Enhanced Director of Football Interactions

[Mike_G25]

Love having the DOF in the game and I think it would be great to have more interactions with them.

When asking the DOF for recommendations for new signings in each position, it’d be nice to have more options like;

- age limit, so don’t recommend players over 25

- a specific personality request

- set piece specialist

- matches club vision requirement

- maximum current wage

- maximum current value

One of my pet peeves about speaking with the DOF is that, I find anyway, they more often than not recommend players on huge wages who can be too old for what I’m looking for. 
 

Another suggestion is that, if you ask your DOF to take charge of your transfers and contract negotiations, I’d like to give them more options and tweak the current approach of proposing they make bids to sign players one at a time. IRL, I often hear how managers have a list of targets that they give to the DOF who then goes away and tries to bring players in based on order of preference and priority. So you could have a week or so in game before the transfer window opens (or in recruitment meetings) where you have the chance to say ‘I want two new strikers and here are 10 names who I think would be great fit. This is my order of who I prefer, go and see who would be willing to join, fit in line with budget requirements and make bids.’ As the manager, you can then have the final say before the transfer goes through.

Just my two cents. 

[jayedson]

I fully agree and mentioned similar in the feedback thread. At the very minimum, there needs to be an adjustment to the nationalities and current wage of suggested players, then some additional logic and parameters you can give the DoF to work with would be really helpful.

An example of where the DoF transfer target suggestions are virtually useless are in leagues with strict rules on number of foreign players allowed etc.

In my current save in the J2 League, I am only allowed 4 foreign players in each matchday squad.

I have 6 foreign players in my squad so goes without saying I don't need anymore, I need to target domestic japanese players really.

Out of interest I asked my DoF for tranfer suggestions in every single position under every category (transfer, loan, end of contract and free transfer).

Out of 129 suggestions, given my current DoF has spent his entire playing and coaching career in Japan, how many of these suggestions do you think were Japanese?

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[Zachary Whyte]

Thank you for the suggestion, we'll put this under consideration for a future FM.