[Plug and Play Preset Tactic]

I used 442 wing play with Birmingham City and it has worked really well for me, although I did change a few things here or there. 

[Player making a crazy new contract decision... Is this a bug?]

Yep happens every version of FM, extremely annoying!

[A+ Fan Reaction to New Signing?]

4 hours ago, phantombandit said:

IDK, I get alot of Ds and Fs because my fans dont understand the concept of 'needing to sign subs and fringe players'. I sign a 2.5 star player to serve as my third string centerback and they are losing their minds.

Ye this is a very good point! If a player is signed with the squad status as fringe player or emergency backup or whatever you would hope the fans judge that player against that squad status, rather than just looking at the player and scratching their heads wondering why you have signed a player not as good as your star man! 

[How to turn off "matches a recent recruitment focus" in scouting center?]

Would love to know this too! All I ever see is the same players over and over again in the scouting centre.

[AI buying your player then never playing them]

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?

[*Official* Football Manager 2023 Feedback Thread]

1 hour ago, jpe said:

Has anyone had success with a Target Man type striker in a top league since the patch? My first season at PSV Luuk De Jong was so ineffective I ended up benching him for the second half of the season. He only got 6 goals and I don't think any of them were headers. I experimented with different instructions (Float crosses, cross more often, cross into the centre or to target man etc) to no avail. Seemed a lot of headers off target from set pieces or open play. The best I saw was a header saved and another player got a tap in.

 

 

 

 

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. 

[Wild Player Valuations]

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.

[Max Staff Wages Decreasing]

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

[Does anyone else feel the new ME is unplayable?]

14 hours ago, Hux88 said:

I dont think its the worst match engine and I do think there have been some good improvements, but i do share your frustration. Since the update, my Reading team have completely fallen apart. We haven't scored in four straight games, after a really solid start to life in the PL. Now, I know that this could all be due to the AI taking us more seriously, playing more cautiously etc. However, the way my team plays now is completely different post patch. Everything feels disjointed and we don't even look like creating anything. It's a very different experience now.

I think its perfectly valid to feel disappointed when something out of your control affects something you have spent a lot of time cultivating. It's not always easy to start again tactically. I personally am already quite fatigued and am going to use the opportunity to take a break. Maybe fresh eyes will be able to see where I can improve in a few months.

Fingers crossed you can find a solution to your tactic soon. 

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. 

[Is FM enjoyable with a very limited amout of time available to play it?]

9 hours ago, jimbo22 said:

I've found it way more enjoyable by using a skin that has an instant result button. I simply dont have the time to play through game after game. May seems a shortcut but it works for me. I enjoy the squad building part of the game so this allows me to get through a number of seasons far more quickly than I could by playing each game. Still surprises me that SI havent implimented this as an option (unless a edited skin is used). 

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.

[*Official* Football Manager 2023 Feedback Thread]

13 hours ago, steviemay17 said:

Going off a small sample size, but it appears that game management might be more important than ever. Played five games, and I've now blown a 3 goal lead and 3x 2 goal leads in the later stages, once they get one goal it's like it all just goes to hell and the equaliser is inevitable, but I'm also not really changing anything to see the game out so a lot of that is on me

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 😂

[Bizarre Situation: FA Champion and Premier Relegated]

3 hours ago, dan99 said:

In 2010/11, Birmingham City won the League Cup and were relegated, so it can happen.

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!

[B team head coach not arranging friendlies]

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

[*Official* Football Manager 2023 Feedback Thread]

20 hours ago, Sunstrikuuu said:

Also, I know it was a complaint around these parts last year that it was too easy to play one-touch tiki-taka football with technically-limited lower-league sides.  It was, that's definitely true.  And it's harder this year, mostly because every player just smashes the ball long as soon as they can. 

But there are a lot of high-technique wonder goals I'm seeing.  In the 8th tier in England one of my strikers, with single-digit first touch, technique and flair took a pass coming in hard at waist height, flicked it with the back of his heel around his back, spun the defender and smashed in a volley with his weaker foot, like some sort of hybrid of the Bergkamp goal against Newcastle and the Henry volley against Man United.  My 10 first touch, 8 technique, 6 flair left back just one-touch controlled a hoofed clearance, flicked it into the air and curled in a perfect cross to the far post with his weak foot.  A couple games before that, I won a 4-3.  The goals included from a first-touch volleyed pass into the channel finished with a first-touch volley into the bottom corner; a chipped volleyed through ball to the striker, who took it down out of the air with his first touch, let the ball bounce, and chipped the keeper on the volley; and a cross finished with a leaping volley.  Like, man, there's a lot of volleyed goals happening right now. 

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

[What do YOU look for when adding a player to your squad?]

1 hour ago, Brodie21 said:

Pick a position (or more than one) & name the attributes you mainly look for in that / those position(s). Or maybe there is / are attribute(s) that you look for irrespective of position. I'd like to see the minds of my fellow managers out there 

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

[Player Partnerships]

9 hours ago, phnompenhandy said:

I hadn't realised that. I've been keeping players apart when they've been flagged as such.

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!

[Staff search help....please]

3 hours ago, fc.cadoni said:

Make sure you choose the staff role you want in Advanced Search. Why? Because in main page (New Search > Staff Role) when you select the role (eg. Assistant Manager) and click the Advanced Search; you will see that Staff Role is "Partially" rather than "Is".

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

[Staff search help....please]

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. 

[What was your first Football Manager game ? And do you still play it ?]

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

[*Official* Football Manager 2023 Feedback Thread]

3 hours ago, Lempicka said:

I'm even considering going back to commentary only - just so I don't have to see my defenders move away from the action as yet another long ball comes in.

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! 

[*Official* Football Manager 2023 Feedback Thread]

4 minutes ago, Mcfc1894 said:

anyone getting goals scored which are not being shown in the match engine 

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!

[Issues with Recruitment Focus]

5 hours ago, JimmysTheBestCop said:

the completed section is an unorganized mess. there will be a million old focuses. with no way to delete them. scouting needed a refresh but this new method still has its training wheels on. great idea but it just fails in execution and from almost 200 hours in fm23 it seems the new scouting just wasnt ready for prime time. things are great in a controlled environment or internal testing but when given to 500k plus users it just shows how it wasnt ready.

is it a huge deal. no. just really annoying. 

and i also find if you try to restart a bunch of focuses at the same say like  dozen plus. it bugs out. as the wrong focus  name is listed for the scouts even if you edit it and it is the correct one. kinda hard to explain but certainly a lot of weirdness is going on, 

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

[OK... So it Appears I Blew this One]

17 hours ago, jcp1417 said:

I consider myself an expert at OOTP and MLB rules. Feel free to message me if you ever have a question. I love talking baseball and OOTP

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. 

[OK... So it Appears I Blew this One]

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. 

[*Official* Football Manager 2023 Feedback Thread]

9 hours ago, footyking33 said:

Anyone run into the "0 results" thing when manually assigning scouts? I can never get any results unless I delegate scouting.

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.