Weston

I've now begged my board to increase the number of coaches probably 20 times with no luck. I broke the record for most transfer income, won a trophy and two runners-ups, guided the club back to European football, and then groveled at their feet at every available opportunity while they laugh me out of the room. I just don't get it, it's maddening.

Gave my 2nd choice keeper a run out against a newly-promoted side and he did this... Bizarrely, it didn't even register as an error in his stats, so I have no clue what actually happened/ was supposed to happen here. We lost regardless. FM23 Galatasaray keeper blunder.mp4

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It's very clearly, obviously broken, because now the players I promised improvements to are upset that I said in a press conference that I'm not making any more signings, even though the promise already shows up as succeeded! How could a previous promise already completed be broken retroactively? And that's after I had to assume what the vague message meant, since it didn't actually explain the issue whatsoever. See save "gala aug ii."

Yeah just read through - it's actually kind of crazy how far off the FM representation is and that it's not been corrected yet. I'll post in the bugs forum, I guess.

Thanks!

Oh wow, okay, so it's more of a mess than I realized. I'll skim through the link tomorrow (thank you for that), but in summary, I should be able to register whoever I want (ie replacements for the two injured guys) in the normal registration windows, with two emergency swaps allowed the day before the game..? I have the in-game editor so I can use that to workaround the inaccuracies, I just want to make sure I'm not "cheating" by doing something that isn't actually allowed.

I've been playing out in smaller leagues for so long that I haven't been in the CL since the rules changed, so this is new to me - why can't I remove the injured players and put backups in their place? The buttons are grayed out whether I add Pellegri or not. And why is there a separate registration window for each leg of the qualification playoff? Could I add them in the second one but not this one for some reason? I'm so confused. Also what are "replacements" anyway? The new guy I just signed can be registered without counting as one, so I don't understand what it could mean. Would I even be able to replace the two injured guys and then put them back later if "replacements" are limited? (And why would they do this to you when these games take place during the transfer window and your squad is changing anyway? Baffling.)

Thanks for the feedback, but this still doesn't make sense to me. (First of all, I'm wondering if part of the issue is that the reinforcements are sometimes already pre-signed but haven't arrived and/or actually arrive before or simultaneously as the player due to different windows opening, and I'm assuming the promise does/should reflect who is currently at the club at the time of negotiation v who arrives after the promise is made regardless. If it doesn't, this should be changed.) Specifically to this example, I've not been looking at CA for obvious reasons (and Kerim certainly shouldn't be able to see that hidden value, either!), but Mustafi (3* CA, "good" for league) is better than Kerim (2.5*) and has a much higher reputation (3*, highest in squad) than both Kerim (2*) and the CB he replaced (Africo, 2*). This is an improvement. Besides Mustafi, 3 other players who could be classified as defenders arrived as well. Though some were meant to be replacements for other players, in some cases (Africo left earlier), they were filling holes that, at the time of negotiation, were simply vacant, so we boosted simple numbers as well. Having 3 CBs and signing a 4th is by definition "strengthening" the defense, even if he wasn't 3* - improving the numbers has to count for something regardless. By every single measurable metric, we reinforced the defense. It just seems incredibly unreasonable to expect the human manager to work out 1) that this is unacceptable and 2) how it is unacceptable, and the feature is simply not fit for purpose if it's meant to work this way. At the *very least* the text should be clearer, ie "I want you to sign a world class defender," or "I want you to have a larger number of defenders," or "I'm upset because I don't think [player x] is good enough," etc. And it's worth noting that I had another signing I promised defensive improvements to accept I'd fulfilled the promise when I signed a 2* prospect with a high PA star count, which seems to directly contradict this rationale regardless, which brings me to: This also does not make any sense - not only do I not understand why a loan doesn't count (it should), how am I supposed to know that, when it doesn't say that anywhere before or in the complaint afterward? As for Tabak, his arrival appears to have counted toward Sahin's expectation for defensive reinforcements (despite being 2* CA) - why would it fulfill one and not the other? And furthermore, why was the "bring someone in to help settle" promise failed as soon as the window closed weeks later, but the "bring in a defender" promise has 200+ more days to go? It's all so confusingly counterintuitive and inconsistent. Again this could be improved by saying something like "bring in a permanent Belgian signing in the same window" or other specific, clear instructions.

Yes, see "mourinho move."

In that case I must've confused myself, sorry about that. I could've sworn I spoke to him at the start. Yeah I understand that he doesn't know I'm trying to use him in a different position, because there's no real way to communicate this. I think I chose the dialogue option along the lines of "I signed him to be in a different role," but clearly I'm misremembering things now haha Yes, this would be good. In general, promises have needed some work for some years now.

Unless I'm confused, it came up July 10 and then we spoke again July 14. He was worried that someone I signed to play a completely different position would take his playing time so I said it wouldn't, which forced me to make a promise to increase his playing time, which doesn't make sense, and he was still upset after that anyway, and then still brought the issue up again 4 days later despite nothing even happening in that time, no games or anything. None of it has made any sense. Save "gala postseason transfer window iii" should be between the two on the 13th.

Oh I see, thanks for checking. I was thrown by the CL registration date being 2027 and the league registration date being 2028 - I idn't realize they were a year different for some reason. Still a little frustrating that it even asks me to register players way before the registration deadline when I'm still working on buying and selling to balance the squad, so forcing me to just make random incomplete selections to get to the next screen creates unnecessary problems like this.

So then in the example I first noted I should be in first out of the three teams, so it's definitely a bug.

Very confusing.

Just checked in Italy and weird things are happening there as well - why was there a playoff for 17th place when they don't have the same GD?