Meanonsunday

I get that some people find using the pre-game editor difficult, but reverting Brexit seems oddly specific. The EU exception to U18 movement is a political convenience for FIFA disliked by even many EU countries. If you think players should be able to move at 16 (when they are legally adults in many countries) then why not just change it worldwide. Personally I do occasionally do saves where some of the protectionist rules are removed, but I’m sure the way I think the football world should be run is not going to be exactly the way other people would choose so I just appreciate having the editor to customize.

Just change the skin back to default.

Unfortunately there seems to be logic in the game where players ask for more money based on how much remaining wage budget you have rather than only being based on some absolute sense of what they are worth. This can be favorable when money is tight, but as you found it can create massive inflation if you suddenly have a big wage budget. All you can really do is shift that extra wage money over into the transfer budget and save it there; usually the wage demands will decrease right away. The guys on high wages are not going to accept pay cuts so you need to ditch them at the end of the season. I would never have anyone on more than 1k/week before you reach League 2.

You forgot when they recommend a player to learn a trait then as soon as he learns it they recommend to unlearn it. Avoid weak foot, use weak foot more, back and forth. Same with individual training of attributes. Then what about recommending new staff all the time; if you took their advice you’d end up spending millions buying out contracts and replacing half of the staff members every year with new people that are better on one attribute but worse on the others that matter.

Squad seems too small to me. Having 3-5 injured at the same time is common and then imagine some players get called up to international u21, Olympics etc when you still have games. Maybe you have some young players you can call up immediately to fill in; I’m usually playing in countries where anyone 18+ has to go on loan because the reserves don’t play in a proper league that will increase their attributes.

Step 3 also doesn’t work for players you want to loan in your first team, so you either have to drop them down to the reserves (making the player angry) or else give the DOF the ability to sell first team players (no way; this is the lunatic that offered 50% of my wage budget to a backup in his mid 30s). The other big problem is the loan manager not understanding that 90% of 10k + 100k/ month is a lot more than 100% of 10k. Since the AI controlled teams are programmed to bargain they usually drop the wage percentage below what is asked thus bamboozling the loan manager who rejects offers that are many times higher than what was asked.

Obviously if you "banned" gegenpress you know it is a better tactic if you want to win. So you aren't disagreeing with OP; he didn't say it was the only way to win, just that it is the easiest way to win. If you have better players you can win with almost any tactic but if the AI has exactly the same players as you then youre going to lose by messing around with possession tactics. Fast counters with players coming inside from the wings turn the ball over a lot less than slowly passing it around the midfield.

It's perhaps a minor point, but irl you can in fact select candidates based on sex in situations that would apply to staff of a football team. You could select female candidates to a womens team on the basis that the players would be more comfortable with a woman (wouldn't work for all positions but imagine saying that women couldnt choose a female doctor, physio or trainer). And for a mens team you'd be allowed to select women on the basis that they are under-represented in pretty much every position (the law specifically allows for favouring the under-represented sex). I'm not saying its right or wrong, just that is what the law is in UK and EU.

Just an individual case but my DoF just offered Fabinho a pre-contract for 275k a week, 40k clean sheet bonus, 8k appearance fee. My entire wage budget is less than 700k/ week (Brazilian club, Serie A). Since I had just been forced to sell one of my best players there was probably enough in the transfer budget to shift over to wages to cover it. But that is insane; half the wage budget to an old player with no transfer value and who would probably take 10% of that if his contract actually expired.

This is just wrong. When the player signs a pre-contract it is binding on him. FIFA has ruled on this multiple times. The fact that a release exists in the current contract is an obligation on the players current team, but if the player is not free to negotiate (because of the pre-contract) then it’s irrelevant. The same is true if the player had signed a future contract with his current team; he is not free to negotiate with another team and the existence of release clause is irrelevant.

I don’t think there’s anything specific to London. If your club has a particular ethnic group in that area then they are likely to show up in your intake. Obviously London has many such groups but they will apply according to where they are located not to the whole of London. So for example Cypriots tend to show up in the intake for Orient, because they live in that part of East London. The other thing to keep in mind is that because there are so many teams in the London area better players that may live close to your team will get pulled into the intake of higher reputation teams.

In the second leg you have to shout based on the aggregate score. Does it make sense? Not to me, but it’s been that way for many years so it’s a feature not a bug.

I generally leave my staff in control of the U21 and U18 team training and player management, and the dynamics are always bad (I don’t think I’ve ever seen cohesion reach average and it’s usually abysmal). Based on this I can’t imagine that AI teams have dynamics in the same way that player controlled teams do.

So, now you’ve changed your position from every player knows every other players salary to one single time one player knows another’s salary? I’m glad you’ve come around to a realistic point of view.

Yes.