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Any word/progress on this issue? I'm about to start a new save in a similar setting.

I almost exclusively play in the depths of lower league football, with wage budgets in the hundreds rather than millions etc. With this comes a requirement to be more frugal and 'detailed' with money management. I appreciate that the finer detail is mostly irrelevant when hundreds of thousands/millions are thrown about daily in the premier league etc. but down here, "every little helps". The current data available with income and expenditure is not good enough to provide the necessary information to understand what's going on and secondly, there aren't enough tangible ways to influence the clubs income. I don't have well thought out ideas on how to make it better, I just know that 52% of my expenditure last month (screenshot attached) was categorised as "other" and I have no idea of knowing what this is or how I can reduce it. Friendlies and match days against bigger clubs seem to be a good way of bringing in money but I can't see a way of knowing how much a specific game is worth. I can see the attendance of each match and I can see the sum of 'this month', 'last month', 'this season' and 'last season' gate receipts but (to my knowledge) I don't know how much tickets are or which matches were the biggest earners for me etc. Money from friendlies is confusing anyway with the Fee & Income estimations that appear when arranging them. In my previous club it showed a fee of around £100 and an income of £500, once it was arranged the estimated changed to £500 fee and £500 income. I then went on and played the friendly and my budget decreased by a few thousand. I had no idea why I lost the money, where it went or if there was anyway of finding out. I could type away all day but the gist of the issue is that frugal financial management is almost mandatory "way down here" and the information/tools aren't there to do it properly. And its all well and good saying my job is the results on the pitch but we all know that i could be well within my budgets, miss a few playoffs and therefore not get promoted and the club financial situation will plummet, which then further limits the things I'm able to do.

Having frustratingly went through all of the players to see if any would budge on their playing time and appearance fee demands... they didn't... so I hit the "ask director of football to sign recommended players", hit continue and low and behold, every single player signed a multi year youth contract with no wages or bonuses or fees... What the hell?!?! I've uploaded 2 more save files to narrow into this youth intake issue if that helps. "NI Save before youth intake.fm" "NI Save After youth contracts.fm"

Having just had my first youth intake I'm having the same problem. I can't sign a single one because the only contract option I seem to be able to offer is a non-contract with a £20 appearance fee.. which my club can't afford. So my youth intake is also worthless now.

Got through to my second season on this play through and was presented with the same question again with the same issue.

Hi Neil, I'm afraid not but this is my 2nd play through as East Fife (i got sacked within 6 months the first time!) and it has happened both times so I'd be confident that it'd happen a third time. I've uploaded a save file for the other issue I've reported but that's right at the start of my 2nd play through, which this issue then appeared in later. It's titled "East Fife U18s Broken"

I've given myself the responsibility of hiring and firing my U18 staff but the option to place an advert is greyed out for some reason.

Don't know if things like this are being looked into now with FM23 on the horizon but just in case.... I've started a different save to the one mentioned above, I'm now managing East Fife FC. I have a U18, U21 & Senior squad. I can move players between U18 and Senior but can't move players into U21. I can make players available for U21 games. When I sign players they land in my U21, no mater what age they are, and I have to move them into my U18s or Senior squads. My U21s are playing in tournament as well but I still can't put players in the squad so I'm having to just make my senior team available for it, bit of a nuisance.

Was there any progress with this issue? I don't know if its the same issue but I'm experiencing something similar with an East Fife FC save now. I have an U18s squad which I can make players available for but I cannot move players into the U18s