jozza800

Just as an update. A few months later, I was eventually able to persuade the board to release the money to sign this guy.

His release clause is £29m. Will post it in the bugs forum.

I am stuck being able to sign this defender. I'm not sure if this is a bug, but the board steadfastly refuse to pay anything more than £5m for this player. I've tried all 3 of the negotiating 'talk downs' with the board but they just wont put up the money. They were however willing for me to pay £15m for a 34 on £150kpw! I am currently french Champions Lyon Have £95m in the bank with transfer budget of £100+ Wage space of £600k pw. The player is rated a B with my scouts. This must surely be a bug? Anybody had the same issue, any work arounds?

Yep, always ending up with a certain Argentinian forward with amazing finishing every save got a bit samey after a whie...

I think most of what I would like to see in the game is visual and could be (and probably is) done with the help of the modding community. Newgen Faces The guys on the Skinning forums and the NewGan guys have come up with some great / realistic face packs and is something that SI absoultely have to take on board. Every single version of the newgen faces that SI have come up with have been awful. Even if they dont have the abilty to create the faces, there needs to be a way for the faces to be added to the Newgens automatically without having to use a 3rd party app to apply them at the start of each youth intake. Kits / Kit Selection I buy the in-game editor every year for one simple feature the ability to change the kit designs. I like to change up my club's kit from season to season, especially the away kits. This should be something that is available in game at the start of each season (skippable of course for those that aren't bothered). Away/3rd kits of the other clubs should also dynamically change from time to time. In my current save as Liverpool (2044), i'm sick of playing against Man Utd in their green striped away kit. They haven't changed their kit design in 20 years! Colour / Competition / Match Interface I really like the skin and colours that SI have shipped with the game over the last few years. My only gripe is the lack of club/nation/cup colours within the game. I really think they should go back to having the headers / sidebars in the club and competiotn colours. Again, I realise that the modders / skinners can do this. The game experience is largly the same no matter which country you are managing in. I think it would be cool if the layouts / colours / fonts etc can change from competition to competiton and country to country. They already do this for the Champions League and EFL Cup and it's a great addition, it really adds to the immersion. They just need to go a step futher, the game graphics for the Premier League should be different to managing in the Swedish Allsvenkan. Even if they dont have the licence to use the graphics / logos they could have more generic changes to colours or fonts etc. Along the same lines as above a match played in the Premier League feels exactly the same as managing in the Argentine Prem. The fans in the stadium, the pitches, the stadiums themselves all need changing up a little bit more. Player PA Ability / Atrributes I think this has been improved over the years, having high CA as a youngster doesn't mean they necessarily will go on to be World Class and having late developers is welcome addition. I think what would add to it is similar to how it is with attribute masking - having a younger players attributes be 'wider' until they reach a certain age or have played so many games in league football. It could even use descriptors to cover a wider range of attribute numbers until they're more fully formed (Good 14-20, Decent 13-8, Poor 7-0. This would be more approprite for a players mentals or what the Americans would call the 'Intangibles'. Stuff like height, jumping reach, pace, acceleration can all be measured so would have a definite attribute number, Misc / Fixes - Please fix the player movement on the tactics screen. Trying to add another player between the two central midfielders is like a really infuriating mini-game! - Being able to save a training calender over a season and re-apply it the following season. This would be especially useful for u21/reserve/u18 training calenders. - When leaving a club, the club automatically resets and basically forgets everything you've put into place. Been playing 4-4-2 for the last 10 years? New manager comes in an immediately installs 4-2-3-1, drops, demotes to u21 or sells half of the players you've been succesfull with almost immediately. It of course happens IRL a new manager comes in a puts his own stamp on the team, but it's not a 'clean' or clinical as the AI managers do. - Squad building and transfers...

And the throw-ins are just comical.

I'm not saying there is a direct problem, but it is defintely something I cant get right. I wouldn't mind conceding a header directly from a 6' 5" CB (as used to happen on older games) as that could be fixed with bigger stronger defenders. It's the goals that end up on the edge of the box after a bit of ping pong that end up with a shot on goal. I havn't been able to figure out how to stop it. It feels a little bit artificial to me.

Utterly broken the the set pieces, I have now lost my last 4 league games all from set piece goals. There sholud be an option if you want to download the patch, or at least schedule it. This is going to wreck my season.

Have the player positional heat maps from the ingame tablet view been removed? I missed out on FM23 I always found this a really useful tool as it gave you a great indication of what the opposition were playing in terms of defensive line and width. It can be hard during a match to guage what exactly the opposition are doing (especially if only watching on Comp or Key highlights).

Thanks both, reducing the mentality helped.

Anyone else struggling to score goals from open play? I'm currently in my 7th season with a small club in Norway and have not had a consistant goalscoring forward. AF, P, PF, TF it doesnt matter. 4231, 433 and now 424 it's exactly the same. I'm currently sat 2nd in the top division but mainly thanks to set pieces, and goals coming from the 2nd chance from a set piece. I can count the number of 'clean' goals on one hand. I have a fast, strong and 9' tall striker and a super fast, good finishing AF and they'll only score corners. This is what I am running with at the moment, as I say i'm doing well but as I say my CB and 9' srtiker scoring goals from corners. I know, it's very top heavy but the issue has been the same with different systems and setups and forwards etc... I am just wondering if people are havingi similar issues?

Conversley, I will put wingers that have been converted to play wingback in the defensive unit. They alrteady have the attacking side of the game, so it make ssense for them to concentrate on the defesive side of things.

This needs toning down! i am frequently hitting the woodwork 3 or 4 times a match. In my current match i've hit the woodwork 3 times in 20mins!

This is some phenomanal work guys! This absolutely has to be the route that SI take for future regen images. Or at very least they need to develop a system where the ballache of adding regen images to the game is automatic.