Vyškov don't sign Africans - with possible solution

Hi,

thank you for your post and save game.

Currently maintained is transfer preference for Vyškov for most of African countries (selected by the club during past 3 seasons IRL) as follows:

Uganda

Cameroon

Ivory Coast

Senegal

Central African Republic

Togo

Scouts asked for fairly high profile players between 18-23yrs.

Game is expected to reflect this. Do you have enough African players in your save?

It will be reviewed and any change done will be included in a future update.

Cheers

 

 

 

Ah, I was looking at the wrong part of the database - I see now that their Transfer Preferences are as you describe. However, in my saves I have noticed that Vyškov do not seem to sign many, if any, players from these nations in practice. For reference, the databases I set up have all African Players loaded, and in fact do not have the players from other continents loaded to the same extent, so if anything, teams should be signing a disproportionate number of Africans.

I made a bug report noticing this behaviour already (see below), in which I noticed the same issue with RB Salzburg and Nordsjaelland. I do not think the Transfer Preferences field is strong enough to actually determine that these clubs will sign players from those countries, especially if they lack Scouting Knowledge.

I will keep an eye out on my saves for what happens. So far Vyškov have yet to sign an African player - all the players they have signed have been European. Again, I suspect that what does not help the situation is that they do not have Scouting Knowledge of the countries that they are supposed to sign players from.

 

Also I should say that Transfer Preferences don't seem to do anything if you are actually managing the club in question - they only seem to affect the AI. That means that if you actually manage Vyškov you are just told weakly to sign more Czech players, and are not incentivised to sign African players at all. I highly doubt Kingsley Pungong would accept a manager who tried to do this in real life!

Hi again,

I've now given Vyškov 3 transfer windows, during which they have yet to sign a single African player (I disabled the first transfer window). On the other hand, they have signed lots of players from Czechia (see images attached).

They have also had a tremendously large proportion of their youth intake come through as Cameroonian or, in one case, Liberian. This might be a reasonable way of compensating for Vyškov not signing Africans from Africa except for 2 things:

1) Those high-potential Africans based in Africa will remain in Africa, unpurchased and unable to break into Europe. Seriously, if Vyškov aren't signing them, who will?

2) It is in fact illegal under FIFA regulations for players under the age of 18 years old to be transferred from countries outside the EU to another country. The players generated are mostly single-nationality Cameroonians, which means that the game is, deeply unfortunately, simulating the illegal trafficking of minors. This seems at the very least suboptimal to me.

Again, I would reiterate that I have set up a database in which every single African player is present. Most of the leagues I have set to playable are African leagues - the only exceptions are Czechia, Croatia, France and Denmark. There are no leagues at all in South America, North America, or Asia. Nevertheless, despite the database being very heavily tilted towards African players, a team that notoriously signs a huge number of African players in real life has yet to sign a single one in-game. This seems like a significant problem.

Edited December 28, 2023 by BeeInExile

@Tony Grasser

I figured opening a new thread would be not necessary for my question.

Are updates for Sampson Dweh and Duronsimi expected? Think both are very important for Plzen, and both in FM are mediocre players.

Hi guys,

thank you for all info you provided, no worries as suggested changes to be reviewed and any changes done will be included in a future update.

Cheers

Thanks @Tony Grasser, I look forward to the changes to Vyškov. At the very least I would recommend removing their Club Ambition to sign players from Czechia.

Ambition to sign players from Czechia is with slightly negative rating at the moment, as you can see the picture - no preference there, they actually signed some Czech players IRL even this season anyway.

Cheers

Edited January 4 by Tony Grasser

13 hours ago, Tony Grasser said:

Ambition to sign players from Czechia is with slightly negative rating at the moment, as you can see the picture - no preference there, they actually signed some Czech players IRL even this season anyway.

Cheers

Ah okay I see. Apologies for the confusion.

Vyškov football club announced massive change of ownership while clarified Blue Crow Sports Group as new owner which replaced Kingsley Pungong, so African transfer policy you have asked for is not relevant anymore.

note: https://mfkvyskov.cz/article/543-Prohlaseni-klubu-ke-zmenam-ve-vlastnicke-strukture

Edited January 18 by Tony Grasser

Oh well!