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If your team dominate Europe with your favourite player, what's the issue? Does it matter that your squad's average determination isn't the highest when you're winning anyway? If you sell Palmer in order to maximize one attribute within your team, that's your decision, not something the game forces you too.

You can become a researcher: https://community.sigames.com/forums/forum/767-football-manager-research-and-scouting/

Only care about it when I'm new at a club and have yet to know all the players by myself.

Can't you pick a date for another nation in january or february 2024 and still select a club in MLS?

The picture show that 'niveau actuel' is 153. That is current ability right? So CA is 153, PA is 174?

"As a Man Utd fan..." Isn't it as something else haha? But I can't think of anything in the database stopping selection to the national team except from his home reputation. If that is very low it's unlikely that he will be selected.

The current age-restrictions for players shouldn't really be a problem for implementing U17 squads and competitions. There would likely not be complete IRL-squads in club teams but the game could fill those up with grey players like what is already done for other squads with few players. Also, considering competition that run during a calendar year (such as leagues in Sweden), the 2023 U17 squads consisted mostly of players born in 2006 and 2007, meaning most of them are eligible for FM24 anyway. Those players just populate the U19 squad in the game currently. The youth national team squads would certainly benefit from implementing U17 squads since those selections generally are heavily based on year of birth. Having 16-year olds selected for the U19 NT is immersion breaking to me.

Agree. All the coaches at the club should follow the development plan for each player, including using him in the position he is learning. I have suggested this before. If you see that player as an AML, every coach at the club should see him as that.

Of course some experienced players are nervous as well. Google Per Mertesacker. Acting confident when the manager talks to you despite feeling on the verge of breaking is not strange at all. Not saying that the game represent this perfectly but what you describe does not contradict logic.

One other thing to add here. Are wages actually that known within a team? I get that players that are close friends or share the same agent knows what the other one earns. But is it reasonable that a whole squad immediately learn what their new teammate gets?

Actually Nosaby players seems to have a day off on wednesdays lol

Being stuck with tuesdays and thursdays is the weirdest limitation in the game. It has never made any sense whatsoever. Afternoon sessions 3-5 days per week that you can shuffle around depending on the match schedule should be doable.

It's an estimate and a rough guideline and has never been anything else, who cares if it's one single value or a range? Trust your own judgement regardless. But when buying it's of course more reasonable to aim at the low estimate at first.

Well in most cases our guess still is better than if the game would somehow overwrite the data the researchers have put in. For every Cajuste there are 20 teammates of his in that youth team in FM16 that turned out precisely as semi-pro or amateur as I predicted back then. And hundreds more in other teams I cover. Would a random or 'dynamic' factor increase or even perfect the quality of that data in total? Simply no. It would do that only if that dynamic factor found exactly those players that would turn out better IRL than their PA suggested. And it wouldn't.