It's August in Portugal and our first Football Manager 23 Champions League experience doesn't start well.

With pre-season behind us, it's time to start our league run properly and we do just that by clearing out all the league fixtures in August and get a feel for what way the opposition is setting up in Liga Bwin.

Robbie's struggling with suspensions, Shane's new signing is leading the goalscoring charts and Ken's got more Champions League qualifying games to get through if he's to join the lads in the group stages.

We'll go through the eventual Champions League draw, take a look at what's been happening this past week for some of the Football Manager community and ahead of introducing you to some bonus content, we somehow wind up reminiscing about the glory days in Brazil off the back of the recent documentary on Ronaldo.

There is some strong language in there, check the website for screenshots and more updates and as always, thanks so much for your ears. Committing to a podcast is a big ask of your time and time and again you continue to hit play, so thanks for keeping us company this year.

Follow the podcast on Twitter @fmfshow while Ken's under @tacticalmanager and Shane's at @sirsok1. As for Robbie, he tells us he's working on it!