https://community.sports-interactive.com/discover/Sports Interactive Community - All ActivityenLovely list. I hope devs will see this.Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:58:44 +0000So i jumped, a really tough decision in the but in the end Reading are a massive football club and they came looking for me, i didn't approach them so it felt right. If Haywards Heath see out the season then we might play them next year in the league. This is the current state of affairs at the club as we take over League Table The board want a mid table/top half finish and we are already there. We are only 5 points outside the playoffs so that is not an outrageous target for us to get into there. Recent Fixtures A very inconsistent list of results, hence the mid table position in the league. The worry, that 5-2 home loss to Milton Keynes Dons in the last game, that is not acceptable and something that i will not accept. Finances No money in the wages and a hugely bloated squad (36 players) shows the mismanagement of this team and something we need to start with even now in January. We need to trim before we then upgrade the squad and scouting and planning for next season will start now as we work out who is good enough to play at this level and the Championship.Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:56:15 +0000How you do thatWed, 08 Apr 2026 15:55:19 +0000Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:48:40 +0000The only use I've got out of fm26 in last 5 months is using the editor to transfer data to fm24 and keep that up to date 🙃Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:48:39 +0000Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:47:24 +0000Ross Farley: A Farewell Message 💙 “It’s hard to put this into words, if I’m honest. When I arrived at Haywards Heath Town, I believed we could improve things… but I don’t think anyone could have imagined what we would go on to achieve together. Six seasons. Six promotions. A Wembley win. We didn’t just win — we built something. A team, a culture, a belief that no matter the level, no matter the opponent, we would go toe-to-toe with anyone. And more often than not… come out on top. To the players — past and present — thank you. You bought into everything. You gave everything. Without you, none of this happens. To the staff — your work behind the scenes never goes unnoticed. The standards we set together are what made this possible. And to the fans — you’ve been incredible. Through every step, every promotion, every big moment… you were there. You believed. You pushed us forward. Leaving is never easy. This club means a lot to me. It always will. But I leave knowing Haywards Heath Town is in a fantastic place — stronger, better, and ready for whatever comes next. This isn’t goodbye forever. Just goodbye for now. Thank you for everything. Ross.” 💙Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:40:58 +0000Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:40:31 +0000🕊️ END OF AN ERA – HAYWARDS HEATH TOWNThey’ll look at the honours list first. They always do. League titles. Promotions. A Wembley win. Back-to-back-to-back success. A rise through the divisions that doesn’t really make sense on paper. But that’s not the story. The story is how it felt. A group of players who kept finding more. A club that refused to stop climbing. A dressing room that never once believed it had reached its limit. Every season was supposed to be the one where it slowed down. Every season… it didn’t. From the Southern Combination League… To the Football League. Not in decades. Not in phases. 👉 In six seasons. 25/26 – Champions 26/27 – Champions 27/28 – Champions 28/29 – Playoff winners 29/30 – National League Champions 29/30 – FA Trophy Winners No shortcuts. No safety net. Just: 👉 Standards 👉 Belief 👉 Relentless progression And maybe that’s why it worked. Because it was never about just winning the next game. It was about building something that didn’t break under pressure… Something that got stronger because of it. There were moments. Big ones. Late goals. Title deciders. Wembley. But the real story was in the consistency. Turning up. Again and again. And delivering. Now, it ends. Not because it had to. But because this is where the story changes. A new challenge. A new level. A new chapter. But what happened here? 👉 That doesn’t disappear. Haywards Heath Town isn’t the same club it was six seasons ago. And it never will be again. Some journeys are successful. Some are memorable. Very few are both. This one was. 💙Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:40:05 +0000Database search didn’t lock the game for seconds at a time in FM24 and prior, clearly there needs further optimization done on player db searching. Playing with 10+ other people in an online save is extremely slow during the transfer window when searching is done more frequently in current state. Actions buttons become unresponsive for different players and the only solution is to exit and rejoin. We haven’t found a way to replicate it, it seems to generally occur in conjunction with lag/delay in loading screen due to db searching.Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:39:55 +0000Have a look at this post from Matt FM26 - ManagerPortrait Plugin - Other Football Manager Graphics - FM26 - Football Manager 26Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:36:33 +0000Early Shopping in the Alps: How FC Chur’s Quiet Bosman Moves Show a Club Thinking About Tomorrow Before Today Becomes a Problem At FC Chur, recruitment is rarely reactive and almost never emotional. It tends instead to follow a quieter rhythm, one built around anticipation rather than urgency, where the club tries to identify the moment before a squad needs refreshing rather than the moment after decline has already started to show. While many clubs in the Swiss Super League still treat free transfers as opportunistic market moves made in June, Chur increasingly treat them as part of a long-term structural calendar, identifying potential Bosman additions months in advance so that summer arrivals feel less like signings and more like carefully timed evolutions of an already functioning environment. That context makes the three players recently linked with summer 2040 moves to Graubünden - Martí Puigvert, Imanol Garcia and David Albouy - particularly interesting, not because any of them would immediately transform Chur’s starting eleven, but because together they reflect something much more revealing about how this club thinks about sustainability. With reported external interest beginning to circle around José Luis Sanchez after another intelligent creative season, growing frustration from Stanko Kastelic about his role, and the simple reality that Benat Orbaiz cannot realistically be expected to hold down a physically demanding defensive role indefinitely at 31, Chur appear once again to be addressing tomorrow’s problems while they are still theoretical rather than practical. This has become one of the defining characteristics of the club’s rise into consistent top-six contention: succession planning is not something that happens after departures, but something that happens while key players are still performing. Sanchez’s return of three goals and six assists in 31 appearances may not immediately jump off statistical leaderboards, but within Chur’s tactical ecosystem his value lies in connective intelligence rather than raw output, and players of that profile rarely remain unnoticed once bigger recruitment departments begin profiling decision-making metrics rather than just goals and assists. Similarly, Kastelic’s 29 total appearances this season suggest usefulness rather than indispensability, and when players in that category begin to feel their pathway narrowing, Chur historically prefer to prepare solutions rather than negotiate tensions. What stands out across all three potential arrivals is not just positional logic, but psychological logic. This is a squad currently supported culturally by figures such as Xabier Iriondo, Xavier Jenkinson and Giuliano Graf, players who embody the professionalism and collective accountability that have helped define Chur’s dressing room during their recent European pushes. As more of the squad moves into the later stages of peak age, the club’s recruitment challenge subtly changes from finding talent to preserving behavioural standards, ensuring that the next wave of players inherits the same expectations around work, intelligence and collective responsibility. In that sense, these reported targets look less like replacements and more like reinforcements for the invisible architecture that holds competitive squads together. Puigvert perhaps illustrates this philosophy most clearly. His recent return of seven goal contributions in 18 appearances for Südtirol suggests productivity, but Chur’s interest likely goes much deeper than output. His earlier experiences at Torino in Serie A and Alverca in Portugal’s top flight suggest a player who has already been exposed to demanding tactical environments, even if he has not quite established himself at that level, and Chur have repeatedly shown an ability to identify players whose trajectories have flattened rather than failed. What makes Puigvert particularly attractive in this context is the combination of technical bravery and professional reliability: a creative player who looks for progressive passes, carries the ball forward willingly, but does so while carrying a fantastic personality profile that suggests his biggest contribution may actually come between matches rather than during them. This is often where Chur separate themselves from clubs operating with purely data-driven recruitment models. While their approach is unquestionably analytical, there is also a strong ideological layer influenced by both Graubünden’s strong regional identity and footballing ideas more commonly associated with Basque development culture, where the collective environment is treated as something that must be actively maintained rather than assumed. Puigvert’s profile - creative, consistent, comfortable across multiple positions and psychologically reliable - fits almost perfectly into that idea of a player who raises the daily level rather than just the matchday ceiling. If Puigvert looks like a cultural and creative reinforcement, Garcia looks like a structural one. His career path, from Alavés to an €8 million move to Lazio and then into a loan spell at Athletic Club in search of regular football, reflects the kind of stalled progression Chur have learned to read not as failure but as opportunity. There is a long history of players leaving larger leagues not because they lack ability, but because they lack the right ecosystem, and Chur’s recent European consistency has increasingly made them an attractive landing place for exactly that category of professional. Garcia’s defensive anticipation, decision-making and appetite for physical duels suggest a player built for system reliability rather than individual spotlight, and it is often precisely these types of defenders who allow technically ambitious midfield structures to function safely. At 25, he also fits perfectly into what might be described as Chur’s "second cycle" recruitment window: players old enough to bring professional stability but young enough to potentially become long-term contributors rather than short-term patches. His reputation for enjoying big matches and delivering consistent performances only strengthens the sense that this would be a personality addition as much as a tactical one, particularly in a squad preparing for continued European demands where emotional reliability often proves just as important as technical execution. Albouy, meanwhile, may represent the most familiar Chur archetype of all: the reset candidate. His career already includes more than a century of Ligue 1 appearances with Toulouse, experience of a promotion push with Pisa in Serie B, and exposure to Serie A environments, yet his recent lack of playing time suggests not decline but displacement. Chur have quietly built a reputation for identifying players in exactly this position - footballers whose level is already proven, but who need a stable tactical home to re-establish rhythm and confidence. His defensive discipline, positional awareness and willingness to play simple, low-risk football would make him a natural fit for Chur’s inverted full-back structure, where tactical obedience often matters more than attacking flair. Taken individually, each of these potential moves makes sense. Taken together, they say something more significant about where Chur see themselves. This is not recruitment aimed at breaking into a new tier, but recruitment aimed at ensuring they do not fall out of the one they have worked so carefully to reach. With several current players moving toward the latter stages of their peak years and a younger generation developing within a carefully cultivated academy environment, the priority now appears to be ensuring that the cultural transmission between generations remains uninterrupted. In Switzerland, Chur are increasingly seen as one of the smartest recruitment operations outside the traditional financial heavyweights, a club that blends data evaluation with an unusually strong emphasis on personality fit and collective identity. Their blend of regional pride and ideological clarity has allowed them to build something rare at their level: not just a competitive team, but a stable footballing culture. Moves like these, if completed, would not change that reputation. They would simply reinforce it. And perhaps that is the most telling detail of all. While other clubs may wait to see how the summer market develops, Chur appear once again to be doing their shopping early, not because they need reinforcements immediately, but because they understand that the strongest squads are usually built by the clubs who act before reinforcement becomes urgent. In Graubünden, that is no longer surprising. It is simply how Chur do things.Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:35:03 +0000Bergvall if you can afford him?Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:31:39 +0000Tampere United – July 2034 Suomen Cup: Our reward for beating IFK Mariehamn 2 in the last round was a Quarter Final tie against Ykkösliiga side KPV (Kokkolan Palloveikot), who we’ve not met since 2030 in the Suomen Cup and prior to that, 2026 when we had a bit of a Ykkösliiga rivalry going on when they pipped us to the title in 2026. That rivalry has come and gone now and the progress that we’ve made in comparison showed as we smashed the visitors 6-0 to progress to the Semi Final. Veikkausliiga: After a tough couple of months in terms of finding form and finding ourselves again, we seemed to be back to our old selves as a 6-0 win in our last game and a 4-1 win away at EIF (Ekenäs IF) in this league game saw us play some great football. Although we went 1-0 down here, we never really looked like losing as an own goal, and goals from Joni Kallio, Sami Haapiainen and Brecc Ugarte gave us a well-deserved victory. Veikkausliiga: It felt good to be back playing like our old selves again as once again we played some beautiful stuff with right back Erik Kivisto grabbing a brace and new signing, Lehlohonolo Sutu grabbing a 3rd goal for us, his 4th goal in 3 games since arriving from Orlando Pirates for £300k at the start of the month. Veikkausliiga: We finished July off with a dominate display against AC Oulu at their place as Niki Mohamed opened the scoring for us in the 37th minute. The hosts were reduced to 10 men just before half time which made it difficult for them to get back into the game, and we took full advantage as Brecc Ugarte sealed the points for us with 20 minutes left. Monthly review: A much better month for us performance wise as we looked confident and strong in all 3 of our Veikkausliiga games which extends our lead at the top of the table to 8 points after 16 games. We also progressed to the Semi Final of the Suomen Cup after easily disposing of KPV, who were once a league rival to us and pipped us to the Ykkösliiga title in 2026. Looking back, losing out on the Ykkösliiga title to KPV was the best thing for us as it allowed us another season in the Ykkösliiga to develop. Funny how things turn out! One other worthy piece of news this month was the arrival of South African promising youngster Lehlohonolo Sutu who joins us from Orlando Pirates for £300k. He looks like a fantastic prospect and is rapid down the wings, so it was no coincidence that our performances seemed to have picked up since his arrival. The only disappointment is that despite a lot of negotiations with his agent, I had to include a minimum fee release clause of £875k which means we could lose him to a bigger club for peanuts if he continues to develop as my staff say he will.Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:14:20 +0000I wonder if blind intakes are only common to clubs that get their intakes at different times to the standard Euro intakes I’ve not had a single offer from a Norwegian club. But one from the Google-Pixel Frauen Bundesliga. OddWed, 08 Apr 2026 15:08:36 +0000Installed it and it works great nice one! Question for you @MW90 - when I copied the pictures into the Managers folder they showed up in the game instantly, unlike when I add a player picture I need to reload the game Is there something different in how the managers and players pictures loads why this is different?Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:05:36 +0000Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:03:23 +0000Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:01:14 +0000UPDATE: We are PROMOTED!!! We won the play-offs after a tough game against Buxton in the final; the league table ended as such. I also decided to look at how Wrexham got on as they get promoted or even relegated, which affects our overall mission. They finished mid table in the Championship, which means they remain where they were, so we're still 3 leagues below them. Our star of the season was Otchere, whose on loan from Leicester. He scored some incredible goals for us and even assisted a lot as a target forward. Sadly, I don't think we'll keep him for next season as Leicester will want him potentially at a higher level. As you can see from our squad view, Otchere was on some form. He and White stuck out the most. Emmerson also joined in on the goals as a backup striker. As we can see from the stats, most of our goals were scored from crosses and were scored with headers. We achieved our style brilliantly and got our promotion. Next, we have a transfer window and will be hoping for some good loan moves. I'm also hoping to get an affiliate club to loan some decent players from. Our targets are strikers and wingers as we lose a lot of them due to players returning to their parent clubs this summer. Stay tuned for the summer recap.Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:01:00 +0000Yet more issues in this game... European competitions include predicted league tables, which is a nice touch until you realize that this table includes teams who never reached the league phase: In a 36 team league phase, 82 teams are listed. Why? Another thing... when you hover over games won, lost, or drawn in the league table, they're don't contain relevant information if the team in question played playoff phase games to reach the league phase - the games won, lost, and drawn, will only include playoff games won and lost. The amount of sloppy work in literally every aspect of this game is truly insane. I've lost total respect for the devs and those at the top. This should have lead to sackings. To release such an unfinished game, and to have every subsequent patch and update create more bugs and issues is unforgivable.Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:00:31 +0000Tempting, but no thanks.Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:58:30 +0000https://community.sports-interactive.com/featuretracker/football-manager-feature-requests-pcmac/1384_user-interface/tactics-for-b-teams-and-u19-r1052/Its very improtant for youth developemt to have the freedom to tweek tactics and lineups for u19s and b teams-FM LOCK IN AND AD THIS BACK!Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:49:49 +0000Well done you! Not all heros wear capesWed, 08 Apr 2026 14:47:07 +0000Are you trying to connect to a different user from a different country?Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:34:26 +0000Hey, thank you for the update. We have made changes to player database loading and during that, there may be brief moments where some parts of the game might not be as responsive until the list loads. The soft lock, please can you provide a video for this so we can take a closer look at it? Is the issue present when loading a database or does it happen after this? The more information we receive, the easier it is for us to try and identify the cause of it. Thank you 🙂Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:33:08 +0000