dannysheard

So, if I want to buy a quick striker, what do I do?

I'm not trying to make myself out to be some sort of footballing genius. In fact, that's the problem. If I were completely squeezing the pips by manually setting training, searching for the best players, taking time to bespoke tactics etc. (like I used to do), I'd think maybe winning more often than Liverpool do in real life (one league in 32 years) was reasonable. In reality, I spend five minutes setting fairly vanilla tactics at the start of the game and then fly through the seasons relatively quickly and still win an unrealsitic amount of games. Are you saying nobody should play as the best six teams in the Premier League?

Keyboard warrior it is, then. So, you've now come to the conclusion that I no doubt download tactics (I don't), very probably play three strikers (I play a pretty standard 4-3-3), abuse near-post corners (I actually leave set-pieces as default). You're just making things up, mate. Why? Do you want to DM me and I can help. I know I'm one of the best teams so I should be winning most of my games but winning nine Champions Leagues in a row (whilst trying to make the game more difficult for myself) shows the game is fundamentally flawed. Even City who are backed by a nation state haven't won one Champions League yet. If you're finding the game challenging, that's great, but some of us don't.

So you have literally no doubt that's what I'm doing? OK. And for what it's worth, I add lots of artificial difficult in when I play (start with below-suggested experience, leave scouting and training to staff) and haven't downloaded a tactic (or needed to) for about 10 years. And I haven't saved and reloaded in probably longer than that. Can I just ask, what's your personal issue with the notion that some people want to a) play as their favourite team and b) have the game give a realistic challenge for that team (so for my Liverpool who have maybe 4th/5th biggest budget in the league and won one league title in 32 years, that would be challenge for the title most years)? Is it that you just don't believe us? Do you dislike big teams? Keyboard warrior?

Orrrrrr, ask the developers of the game that we're paying for to make a game with a realistic level of challenge. Your solution can't be that every person that buys the game that is a fan of City, Liverpool, Chelsea, Utd, Arsenal, Spurs, Milan, Juve, Inter, Roma, Napoli, Barcelona, Real, Atletico etc., should not play as their favourite team and should instead play as some non-league team? And on the odd occasion I have managed smaller teams, you just fly through the leagues with back-to-back-to-promotions. It's still not a challenge, it's just delaying the inevitable.

This 100%. I can fully understand that there has to be an easy/beginner mode for new/casual players, but they have to explore the idea of introducing difficulty levels for the good/experienced players somehow for me.

Unfortunately, if you're remotely good at the game it is far too easy if you play with any half-decent team and has been for a long time now. I play as Liverpool and adminteedly they have the second-best squad/fourth biggest budget in the league in the league so obviously should be competing for trophies but the last couples of years of the game have killed it for me: - FM21: played one save and won the first nine Champions Leagues in a row - FM22: played one season, half-heartedly, won the league with record points This can never be discussed seriously on here, though, as people start saying "don't be Liverpool, then, be Crawley Town". Why would a Liverpool fan want to play a game as Crawley you ask? Anyway, bought it again, didn't I? Soon as I saw you could make a manager profile with a FitBit...