[Wales Manager Newgen (Glitch?)]

Funnily enough the same thing has happened in my game. In 2028 Wales appointed the newgen Ash Rowlands with no previous managerial or playing experience. Bang average stats, but has held the job for the last 9 in game years.

This seems to be quite a common issue with many smaller nations in my game.

[Sure-fire tips AKA possible exploits.]

Hi all, so as a result of the current madness I've been playing a lot more FM than normal and thought of an interesting topic for discussion.

In every iteration of the game, I've found that there have been a few sure-fire in game tips and tricks that always guarantee the same positive results. So for example, in FM20, two examples spring to mind:

1. Anytime a player makes noises about wanting to leave, if I reply to them saying how much I depend on their leadership qualities, 80-90% of the time this leads to them dropping their concerns and being happy to stay at the club. By using this method I have managed to quite easily fend off interest in my players from some truly massive clubs (for context I am managing lowly Pennarossa in the San Marino league!).

2. During team talks I nearly always use "I have faith in you, get out there and make a difference" and it elicits a positive response across the board 90+% of the time

 

Does anybody else have any tips or tricks they regularly employ to get positive results?

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Oof. Newgens in the San Marino leagues are nowhere near that standard currently. Gonna be a long old save this 

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2 hours ago, Cuomo10 said:

Congrats! Enjoy the prize money

You had much luck with any of your recent intakes? 

So far the youth intakes have been solid, if not spectacular. Most of the intakes are comfortably better than the standard of the other teams in the division, with a couple of players every year being able to slot into my first team setup. Similarly the national team consists mainly of players from my club.

 

However despite my junior coaching and youth recruitment both being rated as exceptional, there's been no stand out youth prospect so far. And to be competitive in Europe my squad still relies on players brought in from elsewhere.

 

My fear is that the San Marino national youth rating is going to be so low, that the standard of these newgens will be capped at a relatively low level. My hope is that with improvements in club and league rep, the standard will slowly improve over time. It makes for a very interesting save, but I still feel I'm decades off managing the national team as the quality as a whole isn't there.

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Challenge complete: Qualify for the group stage of the Champions League.

Finally managed to do it! Had a fairly easy run in the qualifiers, with a narrow aggregate win over Dinamo in the playoffs. Not expecting to do much in this group, but the prize money is a welcome bonus!

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Challenge complete: Have one of your youth products score 15+ goals in a season.

Not much else to report - still dominating the league comfortably, not pulling up any trees on the European stage. Interestingly though 4 other teams in the San Marino league have now turned professional, and I expect the others will shortly follow. Hopefully this should continue to boost the leagues reputation and benefit the national team long term.

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Well first time this has happened to me in game!

What's also nice to see is at the moment, 2 other clubs in the league are in the process of building new stadiums, and all the teams in the league are currently semi-pro. So hopefully over the coming years I will see a growing league reputation which long term should help the national team. My aim for this save now is to increase the league rep as much as possible - I'm already loaning/selling most of my youth team that aren't first team prospects to other teams in the division to try and raise the standard. Hopefully after several years the national team will start to organically improve as a result - not planning on taking them over for a good few years yet!

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Challenge complete:

Qualify for the knockout stages of the Europa League

This is not going to be pretty!!

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Challenge complete:

Qualify for the group stage of the Europa League

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2 minutes ago, duesouth said:

8.22   I take it he's a wing back flying forward a bunch?

Yup! He's been the only real standout of my youth intakes so far. Player of the season in his first season at the club, and 9 national team caps already.

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Challenge complete: Have one of your youth products win player of the year in San Marino.

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4 hours ago, Cuomo10 said:

Ah ok, I may add some leagues to increase player scope. I've invested in youth recruitment and junior coaching and my youth facilities are also being upgraded. I've had some quality youngsters come through to be fair and almost have a starting 11 of my clubs youth intake players. We're also turning professional at the end of the current season so my grip domestically should become a lot tighter and can start to develop the youngsters more. 

Just got home and checked Berardi, got him on a free in 2022 after he was released from Vibonese. Definitely worth getting him in if you can. Should think you'd definitely be able to once you turn professional.

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13 hours ago, Cuomo10 said:

It's a great bank booster. I got battered in my first group game. 

Is that Berardi from the national team in your club side? How were you able to sign him if so as I've been trying and no interest at all. Can I also ask what leagues you're running in the background as you have some diverse player names and I'm still stuck with being able to sign players within San Marino. 

I've got all the Welsh leagues running (I'm Welsh), English down to national leagues, and all the Italian leagues running. 

I have found that scouring the Welsh clubs around youth intake dates reveals some good new gens. Most are valued eventually at £500 at most, and the club invariably accept £0. Through this method I've managed to pick up a few good players, Botfield, Gowans and Downes are the ones I've kept on. 

Berardi I'd have to check when I'm at home but I'm nearly certain I only got him last season after I'd turned semi pro. He's great on the wing. 

Think investing in the youth setup is by far the best way for this challenge, but even with upgrading the facilities when I can I've had no notable youth prospects come through so far. Early days though! 

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Challenge completed:

Qualify for the group stage of the Europa Conference League.

Wasn't expecting this to be honest - after comfortable wins against Lincoln and Astana, we got absolutely demolished over 2 legs by Dinamo and then a narrow loss to Sion in the Europa league playoffs.

Boost to the bank balance is always welcome, and hopefully will manage to scrape the odd result and improve the clubs rep. Already finding this challenge is gonna take a looooong time, not had any half decent youth intakes so far so think I'm many years off managing the national team.  Still turning out to be one of my most enjoyable saves though!

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Completed Challenge:

Go undefeated domestically (league - both stages, Champions Playoffs, San Marino Cup and San Marino Super Cup)

Perfect season

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SS Pennarossa - Season 2020/21

So another successful season which included our first taste of European football!

This was followed by wins against Glentoran and Spartaks Jamala, before ultimately losing to Qarabag over two legs. However this run provided a much needed boost to our bank balance, netting us best part of 2 million!

Domestically, managed to win the treble fairly comfortably.

Which was shortly followed by the news the club is turning semi professional. Hoping this will provide a boost to our reputation and allow us to keep some of our better players, having lost our star player Alessandro Conti to a Serie C film for nothing

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So perfect first season all round!

Finished first in Group A, won the playoff and San Marino cup:

Finding the league a little easy at this level but a lot of fun to play! Hoping for more of the same over the next few seasons. Plan is to try and scrape a few results in European qualifying rounds, get some much needed funds and then hopefully turn the club semi pro and ultimately pro. Gonna be a long tough slog building the club to the point where we start producing some half decent newgens, but looking forward to the journey!!

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First target met

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So I've decided to give this challenge a go - first time choosing a team outside the UK to manage, so I'm sure it's going to be an interesting challenge.

Decided to manage SS Pennarossa

For no other reason than I like the kit/colours . Seems to be a fairly average squad, with former Juventus youth prospect Alessandro Conti being the one notable standout. However it would appear I only have 2 defenders in the senior squad, so this will need to be addressed before the season starts!!

My plan is to put a good few years focusing on improving the club, hopefully aided by a few european appearances before attempting to manage the national team - don't relish the thought of getting destroyed every game! Will try post regular updates with any progress

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Anybody have any thoughts on this? 

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Hi all, so I have a skinning query. So my resolution is 1920x1080 and I play FM with zoom set to 125% (any smaller and the text looks too small on my laptop screen). However when using these settings, on most custom skins (except evo skin) I get the following problem on the player attributes screen:

Where as you can see, the player contract details are cut off so cannot be seen in their entireity. Now granted it's not game breaking but it's a bit annoying! So is there any way I can fix this that doesn't involve adjusting my display settings i.e. can I adjust the panel size or the font size slightly and if so how?

Thanks in advance!

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