Adelrahn

Thank you both for your answers 🙂

Yes

I discovered something strange regarding the movement of strikers. Whenever i play with wingers, my striker moves wide without the ball - regardless of which player role and mentality or width setting. But if i change the player role to Inside Forward or Inverted Winger he actually stays centrally in the striker position. The reason because i need Wingers is because Inside Forwards or Inverted Wingers sadly don't stretch the pitch enough because they stay very close to the edge of the penalty area insted of on the touchline. So my question is: is this movement of the striker intended? Or any ideas on how i can achieve to play with wingers while my striker stays more central?

I was wondering about what each setting does? For example if i play a high line with pressing in own half - what happens? Do my strikers just let the defenders past them without doing anything? And if i choose sit-back with high line - does this mean my players just watch the ball without actually tackling? If i want to close the middle and lure my opponents to either flank and press then - how can i achieve this? Also how can i close the middle if i play on wide width? I red the description in the online manual but it doesn't really explain much on how the player respond. Thanks for help

My question is wheter setting creative freedom also has an impact on the players positioning when defending. For example: If i set creative freedom to High and pressing to 'all over', do players leave their position to cover players further away from their position if necessary? (Wing back tracks down midfielder on their respective side if my midfielder is out of position for example)

Because we don't have the Half Back player role i was wondering what comes closest to it. Is it a Anchor Man or a Defensive Midfielder? Or maybe a Ball Playing Centreback with man Marking? Any ideas?

Because a not so small amount of players are going to be stuck with the FMM23 version can we at least get a patch where bugs that exist in the game for years now get fixed? Im thinking of youth team coach not applying their formation in some leagues, players beeing permanently low on moral because of some issue that doesnt even get displayed, or when a player gets injured and you sub on a new players this exact player doesnt appear on the pitch so its an 11 vs 10? Unfortunally i dont have a file to provide for these issues but they have already been raised in past more then enough. I personally overlooked those things for years but now i think its time to actually leave a good game for us behind to play and enjoy. I think thats the least SI should do.

If the reason for joining Netflix really would have been to 'save' the game you could have come up with better ideas that wouldn't involve throwing a good portion of very passionate and loyal players under the bus. They could have just increase the price for the game and additionally start a partnership with for example Netflix. The money lost from Netflix for exclusivity would be covered by the increased price but with the same result for SI. It just wasn't about this all along, it's (as always) about making the biggest amount of money possible. The whole disaster in this case isn't necessarily switching to Netflix and dissapointing your loyal customers, above all it is the communication of the CEO himself with his comments and lack of transparancy.

Absolutly ridicolous and unfair decision to everyone who supported and bought this game for all those years. No explanation in the world can justify that. I dont even want to hear the reasons or read a FAQ because it seems the decision is irreversible but it would be interesting how they explain to us why he should pay 60$ per year for a mobile game. Im honestly regreting every word that i wrote in the past in order to give feedback or help others because i cant afford to pay for this so they clearly dont want me as a customer. Let down once again ... @MarkVaughan what have you got say to this?

From my understanding the 'Width' setting primarely impacts the team when with the ball and how far away players position themselfes. My question is what width do i need, to make my players shift to one side of the pitch (overloading one side). Is it narrow width and maybe passing focus on both flanks? Or is it wide width with passing focus to centre? Similar questuon regarding what regulates the width when defending? As an example, if i want to lure my opponent to either flank to make them get stuck there and lose the ball, how can i achieve that? (Ideally without having to move wide players like IF or IW into a central positions)

Yes. I just tought that maybe this could be acheived by introducing contracts. As a reminder i'm not the op - i just got the idea by reading the post.

Yes i know this. What i meant was if a job becomes available throughout the season you have two choices. 1. Apply for the free job and therefore (if you get the offer) immediately leave you current club to join the new one. 2. Don't apply for the job, the job gets taken by another manager and is not going to be available for some time (maybe years). I just thought being able to sign a 'pre-contract' to take over a club at the start of the next season would be a nice way to finish the current season at your current club and then moving on to the new job instead of having to leave mid-season.

It would be more immersive if you could wait for your contract to expire instead of having to resign. With that being said maybe a contract system would help when applying for new jobs (when contracts run out an managers leave you get a chance to apply for a new job more often). At the moment you can only join a club instantly (when another manager is sacked) or the job is gone. But more often you would stay at your current club until the end of the season and then move on. And from my experience so far clubs don't really use the 'interim coach' feature enough, so that you could have the chance to apply to a club at the end of the season.

That could work. The problem i see with this would be that my midfield would be too open with only one central midfielder. But i will try that, thanks.

Thanks, i will try this with the DLF.