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Hi, I've been testing a formation based on Bayern's 15/16 season, which was the one I most enjoyed watching. Rodrigo and Bellingham swap positions. For the PIs I use move into channels and roam from position for the AM at, and go further forward, roam from position and cross from the byline for the wingers. The left fullback's position will change depending on the other team's formation. When I'm facing 2 strikers, he becomes a fullback on support with cross from the byline PI

is there a video somewhere on how to do it

Great thread, following

What are your autosave settings?

Unfortunately not. When I right click them, the only thing that appears is their name. Left click on them, and there are no options to sign them at all on their profile. It's a shame. My current idea is to find players in the database with between 5 and 10 current/potential ability, but that defeats the fun a bit, as I don't really know how good the greyed out players are!

Hi guys, I need your help to find the perfect striker : which role/mentality to give to my striker, which PI's should I give him and which attributes are important, in order to make my player lead the frontline, plays on DCs' shoulders, sometimes play back to the goal, hold up ball, play simple pass, and sometimes make runs behind the defensive line. I also want him to press a lot the backline and to be my main goal threat. I don't really want him to roam or the be a playmaker but to be a focal point in attack,help retain possession whenever it's necessary and to be very agressive in front of the goal. I mostly play high press/high line and possession football. Thanks a lot guys!

Hmmm....i'm guessing you can't promote greyed out players from your under 18's / 21's to your 1st team either? I'll keep pondering. Good luck with your challenge

Hahah! Thanks! Scared me for a minute! I've actually tried that and none of those work. When you arrange a friendly with your under 18s/21s, you get a bunch of generated players in there, but no option to sign them... Same with opposition teams. Can't sign the players. It's a real shame, as I thought it was a nice challenge idea too! Only other thing I can think of, is to try to find players with low ability/potential for now and sign them to the team, but that's quite hard to do without scouting etc! I just don't want to end up with a team of world beaters! Much more fun to try to win with crap! Appreciate the reply! I'll post an update if I find a way! Any other ideas would be welcome! Apologies for the post below! Couldn't figure out how to reply on mobile with the quote!

I have finally managed to get to the game and found these two goal situations. Both crosses from the same player and from half-space. A looked at the post-match analytics and none of the assists was counted as a cross, so maybe that's a part of the problem. I unfortunately don't have time to go through the whole half-season, but I scored probably 4-5 goals like this including pre-season in this save.

End of Season Review Season 2028/29 Lewes League Table - League Fixtures 1 - League Fixtures 2 F. A. Cup - Carabao Cup Squad Jack Harrison - Hubert Graczyk - Charlie Chetwynd Transfers In 1 - Transfers In 2 - Transfers In 3 - Transfers Out 1 - Transfers Out 2 - Transfers Out 3 - Transfers Out 4 Personal Contract Season Contract Start Date Contract Expiry Date Pre Tax Wage Post Tax Wage ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ At start 24 June 2024 30 June 2025 £675 p/w £525 p/w 2024/25 26 March 2025 30 June 2026 £725 p/w ↑ £575 p/w ↑ 2025/26 28 February 2026 30 June 2028 £1,000 p/w ↑ £750 p/w ↑ 2026/27 28 February 2026 30 June 2028 £1,200 p/w ↑ £850 p/w ↑ 2027/28 24 November 2027 30 June 2030 £1,500 p/w ↑ £1,000 p/w ↑ 2028/29 2 December 2028 30 June 2032 £2,200 p/w ↑ £1,500 p/w ↑ Personal Coaching Data Season Reputation Qualifications Att Def Fit GkD GkH GkS Tac Tec Men SeP WWY Ada Det PlK YoK LoD PeM Mot -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- At start Minimal (0.50*) None 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 1 3 1 5 1 1 1 1 1 2024/25 Minimal = (1.00*) ↑ National B ↑↑ 6 ↑ 6 ↑ 2 ↑ 1 = 1 = 1 = 6 ↑ 6 ↑ 6 ↑ 3 ↑ 3 = 1 = 6 ↑ 4 ↑ 5 ↑ 12 ↑ 6 ↑ 5 ↑ 2025/26 Minimal = (2.50*) ↑ Continental B ↑↑↑ 9 ↑ 9 ↑ 4 ↑ 1 = 1 = 1 = 9 ↑ 10 ↑ 9 ↑ 4 ↑ 3 = 1 = 9 ↑ 7 ↑ 8 ↑ 20 ↑ 9 ↑ 9 ↑ 2026/27 Minimal = (2.50*) = Continental B = 9 = 9 = 4 = 1 = 1 = 1 = 9 = 10 = 9 = 4 = 3 = 1 = 9 = 8 ↑ 9 ↑ 20 = 9 = 9 = 2027/28 Decent ↑ (3.00*) ↑ Continental A ↑ 11 ↑ 11 ↑ 5 ↑ 1 = 1 = 1 = 11 ↑ 11 ↑ 11 ↑ 5 ↑ 3 = 1 = 11 ↑ 10 ↑ 10 ↑ 20 = 11 ↑ 11 ↑ 2028/29 Good ↑ (4.00*) ↑ Continental Pro ↑ 12 ↑ 13 ↑ 5 = 1 = 1 = 1 = 12 ↑ 13 ↑ 13 ↑ 6 ↑ 3 = 1 = 12 ↑ 11 ↑ 12 ↑ 20 = 13 ↑ 13 ↑ Club Facilities Season Training Facilities Youth Facilities Youth Level Corporate Facilities Junior Coaching Youth Recruitment Club Reputation ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- At Start Below Average Below Average 4 Basic Fairly Basic Basic Local (1.00*) 2024/25 Below Average = Below Average = 4 = Basic = Adequate ↑↑ Average ↑↑ Local = (1.00*) = 2025/26 Adequate ↑ Below Average = 4 = Basic = Excellent ↑↑ Good ↑↑ Local = (1.00*) = 2026/27 Adequate = Adequate ↑ 4 = Basic = Exceptional ↑ Excellent ↑ Regional ↑ (1.50*) ↑ 2027/28 Average ↑ Adequate = 4 = Basic = Exceptional = Exceptional ↑ Regional = (2.00*) ↑ 2028/29 Great ↑↑ Average ↑ 3 ↑ Basic = Exceptional = Exceptional = National = (2.50*) ↑ Season Record Season Played Won Drawn Lost Goals For Goals Against Goal Difference Win Percentage ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2024/25 50 38 9 3 130 49 +81 76.00% 2025/26 59 49 7 3 194 55 +139 83.05% ↑ 2026/27 60 49 6 5 189 51 +138 81.67% ↓ 2027/28 64 47 6 11 163 64 +99 73.44% ↓ 2028/29 53 36 8 9 116 48 +68 67.92% ↓ Overall Career Record After Season Played Won Drawn Lost Goals For Goals Against Goal Difference Win Percentage Time At Club ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2024/25 50 38 9 3 130 49 +81 76.00% 298 days 2025/26 109 87 16 6 324 104 +220 79.82% ↑ 686 days 2026/27 169 136 22 11 513 155 +358 80.47% ↑ 1,035 days 2027/28 233 183 28 22 676 219 +457 78.54% ↓ 1,400 days 2028/29 286 219 36 31 792 267 +525 76.57% ↓ 1,769 days Transfer Purchase Record Date Player Position Club Purchased From Country Transfer Fee ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 18 March 2025 Sandy Gauld Striker Chippenham Town England £2,500 15 June 2027 Romário Feitosa Central Defence Botafogo Futebol Clube (PB) Brazil £235,000 18 June 2027 Hugh Mintern Central Midfield Bristol Rovers England £500,000 22 July 2027 Dael Emms Right Wing Sunderland England £1,100,000 31 January 2028 Felipe Meneses Striker Colo Colo Chile £1,800,000 1 September 2028 Jim Cretaro Striker Bolton Wanderers England £7,000,000 Transfer Sale Record Date Player Position Club Sold To Country Transfer Fee ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 22 June 2025 Yusuf Akhamrich Striker Stevenage England £100,000 28 July 2025 Harrison Dudziak Central Midfield Cardiff City England £400,000 20 January 2026 Theo Adelusi Central Defence Hull City England £500,000 8 July 2026 Tyrell Ashcroft Right Back Leyton Orient England £575,000 1 September 2026 Adam Montgomery Left Back/Left Wing Queens Park Rangers England £650,000 29 December 2026 Dion Rankine Right Wing Granada C.F. Spain £1,000,000 15 June 2027 Ethan Brierley Defensive Midfield/Central Midfield Queens Park Rangers England £1,300,000 19 June 2027 Faustino Anjorin Central Midfield Birmingham City England £6,750,000 31 January 2029 Kai Parry Left Back/Central Defence Fulham England £15,000,000 Trophy Haul Season Competition Won -------------------------- 2024/25 Vanarama National League South 2025/26 Vanarama National League 2026/27 Sky Bet League Two 2026/27 Bristol Street Motors Trophy 2027/28 Sky Bet League One 2028/29 Sky Bet Championship Trophy Cabinet League Titles ------------- 1 x Sky Bet Championship (2028/29) 1 x Sky Bet League One (2027/28) 1 x Sky Bet League Two (2026/27) 1 x Vanarama National League (2025/26) 1 x Vanarama National League South (2024/25) Cup Competition Victories ------------------------- 1 x Bristol Street Motors Trophy (2026/27) Career Overview Season Champions League Europa League Europa Conference League League Position F.A. Cup Carabao Cup Achievements ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2024/25 N/a N/a N/a Vanarama National League South 1st Third Qualifying Round N/a Promoted as champions. F. A. Trophy second round. 2025/26 N/a N/a N/a Vanarama National League 1st ↑ Fifth Round ↑ N/a Promoted as champions. F. A. Trophy runners up. 2026/27 N/a N/a N/a Sky Bet League Two 1st ↑ Fifth Round = First Round ↑ Promoted as champions. Bristol Street Motors Trophy winners. 2027/28 N/a N/a N/a Sky Bet League One 1st ↑ Quarter Final ↑ Fourth Round ↑ Promoted as champions. Bristol Street Motors Trophy runners up. 2028/29 N/a N/a N/a Sky Bet Championship 1st ↑ Fifth Round ↓ Fourth Round = Promoted as champions.

The 4-2-3-1 is extremely common in real life, so this makes perfect sense. Just like 4-4-2 used to be the most common shape 20 years ago.

Thanks! If I remeber correctly it's based on the FME Zealand FM23 skin's first version. I just modified the colour scheme, added the stripes from an old default FM skin for better logo visibility, and changed the tab bar/date/continue buttons.

This should be your first and last post. You should be banned! Just kidding, welcome to the forum. Sounds like a great challenge you've given yourself. The only things I can think of are checking your reserves, under 21's, under 18's teams (if you have them.) If there are no greyed out players there, maybe sign greyed out players from other teams in your league? All the best with your challenge!

December 2050 - San Luis de Quillota Squad Stats Miguel Palomino had a brilliant first year at the club, scoring 20 times. A great signing for £37.5k. Cesar Toloza is leaving in the summer when his contract expires, but he was voted fan's player of the season after a goal in each leg during the play-off final. The stats for Ivan Ragusa only show the games since he was loaned back to us, if we include his appearances in the first half of the campaign he managed 14 goals to be our second highest scorer. -------------------------------------------------------------- History A great success. When we were in 9th place at the end of May I thought we might be missing out on the play-offs this year, but we came on strong over the final few months to ensure we made the play-off final again, and this time we went one further than last season and finished the job. -------------------------------------------------------------- Job Search Here we go again. Is it time to give one of the big European countries a go? I'm thinking about just aiming for a job in Germany. --------------------------------------------------------------

@knap Do you have any good tactics with AMR in Winger role, not Inside Forward? I have a very good player on this position, but with trait "Runs with ball down right". I looked for few pages back and gave up

We have a healthy squad size of 33 players who I will be getting to know and trying to form a tactic with in the next month before the league begins. I have 3 friendlies to figure out a starting XI. I'll also be looking to bring in some staff. Although our wage budget is pretty tight so I will only bring in the essentials (or anyone outstanding). I'm on £45p/w and have cut the scouting budget of £20k in half to put it into our wage budget to increase it from £190p/w to £382p/w.

December 2050 - San Luis de Quillota Campeonata Primera B - Play-Off Final In the final we're facing Deportes Antofagasta. They finished 6th in the table so are perhaps the underdogs to reach this point. During the regular season we lost 1-0 at their place, but battered them 4-1 at home. The first leg was at home, and a fourth minute opener was the perfect way to start. We added a second before the half-hour mark and were well on our way. We let them back into it with a late goal, but quickly restored the two goal advantage. We had the better of the first-half in the away tie, but couldn't add to our aggregate lead. Deportes Antofagasta came out fired-up after the interval and scored not long into the second-half, but it didn't last for long until Cesar Toloza scored in his final appearance for the club. That knocked the stuffing out of them, and from there the outcome was never in doubt. Promotion! --------------------------------------------------------------

Perfect reasoning! The logics more oftenly goes somewhere along the lines of this, thanks to the magics of the human brain and cognitive bias: "Unlike any 'cheating' AI manager ever, I've just taken Brentford to the CL final within two seasons. However, that's all thanks to my great management. It couldn't possibly be to me "cheating", er exploiting defensive bugs, limited AI match management, loopholes in the match engine, or anything. I'm not going to even look for that. I'm just a great manager, ya know?" Then, every time something "bad" happens (like the AI scoring with their first shot every once in a while): "OVER THE LINE YOU DIRTY CHEAT!"

It's not the european fixture rules, but the english league's 8 homegrown player rule since Scottish players don't can't as homegrown in England.

I think probably the only thing we can do about this is to change the English match squad rules from 8 homegrown players to max 17 foreign players. It's not ideal but can't think of any other ideas. Or just remove the homegrown rule completely. EDIT: Actually forgot that the Championship uses 8 homegrown players from Nation or Club. So the premier league will change the homegrown rule to use that. That's probably the best option.

... I've been playing FM for quite some time and I have always been a Lower League Manager starting at VNN or VNS and never getting into the Premiership. My previous save (FM22) to the one I am playing (FM23-FM24) now I did get Curzon Ashton into the Championship but quit playing after I got relegated back to League One. I've had my current save since FM23 with Dulwich Hamlet and into my 8th season find myself in the Championship and yet again not doing very well, from 12 games I only have 4 points and sadly rock bottom of the division. I know there is a lot of of the season to go to turn it around but I feel the inevitable relegation is going to come my way again - but this time I will not quit. This season I am in now I have a wage budget of £88k with the nearest team to me in that regard in the divsion have their wage spending at £180k. I really don't want to go over my wage budget so I have been budgeting for that instance, a lot of players I wanted even though they were on something like £1.5k a week wages kept asking me for wages of £8k+ to come and play with me. So I generally had to stay with a lot of the players I had when I got promoted and nit picked a couple of players from Scotland who seemed quite decent but honestly have done nothing for my team at all. I tried my LLM tactics I had throughout the previous seasons and just kept getting hammered everytime so far, I just can't seem to stop the crosses coming into my area even if I instruct my team to work at stopping crosses they get given daft fouls against them or give away corners where the crosses come in anyway it seems six of one of half a dozen of another in that regard. I was so pleased when they brought in the Set Piece Coach thing. However, I would like to actually see what my set piece coach is instrucing my players in doing without some Set Piece Responsibility screen blanking out the set piece page - but hey it is what it is. The lack of decent Set Piece Coaches seems a little ridiculous too, I've had to find non set piece coaches to be my set piece coaches because the Set Piece Coach availability is so poor. I know I should be focusing on my strengths in this league - but everything I am trying just seems to be getting thrown in my face as a bad idea concerning the matches and my tactics used - I think it is going to be an undoubted bad season for me and my team and I will find myself back in League One with Dulwich Hamlet unless for some reason the board decide to sack the clubs idol. It's been a while since I had a moan in this forum but I hope you guys are having a great early May Bank Holiday! Have a great day and speak again soon.

thanks mate! which skin are you using btw?

@darren1983 I need your judgement as arbiter of the rules for this challenge. I wanna go to Finland now but there is a change in league structure there. Digging through the database and irl articles, what seems to happen is that they are adding a 3rd tier which will contain the best teams from the old 3 tier which had 3 groups (now becoming the 4th tier, first unplayable in the game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_football_league_system - for reference the current pyramid Now my question is: are the teams in this new tier that were not playable at the start (10 out of 12 as 2 got relegated from a playable league) valid for this challenge or should I sim another season and pick one of the promoted teams to this new 3rd tier?

Sports Interactives arrogance towards customer is without limit. When presented with at mayor bug, making several leagues unplayable, their solution is to inform the customers to buy next years FM. "Maybe the bug is gone then, maybe we will have another bug that we don't care to address and if so we suggest you buy FM 2025..." Well, my personal solution is to never buy a product from SI ever again.