tarzanofmars

October 29, 2023

I've never lost a locker room. Until a preseason match in FM24. It's definitely been ramped up to unrealistic levels this year, and that's saying something.

October 29, 2023

On 25/10/2023 at 05:59, trevjim said:

We all know how they go...

"Hey just wanted to praise your recent form"

"I disagree, I can play better"

"Ok no worries, look forward to seeing what else you can bring"

"I can't believe how you have handled this"

(Player morale drops)

Or the stupid team talks (board wants you to finish top 4)

"I would like us to push for top 4 this year"

"All players are now offended"

Since they were introduced they have been so tedious, repetitive and broken.

They were introduced to add to the immersion, but are so broken that they actually do the opposite and detract from it.

Even when they do work as intended, they are so boring. I know you can send your ass man but I am not sure if there are negative results for doing that?

That's why I always preferred FM Classic/Touch for the PC. It did away with most the bloated fluff like that.

I would love the option for them to be removed from the game.

However that's just me. Does anyone on here actually like them?

Thank you for taking the time to lay out what is the most underdeveloped and poorly implemented aspect of FM. I just lost the entire 1st team support because I criticized one player's 6.2 performance. Cautiously I might add, no throwing or kicking needed. And this was Liverpool, not Sunday league drunks. It's certainly far worse in FM24 because that's never happened before.

January 13, 2023

The key to getting a team who on paper has no business getting into the top 4 is hard work, cohesion and determination. Too many get tunnel vision on tactics. With the right coaches, training schedule (3 sessions a day or bust and always do a match review) and the right praise and pressure you can get your players (again the right players) nearly all training hard. Performance and training rating mean more to me than attributes and I always weigh up recent training rating with performance in picking my team. Work hard in training and I will give you a chance even if your attributes aren't as good as someone else's.

Also, any performance rating of 6.5 will get you told you didn't play well, anything lower gets a player scolded and he will not start again until his training rating goes up and then he gets 15 mins to work his way back in. This method has worked well for me with Liverpool level of players and with these players here. Again, player personality and drive is important in getting this system working. I also set my code of conduct very strict, missing training more than once gets you demoted, but because of that I've never seen it happen.

January 13, 2023

Matches

Highlights have been beating RB Leipzig twice, drawing with Dortmund and thumping Wolfsburg who are currently 2nd. The last match was the first loss at the Mercedes Arena and was my fault for going for the winner at home against a tough FC Koln side who struck late on to win it.

We concede the average XGA but only Bayern has a better XG

January 13, 2023

I've never done one of these, but this career has been a really fun one and I wanted to share.

Having taken Liverpool and Rangers to their maximum level of success many times over the FM years I wanted a different challenge, one that could still see me attract exciting young players and a wonderkid or two and good senior players. I also wanted a team that would not be limited in growth by a small stadium and fanbase were my revolution to succeed and so I chose VfB Stuttgart.

Stuttgart have won the top German title five times, most recently in 2006–07, and the DFB-Pokal three times. They play in the 60,000 seater Mercedes Benz Arena and they led the league in attendance from the 60's to the late 90's. To me they had all the ingredients of a sleeping giant and I wanted to see what I could do.

As relegation candidates, they had a marginally decent squad at start, but to me it was rather disjointed and poorly put together, I just did not see any inherent fluidity or purpose in the personnel, though they had some really good youth prospects. I had a very clear idea of the type of squad I wanted to build and a way of playing and the existing squad, including the younger players were going to fund that.

The core of the squad leadership was first addressed and so the older and unknown, but highly underrated, Ulrik Saltnes from Bodø/Glimt was brought in for 3.4 million.

His stats in this screen are improved over what he had despite being 30 years old. I also believe a couple of them were 1-2 points higher than they had been in a previous Rangers career. I normally do not like midfielders with low pace and acceleration, but I was familiar with Saltnes from that Rangers career in FM22 and 23 and for the money he is a very professional, reliable and intelligent midfielder and fit my model of high work rate, determination and stamina that is essential to make a high line, gegenpressing style work. Far too many folks try to play heavy metal football with milquetoast bubblegum pop players and complain when it doesn't work. No such delusions here.

Not to jump ahead, but his commitment to the cause was once again reliable.

I also knew that because of money issues, I could not go after all the hot players that I could with Liverpool, in fact in some cases a Stuttgart move was a harder sell than a move to Rangers, so I really had to be savvy and my knowing that I would be relying on Scandinavian players more than usual soon became a Norwegian revolution at Stuttgart. In no small part due to value for money and squad cohesion. I could not afford an entire season to get players comfortable and coherent.

It's not all about the tactics, I've won with several different formations within the same FM release. It's about team cohesion and player commitment as much as tactics and I knew more than ever I had to build a solid group that worked hard for each other.

Stuttgart's backline and keeper Muller were solid enough to not have my focus there unless I came across a great deal or exciting prospect that was willing to come.

I moved 7 players out for a little over 40m. The biggest single fee in was 15.5m for Sasa Kalajdzic to Wolves

Significant summer transfers in:

Ulrik Saltnes CM from Bodø/Glimt for 3.4m
Marcus Holmgren Pedersen RB from Feyenoord for 6.25m
Sivert Mannsverk CM from Molde for 7.25m
August Mikkelsen ST from Tromsø for 4.3m   (Holy cow what a signing this has turned out to be. 16 goals and 3 assists in 17 league matches. Though he is supposedly an AM he has excelled in the PF/AF role at the tip of the spear)
Andreas Schjelderup from FC Nordsjaelland for 8m (This was a long slog as he had no interest initially, but I worked on him and his club and was making bids I didn't have funds for until certain players were sold, but I got him in on deadline day. Huge boost to the goal threat I wanted Stuttgart to be. I think the other Norwegian players I had already signed helped get it over the line)
Gustav Isaksen from FC Midtjylland for 3.5m
Birk Risa from Molde for 1.5m
Grant Hanley from Norwich for 5.5m  (I needed more leadership and after an early injury in preseason I needed a dependable CB. I was surprised when he needed no convincing to join)
Branco van den Boomen from Toulouse for 2.5m  (Really crucial to our good start and gave Mannsverk time to settle. He fell off in performance as soon as Mannsverk started taking some of his game time)
Maurits Kjaergaard on loan with future fee from RB Salzburg  (This is a player that I thought had a lot of potential and wanted to give him the game time and role to shine and he has not let me down)
Ola Solbakken from Bodø/Glimt for 3m  (Took my time introducing him, but now has 3 assists in 5 matches, 3 as a sub. Very direct runner, decision making can frustrate sometimes, but he really opens up the right side with his pace and directness)

Oddly in January Union Berlin, who were doing quite well, put Morten Thorsby on the transfer list and as Boomen was starting to have a dip in form whether as a CM or DM I pounced. Thorsby is a work rate-determination monster and Norwegian so it was a no brainer for my project.

The new Stuttgart identity:

I initially tried my trusted 4-3-3, but it wasn't clicking, though the results weren't bad, but when I modified it to a 4-2-3-1 (same high line gegenpress) with Kjaergaard as a SS behind Mikkelsen as an PF/AF the players clicked and the goals started coming in. I soon modified my 3rd tactic to a 4-4-2 to that in reality is a 4-1DM-1CM-2IF-2ST and both of these formations have been my system. Sosa was one existing player I've kept and played a lot, but he is inconsistent, though when he does play well he nearly always gets an assist. Risa has become a very reliable LB and Pedersen's energy and physical ability has seen him lock down the RB slot.

Tobias Gulliksen was a signing for the future, but he was started as the left IF due to sensational preseason form and then went on a tear and scored 3 and assisted 3 in the first 4 league matches before dropping so sharply that Schjelderup was brought in as he was the intended left IF and he has since made that spot his own and Gulliksen is now playing in the reserves to keep his game time going.

Kjaergaard as a SS and Mikkelsen (who alternates as a PF and AF) took a few games to get going but they have really struck up a prolific partnership. Kjaergaard is 6'4 and Mikkelsen is 5'6 and they look like Heskey and Owen at their peak at times. Quite pleased. 24 goals and 6 assists between them in 16 and 19 league matches.

Without going into a lot of detail, my system uses a customized pressing, marking and tacking instructions using the opponents positions. I as my assistant for advice, but I never change how we pressure opposition positions. We especially close down CBs, DMs and CMs and trap inside to force turnovers through superior numbers, hard tackling and a compacted space. The team, which I set up for scoring a lot and regaining possession (not just in tactics but in the way I talk to the press, how I run team talks and how I praise and motivate players) as high up the pitch as possible, is really clicking on all cylinders.

My unlikely mostly Norwegian relegation candidates are 3rd in the league after 21 matches and we only just lost out first home match. A goal difference of 31 only behind Bayern's 32 is proof of their embodiment of wanting to outscore opponents. We've let in a few, but we bang them in consistently. I have attacked away from home in every match and only slowed the game down and shortened the passing when there are 10 minutes or less to go. A very, very heavy preseason training schedule, used at a great risk of injury, was crucial to their intense output. The German winter break hasn't hurt either.

Here are the rest of the screens detailing the teams performance and system.

January 13, 2023

I'm sorry, that's the best thread title ever :lol: :thup:

January 10, 2023

If you peruse most video games today, even laptop and mobile games, FM is looking very, very dated. A lighting upgrade alone would completely transform the visuals. I don't have major complaints about the ME itself (possibly because '17-'20 were so bad) but the visual experience is severely lacking.

Yes I like the new animations and I'm sure they'll add a handful more for '24, but the visual appearance needs to brought up to the 2020's at minimum.

The 'but my 2005 laptop' argument doesn't work anymore because again, peruse some mobile games and 2015 video games and you'll see the stark difference.

Please overhaul the textures and lighting for FM 24. New data and scouting options and a handful of new ball control and keeper animations aren't enough anymore.

April 20, 2022

I posted about this last year, it happens far too often.

April 20, 2022

It doesn't happen often, but it is really annoying when it does.

A player crosses into the box and your striker heads the ball and it strikes the upright and comes back into the 6 yard box and another one of your players taps it in and it gets called for offside.

But no one was offside in the play nor in the replay.

Fix this.

April 5, 2022

There's this one https://sortitoutsi.net/content/59200/fm22-full-scottish-pyramid#comment_684192 but its not working anymore and I don't even know how to edit an FMF file otherwise I would.

Anyone know how or know of a working one?

February 3, 2022

Only sign players that can walk into your first team and make it better. I never add more than two at once and it's awhile before they both play at the same time. Cohesion is big. Pay attention to group dynamics too and nationality. The lone new Norwegian might have some time settling in in a team of S. Americans. However most Brazilians seem to be able to adapt into most any squad.

But yeah, wonderkid hunting and getting them bedded in and familiar with your tactics for at least a season (if you can get your youth managers to pick them! but that's another issue)

February 3, 2022

I'm sorry but that sounds like a blessing, the press conferences need a major overhaul.

Hope you get it sorted out.

February 3, 2022

On 01/02/2022 at 20:21, Zaharra said:

Don't you get this screen day before B/U19-team match day?

I can choose which players play in which position in this screen.

If you don't get this screen, check these settings.

Edit: I don't know if I can select tactics here or not. They are using same tactic as I am and I'm happy with it.

Yes I have that screen, but I can only add or remove players already selected, I can't add the 18 year old players to the pitch or bench if not already selected.

I do have that selected, but these are 18 and 17 year olds that I want picked every match if fit. I'm in December and they've never been picked. It's not a registration or youth rules issue because I signed 5 young players from Norway, one of them gets picked every week, the others (and I cheated and had a peep at their CA and PA and they are better than the ones being picked) have never been picked.

I think they should streamline this whole issue and give the 1st team manager the option to tell any of the development team managers to 'pick this player every week because I want to ease him into the first team this year'. Or simply because I want him played.

Thanks for all the responses, it's not a bug, but I feel like it is a 'bug'.

@phnompenhandy

Yeah I certainly don't want to do that! But isn't it odd that I can select myself to give opposition instructions, but out of the entire clubs staff I am the only one who cannot be selected to pick the team?

I'd like to hear SI's logic behind this because I know for a fact managers have conversations with youth team managers and they are told (they often agree anyway) that such and such needs to play as mush as possible. The fitness coach or the GK coach is never going to do that.

February 2, 2022

So it is a bug? I should be able to pick the teams?

February 2, 2022

I have several players that I want to play as often as possible in the U19 team and in the 2nd team, but in the dropdown menu in staff-responsibilities, I am not available, but every other coach in the club can be selected to pick players. I am only available to give opposition instructions to the two development teams, but I cannot affect who plays.

There is only a 'Take Control' option on the opposition instructions and my name in the dropdown list is only on the opposition instructions. Not on the selection advice for either team.

Now I can take control of touchline instructions and lead team talks for these teams, but I can't pick any players?

This is unrealistic and absurd. Surely this is a bug.

I don't want to really have to pick the entire U19 or 2nd team squad, that's not common for 1st team managers anyway, but designating certain players to always play if fit is.

Why can't this be done? Very frustrating.

My best and highest potential young players, three of them to be exact, always perform well in the 1st team when I pick them, but they don't even make the U19 or 2nd team squad despite being fit and available for most matches as I schedule all my development teams friendlies in midweek. They won't play even when I've set my assistant to pick players and he will even select them for the first team at times!

What's up with this?

P.S. Like I said, they are fit, available, are 18 and under and have a better CA and PA than anyone else in the U19 or 2nd team

December 22, 2021

On 13/12/2021 at 10:03, properdisco said:

I can't fathom caring this much about inward dribbling and making a big deal of something so complicated

I can't fathom caring this much about wingbacks not crossing the halfway line and making a big deal of something so complicated
I can't fathom caring this much about defensive midfielders refusing to make a tackle and making a big deal of something so complicated
I can't fathom caring this much about corner takers always playing it short and making a big deal of something so complicated
I can't fathom caring this much about keepers never moving during a penalty and making a big deal of something so complicated
I can't fathom caring this much about attacking midfielders always passing backwards and making a big deal of something so complicated
I can't fathom caring this much about strikers only going for chip shots and making a big deal of something so complicated

You know some of us shoot for a higher bar in life and expect it from those we buy products from as well. Different strokes for different folks.

December 12, 2021

6 minutes ago, teej9 said:

Played one full season post patch and for me, it just kind of ruined what I liked about the game. Took a fun fluid ME and turned it into a cross into shins simulator where it's just a contest of who makes the most atrocious mistake. Maybe it was too easy but I hadn't been cheesing it and hadn't even won a trophy yet. It was fun though, now everyone grinds out results like Burnley away to Stoke. It's still not hard, it's just bad football. I hate to say it but I don't like FM anymore. I hate the idea that having fun in a single player game is a bad thing, and that the ultimate goal of FM is now to match a spreadsheet of last year's statistics. It feels like the last three editions have just been a race to create the ugliest, most brutal version of football we can get too. Crosses work? Not anymore! Oh you liked playing through the middle? Watch this asshole! This is not the type of game in which you should be trying to combat what works, you should be able to try and play a style. Just because a small group of players cheese the ME doesn't mean you should remove any ability to succeed with anything like that style.

It's not a hard game. I will win LaLiga tons of times with Depor, we'll win the CL, it's not hard, but it also isn't fun.

No knock on SI or anyone, just a sad realization that FM isn't the game for me anymore after 13 editions. Take care all!

I've been reflecting on this exact feeling ever since I realized there was no way possible to play the kind of football I want to play with FM. I'm at the top of the Bundesliga with Stuttgart playing an uber-direct no wide player formation. Yay.

They may release one more patch before they start with the "we are happy with the match engine" and it will ignore the elephant in the room.

I'm going to submit a request for a refund for the first time ever and move that 10GB graphics folder back to the external drive.

The ME looked great at first, then I realized it was icing on the same cake. No thanks.

November 21, 2021

For a baseline there were 74 cardiac events in competitive sports from 2009 to 2014. Suddenly there have been 75 events since June 2021.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa1615710

An incomplete list now, but accurate at the time it was published. 75 cases since June of this year. Certainly no one would want the game to replicate deaths, but perhaps it could replicate the players absence from the squad due to cardiac issues.

Would this be treated differently if it were a sudden and dramatic increase of broken legs or ACLs?

4.6.21, Italy, 29 years old
Italy: The 29-year-old ex-professional Giuseppe Perrino collapses during a charity game for his dead brother and dies.

7.6.21, Germany 38 years old
The table tennis professional Michael Schneider dies suddenly and unexpectedly .

12.6.21, Denmark, 29 years old
The footballer Christian Eriksen collapses lifelessly during a European Championship game - he can be revived if he needs a pacemaker for the rest of his life.

22.6.21, Hungary, 18 years old
Footballer Viktor Marcell Hegedüs died while warming up for training in Hungary.

14.07.21, Netherlands, 31 years old,
Olympic speed skating champion Kjelt Nuis, seriously ill after vaccination , with heart problems in hospital.

16/07/21, Egypt
Footballer Imad Bayumi died during a friendly match in Egypt.

07/22/21, Germany, 36 years old
On July 22nd, SV Olympia Schlanstedt and Germania from Kroppenstedt met. During the game Schlanstedts player Nicky Dalibor collapsed and had to be reanimated on the field .

23.07.21, Germany, 27 years old
Tim B. from SV Hamberge (Schleswig-Holstein) collapses after returning from a soccer tournament and dies.

07/24/21, Germany
A player from TuS Hoberge-Uerentrup (Bielefeld) collapses on the pitch with cardiac arrest.

07/31/21, Netherlands, 19 years old
The 19-year-old handball player Whitnée Abriska died of cardiac arrest just before a flight.

02.08.21, Belgium, 18 years old
Rune Coghe (18) from Eendracht Hoglede (Belgium) suffers a heart attack during game

02.08.21, Austria, 18 years of
history: 18-year-old unnamed player in Burgenland (Austria) collapses on the playing field and can be saved thanks to the use of a helicopter.

08/06/21, Germany
district league player of the SpVgg. Oelde II has to be revived by his opponent .

14.08.21, Belgium, aged 37
The only 37-year-old former French professional footballer Franck Berrier died of several heart attacks while playing tennis .

08/15/21 Germany
goalkeeping coach of SV Niederpöring suffers heart attack after training .

8/16/21 France 24 years
Bordeaux pro Samuel Kalu breaks during a Ligue 1 game with cardiac arrest together

18.08.21, Belgium, 25 years old
Belgian soccer player Jente Van Genechten (25) suffers cardiac arrest in the early stages of a cup game .

21.08.21, Turkey, 31 years old
Fabrice N'Sakala (31) from Besiktas Istanbul collapses on the field without interference from the opponent and has to be taken to hospital

22.08.21, Italy, 29 years old
Pedro Obiang from the Italian first division club Sassuolo Calcio after Covid vaccination with myocarditis in the hospital .

22.08.21, Venezuela, 30 years
Venezuelan national marathon champion Alexaida Guedez dies of a heart attack during a 5,000 meter run.

24.08.21, Luxemburg, 29 years old
José dos Reis, a player from Red Black Pfaffenthal (Luxemburg) collapses on the field and has to be resuscitated.

29.08.21, Germany
In the C-League Dillenburg ( Central Hesse) a player from Hirzenhain collapses , the game is canceled.

05.09.21, France, 16 years old
Diego Ferchaud (16 years old) from ASPTT Caen suffers a cardiac arrest in a U-18 league match in Saint-Lô.

06.09.21, Austria The
player of ASV Baden (Lower Austria) collapses on the field and has to be reanimated .

09/06/21, Italy, 16 years old
16-year-old unnamed soccer player in Bergamo suffers cardiac arrest

06.09.21, Belgium, 27 years old
Belgian amateur soccer player Jens De Smet (27) from Maldegem suffers a heart attack during the game and dies in hospital.

06.09.21, Italy, 13 years
13-year-old soccer player from the Janus Nova club from Saccolongo (Italy) collapses on the field with cardiac arrest

07.09.21, Great Britain, 17 years
old 17 year old soccer player Dylan Rich dies of a double heart attack during a game in England .

09.09.21, Germany
player from Birati Club Munster suffers in a regional league game against FC Nordkirchen II Eriksen fate: collapse with cardiac arrest. Game is canceled

09/10/21, Germany, 24 years old
Lucas Surek (24) from BFC Chemie Leipzig suffers from myocarditis .

09/11/21, France, 49 years old
Ain / France: Frédéric Lartillot succumbs to a heart attack after a friendly match in the locker room

09/11/21, Italy, 45 years old
Andrea Astolfi, sporting director of Calcio Orsago (Italy) suffers a fulminant heart attack after returning from training and dies at the age of 45 without any previous illness

09/11/21, Denmark, 22 years old
Abou Ali (22) collapses with cardiac arrest during a two-tier game in Denmark

09/11/21, Netherlands, 19 years old
The ice hockey player Sebastiaan Bos passed away suddenly and unexpectedly .

09/12/21, Austria, 40 years old
A half marathon runner collapsed during the race and died a little later.

9/13/21, Germany
Anil Usta from VfB Schwelm (Ennepetal) breaks on the field with heart problems together

13.09.21, France 33 years old
Dimitri Liénard from FC Strasbourg collapses with heart problems in a Ligue 1 game .

09/14/21, USA 37 years old
Ex-NFL professional Parys Haralson dies suddenly and unexpectedly at the age of 37 .

09/18/21, Germany 25 years old
Kingsley Coman (25) from FC Bayern Munich had an operation on the heart after an arrhythmia.

18.09.21, Canada 25 years old
Canadian university football player Francis Perron passed away shortly after a match .

19.09.21, France 19 years old
19 year old FC Nantes soccer player suffers cardiac arrest during training

19.09.21, Germany
volleyball trainer Dirk Splisteser from SG Traktor Divitz collapses dead on the sidelines

21.09.21, Augsburg
assistant referee of a Kreisliga Augsburg game in Emersacker , collapses with heart problems

09/21/21, Germany
At the women's World Cup qualifier between Germany and Serbia in Chemnitz, the English linesman Helen Byrne has to be carried off the pitch with heart problems

09/27/21, Germany Game abandoned
due to cardiac arrest of the referee in a game of Lauber SV (Donauwörth district)

27.09.21, Italy, 20 years old
Young rider suffers a heart attack at the end of a tournament .

9/28/21, Germany, 17 years
17-year-old soccer player of the JSG High Hagen has reanimated in Hannoversch Munden during game be

09.28.21, Italy, 53 years
53-year-old football coach Antonello Campus breaks in Sicily during practice with his youth team together dead

09/28/21, USA, 16 years old,
twice vaccinated teenager collapses while playing soccer and dies a little later.

09/29/21, Germany
Team leader Dietmar Gladow from Thalheim (Bitterfeld) suffers a fatal heart attack before the game

9/29/21, USA
A high school football player collapsed during practice and died in the hospital.

09/30/21, Germany
A player collapsed during the A 2 regional league game between SV Hoßkirch and TSV Sigmaringendorf. He suffered cardiac arrest and had to be resuscitated .

1.10.21, Germany, 15 years
young goalkeeper Bruno Stein from FC An der Fahner Höhe in Gräfentonna, Thuringia , died at the age of 15 .

October 3rd, 21, Austria, 64 years old
ex-goalkeeper coach and most recently talent scout Ernst Scherr suddenly and unexpectedly died .

4.10.21, Germany, 42 years old
Alexander Siegfried from VfB Moschendorf suddenly and unexpectedly collapsed and died.

7.10.21, Italy, 17 years old
A 17-year-old athlete from Colverde collapses while training with cardiac arrest .

8.10.21, France, 49 years old
SC Massay player suffers a fatal heart attack during the game .

9.10.21, Mexico
Caddy Alberto Olguin collapses on the golf course after a heart attack. It is said to be the second death of its kind within a short period of time.

9.10.21, England, 29 years old
Shrewsbury professional striker Ryan Bowman has to be treated with a defibrillator after half an hour of play with extreme heart problems.

10.10.21, Italy, 18 year old
soccer player suddenly faints on the field, is reanimated by his teammate .

10/10/21, France, 40 years old
A Saint-James player suffers a heart attack after warming up .

10.10.21, Italy, 59 years old
A long-distance runner from Biella dies of heart failure during a race.

10.10.2021, Germany
In the game between Wacker Mecklenbeck and Fortuna Freudenberg in the Women's Westphalia League , a player collapsed shortly before the end without any opposing influence.

12.10.21 Germany, 25 years
goalkeeper of HC TuRa Bergkamen, Lukas Bommer, dies suddenly and unexpectedly .

13.10.21, Mexico, 16 years old
The student Hector Manuel Mendoza dies of a heart attack while training .

14.10.21, Brazil, 18 years old
The young professional footballer Fellipe de Jesus Moreira suffered a double heart attack and is fighting for his life.

14.10.21, Italy, 27 years old
The multiple cycling champion Gianni Moscon has to undergo an operation because of severe cardiac arrhythmias .

14.10.21, Italy, 53 years old
An AH footballer suffers a heart attack while training .

15.10.21, USA, 14 years old
The 14-year-old soccer player Ava Azzopardi collapsed on the pitch and is now fighting for her life in an artificial coma.

16.10.21, France, aged 54
AH player Christophe Ramassamy died of a heart attack during a match .

17.10.21, France, 41 years old
A soccer player collapsed on the field and died , apparently because of a cardiac arrest.

27.10.21, Austria, 26 years old
The Ghanaian Raphael Dwamena collapsed with severe heart problems . He was wearing a defibrillator before the incident.

28.10.21, Germany,
Hertha BSC co-trainer Selim Levent dies suddenly and unexpectedly while on vacation .

28.10.21, USA, 12 years
The 12-year-old Jayson Kidd collapsed during basketball practice and later died.

30.10.21, Spain, 33-year-old
star striker Kun Agüero from FC Barcelona had to be replaced in a game due to heart problems . He is now in the hospital for examinations.

November 21, 2021

You should add Scotland to the list as there is now an excellent Scottish pyramid database ( https://www.passion4fm.com/scottish-lower-league-database/ ) adding the following:

Level 5
Highland Football League (18 clubs added)
Lowland Football League (18 clubs added)

Level 6
North Superleague (14 clubs added)
North Caley League (10 of 11 clubs added)
Midlands League (19 clubs added)
West of Scotland Premier (21 clubs added)
East of Scotland Premier (18 clubs added)
South of Scotland (11 of 13 clubs added)

Level 7
North Division1 (8 clubs added)
WoS Conference A (16 clubs added)
WoS Conference B (15 clubs added)
WoS Conference C (15 clubs added)
East of Scotland First Division A (15 clubs added)
East of Scotland First Division B (14 of 15 clubs added)

Level 8
North Division 2 (9 clubs added)
WoS Division 4 (8 clubs added)
EoS Conference X (11 clubs added)

Cups
Scottish Cup
Premier Sports Cup
SPFL Trust Trophy
South Challenge Cup
North of Scotland Cup
Highland League Cup
Lowland League Cup
+ many more

Reserves League + Cups

U18 League

August 19, 2021

This is one of the things that so many of us are going to be quite upset and disheartened to see in FM 22. I really hope they have fixed this quite glaring problem.

If you play every match on 'comprehensive' 3D highlights your corner count will be through the roof and it ruins the experience that 3D is supposed to bring.

If you play on 'key' only for 70 minutes and then switch to 'full match', whatever your corner count was at 70' will be tripled by 90' using 'full match'.

July 12, 2021

I think this should be part of a revamp of tactical decisions for the staff and manager to decide ahead of match.

Defending narrow or wide?
Shifting to the ball side?
Create numerical advantage on the ball side?
Who to exempt from this to find space for counter?
When to start pressing and where? For how long or until XYZ happens?
Cut passing lanes? vs whom and when?

July 12, 2021

What do you think this is EA's FIFA? You're really asking a lot here :herman:

Seriously though, this request should have loads of likes, but I personally believe the ME for 2023 is already 90% set and any suggestion here that they like (if that even happens) will be for 2024.

Most fans don't notice things like what you mentioned in regards to how certain players are restricted in different ways by the opponent. If they notice it it is only when that player is being tightly man-marked old school style.

Even many Liverpool fans think Klopp's gegenpressing is pure impulse opportunism, when in fact it involves a lot of opponent specific sequences in which blocking passing lanes is a very crucial component. One of the most used features is creating a bait in the form of giving up an easy pass to an unmarked player that is in fact the pressing target. There are also several triggers in the press that other LFC players watch for and react to and the group begins their press at specific times in relation to their teammates.

Lallana got a lot of game time in the early Klopp days because of how quickly he learned the gegenpress system. It took Fabinho a long time to master it. It is quite complex and while I didn't expect FM to have mastered the replication of it (and other complex systems out there) I at least expected them to make an attempt at replicating it. Just creating an intelligent approach to blocking passing lanes during a press by teammates would be a huge step forward. Man City play more long balls vs Liverpool than against any other side, domestic or European, because of how well Klopp's men press.

Would love to see pressing become part of the tactical battle in FM that it is IRL and blocking passing lanes is an essential part of that.

Sadly I think we are at least 5 to 7 versions of FM way before we see anything like that.

July 12, 2021

Bump

December 8, 2020

Salah is the model Raumdeuter on attack IRL, if one watches where he positions himself during the buildup, he is looking for through balls and balls over the top into space beyond him while he is high and wide. By playing along the line, this best allows him to use his speed, if he sat deep the only option would be to play to feet as a through ball would see him starting his run at a disadvantage.

Balls to Salah's feet while he is deep happen when Liverpool have just recovered the ball via a high press, but when they have been in possession for a bit, he is higher than Bobby or Mane and he will drift towards the center as well. This is what the RMD should do.

Salah roams in some matches and so should the RMD, and his runs inside with the ball should also vary, as should the RMD, rather the RMD just stays wide and hits it into the defender for a corner like any other player who is wide of the 18 yard box.

Muller for Bayern is the model for a RMD if they had a support option. His movements into space rely on others cutting inside ahead of him.

This is an excellent issue to bring up, because it is affected by the other issue I made a thread on, players only crossing one way, outside the box, but alongside it, level with the 6 yard box usually, and straight into the defender marking them.

The RMD really should be a left footer on the right, or right footer on the left, and they should cut across into the box at different angles and points of entry to try to shoot with their outside/strong foot. So should inverted wingers or anyone with the likes to cut inside trait.

This is another behavior in FM that never happens, regardless of instructions or traits.

December 8, 2020

Look, since you guys are actually acknowledging this, I will provide PKMs and timestamps, its just going to be instances of players crossing the ball like they always have. It will have to be later today or tonight in my free time.

FYI, it has nothing to do with runs or run frequency, it's the ball carrier refusing to cross early/from deep.

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