Ron Wandle

I have a talented 22 year-old goalkeeper. However, his Stamina attribute level is just 1. Will he make it, or should I write him off?

Actually, with the in-game editor, I can just move myself back to the same club - essentially get rehired. I can imagine that my chairman is highly temperamental and prone to emotional outbursts, and he ripped up my contract in a fit of pique, before coming to his senses.

They don't make Touch/streamlined version for PC any more.

I don't remember ever playing the game and not being sacked. Previously, I would add myself to the same team as a new incarnation of the same manager, Dr Who-style. I've just been sacked in my current game. My problem was that I was too successful in my first season. I was supposed to bravely fight relegation, but got promoted via playoff, after scraping into 8th place in the league. My players weren't able to keep up with my managerial brilliance and we got relegated on the final day of the season. I have the in-game editor, but hadn't activated the unsackable edit as I wanted to see if I could survive without cheating. I was hoping I'd be able to save after the final game and activate it if sacked before the sacking message came through, but, alas, the message came through immediately. So I'll reload the save from before the game, activate unsackable and go on holiday for the weekend, trying to match the result of the game.

Is it possible to see stats showing at which point during matches goals are most likely scored/conceded over the season?

Here are some real-world stats: https://i.imgur.com/LVALMV6.png https://www.football-observatory.com/IMG/pdf/mr68en.pdf

I'd been thinking myself that central defenders seem to lose stamina during a game faster than they used to.

In the Brazilian leagues, lower ones at least, competitive matches start about ten days after pre-season begins. In the first game of the current season, I lost 8-1 (away to Flamengo) and all my players were out of condition. What would be the best way to tackle this short pre-season?

The Clauses tab in Transfers mainly shows Sell On clauses. It would be more useful to have all clauses, or at least all the clauses relating transfers, such as relegation release clauses, minimum fee release clauses and so on.

The Scouting Range had gone to No Scouting, presumably because I'd spent all the scouting money. I notice that, even though I have zero Scouting Range, I'm still able to scout all the players in higher divisions that I've checked. It's supposed to cost a lot of money to be able to fund Scouting Range for higher divisions. For no Scouting Coverage I should only be able to scout players known to the club's staff. I guess my staff know a lot of people?

I'm no longer able to scout players. I get the message: "Outside Scouting scope - Not enough scouting budget". The players I want to scout are local and I have available funds in the Scouting budget. What's causing this issue?

Why does the Ability graph go up and down, when it isn't related to age, injury, unhappiness or playing time? For example, this guy, who's 26 years-old, plays regularly, hasn't been injured and doesn't have happiness problems:

I changed back to a back four as my primary tactic in training a few weeks ago, but the players are still unhappy about CD squad depth. I've played with a back three once or twice during that time. So either the players' unhappiness about squad depth is based on what tactics are played, or it takes players a while to notice that they are playing a different formation in training.

I don't have any reserve players and my youth players are all on loan. I'm not sure how much a 16 year-old youth prospect will add to squad depth, anyway. The problem is that the primary tactic gets trained on more than other tactics. For a top club using a back three and playing in continental competition, six centre-backs might be more realistic, but I don't think it is for a lower-league club.

Yeah, I've changed my main tactic to the back three version as I got promoted. It's a bit silly, as it effectively means one can't use a back three as a primary tactic. It would be better if the maximum number of required players for squad depth to satisfy squad happiness was five players. If one was playing a 3-5-2, one would probably only need five central midfielders. I'm fighting relegation, and would prefer to use the back three as my primary tactic, but doing so reduces morale across my entire squad.

I've twice been reprimanded in recent weeks for talking to the press. First time, a journalist wanted to ask me a question and I replied. Second time, it was after a press conference for talking about transfer policy, while answering a question about a player signing a new contract. Both times, the board have said they warned me not to speak about these things beforehand, but I don't recall any such instructions. Where do I find this out?

Most of my squad are unhappy at the lack of depth at centre-back. I have five senior centre-backs, all of 3-star rating or above. Sometimes I play with a back four (2 CD), sometimes I play with a back three (3 CD). I'm having enough trouble keeping five centre-backs happy and am going to have to loan or sell one or two. Six centre-backs would be excessive. I don't know whether I have to go and find an Breakthrough Prospect or an Emergency Back-Up centre-back who never plays, just to fill this unrealistic quota.

How do you deal with facing the sack/being sacked in Football Manager? There isn't a poll option for the thread, but these are probably the possibilities: A) Make self unsackable with in-game editor. B) Savescum by replaying matches until you win or keep redoing discussion with the board until they don't sack you. C) Reincarnate yourself as a new manager - twin, son etc - and join the same club as a new manager. D) Game over. Start brand new game. E) Keep playing as the manager and apply for a job with a different club. F) Something else.

You should be able to set this in Staff > Responsibilities > Transfers and Contracts. Make sure you press Confirm after making changes.

Maybe you had a short-lived pop music career before becoming a football manager?

I feel the difference between Peak and Excellent condition could be made more clear. They are slightly different shades of green. In the screenshot, André is in Peak condition, with the players either side of him on the bench are in Excellent condition: https://i.imgur.com/RhmXntS.png I actually didn't notice the difference for a while.

I signed a defender shortly before signing this guy who also asked for midfield reinforcements and he got his promise fulfilled early on. I've bought another midfielder since writing the OP and it immediately fulfilled the promise. So it looks like the reinforcements promise gets fulfilled instantly the new signing arrives. In which case, I think it needs to be checked to make sure that any signings that are made after a promise is made during contract negotiations and before the player arrives at the club count towards fulfilling the promise.

I was negotiating with a player and he asked for a promise to strengthen the midfield. Since I was in the process of signing three midfielders, I agreed. On the promises list, it shows I have 57 days left to fulfil the promise, and the promise progress bar is currently unfilled. Is this going to trigger later on when the 57 days are up, or has there been some timing problem, where the new midfield players arrived after I had offered the contract, but before the player I offered the promise to arrived at the club? If the promise will not be fulfilled, is it possible, when this happens, to discuss with the player so that he doesn't mind that the promise wasn't fulfilled? I don't mind reloading and trying different chat options, if necessary, to reach the desired outcome. Unfortunately, the in-game editor doesn't remove promises.

At what point is better to use players with higher Free Kick and Corner attributes on their wrong foot over players with weaker attributes on their right foot?

U20 and Reserve staff profiles, that is.