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Pre-season finished. Playing 433 with inverted full back (left) and inverted wing back (right). Normal FM start Signings: A load of staff. Antonio Silva from Benfica for £42m and loaned him back until Jan so he gets game time and hopefully i can sell Matip in Jan. Valentin Barca for £8m. Also loaned back until Jan. Hes more of a wingback for the left, maybe i can train his defensive stats up a bit more, if not then i can just a big profit on him. For that price i had to buy him. Assan Ouedraogo joins next season for £5.5m and Denis Seimen joins in Jan for £12m Both youngsters with high potential. Sold a couple of backups who had a year left, then sorted a bunch of loans including Quansah to Coventry, hoping a season of championship football can boost him up nicely. I may sell Virgil next season (hopefuly Matip will be gone by then too) and replace with Diomande or Guehi (English homegrown and good potential). Im going to keep Gomez, English, homegrown, good fullback cover (both sides now with inverted fullback). Bajcetic is my future main DM. Endo is a good fill in until hes ready. One bad thing about losing Hendo and Milner is a lack of good tutors. They were both model citizens, and now we really only have Alisson, Salah and Virgil, and Vigrils loyalty (hidden stat) is only 12.

No, nothing. Its very weird. Edit: Just loaded up today, and the ball is back to normal....guess it was a weird bug.

Just started pre-season and have noticed i seem to have a blue ball instead of the normal white. Checked the skin colors section and standard ball is white and winter is yellow......so no idea how i have a blue ball! Any help?

Im unsure if i should loan out Quansah so he may play a lot, or keep Quansah at the club and make sure to give him game time as a sub and cup games. I feel keeping him and having him tutored along with gametime here and there at top level will maybe help his progression more.

Just had a look on the editor for PA of some youngsters. Bajcetic, Doak pretty much guaranteed to be top quality prem league quality. Carvalhao, K. Gordon, Morton have a high chance to be top prem league quality. Bradley, Van den Berg, Ramsey, Clark, Chambers have an ok chance to be good quality. Quansah (and another 10 youngsters) have a chance to be low-mid tier prem quality. PA Spoilers: Edit: Doesnt seem to be a databse update on release day this year, kinda annoying as it means i could have started weeks ago!

I do too. Also check their age and personality. I try not to sign and staff over 60, just means i'll have to replace them too soon. I'm quite selective on which staff i employ, i currently have a Staff shortlist of over 140.

On the staff side, make sure to give Inglethorpe and Krawietz new contracts to remove their secondary job which lower their coaching star ratings.

Just something simple like Liverpool 2.0 or something like that will do imo.

I hope Quansah gets a slight PA boost, either at release or Jan transfer update.

On the staff side, make sure to give Inglethorpe and Krawietz new contracts to remove their secondary job which lower their coaching star ratings.

I really really want to start my save, but theres usually a day 1 data update which im trying to wait for! Its agony!

I think my first pre season is going to be very simple. Sort the staff out. Renew the contracts of some youngsters with potential (Clark, Gordon) with value (Arroyo is worth a few mill now, hope to sell in another year or so). Try and sell anyone who has 1 year left so i at least make some money on them. Buy Antonio Silva and maybe a youngster or 2. Then in Jan try to sell Thiago and Matip. Second season look for a backup RB unless Bradley looks like hes improving. Then see what else i may need.

I think its a Jan and second window thing, as i went through pre season and only had an £80m offer for Virgil from Saudis. They are also short(for them!) on cash in the first window. Ive seen Man utd folks saying they can sell Varane for 90-100m in Jan to Saudis.

Is that the first windows? also what world option, im just using the normal world.

I've had a 70m offer for van dijk in first windows, but im gonna assume you'd get bigger offers in Jan and season 2 transfer windows.

Quansah looks...ok i guess, probably wont get an upgrade till Winter update.

FM24 does indeed seem to be the best version so far. Lots of good updates and changes. Not played much tho, just setting shortlists, tactics etc up for release, theres usually a day 1 data update so im guessing there will be for FM24 also. Looking at the squad, its looking good. Endo has surprisingly good stats so will get some good playime and hope to bed in Bajcetic as my main DM going forward. Other than a CD, probably Benficas Antonio SIlva, and maybe Paquetta (love the fella) from West Ham i dont think i'll be buying any other main squad players unless i go crazy and sell some oldies ( can get 81m for Virgil which is tempting tbh....and ive seen others get 200m).

Looks great. Though i hope theres still an option for mixed delivery instead of just near/far/central.

I usually play FM while watching footy on TV, and while watching critical role/twitch streams on my 2nd monitor. Its a great game to multitask with because the sound is pretty bad so nice to turn the sounds off and do/watch other things.

I see comments about pre season fitness training all the time, about how it can help players from becoming too fatigued during the season.....but i have never seen any proof of it other than conjecture. It makes sense of course, seems to be like this in real life, and even too much fitness training can take a toll on players too. Rumours of liverpools preseason training this season was said to be too much. But does the game actually simulate this too. Is there any proof?

Finished season 2, won everything and went unbeaten in the league! In Jan i promoted Doak to senior team as backup. 8 goals and 9 assists in 24 appearances. Very happy. In season 2 I bought Rafael Luis for £12m, Seimen for £32m, both for the future and Alexis Mac Allister for £61m in Jan as a squad player. End of the season/Pre season of season 3 i have sold Thiago for £22m (his £40m optional loan fee wasnt activated so got what i could). Ox sold for £44m (his £55m optional loan fee wasnt activated), Rhys Williams went for £12m, Carvalho sold for £46m, Ramsey sold for £42m. Verry happy with these sales of backup/youth. Wish i got more for Thiago though i di get £12m from his loan and no wages in season 2. Happy with the age of my squad now. Van Dijk, Henderson, Salah, Fabinho, Allison and Robertson are the only squad members 30 or above. Hendo is stil la good squad player and fantastic mentor. Van Dijk is still going well and good mentor, Salah is still top tier and good mentor, Allison can go many more years, Fabinho and Robertson are still top tier also. Robertson and Salah retired from internationals which will help them get more gametime for me. Milner retired and got good staff attributes and became my u18 assistant. He did well at tutoring my first team youngstersm now he can help the U18s. And other than a few more staff, i havent bought anyone yet. Though i am targetting Destiny Udogie as Robertsons replacement in a season or so. Pre season has been weird. With the Euros and Copa america, i had to send 75% of the squad on holidays when they returned from internationals so they could have a rest and lose fatigue. Should have most back before first game of season. Edit: A few games into season 3. A week before the transfer window closes. Just beat newly promoted Everton 4-1 away. Their squad is so bad now, think they are going to be relegated again. Bajcetic missed the start of season due to Olympics, and then i sent on holiday for a month to recoup. Current squad and tactic below.

Im now at an important part of the 2nd season. End of Dec, currently top and unbeaten in the league, drawn the last 2 against Chelsea and Man Utd, now have Spurs, Arsenal, Man City and Brentford in the space of 12 days. All of them without Salah as he is with Egypt for the African cup. Milner has decided to retire at end of season. Thats fine just using him to mentor. Konate, Silva, Bajcetic, Elliot, Jones. Bellingham, Gakpo have all developed nicely in stats and also personality from being tutored by Milner and Hendo. Will be keeping Hendo until he retires for that reason too. Unless something happens, i donk think i will be signing anyone in Jan. Though i have started to look for a right winger to eventuall;y replace Salah, unless i use Elliot there, currently hes CM. Doak is nice, but his low stamina and finishing doesnt fill me with excitement. Edit: Turns out even though the calander said Salahs away, he didnt leave until after the 4 games, which he helped me win them all!

Won everything in first season apart from champs league where PSG knocked me out in the semis. Everton were relegated. In Jan i bought Antonio Silva for £75m (most over 3 years). 18 year old DC, future star and will be homegrown at club. If i got him at end of season 1 he wouldnt have been able to get homegrown, which is something i do like to get with my squad. I like to buy young and improve them. I also got Mannsverk for £5.5m. Wasnt planned, but i saw a bid go in for him and hes a decent squad player and can sell on for a lot more later on. He went back on loan till end of season for gametime. Along with Archie Gray and Bellingham at start im happy with first season transfers. During season 2 preseason, i sold Firmino to Chelsea for £50m, Ox went on loan to Wolves, they pay full wages, will get £5m from fees and optional £55m fee for transfer. Thiago went on loan to Milan, they pay full wages, £12m fee and optional £40m fee (slow, old, injury prone, wanted more gametime for Elliot). Matip was sold to Barca for £31m (Silva took his place). Van den Berg went on loan with a mandatory £20m fee. Carvalhao went on loan again for a £3m fee, and sold and loaned a bunch of youth to get another £20m which includes £10m for Phillips. Ramsey is out on loan, Bradley is now my main RB backup, Milner still mentoring some youngsters. Doak will get gametime this season also. Hoping he will be Salah replacement in a few seasons. Bought Rafael Luis for £12m. Future backup to Bajcetic, or sell for profit. Also have Dennis Seimen joining in Jan for £32m. My future number 1. Targetting Left back Destiny Udogie for season 3, and a CM, prolly Mac allister as i liked him in my first save where i got 4 seasons in. Very happy with my business so far. Squad is looking more youthful with plenty of experiance still. Currently a few games into season 2. Oh and Gerrard is back as an U21 coach. Edwards back as DoF, and a few other staff improvements.

One thing i noticed with most of youtube vids on training schedules is that they dont give enough rest to players. They seem to focus on stat growth and forget that fatigue is a thing.

Heh, they are currently bottom on mine in Jan too.