mdaw1985

I think I see what he is saying, if a few players came to him and said they want pay rises and got refused with the reason they can't afford it, then those players in reality would tell the rest of the dressing room and you wouldn't get every player asking as they would already know what's coming. The AI just isn't that advanced.

At least in FM22 in a long term save I upgraded to max facilities from adequate over the course of the save. My board to be fair were pretty good about upgrading until I hit superb. Then once my teams rep got to 4.5 stars training facilities were then able to be asked for an upgrade to state of the art. Youth facilities only came up as an option after I'd won the champions league and got to 5 stars. So I'd say it's partly rep related and also down to your chairman/board (ambition and youth priority. Finances will also play a part. They will need to be there to complete the upgrade but also depends possibly how good the financial management is. I tended to ask once we got some money in after promotion and staying up etc. The main problem I have with the board is trying to get a second new stadium. I got a new stadium 4/5 years in. I was there 14 seasons maxing capacity for 5 seasons after all expansions had been completed (which they were very good about expanding) but they won't entertain a new stadium even though I can ask and even put forward and argument. They just say we can achieve here without moving. It's a 31.4k stadium in Germany. Not sure if it's because there is a hidden thing in the game that you have to be in a stadium 20 or 25 years that I've seen mentioned before. So it's ok but I want more capacity. Same goes for feeder clubs. Got to a certain amount but the board won't budge.

In FM22 I found the same thing. I won 9 out of 10 in la liga titles and multiple long runs in the champions league and my sponsorship was still only 8th in la liga with real betis on about 7.5 million a year. 4.5 star rep for many years. I did notice after season 8 when real Madrid dropped out of the champions league places in la liga that Atletico Madrid seemed to take the equivalent of Reals sponsorship and the 2 pretty much just swapped their sponsorship income. I believe we're roughly 55m and 70m. Next nearest were only on 20m. Barcelona had the highest I think but I can't remember what that was.

A few factors involved. If your chairman/person has low ambition or youth importance (I think that's the stat) then they aren't likely to come up as options to upgrade. Also club rep plays a part. At least on FM22 it has for me. I took a bottom club in Germany from liga 3 to the top and only once I'd won the champions league and club rep went to 5 stars did my board allow me to upgrade to state of the art youth facilities. However they did allow me to get to superb quite quickly. My thing now is to try and get my second stadium built. Current one is 12 years old and 31000 and I think has reached max capacity. Board won't build a new one. Been asking for 3 years.

Roma and Lazio also share stadio olimpico in Rome.

I too am in a long term save on FM22. I looked into in editors yesterday strangely. I came across one from FMscout. It's free to get and view stuff but will need to pay to use it. I'm pretty sure you can change kits on it. I only wanted to gain access so I could see what my clubs rep was in figures rather than stars compared to other clubs that are 5 star reputation. Turns out my club has a rep of 8904 out of 10k. I'm assuming if it hits 9k you go to 5 stars.

Hi all, It's always been slow but usually I've managed to save the game to the cloud (FM22). It usually only lets me have 2 saves in in there or it just stops saving or won't load the save. I've deleted all but one and even that won't save or very inconsistently will save. It's annoying because I play on a laptop when travelling etc and prefer to play on my computer at home. It's suddenly become an issue over the last week where it barely ever saves. I'm using epic game store. Any suggestions on why this would start happening now?

I'd imagine that the fines just reduce your wage expenditure and that's it. Probably not shown anywhere specifically but that's coming from someone who hasn't looked and still playing FM22 as I'm not done with a long term save before going to FM23 which was free. I've only just started fining players recently. I never realised it had much effect. I certainly haven't noticed all that much difference personally. Maybe doing it consistently over a few years I will notice it more with younger players. Even with fines I'm suffering the same slump in form I did last season at the exact same moment 😂. Oh well, looks like Bayern Munich will win the league again.

If it is limited to time then I hope it isn't too many years. If my club keeps growing as it is, I should be out growing it in 3 or 4 seasons.

I stumbled across a narrow 433 that's working really well. It is FM22 so I don't know if this was popular or not. Previous to this I was playing this with two wide players instead but playing out from the back and offside trap on. I have tall forwards so playing out from the back isn't as necessary to keep possession. I've found that offside trap just doesn't help when playing against good players. The only thing I change when playing better teams is the DM to a DLP on defend. All players are set to hard tackling. Yes I do get a fair amount of cards but we do win back the ball well. Im 10 seasons in and I originally started the save playing 4132. This tactic has been used for around 1 and a half seasons and not lost many.

Although I'm looking to the future a little early, my team SC Bonner (FM22) I've played 10 seasons and right at the end of last season completed a massive stadium capacity upgrade. Went up from 19.8k seats to 29k (9.2k change). Whilst it was being done the stadium was closed and we went back to the beyarena in Leverkusen which we previously rented when the stadium was first being built. We first rented this after promotion to the bundesliga 2 as original stadium didn't qualify needing more capacity and undersoil heating in league rules. My average attendance now is around 28k. I know the stadium can go to 32k from a post that came up once. Should I get to 32k and keep getting max attendance do you think I might get another new stadium at some point?

So generally speaking have you found them to score well as poachers, advanced forward? I'm still playing fm22 and I'm currently starting my 10th season in the current save with the same team. I did 13 in the previous save. As Real Betis I had a lot of good youth talent come through. I can't remember who I had as the HOYD in that save before he retired. When I moved onto Leipzig from Betis I didn't get much in the way of good youth in that save. In this current save I've had one decent player come through who was a cm (again who can't shoot) but every striker apart from one has had below 10 finishing. I now have one with 15 but rubbish at everything else 😂

I don't know how many experience this but I have found it a common theme on FM in general that lots of youth strikers have poor finishing stats that don't really improve. Yes their preferred position would be false 9 etc. Many I have converted to wingers or amc. Just wondering if many have had success using them as strikers when they have good stats generally but low finishing and how you have got them scoring well?

I'll answer my own question. I think whatever TV money in German football is basically just disseminated through prize money at the end of the season. I loaded a previous save and looked at the money side of things and it was the same. No TV money apart from other competitions i.e champions league.

Not sure if it's the same on FM22 and FM23 (I'm on FM22) but when getting promoted from liga 3 to bundesliga 2 in four seasons in bundesliga 2 I never received any TV revenue despite games broadcast on TV. Will the same thing happen now I'm in the top bundesliga?