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Sports Interactive have largely themselves to blame for failing FM Mobile sales. The game gets next to no advertising or marketing compared to other versions. We hear nothing about new features and screenshots until about a week before release. In press releases, FMM is generally a footnote with only a vague paragraph or two dedicated to it. In my opinion, that reflects SI's feelings about the title. The FMM technical team is tiny compared to other versions, hence there's only so much development that can be done, resulting in some users feeling that the game changes little from year to year. Piracy is an issue, but I don't feel they've done much to counter this and seem to have just given up in the hope they can shut down the game or sell up to the highest bidder. I've loved FM for decades. I've loved FMM for almost a decade now. This decision is unquestionably a low point in my time playing this title. I have a Netflix account but am really in two minds whether to play next year's version. SI have done FMM dirty for years imo, like an unwanted stepchild, resulting in modest sales and they are now trying to find a way out. EVERY adult on the planet has a mobile phone. You can't tell me that there are less potential FMM users out there than there are full FM users.

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This has been going on for years.

Thanks, Zachary. Are you able to share any similar plans for FMM?

Hi, I've just come across this blog from Miles Jacobson regarding the future of the full fat PC/console Football Manager game and the big changes planned. https://www.footballmanager.com/news/future-football-manager Will any of this affect FMM? If not, any chance you can share plans for the future of FMM? Thanks

I do sometimes but it's not a silver bullet and doesn't always work. For example, if I'm playing a team with two strikers, I'll play with three centre backs to give me a spare man at the back. If I'm playing a team with only wing backs out wide, I'll play with both full backs & wingers and set up to attack down the flanks (effectively doubling up on the wing backs). Against 4-4-2, I start with a 4-1-2-2-1 narrow to dominate the centre midfield. Just a few suggestions.

Son and Salah has the same goals the season before last and they shared the award, so i don't think playtime is a tie breaker IRL, even though it appears to be in the FM game. Pretty sure Salah played considerably more minutes (on the basis he plays 90 most games, whereas Son often gets subbed off).

Sounds like he needs to be Spanish with Basque as second nationality. The same thing happened when last year's version was released. Aymeric Laporte was French/Spanish. The devs changed his details so he become Spanish with Basque as 2nd nationality. I also remember last season the GK ,Unai Simon, had played in the Euros and had about 10 Spain caps, but when the game was launched he had none. This makes me question the accuracy of whoever is gathering the Spain data.

I'm not sure if anyone has raised this. The coaches in the starting DB all have a star rating out of 5. However any new coaches that get converted from players have no star rating. Is this a known issue?

I've mentioned on here previously that, despite retiring from football in January this year, Gareth Bale is still an active player and free agent when starting a new FM save. I expected this to be updated as part of the post-January transfer window release. Are there any plans to retire Bale in FM23 Mobile or will be play on forever?

No problem. Oneplus 8T for me.

Same here. It was fixed for 2 or 3 weeks but has come about again since the last update.

It's possible the frequency of this happening has increased with the latest update, but there's been a bug for years where for, maybe, 1 in 10 loan transfers that you set up, there ends up being a random buyout clause included which was never agreed. I'll try to reproduce the bug.

I've mentioned this elsewhere but I figure this forum would get the most feedback. I'm on Oneplus 8T on Android OS 13. Every time I lock my screen on the new version, the FMM app restarts and then freezes on the Sega/SI screen (so I have to force stop it). It's really frustrating as any time I leave my phone to pop upstairs or go do something, I end up losing progress if I haven't saved it recently.

Thanks, Marc. The more stats the better.