[What do you think FM should improve the most?]

The intelligence of the media. Being asked how important a win is in a group stage of a cup you already failed to qualify in is just completly stupid, not sure how to rate the answer options of there is still a lot of football to play and so on, but slightly idiotic comes to mind. Asking me why I chose not to pick a player that is on international duty is slightly even more stupid. To ask me if I'm gonna rotate the team because the game is of zero importance in one question (last game, already secured the league win) to call it the most important game of the season in the next question. 

[What do you think FM should improve the most?]

5 hours ago, Neil Brock said:

Would say this promise really needs rewording, as what the player is asking for is a new contract worth signing. The promise isn't kept if you offer them two buttons and some magic beans. 

Appreciate in your mind you may be offering them something you think is fair and reasonable, but for the promise to be kept, you need to offer them a contract that they want to sign. Appreciate that isn't really clear from how it currently appears in-game. 

It is not clear how it is worded and as far as I can see I'm promising to start talks, not to give them what they want without any kind of negotiation. If what they asked for would be at least decently reasonable or if there would actually be some negotiating I wouldn't mind so much. But when they request a decent squad player to either be an important player and/or to up their salary 4 or 5 times the amount they signed for 12-18 months ago and one try to negotiate it down shuts it all down stone cold it quickly gets old. If they player would play amazing or had gone through amazing devolpment or earned a lot less than others at his level I would understand it but when your fringe players want the same salary as your star players just because they happened to play a couple of games in a row because of an injury or played one good game it starts to feel more or less ridiculous. Who in their right mind would, in a casual chat, promise a player that they will get whatever they ask for no questions asked.

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One of the biggest issues that I see is when a player asks for a new contract and you agree and go into negotiation with him and he wont accept and the agen refuses to actuallya negotiate more than once and then just close down the negotiations. The player get upset and it is considered a broken promise which causes a lot of issues down the road due to broken promises and you can't talk to players anymore because they see you as not reliable even though you actually have kept your word. 

[What do you think FM should improve the most?]

Interaction especially when it comes to the whole complete crash of morale in the whole team because a player have outlandish demands. So damn tired of players asking for new contracts once or twice per year despite having 4 years or more left. Sure if a player has become a lot better in the time since they signed it might be fair, but for having a few decent games no way. Decent players requesting wages 3 times higher than what they are on because they have shown decent and then throwing a fit when you don't give it to them and sometimes drag the entire team down with them doesn't seem reasonable. The biggest problem though is that I can't communicate this to the players complaining about not giving x what he wants, if he can run and cry over promises not kept, even if I think I have kept the promise by actually negotiating in the first place, I should be able to say I offered him a fair deal compared to the rest of you and he turned it down and put stop to negotiations.  

Keeping your own prospects and getting homegrown players for continental competitions is something I have found rather impossible at the moment. Your own prospects that has your team as favourite and their entire favoured personnel list in the team should not get upset because they aren't allowed to move to an almost identical team with the same offered possibilities. Get an offer from a team with less facilities and slightly lower stature and the player get annoyed for not selling and forcing you to accept the next offer from them so they can move to sit in another U23 team.

[playing time promises for renewed contracts]

I kinda agree with you on this one. Not sure I really like the whole sign a 4-5 year contract play one year and then request a new one and start the cycle all over. And the whole agent coming runnig and demanding new contracts because a player has been in kinda ok form and happened to play one pretty good game seems kinda ridiculous. More ways of communicating instead of having to negotiate a new contract that usually is very little negotiation and more of a give me exactly what I want or I'll throw a fit that ruins the team spirit completly. I think a lot of the flaws I still find with the game is down to communicating and the lack of relevant alternatives to use and I don't think it is all that realistic (I know it is a game, but it still claims to strive for realism) that you should have to negotiate new contracts with your players sometimes twice a year to have a chance to preserve the team morale. Not everything should be determined by having to write up a new contract that can cost a fortune in other fees except the wages, especially not a thing like I want to play a few more games per year. I agree you shouldn't be able to hoard young star prospects and expect them to be happy to sit around and not getting games, but the problem is not just the star prospects that actually have the ability to compete for a spot here and now. I have found that a lot of mediocre prospects, even those brought up by the clubs youth system, that will probably not go further than squad or fringe players if they realise their potential will go bonkers if you don't let them leave for a pretty much identical setup somewhere else. Perfectly happy players, some team with the same reputatiion and same quality facilities and coaching and so on make a bid and the player gets terribly upset that you don't sell them to sit in the other teams reserves instead. And if it weren't players that have the club as their favourite team and got staff from the club as favoured personnel I might find it a bit more realistic that they would throw a fit as in I will never ever even consider discussing a new contract with you people because you wouldn't let me move to an identical setup whit the same if not slightly worse prospects of developing. 

And while I'm at it if I offer a player that has used 1 or 2 years on his 5 year contract a new contract that will more than double his pay and put him up with the other top earners at the club and the agent/player shut down negotiations as unacceptable I don't really think he should be pissed because he thinks a promise has been broken and run off and cry to his team mates causing a stir and **** half the team off. And if he got that chance I should get the chance to tell the others that come crying about that players contract that I made an offer that would had more than doubled his salary and put him at the top of the payroll, but he and his agent decided to shut it down completly without any negotiation because they wanted a few thousand more.

[Player angry because he's playing as a Trequartista in Attacking Midfield instead of a Trequartista in Attacking Midfield]

On 20/02/2022 at 22:44, Mars_Blackmon said:

This is Implying that every player request this which isn’t true. More things than not it’s players that have a best role that outweighs any other role they have skills at.

Not sure I agree with that as I have players thinking their best position is positions they aren't even natural at and will demand to be played in those positions. 

Not sure, why do we even have positions if it is all about the attributes. I would think that a player that has a natural ability for a position should probably be better at that than one he is not natural in.

[Player angry because he's playing as a Trequartista in Attacking Midfield instead of a Trequartista in Attacking Midfield]

20 hours ago, Mars_Blackmon said:

This is Implying that every player request this which isn’t true. More things than not it’s players that have a best role that outweighs any other role they have skills at.

Not sure I agree with that as I have players thinking their best position is positions they aren't even natural at and will demand to be played in those positions. 

 

[Player angry because he's playing as a Trequartista in Attacking Midfield instead of a Trequartista in Attacking Midfield]

Considering a lot of players think their best roles are in positions they aren't even natural in I'm not sure the game is actually working all that well when it comes to best preferred positions, kinda suck they make such a big part in negotiations. I don't really want to promise you that I will play you in a non natural position could you please just trust me I'm doing you a favour by refusing your demands.

 

[Are green/red circles for roles and duties meaningless?]

I spend a lot more time trying to build a team and a tactic that perform as I want it and that play well together, most  my training go into team work and team cohesion when they don't need to train the tactic. With this way of thinking I have manage to stay away from those huge losses in form that I previously got at least once a season where one loss seemed to destroy the entire teams morale. I have found that much more important than the players personal preferences but who knows maybe I could get even better results if I took both into consideration, but after brexit I'm extremly limited in my choice of players and the competition for players of all ability and potential with a brittish passport is almost silly. playing league 2 and now league 1 I more often than not have to compete with both championship teams and PL teams to find players suitable for my level so I pretty much stick what I can get where I need them to be and usually they perform okay once they get a chance to gel with the team. 

[Are green/red circles for roles and duties meaningless?]

I still got plenty of players whos best position doesn't even  fit their overall position, like a player with DC as his only position that has best postion as DRL. It has been like that at least since last version so I have stopped caring whatsover what those things say and so far I have been rather successful. Think I had my best season ever in 20+ years of playing this game in this version and I don't think I have a single green circle on the field in every match. 

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On 2017-11-04 at 19:39, gunner86 said:

Worst... parents... ever

Not sure I agree

 

[Football Manager 2017 Pre-Release Beta Feedback Thread]

Really love the comment "Doubt there was anything actually wrong with him, you know how modern footballers can be" when a player gets back to training after more than 6 months on the injured list.

[Football Manager 2017 Pre-Release Beta Feedback Thread]

I mostly find I enjoy the new version, my striker actually score goals and not all goals comes from a low hard cross from winger to winger. In most cases I also find that my players don't seem to stop to a standstill and watch for no apparent reason (might have been just the limitations in how the 3d showed the situations) and thankfully no more warping/teleporting/strange sudden movements off course (probably same reason as previous). Also kinda like the fact that my players that break through on goal don't stop and wait for the other 19 players to catch up before going in for a finish. Just a couple of things that annoyed the hell out of me in 2016 even though I figured most of the things really didn't happen exactly as displayed.

Still gettind ridiculous claims of first team football from backups and hot prospects less than halfway into the first season. Also think the fans reactions to trial players can be a bit overboard, when they make comments about trial players that make it sound that we have made long time commitments that will comw back and haunt us. Not sure what purpose, the question from the press about if we are going to permanently sign the player 2 minutes after taking him on trial, is suppose to fill. If I knew if I wanted the guy or not before I got a chance to evaluate him I wouldn't had taken him on trial.

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