International management help

After winning promotion with Crystal Palace and a season of consolidation, Nigeria offered me a job. I took it, but there is only one Nigerian keeper on the game, and he's a Stevenage player...

'Greyed out' players sometimes appear and sometimes don't but for my first game they were nowhere to be seen and i had to play a striker in goal

Does anyone know how to ensure that these (actually very useful-looking) 'greyed out' keepers will be there the next time? The World Cup looms..

Cheers

I think you are basically screwed.

This happened to me with Ghana in FM08. I ended up quitting.

I think SI need to look at this. This happens all the time with African teams because most of their goalkeepers play in domestic leagues and aren't loaded into the game.

There needs to be some kind of qualification about what international sides are playable in a game. There needs to be a minimum number of players in each position in order to stop this happening.

I realise this won't help you now but I suggest you log this as a bug on the bugs forum. I also recommend that from now on you load all players from a nation you intend to manage (particularly for African nations) or alternatively use a player retain DDT.

Oh, I have thought of one thing you could try. Get a Nigerian club as your feeder club for Palace (I assume you are still with them) and see if any regens come through that way. You will have to wait, though, until a goalkeeper emerges and reaches a high enough ability to play.

If you leave two spaces in your international squad when making call-ups, you'll get two greyed out players.

Is that true Ozzy38? I didn't know that.

So if you only call up, say, 20 players and don't include any goalkeepers the game will provide grey GKs for you?

Is that true Ozzy38? I didn't know that. So if you only call up, say, 20 players and don't include any goalkeepers the game will provide grey GKs for you?

Sounds like another project for our great hypothesis-tester Crouchaldinho!

Yes, it is. I got half a side with the Argentina u21s, the right back was pure quality. I wanted him in the Argentina first team, but greys aren't allowed to be moved and international ones can't be offered contracts.

So if you only call up, say, 20 players and don't include any goalkeepers the game will provide grey GKs for you?

21 I would've thought, as at club level you'd get a grey keeper if you only had one as well as none.

Sounds like another project for our great hypothesis-tester Crouchaldinho!

My reputation precedes me.

21 I would've thought, as at club level you'd get a grey keeper if you only had one as well as none.

Well, I didn't realise this. So it seems Shakermaker will be able to continue happily in his management of Nigeria.

Still needs fixing as far as I am concerned though. An international team should only be playable with a prerequisite number of players in each position.

i got a job with nigeria after finishing mid table in my first season with bolton

theres a keeper available called austin ejide and he's pretty good, valued at £3.2m aswell

Thanks for the replies, I did name 23 men for the original 26 man squad thinking that it would give me 3 keepers but as I said, when it came down to the squad selection screen they'd disappeared

And jmas, just checked and he's not on my game unfortunately, by the looks of it I'm just going to have to take Stevenage's Carl Ikeme to South Africa!