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Former FM website, Dan, Paul, Matt, Matty, Adam & Ben can now be found at @gafferslounge

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Viewfromthetouchline has shut down. Thank you everyone for their support. A team of our writers will be opening a new site you can follow them at @GaffersLounge They are putting together something special for #FM26 and below you can see a preview
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Dan Gear@DGear86Oct 24
🚨 #FM27 SAVE REVEAL 🚨 I will finally unveil my save for FM27 on Tuesday 27th
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[NEW POST] The Last Table in Venice: Venice, Italy. Eighteen months later. thegafferslounge.com/2026/10…

The Last Table in Venice: Venice, Italy. Eighteen months later.

There are places that seem to have been designed for the telling of stories, and Venice, with its narrow passages and improbable doorways, its water moving beneath the houses and its streets that l…

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GrassNGear@GrassNGearOct 6
We're ready for #FM27
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TheGaffersLounge@GaffersLoungeSep 29
[NEW POST] Venezia came calling. They had finished 19th in Serie A on 26 points, and the board invited me to interview for a job with a very different brief: a scaled-back club, a promotion challenge and the opportunity to rebuild rather than refine thegafferslounge.com/2026/09…

The Notebook – Venezia

Well, that escalated rather quicklyA few days ago I was writing about how San Diego had become almost too successful, how the rebuild had happened faster than I expected and how I was struggling to…

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[NEW POST] The Notebook 26 #FM26 thegafferslounge.com/2026/09…

The Notebook 26

I have managed to lose Sergio Uribe and Stephen Moreno in the same trade, and not because I decided to move either of them. I had delegated transfers for San Diego II playe…

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Dan Gear@DGear86Sep 6
[NEW POST] The V Sports Derby Arrives: Aston Villa Vs Annecy #FM26 thegafferslounge.com/2026/09…

The V Sports Derby Arrives: Aston Villa Vs Annecy

UEFA Europa League League Phase — Matchweek 7Villa Park, Birmingham — 24 January 2030Aston Villa 2–1 Annecy There are nights in a multi-club project that matter for reasons far beyond three points.…

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[NEW POST] The Notebook 24 #FM26 thegafferslounge.com/2026/09…

The Notebook 24

With the first-team squad almost settled, I’ve also started looking at what happens underneath it. The academy has a few players who are too interesting to leave sitting there, but not quite ready …

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[NEW POST] The Notebook 25 #FM26 thegafferslounge.com/2026/09…

The Notebook 25

Ten games in: the first proper review Ten league games feels like the right point to stop reacting to individual results and look properly at what this version of San Diego actually is. I deliberat…

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Dan Gear@DGear86Aug 31
[NEW POST] GAIS 2029 Summer Transfer Update #FM26 thegafferslounge.com/2026/08…

GAIS 2029 Summer Transfer Update

Transfers Out The summer began with a fairly ruthless approach to the existing squad. There was no room for sentiment. Every player had to have a purpose. If a player was not improving, not contrib…

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Dan Gear@DGear86Aug 31
GAIS current best XI #FM26
🤖 Made with AI
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Dan Gear@DGear86Sep 3
[NEW POST] GAIS 2029 Season Review #FM26 thegafferslounge.com/2026/09…

GAIS 2029 Season Review

GAIS finished the 2029 Allsvenskan season in 8th place, collecting 44 points from 30 matches after a campaign of 12 wins, eight draws and ten defeats. They finished level on points with AIK and BK …

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TheGaffersLounge@GaffersLoungeAug 31
[NEW POST] The Notebook 18 #FM26 thegafferslounge.com/2026/08…

The Notebook 18

With the existing staff assessed, the next job has been filling some of the rather large gaps San Diego were carrying behind the scenes. There was no need for a mass clear-out because most of the p…

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[NEW POST] The Notebook 19 #FM26 thegafferslounge.com/2026/09…

The Notebook 19

One of the more important decisions of the winter has nothing to do with an individual player at all, but with how I want the roster to be built. MLS gives clubs a choice between two construction m…

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[NEW POST] The Notebook 20 #FM26 thegafferslounge.com/2026/09…

The Notebook 20

The first major signing of the San Diego rebuild is done, and it is probably the clearest indication yet of what I want the recruitment model to look like. Tahiel Peralta will join from Huracán for…

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[NEW POST] THE NOTEBOOK 21 thegafferslounge.com/2026/09…

The Notebook 21

The first proper complication of the winter has arrived, and it is a fairly significant one. I have spent the opening weeks thinking about where the squad needs improving, identifying targets and s…

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[NEW POST] The Notebook 22 #FM26 thegafferslounge.com/2026/09…

The Notebook 22

I’ve hit a fairly strange issue with incoming contracts that I still haven’t completely worked out. The transfer side is fine. I can negotiate fees, agree deals and get clubs to accept offers. The …

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[NEW POST] The Notebook 23 #FM26 thegafferslounge.com/2026/09…

The Notebook 23

Three shapes, one idea. I’ve spent a bit of time this week trying to formalise how I want the team to behave in different game states without falling into the usual trap of having one tactic for no…

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Dan Gear@DGear86Aug 30
[NEW POST] Real Unión have undergone the most transformative summer of the entire V Sports project #FM26 thegafferslounge.com/2026/08…

Real Unión 2029 Summer Transfer Update

Real Unión have undergone perhaps the most transformative summer of the entire V Sports project. This has not been a summer defined by expensive signings. It has not been a summer defined by one ma…

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Dan Gear@DGear86Aug 30
Real unions current best XI #FM26
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TheGaffersLounge@GaffersLoungeAug 30
[NEW POST] Working Out the Salary Cap on #FM26 thegafferslounge.com/2026/08…

Working Out the Salary Cap

The next part of getting to grips with San Diego has been trying to understand exactly what sort of room I have to rebuild the squad, because MLS finances are rather different from simply looking a…

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