timothyburger

Going into player overview > happiness and lower their playing time expectations. There is a limit on how low they will accept and if they have recently signed a contract with a specific playing time, or just have enough status they won't let you lower them below maybe regular starter. Important player and especially Star Player are so tough to hit if you are playing in multiple competitions. Having a guy who is playing at least one game a week complaining about playing time is annoying, especially when they can't get back to 100% health. Sorry I rested you against the worst team in the league so you could play in the Champions League, what a bad manager I am.

If you put a decent squad on the II team they probably win promotion to a league you can actually view. Probably not great for the development of the guys you put on the II team until it gets to a suitable level, but if you are doing a long term save I think getting the II team to a good level is a nice tool.

I don't think this is a problem in game, but you do have to rotate a lot, especially when you are playing in multiple competitions and basically playing two games every week for the whole season. Only frustration is that players for other teams seem to have unlimited fitness, you can pretty much count on facing your opponents full A squad 95% of the time, even when they are also playing multiple games per week.

I am about to upgrade to FM23 and would really like to do a long term save with Sporting KC in MLS. I tried to do that in FM21, but the league salary cap and salary rules didn't really work in game. Has anyone played MLS on FM23, how is it, has SI finally made the league work well in game?