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A lot of joy for a lot of my players in Qatar! They lifted the trophy!

Donnaruma, Bonucci and Mancini got picked to the World Cups best XI

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Surprised on how De Paul is performing for the team, looks like one of those players who perform better than the stats suggest, 6 games in Serie A 4 goals 2 assists, 1(3) games in CL 2 goals and an assist from AMC position, have to say I'm super happy with him.

 

And we're expanding the J Stadium! Almost 47k soon

[[FM21] Rate my Regen/Newgen Thread]

My hottest prospect from first season intake, 5* potential, whil every other newgen coming in the tests were max 3 star, really looking forward to play this lad in first team

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20 hours ago, JRS192 said:

Funny that you got Mancini but couldn't get Castrovilli when I had the opposite. - otherwise we'd start having eerily similar teams! 
 

Haha yeah, well when looking at Italian players who can play at high level, we dont have that many eh? As of Zaniolo I used him for a season on AMC, and now he got moved to AMR, and damn he's playing so much better now!

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Season 2 Update

Serie A - It was a perfect season, absolutely perfect. We went unbeaten beating the league point record with 104pts - 33 wins 5 loses, and an incredible defensive record just 16 goals lost, which I was extremely happy about. Inter came in in 2nd with 89pts - which to be fair is a great result too, and I they were so close to beat me to my perfect season, we scored in the 84th minute to draw the game 1-1. Napoli came to life with Pochettino and they finished 3rd and Milan closed the CL spots coming 4th.

Lukaku won the cappocanoniere reward with 29 goals, Caputo got 2nd with 27 goals and Ronaldo was 3rd with 25 league goals.

Champions League - came to the season with an expectation to get at least to the semis. And it started fairly easy, as I got a lucky group draw with - Lyon, Monchengladbach and Ajax - and we went for a perfect score. Won all 6 games, and I could prepare for the first knockstage draw, and we were lucky again, as we drew Shakhtar Donetsk,  an easy win 5-0 away pretty much secured us the quarter-final, and the lose 0-1 at home couldnt hold us back.

Quarter Final is where our draw luck ended and I met Real Madrid, who have an incredible team on my save. First game at home we conceded an early goal from Varane, but we did manage to come back, and goals by Ronaldo, Kulusevski and Fati got us a 3-1 win. The 2nd game couldnt start worse as Ramos fired Real into the lead in the very 1st minute of the game, despite chances on both sides of the pitch nobody scored, and a 0-1 lose got us through to the semis! Another tough team to beat in the semifinal was Man City, the defending champions wanted to taste the glory once again. First game away did end up 0-0, putting us in a tricky spot, as each goal lost at home would be problematic. The tie went back to Turin where the fans witnessed one of the best 30 minutes of their lives, as Ronaldo scored a hat-trick respectively hitting the opposition in 12', 26' and 30' minute, Kulusevski did add one more in the 24th minute, and even the goal by former fan favourite Dybala scored in the 29' couldnt take the smile off us. Rodri scored a 2nd goal for City in the 60th minute, but Cristiano was hungry for more, and when City went all in, he managed to score his 4th of the night in the 91st minute. We were in the final! The second semi was Lyon vs Barcelona, and as Barcelona won the 1st game 3-0, I was preparing for a clash with the Catalonyan giants. But suprisingly Lyon did won 3-0 at home, getting the game into the over-time and they've won 5-0 in the end, a crazy result by the French side. Therefore I was expecting an easy final game. The Final vs Lyon - stadium in Petersburg was ready for the final clash. And we started in the worst possible way, conceding a goal in the 4th minute of the game, Demarai Gray did put Lyon in front, but not for long, we equilized in the 9th minute with Denayer conceding an own goal, and a quick brace by Cristiano - 15' and 21' did end the first half with a great result 3-1. We continued the great show in the 2nd half - Fati in the 52', de Ligt in 58' and Cristiano completing his hattrick in the 67' closed the game, a crazy 6-1 win in the final, did allow De Ligt to raise the cup! With Cristiano equilizing his own goal record - 17 goals in the CL, crazy and I did rest him in some of the group stage games, and in the 2nd leg bs Shakhtar, so we can say I robbed him off beating the record :D.

 

Coppa Italia We also won the cup completing the triple crown, beating Chievo 3-2, Napoli 4-0,  Inter in the semis 2-0 and 2-1, and Milan 3-1 in the final. Well no big story here it just went really well, which of course made me happy to score the triple.

 

Transfer window

Transfer Outs:

This years FM seems pretty crazy, as AI seem to target some players no matter the costs, and I got some enormous offers,

• Dejan Kulusevski - €200M to PSG - Well Kulu was performing really well, but there is life after Dejan, and some great options to replace him were available, so I decided to take the money as I thought is way too much to decilne
• Adrien Rabiot - €65M to Barcelona - Didnt really want to part ways with the Frenchman as he was a very very solid rotation player, who didnt complain to be the reserve player, I've approached to extend his contract which would run out at the end of 3rd season, and he demanded a Star role in the team, which I couldnt give him, so I decided to part ways with him. Barcelona offered decent money, and the deal went through
• Danilo - €44M to Barcelona - Danilo was approached in the winter and he wanted to leave, but I gave him a promise to sell him in the summer, and so I fulfiled the players will. Barcelona offered way too much for such an old player, but eh I wont complain
• Cristian Romero - €8.5M to Porto - originally I was thinking about using him, but well I already had Mancini locked for the team, and I still was to splash money for a start player for CB position, thought I would get more as he looks solid, but nobody really offered more, so I decided to accept.
• Gianluca Frabotta - €8M to RB Salzburg - Frabotta looks solid, but I have Alex Sandro and Pellegrini to cover the LB position, he's not homegrown, so having all that in mind I did grab some decent money on him.

Transfers In:

• Milinkovic-Savic - €72M from Lazio - I've considered many options as Kulusevski replacement, and for either AMC or AMR positions, as I have Zaniolo who can cover both of those, in the end moved Zaniolo to AMR and went fo Sergej for the AMC, so far so good, very happy to have him.
• Gianluca Mancini - €23M from Roma - He was transfer listed and is looking really solid, I even thought about making him my starter CB, in the end he's covering the position, but in the next season his role should be more significant, after Bonuccis departure.
• Gianluigi Donnaruma - €67M from Milan - Most likely a not needed transfer as Szczęsny is still class, but couldnt let this option go, as he was available for very very decent money.
• Virgil Van Dijk - €84M - I wanted to get Bastoni as replacement for Demiral who departed in the winter, but I think this transfer is impossible to do, Inter just wont sell anyone to me, two options which did interest me the most Bastoni and Skriniar were both at Inter. I've also approached Laporte and some other options but got quoted €100M from everyone, and yeah I thought to myself, if I'm to spend so much I want the best from the best - and went full fantasy mode with this one. Never had him in any of my saves, so I'm pretty excited, and he seems pretty damn crazy not only defending but scoring 2 goals in his debut
• Rodrigo De Paul - €32M - All the departures left me without a rotation player who would be the next Rabiot for my team. Had two options either brind a MC, or an AMC player and move Wijnaldum to MC. Tried to approach Castrovilli, but he was not interested to join Juve. so I went with De Paul, who also accepted the contract in a rotation role, which is even more awesome.

 

My young team got some great experienced players who they will be able to learn from. Currently the team looks  like following:

GK: Donnaruma, Szczęsny, Audero

RB: MCKennie, Tomiyasu

CB: De Ligt, Mancini

CB: Van Dijk, Bonucci

LB: Alex Sandro, Luca Pellegrini

MC: Bentancur, Tonali

MC: Arthur, Wijnaldum

AMC: Milinkovic Savic, De Paul

AML: Ansu Fati, Chiesa

AMR: Zaniolo, Bernardeschi

ST: Ronaldo, Waldschmidt, Alejandro Marques

 

Pretty much I think the team looks very complete, and is a perfect mix of youth and more experienced players. After the season I'm bidding farewell to Cristiano, and Bonucci, and obviously Szczęsny who is not really needed. But as he's one of the team leaders I dont want to transfer list him, as the whole teams  morale will drop, so I'll just wait till he requests the transfer on his own, as of replacements - Bonucci will get replacement by one of the home grown products - Albian Hajdari, who looks really solid and my staff predicts he will be a 3,5* CB, currently loaned out to Sampdoria and he's a starter CB for them in the Serie A by the age of 19, awesome! And Cristiano will get replaced by Haaland most likely. I've also agreed a deal on Calafiori €32.5M rising to possible €42M, but I did leave him at Roma for one more year, and the transfer will  be done at the end of the season. And probably Chiesa will be unhappy requesting a transfer soon, as the game sets his role the highest possible to "Star Player", and obviously he's not a star player for my team, not even a starter.

Probably got to a point now where my team will be overpowered for the AI, but we'll see excited to see how good will Fati and Zaniolo grow, as they are still not at their full potential.

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2 hours ago, JRS192 said:

What're you thinking? Obviously stupid money, but you've already lost a fair few big players this window?

That's summer transfer window already, and I decided to take the money Gonna post a more detailed update on my season and transfer window tomorrow

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Ummmm okay lol

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Have to say this has been the craziest winter transfer window I ever had in FM.

Transfers Out:

• Demiral - €115M to Barcelona - as mentioned before felt its just too much, I regret it a little that I didnt wait till summer but yeah Merih is out

And just when I thought thats enough of departures on 29th January, City started to declare interests in Depay as their number 1 target, I was like well okay but in the summer not now, and then on 30th January Fati got transfer listed as a request - he was unhappy since the start of the season as he wanted a better contract, and he got listed for €111M and I was okay, so the plan for summer would be sell Depay and get Fati for maybe a lower fee till the summer months. But then the deadline day  came and City offered me €75M straight for Depay, and I counter their bid with €80M + €15M after 20 games for City, thinking they would reject their bid. But they didnt they just threw the money at me, so I said to myself okay let's get crazy, and move my star player transfer from summer to winter. 

• Memphis Depay - €80M rising to €95M - to City

Transfers In:

• Ansu Fati - €111M - as mentioned he was transfer listed, and the fee was extremely high, but I've decided to break the clubs transfer record and got a long term star player for the AML position, and I'm super happy how fast he did get along with the team 1 first team game, and 2 from the bench and he started with 2 goals and 2 assists - super happy!
• Simon Kjaer - €0M loan - I tried to look for a replacement for Demiral, but not many clubs wanted to talk to me about possible acquisitions. I've approached Bastoni, with offers as crazy as €80M(while he's valued at €11M) but Inter didnt want to talk. I've also approached Kimpembe and Laporte as ready to go options, but no luck, also looked at Gvardiol from Red Bull who looks like an option but in this case he would need some time to get to the world class level. Time passed and by 30th January I was still there without a CB either a starter or a reserve player. And I've come to a conclusion I will not find a starter CB. So I've went for a cheap option a loan of Kjaer from Milan, he was transfer listed so they accepted, and Im just paying his wages for half of the season. Obviously he's not the level of a player I would want to have, but he will do the job as the 4th CB. And now I'm kinda happy I didnt part ways with Bonucci as I planned, because he's back in action. What's good is that I got Bastoni unhappy by making the approach on him and Inter declining. So now Bastoni got announced as the number one target, and I'm trying to get him transfer listed.

I've also had an offer from City for Bentancur a crazy €112M but decided to keep him, and that's way too much in one window, plus he's doing really really well for me, and Chelsea came in or Kulusevski with some crazy starting bid of around €100M, but Kulu is staying with me and I'm willing to make him one of the main guys in the team. After the transfer of Fati, I've extended Ronaldo for one more year as I wont be paying crazy millions for Haaland. Looking at some home-grown players I could bring and thinink about Spinazzola as a backup RB/LB. But we'll see what happens.

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Well I accepted and kinda regret it now, but there's no way an offer so high would get ever rejected IRL - on a good side I got Bastoni unhappy now! They rejected a 70M offer for him, maybe I will loan Todibo from Barca as a rotation and cover the CB with 34 year old Bonucci till the end of the season, and go full attack for Bastoni in the summer. Another option is Gvardiol, but well its super hard to get someone in the winter, so yeah kinda regret accepting the Demiral offer now

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Well got a headache now... feels way too good to refuse

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1 hour ago, JRS192 said:

Some great signings there! I've started trying to unsettle Zaniolo as Roma were awful last year, nearly getting relegated. Let me know how he does!

Great to see you got Tonali aswell - no brainer at that price! Gini's another great midfield option, he was available on loan at the start of my save - nuts for a player of his quality. I like the look of Tomiyasu. He looks a bit lightweight in the air, but as a versatile squad player he looks the part. Might have to check him out! 

For your targets, Calabria's been excellent for me - I believe his original contract expires at the end of the second season, may be worth checking. Donnarumma's obviously excellent. Your forward line'll be interesting as you look to replace Ronaldo and Depay. Is Edouard available? Could be a young/cheap alternative to Haaland? Could even get a bit fruity and retrain Zaniolo as a striker, and bring in another 10 (Castrovilli's a good one? SMS is an other if you can afford him).

In mine Roma finished 3points clears off relegation, and the negotiations over Zaniolo went rather smooth, on the other hand when I approached Calafiori, the terms were rather bad and probably I'll have another go next summer.

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Okay so I finished my first season at Juve, the results were quite mixed won Serie A quite comfortably in the end 10 points clear of Milan and 12 off Inter. Won the Coppa Italia in penalties vs Atalanta, in quite dramatic sircumstances - scored the equalizing goal in the over time in 118th minute, and won the penalties 4-3 with Szczęsny saving two and becoming the MVP! The Champions League was a big dissapointment, I played my best game of  the season in the first knockout stage blasting Sevilla 6-0 at home, to go to my worst game of the season in the Quarter finals, I met Inter and after a rather bad 2-2 at home, I've lost 1-5 Away it was like every of their shots just found  the net, and absolutely disgusting showing.

Pre-Season - We've got a new number 10

So I went into the pre-season trying to offload as much deadwood as I can, and gain more classy depth into the team, which we did suffer from last year, the reserves weren't giving as much as I hoped for. So first I have focused on sellings of the players that weren't in my plans for the upcoming season.

- Douglas Costa - €40.5 - to B Munchen

- Aaron Ramsey - €28M - to Man Utd

- Juan Cuadrado - €16.5M - to PSG

- Mattia Perrin - €8M - to Atalanta

- De Sciglio - €5M - to Ajax - have to pay €30k of his wages for one more year

- Pjaca - €3M - to some Arabian club

and the most significant transfer out

- Paulo Dybala - €80M rising to €90M -  I felt the money is good so I did let Paulo go, espescially that he didnt want to renew, and being honest he didnt perform that great for me. After seeing some fees paid on the market I think I could have gotten ~~€15M more but well cant make the time go back.

Transfers In:

The main goal was to replace Dybala, the candidates were Ansu Fati, Pedri, Greenwood, Sancho but money wise I couldnt justify spending around €100M for Fati, or slightly less for the other guys, so welcome santo subito Zaniolo

- Nicola Zaniolo - €35M rising to €55M - I took the risk and decided to make the young Italian my new number 10, hopefully he can recover after the injury and become my main man for years. Have to say he had a rather intriguing debut - a goal, an assist and a red card

- Weston McKennie - €18.5M - after retraining Weston to RB he has become a starter for me there and I was really happy I could use the low release fee clausule

- Emil Audero - €8M rising to €9.25M - Move I really like to do in FMs, Emil is very solid and does the job when needed but whats most important he's home grown so I get more freedom with squad registration

- Sandro Tonali - €15M - Brescia stayed in Serie B, Milan didn't buy him out, and this is one of those occasions you just can't say no

- Takehiro Tomiyasu - €17.5M rising to €22M - After loosing on a free Eric Garcia (he chose Liverpool), I had to find a rotation CB, and I chose the Japanese as he covers more positions in the defence and this is something I just love about many players.

- Georginio Wijnaldum - €0 end of contract - Liverpool didnt extend his deal, I wasnt sure if I need another MC, but after getting good money for Ramsey I decided I will get the experienced Dutch on a 3 year deal to give me more depth in the team, plus I really like him in real life

This was meant to be the end of my transfer window, but just before the first pre-season game I noticed I dont have Morata in the squad, and it was one of those wtf moments when I dont know if the game doesnt give the possibility to extend the loan deal, or I didnt do it any way I felt the game cheated on me haha. But obviously I needed a striker to rotate with Ronaldo. I looked into the options on the market and thought about Alex Isak, Matheus Cunha, and some other guys, but then one of my scouts came with a report about Luca Waldschmidt, who looked solid and he can cover AMR, AMC apart from the ST position. His report stated €50M, but managed to do some magic, he became unhappy and grabbed him for €39M in the end on the last day of the transfer window, still it was €39M I didnt plan to spend.

 

Plans for the next season: Most probably replacing Ronaldo - Haaland will be my main goal most likely, but I may choose to extend Cris for one more year.  Probably AML as Depay is starting to get annoying crying about Barcelona, and stuff so probably I will look into this, getting rid of Danilo after a season where he was mainly my backup he's complaining about a new contract, and tbh if I would scouted Calabria earlier, I would probably try to offload Danilo and buy Calabria who apparently is available for €30M. Donnaruma is unhappy at Milan and is looking for a way out to join a bigger club. So maybe Haaland will need to wait as some tempting options will be too good to pass on them. Had some great offers for Rabiot €50M rising to €63M from Tottenham but I didnt want a revolution with changing half of the team so I also agreed that I will let him go for an offer of €70M but this never came, but maybe next window he will be the one financing the mercato ;). Also a lot of top clubs are sniffing around Demiral, and I might actually sell him if I get a crazy offer, Im using ball playing defenders and as fat as Demiral is an awesome classic defender he lacks the technique and passing to shine in this role, Bastoni would be the perfect replacement but its very unlikely I would be able to sign him, so I dont  know maybe Romagnoli

Current team:

Szczęsny - McKennie Demiral De Ligt Alex Sandro - Arthur Bentancur - Kulusevski Zaniolo Depay - Ronaldo  -- Audero Danilo Bonucci Tomiyasu Pellegrini Tonali Rabiot Wijnaldum Chiesa Bernardeschi Waldschmidt 

Have to say I'm happy with the team for this years campaign, a lot of flexibility in positions and a lot of quality on the bench, so the expectations are high with the new season.

 

Around the world

Giving a mention to what happened in my save, so top transfers.

Real Madrid after a very bad season getting eliminated in first knockout stage of CL went for a splash - €90M rising to €148M for Mo Salah, and €76M rising to €116M for Bernardo Silva without selling anynoe pretty much - absolutely sleeping on money.

Liverpool grabbed Lautaro from Inter for €74M as Salah replacement - as always in FM Italian clubs just selling their best players for cheap

Inter brought Moussa Dembele as a replacement paying €39M, and they also brought Azpilicueta for €34M, Raphael Guerreiro €42M, Hector Herrera €12M, and Abdou Diallo for €24M, and apart from Lautaro they have sold De Vrij to PSG for €22.5M (this is just absurd.... 29 year old CB, who was a main starter for them €20M, and AI buys and old Azpilicueta for €34M as a replacement..)

Milan sold Leao to Chelsea for €56M in the last hours of the transfer window, and they have brought Bellotti as a replacement for €31,5M and that's all they did in the transfer window.

Napoli generally did nothing,  Atalanta sold Goliini for €14M to Chelsea (absurd), and they have brought Yangel Herrera, Leo Dubois, Keita Balde, Gonzalo Montiel and Stanciu - at least they were active. So yeah I'm guessing this years Serie A will be easier than the year before, as Inter and Milan dont even care in FM. And the other Serie A teams don't have enought money to become great.

 

 

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Woah got a crazy looking regen in my youth intake first season end of March 2021

[[FM21] Manchester United: A club stuck in transition]

How is Greenwood performing for you guys season2+?  Looking at him as a possible transfer target for ST position.

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5 hours ago, JRS192 said:

Sounds promising! I always try to keep my games semi-realistic aswell. 

I had looked at Calafiori but Roma wouldn't budge when I made a move - don't sleep on Luca Pellegrini who you'll have out on loan, I brought him in for a pittance and he's rock solid. 
Donnarumma becomes available for free in January if you can poach him. He's an absolute animal in goal. 

Unfortunately Donnaruma extended his deal with Milan at the very start of my save so yeah, not likely I will be able to get him. Experiencing issues with Calafiori the same that you have mentioned that's quite a pity. In fact no interesting players with contracts running out on the market. There's Alaba who I would really like - I could sell Alex Sandro  gain some money into my budgets which arent great, and have a world class LB before Pellegrini/Calafiori could step in, but  despite all my efforts he's not interested in joining Juve, and now considering offers from R Madrid, City, United, Chelsea and PSG. And as of the winter transfer window I have 0 plans as I have 0 Euros available ;). Generally some heavy contracts are really hurting the budgets, should get better in the summer when I will lose Chiellini(end of contract) and after selling Bonucci and hopefully Ramsey.

I'm half way through my first season, and my plans for summer transfer window seem to have changed. The guys I was looking into seem to become too expensive options - Camavinga already has all major clubs sniffing, and it's very unlikely I will be able to match their offers.  And my main interest now is  Szoboszolai from Salzburg, to strengthen my midfield in the summer, and I'll likely need to buy one CB and ST before the next season, and I really started to consider Zaniolo as a possible Dybala replacement.

League so far has been pretty even exciting - before the 14th fixture I was 2nd a point behind Inter, and point even with Milan in 3rd place. I did play Inter in the 14th matchday, I was 1-2 down but then Barella got sent off and I managed to go for a 3-2 comeback which then rose to 4-2 in 92' minute after they went all in and a fast counter attack did the job. Then Atalanta won vs Inter, and Milan scored 2 draws, and now I'm on the top in front of Milan, Atalanta and Inter (after the loss vs me they havent won a single game), but we're still pretty close to each other. In the Champions League I had a rather smooth experience despite the group wasn't that easy with Atletico, Salzburg and Monchengladbach. But 15 points got me a comfortable 1st place, and now I'm off to face Sevilla in the first knockout stage, interestingly they are the current leaders of La Liga in my save, so I'm expecting a hard game.

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Started a Juve save with some "twists" to make it more realistic, and a few goals I set to myself

 

- Max spending will be 50M euros - can only be exceeded if I sell someone for a fee of 50M+ and 75% of the transfer fee spent has to come from the selling fee

- Try to bring an Italian core to the team - which might be hard as not many good Italians are there and R Madrid already stole Locatelli

- The old boys will get moved away from the squad, so after the season I'll say goodbye to capitano Chiellini and gonna sell snake Bonucci

- I'll try to rebuild the youth sector of Juventus

- Most likely I'll try to reflect some of real life things happening around Juve, so probably I'll try to sell Dybala in the summer

 

As of the start, I've bought Depay to strengthen my team on the wings as I'll play  4-1-1-2-2 DM-MC AMR AML ST ST. Paid 30M Euro in total which obviously is like 3 times the real life fee, but yeah we're still in the summer in the game, managed to negotiate it to 10M upfront, and 20M in two yearly instalments. Started to re-train McKennie to RB as really really like him IRL and wanted to find a position in which he could play for the team, and have good impact.

 

My current first team looks like this: Szczęsny - Alex Sandro De Ligt  Demiral  Cuadrado - Bentancur - Arthur - Depay - Kulusevski - Ronaldo - Dybala

Main targets: Calafiori, Camavinga, long term Donnaruma   and on the other positions most probably scouting the transfer listed players

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[Quickfire Questions and Answers Thread (Tactic and Training Questions Only)]

I have a stupid question, so I think it's in the right thread.

Every time I enter the Tactics for my team, it defaults to show me the instructions of a player that I tweaked on the right of the player names, and I would like to see formation next to them like in old FM's how to change that?