mdaw1985

It's a tricky situation. Sometimes you can challenge them to earn a new contract and then give them a very demanding target like averaging more than 7.4 per match. I've used the average rating one a few times especially in contract talks where they want regular starter status next season and I'm pretty sure they will fail the target and stay as a squad player. Occasionally that works. Sometimes not and you either cave in, just refuse and risk an unhappy squad or sell up. I had it with Jarrel Quansah in my Turkish team Goztepe. After just one season at the club he demands he should have a better contract to justify his current ability. When I ask the agent how much it went from about 18k current contract to about 40k. I annoyed him and told him he had to earn it. We fell out and I loaned him to a club in spain. Luckily I had a good cheap replacement lined up. After he came back he was still annoyed but strangely after a little while he didn't want to leave anymore and his demands were such that we agreed a fair deal. You can always use the line that the club simply can't afford to give you a new contract. That has also worked for me before. Normally with more professional personalities.

Depends which leagues you have played before or more recently if you want different. Maybe select some leagues you don't know much about and get click the random team option. Obviously if it picks a team in the top league do it again. I'm finding Turkey quite fun. Goztepe from the second tier. Won it and got promoted to super league and I've managed to topple the giants and now won 3 super leagues in a row. More of a challenge would be Bursaspor in the 3rd tier. MLS with all it's weird rules might be fun if you can be bothered to work it all out. I've never tried.

Wow, I've not seen that personality before. The fact you have got up to balanced sounds pretty good. I don't use in game editor either so I don't really know how much needs to change but it sounds reasonably substantial. I seem to be producing quite a lot of players with unambitious personalities. In previous FM's I've always found players with this personality never play well for me. Yet before I signed them or after I sell them they are great. I'm quite lucky that I have found a fairly young model citizen and a determined couple of Chileans for my Turkish team that seem to be helping some of my youth in a mostly positive way. Unfortunately they are both wanted by Saudi clubs and both have minimum release fees so probably won't be around much longer.

A bit late to the party, Burton Albion. They use England teams facilities. A bit more random try something of a fallen giant like Bursaspor in Turkey. Excellent senior and youth facilities and a 42k stadium sitting in the 3rd tier. I have myself as my first and only save on FM24 (only had it a few months) started with a Turkish team Goztepe. First Turkish save I've ever tried. Facilities are not good. Slowly upgrading with success after 4 seasons. TV/Prize money is very low compared with major leagues so it's making it quite interesting compared with what I've done in previous FMs.

To be fair by the sound of the success you have had and the money you have in the bank it does seem odd that they won't upgrade the youth facilities at least to a good level. It took a long time for me in FM22 with a team I took from nothing to the top of German football to be allowed to get top youth facilities. I managed to get to superb facilities relatively quickly once I established European football and had some good money in the bank from big sales etc. Club reputation definitely has a bit to do with it. The board only allowed me to ask for an upgrade to top youth facilities once I'd won the champions league and gained a 5 star rep. I think I got top senior training facilities at 4.5 star. With regards to stadiums my only experience was with the same save I mentioned before. When I gained promotion from liga 3 my stadium wasn't big enough. They decided to rent Leverkusen's stadium. I think it was after 2 years there a new the club decided we should move back to Bonn and build a new stadium. The club had very little money maybe 1m in profit and took out a 25m loan and built a 15k stadium. That took 1 season to locate a site then another season to build. My stadium the got expanded pretty quickly as I got promoted to bundesliga the season we moved to the new stadium. Pretty sure I maxed it at 31k although I do remember a news item saying it could go to 32k. The board never let us go beyond that. Also wouldn't build a new stadium but I have seen that FM doesn't let you leave for at least 20-25 years from a new stadium. No idea if it is relevant in FM24?

I think I see what he is saying, if a few players came to him and said they want pay rises and got refused with the reason they can't afford it, then those players in reality would tell the rest of the dressing room and you wouldn't get every player asking as they would already know what's coming. The AI just isn't that advanced.

At least in FM22 in a long term save I upgraded to max facilities from adequate over the course of the save. My board to be fair were pretty good about upgrading until I hit superb. Then once my teams rep got to 4.5 stars training facilities were then able to be asked for an upgrade to state of the art. Youth facilities only came up as an option after I'd won the champions league and got to 5 stars. So I'd say it's partly rep related and also down to your chairman/board (ambition and youth priority. Finances will also play a part. They will need to be there to complete the upgrade but also depends possibly how good the financial management is. I tended to ask once we got some money in after promotion and staying up etc. The main problem I have with the board is trying to get a second new stadium. I got a new stadium 4/5 years in. I was there 14 seasons maxing capacity for 5 seasons after all expansions had been completed (which they were very good about expanding) but they won't entertain a new stadium even though I can ask and even put forward and argument. They just say we can achieve here without moving. It's a 31.4k stadium in Germany. Not sure if it's because there is a hidden thing in the game that you have to be in a stadium 20 or 25 years that I've seen mentioned before. So it's ok but I want more capacity. Same goes for feeder clubs. Got to a certain amount but the board won't budge.

In FM22 I found the same thing. I won 9 out of 10 in la liga titles and multiple long runs in the champions league and my sponsorship was still only 8th in la liga with real betis on about 7.5 million a year. 4.5 star rep for many years. I did notice after season 8 when real Madrid dropped out of the champions league places in la liga that Atletico Madrid seemed to take the equivalent of Reals sponsorship and the 2 pretty much just swapped their sponsorship income. I believe we're roughly 55m and 70m. Next nearest were only on 20m. Barcelona had the highest I think but I can't remember what that was.

A few factors involved. If your chairman/person has low ambition or youth importance (I think that's the stat) then they aren't likely to come up as options to upgrade. Also club rep plays a part. At least on FM22 it has for me. I took a bottom club in Germany from liga 3 to the top and only once I'd won the champions league and club rep went to 5 stars did my board allow me to upgrade to state of the art youth facilities. However they did allow me to get to superb quite quickly. My thing now is to try and get my second stadium built. Current one is 12 years old and 31000 and I think has reached max capacity. Board won't build a new one. Been asking for 3 years.

Roma and Lazio also share stadio olimpico in Rome.

I too am in a long term save on FM22. I looked into in editors yesterday strangely. I came across one from FMscout. It's free to get and view stuff but will need to pay to use it. I'm pretty sure you can change kits on it. I only wanted to gain access so I could see what my clubs rep was in figures rather than stars compared to other clubs that are 5 star reputation. Turns out my club has a rep of 8904 out of 10k. I'm assuming if it hits 9k you go to 5 stars.

Hi all, It's always been slow but usually I've managed to save the game to the cloud (FM22). It usually only lets me have 2 saves in in there or it just stops saving or won't load the save. I've deleted all but one and even that won't save or very inconsistently will save. It's annoying because I play on a laptop when travelling etc and prefer to play on my computer at home. It's suddenly become an issue over the last week where it barely ever saves. I'm using epic game store. Any suggestions on why this would start happening now?

I'd imagine that the fines just reduce your wage expenditure and that's it. Probably not shown anywhere specifically but that's coming from someone who hasn't looked and still playing FM22 as I'm not done with a long term save before going to FM23 which was free. I've only just started fining players recently. I never realised it had much effect. I certainly haven't noticed all that much difference personally. Maybe doing it consistently over a few years I will notice it more with younger players. Even with fines I'm suffering the same slump in form I did last season at the exact same moment 😂. Oh well, looks like Bayern Munich will win the league again.

If it is limited to time then I hope it isn't too many years. If my club keeps growing as it is, I should be out growing it in 3 or 4 seasons.

I stumbled across a narrow 433 that's working really well. It is FM22 so I don't know if this was popular or not. Previous to this I was playing this with two wide players instead but playing out from the back and offside trap on. I have tall forwards so playing out from the back isn't as necessary to keep possession. I've found that offside trap just doesn't help when playing against good players. The only thing I change when playing better teams is the DM to a DLP on defend. All players are set to hard tackling. Yes I do get a fair amount of cards but we do win back the ball well. Im 10 seasons in and I originally started the save playing 4132. This tactic has been used for around 1 and a half seasons and not lost many.