tm91

Hey - I have nothing substantial to add beyond to say that I really love this skin. It's smart, modernises the game's UI, and should be a blueprint for SI in terms of how the game should look and feel in the future. It's great work!

Really enjoying it this year. Somehow managed to fluke my way to the CL Quarter Finals in the 1st season as Rangers, although that'll be that as I've drawn Newcastle and my players are starting to get injuries. Celtic went on a massive winning run but I've managed to open up a 9 point gap; got to now beat them in the Scottish Cup semi to have a shot at the treble. Averaging 70% possession this year; the match engine feels far more fluid. Found you can get Doig and Ferguson surprisingly easy though - I got Doig for £6m+Yilmaz and a sell-on clause and Ferguson for £3m + Barisic and a sell-on clause.

I've scrapped my save as I can't help but be paranoid about the AI not making subs and the amount of goals being scored. Once those have been dealt with I'll start again. I need to play Spiderman 2 anyway!

Coming from FM22, I think the game on a whole is a significant improvement. The Match Engine is much better. I can manage positional play and see fluid tactics in action much more easily. I enjoy a lot of the new additions like the squad planner, supporter vision etc (albeit I know these were also in FM23). However, I've scrapped the long-term save I started because there's two noticeable bugs that is affecting the game: 1) Too many goals. Funnily enough, in my own league (the SPFL) this wasn't manifesting so much as ridiculously high-scoring games as it was a lack of clean sheets. Even Rangers and Celtic were conceding a goal a game, even though their XG against were overall low, which suggests other teams were finishing low-XG chances too consistently. I was also seeing a lot of high-scoring games in the Champions League qualifiers, including two 3-3s on the same night. In the past, FM's could sometimes be too unrealistic the other way - ie too many clean sheets or low-scoring games - but the balance clearly isn't right. However, I think this might also be linked to the 2nd bug... 2) Inconsistent use of subs. It's not that the AI never makes subs. Sometimes they do - Kilmarnock made 4 against me. But too many times they don't make subs at all, or they only make subs in the last 5 minutes or when someone gets injured. In the Community Shield game, City won 4-3 and Pep made one change, in the 96th minute.

I had this issue starting a Rangers save. I just used the pre-game editor to move players back to their former clubs. Took time but worth it.

Same here. I've won 8/9 trophies domestically (annoyingly lost the first League Cup Final on penalties to Celtic) but I've done an unbeaten campaign, won the treble twice, beat Celtic 5-0, and have done very well in Europe (won the Europa League in 2023 and then somehow managed to get to the CL final the year after). Meanwhile Celtic haven't done anything since that league cup win, they've wasted all their transfer budgets and are now signing free transfers and loans, and they most recently finished 3rd behind Aberdeen. Any manager in charge of the OF might have lasted a 2nd season in those conditions, but they would have definitely been sacked after the 3rd season. Instead Postecoglou is secure in his job and even got a contract extension. Definitely does seem like there's an issue with job security in FM22.