Harmony

i have a distinct lack of harmony at my club amongst the players any ways of improving their harmony?

have you had loads of new arrivals recently?

Harmony is something that builds up, you can't buy it.

no not at all i am just not doing very well in the league

well i suppose the only solution is to get a few wins under your belt. i don't think there's a quick fix tbh

Offering players that say 'dismayed by lack of harmony' new contracts worked for me. Downsides are it's expensive and time consuming mind you.

UPdate; Also being more positive in team talks and press conferences seems to help, eg, I predict we will do well, in press conferences and sympathise or good effort, rather than dissapointed after a defeat.

If you are not doing as well as you should be in the league, get the captain to call a team meeting, do this in the player interaction. This should improve the harmony in the squad.

What i dont get, is that i have loads of plays who are 'dismayed at the lack of harmony in the club' - but the only reason anyone is unhappy, is that other people are unhappy. But the only reason why they are unhappy, is that other people are unhappy.

Its a viscous circle, there was no start to the unhappyness, just people became unhappy, but for no apparant reason, and that seems to have made other people unhappy, that they are unhappy.

Have you nooticed a news item saying two of your players dislike each other Maidel, this was the trigger for a lack of harmony in my save. If you have it may be an idea to sell one of them if one is of less importance to the first team than the other.

Nope - i get it every single summer - and by about october/november its gone again.

Its never any of my first team, its always the plebs in the reserves and youth team. Really hacks me off.

Do you take full control of your reserves and youth teams? As it sounds to me like it might be that your ass. Man is not very good at team talks and causing a drop in youngsters morale.

No i dont, but my assistant manager takes my first team, team talks as well(Well i ask him and them fiddle about with it occationally) and my first team never gets upset.

Also, why would he only upset them at the begining of the year?

Also, why would he only upset them at the begining of the year?

Good question, it seems your Ass. man being too harsh with team talks isn't the issue. The only other thing that I can think of is that you might have one or two players in your reserves/ youth team who think they are too good to be there and should be first team regulars, or you might have one or two youngsters with low professionalism hidden stat and high ambition. Might be worth trying to tutor your youngsters with personalities like 'low professionalism' by more professional senior squad members.

OR they could just all be sulky whiners...

lol...they could be.

Like the bloke already said, offer them new contracts.

I had the same problem, with players 'dismayed by the lack of harmony' where the only lack of harmony was other people dismayed by the lack of harmony. It started out with a couple of players upset at not being treated like a first team regular (this was before I discovered that squad status actually matters in FM09 - I had signed some hot youngsters as Important First Team Players - even though I didn't intend to play them in the first team - because I thought, just like in previous versions, that squad status didn't matter).

So after I sorted these blokes out I still had all these other played dismayed for no apparent reason. But new contracts sorted them all out.

Im not offering 20 reserve/ youth team players new contracts :S