Quality-wise this is comfortably the best team I have ever had and I was playing on-again off-again for 8 years. Whole line-up with at least six stars, two with seven and one with eight. Many have SAs and playstyles. Young-ish team. Devoted time to accumulate rests and train them throughout the season. Finished most tasks, did well in a few events.

The end result? Trophyless season. Didn't get even close to any of them. Destroyed in CL quarters by a team with same quality. I guess he must have had the perfect counter formation for me so no biggie, my fault.

Scrambling in the league for top 4 which I am not even invested in much as I want to win the Super League at some point after having won the Champions League last season, while a few of my clown teammates in associations won't even achieve promotion so there go the multipliers down the drain.

The cup elimination annoys me the most. A near 120% quality opponent in the semi again. Hardly stood a chance when I was barely over 100%. I even managed to scramble the return home leg 1-0 but only after being destroyed in the first leg 3-0. You absolutely CAN'T convince me that a level 3 manager can assemble a team that strong without some financial aid or some other method I'd rather not bring up.

I actually don't mind these troll results we often speak of. Looking at the table now, some of them denied me a realistic shot at the league title. You win some you lose some. Love the thrill, the unpredictability. I'd take that over cruising to trophies. Some of my best T11 moments were surreal underdog wins. It's the lack of chance to compete that makes me boil. And it has never been harder than now.

Up until recently I wasn't even taking a look at the premium rewards for completing special sponsor tasks. Once I looked deeper and saw some of them, I was wondering why was I such a klutz trying everything to solve tasks and gain the humongous ten rests, those BREATHTAKING EXCLUSIVE EMBLEMS and BEAUTIFUL PITCH PATTERNS. And don't get me started on the boost lab rewards. Apparently all it takes is a few bucks to Nordeus to assemble a Galactico team and buy yourself trophies. And I always seem to stumble into one of those in every competition nowadays.

The worst thing is, because all I want with every club is to win every competition once, I am actually blaming myself for being in this mess by creating this club on the 3rd day of the season, when I was already eliminated from the cup by a bot. 90% chance I would have won that tournament if I just showed up in time to assemble a decent team in the first two days. But I'll continue to try. New season new chances I suppose...