WojciechZed Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 I think one unrealistic thing about this game is how managers from other teams are often reported to have been seen at a match to watch one of your players that they are interested in. This doesn't tend to happen in football, unless of course it is an international manager. I recently had West Ham manager Pellegrini seen at the stadium in my midweek Russian league game to watch a player he was interested in. Really? Should he not be with is club in mid week, preparing for the weekend game? It would be better if it said scouts were at the match from a certain club. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunner86 Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 Arsene Wenger used to do it all the time https://www.givemesport.com/836863-arsene-wenger-spotted-watching-transfer-target-riyad-mahrez-against-psg Midweek games when you don't have a match is the best time to do it. Training is normally done by early afternoon, and you can get to most of Europe from London within 3-4 hours. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nie jem frytek Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 This happens all the time in real life 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WojciechZed Posted September 27, 2019 Author Share Posted September 27, 2019 Er, not it doesn't happen all the time in real life. Name me the last time that you saw the manager of a Premier League team seen at a stadium in a foreign country to scout a player. Now what you might get, is some scouts attending games and then once they decide to give the player a thumbs up, the manager might, on occasion, take one trip to take a look at him themselves. In FM though, you get messages numerous times about a manager being at a stadium to see a player. Can you imagine Guardiola being seen at say, Sevilla games, 3 or 4 times in a row, during the season, to watch a player? It doesn't happen. The fact that one manager used to do it doesn't make it common. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunner86 Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 4 hours ago, WojciechZed said: Er, not it doesn't happen all the time in real life. Name me the last time that you saw the manager of a Premier League team seen at a stadium in a foreign country to scout a player. Now what you might get, is some scouts attending games and then once they decide to give the player a thumbs up, the manager might, on occasion, take one trip to take a look at him themselves. In FM though, you get messages numerous times about a manager being at a stadium to see a player. Can you imagine Guardiola being seen at say, Sevilla games, 3 or 4 times in a row, during the season, to watch a player? It doesn't happen. The fact that one manager used to do it doesn't make it common. You are right in a sense, but IRL it's generally not the managers that have the sole responsibility with the signing of players anymore (at least at the top levels). So you will generally see scouts and then when a club is seriously interested, Technical Directors, DoFs etc will go. FM however is a world where the manager does have sole control of transfers, so it would make sense that they go and scout the players. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckles1234 Posted September 28, 2019 Share Posted September 28, 2019 Reading Ferguson's book "leading" at the moment. Talks about how he missed two days midweek to watch a player internationally. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
djpdavey Posted September 28, 2019 Share Posted September 28, 2019 I heard you can increase the chances of a player being interested in signing by watching him. How do you do that? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WojciechZed Posted October 1, 2019 Author Share Posted October 1, 2019 By the way, in my save, Pellegrini has been seen in Russia at numerous games to watch 34-year old Branislav Ivanovic, a player he has his sights on. Yeah, because he wouldn't know anything about him from his time in England, and has to watch him play in Russia, just to be sure. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
priority76 Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 On 01/10/2019 at 14:56, WojciechZed said: By the way, in my save, Pellegrini has been seen in Russia at numerous games to watch 34-year old Branislav Ivanovic, a player he has his sights on. Yeah, because he wouldn't know anything about him from his time in England, and has to watch him play in Russia, just to be sure. You seem determined to let this ruin your experience of the game. Allow the game some poetic licence for goodness sake! Anyway, Ivanovic hasn't played in England for two and a half years I'm sure he's not the same player he was then. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WojciechZed Posted October 2, 2019 Author Share Posted October 2, 2019 16 minutes ago, priority76 said: Anyway, Ivanovic hasn't played in England for two and a half years I'm sure he's not the same player he was then. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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