LG2694

I recognise that a lot of these things will be a factor but what I can't understand is the same players who carried my team last year making stupid passes to no one whilst under no pressure when this didn't happen last season. Injuries have been fairly standard and no major rifts in the dressing room at all. Clearly some signings haven't worked out but it doesn't make sense to me how we win back to back matches against some of the top teams but then not win for three or four more games

I have played FM since around FM 2007 but have missed the past couple of games. I have gotten back into it this year but it is really testing my patience: in my first season with Spurs I was able to win the league (helped by not having European games to tire the players out) playing a kind of 2-4-3-1 which was mostly: GK: Vicario (SK - S) WBL: Udogie (WB - S) WBR: Porro (CWB - A) DC: Van de Ven (BPD - C) DC: Romero (BPD - D) DM: Bissouma (HB - D) DM: Skipp - (VOL - S) AML: Son (IF - A) AMC: Maddison (AP - S) AMR: Kulusevski (IW - S) ST: Richarlison: (AF - A) I did make quite a few changes to this team in the summer, Son and Skipp wanted to leave, I signed Ferguson so Richarlison has been dropped, Kulusevski and Maddison have played less so to some extent I should expect some issues with having made so many changes but it's now the back end of the season and I am still struggling. The most frustrating part is players making stupid passes and decisions that they didn't last season, getting much lower average ratings, etc.. Is there something that has been changed since I was last playing a few years ago that would affect things?