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  1. On 09/03/2024 at 12:04, Nonno87 said:

    Hi, lads!

    I'm still on fm22 as I seldom find the time to play continuously and my sole save game always spans decades, making me skip one or two fm-versions.

    [b]Maybe someone could tell me if player interactions improved in the newest fm[/b], as I'm still running into situations that I just can't get my head around.

    For context:

    • I'm with Real Madrid at the moment / 2040.
    • Since my arrival (almost six years ago) we consecutivly won 5x the First Division,  4x the Cup, and reached 4 Champions League Finals (winning 3).
    • Before that, the club struggled for 8 years to win much of anything (1x CL and 2x Cup)
    • One and a half years ago I promoted my mid-talented Youth-Goalkeeper (now 20, born and raised in Madrid) to be my new Number 1.
    • In the January Transfer Window, Liverpool wanted to sign him (still three years of contract, and a realease clause double his current value).
    • After discussing the terms (I always sell players if the money is right) I declined as it was just under his currently presumed value/40MM.
    • Now the player is unhappy; as in his words he wanted 'to join a bigger Club'.

    Now I'd like to know; how can there be a bigger club than mine?

    • The Game tells me that the Spanish First Division is as prestigious as the other three major flights (Premier League, Bundesliga, Serie A).
    • My Club is world renowned and ranks first in all of Europe - Liverpool is ranked 8th.
    • Liverpool only won two National Cups in the last 20years.
    • We are well on our way to expand our title collection (rolling through the CL-Group-Stage and being 12 points in front in the League).
    • Dude is a fan of his hometown as well as me, and Liverpool already have an elite Goalkeeper (current Number 1 of the Italian National Squad, 22years old), who won't be pushed off of his throne as my guy isn't and probably won't ever be as good as him.

    Is it just the UEFA 5-year Coefficient Ranking, where the Premier League and Bundesliga are ranked higher at the moment'?

    I love the game, but little things like that just break the immersion for me as I'm trying to play it as realistic as possible. (Although I doubt that it's realistic, that a German Nobody with no skills, no coaching license or player past makes his way from Germany's 7th tier to Real Madrid - pushing Tübingen into the Oberliga, BFC from the Reginalliga into the Bundesliga, and Freiburg to runners-up and a Europa League-Title - so, just wondering). In fm20 it felt even more exagregatted when I made 1. FC Köln the new European Kings with more than a dozen CL-, Bundesliga-, and Cup-Titles as well as richest club and a 90k-Stadium - with players still calling for bigger clubs as if we were still playing in the Second Division fighting for scraps.

    Cheers 

    BiB I'd say it was a lot worse and these issues happen far to frequently, young players complaining about lack of matches just after signing, then the rest of the squad complaining about how the player is being treated and they should play and its my job at stake (after winning 4 league titles in a row and 2 Cl's I'm sure my job wouldn't be at stake for not playing a young player) if I don't, then when one of the players who backed them is dropped to play them he up complains about not playing and the whole circle starts again.  2* young players who have just signed as squad players or less playing time reckoning they should be picked for the CL squad ahead of 4* & 5* established international players, reckoning they're as good. Every time a player complains about something or wants  a new contract they're always angry etc right at the start, never conciliatory which is how a normal person would first approach a boss rather than get their back up straight away especially when asking for a new contract.  There is rarely the option to say to a player exactly why they haven't been playing. Players complaining about lack of game time 2 or 3 matches into a new season, players complaining about not playing when they've been injured or dropped due to tiredness and the squad complaining on their behalf, and every time there is a complaint it is a no win situation.  Players demanding new contracts 1 or 2 matches before the end of a season or just before a cup final or title decider and upsetting the squad when IRL they'd wait till after the season was over.  Players asking to leave just after a transfer window closes then complaining about lack of effort to sell them.

  2. Just about to start the 2065/66 season in FM23 (haven't got FM24 till next week) and the media side of things is so tedious even after delegating everything I can, and I get totally fed up of being asked if I'm pleased x player has scored for his country for the 50th time - what the hell are they expecting as a reply? no I'm not? 1st time he scores or gets a hat-tick then fair enough, but when you have a player who has scored over 100 international goals it gets incredibly repetitive and endless bloody messages clogging up the inbox saying x club is interested in loaning/signing x player repeated 10+ times rather than just the actual offers - recently had 38 inbox messages with only 3 worth actually reading.

  3. On 26/04/2023 at 09:28, Gangor said:

    Don't you find it somewhat realistic that other managers want different things to you?

    Not when it happens all the time and after rejecting or removing the future transfer they just constantly come back with the same offer to loan + buy when the player is listed for loan only, so when I reject it then it upsets the player who wanted to go out on loan and most of the time the transfer would work out less than half the players value anyway - I lost a very good player from my U21's when the loan manager loaned a player out with a low future fee and I didn't notice. Also if realism was the aim in the game I wouldn't be constantly asked the same pointless questions like Are you pleased to see X score in an international? every bloody time he scores a goal or ask me if I'm confident of getting a WP for a player whose contract is expiring who I put up for sale or set to release on a free.

  4. Got to agree with the OP, the transfer system is really broken with some really stupid low offers.  The other issue that's pissing me off at the moment is when I'm trying to loan out players to get experience clubs keep wanting to include mandatory future fees in the deals, and when I reject or remove the future fees to make them just loans they come back with the same offer I rejected, and it's got worse since the final patch.

  5. I'm currently playing with Hamburg, 1st season top of the league and unbeaten, but I have a player who wants a new contract, but the club cannot afford and won't let me offer anywhere near what he wants, so he is unhappy, and now so are the squad who think he should have one which is unsettling the squad, yet there is nothing I can do about it as all the options in the meetings make it sound like my decision and not one option that allows me to sympathize with the players and explain its the club finances to get them on side.  I also noticed this in the Portsmouth save I have which I abandoned due to a bug, as well as players always angry when starting a meeting which is unrealistic as no one starts a meeting when they want something as argumentative, and players who have just signed as fringe or backup players getting the hump when not picked straight away.

  6. It's the addition of social media stuff that has put me off buying FM, and this year is the first time I've never bought it on day of release or pre-ordered it (and i've been playing it since the very first back in the early 90's on the Amiga).  I'd already got very bored of the press and media stuff as even with letting my assistant handle everything except the actual transfers, I still got pestered for some things (eg welcoming players, being asked about future tranfers etc) and after a short while getting asked the same questions over and over and only have the same stock responses which most of the time never bore any resembalance to what I'd actually want to say, got extremelly tredious, so the last thing I wanted to see was more of it with social media (something I don't even bother with in real life).

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