[Strenghten position promise: does it include already agreed future transfers?]

And I keep telling everyone since the OP that I've already been avoiding it all these years (been playing since FM14) but there are rare occasions where you can't.

Stating the obvious is not helpful at all and just bloats up the thread with useless posts. 

In fact the only one who actually contributed something useful was CARRERA (and I guess myself in the end).

[Strenghten position promise: does it include already agreed future transfers?]

Ok so out of curiosity, I reloaded the save, signed Florentino Luis and Bernardo Silva instead (Valverde was only possible with a high release clause), and now Kane's promise is satisfied.

So what he actually wanted was not one but two top midfielders.

[Strenghten position promise: does it include already agreed future transfers?]

4 minutes ago, CARRERA said:

You might have to check if that player you bought is really a midfielder and not a wide striker or a striker who can also play in midfield. But im not sure about that

No he's a CM and DM, those are his natural positions.

[Strenghten position promise: does it include already agreed future transfers?]

16 hours ago, CARRERA said:

I once had the situation where I had to make such a promise for a new player. I already had arranged a transfer for that position for the next transfer window. 

the player I had to make the promise to, would join my team in that same transfer window and the promise got fulfilled when both players joined my team. 

Oh nice! That is good to know, so it seems future transfers (if the player likes them) do count towards that promise!

As mentioned before I always remove this promise, so that was not really the point.
However, with high-profile players you sometimes can't remove their promises or if you do, they don't want to sign.
In my case Harry Kane had that promise (strengthen midfield) locked so I signed Fede Valverde, who now has the highest star rating of all of my central midfielders, in a team including Kanté, Saúl (and also Messi, Dybala, Hazard, Sancho, if those count as midfielders).
But the promise status hasn't changed yet, so I'm unsure whether to try to sign another player (probably won't find/get one with a higher rating/reputation) or just wait and see if the status changes over the course of the season.

[Develop weaker foot PPM]

That is a really baffling decision, coaches in real life can definitely work specifically on the weaker foot of a player, so why shouldn't they anymore in FM?

 

This was always the first thing I did with any new signing (I rarely train any of the other player traits) and it is vital to get rid of the weak foot, for example for a left-sided CB or a WB that you wanna play on the other side.

 

So now I am forced to change the team training (which I never touch) in order to get a few individual players to get rid of their weak foot?!

What if some of the players are in the defensive unit and and some in the attacking unit? I don't wanna complete screw up their team training just because of one attribute.

This a really odd decision.

[Strenghten position promise: does it include already agreed future transfers?]

Hey everyone,

I've got a question that I've been asking myself for quite a while now:

When a player wants you to promise to strengthen a certain position and you've already signed someone good for next season for that exact position, does that count?
Or in other words: does the player already know about the signing and wants another signing, or are they ignorant of the signing and the future transfer would already fulfill the promise?

I usually exclude such promises but always wondered about this.