darthcraven

I’m pretty sure I’ve posted about this before, but it would be really useful to be able to focus loans of a youth player to a certain level of league. My current save managing a top division team in Portugal is my most recent example of this, but it’s not a new issue. It can be frustrating when a young player goes out on loan and tears up the third tier and then the next season not get loan offers from fourth their clubs! It would be great if I could specify I wanted loans only from second tier teams (or the equivalent from another country, based on league rating). It would also be helpful if a league rating for the requesting loan team’s league was shown in the request (or somewhere) so I could reasonably judge whether a loan to a team in a league I know nothing about made sense or not. Sending a kid to the Cypriot first tier may sound good but if that is a level below the Portuguese fourth tier, I’d like to know before accepting. Being able to stipulate playing time as a condition would also be nice. I find myself having to scout a potential loan partner’s squad before agreeing, because often they will request a player when they are loaded at the position, which leads to zero minutes played and a wasted loan. That ended up longer than planned, sorry!

Appreciate. I’d be interested to know if you find anything!

The last time it happened (which prompted this post) was against a big powerhouse club, but nothing else was special about the match; it wasn’t a cup match, or late in the season or anything.

I’ve come across a few times, something I think might be a glitch in the game. Late in close matches the keeper will request to run up the field. But when I don’t want them to and press cancel, the request just reappears over and over. Eventually I feel I have no choice but to agree, simply to progress in the game. It has cost me goals more than once.

1. I will look for this 2. sneaky devils! Is this more likely with smaller clubs that big ones? Or when your finances aren’t too secure? Clever…

1. When I started playing the game I used to get the pop ups for players getting a knock, or keepers joint set pieces. I realize I don’t get them anymore; I noticed when I had a player on a hat trick and was awarded a pen and I wasn’t asked whether he should take it. If there is an option for this, I can’t find it! 2. I don’t think this is unique to this year, but it can be very frustrating when you aren’t given your transfer budget until well after the window opens. In my most season, it was two weeks into the window! Players I scouted have all moved or signed new contracts while I had no money to do anything. Is that by design? thanks!

Very true. Like real life. But unlike real life, I have no idea of the market value of a player. I had a goal keeper who wanted out after I got relegated. His value in his profile went from $1m+ to 40k. I got offered 200k. Based on ‘value’ that seems great. I pushed it up to a bit more, but after the sale his value now shows $1m+ again. Thats all fair, but in the game I have no idea, whether by a news item or advice from staff, of what he might fetch on the market so I have no idea how to approach negotiations. I also don’t have a way to see his past value (I just happen to remember). Common sense wouldn’t have me counter a 200k offer with $1.5m, but in real life I would have some idea of what he might actually fetch. Some way of providing the player with some guidance there would be very welcome, because in real life a manager or sporting director would never enter a negotiation without that information. thanks

I’m sure it’s about money. Netflix will pay you more for exclusivity. Seems an easy business decision if you’re looking to secure guaranteed income.

Is it normal for a sufficiently small or obscure club to have no youth intake at all and to have no scout and be unable to find any scout interested in the job? right now I’m in season two with no scout and placing an ad or offering to senior players has come up empty. it’s the Japanese third division, if that matters. thanks

i've always enjoyed starting with a smallish club and working my up and perhaps onto other, bigger jobs. in that vain, i've started in the Japanese third division for my new save. i'm enjoying the challenge! the team doesn't have a scout, and doesn't have money for one currently, but even when i did have money for one, i put out an ad for applicants and got none! senior players are also not interested. this means i have no scouts and no way of getting any right now. maybe this is as designed, but wanted to point it out. i'll see how it goes as i progress. perhaps related, is the fact that i also have no youth intake in season one. zero players. oddly, i still get reports from the assistant manager about how none of the players, of which ther are none, are up to the mark. so i wonder if that's normal with a sufficiently small or obscure club, or if it's because it's my first season and it'll improve with club fortunes or maybe becasue i don't have any scouts? a seperate note about budgets. there are some facets of how they are handled in game that are very frustrating. for instance, a club with very little money rightly imposes maximum slaries, etc. But when a contract or offer is for a future transaction (extension or transfer in a future window), it would seem much more reasonable for the club brass to consider that fact. For example, i was barred from extending my best striker because his salary is above the maximum allowable currently. but he's already making that now, and there is a lot of salary coming off the books at the end of the season. if budgets don't reset in game by the time the season ends i could end up losing him while i'll be able to afford him easily a day later. the same with buying out a good loan player--i can't buy out the loan as i have no transfer funds now, but in the next window at the end of the season i will have money and many players leaving... but his loan will be over a week or two before the conracts end and the window opens. it would be much better if the board could employ some forward thinking as i think teams do in real life. thanks for listening!

It’s showing up on the App Store as of 15 minutes ago when I looked.

This got me thinking about one other thing… it would be nice to see a player’s value over time. A graph or some such, perhaps with points highlighted for sale prices when the player was sold. I would find it fun to watch the value fluctuate, especially for youth players and also to see how you’ve made out with selling on players for profit.

Thanks for the response. I may stop rejecting those loans out of hand! and the minimum level would be great. For a player to develop, he should want to increase his level each year if he does well!

Something that’s always bothered me about loans, and I wonder if it’s been changed in FMM24 (and if not, please consider for future versions): it would be great if you could specify the minimum level of league of a loan for a player. There’s nothing more than having a hot prospect tear up the National League one year and then having to reject countless offers from the north and south leagues the next offseason when I want him to move up a league or two. It would also be nice if there was an easy way to see what league they were playing in on their current loan—the loan him shows the team name but not what league they are in, which requires several taps and swipes to discern if you don’t already know; and that’s difficult because they move and it could be in a country whose table you don’t know well. a slightly related question is the issue of leagues that don’t have simulated matches. If a player goes on loan to a sufficiently low league that isn’t fully simulated, it shows no fixtures. In real life those teams obviously play matches (this goes for lower leagues and also the reserve squads for many teams as well). Do the players on loan develop on those loans, or am I just wasting my time? thanks

OK that’s fair if the ‘revolutionary’ changes have slowed down. I expect that is largely sure to financial and business realities of the different versions as well as having a game that’s very good and works… less revolutionary change needed. From what I see, many of the features often requested would amount to fundamentally changing the game and what it’s supposed to be. as was suggested, I think those folks are playing the wrong version!