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Any particular reason as to why John van 't Schip is not in 24.3 while he is in 24.2? Licensing issues?

Bundesliga Manager 97, although I had the English version called Total Football Management. I liked that you were able to start from the lowest playable division while keeping your players, but with their stats having been nerfed to fit the league's quality. Or I think that was the case, I don't remember exactly.

I go with a name that's appropriate for the country, for example I use Scott Walker whenever I feel like managing in one of the British leagues.

I can't actually remember if there was one for previous releases, but there will be a data update within the next two weeks, won't there?

Shouldn't this text box be removed from the Original and Your World modes then?

The pre-game editor is taking ages to load the database, which may be because of my low-end PC. It's working at the normal speed after it's successfully loaded, however.

For me three versions stand out: FM07 was my first FM so I'm a little biased towards it, but I like how quickly you can go through a season. I bought it again in a thrift shop a couple of years ago, but that one seems to have a somewhat game-breaking bug with Dutch teams. Also fond memories of FM10. It may have been a bit on the easy side, though. I'm not good at this game (and certainly not back then!), but no matter what tactic I would create in FM10 I'd get decent results at worst. This was the version I put the most hours in. FM13 Classic is another one I played a lot. That mode was just what I needed to rekindle the FM-fire, as I felt the gameplay of full fat FM had already started to feel a bit slow by then. When looking at it from a business perspective, I understand why they axed the PC version, but I'm still sad it's gone. The fact we never got a pre-game editor for it had always felt disappointing to me, too.

I meant awards like the Eredivisie and Keuken Kampioen Divisie Player of the Year award (see the top two pictures), but you're absolutely right they were handed out only last month. Also a minor error, the highest scoring match in the JCS (see the bottom picture) should be Ajax - PSV 3-5, played on 30 July 2022.

Sergio Ramos is retired in-game. EDIT: In Original game mode he isn't. The date of him transferring to Sevilla in Real World mode had passed and he was still an assistant manager, so I guess that's where my confusion came from.

Eredivisie and KKD are missing the award winners of last season, aside of the Eredivisie Top Goalscorer. Saibari signed a contract extension until 2028. https://www.psv.nl/english-psv/news/article/contract-news-ismael-saibari-signs-contract-extension-until-2028.htm Ledezma signed a contract extension until 2025. https://www.psv.nl/english-psv/news/article/transfer-ledezma-signs-contract-extension-and-has-permission-to-complete-loan-deal.htm

Doesn't seem to be the case.

Real fixtures are licensed and SI doesn't have the PL licence.

Sorry, my imaginary girlfriend wasn't happy when I told her the news of no beta.

I promised my girlfriend I would marry her if the Beta is released tomorrow. Please don't release it tomorrow.

This is on the official UEFA website about the deal with SI from last year: Link While things could always change, especially when it comes to licensing, I think it's likely the UEFA licence deal runs to FM25 at the very earliest.

Does the blog mention anything about the winter transfer window, loan deals and/or managerial (or other staff members) sackings in the 'Real World' option? I would like to read the blog myself (I'm a member), but I can't log in. Already submitted a ticket, but it's also a Friday.

Yes, sorry, my bad. I wrote something about the J-League being in FM24 but somehow missed the general thread in General Discussion so I edited my post. Didn't have anything else to add but didn't know I could hide a post. Now I know. Thanks.

Right, I had already forgotten about that. I think that was FM19, the first year the German leagues were licenced. Maybe SI thought the national team was included too, but had to patch it when it turned out it wasn't. The latter is just speculation on my part, however.

That's very likely. On the picture of Grealish's attributes (first page of this thread) you can see in the yellow cards section 'UEFA Champions League'. Things could obviously always change, of course, but personally I don't think it will in this case. Currently on mobile, so can't directly show you.

Yes, they've already been working on FM24, probably since before FM23 was even released. I think FM24 will be the version that introduces women's football and be the new features headliner. It seems like the right time to introduce it, right after the World Cup and when every European club is required to become a professional team if they want to play European football. I also think that's why the new FM23 features have felt a little underwhelming, most of the development time went into finishing working on women's football. If I remember correctly, FM18 did the same thing where its only new feature was the social feed and then FM19 came with the tactics and training overhaul.

It's due to licenses, but I think it's interesting to note the J-League actually used to be in FIFA (but isn't in FIFA23) while the LigaMX and the Brazilian Série A (FIFA has been using fake player names for Brazil for years, however) aren't in FIFA23 this year as well due to an exclusive deal with Konami, yet those are in FM23. It makes me a little worried the latter two leagues will eventually get removed from future FM titles too. Removed as in they aren't playable without the use of an editor, I meant.

I like Versus Mode but I think the mode could be even better if the following things are added: 1. Let us be able to set up the groups/KO draw and fixtures ourselves. 2. It doesn't make sense league games are always played in the home team's stadium, even when teams only play the other teams once, while KO games are always played in some random neutral stadium, even when there are two legs. At least give us the choice if we want this to happen or not. 3. Make it possible to watch games between AI teams again. When the mode was still part of FMC/FMT you could, so why can't we do that anymore? 4. Make national teams available from the start, although I understand if licensing is the issue here.

Oh, it's playable, my apologies if you misunderstood. It's just as in this picture, in-game it combines the two years, incorrectly showing the 2021/22 edition was never played. Pretty sure it does because of those two years are set wrong in the previous pic. Both editions show up correctly in-game when those years are correct too.

The 2021 Johan Cruijff Schaal doesn't appear in-game. It does in the pre-game editor, but aside of the winner being set incorrectly (it says Ajax beat PSV when the opposite happened), the reason it doesn't show in-game is because of what year is set in the yellow and brown boxes. Yellow should be set to 2020 and brown to 2021.

The main reason is there's still no mandatory promotion/relegation between Keuken Kampioen Divisie (Tier 2) and Tweede Divisie (Tier 3). It's supposed to be introduced next season, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was postponed for a few more seasons once again. In the past decade it has been postponed again and again. Not many clubs from the top three leagues have much interest in promotion either. The Dutch FA also owns the licence rights for the teams in Tier 3 and below, whereas the licence rights for the top two tiers are owned by two different partnerships that aren't owned by the Dutch FA. The Dutch FA is really touchy about the licences, hence the Dutch NT coach being named Jan Jansen since FM13 or so and the FIFA and PES games in the 2000's either not having the Dutch NT in the game at all or having fake names. So SI may consider it's not worth getting those licence rights, even if they wanted to.