ScottishFM

Numerous reasons. Your reputation compared to the clubs available. Duration left on your contract, if you've just recently signed a new contract, you'll find clubs are unlikely to approach you - even if you apply for them. Do you align with the clubs vision, so you might have the reputation but do you align with their goals? Developing youth players etc. All factors that will be considered alongside reputation and what other managers are available. Do remember, if you're a 2 star rep and the clubs 2 star, it doesn't necessarily mean your the same reputation.

Have you recently renewed a contract? I've always found if you renew a managerial contract then you'll likely get no job offers close to you doing so. Also how much are you on per week on your contract, are you too expensive for clubs to buy you out of your contract? As others have mentioned, you're winning everything, recently in Italy which is one of the top leagues, some clubs likely find you unapproachable as they don't think you'd leave.

The high scoring games have finally ruined it for me - the games great and there is so many improvements from FM23 but the immersion has been completely taking away for me with the amount of games that regularly finish with 5+ goals in them. In the last 3 weeks (game time) in my league, I've seen 7-2, 8-3 & 5-4. One of these games was Rangers 8-3 Arbroath in which Arbroath are sitting bottom of the league with 3 wins to their name yet and a squad there is barely Championship level but managed to go to Ibrox, have 20 shots and score 3 goals while also conceding 8. (This game was AI vs AI btw). It happens far too often for my liking and has ruined any enjoyment I've had from my saves. I'm hoping this is something which will be patched in the near future as it's a really good game outside of this issue. P.S Far too many worldies from outside the box too while I'm at it.

Teach me your magic - the AI keepers seem to have no issue but if my keeper has a 7.0 it's the game of the season for him.

Goalkeepers are honestly terrible in this game and I don't know what's caused it. Every save, every keeper, no matter who it - rarely seems to have a good performance or make a save in key highlights.

Didn't mean to come across as dickish as perhaps my original comment sounded however to elaborate on why I said it, based on your examples you provided in your previous post: Save 1: Ibiza: Season 1 - Expected to finish 1st, came 2nd and failed in playoffs - underachieved Ibiza: Season 2 - Expected to finish 1st, did so - matched expectations. Huesca Season 3 - Expected to finish 6th, finished 9th - underachieved Save 2: Real Zaragoza: Season 1 - Expected to finish 12, finished 3rd (promoted in playoffs) - Overachieved Real Zaragoza: Season 2 - Expected to finish 18th, currently 20th - currently underachieving My point? I simply went based on the examples you provided. As you said yourself, you've only overachieved once in the 5 seasons you've provided as examples and underachieved in 3 of them compared to your expected league position.

Hate to break it to you mate, you're not very good at the game. FM is incredibly easy to overachieve in if you do the basics right.

Far too many ridiculous score lines for me. 5-3 is far too frequent, I ain't necessary just talking about my team, in the league alone - I'm seeing high scoring games far too often for my liking. Saw 6-5 back to back, 5-3 and a few 5-4s. Also on key highlights it appears that the highlights are either goal, off target or the woodwork - keeper rarely seem to make saves from what I've saw after 400+ hours plus. Been tempted to move to comprehensive but just don't have the time for it. Finally, the xG stat can **** off. Sick of having xG over 5 and the opponents under 1 yet the game finishes 5-3. The game is good, don't get me wrong but the above is really taking away the immersion for me.

Could just be me (as I've not amazing at the game anyways) but since the latest update has anyone found the game more difficult unless your using a 5 at the back system? Ever since the latest update, current saves and new saves seem to be more difficult to get a tune out of my sides when using the more traditional 4-3-3, 4-2-3-1 and even a 4-2-2. I know formations this season with 5 at the back had became more popular and a bit OP but just seems a bit like overkill since the latest update.

Hey mate, how did you manage to open the file? On my Mac it just opens a blank page on a browser when I click on it.

First competitive game after the patch in a new save and there was 7 goals despite both sides having an xG of under 2 and the AI got 4 of them with an xG of 0.9 - two of which came in the 90th and 92nd minute to complete a come back to win 4-3. So not much has changed in that front when it comes to the ME. Already counting down the days for FM24 because there is no way the ME can be as tedious as this one.

From my experience in FM23 and I'm sure FM22 was the same, if you let your contract run down - then two things will happen. You'll leave the club but it will be recognised that your contract ran out rather than you resigning or the club will allow you stay in the role on a month to month contract but this may depend on how well you've done at the club for this to happen. Either way, if you don't actually click the resign button and simply let your contract run out - you shouldn't be penalised for it - your rep will remain intact. Where as if you do actively resign yourself before then, I've noticed that your rep can take a hit from doing so.

Superb mate, works perfect now - thanks for that.

Downloaded the update however it now says "Disk Write Error" and won't allow me to load up FM23 - no issues with any other games. Using a MacBook 2020 M1 with the Ventura 13.2.1 operating system. Any other Mac users having this issue? Only happened since the new patch came out - was working fine before hand and running at top performance.

In a way, I'm glad it's not just me who is constantly coming up against this for my own sanity. In to my 5th season with Plymouth where I'm in the Premier League after finishing 9th first season and the amount of results I've had like this or worse over the seasons is brutal. Even in prior saves before this one I've came up against it. Finally had enough and uninstalled FM23, going back to FM22. I mentioned about potentially doing this in a prior post but didn't think I actually would as I've never did it - but I've simply had enough. This is the most unrealistic, over the top, tedious and infuriating ME in FM history for me where it actually stops you having fun, even when you're winning and having successful saves. It genuinely feels like the ME just threw drama in for the sake of being dramatic. 100% will be holding off on the pre-order for FM24 until I see enough feedback to suggest their is enough value in purchasing the game.