽️
No FM25, but he’s pooed me this. I’ve already got few challanges in mind. 😊⚽️
When you play at home against a relegation team on Football Manager.
Such a Catalan thing to lose today.
Such a Catalan thing to lose today.
November 30, 2024 at 3:22 PM
When you play at home against a relegation team on Football Manager.
Such a Catalan thing to lose today.
Such a Catalan thing to lose today.
125 anys d'història.
T'estimo Barça! La nostra vida!
T'estimo Barça! La nostra vida!
November 29, 2024 at 6:06 PM
125 anys d'història.
T'estimo Barça! La nostra vida!
T'estimo Barça! La nostra vida!
Champions League nights
November 27, 2024 at 8:02 PM
Champions League nights