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what I have found useful is to delay the transfer date to the end of the season. Especially on players where their contracts are running down and wont resign

Just wanted to drop in and say good on you for persisting with this save. I exclusively manage in the English lower leagues and tbh my favourite types of saves are where you have to grind with a small club, as it makes the big moments and promotions all that much sweeter. Some of my favourite FM seasons have been where I've been promoted and then just managed to avoid relegation, especially in leagues where there is a big chasm between big and small clubs. Also, try setting up a "dummy" save where you can test tactics, replay games etc. That way it doesn't affect your main save, but you can still build tactics through trial and error.

One of the most ridiculous and annoying things in FM is when you try to sign a player who has been without a club and without offers for months, but when you offer a contract, out of nowhere several interested teams appear and offer a proposal too. And in the end, I end up losing the player to a team that offered less salary and a lower status.

I thought I'd try something different before doing my own save and told ChatGPT to create a "defence-minded tactic" and this is what it cooked up. Let's see how this goes! Update: Simulated the first 10 games of the season to see how the tactic would fare and it's not looking good to say the least.

What could go wrong going into a two leg Champions league tie with @santy001 and courtois being ruled out for three months just prior and then you not having a backup goal keeper registered. Playing this guy in both legs.

Thanks to remember me that tactic. I using a ME breaking tactic (stupid gegenpressing vertical pass) that make the game cheats even more. I'm really playing a RNG simulator. Now I gonna back to my old tiki taka tactic and be cheated in the old fashion

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Cheers! The Coronation Cup is one season only mind you, but the improved CONCACAF continental stuff this year was nice from SI and makes it worth playing. I thought about something like a Commonwealth Champions League but I this is enough along that theme for now

Could look at Scotland with the league split. And then just take the hidden stages they use for that, and set them to groups instead of a league phase. Maybe check out Belgium for a championship stage that doesn't send results back to the main league actually, sounds more in line with what you're thinking.

What a magnificent response to the change in shape. Name a better feeling than instant gratification of your tactical decisions in FM

Finding the gems is something that I’ve found a lot harder following the changes to scouting. But man it feels good when you find them.

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S17 - July 2039 Ekstraklasa 2 wins and a draw to start the season is not too bad. Our second team played against LKS and we are missing quite a lot of quality there at the moment

S17 - Season Preview We are expected to finish 13th, this is improvement comparing to recent years. We should be able to finish mid table. We are now in top 10 reputation of clubs in the country. Transfers This is a very busy transfer window. Firstly with board trying to sell Przybyszewski(12b) behind my back and then Gornik Leczna unsettling half of my players who want to join them. Board wanted to sell him form 1.5M, I added 1 M on the top plus % of next sale. Sowinski(12e)* well Gornik met his release clause unfortunately. He is one of the players that I didn't have optional extension at the beginning and needed to re-sign his contract. Bialek(12b)* started to stagnate a bit. The move is purely so that we can drop a young player in one of the starting line ups. Kowalski(13l) is another one that was unsettled by Gornik, they pay quite a bit for him plus the % of next sale. We will be dropping another young player to fill his boots. Finances

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Due to losing my save and the slow process on trying to get it back - see thread 'new phone', I started a game with the smallest team in spain. Understandably (perhaps), upon starting the game, their B team were not in any competitive league. However, two promotions later I'm now in the Secunda and thry still aren't even in a reserve league - surely this would change as the profile / division of the senior team does? So, will I ever get my B team put in a reserves league (at least), or do I bin this save off and restart with a team who's reserves get games - as arranging constant friendlies against rubbish teams is hampering my ability to produce a conveyor belt of talent due to them developing far slower as a result of the above.

Been a week since I got a response to this?

No cookie I'm afraid but I do offer my congratulations and a spot in the HoF

Season 2023 / 24 - 3.Liga February 2024 Results Pretty solid month (ignoring the Verl game of course) and the Bielefeld game was a massive performance! Verl was an absolute shocker. We were two up by the half hour and then just imploded. Hoxha on paper looked lime a better option than Lamby but he was looking absolutely dreadful and cost us two goals. They'd levelled it by half time then got the winner with twenty mins to go. We rallied after that but all too late. Saarbrucken was a gritty performance - Schifferl grabbed his third in as many games and was an absolute threat at set pieces. Krattenmacher was running things again in the middle. Bielefeld was possibly our best performance of the season to date. Krattenmacher again absolutely ran the show and it was just a proper dominant performance. They had 2 shots all game compared to our 22! Finished the month with an easy win against Dortmund II. Table Affiliate Took advantage of the good board relationship to request an affiliate. Was obviously hoping for Dortmund or Bayern but this wasn't too bad. Union Berlin had some fairly decent looking players and hopefully we could get some good loans in next season. March 2024 Results Dropped points at the end of this month was a bit of a worry and the nature of the defeat against an albeit solid Ingolstadt was a concern. Still we were absolutely maintaining the charge at the top and despite the hiccup were four clear of Dresden and five clear of Ingolstadt. Essen are a good side but we blew them away; familiar faces amongst the goalscorers and Schifferl was our main threat from corners! Duisburg was a strong win on paper but we had to work for it. Three late goals sealed it and Romeo Beney got the goal that some of his performances had deserved since joining at the end of Jan on loan. Sandhausen was an ugly one. No one put in a particularly strong shift and despite going ahead just after the hour through the most prolific centre back I've seen since Bert Konterman in CM 01/02; they levelled and we limped over the line. Before the Ingolstadt game we lost Hoffmann to injury with the German under 21s for three months and Schifferl wasn't fully fit. It showed. By 48 mins we were 4-0 down and despite pulling a few back were on the wrong side of a 5-3 scoreline. Had we beaten them we'd have pulled 11 points clear and surely secured promotion! We were still out in front and just about doing enough. Table Other Business Managed to extend Zerolis loan until the end of next season which was great news for whatever division we were in. He is absolutely key to our midfield. Did try the same for Krattenmacher but the Hamburg management weren't keen on loaning him out again and we'd have to try and negotiate another loan in the summer. Bundesliga 2 Riches! Despite all the talk about tempering expectations I did take a peek at the rules, stages and rewards in the second tier and my god. I could finish bottom of the table and secure £6.71m. Suddenly the need to get promoted seemed that bit more important!

Friday 26th September 2031 Skeid Appoint Andersson --

Monday 22nd September 2031 Viking Fotballklubb - Election Results -- -- -- I'm going to miss Jarle Bech-Eriksen because he gave me this great job and was very supportive of me as Viking manager. But I'm looking forward to meeting the new Viking Chairperson, Kjell Fjæreide, and working with him.

I also suggested something similar (I suggested about football schools, I don't know if it's the same thing) here in my country there are a lot of football schools and it would be really cool to have that within the game, and adding this to @Rick87 suggestion it would also be incredible to be able to control these teams Edit: here in my country, most of the football schools for the first division teams are either society (7-a-side football) or futsal, so it wouldn't be possible to replicate it exactly in FM, but it would still be cool.

Not that it is completely unrealistic to start as a head coach, but yes, the vast majority start at the youth level, and this would add much more immersion to the game