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It's always been so funny to me reading the pre-written responses in the interactions, because they seriously come across like they've been written by somebody that's spent most of their life arguing on message boards still in their memories of early 2000's 'flame wars', and not somebody with a lot of actual legitimate conversations with people.

No offense, but what are you basing this claim on? Do you mean when you ask the DoF for recommendations? If so, that isn't the same thing I'm talking about here - they generally make decent suggestions then. I mean literally telling the DoF/U-18 manager/etc. that they can bring in whoever they want and not even have to consult with me after delegating whatever I want them to do in the Staff Responsibility page (I can't remember what it's called now). It's only anecdotal on my end, but I've tested it multiple times and have never once found the attributes to matter. I've even edited the staff attributes to all 20's when I was playing as Milan, and they couldn't seem to sign any players with a PA over the 120s (and don't even get me started on whether the team needed depth in the positions they sign for...).

I don't mind the AI staff making mistakes and bad transfers, but on the same token, I do expect their attributes to matter with respect to the decisions they make on the players they attempt to sign, y'know? I'd just love to be able to know that I'll be dealt a fair hand no matter which staff I delegate certain things to, regardless of whether their decisions are always good or not (ie., somebody with a Judging Potential attribute of 14 won't be as good as signing players for the youth team(s) as somebody with 20). Actually, I wonder if the AI squad building logic fix can end up making this part of the game work the way it should...

Delegating transfer responsibilities (either player or staff) is totally pointless imo, even though I'd love to be able to do it for the youth and B-teams especially, and give the DOF and relevant managers more responsibility and control over what they would do irl. In FM23, they couldn't even get it accidentally right. Doesn't matter how high their Judging Current Ability/Potential Ability/Staff Ability is.

Ironically enough, in a way, making it more realistic in the sense that you can't hire scouts, physios, and do whatever the hell you want with the whole squad from the u-18s up would make the game easier for me, because it means less overall responsibility. I want to be able to give the other staff as much responsibility for what they *should* be responsible for as I possibly can (ie, Head of Youth Development assigned to finding youth players; DoF to negotiating contracts, etc.). I know you can delegate these things in the games already, but I can't trust the AI staff. I've experimented with it and, despite having high staff attributes (19/20 Judging Potential and Ability), they never seem to try to bring in any quality players. I just kept myself with the final say post-contract negotiations and always ended up refusing the signings before just giving up on the idea. It might be far too easy to succeed in this game because the AI managers are generally awful, but I feel like I have more control over teams than I'd like.

The AI Squad building and general management just isn't there, in any respect. Squad rotation; use of substitutions; lack of consistency with youth development; logic in recognizing squad depth and appropriately buying for preferred formations and tactics, and a bunch of other issues. If you're into long-term saves - especially journeyman saves, where you plan on moving from club-to-club on expiring contracts (provided you aren't sacked lol) - it's better to wait for a patch and also check the patch notes on how these things have been fixed.

This happened in one my saves with Antony. Juventus brought him in on loan from Man Utd and played him a total of 9 times as a substitute... so they signed him for £50m the next season just to give him 5 starts and 14 sub appearances. It's bad enough bringing somebody of that calibre on loan when you obviously don't even really need him (though not entirely unheard of), but after that much being obvious during the loan spell, signing him for £50m is crazy *knowing* he didn't even make it to a starting squad during his loan. They sold him for £9.25m a few seasons later btw.

Though Diego Simeone retraining players to work as Shadow Strikers - which he doesn't use as a role in his tactics, nor even the AM position which is always absent in his formations - is a real head scratcher.

In my Juventus save in FM23, a coach recommended having Angel Di Maria train as a central midfield position due to his age, though he could already play there. I thought that still made a lot of sense, at least. I'm just kind of thinking the whole thing needs to be ripped out and redone, but this mightn't be a problem if the AI squad building issues are fixed in general. If they prioritize signing players to keep decent squad depth, as well as bring through younger players in their preferred positions, we'll probably see less of this insistence of creating utility players despite having the funds to bring in suitable players.

IMO, it'd be better just to do away retraining a position altogether and just stick to natural positions players start with - especially for the AI so this just doesn't happen anymore. The appropriate visible attributes, player traits, and hidden Versatility attribute should just be used to judge whether a player is able to play in an unfamiliar position when it's needed, in order to avoid the AI from ending up creating an AM that can also play as a CD, LB, and RW, ranging from awkward-to-competent, and making the player position pitch in his profile look like a Connect 4 offshoot with confusing rules.

I don't mind if media is a part of this game, but only so long as I can ignore it and carry on not being involved with it (it's tedious, repetitive, and a lot of it doesn't make sense to me). I see a lot of people say that they pass media conferences to their assistant manager - which is what I do - but this ends up affecting moves to new clubs. I had to make a promise to Marseille that I would attend every press conference upon confirmation of becoming their manager because I had a history of not attending them, which obviously ended up forcing me to manually tend to them for most of the first season. This was in FM23 btw. If press conferences are going to remain in the game and there'll be no option to remove them, can we at least stop the game from paying attention to Media Handling in a way that affects the playing experience? I'd rather just pass this along to the assistant managers permanently and freely move between jobs without having to make promises to new clubs.

I did some more specific tests, and it turns out I was wrong about the strikers when I compare newgens under the age of 25 to real players under 25 years old at the beginning of a new game - the data's pretty comparable in terms of Jumping and Strength between them. Central Defenders are a bit worrying though, so I'll make a new thread for that. EDIT: Actually, I'll wait on making a thread until I've seen how the squad rotation and youth player issues have been fixed. There's a chance that those fixes will end up correcting the poor Marking and Heading abilities showing for newgens.

It's just making sure that a larger percentage of fullbacks have higher potential attributes for Dribbling and Crossing - same with strikers wrt Jumping and Strength, and defenders with Strength. Unless it's a problem with training? Are the training routines just unable to make a difference to these attributes in these positions? Would it better to train fullbacks/wingbacks as wingers instead, and code the AI to do the same or something? I just don't see how this is so difficult to fix.

This makes sense, unfortunately. In reality, there is no such thing as 'dual nationality' in Japan. You have to convert fully to Japanese, and lose any previous nationality you had.

Looking at their CA/PA and the squad statuses of the B team, a lot of them have high enough PAs that a good manager at Ajax irl would want them to get involved with the first team (12 of them have 139 PA and above), and in-game, 17 players in the B team are labelled 'Breakthrough Prospects'. I'm guessing the first team being trimmed down like this isn't alarming to the AI because these players are coming through the ranks of their youth system as cover, but it's a bit clumsy because of the general problems with AI squad rotation right now. If that's the case, this is actually very, very good - when the rotation issues are sorted and squad building is shaped a little better, this potentially means a team like Ajax could be relying on their youth system to replace outgoing players, which is what they would be doing. I mean, maybe. I'm looking forward to seeing this unfold in the final version if this is how things can work.

Almost forgot to test the fullbacks for the same thing. These are in the year 2032 btw: Out of 3506 newgen Natural Rightbacks: 12 Crossing and above: 192 12 Dribbling and above: 59 12 Dribbling and above and 12 Crossing and above: 21 Out of 3292 newgen Natural Leftbacks: 12 Crossing and above: 169 12 Dribbling and above: 53 12 Dribbling and above and 12 Crossing and above: 20

Tested this with the FM24 save I have (9 seasons worth of simming). Some stats out of a possible 7244 newgen strikers: Newgen strikers with Jumping 14 and over: 647 Newgen strikers with Strength 14 and over: 231 (jfc) Out of a possible 7752 newgen central defenders, only 546 have Strength 14 and over. I've also noticed that World Reputation seems like a big issue for newgen players. There's only one player with over 8000 World Reputation, and he's 24 years old and plays for Barcelona. Hilariously, he's a regen fullback with 12 crossing and 9 dribbling. Anyway, I guess this is probably more to do with the young player development issues that are meant to be ironed out at some point for the final release, and the newgens aren't getting enough game time and experience to build reputations early.

Torino scored the fastest goal of the 2023-24 season against Fiorentina. Fiorentina beat it by two seconds against Torino the next season. Probably as revenge.

I almost forgot about this because I just got so used to it, but yeah, this was a problem in FM23 for me. Same especially with Jumping wrt strikers. 4 seasons in one of my old FM23 saves shows a total of 206 newgen forwards with jumping 14 and above... out of a possible 5164. 67 newgen forwards with Strength 14 and above. Apparently this was a lot worse than I knew. I'm guessing this is also still an issue in FM24 if the fullback one hasn't been sorted.

I've simmed 9 seasons ahead, and the transfers to Saudi clubs are a bit unrealistic imo. I haven't seen any crazy money being thrown around, but definitely a lot of the Saudi teams are overspending on some players, and I think there's an excess of foreign transfers in general to the country. I'll probably just download a mod to tone it down a little - I guess davincid will probably tweak some things here and there which'll affect this stuff. The problem could be more related to players wanting to move there for the wages, rather than just the Saudi clubs pursuing them. I'm not sure if this is a problem, but the clubs also let those players contracts run down so they end up leaving on free transfers, and most return to the European leagues (though some to other Saudi clubs), but I can't say if that's realistic or not since there's nothing really in reality to base that on. We'll see in 3-4 years for players like Milinkovic-Savic and others. Here's a list of the most expensive transfers per-year if anyone's interested:

It doesn't even make this much sense lol. The AI doesn't pay attention to squad status/agreed playing time. I've linked to my own thread about AI managers not being able to rotate, constantly looking to retrain positions, and not buying appropriately for positions (and in relation to their tactical preferences either) and some other issues. Hopefully combining these threads can help create an overall picture of what looks like a big problem. 6 seasons into my simmed save, and Real Madrid are playing Alaba as their constant first choice central defender ahead of Josip Sutalo. Alaba is listed as a Fringe Player at 37 years old and has very poor physicals (but a high average of 7.89 match rating in like 11 games, so idk what's going on there). Sutalo hasn't made it to the starting eleven in 9 matches despite being listed as a Regular Starter. Their squad is completely barebones. It's the same with many other clubs, but this is the one I was paying most attention to, to see how the elite teams maintain things as time goes on.

Yeah, even when I see FM streamers and content creators on YouTube, they're really insular and only pay attention to their own clubs. YT recommended a video to me yesterday of some guy showing how central defenders with poor finishing make great strikers, but he wasn't saying it as a criticism - he was just telling people that it was a great way to perform well in FM24 and that everyone should try it out. I don't understand how people use things like plug-and-play tactics and exploits and not consider them as game flaws. If you're constantly winning with mediocre clubs and making them world-beaters in less than 10 seasons, it's not because you're a great manager - it's because your competition is bad. Idk, I guess people really are happy just winning regardless of why it's happening.

If there was an option to remove absolutely all interactions other than pre-match, half-time, and post-match team talks, I'd use it. Sending the assistant manager to do press conferences is one thing, but the game has a metric for your media attendance, and interviewers for new management jobs point out how they're concerned with how you don't interact with the media much (if at all). I had to promise a club I'd attend upon acceptance of a job as a result. As a side note - a few days ago on a save, I was asked how I was coping with the failure of not qualifying for the Europa Conference League, and I mean, pretty well? Y'know, considering I qualified for the Europa League via league position and also won the Coppa Italia on top of that with a minus 10-point Juventus. Player interactions don't really do anything for me either. I don't really care about telling players 'you did well in training!' every week until it stops being effective and I'm their favourite person in the world for being nice to them for 2 months. Criticizing doesn't really seem to do much either. 'You're right, I need to buck my ideas up'. Yeah, see you again with the same complaint next week.

I only recently returned to the series myself after a long time not playing, so I haven't even seen how the previous two games were. If this is the case, and if this isn't fixed, this is legitimately the last FM I buy, and I'll happily skip the next generation of the games from FM25-onwards. I'm only interested in long-term saves and moving around from club-to-club - I don't want to dominate with one team after a few seasons pass by just because the AI managers can't figure out how to buy players for their tactics, find adequate cover for positions, nor plan ahead.