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Hello. This is a question to the game developers, I hope they read this post. Why is it so, that when I offer a player a contract, it's either I meet their minimum requirements there and then or the negotiations end whereas my DoF can drop any offer, typically much lower than what I can offer them, and most often it is accepted in the end. Also, often when trying to outbid an AI manager for a player, I find he chooses the other club even though their offer was worse and they supposedly preferred my club. I can't find a logical explanation for that. It's like AI staff gets a handicap when it comes to negotiations. Things like this makes me feel not like being one of the managers but like the odd one out, to whom special rules apply. I feel level playing field is what the game badly needs. I sense you are trying to compensate for inherent AI dumbness by giving it extra points, instead of trying to make it smarter. In chess, this would amount to allowing the AI side two moves at a time rather than improving its skill.

Hi. I feel there are some things the FM series that haven't been addressed virtually throughout its history. 1st off all - getting a player sent off. In many cases it's an actual advantage. Let me get this straight - there is no wonder tactics in the world to compensate for a lack of a player, let alone two. And yet playing with incomplete squad I recorded some of my most spectacular wins (notably 8-0 vs Barcelona having 2 players sent off early on in FM2005). In CM9798 red card often helped me win, especially GK, where DL took over and played better than the original GK, somehow at the same time still fulfilling his DL duties to good effect. The same goes for AI teams, they only become stronger. In FM20 it's never a good news when an opposition player gets sent off - this is usually when the trouble begins. I feel this is totally unrealistic. Next - conceding straight after scoring. Sure, it happens in real life too, but nowhere near with such regularity. Third - home advantage. There are teams that I regularly destroy at home 8-0, 9-1 but can't for the life of me beat away, and I've tried various approaches. Typically, it's a draw. 4th - regularily struggling against teams at or near the bottom of the table. I understand their having an extra motivation, but IRL - if I crush Barcelona, I will crush them too. There are other problematic areas, but these 4, I feel, are most important and most detrimental to the enjoyment of the game.