DavutOzkan

I started a proper Athletic save last weekend and have been loving it so far. I tried to do one earlier in FM back in December, but it didn't stick (I think because some of the ratings weren't all that accurate to real life), but after the CDR win, I wanted to start again. I matched results for the first season, including the CDR win, and we finished 5th in the league (likely where they will finish irl, so I was good with it). Nico Williams left for Newcastle, who activated his $97 million release clause, and they did it after the Spanish window was already shut, so I couldn't do anything with the money and was left without an impact player for the first half of the 24/25 season. I bought Aimar in January though and after a slow few games to start, he's been on fire lately, and scored a hatty in a recent game. I've been trying to work out how to get the best out of both him and Sancet in the same team. Sancet was playing my number 10 role before Aimar came in, but because Aimar is probably a better playmaker than attacker, after some tinkering, I decided to put him back in the number 10 role for now, and moved Sancet back into a CM role. This has caused my early-save crush Benat Prados (been such a pleasure to have in the team this season) into a more defensive role or onto the bench though, which I don't like too much. Vesga is still more than capable for a DM role and I don't want to drop him right now either, so Prados is usually the odd man out, but I try to play him whenever I can. We've had a lot of fixtures between Europa League and the CDR (which we are in the finals of again-- against Real Madrid though, so I think we lose), so he is still playing a lot. I think for season three, I want to try Aimar wide left in the advanced playmaker role, and Sancet back into the CAM role as an attacking midfielder. I am just hesitant to try it now late in the season. I am also hoping Osasuna get relegated so I can buy Moncayola on his dirt-cheap relegation release clause of about $6 million. I don't really need him, but at that price, you kinda have to. Anyways, that is a lot of rambling for just about two seasons. This thread has been such a great resource, ad playing as Athletic has really gotten my interest back in the game. Playing as Athletic was what initially inspired me to get into FM back with FM 22, but I think it was too overwhelming a save for me to start out with, and I just never did it, but I am glad to be getting into properly now. Aupa Athletic!

All that money and the board still is taking 30% of transfer revenue.

Where is the real results update? And how do I apply it? I've been looking everywhere for info and keep running into a wall. Yes, I know, the editor, but how in the editor.

Are you planning to manage in the US or China? Do you care that those leagues are up to date? If the answer is no, then carry on.

I believe this line is why Sweden is unchanged: Additionally, rosters for certain licensed leagues whose seasons run to the calendar year will only be reflective up until the end of the 2023 season and so will not include incoming and outgoing transfers made for 2024.

Why did the post about the "early April" update leave the main forum?

Patch? Lol yeah right.

I also will say that I have had seemingly better luck when I switched to region scouting, which to be fair, was mentioned by the dev in an earlier comment. Why it suddenly works better than nation scouting I have no clue, but that has been the case for me at least, although I haven't run any specific tests or anything about it, and it could just be placebo. It's still not perfect, but I am at leats more satisfied with it now than I was before.

Says he has no interest right now.

Here is a 17-year-old from Denmark being recommended to me. I am managing in Germany.

Yes, granted it has been a while, but my scouts found a newgen U18 wonderkid bloke from Romania playing in either Sweden or Norway and this was in year two or three of my save, so he had to be U18 at the time. I couldn't sign him right away obviously, but once I could, I hit the release clause and he joined. The scouts also found some veterans in Serbia (~age 28 or so) who had no interest because I was in the second tier or because our standing in the league was too low. I saw the A+ on the scouting screen and lit up, but was disappointed I couldn't sign them. Granted, all of this happened when I had my scouts set to auto because of the issues of this thread...

Yes, this is another thing that hasn't been mentioned enough... it seems to be working for some and not for others even if you do the exact same things. Is a one-star player in the default Arsenal squad really considered an "elite" player by CA? I haven't managed a truly elite team in this year's FM so I legitimately do not know the answer. What is that in terms of a number for CA? I also want to point out that I have definitely had scouting reports for U18 players and players who were not interested in joining. So either I have a different version of the game that has this enabled, or no one truly knows how this is supposed to work.

At this point, I am not holding my breath on any fix to this. Apparently, there is nothing wrong with this, and we are wrong.

I played around only for a little bit last night, but I think it is maybe working better. It's still not right though. I set up eight different focuses. Three of them came back with 20 recommendations after the first update-- this is good! Some of the others were less than that, and then I tried setting up three that were focusing on certain positions, and those came back with nothing, and getting the dreaded "appearing to struggle to find any recommended players; may want to widen search parameters". They were all set for the same CA and PA star indicators except for one which I was trying to wonderkid hunt for. I am also still getting the same issue where setting analysts to "auto" assigns the same analyst to all of the focuses, so I still have to manually do that. I have nearly 200 million in my transfer budget just waiting to be splurged because I legitimately haven't bought many players in my save since this issue has been a thing, but my scouts can barely find any players above 3.5 star. I don't need players in the same CA range as what I currently have, I need upgrades, but my scouts cannot find them.

Anyone been able to test it yet? This actually comes at a good time for me because I'm coming up to a major rebuild of my squad in the summer, so I would actually like to be able to buy some players the scouts recommend.

I think he means that the patch actually fixed it. I'll believe it when I see it personally, as this issue has affected me for months,

You definitely do get recommendations for players without any interest. I've had U18 players get recommended to me (or at least show up in the scouted players section). At this point, I've just turned over scouting to the AI. It seems to work better when they do it, for whatever reason, although they do create some bonkers focuses.

I appreciate it. However, I was testing things out when I set them for standard vs. ongoing, I would normally use ongoing, but those weren't working either, so I decided to switch to see if that would make a difference. In terms of my star ratings, is it not minimum for those? I am looking for players who are already at 1.5 stars minimum current ability while also having potential of minimum 2 stars. If that is not the case, then the game needs to be clearer about it because that would not make sense in any other way.

No, this is an issue, and probably a reason why scouting as a whole doesn't work. This has happened to me where when you set analysts to "auto assign", the same one gets assigned to five or six different focuses. I assume this is why there are so few recommendations when focuses get done, because the analysts haven't had time to look at them all. However, since no one else save for OP has brought up this issue, I am unsure.

Two separate things. I'd like to know why scouting was working when I had the CPU doing it automatically, but as soon as I took control (and didn't change anything with the focuses), the reports stopped coming in as often as they had prior. I'd love to know what I am doing wrong when I send a scout with extensive knowledge of Brazil to look for minimum 1-star ability, 2-star potential, and no other restrictions and get maybe three recommendations. I guess there just isn't much talent in Brazil these days! Can't really make my focus much more broader here, can I? I legitimately think no one knows what the damn issue is at this point, let alone how to fix it. As others have said, this worked as expected on release.

I think I am going to try and manage Koln soon because of their transfer ban. Want to get real results as well to get them in a relegation fight. There are downloads for real results right? Preliminary googling has given me real fixtures (not an issue in Germany) but would that give me real results too? And how would I go about making it work in game? Custom start date?

Yes, please sue them! I'd love the entertainment!

Typically the only patch once things get to the new year is the winter update, which comes in late Feb/early March.

The thing is that it worked as expected when the game initially came out. From a certain point, it's sometimes worked (albeit not like it did in FM 23 as per one poster's reply above) and then sometimes I get nothing. I was managing a smaller team in The Netherlands and had my scouting package as The Netherlands only and my genius scouts couldn't find anyone. Truly flabbergasting. I was totally dumbstruck.