Thebaker

2024 Table | Squad | Transfers This season was a bit of a struggle as there were very few players willing to join and the best of those wanted a promise to improve the training facilities which i is a promise i would'nt make as i could'nt fulfill it. A couple of spells of good form meant that the team did not spend long in the relegation spots and avoided relegation with 2 games to go. Not entered in the cup. Finances are poor with nothing i can really do to improve them, the team had the 2nd highest average attendence in the league. Carlsson was far and away my star player finishing as the league top scorer thanks to 5 Dfk's and 6 penalties. He would have had more assists if the other players could head a ball as his set pieces are great. I had to promise to improve the training facilities in order to extend his contract. The team was let down by the hopeless standard of the defenders and GK, the others strikers could be improved as well since they scored hatricks in one match and not much else. Season League Position Swedish Cup Europe Top Scorer Top Assists Attendance Training Youth Junior Youth Rec Notes 2024 D2 SG 9th Not entered N/A Carlsson(24) Carlsson(8) 314 Poor Poor Basic Limited

Good luck avoiding the drop, 1 win looks like it might be enough as the bottom appear in terrible form. Crespo looks a really good player and hopefully he does have a lot of potential. Not sure that Jesus is very good at all. Kujabi looks a better prospect with some good physicals and mentals, is he the first youth who is solely african?

I found loaning out the younger players to be the best bet rather than paying them more as they likely will not get many games and you can play u19's if you really have to. I found the S American market to be the best as they get spanish nationaliy in 2 years so don't take up the non-eu slot for long. Not sure there are many S American/African nationality players though

I told you that the money was good for this league, congrats on promotion. The salary cap is worked out on your income so it is different for every club I think you are overlooking Silas good attributes for his position, pace, technique, ball control, dribbling are all good for a winger at that age

I have started again in Sweden were i am sure i can be successful. I wanted a team in Malmo or Gothenburg as there are a lot of potential rivals in the top divisions. I had to holiday through 2 seasons and got Malmo City who are one of the smallest possible reputation teams. They had minimal facilties, no staff and only 13 players at the start. When i got some staff only 15 unattached players were willing to join, a few better players became willing during pre-season but most wanted me to promise to improve the training facilities which i cant do. The only good point about the club is they have a reasonable number of fans for a club at this level - a sellout of 500 for the first home league game! (although 150 were away fans from another Malmo club) Profile

Good to see this thread back up. @rlipscombe in Sweden the teams appear on 2 dates. 2 days after the last league game 12 teams enter the playoffs and play each other and the winner plays a team from L2 to get promotion (or stay in the league) so 0-6 new teams will be promoted. On the reset date of 26 dec another 12 teams will be promoted.

staff/responsibilities/scouting is what you want. Escalona looks really good with some potential still to go, has he played many games?

It doesn't show a range for the preview. However after using the editor and reloading a lot several years ago when it first came out, i am reasonably sure that is how it works. All the potential players have a range and the preview assessment is based on the range of the players which is how it can say that the best player is likely to be a striker. The problem is that i think the preview seems to be based on all the players coming through at the top of those ranges. This is why i said you may have been unlucky, as they could have been better. Do you have a HOD as i noticed that the u19 manager was responsible for the youth intake. The assessment also relies on the judging abilties of the staff which can be feeble, players with higher initial CA are rated highly when they may be almost at their potential.

the preview shows a range of PA (and CA) for the players. the players primary positions, names,DOB, nationalities are fixed. I think instead of telling you the possible range it is describing the players max possible PA in that range which you are unlikely to get. It is failing in how it is implemented, it would be better if the PA and CA were fixed at the preview and a more accurate preview given.

Having played in spain last year, there is a huge amount of loaning going in the bottom leagues. This is possibly due to the restrictions on wages needed to register players in the top two leagues and youths not earning this and the b team at too low a level. The preview i have come to the conclusion is the best intake you could have (since its still variable after the preview) but obviously most of the time you will not get that. With better facilities you will get much closer each intake unless you are really lucky each intake.

There does seem a big difference in the intake and preview, perhaps you have just been really unlucky twice. Maybe change your youth staff to at least improve the personalities coming through. Boards seem less keen on improving youth recruitment, mine is at limited and they will not improve telling me it at a sufficent level even though most other teams are better in that division. That is a really tough way to finish the season, have you looked at loans from La liga teams (african of course!). Its probably how the other teams do well. For comparision my supporter breakdown, obviously only a 10th of the number of fans.

the supporters are a tough bunch to please, what is their breakdown, a lot of hardcore?

I ran 1 season in swedens bottom level and the level of debt growing was really bad for that level with few players earning very little. SI have obviously tweaked club finances this year and battling debt is an unannounced FM23 feature.

TV money doesn't show up when looking at the league rules, don't think there is any prize money in La Liga either. All clubs in spain are in huge debt due to the league rules on paying certain wage levels, it doesn't seem to worry most boards. Below is the finances from my save in spain last year from starting in the bottom spanish league. 2025 club took out a loan, 2028 got promoted to the 2nd div, each year previously the board had put money in. The finances seem much worse in this years fm mind at any club from what i can see.

On the subject of signing youth players, i found when you get into the league above you can end up loaning the players out (and teams will want them!). I always sign all the players up and still barely had many players left to play in the youth team as the rest were all out on loan. That is a poor intake but the standard for an intake is much higher in spain and most clubs have average facilities rather than really awful facilities so produce players that can play in the first team every year.

Playing in spain in FM22, La liga teams got tv money of £30 million last year so just being in the league will solve most problems. The league below got much less tv money about 3 or 4 million but it still improves the finances hugely, i found finances not to be a huge issue from that point.

Good 1st season, surprised you did not sign Almany from the youths, looked like he could could come on to do a job as a sub. I tend to always sign higher potential players as the initial assessment could be wrong and 6 months later they are a 5 star player, the personality could also improve. A 2 star player is less likely to turn into good player. Finances are always a huge problem below the top 2 leagues when tv money comes into play.

Most of that bug report is correct, however they may be classed as rivals due to the fact that your team is a rival for them but not the other way round, ive seen that before in my save.

the top 2 levels from the other 5 leagues and all portugal leagues. My non-eu players tended to be British, N and S american, don't remember many africans counting as non-eu and i scouted the bigger countries looking for cheap stars, usually the top 3 clubs in that nation generate them or just look at the u20's. Ghana and Ivory coast are always good if you can get the players early ( french clubs seem to snap them up)

i played in spain last year and found it hard to often loan players out to the right level, usually it was too low. Young players often wanted a lot of money, almost as much as first teamers at times which considering you make a huge loss below La liga is an issue when you can't play the player (as you have 23 already) or get anyone to pay those wages on loan. I think there may be a lot more african countries counted as eu - The line African, caribbean, pacific group of state nations includes most of the rest of Africa (except the Northern countries) as far as i could tell.

The scouting is new this year and has been changed. My set up is like the one above with an age range of 15-50 and 1ss CA to 4 star potential, in 6 months i have 1 recommendation in the bottom league in sweden! The Keita thing could be a signing on fee, maybe that is now deducted from the transfer fund which would be a brand new thing.

The league below also has the same rules but slightly lower wages. Also the b team players can't play unless they are one of the 23. Players under 19 didn't need registering if on youth contracts and so could play - i didn't offer any FT contracts until they couldn't play at 19/20.

I had the filter blank and the parameters as wide as possible but in 4 months my scouts found no-one in sweden. I think it may be bugged along with that Keita transfer you had which seems wrong. Wait until you get promoted and then look at the registration rules where you have to pay players a certain wage to be able to register them if over 19. Federation 2nd was the lowest level playable last year in spain so Melila should be playable.

you can change it in preferences, can't remember which one mind, skin colours or something similar

red (16-20), green, orange, light blue for me @FelixForte- you can change the values of the scales in preferences