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    I'm female, I don't like football, I love FM

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  1. The intelligence of the media. Being asked how important a win is in a group stage of a cup you already failed to qualify in is just completly stupid, not sure how to rate the answer options of there is still a lot of football to play and so on, but slightly idiotic comes to mind. Asking me why I chose not to pick a player that is on international duty is slightly even more stupid. To ask me if I'm gonna rotate the team because the game is of zero importance in one question (last game, already secured the league win) to call it the most important game of the season in the next question.
  2. It is not clear how it is worded and as far as I can see I'm promising to start talks, not to give them what they want without any kind of negotiation. If what they asked for would be at least decently reasonable or if there would actually be some negotiating I wouldn't mind so much. But when they request a decent squad player to either be an important player and/or to up their salary 4 or 5 times the amount they signed for 12-18 months ago and one try to negotiate it down shuts it all down stone cold it quickly gets old. If they player would play amazing or had gone through amazing devolpment or earned a lot less than others at his level I would understand it but when your fringe players want the same salary as your star players just because they happened to play a couple of games in a row because of an injury or played one good game it starts to feel more or less ridiculous. Who in their right mind would, in a casual chat, promise a player that they will get whatever they ask for no questions asked.
  3. One of the biggest issues that I see is when a player asks for a new contract and you agree and go into negotiation with him and he wont accept and the agen refuses to actuallya negotiate more than once and then just close down the negotiations. The player get upset and it is considered a broken promise which causes a lot of issues down the road due to broken promises and you can't talk to players anymore because they see you as not reliable even though you actually have kept your word.
  4. Interaction especially when it comes to the whole complete crash of morale in the whole team because a player have outlandish demands. So damn tired of players asking for new contracts once or twice per year despite having 4 years or more left. Sure if a player has become a lot better in the time since they signed it might be fair, but for having a few decent games no way. Decent players requesting wages 3 times higher than what they are on because they have shown decent and then throwing a fit when you don't give it to them and sometimes drag the entire team down with them doesn't seem reasonable. The biggest problem though is that I can't communicate this to the players complaining about not giving x what he wants, if he can run and cry over promises not kept, even if I think I have kept the promise by actually negotiating in the first place, I should be able to say I offered him a fair deal compared to the rest of you and he turned it down and put stop to negotiations. Keeping your own prospects and getting homegrown players for continental competitions is something I have found rather impossible at the moment. Your own prospects that has your team as favourite and their entire favoured personnel list in the team should not get upset because they aren't allowed to move to an almost identical team with the same offered possibilities. Get an offer from a team with less facilities and slightly lower stature and the player get annoyed for not selling and forcing you to accept the next offer from them so they can move to sit in another U23 team.
  5. I kinda agree with you on this one. Not sure I really like the whole sign a 4-5 year contract play one year and then request a new one and start the cycle all over. And the whole agent coming runnig and demanding new contracts because a player has been in kinda ok form and happened to play one pretty good game seems kinda ridiculous. More ways of communicating instead of having to negotiate a new contract that usually is very little negotiation and more of a give me exactly what I want or I'll throw a fit that ruins the team spirit completly. I think a lot of the flaws I still find with the game is down to communicating and the lack of relevant alternatives to use and I don't think it is all that realistic (I know it is a game, but it still claims to strive for realism) that you should have to negotiate new contracts with your players sometimes twice a year to have a chance to preserve the team morale. Not everything should be determined by having to write up a new contract that can cost a fortune in other fees except the wages, especially not a thing like I want to play a few more games per year. I agree you shouldn't be able to hoard young star prospects and expect them to be happy to sit around and not getting games, but the problem is not just the star prospects that actually have the ability to compete for a spot here and now. I have found that a lot of mediocre prospects, even those brought up by the clubs youth system, that will probably not go further than squad or fringe players if they realise their potential will go bonkers if you don't let them leave for a pretty much identical setup somewhere else. Perfectly happy players, some team with the same reputatiion and same quality facilities and coaching and so on make a bid and the player gets terribly upset that you don't sell them to sit in the other teams reserves instead. And if it weren't players that have the club as their favourite team and got staff from the club as favoured personnel I might find it a bit more realistic that they would throw a fit as in I will never ever even consider discussing a new contract with you people because you wouldn't let me move to an identical setup whit the same if not slightly worse prospects of developing. And while I'm at it if I offer a player that has used 1 or 2 years on his 5 year contract a new contract that will more than double his pay and put him up with the other top earners at the club and the agent/player shut down negotiations as unacceptable I don't really think he should be pissed because he thinks a promise has been broken and run off and cry to his team mates causing a stir and **** half the team off. And if he got that chance I should get the chance to tell the others that come crying about that players contract that I made an offer that would had more than doubled his salary and put him at the top of the payroll, but he and his agent decided to shut it down completly without any negotiation because they wanted a few thousand more.
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