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He has played in the country, been coaching in the country for 5 years, and Leicester are a bigger club than Palace. I don't find that move realistic in the slightest.

Manager movements have always been unrealistic and quite frankly rubbish imo, no different this year. Enzo Maresca bringing Leicester up and then immediately leaving for Crystal Palace? Not a chance would that happen irl. The managerial merry go round at big clubs after 5 or so years too is poor, same faces just swapping clubs.

I am glad that in the season review my "Match to Remember" is a 4-3 thriller and not some dull 1-1 draw like it was on FM23 every season.

Just to add to this, I have now completed a full season and the Premier League sides have scored a total of 1213 goals collectively. If I am correct, this beats the record for a 38 game Premier League season by 129 goals.

I currently have a player unhappy about a team talk made when he wasn't even contracted to the club, he signed a month and two days after it \o/ Either it's a bug or we have a **** stirrer in the dressing room.

Definitely going to report this as a bug as I have had yet another 7-1 result

Just had this flagged for offside as we ran clear, didn't even get to shoot as it was blew up. I feel in real life that the play would be allowed to continue then checked by VAR. Do we get PMGOL apologies in FM24??

Have to say I am in agreement with the too many goals concerns. In my Luton save, 16 games in and in the Premier League there has been a 7-1 result four times, an 8-1 result, plenty of 6's and 5's too. Not sure on the real life stats but the results seem very excessive, maybe could be an issue with player morale leading to many conceded after going behind? Haaland has 27 in 16, the absolute freak of nature. I am yet to play City, but if there was a way of playing 10-0-0 I would be.

I have also had, in real world mode, a player who is leaving on a future transfer kick off at me for not registering him in the squad. This makes no sense at all.

As somebody who has criticised the game and SI for a number of years now, I am impressed. The match engine feels fantastic, more like real football. The changes to player roles are working excellently, especially the Libero role. Not used the IFB yet but seeing other positive reviews of that. More importantly, I think SI should be given props for their change in engagement attitude. I think the fan base has felt like we have been tossed a game and told to get on with it in recent years, but now there is clarity and lots of engagement which is fantastic to see. My only real issue so far after 10 or so hours of play is that interactions, with players and press, still seem as dull and broken as ever. I am fed up of answering 3 questions a week on why I am playing a player at MR when he is not able to play there according to his positions. Oh and my entire squad turned on me as I didn't strengthen at CB when I didnt have the faintest idea anybody was unhappy about it, and then signed 2 CB's when I did find out but this didn't fix anything.

Just had a goaly up for a corner against me, very impressed

a risk i am willing to experiment with in these early stages, 2 on the edge of the box though to hopefully stop the transition before it reaches my recovery defender

Thanks I'll give it a go!

Is there no way to change how many recovery defenders you have on set pieces? I want to take control of the set pieces but am finding it impossible to have just 1 recovery defender, it always gives me 3 with 2 of those being on "stay back" instruction

It's the Statman skin [FM23] 5TATMAN (Version 5.0 - Updated 17.09.23) - Skinning Hideout - Sports Interactive Community (sigames.com)

I signed him for Brugge in this save then took him to Villarreal with me and now Atletico. Exclusively played out at RM as a Wide Playmaker on Attack in my 4-4-2 and always popped up with a goal in the big games

Sven Mijnans, absolute magician, take him with me everywhere I go

If the set piece creator doesnt get an overhaul for FM24 then its a disgrace. Create throw in routines for them to just be completely overwritten by some ridiculous routine that no team would ever do irl such as below My routines specifacally have the CB's staying back as I want the ball thrown short, every single throw in I have a CB in the box, its a shambles that this has been the case for many FM's.

Should I be shocked or not??

I think it's great that the final match engine of FM23 features 90% of shots being looped up into the air and into the keepers hands after a block.

It has.