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Barcelona comes to my mind. Plenty of teams doing it IRL and gets punished when they flopped and firing everyone and selling all their players for pocket change.

In Israel(a crappy football nation basically) we had a team from the 2nd tier winning the cup and going to the Europa League.

I dont know, I just dont like mods..

Judging by the last 2 versions, 2 updates.

Man, for almost a week I have been itching to get back to football manager(didnt play for 2 months) and I said I would wait for the DB update and then start but this waiting is killing me...Been too long away from Football Manager

I think my biggest offer was about 250K(Pound) from PSG on some newgen I developed but he refused to move there.

You are right tho, tactics don't matter as the game is to easy and you can overachieve by employing a basic gagnpress tactic and win 95% of games by doing basically nothing tactically.

Yes indeed, if you buy it on steam and use cloud saves. I installed mine on my PC, Laptop and on my work PC and play the same game file on all 3.

I agree but difficulty levels are optional and can be restored to normal, So the cheated players can always choose not to use them. Like attribute masking for example, it makes the game a bit more difficult and its totally optional. That's not true for sure, no in my game at least. I think the problem is the reputation system in this game make the AI do stupid stuff like agree to a worse contract elsewhere based on that team or manager rep.

Seems like a realistic approach to me, most of my squad is young-ish and I like keeping some older players around, especially if they got great personalities and mental stats and of course, good skill level. Bruno Fernandes is one example, he is going to be 33 in 3 months and he is still me best AMC and I believe he helped to shape this guy in to a great player: Apart from Bruno my oldest player now is Marcus Rashford(turning 30 in a few months and also a key player for me), as De Gea retired at the end of last season and I sold Jose Gaya who turned 31. But I don't horde old players unless they got excellent personalities like model citizen or model professional(like I did with Eriksen, I kept him around as long as I could because he is a model citizen)

I opened enough treads about it already with feedback, pictures and all that, sadly most people on this forum think that if you don't play a non league team you are playing the game the wrong way.

Because I don't find "recruit mode" to be fun. I don't understand why difficulty levels is such a ridiculous request to some players. Every other game got it. Do you have low expectations from everything in life? Imagine if the DEVS of CIV would tell players they should set boundaries for themselves to make the game more challenging instead of making difficulty levels. The CIV community will lose it.

Oh, I am playing as Manchester United and I have tons of scouts, more than recruitment focuses. But I didnt realize scouting is putting so much strain on game performance. Anyway, I'll try to upload my save later, Thanks

You don't actually need to save scum to win in this game, most of it feels like click and win anyway, It's not like Frostpunk or Xcom on hardest difficulties, especially for players that playing this game for 20 years.

My database is kind of large, About 125K players loaded like in last year's game. In last year's version my game was starting to slow down after 10 seasons or so, this time at the end of the 3rd season my game is slow as a snail. The last patch helped a bit but its still slow. And yes my shortlist is rather large and I am running an extensive recruiting operation, can't be missing on the young wonderkids

I don't find it very different from last year. I am starting my 6th season with Manchester United and what keeps me from playing is the slow loading times. The last patch made it a bit better but it's still painful for me.

It's like bringing your own salt to a restaurant. It's SI's job to make the game playable and challenging for all kinds of different levels of players.

I have seen some improvements but it's still waaaay slower than FM2022

Still easy like FM22

It's a sandbox game, play it as you see fit.

Sorry mate. I had the same thing happened to me last version when I played as Salford. Fortunately for me my player agreed terms with some other team. Boards can be like that especially when you are a small fish in a big pond.

You can try to bypass this by offering him out and hope he will agree terms with one of the teams that put offers forward(and not the one the board accepted) and after terms are agreed just cancel the transfer.

I dont know, I have seen tons of fine strikers with good finishing in my game, for exemple: And those are the ones I signed, I got tons of other strikers in my shortlist with good finishing but I am not really in the market for more because I got Vlahovic and Endrick in my roster already.

I don't know, I have seen some great talent from the Portuguese League. Fabio Silva comes to mind, I remember him at 16 and he developed in to a beast in my games. Nascimento also comes to mind. Maybe they didn't have a fixed PA and it was random at times.

Yeah, it's so exhausting to standing in one place for 90 minutes...