Mitza

I'm not sure if I can frame this as a bug, but Raphinha always starts as transfer listed by AI Barcelona. It's a bit odd since Barcelona are very thight on attackers and he's one of their best players. It's also a very low asking fee of around 34 mil.

I'm trying to publish an editor data to steam and it says it's successfull but it never shows up. And if I reload the editor data the image I chose dissappears every single time. Does anyone know what to do about this?

I'm incredibly dissappointed that the release clauses in Spain still haven't been updated to the real world equivalents. I don't think they have been updated in 5-10 years. Whenever you try to renegotiate a contract, the game ignores the existing real world clause and it starts from a much lower number during the negotiations. In my third division, most players have 3 mil - 10 mil clauses from their real life contracts. Renegotiating a 8 mil clause starts at 1.5 mil for the AI which makes it almost impossible to bring the clause back up and not pay at least twice in wages for the same player. Barcelona and Real Madrid players have 400 mil - 1 bil clauses for most of their players. When renegotiating any of these contracts, real life equivalents get completely ignored so a good player gets locked at a 100-130 mil clause. In today's market that's nothing for world class players. Yamal's 1 bil clause starts at 26 mil when first renegotiating. This leaves Spanish clubs in a massive disadvantage as other leagues can very easily poach top players for nothing.

Apologies if I may seem biased here but I'm really trying not to. Pedri has been underrated in the previous editions of FM and it seems to be the same in this edition. He's got 162 CA and 176 PA. In comparison, Camavinga - 165 CA and 180 PA Valverde - 168 CA and 175 PA Bellingham - 168 CA and 188 PA There is nothing to indicate that Pedri is below the three players mentioned above, him being constantly praised as one of the best midfielders in the world with potential to reach Xavi and Iniesta's levels. He won the golden boy award more than two years ago. The football world constantly compares Pedri and Bellingham as the next (if not current) top 5 midfielders in the world, yet he's 12 points below Bellignham's PA and he's fighting to reach Valverde levels in the game. It seems to me like there is a Madrid bias in rating these players. Not to mention Modric being the 3rd best midfielder in the game (CA wise) at 37 when he's clearly regressed a lot in the past two years. And also Gaving being way below the 5 players mention even though he's been punching at the same weight, especially this season.

I'm not sure if this is the right place to complain, but Pedri having lower CA/PA than Camavinga, Valverde and than Bellingham looks like very solid bias from the researchers.

Does the manager standby animation need to restart at every single tick when customizing your manager's face? Who approved this?

B team system is still very flawed, probably the most broken part of the game. Last time I wrote SI about it (bout 3 years now?) they said it's acknowledged and it's in plans for a rework. I refrain from managing in Spain or Germany just because of it

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Will there be any patch notes or detailed feature list at launch? Or do we just get the big feature blogs and we have to guess the rest?

Make sure you report this as a bug, it's really worrying

Lol you're just making things up - this is definitely a bug and it has been for a few editions, it's not a feature. I called it on the bug tracker a while ago and SI said that it's a known bug. It's not game breaking but it's very annoying. You could make your first signing of the 2024/2025 season and you'll get a message saying you hit the biggest transfer expenditure record in your club's history as it's registered towards the 2023/2024 season.

I use DLP and Mezalla plenty of times and it works fine

Has the transfer history finally been fixed? It's been a bug for 4+ years. I don't have FM24 yet so can someone check this for me? The bug was that if a team signs a player in the first weeks of the transfer window, it will show up in the transfer history of the previous window. And also, have they fixed going back and forth transfer history pages taking you to the current year instead of the year you were viewing?

Can confirm, not only with this bug but also the release clasues have not followed real life for some time. Fermin Lopez just got a 400mil release clause in his newest contract IRL and all the big names (Araujo, Pedri Gavi) have clauses of 1 bil nowadays, yet I'm seeing numbers of 100-150 mil max in FM. Even when you renegociate an existing contract the clause goes down from 1 bil to 100-150 mil.

This has been an issue since forever, English money is overpowered but it works even better in FM as other leagues struggle to keep up. La Liga always ends up 5th placed in my long term saves. The B teams system from FM hurts Germany and Spain A LOT as it's basically separating youth prospects into a non-existing, a lot weaker team that doesn't connect to the first team's facilities, coaches and play time. So the prospects don't develop and the first teams resort to **** transfers with the little money they have. Teams like Real Sociedad, known for their basque bias and amazing academy, end up more diverse than Central London and older than a Scorpions concert. Any half-decent prospect that develops to first team material gets immediately poached by the moneybags in the PL, so it's a rinse and repeat situation. Try managing a Spanish giant like Real Madrid or Barcelona some 7 years in - Every 100 CA player in the B team is on €2mil p/a and the first team stars on €20mil p/a. It's impossible they win anything long-term. Edit: I just checked and Real Madrid are paying a 19 year old academy player with 4 sub apps to the first team €4.87 mil p/a, and another one €4.95 mil p/a. Gavi is on €34.5 mil p/a. Atletico are paying a 27 year old of 145 CA (checked with editor) that they signed for €45 mil a grand €37.24 mil p/a.

This has always been a problem, and I'm very dissappointed that it hasn't been fixed in FM24.

I just used the tip and got myself a key, thanks. Do you only get the key once the game is out? I'm geting a bad gateway when I try to claim the key

This shows once again that SI does listen to community feedback. Half of the new features described are things myself and others constantly described or ran experiments for in feedback channels and they're actually fixing most of it. Youth development was strongly flawed in FM23, but it seems like it's going to be fixed. As the final version of 'classic' FMs, FM24 is shaping to be the best version yet.