The_Batmantis

@Michael SantThis is not triggering in my current save. I've reached the CL group stage. But there appears to be no way to initiate the transfer or pay the fee. I'm wondering... is it possible the mandatory fee logic doesn't trigger if there aren't enough transfer funds available? Uploading a save file: DekiClause - Tottenham.fm

My Loan Officer is now rejecting multiple offers on his own as well.

Thank you, I was just returning to amend this because I'm farther in the season now and the buttons are appearing as expected. Please disregard, this example was from early in the preseason.

Cheers Zachary!

I don't disagree. Saka is a fantastic player and I think he's rated pretty properly.

Saka in-game has higher mental and physical attributes than the current PL Golden Boot winner who was also 11th in Ballon d'or voting. He's not underrated.

Makes sense. I've just started my save so I'll report back after getting through a season or two if I see something off either way. Match Engine feels nice at first look. Thanks Pete.

Thanks for checking. That's really odd he's 3rd in CA because, I feel like I'm not seeing that reflected in the attribute pages I posted? All those players are Championship RB/RWBs (some are on loan).

Hojbjerg's combined passing attributes are too low for his performance. He's proven to be an excellent passer of the ball for a long time now. I've included his comparison graphs to all midfielders over the past year. He's well in the 90th percentile in nearly every important area. https://fbref.com/en/players/8b04d6c1/scout/365_euro/Pierre-Hojbjerg-Scouting-Report I think the main attributes to look at improving are: Passing - 13 Vision - 13 Technique - 13 Decisions - 12 Currently, in the same squad, Ben Davies is being rated as a better passer and that's well off the mark. I've also included Bissouma's passing comps over the same time period. In these 4 core attributes, Bissouma has the much higher rating and, in all honesty, I think their passing attributes could be entirely swapped and it would be more representative of the actual players. Here I'm trying to highlight the specific discrepancy in passing, but overall Hojbjerg is an excellent player. He's been a key player for multiple top managers and I don't believe his current attribute spread reflects his overall performance.

Djed Spence was a crucial part of one of the best EFL Championship sides last season. He won EFL Championship Player of the Month and Young Player of the Month in March 2022 while also scoring the Goal of the Month. https://www.efl.com/news/2022/april/djed-spence-scoops-young-player-of-the-month-award/ He was also named in the EFL "Football Manager" TOTS: https://www.efl.com/news/2022/april/football-manager-efl-team-of-the-season-line-ups-announced/ As well as being named in the PFA Championship TOTS: https://www.thepfa.com/news/2022/6/9/pfa-awards-22-championship-toty I explain this to then make the assessment of his attributes compared to other Championship RB/RWBs. I've included comparisons from game start with zero attribute masking. First I looked at 4 other top rep/value RB/RWBs in the Championship (Aarons, Baldock, Bogle, Roberts) Djed's attribute spread is well below each of them. This is particularly the case in terms of mental attributes, which makes some sense when compared to older much more experienced players, but doesn't seem accurate when compared to Aarons/Bogle who are both nearly the same age and experience level. Keep in mind that Djed has over 100 Senior appearances now. So then I started looking at other young RB/RWBs in the same league with similar appearance numbers (Ngakia, Hayden, Sanderson, Laird). I'm seeing more favorable attribute spreads (for the specific position) in these players when compared to Djed even though they have not performed at the same level across a season. Now, I understand Djed only has one excellent season on the books. But based on my napkin analysis (and without use of the full database editor) it appears that he's being rated well below many other Championship RB/RWBs including those who are younger and have shown far less in terms of performance. I don't want to single out any specific attribute, but I think this demonstrates that Djed should get a significant bump to his current attribute spread. He was regarded as the best RWB in that league last season and his attributes are not close to reflecting that. I'd be curious to know where his CA ranks compared to all Championship RB/RWBs. My guess is he currently wouldn't even be in the top 10.

Son's freekick rating is far below where it should be. It's unclear why he doesn't take all free kicks for Spurs (Kane demands to take most of the direct opportunities and his FK rating of 10 is more than fair). https://theathletic.com/3633452/2022/09/28/son-should-take-spurs-free-kicks/ But Son has scored multiple excellent free kicks in the past year for South Korea, including recently scoring a FK goal in two consecutive matches: https://www.reddit.com/r/coys/comments/xm3v60/sonny_specialises_in_free_kicks_a_collection_of/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzKs79h2nYw Son also makes regular excellent free kick deliveries from indirect situations including these match winners: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZkfo2vWbwU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdqBO4FAx68 These are all from the past year only. I'm not even showing older examples.

Hojbjerg at Spurs is listed as a "Squad Player". Yet he's played 1,330 minutes this season out of a possible 1,350. That's more minutes than Son. Last season he started 36/38 PL matches with 3,200 PL minutes total (3rd on the team). He's not a squad player. Bissouma at Spurs is listed as an "Important Player" but Conte has publicly stated that he's struggling with the "tactical aspect" and that he's only likely to be used in a midfield 3 at the moment. His minutes reflect this and Hojbjerg and Bentancur are clearly preferred and have a higher squad status. I think it's been posted elsewhere, but Hugo and Forster at Spurs have their squad statuses reversed.

This seems to be a lot of wasted space to then be hiding core attributes of a player on the "Attributes" page. Also, why is so much space being devoted to statistics on the attributes page? The page should focus most on what it's stated purpose is. It shouldn't be giving priority space to past performance. But it should show everything possible about the attributes that effect how the player performs.

Hojbjerg at Spurs is listed as a "Squad Player". Yet he's played 1,330 minutes this season out of a possible 1,350. That's more minutes than Son. Last season he started 36/38 PL matches with 3,200 PL minutes total (3rd on the team). He's not a squad player.