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Why? You have some budget authority granted by the board and the finances seem at least for my team reasonable. Ofc i dont know the situation in your leage but some finances should be available and do you not act in the scope of authorization by the board?

For the CPC 464 there was a computer/board game football manager hybrid - i dont remember the name anymore but the results were simulated by the computer while you had player cards that you would trade around the table (it was multiplayer).

Yeah, on the last day you can get some loans that were unavailable or a player did not get a good offer otherwise and jumps onboard. But its not all players - it is some players who become available...

Interesting problem appears for me as my GK runs out of contract, my finances are dire bcs of the new stadium - the credit repayment prevents me from gaining any money as the stadium is not bringing in more fans and my sponsormoney is still on lower tier value (like 5 time worse then the next lowest one) thus i am on insecure finances and i dont see any light - so i can only hire and renew with players that accept the most low possible contract. Yet i have tried 3 new GK whom all are deemed better but i lose match after match while my old GK concedes some goals, has not the best match rating but i won more games with him. Do i keep the winner GK with a too expensive new contract or not? And how will i survive my bad finances? Interesting problems!

I got a bigger stadium and the looks changed from a primitive dreesing room to a more advanced one (mostly made in wood), also improving facilities chagens the look though if you are already maxed then it goes no further i guess.

It seems so to me, my Manager Avatar wears the hairstyle i gave him out of a quite big selection.

The more chaotic nature of the matches makes it that many ball challenges have become heading challenges and tall players should have a natural advantage bcs you can impair skill and timing and positioning - but you can not impair tallness, you can only foul it or set a taller player aginst it. And in reality the asian teams i.e. often get beaten when another taller team uses its tallness agsint them (ofc they can be germany and play stupid football by stupid players lead by a stupid coach hired by the stupid DFB football association). Germany is so screwed!

Yeah, a maximum wage setting would be nice. You can search for wages but only on excisting contracts afaik and not for the expected wage of new players that would come to your club. Its time consuming and frustrating to filer all the expensive players out that demand to much you can never afford it!

Currently in 3.Liga germany my Sweeper Keeper is a real penalty killer while having a 2 in the attribute - he saved way more than a couple of points by now it looks he kept us in the league with it. An no, we are not unfair and provoke penalties my team is lauded to be the most "clean" team in the league!

I only noticed so far that in the transferwindow when i list a good player i want have that was not looked for the whole season the moment i make an offer its like sharks smell blood and quite often a multitude of counteroffers from other clubs arrives.

While i dont know the regulations from the past football history i can say that people have coached clubs or national teams that did not have any License and they simply got another title instead of coach or manager. In germany they were somtimes called Teamchef like Franz Beckenbauer or Rudi Voeller (and were granted at some point a license for free). In Club Football there are (or were) at least in germany exceptions when you do not have a license but are in the official course for the license then you can get an excemption to coach a club b4 you finished the course successfully. That is what i remeber from past real world experiences...

Klopps influence starts to detoriate after 7 yrs. it is said - maybe it is true bcs you need to change your team quite drastically at some point and i dont know if he can do it and be ruthless enough to players with past, old merits that block the place for players that are able get/win new merits. I dont know if he still wears his glasses or not but without glasses he has a bad aura and looks like an angry old grandpa and maybe he is tired but does not acknowledge it. Also i doubt Liverpool is willing to pay what needs to be payed for to compete with Man City - Man City network and the networkinvestments go way beyond what is in Citys finances shown bcs it is added to someones else finances in the network. And Madrid is a phenomenon while Barcelone shot itself into its knee with its messimania...why would they not dominate the teams in their league if not for letting it go and play only as good as needed like all big clubs do. I dont know if this saying exists in english but it says: "Good Horses only jump as high as needed." What i can say is that as far as i have come now in 4 season the way the ME plays my numbers of possession have changed drastically and while in the past my tactic had a more evened out 50/50 possesion paired with a usually clear superiority in shots like 2 or 3 to 1 this has changed and my teams with the same tactic now have usually ~63% possession (quite often against superior teams) and shots for/aginst vary wildly (and i have won some games with 0.5 vs 4.5 XG and maybe 2 to 16 shots against me while losing some that according to the stats i should have never lost). So the ingame things could be that the chosen Madrid tactic is simply producing huge numbers of possession based stats bcs of the ME change.

Well, yeah, several times when promotion requirements made it necessary.

That one was great! You could edit your own tactics and see the matches in isometric 3D like in the Kick Off games and i still remember the name Dino Dini. These were great games!

Dito, i did not have a computer and played it via a friends C64. Later i had a CPC464 but i am unaware if the game exists for it - if so i did not ever come across it.

Not randomly, that would make no sense, but yeah, if you want a bigger challenge then find the cryptonite tactic for CFCW523CE, its up to you - and if it is possession based Pep will gladly use it if it wins him the Champions League, bet on it!

Can weather be an issue as around that time the weather is usualy wet and the ground is heavy and i can imagine some styles of playing football are more affected than others

Player Interactions - dont they understand that a year does not change bcs its a few weeks later? Winning promotion to 3.Liga germany and becoming a fully professional club with a wage budget of 600k p.a. (600k for the whole team for the whole season ~12k per week) and all but one player having still 2 year contracts albeit the cheap semi pro type. So my avg, wage p.a. is 27.000 € in a league where the league avg is 220.000 € and understandingly the players (most of them) want better contracts. So they start to interact with me and i have to deny their claims and state the club is unable to afford higher wages atm bcs i have maybe 30k p.a. left and can not afford to increase wages by the tens of thousands for each player. Now every few weeks the same players come and want better contracts - dont they know that in a season the finances dont change? That is a type of uneccessary interactions after the first meeting isnt it? Would be great if somehow they would understand... PS: And i can not make promises bcs i dont know if i stay in the league and if i do i still do not know the budget i have next season anyway.

Afaik the average time at a certain club was once around 15 to 18 months for a manager in real life football. Some specific clubs may have some real long stints with a certain manager (some up to 10yrs and more) while some crisis clubs at times have 5 or 6 manager per season... So its hard to say if it is that unrealistic i guess - at times a single Manager change makes a whole league to change 2/3 their managers bcs a certain targeted manager suddenly becomes available and an avalanche of changes is started.

It would already be a nice challenge if SI would allow the AI access to the successful manager tactics human managers use (optionally per preference setting). The game is online anyway as it runs per steam and a library of succesfull tactics for the AI should not be that big i guess and rather easy to aquire. Also the squadbuilding can be better, the AI should know if a certain tactic needs fast players, or strong players, or technical players and what mentals they must have for best results. Atm the game is rather easy but only as long you find players that fit into your tactic/team as the wrong sub/starting player has snatched some defeats out of the jaws of victory for me - this game is probably the most sensible to that.

What i would like in regard to the supporters feedback in the club vision part that if you grow from a low league low visitor club to a bigger more visitor club is that obviously your club would attract visitors that over time may become supporters that share your vision of football instead of fighting it. It makes little sense that the supprting fans grow in number when they dont share the apreciaton for the football the club plays yet i allways dissatisfy the supporters in regard that i am deemed not to play direct counter football (which i disagree - i do play it but not all the time though situationally). They like the entertainement value and success though. But as i said, a club growing the number of visitors during its way through the leagues up to the top tier football will necessarily grow the number of visitors that are pleased with especially the way a certain club plays. Yet i have little indication this is happening.

I like alot of this versions ME. Recently my Team scored a goal when it was raining an the goalkepper of the other team cached the ball but it slipped out of his hands due to it being wet and it looked quite like a real scene!

This i can say is a databse issue, as i start allways with low league clubs and there are stadium that look like they are small and have no room for more than a few people. I guess you need either a data researcher make a database input or mod it yourself but the really small stadiums are in the game!

I think the influence of the mental state of a player/team is bigger this year than b4 and star players tend to break out of the norm if given the right roles and right circumstances. What i want to say is the match engine is more critical in reacting than ever and its probably a "runaway" like problem where results start to differ from the expectations by a big margin when everything comes together. I also noticed the tendency of the AI to play with 7 players in the defensive positions and it makes them no more successfull it seems - mabey its to shake up the things a little? The final patch is still to come so there is still a chance SI manages to improve things as they gain experience and data with this iteration of the game. If we will like it is another question...

I tend to hadle contracts myself and as i play with a club that starts with no U23/reserve i allways deny the option to open a U23 team for my club. The times i played other clubs if i remember right i had most players in my main team but chose the option to make some available for U23 matches so i had full control over them but they would/could play in the U23/reserve. You should look if there is still such an option as it gives you way better control. The automated contracts are usualy less favourable toward the club and i only use them when for some reason a glitch or something prevents me from speaking with the player but my staff member has access to him. This player switching between the teams should give you some better control i guess.