[Players changing mind on promise success]

I’m having trouble with a group of my players, who have suddenly decided at the last minute that I haven’t fulfilled a promise to play enough youth players. Throughout the season I made a concerted effort to do this, and this was reflected in the promise bar looking like the first mage (26/05/2030) for the entire season – ranging between pleased and delighted, always green and never once red or orange.

 

I have used this promise bar to make sure I was meeting the expectations of the players, and took the continued and constant green, positive feedback as encouragement that I was on course to achieve the promise. Then suddenly, on the final day of the promise (27/05/2030), after all games have been played (the last game was 25/05/2030) and the season is over, all of the players suddenly completely change their mind and decide that I have not met promises – as seen in the second image. This then progresses to failure the following day, see third image.

 

It's now too late for me to rectify this issue as all games have been played, and the players are all publicly unhappy at me ‘failing’ to meet the promise. There’s also no option for me to speak to them about this and ask what has changed or how this can be resolved.

 

I don’t really know how I can fix this or what I’ve done. I made a concerted effort to give teenagers a chance in the first team, and the game has been telling me throughout the season (as displayed in the first image) that I’ve been doing a good job of giving youth a chance. The only option I can think of is to load an earlier save and play even more youth players, but I don’t really want to do this.

 

My question is: Is this a glitch or is there anything I can do about this?

 

 

 

 

 

[Advised maximum basic wage]

Hey all,

I'm having issues with the max amount of wages I can offer a potential new signing.

My issue is that I'm trying to buy a much needed DM for £2.1m, for my club Bohemians Prague. This player is also being pursued by a larger club (PSV), so I'd like to offer the player a high wage of approx. £15-20k per week in order to entice him to us.

I should be able to afford this, because I've just sold a player for £7m. However, despite offering a playing time of star player, the most I can offer a star player is £11k per week. This appears to be because the "advised maximum basic wage" for our club (seen in the wages summary of FM23's finances section) is £11k, and this limits the max wage you can offer players.

 

My club's finances are as follows.

Overall Balance: £7.79M

Transfer Budget: £3.24M

Wage Budget: £256k per week (current spend is £133k)

This is with all transfer/wage budget slider all the way across to the side of wages, it can't be moved any further. I've also tried moving the slider to all possible positions, but the most I can ever offer a star player is £11k per week. I've asked the board for an increased wage budget in a vain attempt to rectify the issues, but they predictably rejected that.

I've previously been able to offer wages of £15-20k per week in past seasons, and I do have a player already on £15k.

 

I'm a bit stumped, and I don't know how to rectify this issue. I'd really like to sign this player, but due to only being able to offer a base wage of £11k, the financial package I'm offering isn't going to be enough to persuade him to come to us instead of a bigger club that are probably also offering a higher base wage than £11k. That's even with offering the wage increase after 5 games clause, bonuses (goals, assist bonuses, combined goal and assist bonus, competition bonuses, etc, etc), release clauses, and so on. 

It does seem a bit silly that when I'm only using half of my wage budget (with £120k per week spare), the most I can offer a star player is £11k per week.

What I'd like to know is, given the information/situation above, how can I increase my "advised maximum basic wage"?Could any kind souls offer me advice on how I might achieve this?

[Right back keeps randomly charging out of position]

As I said in my opening message, of the 4 goals I've conceded via my right back charging out of position, only 2 have come following set pieces, so unfortunately the issue (whatever it is) is a bit deeper than just set pieces.

I'm also not sure that using an aggressive pressing style makes it "obvious" that an elite full back (in fact three separate full backs, as this scenario has happened with three different players, sometimes from set pieces, sometimes from open-play) would run 20 yards laterally, across three of his team mates. I'll give a slightly less aggressive pressing style a go, but I've had this scenario happen in previous seasons when I've been using a slightly less aggressive pressing style, so I think the issue lies elsewhere - I just can't figure it out.

[Right back keeps randomly charging out of position]

It's definitely my RB, my apologies that the video I've uploaded isn't the clearest but if you look at the back 4 at the start and focus on the RB, you'll see him charge out like a mad man. I'm open to giving your suggestion a try, but surely having extremely urgent pressing wouldn't cause one player to run 20 yards out of position to opposite side of the field while the rest of the back 4 stay in the line. 

[Right back keeps randomly charging out of position]

Hey guys, I'm a long way into a FM19 save with St. Albans City, we're regular title challengers/winners now but I have a problem that I can't quite solve. Occasionally, when the ball is out on the left wing, my right back will charge out of position to literally the other side of the pitch - as shown in the video I've just uploaded. I'm used to this happening maybe once or twice a season, but I jut put it down to a weird glitch in the game engine, but this season it's happened 4 times already in 8 games (2/4 times have been following throw ins, such as in the video, but the other times have not been following set pieces/throw ins).

Whenever this happens, we obviously end up conceding so it's quite frustrating as I can't really fathom why it occurs, especially since it has occurred with three different players playing at right back. I've uploaded my tactics, and the players I have used at right back, can anyone offer any advice as to why this is happening and how to stop it? 

I'm not very keen to use my full backs to mark opposing wingers as this will risk them getting drawn out of position even more.