Board Disappointed In Signings

Ok so I usually manage Everton, meaning not having virtually any money to spend on established players, so 99% of the time I am looking at buying cheap youngsters. Now though, I get messages at the end of the month saying that the board are disappointed with the signing of "Player x", when he hasnt played for the first team, and is in my reserves or U18s squads, because he is only 16 or 17. Is this normal or am I going wrong somewhere?

This is a known issue and is under review.

Oh ok....cool, thanks for the reply

Glad to hear skorp, that is one of the things that is really irritating in this year's game. Good to see it is being reviewed with a look to improvement in future versions of the game

This is a known issue and is under review.

Hasn't this been a known issue since release? I know it was there on 9.01...

Is there a list of things that are known game issues ?

No, as SI are not willing to cut down the amazon rainforest to make it.

this has been an issue since the feature itself was brought in, was it on fm08?

I have the feeling this issue has been in there for ages, for at least 3 editions if my memory doesn't fail on me.

It has been around since 9.0.0 at least.Didn't really play FM08 so I can't remember.I can't understand why this wasn't fixed in one of the subsequent patches.

and it's been reported time and time again on the forums, it's not like this is the first time it's come up, maybe it's difficult to fix it so that young signings are treated differently.

I wonder what the difficulty is though, if you ask me there is a very simply solution. Every time you sign a player you have to give a press conference. The larger the name of the player, the larger the press conference. The object of that press conference would be that you will be able to tell everybody (the media, the fans and the board) what the squad status of that player will be.

If you buy Kaka for example, you will have to tell everybody in the press conference that he will be a key player. This will then create high expectations of the fans, the media and the board. They will immediately judge him, giving you as a manager and him as the signing a lot of pressure, which you and the player will have to deal with.

If you buy an 20-year-old winger, you should be able to tell everybody in that press conference that he will start as a backup player, meaning that people wont judge him on his first, let's say, 10 appearances.

If you buy a 17-year-old central defender, you should be able to tell everybody that he's a hot prospect for the future, meaning that they wont judge him the first season.

I would love to have that feature and I don't think it should be too difficult to include it in the game.

That's not a bad idea at all.

Initially the board's 'feelings' were a complete mess. They've mostly been remedied in FM09 but this one slipped through.

I wonder what the difficulty is though, if you ask me there is a very simply solution. Every time you sign a player you have to give a press conference. The larger the name of the player, the larger the press conference. The object of that press conference would be that you will be able to tell everybody (the media, the fans and the board) what the squad status of that player will be.

If you buy Kaka for example, you will have to tell everybody in the press conference that he will be a key player. This will then create high expectations of the fans, the media and the board. They will immediately judge him, giving you as a manager and him as the signing a lot of pressure, which you and the player will have to deal with.

If you buy an 20-year-old winger, you should be able to tell everybody in that press conference that he will start as a backup player, meaning that people wont judge him on his first, let's say, 10 appearances.

If you buy a 17-year-old central defender, you should be able to tell everybody that he's a hot prospect for the future, meaning that they wont judge him the first season.

I would love to have that feature and I don't think it should be too difficult to include it in the game.

Good idea, but to some extent it's already there with the "squad status" setting when you're offering a contract. Now if only the expectations would take it into account...