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It's a game in this case, not based 100% on reality, probably to avoid praising with no limit as a way to raise moral without any limit. So for game purpose, consider that in FM players don't like to be over praised when they don't think they trully deserve it or when you have done it too many times in a given period. It's like when you praise the players for good training performace 4 times in a row and then they become upset, but if you do it 3 times and then don't do it the 4th time, it resets and you can praise them again the 5th time. It's the limit FM interaction module puts on you to not to "game" it. All that is based on my game experience and common sense, I have no inside info about it of course.

What I wish is the opposite, a way for humans to set players not for sale as the AI does, so you won't get low bids all the time for them.

You are mixing up two different concepts/purposes. To have more players in the DB you can do what you said but the reason of adding more leagues is mainly to have more competition from AI with more teams competing for your players etc and to have a more realistic world around you. If you load too many players and not enought playable competitions, nobody out of your league will compete to sign them and it will be so difficult to sell players as there is more offer than demand. Read this thread about how to create a balanced game world, that is what most of us aim for (at the cost of speed in some cases). Ead

Probably it should be replaced by Risk management and just have it low, balanced and high. The main problem is not that defensive mentalities are broken, it's just that in general they are not well balanced in terms of risk/benefit vs the attacking ones. In current ME in general you have more chances to win using positive or attacking than cautious or defensive as defensive means basically taking less risk and players will waste more time, pass between defenders with the hope of not loosing the ball, so it's basically useful if you are aiming to tie 0-0 into boring games to watch as usually low tier teams do. Then we have us, human managers. Most of FM players are only looking to win, to gain promotion etc and ending most of games 0-0 won't help you on that so that is why we end using the more risky mentalities. Either we win, over perform and have a lot of fun or we lose, get either bored of that save or fired and restart with a different team as obviously we won't have problems feeding our families or ending jobless if we are fired like a real coach would. With both factors together, there are not enough incentives for humans to use the low risk mentalities. As we already have pass length, pressing intensity, LOE and LOD, play from defense, width, etc there is no need for the extra layer of risk or mentalities that are overall modifiers of all these ones together? It can lead to confusion like what is the difference in players positioning and pressing when using defensive mentality with high LOE and LOD vs attacking mentality using low LOE and LOD? or playing with more width with defensive mentality vs playing narrower with attacking mentality? Again imho we just need risk management settings as single modifier not tied to other single modifiers like attacking width, LOE, LOD, pass length, urgency, etc as we can already define these individually.

I don't delegate much, but lately I'm starting to let my staff run the scouting assignments and general training, while I control the individual across the senior and lower teams. Now that I'm going to start a new LLM challenge after quite a few seasons with Crewe, I'm really tempted to delegate Press Conferences as after a few seasons I have seen already all the questions and I fact just being a little conservative with my answers I can keep my team motivated all season long. But I'm worried about my staff screwing my team moral or motivation if I delegate them based on what I have read from some users here. I'm really really tired of the pre-game, post-game, mid week, post new signings, etc press talks, always reading same questions again and again about the same players or other coaches or teams I'm not involved at all with, etc. Also the high frequency of press conferences in LLM make much less sense than when you are coaching an elite team