[Players want outrageous wages and then signs for another team for 1/5 of what he wanted.]

Yeah I just had a guy sign for a third division Spanish club for 150k, when he wanted 250k from my second division Spanish club. I think a lot of the complaints about "players ask for too much $" are often overblown and ignore other reasons, but this one just drove me crazy

I can't imagine any situation, except for a rare Lucas Perez type personal passion (favorite club, favorite coach.. none of which were in play here) where a guy would choose to play for a 3rd division club, even as a star, than be a impact sub in 2nd division one.  A guy might actually take less money to avoid the 3rd tier, which they don't even call "professional" football in Spain (even if it is in a literal sense)

[Marítimo predicted 17th in Liga 2? Vilaverdense 2nd?]

Ok, more madness, sorry.

Farense (fresh up from Liga 2) is projected to finish 2nd in the top league!  Benfica is also predicted to finish 2nd haha.  Porto 1, Sporting 3, Braga 4.  So perfectly realistic except for Farense.

Gil Vicente and Estrela Amadora (CDEA) are both predicted 11th.  Moreirense and Rio Ave both predicted 13th.  Like Farense, Estrela and Moreirense are the teams that moved up from Liga 2, so maybe something about that is causing weirdness?

And no one is projected to get relegated from the top league! Chaves is predicted 16th (relegation playoff) but no one is predicted to finish 17th and 18th.

I just took the Farense job to see what would happen.  While the board isn't expecting me to finish 2nd, it is expecting mid table this year, top half next year and Europa Conf League in my 3rd year.  Pretty ambitious for a just promoted team, but not impossible.

[Marítimo predicted 17th in Liga 2? Vilaverdense 2nd?]

Ok, I'm looking at it further and it seems funnier.  None of the teams in Liga 2 are "predicted" to finish first haha.  Both Marítimo and Beleneses are projected to finish 17th and Mafra and AVS are both projected to finish 5th, which I might thought maybe just meant a tie but there weren't other teams also projected for 6th and 7th.  But no one 1st!

Also, Pacos de Ferreira (just relegated from Liga 1) is projected to finish dead last in Liga 2 while Santa Clara, the other team coming down from Liga 1, is projected 12th.  Would be basically unheard of 2 of the 3 coming down from the top league to get relegated again with the other not even finishing top half of Liga 2

[Can't scout certain countries]

On 07/03/2023 at 16:22, Kyle Brown said:

Apologies, it's due to there not being any viable players to scout - we're looking to add a tooltip to make this clearer, but it's not necessarily a bug because even with the changes, they will still be greyed out. 

I get Afghanistan or the Maldives being zeros, but why wouldn't there be viable players to scout from Cabo Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Congo, Ghana ect?  In real life there are absolutely guys in those countries.  Always bothered me I couldn't have more African signings, especially because I feel like the game doesn't generate enough dual citizen kids from your local youth recruitment (for example, any club in the Lisbon area should have lots of dual citizen Portugal + Cabo Verde,Guinea-Bissau, Angola, Sao Tome, Brasil, kids but doesn't so much in FM)

Japan too, I get FM can't do real Japanese leagues for contractual reasons, but you'd think you could have the game generate fake Japanese kids to sign?

[Incoming loans with high fees and clauses and outgoing loans with 0% fee]

If anything, free loans are too easy.  If you wait 'til last week of the transfer window you can get so many talented youngsters from top tier teams for free.

There isn't any good reason a top tier team, with a B team in the second tier, would want to loan a promising youngster to a different team in the second tier.. unless the guy was going to warm the bench for the B team, and had no future.  And, in that case, they wouldn't be asking for much (or any) transfer fee if you wanted to take him permanently

I think the idea the AI has is that "this guy is good, he should be loaned to get experience" and it forgets it has a lower club that can provide that experience.  The AI should be more picky about "only other top tier teams, otherwise he plays for the B team" for loans, but it doesn't seem to be

There also probably should be very few cases where a club is willing to loan a kid to a lower tier club in a different country.  I was playing in Tier 4 in Spain, and Juventus had a French 19 year old worth 8 million they let me loan for free.  Now maybe (maybe) if the guy was Spanish you could see a guy going on loan to his home country, but down to Tier 4 that's almost unheard of for anyone with future.  And certainly not for a guy without any connection to Spain.  Lately, I've been forcing myself to "vet" potential loans, see if they actually make sense for loaning club.  Kind of sucks

[Game keeps quoting incorrect table]

Sounds good, thanks.  Have seen it happen many other times in other saves in Spain and England as well.

In fact, I'm not sure if I have EVER seen it quote the correct table positions in the press conference or pregame speech prompts.

 

Not a big deal obviously, unless your board or the AI's is making decisions on a misreading of the table

[Team "B" does play friendlies despite I haven't allowed it to happen]

I've seen this too, had a bunch of random friendlies scheduled against teams in the levels below the playable leagues in my country... I'm in Portugal and have all 4 leagues set on, so this is against random 5th, 6th tier nobodies.  I had already scheduled a bunch of friendlies too, so this is making my B team play 3 times a week.... and for some reason I can't cancel these friendlies?