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Haha - good point! Probably only get 60k or so in this instance though, due to the cheapskate wages, 1 year contract. Not sure it's worth gambling with my whole career trajectory over that much. But certainly food for thought...

I don't know about 'fun'! Did a quick experiment - blindly selling everyone they have (or trying to) that was either worth anything or was on more than a couple of grand a week. Got the finances down to spending £132,333 p/w against a wage budget of £91,798 p/w, and there's hardly anyone left to play any games. Oh, and media prediction is finishing rock bottom by a million miles. The game does a bad job of explaining the expectations in terms of results vs budget - would I be sacked at Xmas for being over the wage budget? How much over could I be? Anyway, it doesn't sound like much fun! I think realistically I wouldn't do it if I was a manager...

I'm playing as Welling United manager on FM24 Console. I've just got them promoted to League 2, but have been offered the Sheffield Wednesday job. I was initially thrilled, as I am playing 'realistically' in respect of job offers - but then I saw the finances.... £370,810 Overall balance (though this will vanish pretty quickly) £65,237,360 Net Debt £103,863 transfer budget which, if I reduce all the way to zero gives me... £47,065 p/w Wage budget. Which is much lower than.... £325,930 p/w committed spending (very much in red font) Pretty sure this is saying I need to reduce the wage budget from £325k p/w to the same level that Oldham have in Vanarama, no? What am I supposed to do - sell everyone? Given that the club demand I 'work within a wage budget', aren't I just going to get sacked within months given that this is impossible, right? (No wonder the club goals for the next five years are just 'avoid relegation' from the Championship!) Quite hard to pass up a job at such a big club, but this looks like a hiding to nothing - unless I'm mistaken about how patient the board might be with the restructure....

@dansheppard I've just uploaded another called 'Top prem players interested in move to Non-League.mp4' which appears to show that the 'interested?' tab doesn't work at all. All these players seem to appear when I add a position to the search filters i.e. normal when just 'loanees', unrealistic when asking to show me same list but narrowed down to a position. Do not believe my 'ands' and 'ors' are to blame in the filter fields. Have uploaded another video called, "Adding position makes unrealistic players appear.mp4".

I've uploaded the first one - it's called: "Centre backs and left backs in CM search.mp4"

@Dan Sheppard Sure - I can upload them as I encounter it; it's intermittent. Right now I have a video where my search for centre mids brings up some centrebacks and left backs who cannot play CM at all. What's the best way to upload and add to this thread? I also get a thing where I could select 'interested' but pretty much everyone decent turns down the loan. Is that a bug too?

No reply? Still going on.... Filters looking for CMs that are bringing up pure strikers, or £40 players when I have a max value set at £1 mill... as well as the details mentioned above where I'm getting offered players based abroad when I just need UK + Ireland players as per my filters.

Still the case three games later in November 2023! Mad how some of these issues linger...

I play console edition on PC via Xbox/Microsoft (but not Gamepass). I downloaded the game in advance of release day (though it remained locked) but am not sure I saw any 'release day update' and being on version '0.9.1062' feels like I might still be on a pre-release version of the game. Shouldn't it say 24.1.1 or at least 24.1.0? Clicking 'check for updates' doesn't do anything. Can anyone advise please?

Hi all, Just into my second season now. Thinking it's time for a run on the title. But what's that I see? Haaland has 21 goals in his first 5 league matches of the season. That's flipping ridiculous and frankly there's not much point playing a game in which I have practically no chance of success due to Man City having a striker who is on course for (punches into calculator) 129 goals this season. I know it's early days but still... Anyway, here's my question: has anyone taken drastic measures (editor wise) to try to bring some realism back to this? I know I'm not the only one with a Super Haaland in their game. Would prefer not, but am tempted to give him a broken leg every year for the rest of his career haha!

I think one area that the game needs to improve upon is making the footballing world feel more alive and therefore the story telling more immersive. For example, in FM17 I got Sheffield Wednesday to three Champions League finals in a row and lost them all - game didn't really care. In FM21, taking Sunderland from League 1 to the Champions League places the game made NOTHING out of the fact I'd got two back to back promotions and leap frogged local rivals Newcastle. This year, I noted in a blink and you miss it bit of news that Wayne Rooney had become the Everton manager. That's a fun and exciting development - if it happened in real life the sports news, papers and podcasts would be all over it, but there was barely a ripple in the waters of my FM game. They've added that screen that plots out your achievements, but it doesn't really address what I'm talking about. Make more of the story SI, please!

I think one area that the game needs to improve upon is making the footballing world feel more alive and therefore the story telling more immersive. For example, in FM17 I got Sheffield Wednesday to three Champions League finals in a row and lost them all - game didn't really care. In FM21, taking Sunderland from League 1 to the Champions League places the game made NOTHING out of the fact I'd got two back to back promotions and leap frogged local rivals Newcastle. This year, I noted in a blink and you miss it bit of news that Wayne Rooney had become the Everton manager. That's a fun and exciting development - if it happened in real life the sports news, papers and podcasts would be all over it, but there was barely a ripple in the waters of my FM game. They've added that screen that plots out your achievements, but it doesn't really address what I'm talking about. Make more of the story SI, please!

Thanks for replying. Why is that? This function used to exist in Touch for PC? I just don’t get why it’s not possible to do (after a year of feedback that some players would like it) for the console version for PC when it’s basically the same game as Touch for PC was, and when it runs on the same machines and through GamePass like full fat does, on which this is possible. Very disappointing and sadly not in the least bit surprising (though not your fault of course). Reminds me of all the little bugs I’d find and report for Touch on PC (I was even asked to test the game before release a couple of years back) only to find that not only would they not be fixed in-year, but they’d still be there in the next version a year later. Not quite the same thing but still…

Hi @Desmond Richardson - is it time yet to be able to find out about whether we can - this year - import tactics files into console for PC version (unlike last year)? Thanks.