Hrafnsmerki

Would love to be able to send my physios, scouts, technical director etc. on courses, to improve their relevant attributes, just like it's possible to do with the coaching staff. While these kind of courses would not be official badges and licenses as it is with coaches I feel like it would be a great feature and add depth to the rest of the non-playing staff. An example for a course relevant to scouts could be to learn a new language, for example Spanish, before you send him off to a 3 month trip in South America... that way increasing his adaptability. It could be leadership, management and psychology courses for staff who work with people under them, like the Technical Director, DoF and Chief scout/physio, increasing their judging staff ability, negotiating skills and man management. Or Physios being sent on courses to better themselves and learn new techniques... I hope you get the idea!

This isn't a bug, but a persisting issue (also in past FM versions) because most German reserve teams are playing in leagues which isn't playable/represented in FM (Regionalliga and Oberliga, 4th and 5th tier respectively). While other playable countries have separate U- and reserve leagues (which works fine in FM), Germany is unique in the way that the reserve teams are part of and play in the German football pyramid and is able to get promoted all the way up to the 3. Liga (Tier 3). An example in FM23 is Borussia Dortmund II, they currently play in 3. Liga (a playable league) and they get to play all the fixtures in that league, giving the players match experience, development etc. If you then take 1860 München II, which plays in the Oberliga (5th tier, not a playable league), they don't have a single fixture because the league they play in isn't represented in FM. This makes the German reserve teams quite pointless and useless, despite being repesented in the game. For some reason the function to let your staff arrange friendlies for the team when no other matches are scheduled doesn't work either, and only 5'ish friendlies in the summer break ever gets planned. You have to manually arrange 30+ matches for the reserve team if you want your players to get some match experience, which is quite a chore. There's a few possible solutions to this issue, which would make it less broken to play in Germany without custom databases: 1. Introduce the German 4th and 5th tier leagues to FM (Regionalliga and Oberliga) 2. Create reserve league(s) for German II teams, similar to other countries (this would not give realism and would mess a bit with german clubs which do have their reserve teams in playable leagues) 3. Fix whatever it is that prevents staff from arranging friendlies every week, when reserve teams have no fixtures (only 5 friendlies are being arranged in the summer break as it currently is)

I agree on this one. I had a 1860 Munchen save in FM22 and was deeply disappointed to see that my reserve/2nd team didn't have any fixtures (even when I told my staff to arrange friendlies when there was no weekly matches scheduled). This makes the German reserve/2nd teams completely pointless to have in the game, when you don't introduce the leagues the majority of these teams play in. SI should either have made a reserve league and make these teams compete there or introduce more actual leagues to Germany. Right now it's neither and makes it impossible to fully enjoy saves in Germany without custom databases. We can only hope for added Regionalliga to Germany in future FM's, but that is what this topic exists for! With Germany definitely being a top priority for more leagues, I would also love to see more lower leagues in good old England (hoping that I can pick Sheffield FC one day without custom databases), the Faroese League for some extra spice to the Nordic Region and finally more playable leagues in Africa (Egypt, Tunisia, Ghana, Nigeria etc.)