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I play an old version of FM (2014). Primarily because at lower lg level (and I'm speaking of lv 9, 10, 11in that edition), a 48 year old striker called Simon Grayson was always available at the initial start of the game, he had incredible stats plus incredible consistency and important matches too. Basically a 50 goal a season god (plus 30 assists) if you played through the middle and played him in a 3 man attack with him as a central striker as a trequartista, he could literally carry your team almost undefeated for 2 seasons until he finally called it a day. He would ordinarily call it a day after the 1st year (as FM is notorious for quickly retiring anyone over the age of 33/34), but, I realised that if I got him to sign a new contract at the start of May, that signing that new contract automatically negated him calling it a day around the middle of May after the 1st year (but nothing could be done to prevent him calling it a day after the 2nd). But, the main reason for this post, is an incredible trick I discovered and I was wondering if it still works in the current version (or works at higher lg levels in older versions) I realised that if I moved everyone out of my reserves, the game would give me 17 greyed out players. Giving contracts to all of them around the 20th May only gave them non contract contracts. But, around a week or so later when the game always decides the new season's wage budget, it thus give me a vastly higher budget than I would have normally had, and I could then simply release them on a free and use that budget to either sign players who would normally ask for higher wages, or part use it give me a transfer budget. And yes, this trick worked again and again if you seriously abused it and immediately shifted out all the 17 now non contracted players to get 17 more greys who you could offer contracts to (although in the interests of fairness I would only use this trick once a season).

He gained being a sweeper keeper as well. Yes, I play an old version of FM (2014). Primarily because at lower lg level (and I'm speaking of lv 9, 10, 11in that edition), a 48 year old called Simon Grayson was always available at the initial start of the game, he had incredible stats plus incredible consistency and important matches too. Basically a god who could literally carry your team almost undefeated for 2 seasons until he finally called it a day. He would ordinarily call it a day after the 1st year (as FM is notorious for quickly retiring anyone over the age of 33/34), but, I realised that if I got him to sign a new contract at the start of May, that signing that new contract automatically negated him calling it a day after the 1st year (but nothing could be done to prevent him calling it a day after the 2nd). I also realised that giving contracts to all my greyed out reserves around the 20th May (17 players) that it only gave them non contract contracts. But, around a week or so later when the game always decides the new season's wage budget, it thus give me a vastly higher budget and I could then simply release them on a free and use that budget to either sign players who would normally ask for higher wages, or part use it give me a transfer budget.

I was expecting to at least improve to the difference between the 2. 15+4 = 19, therefore a determination of 9 (up by 5 points) with an outside chance of determination at 10. If all mentoring is going to do to a player's determination is shove it up by 2 points (which it did almost immediately btw, I didn't have to wait 6 months) then I don't think that mentoring solely to improve a player's determination is worthwhile.

I obtained what I thought was a great goalie, for my division, a youth with 15 consistency and 17 for important matches, however he only had a determination value of 4 I read on the forums that it was possible to raise his determination by mentoring him with a senior player (30 or over), so even though it would break my wage budget I also signed an over 30 with 15 determination. Luckily both agreed to the mentoring, which lasted 6 months, at the end of which the youth's determination rating had risen from 4, to a (sarcastically) whopping 6. Raising a player's determination by a measly 2 points is normal?? because tbh I'm TOTALLY shocked. (with a value of 6 he is still classed as having low determination). I'm seriously considering wasting an entire 6 months of game time and loading my save back in to the point before I bought the over 30 who broke my wage budget.