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FM22 FC Barcelona Rebuild - Pre-Season 2021

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Summer 2021 Transfers FC Barcelona Rebuild - Pre-Season 2021   TRANSFERS:   With the way I wanted the team to play a Pressing Forward was my top target. This also improved depth at the Striker position with Braithwaite being undesired and Aguero out injured. With a tight budget Andrea Belotti was the purchase at $30M, and he has been perfect for my lead Pressing Forward when in 442, and as a deeper Target when playing with 1 Striker.   Bentancur and Raul Garcia were both brought in to provide quality depth at a good price. Raul Garcia , even though he has gotten off to a slow start bc of weaker technicals, did also achieve the goal of weakening the competition. Bentancur has been very good as a rotation Box-to-Box Mid which covers his weakness in Concentration. He was a loan with an option to buy for $19M that will be exercised at the end of the season.     TACTICS: The team as primarily played in the shape shown below. It is a style the rewards player technical, mental, and athletic s

Money is Power, But Wisdom is Best

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Money is Power, But Wisdom is Best The goal when making a decision is to be right. The same goes for when confronted with problems and arguments. We want to solve them and win them, respectively. Doesn’t everyone, especially lawyers, want to win every argument? However, most non-mathematical problems and arguments are very non-binary (binary being true or false, yes or no, innocent or guilty, to do or not do, etc.) in that they have many prospective solutions and answers. In those cases, winning an argument does not always mean the winner is even correct. Is there a right or wrong answer on where to have the company’s Christmas Party? Among the people discussing, one person could seem more right to some, and another could be less right yet more convincing to others, and either could be speaking to the wrong or right crowd correctly or incorrectly. That illustrates what we all already know. Which is that for different people, the same problem often has different solutions. So then, what

The Love of Ice Cream and Loathing of Waste

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A Simple Analogy on the Philosophy of Waste The summer heat at the State Fair is intense. After wiping the sweat from his eyes, George sees an ice cream vendor in the distance. He loves ice cream and smiles, knowing there’s nothing better than its cold tastiness on a humid day. George walks over, fingering the money in his pocket, knowing he has no reason to count it. He came to the State Fair with enough money to play as many games and eat as much as he wanted. Once he reaches the ice cream trailer, George pulls out his wad of cash and orders.  A couple of locals named Bill and Ted lean on a vacant trailer kiddie corner to the ice cream vendor and oogle at the massive amount of cash a slightly overweight, sweaty young man is holding. They then look at each other, aghast, as George turns away from the booth with a single cone filled with a ridiculous amount of Superman-flavored ice cream. The top scoop, which looks to be the eighth, immediately drops from the mountain of ice cream to t

The Use of Math in Real Life

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  The Use of Math in Real Life It can be measured  even though it isn’t real  You just have to know the parts  of what can’t be built  the impact of concepts  the weight of ideas  How tightly bound are things  that are impossible to tie or attach  It’s a calculation that needs to be done But it is a problem with no numbers  There is an answer even though  the variables keep changing  Everything is flying everywhere  but you can see it all clearly  The factors either starve alone  or grow feeding on what you know The arisen’s form is never the same  but you can put a cloud with steel  to the power of a sound  because you know what they represent  and there it is, your answer  which is always the same  an equation  a deduction  a calculation  a theory  all are a story

The 76ers vs. Ben Simmons' Value

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The 76ers vs. Ben Simmons' Value The Philadelphia 76ers find themselves in an impossible situation with Ben Simmons. The former 1st overall pick’s value is minimal, he’s being paid a ton, and has to be traded. Everyone has different opinions on what Ben should do, whose fault it all is, and what trade would be best. My aim is to explain his trade value and how the situation got to this point. It is not about whether I like or dislike anything, just how it is. Ben is where he’s at with the 76ers because of his play versus the Hawks in the Eastern Conference Semifinals, and how he feels about the way the team treated him. Ben’s personality did not change during this ordeal. What did change is his mood. An alteration caused by outside influences. Some under his control and others not. “I don’t know the answer to that,” was 76ers Head Coach Doc Rivers’ reply when asked if Ben Simmons could be the starting point guard of a championship team. That response hit Ben hard. Not being able to