Noone accepts friendlies?

End of first season...25th june....I'm offering friendlies and noone accepts!?

I offer them to play at their place, or give them full money...I just want some competitive fixtures! How can I get people to play fixtures against me?

Who are you and who are you offering/challenging?

I'm Aston Villa,

I offered Cska Sofia one, they accepted, every other foreign team or other team has rejected,

I've offered:

Bournemouth, Leeds, Redditch United, Exeter, Yeovil, Norwich, Plymouth, Zargoza, Mallorca, Braga, Sparta Prague

Never offer friendlies to teams in the same league as you, never seems to work for me - try major foreign teams and then you only need to offer half of the gate recipets for the them to accept.

EDIT: These teams may have fixtures already near the ones that you are offered possibly. Im surprised by the number of teams that have rejected your invitations though.

Never offer friendlies to teams in the same league as you, never seems to work for me - try major foreign teams and then you only need to offer half of the gate recipets for the them to accept.

EDIT: These teams may have fixtures already near the ones that you are offered possibly. Im surprised by the number of teams that have rejected your invitations though.

Thanks for major teams tip, Ajax and Benfica just accepted!

get your ass man to arrange friendlies for you, he usually gets a good selection.

Also, invite your affiliates, they are likely to accept a friendly.

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Anytime mate.

I also sometimes wonder. Being Newcastle and big in the Prem I also struggle to find opponents.

Small clubs from D2 to CH won't host a friendly against me which would earn them lots of money, neither so comparable clubs from abroad.

I always let my assistant arrange my friendlies. I quickly got tired of arranging them myself.

Wouldn't it be great if you could click on 'arrange friendly' and a list of teams available and willing to play you comes up - bit like your shortlist with the assman eliminating unrealistic targets. It would save a lot of unreasonable wasted time.

I often do tours, they always accept. I hardly ever get to host friendlies

Wouldn't it be great if you could click on 'arrange friendly' and a list of teams available and willing to play you comes up - bit like your shortlist with the assman eliminating unrealistic targets. It would save a lot of unreasonable wasted time.

Thats a great idea phnompenhandy - It would save a lot on time and would be a welcome addition.

Thats a great idea phnompenhandy - It would save a lot on time and would be a welcome addition.

I second (third?) this!

Wouldn't it be great if you could click on 'arrange friendly' and a list of teams available and willing to play you comes up - bit like your shortlist with the assman eliminating unrealistic targets. It would save a lot of unreasonable wasted time.

I second that (or "third" that as someone else agreed before me )

Would be a good option to add to a future FM release. Mind you, playing as Altrincham in the lower leagues, I've not struggled to get lucrative friendlies against much bigger clubs. I even played Leeds United three times in pre-season

I'll fourth or fifth that idea proposed by phnompenhandy.

Never offer friendlies to teams in the same league as you, never seems to work for me - try major foreign teams and then you only need to offer half of the gate recipets for the them to accept.

EDIT: These teams may have fixtures already near the ones that you are offered possibly. Im surprised by the number of teams that have rejected your invitations though.

Very helpfull post, thx mate...

Anothe thing I'd like to see is if you suggest a friendly on Tues (for example) and the team feels its too close to another fixture they have, that they could come back and counter propose for Thurs.

The same if you offer 50k for the match, instead of refusing, having them say they would do it for 100k or whatever.