Jellico73

First of all, beautiful skin!!! Which one is it? It's the Musterman skin by GIMN, you can find it on the Skinning forum

From a UI point of view would it be easier to have stats/training/injuries as new tabs?

I wouldnt mind scrolling

If I encounter the same issue/situation in the January transfer window I will. Thanks.

The monthly fees came down, the wage bill came down (But i am over my payroll, so the 600 is all I can spend. The optional future fee went up, but the bonus for winning the cup went down And this for a guy who went for 1200 a month last season. The loan market is fine, it's the economics of it that are off.

When I am commenting for the YT Channel, at some point I just give up and start calling everyone by a nickname. Or Dave.

I'm going to rent you a car for 1.2K Euros a month for 10 months. You bring it back, 3 months later you want to rent it again, and the same car is going to cost you 135,000 a month for 10 months. Who's the bigger fool on this side of that equation? Me for offering it for that much; or you for accepting it? I mean, there is a sucker born every minute, so someone might snap him up for that, but given his past loan history, how likely is that? I already know what his baseline loan value is to the club, and while 6 goals and 3 assists is worth an increase in that value, its not worth a 120,000% increase. That's why I think the behind the scenes stuff is off.

You can download the archiver and extract it that way, its a free tool on steam

I've added it without a problem (so far). If you go to any skin that has an instant result, there might be a Instant Results folder for it, just copy/paste it in and reload the skin. The wannachup skin, once you extract it with the archiver, has a panels/match folder, just copy/paste the xml files into the same location on you skin. You may have to move the button around. I can't remember what skin I grabbed the Instant Result panels from, but when I copy/pasted it in I haven't had any issues with it. Will let you know if that changes... Jellico

I am playing Santa Clara in Portugal. Promoted from the 2nd Division, I haver the smallest transfer budget in the League, and the smallest payroll budget. My Finances are shaky, I get 10% of my transfers, and my transfer budget is 203K. Of my 78K payroll allowance, I am spending 73K. Scouting wise I am spending 1.7K a month scouting Portugal, I have a Chief Scout and a Scout. I can't form a B Team or a U19 team because I do not have the payroll available to hire coaches. I have 1.9 million in the bank, This is Giorgi Abuashvili. A Georgian International listed by Porto for loan, he is currently on the B squad. Last season he spent 10 months in le Havre at 1.2K a month. And their finances are a lot better than ours. On my squad, which is not the strongest by a long shot, he is a 4 star player. I can buy him outright for 8 million if I had it, 5.5 up front, 3.1 in payments and another 1.1 after 10 international appearances. This is what they want for him loan wise: How is this a legitimate offer? My Balance right now is 1.9 mil. Getting him would cost me (135*10) x (2400*40) is 1.35M + 96K is 1.446M, which is 75% of my available money. I don't know what sort of accountants Porto has, but if they are looking at my finances and are assuming I can absorb this cost, I don't want them anywhere near my income tax returns. Braga has a 17yo Striker they are trying to get first team playing time, he's 1 1/2 current 5 star potential. And they want 170k/350K a month... My favorite thus far in this save has been Malcolm Ebiowei, Palace had him listed for loan. They want 500K/1M a month, 100% of his salary covered, and they threw in an optional 38.5M fee as well. The loan process itself isn't bugged. The math behind it though... Jellico

@_Ben_ Here's the first two games from my preseason: https://gyazo.com/970b02c2c0e135d444dcce82c28ef3b4 https://gyazo.com/2ab99a24cfef65e0c628528f143d645a I didj't play that many as I had ECL football, but as you can see, the starting XI was slightly different between both matches, but was also rotated out entirely, with most of the subs being backup 1st team players. I could look into it more at some point, but for the time being, I am not seeing what I would be doing differently. To me, preseason is all about tactical familiarity and staying healthy, and maybe seeing what the promising newgens can do with some first team time.

Yes, I did a couple of different saves just to see how things worked differently, and to try a couple of teams out I was looking at. One was Saint Etienne, which despit a good HOYD and some of the best facilities in France consistently gave me "Meh" newgens, until the Alpha came out of course and then my first Youth Intake was very, very good. Second was Academica in Portugal, seven seasons after getting them out of the 3rd tier and into European football consistently, was still fighting low transfer budgets, low wage budgets, and players moving/choosing a bigger club no matter what I threw at them. And I think it will be the heat death of the universe before I find out how, while playing in Vardar last year in FM 22, my Macedonian Youth Director, who had always found newgens with Macedonian as a first or second nationality because Vardar can only sign players from Macedonia, found me a Cypriot D(C) who was actually decent, and a Brazilian wonderkid DM/M(C), neither of whom, had Macedonian anywhere in their description...

Coming along pretty nice.

That would explain a few things in the offline save I had in the Beta....

Training camp wise the best thing I have found is you set you tactics and PI's per position, then you clear the entire roster and leave it blank, and have the Assistant coach do all the friendlies. He starts the players who are most fit, rotates them off, everyone get about the amount of playing time and by the season starts, everyone is pretty fit, tactically familiar, and ready to go. Assuming they haven't been injured in the presason...

I don't know how many of us have seen the skin Second Yellow Card is using. But That bookmark option is the second coolest thing I have seen in a skin this year...

The single fig numbers are the rankings on a 1-10 scale, except a couple of categories only have 8 so I multiplied them by 1.25 sortitoutsi.net on the left side of the page, about 2/3rd of the way down, there's a link for club facilities. There's also links to you facilities and that but its the same 'spreadsheet' https://sortitoutsi.net/football-manager-2023-club-transfer-facilities

The data is all from soritoutsi who update these every year. Training is the rating of the club Training Facilities, Newgens is the quality of Newgens the generates, youth recruiment is how good/extensive that is, Rating is how good the Youth Academies are (taking into account Junior Coaching) Potential is how good they can be. At least thats how I understood it to be. I could well be reading/interpreting something wrong. The hidden numbers not given are the countries youth rating as a whole, and how well football is regarded in the country, but you can get those thru the editor. I was looking at a way to quantify the list a bit better, as an example Man City is going to rank first, because they have the highest rating across the board, but when looking at comparing say, Genk, Fiorentina and Dynamo Kiev, which team has the better youth setup and why? For all I know it could be an exercise in Futility. :-)

Jim, Here is what I cam up with, and I will admit I am not sure how correct it is, in fact it is mostly guess work: More for my own curiosity that anything else, I will also admit I may have gone way to far In the Weeds on this one, or I am reinventing the wheel...or I need to embrace the power of "AND" Take a Teams Training Facilities, grade them on a scale of 1 (Poor) to 10 (State of the Art) Take Newgen Quality (Limited =1, Basic=2, Fairly Basic =3, Adequate =4, Good=5, Excellent=6, Great =7, Superb=8) but because we are using a base 10 scale multiply those by 1.25, so Limited = 1.2 and Superb = 10 Take Youth Recruitment Level (Limited Basic =1 , Fairly Basic =2, Adequate=3, etc etc )but because we are using a base 10 scale multiply those by 1.25 as well. Youth Rating + Youth Potential / 2 Gives Avg Youth Score Overall Youth Score is (Training + NewgenQ)*Youth Recruitment Level Overall Rating is Avg Youth Rating * Overall Youth Score (Rounded for ease) So, if you Sort by Overall Rating you get this: Which at First glance "looks" right, but now I think I am weighing Youth Rating/Potential wrong. Liefering being the outlier thats causing me to say that. What I failed to take into account on this version was the countries investment in soccer. The other thing think I am looking at wrong is how Youth Recruitment and Youth Rating worked together, and how Training facilities work with Potential. At the end of the day its all guesswork. Fun guesswork yes, but still guesswork. Jellico

I crunched the numbers a bit differently on the View From the Touchline discord, and while the results are OK I think they could be better. Will try and post it when I get back in front of the home computer.

It's an interesting color palate, but it works. I am not sure what font you are using, but to me it looks a little off when bolded, and it's not handling the 'special' characters well, but I suspect that's easily fixable. Could also be the bifocals messing with me. Looking forward to what's next1 Jellico

The new deadline transfer window looks very nice! https://gyazo.com/ffb6db21a6e607a55438a9ac4fd3fb8f Jellico

Not sure what is going on here, this is the schedule screen when you are advancing days? There's nothing International going on that I can see? What other messages would there be displayed there? Transfer window is ending soon, player registration maybe? Thanks, Jellico

I am not to worried about it. If they can be fixed they can be fixed, if not I am certainly going to keep using the skin. :-) Appreciate the work, and the replies! Jellico

Once I remembered to clear the cache and reloaded the skin it worked great. Thanks!