GrayMatter

2022/23 Overview We did rather well considering this was our start to proceedings... The Man Utd fixture was particularly embarrassing, I will let you suss that out by looking at the following screenshot: Say no more. As you will see, Falcao scored in this game, he's a favourite of mine to sign given his model citizen personality. 2022/23 Summer Incomings Arsen Zakharyan for £13m Illia Zabarnyi for £13m (£14.5m) Adamo Nagalo for £2.7m (£4.2m) Hal Robson-Kanu for free Sander Berge for £12m (£12.5m) Hakon Arnar Haraldsson for £5m (£6m) Daniel Carrico for free Sebastian Corchia for £650k (£1.2m) Radamel Falcao for £500k (£650k) Octavian Popescu for £2.3m (£3.3m) - loaned back to FCSB to gain a work permit Gabrijel Rukavina for £3m (£3.9m) Fran Garcia for £8.5m Jack Walton for £300k - P/Ex Armando Broja on loan for £1.3m I just want to caveat by saying that aside from Zakharyan and Garcia, all players were signed with lower fees up front, the initial fees before those in brackets are totaled with installments considered. For instance, I only paid £4.5m up-front for Zabarnyi with increases to £13m over the course of three year annual payments. I understand that without this context people would jump to conclusions about potentially cooking the books! Broja was a deadline day loan and I have categorically never seen him develop very well on FM so I decided to take a punt on him given that DCL is out injured. *U21 foreign players signed 2022/23 Summer Outgoings Asmir Begovic to Leicester for £3.8m Anthony Gordon to Leeds for £21m Tom Davies to Crystal Palace for £9m Seamus Coleman to Celtic for £1m Demarai Gray to Socchi for £5m Salomon Rondon to Dynamo Moscow for £1.3m Charlie Whitaker to Norwich for £700k Andy Lonergan to Barnsley - P/Ex I sell all players for money up-front, this effectively allows me to deal in installments on the transfers in. We brought in around £42m here on players that I had no intention of playing. Gordon would have been a starter (Iwobi works as a AMR, however) but I have too much of an affinity with Zakharyan to not trigger his £13m release clause - his ceiling is much higher than Gordon's too. I needed to sell Gordon in order to afford that up-front fee. Rukavina, Popescu and Haraldsson are also versatile players and can play on either flank. 2022/23 Winter Incomings David Brooks for £26m (£30.5m) Nicolas Seiwald for £24m (£27.5m) Tim Ronning for £1m (£1.5m) - loaned back to IF Elfsborg to gain a work permit I probably overpaid for Brooks but I feel he's a great buy as an inside-forward and contributes to the home-grown quota. Seiwald I don't believe I've ever had before but his attributes are incredible as a box-to-box midfielder. Sadly, he has a £48m release clause so I'm hoping that isn't activated anytime soon. 2022/23 Winter Outgoings Mason Holgate to West Ham for £12.75m Yerry Mina to Southampton for £2m Andros Townsend to Udinese for £5m Same principle as the summer outgoings, sold all of these for money up-front to supplement my January transfers. I still had around £20m of money left in the transfer kitty at the end of the window given my wheeling and dealing on installments. EFL Cup DCL was outrageous in this game, absolutely unplayable. Our run-in to the final was: Cardiff (H), West Brom (A), Forest Green (H), Brentford (H) and Hull City in the semi-final. Those somewhat easier fixtures didn't build any complacency though as we usurped a Haaland-less Man City. DCL's Performances in 2022/23 Elite clubs sniffing around him, it may well be time to do an 'Everton' and sell our prized asset.. All will be revealed on the next update. Armando Broja's Performances in 2022/23 I had quite a strong rotation policy, initially I started with a 4231 and Falcao, Broja and later DCL were rotated heavily. However, from January I created a 424 with a false-nine and advanced forward which improved our fortunes. Broja was potent playing either role despite his horrendous passing as his height and pace, much like DCL was a constant threat to opposition. Without spoiling too much for my second season, Broja has improved massively and even I'm surprised by how rapidly he has developed considering he tends to stagnate while at Chelsea.

Leicester always give you £3.8m for Begovic. If you offer Tom Davies out for £9m, Crystal Palace will give you that much for him too. You can get £1m for Coleman from Celtic too. Aside from that, you have to get a few days into July but Sochi have given me £5m for Gray on a couple of occasions and because I bought a player from Dynamo Moscow - they gave me £1.3m for Rondon. Aside from that I also sold Anthony Gordon for £21m to Leeds but I'd imagine the vast majority of Evertonians would want to keep him!

Welcome to the FM23 Everton thread Supporting Everton much of my existence has brought a roller coaster of emotions: from the steady-eddy times under David Moyes to the turbulent dross that has succeeded the consistent Scot. As an Evertonian under 30 years of age, naturally, the aim of any save is to win a trophy. With 9 Premier League titles and 5 FA Cup victories, Everton are still considered one of the more successful sides in England. The red side of Merseyside is currently leaving the blue side in their wake, Everton are currently in a long-term relationship with mediocrity and under achievement. Looking ahead, Premier League survival an absolute necessity in order to fulfill the long-awaited move to a new setting, the Bramley-Moore Dock stadium. You have a £2m transfer budget at your disposal with a trimmed squad that is still rich with high earners and a plethora of injuries to key players. What's not to love? Key Players Hot Prospects

A season on (finished 5th in my first year and snagged a UCL spot in the new format) and the squad is looking like this: GK: Tim Ronning, Branislav Dukic (newgen - looks ridiculous for his age) RB: Lander Arenal, Tino Livramento (£19m relegation release clause), Adis Jasic LB: Rayan Ait-Nouri (£13.75m), Victor Kristiansen (£5.5m), Melvin Bard (free) CB: Maro Katinic, Martin Georgiev, Marian Faryna, Ethan Ampadu (backup), Fredrik Nissen, Joao Fonseca (£3m), Armel Bella-Kotchap (£16m) DM: Rafael Luis (£4.5m), Dario Essugo, Jordan Henderson (free) CM: Martin Baturina, Martim Neto, Rares Ilie, Williot Swedberg (£11.5m) CAM: Gabriel Vidovic (£16m), Paul Wanner (£28m), Muhammed Damar (£17m) AML: Joao Veloso (£23m), Afonso Moreira (£1m - bought years ago), Chris Popov (loan) AMR: Danny Palmer (first season intake model citizen), Rodrigo Ribeiro, Jardell Kanga ST: Nelson Weiper (£18.5m), Jovan Milosevic, Jovan Zivkovic, Emre Tezgel (£17.5m), Muharem Huskovic - Armando Broja arriving for the start of the 2026/27 season for £5m up-front rising to £20m. Unfortunately Lazetic wouldn't sign permanently so I opted for Weiper instead who has been hit and miss! Also, keep in mind I installment to death with some of those players - I've hardly paid any money up-front whatsoever. Can't believe this man was purchased for only £1m. He's easily one of the best budget goalkeepers on the game.

Now in the Premier League with Shrewsbury, start of the season form led me to back-to-back promotions. I have a really interesting, youthful squad currently: GK: Tim Ronning, Filip Stankovic, Noah Raveyre RB: Lander Arenal, Timothee Pembele, Adis Jasic LB: Patryck Lanza, Amadou N'Diaye, Alonso Aceves CB: Maro Katinic, Martin Georgiev, Marian Faryna, Ethan Ampadu, Fredrik Nissen DM: Antonio Blanco, Dario Essugo, Wilgot Marshage CM: Martin Baturina, Martim Neto, Rares Ilie CAM: Faustino Anjorin (loan), Bruno Iglesias, Samed Bazdar AML: Stipe Biuk, Nemanja Jovic, Chris Popov (loan) AMR: Danny Palmer (first season intake model citizen), Rodrigo Ribeiro, Jardell Kanga ST: Marko Lazetic (loan), Jovan Milosevic, Jovan Zivkovic, Endrick (loan), Muharem Huskovic I always favour a Balkan approach with transfers, Lazetic has been on loan since League 1 and he has just gotten better and better!

Apologies on the constant posting but I have now uploaded a file where the slowdown doesn't happen. The file name is: Taming of the Shrews MF.fm It appears to be something to do with the January period in some way, I am perhaps thinking it is maybe players I've signed/trying to sign who don't have work permits on both of the other saves? I'm not entirely sure how that would cause the issues but it's plausible.

I've now uploaded a second save game of the same name (Taming of the Shrews.fm) where the performance slowdown started even earlier (at around 8th January 2024 compared to late January on the other save). I started this older save from 26th December 2023 and the issues started from around 7th January 2024, very bizarre. I appointed more scouts on this save to combat what was previously mentioned by yourself @Neil Brock but the slowdown still occurred - very dumbfounding and I'm really gutted because I love this save.

I have uploaded my save game that is experiencing these slowdowns, the name is: Taming of the Shrews.fm

Having the exact same issue, has happened really suddenly.

Did you manage to solve this? I am not experiencing this suddenly with FM23.

After @warlock relinquished the reins on managing this thread, I figured I'd set this up as I have become a stickler for a Shrewsbury save annually now. Mine is already underway and going quite well, currently in the Championship after a topsy turvy first season where I finished top of League 1 after chasing Plymouth all season and pipping them to the title on the last day. I plan to update this original post at a later date and update with starting transfer budgets for all football league clubs.

Got an Everton save on the go on the beta. Finished 4th in my first season which was a great success. As with my first save on every beta, I have gone crazy with installment deals with a hope of basically just juicing the team as much as I can in a short time frame. My main takeaways since putting the hours in since Friday: Nathan Patterson has been significantly upgraded and is now a model citizen, it's a must to play him as much as possible as he develops rapidly because of his personality. The squad is generally in a sorry state, as any Everton fan knows in real life. Alli, Gomes and Gbamin have proved extremely difficult to move on even after returning from their loans. Holgate and Doucoure similarly have been tricky to shift. Anthony Gordon is improved but potentially still not great. I may well have just got a low potential roll but the coaches seemed to think he wouldn't improve and hasn't since being sold. Dwight McNeil is as good as he has been on past editions. DCL is still prolific.