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On 16/04/2020 at 01:10, Ultras500 said:
Seems a bit overkill surely? The Chinese leagues have the rule. 4 Chinese leagues, 16 teams each, minimum 3 goalkeepers a team would give you 192 players. No national team needs that many to choose from.
You know how this goes, right? If the FA say 'actually, you can have one foreign goalkeeper', every club would still have a foreign goalkeeper as their first choice and the Chinese players still wouldn't get development.
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15 hours ago, Starskysdad said:
For some reason my team - Bath City - are now in championship but still I don't get u23 league invites and they only play random friendlies!
What do I need to do to get the u23's playing competitively any help would be appreciated as I have been through as many options as I can find to activate something!
Do your U18s play competitively? As far as I'm aware, the Youth Category governs whether the U18s and U23 are in a competitive league, your own league doesn't matter.
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15 minutes ago, CoolHandClarke said:
Hi,
I've just completed my first season as Charlton Athletic manager. The seaon went great but my issue is regarding my under 23s side. They managed to win the U23 Division 3 by winning the playoff final (Top 4 teams in North & South league go into a playoff). But the next season I got an invitation to once again play in the U23 Division 3. My obvious question then is why I didn't get an invitation to play in the U23 Division 2 league? Because what is the point of winning any U23 league if you don't benifit from it?
This is the first time my U23 team has won anything so I was just curious?
Thank you in advance for the replies
I don't think there is a tangible benefit to winning the U23 league, it's just a 'nice to have'. The way you get promoted in the English U23 division league is by improving your Youth Category, which is based on several criteria, most importantly your Youth Facilities. You can request the board to improve the Youth Level and your youth setup will be graded by the FA at the end of each season.
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3 minutes ago, QPRSteve said:
I thought it as Coventry people got sent to
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Black stars are an indication that your scout/Assistant doesn't have the full picture. I often find black stars disappear around age 21/22 for players that have come from my youth setup and after about 2 seasons for players that I've signed, depending on their age. Depending on how their potential has changed, 4 yellow stars + 1 black star might change to 4 yellow stars or 5 yellow stars or anything inbetween those two.
Incidentally, when black stars turn yellow for youth players, that's also when the coach report updates from 'could improve (significantly) in the future' to 'could become a potential [name of league] [position] in the future'.
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I'm not sure how much this is a 'feature' as much as a general improvement, but I've always found the AI of other managers behaving too 'robotically' when it comes to transfers. That's why we sometimes get five clubs bidding the exact same amount on the same player at exactly 4pm on the exact same day - I find it both immersion-breaking and predictable.
The life-cycle of AI managers picking up players from a human manager is very simple. A player hits a certain threshold, either in reputation or in CA/PA - and he becomes a target for a certain number of clubs. Sometimes one, sometimes three. This is understandable behaviour from an AI that's thinking within certain parameters, but I'd like more variation in it. In general, I find that 'our' players are wanted far too sporadically, even if they are performing well.
Here's an example just off the top of my head: In my FM18 save, I played as Universidad de Chile and my striker scored 61 goals in 30 league games. Now, I'm not saying that alone should be a reason for Real Madrid or Barcelona to have a look, but he was 21 and had already had three seasons where he averaged over an 8 in the league and scored more than a goal a game, yet no single club ever showed up 'Wnt' - despite having the big European leagues loaded. Now I know, based on his attributes, that player isn't nearly good enough to perform for top sides in La Liga, and he's only scoring so much because my entire tactic was geared towards getting the best out of him. But the AI shouldn't know that. Real life clubs, especially mid-table sides in big leagues, often take a gamble on a cheap player to see if it turns out to be a match. I'd like to see that reflected more. I'd like to see sides like Getafe or Betis put in a bid for him; his market value was 5M. I wouldn't have accepted that, but again: the AI shouldn't know that.
What I feel is missing from the game is managers occasionally getting interested in (and maybe even putting in a bid for) players that are overperforming their attributes. I know AI managers don't need much help making bad transfer decisions, but it always feels like those decisions are happening around us rather than (also) to us.0 -
I've never found any conclusive data for this, but I've always assumed it means there's a bigger chance of player interaction (team conversations, player conversations and press conference reactions) having less of a positive effect than it would if you were fluent in the language. Speaking a relevant language will also make it more likely that you will get a job in a country, afaik.
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Just now, Freakiie said:
While I don't leave it to my HoYD, one thing I did notice this year is that the number of players he suggests we should sign after the youth friendly is far fewer than in the past FMs, where he basically was like "why not sign everyone?". So if you have rather bad facilities it could be that there simply aren't any candidates your HoYD considers good enough?
Either way, best thing you can do is pay attention to your next youth intake and wait for the news item about the trials vs youth team friendly. If he actually has players that he suggests you to sign and doesn't do it, it would mean the responsibility covers less than you'd expect.
I was about to reply with exactly this.
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I think 'contextual advice' means the pop-up you sometimes see on a player's profile screen. I've underlined it for you in the screenshot I included:
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30 minutes ago, Supernova1903 said:
Does that effect my save file, like i.e. do I have to start the game over again?
Can I like just go to preferences and load the croatian league up and continue from there?
Because I have reached the January transfer window and it would be kinda dull if I have to start from scratch
Yes, you would have to start the save over again. Even if you waited for the database update where Hasic should be at Besiktas, you'd have to start a new save game. If you load up the Croatian league now, I'm pretty sure it will not generate existing Croatian players that were not yet loaded; it will keep the ones who were already loaded and create newgens (newly generated fictional players) to fill the gaps - and only from the start of next season.
It sounds like having this player is important to you, and reaching the January transfer window isn't that far into the game, so it will not hurt too much to restart, I'm sure Alternatively, you could play this game until the edited winter transfer database comes out and start again then if you want to start with Hasic at Besiktas rather than Dinamo.
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9 minutes ago, GuitarMan said:
Jamie McMaster was the first one I remember. He always turned out amazing in his first game...
CM 01/02, the Australian AMR at Leeds? He's etched into my brain for some reason.
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He only moved to Besiktas on 31/1/2020 according to Transfermarkt. Assuming that's true; in the original database that came with FM20, he's still at Dinamo Zagreb. If you didn't load in a lot of players, it's possible the game didn't generate him. Try restarting the save with Croatia selected or a bigger database and see if he's in there.
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13 minutes ago, andysafc said:
With Sunderland in Division One i shouldn't be trying defensive football too much. I can understand that teams may play defensive against us but i just don't get the stats how they can do so little yet be so effective. these are teams like Lincoln and Rochdale. How can they create only 2 shots (my defence can not be so bad) and yet score one?
I can only reply to the screenshot you posted in here, and honestly, those stats don't seem as unbalanced as you suggest. The only stat that's massively in your favour is shots on target, and those might (and considering the lack of CCC's probably were) from tight angles or distance, meaning the goalie has a relatively easy time dealing with them. Essentially, all I gather from this screenshot is; 'the opposition played defensively and it paid off.'
You can, btw, customise the stats to include woodwork, which is always something I do so I get a more accurate overview of the stats.0 -
2 minutes ago, andysafc said:
Why? I do know lots of people will offer advice, but isn't that what i am saying? Play the SI way or not at all. Why can't we see that something is not working and getting other people to fix it is when we stop playing FM. it is no longer your game.
This has always been the case; SI build the match engine. There has to be, even at the most basic level, something that generates 'positive' results and something that generates 'negative' results. The match engine has been refined (and no, not always purely positively, in my opinion) and made more complex but there are a LOT of tactics and playing styles that are viable, as evidenced by the hundreds of different tactics that have been posted on the forums, all with pretty reasonable results.
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1 minute ago, andysafc said:
FM 20 adivses a lot, you could even set your Assistant Manager to automatically make the changes, except the changes make no real difference.
I don't want to sound condescending here or anything, especially because you said you've played the game for the past 25 years - but surely you must understand that 'assistant advice' isn't an 'instant win' button? The AI assistant, who might very well be flawed and I certainly always disregard because I actually disagree with the changes they want me to make, makes suggestions based on things that are going wrong statistically. If you're shooting a lot from distance and you're not ahead, it will suggest you 'work ball in the box' to make sure your shots are quality over quantity. However - and this is the important bit of advice: there may be nothing wrong with your shot quality and going 'work ball in the box' might actually reduce your shooting chances further than would be advisable. The whole point of the game is to analyse the tactic yourself and see where things go wrong. I treat 'assistant advice' more as a hint that something might be off, but I tend to have faith in the tactics I build and don't often tweak them in-game unless I personally see something that I might pick up on.
As for the match stats:
You might very well be 'dominating', but 'domination' has a lot of different meanings in football. You had 18 shots, those might have been from too far out - or it might have been headers that were poorly executed. It might have been free kicks that were relatively easy to deal with. I would suggest don't look at the shot count itself, look at the analysis screen and check where the shots came from.
The stats you posted here don't show there's anything wrong with the match engine by themselves. In fact - only creating two clear cut chances suggests you didn't get many good shooting opportunities at all. It looks like Rochdale played with a DM, they probably dug in a little bit considering Sunderland are a big team. I'm not sure when in the match they scored, but looking at the amount of passes they attempted, they were more interested in ball circulation than actually getting forward and scoring. It looks more like you failed to break them down, which is very much a way real life matches can pan out. Especially at the lower leagues, your strikers might not be able to get the most out of the few chances they had.1 -
1 hour ago, GR3NDAL said:
Yeah I am managing Liverpool so that is logical. He wanted to leave because Man U failed to qualify for a European competition :P
Yeah, United aren't going to let players leave on cheap to Liverpool, I'm afraid
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6 minutes ago, andysafc said:
So what is the in game help for? I understood it is there to help being who are struggling or doing something wrong. But it offers NOTHING that actually helps or advises where your going wrong.
It doesn't? Man, FM20 must have changed from FM18, because FM18 sure gives a LOT of help.
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For me it was Max Clauss on FM07. He played at Brommapojkarna in Sweden, the team I managed, and he was an absolute beast right from the start, essentially because he was tall and strong. He was completely incapable of kicking a football, but he kept averaging an 8 basically throughout his career with us, including winning European trophies, not in the least because my corner set-up meant he was deadly. Eventually I became Sweden manager and we very nearly won the WC with Clauss as my main CB.
Similarly, on my Dag & Red on the same game I managed to get a Welsh regen cheap from Connah's Quay while we were in League Two. His name was Steve Whitehead, and he was similarly tall (203 cm I believe, definitely over 200) and grew into a 20-goal-a-season man in the Championship based on his heading and strength alone.0 -
16 minutes ago, Forza#8903 said:
Thanks! where can you see how big your fan base is?
You can't. You can see what your attendance is (and how many of those attendees are away fans) and you can see how many season tickets you've sold. As the season progresses, you can see the average attendance/attendance percentage per team, including yours. In the finances tab, you can see the gate receipts. Unless you're expecting a promotion/big reputation boost in the near future, you can expect the gate receipts to remain around the same level, which should help you budget your finances.
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The search function isn't really returning the results I'd like, so I'll ask in here - is there a good couple of threads to read about individual training, particularly back in the FM18 era? If someone knows, that would be very welcome
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One friendly isn't very conclusive. I would say, if you're not going to use him as a CM any way, give him a few games to see how he does. In many of my saves, both LLM and higher up, I've successfully turned CMs into ball-playing defenders. So I know it's definitely possible to get good results out of using a CM as CD. Tactic training certainly wouldn't hurt, though.
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Dulwich Hamlet 2023/24 End of Season
I decided to reduce the rate of updates, not enough happens per season to justify a mid-season update. Anyway, we got promoted, although it took us playoffs to get there. We were top on the last day of the season, but lost to Newport County while Eastbourne won their game to leave us without silverware. In the semi-finals, we beat Havant & Waterlooville 5-2, before defeatting Dartford in the final.
League Table
It was pretty close at the top, with Eastbourne, Newport and us duking it out at the top of the table for a long time. Reise Allassani finished second in the top scorer charts, Luke Cook was top for assists.
Fixtures
The big difference with last season is that we managed to cut out the longer slumps, although it's worrying how few clean sheets we managed to get - only 7 over 42 games. The defining factor in our wins was our attacking strength, with Allassani, Moss and Cook scoring 72 goals between them. I hope they can keep that up next season, or we'll be in trouble.
Not much happened in the cups. We outplayed Aldershot but they beat us; Sutton absolutely destroyed us and we were lucky to even take them to extra time.
Squad
David Courtney got the most appearances for us once again, only missing out on one game in the FA Trophy. Allassani just beat Cook for overall top scorer, thanks to 9 goals in the last four games of the season; Cook however also laid on 18 goals and has been attracting the interest of some League Two sides. Thomas Moss was solid again, so was Emmanuel Gahadzikwa, who will probably be our captain next season. Ed Atkinson became our starting goalkeeper as the season progressed, but we did renew Edwards' contract just to be on the safe side. Karl Blake took over from Nathan Green on the left wing and will be our starting winger going forward.
Youth Intake
A supposed 'golden generation' - 5 for 6 so far - but Pavey's the only one who jumps out at me atm. We're kinda full up for strikers right now, I'll need to see if I can utilize him somehow.
Pavey is definitely the best player in this bunch, he's quick, a good finisher and has some good mentals. Belle is an okay allrounder in midfield, Townrow is a physical presence but I'm not sure how much he'll feature.
Finances and Facilities
We need to expand the stadium to comply with league rules, but it's pretty cheap fortunately. We've had some good attendance in the league, so hopefully that'll grow even more with the expansion. Because it was only £100K to expand the stadium, the finances are still looking excellent. Wage costs will go up a lot for my players, as most of them had promotion wage rises in their contracts, but we should still be absolutely fine.
Conclusion
We probably should have gone up as champions, but a promotion is a promotion and I'm okay with things for now. It'll be interesting to see how our players hold up in the Vanarama National. In older FMs the gap between these leagues wasn't so big and we've done okay against VNL opposition in the cups, but we are playing more and more youth players. A lot will depend on how our attacking force holds up.
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9 minutes ago, Tetsuro P12 said:
Why you wont retain everything? Nothing prohibit you to manage your club, not here nor in real life. You can still manage it while not being fired (since you are in charge of it), able to build structures as you please (if club finances let you do it), change kits, etc. Even the badge (as Juventus did). It would not be open to AI (why it should? It would not add anything), just the player would be able to buy or found clubs. Eventually you can assume a football manager, but that's not an important feature to have, the important thing is to buy or found clubs and do whatever you want with it (maybe making a lower league club a great club with your managing skills both as a football manager and as a chairman/whoeverbringsoutthecash).
I thought it was implicit.
I read it as you wanted to start a club and hire a manager, which is what you wrote. If what you meant is starting as a lower league club but being in charge of everything...that is already possible? FM allows you take charge of pretty much every aspect of the club. Add the in-game editor which allows you to do things like change kit colours etc. You can already change the badge simply by designing one and loading it into the graphics. Founding a new club would be impossible because most countries don't have their lowest league in the game. So you'd have to take over an existing club, which, again, you can already do. If you don't want to start in the future, you can even use 'Create-A-Club'.
When it comes to building new structures (I assume you mean secondary structures like hamburger shops etc), I addressed in my earlier posts why I think that would not be very interesting gameplay.
So you essentially just want what is already in the game, except you can't get fired? Because I genuinely don't understand what else you want.
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The FM23 Youth Academy Challenge
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So I've been playing as Rynninge IK in Sweden. Things have been going pretty well; won the Swedish Second Division in my second season and survived by the skin of our teeth in the third. But we're entering our 4th season now and my U19's still haven't been added to one of the youth leagues. Even more annoying since during October, I got a note in the calendar during game progression that my youth team were 'entering the U19 First Division'. All youth leagues have been drawn now in Jan 2026, and we're not among them again. Can anybody confirm that this will eventually happen?