Jonthedon26

I know that AI squad building has been discussed many times before on these forums, however it still baffles me how often I see instances whereby the AI buys one of my players for a decent fee (in this example Levante bought Bacuna from me at Birmingham City for £11m), never plays them (literally not one game) then puts them on the transfer list for a much lower fee 6 or 12 months later....crazy! Is this the same in everyone else's game or is it just me?

I play 442 get it out wide and hit early crosses and my Target Man is doing pretty well. I don't do anything fancy such as float crosses or aim for X, I literally have cross more often and hit early crosses with my full backs overlapping as well.

Pluck a number from the top of your head and that's how it is calculated! For premier league players add a few more zero's to the end.

Yep, happened after I got promoted to the premier league with Birmingham City so had to let half my staff go.

I second this. I got promoted with Birmingham City in my 2nd season, finishing as the leagues top scorers and creating loads of chances. I started the PL pretty well, scored 3 against Arsenal, 2 against United and went unbeaten in my first 6 games. Since the update my team literally has like 4 shots per game and has blanked in 3 of my last 4 games. I am tinkering with my tactic to try and fix it, but I play an extremely basic 442 get it out wide and cross it and there isn't really much you can tinker with that and I don't want to rip up my style and start again. I agree it is very frustrating when you find a tactic that works for your team/players then it seems to go to pot post update, but going to keep persisting as I have signed some really good younger players that I am looking forward to seeing develop.

I do commentary only nowadays (like the old days) as I don't have the time to play through matches with highlights or actually watch it in 3D.

100% this! I didn't realise the update was out and I was playing yesterday and I blew two 3 goal leads and a 2 goal lead in three games! My tactic is usually pretty defensively sound so wondered what the hell has gone on...this explains it 😂

My team I was there at Wembley when we won the cup then there when we got relegated! Was a fantastic season though in the championship and playing in the Europa league at the same time! It has been downhill very fast ever since, now we are a shambles!

I noticed the other day that my U23s team had like 1 league game per month for 2 straight months and no friendlies had been arranged...was ultra annoying having to do it all manually

I scored some screamers in my time playing football and I was nowhere near 8th tier standard

A lot of the time I look for teamwork, work rate, natural fitness and stamina as well as personality type in all my players.

Same, they have worded that horribly if that is the case! I have always thought it was better to have no line rather than the "poor" one. You learn something new every day!

That is great, thank you. I will give that a go!

Hi all, just completed my first season in game and I am in pre season of season two. Sadly, many of my top coaches/scouts have been poached over the summer so I am on the lookout for new staff. When I go to the staff search screen and filter by job type and then set a couple of parameters regarding staff attributes it barely comes back with any results whatsoever. At the start of the first season, if I searched on the staff search screen for scouts with judging player ability/potential as a minimum of 15 I would get loads of hits, now I have had to notch it down to 14/13 and I got 1 match. This is also true for searching for any job type. I also searched for a coach with attacking 15 and technique 12 and I got no matches again. Am I doing something wrong? Is this a bug? Just as an FYI I am managing Birmingham City, still in the championship so despite having the option selected to exclude unrealistic targets, I would expect waaaay more matches than I am getting. Any help would be much appreciated.

I remember playing a game called Match of the Day (I believe) with my Dad on the spectrum in the early 90s!

I play commentary only (due to time constraints) and honestly it makes the game far more enjoyable and less frustrating. I know it wont be everyone's cup of tea as it is harder to keep tabs on how your tactic is actually performing in a match, but I find it find, and from the sounds of the match engine doesn't seem like I am missing much!

Not exactly answering your point as I play commentary only, but sometimes it just doesn't come up in the text that a team has scored, I only realise when I look at the specific scoreboard on my screen. Infuriating at times as you think you are winning or holding a team to a draw, go to make a change and you clock that you are actually losing. Luckily I am pretty switched on to it now but it can be a bit annoying!

I think you are spot on, much like the squad planner...a good idea but poorly executed thus far.

Awesome thank you really appreciate it! The game rules I am okay with, it is all the contract stuff and roster movements etc that blow my mind haha. When I next fire it up I will be sure to message, thank again.

Love all the OOTP talk in here! I have been trying to get decent at that game as I am not a huge baseball fanatic being from the UK but I do enjoy it...just don't know enough about the rules etc.

Yep, all the time. No matter what criteria I set, I always end up with 0-4 results. I keep questioning if I am doing something wrong as no matter how broad or narrow I set my parameters I hardly get any hits.

I agree completely with this. I don't think the same skin/UI helps SI at all with people saying this is basically the same as last years (and FM21). It also doesn't help that the skin is pretty damn horrible (in my opinion of course). I am sure, if memory serves me right, the skin used to be different for each new version back in the day, or at least every other version. Feels like we have had this same skin for the last 5 years now.

First time in a long time (maybe ever) that I have been hugely underwhelmed with a release of Football Manager. We are only a couple of weeks since the beta launched and I already feel my enthusiasm for playing is waning. In all my years playing Football Manager (and Championship Manager before that) I can't remember off the top of my head a release that felt so similar to the previous years' version, and in fact I dislike the scouting and the squad planner (squad depth) moreso this year. Besides the matchday graphics for the Championship and the Carabao cup, there isn't a whole lot I could say is a good different from last year. It's a shame as this series has been a part of my life for a long long time!

I like the concept of it, but not the execution. All SI had to do to make a good squad planner was to take a leaf out of MLB The Show, that is easy to view, simple to use and tells you everything you need.

I know many people have commented on this, but I am almost certain that the recruitment focuses are broken! Scouts come back with so few players and the comment always says "we are struggling to find any recommended players, so you may want to widen the search parameters to generate more recommemdations"