nms1987

Saturday at 03:05

I almost always play with a SK-D, I like my GK to not be useless with the ball but I don't want him being too adventurous, my main request is that he just not let the ball go in the back of the net. Not quite caveman keepers, but none of this keeper as midfielder nonsense.

But, as I am looking to bring in another GK option at the moment, I came across this interesting keeper in the second or third tier of Paraguay. 18 eccentric, 18 rushing out, 12 pace, 13 acceleration, 14 agility, 12 balance, 16 positioning,15 area command. Seems like this is an attack keeper, which I have literally never played with, and I'm wondering if I should give it a shot to try something new.

On the other hand his kicking, passing and decisions are only 9, first touch 10, vision 11. Aerial reach only 11 which I usually would avoid in a keeper.

But I am only in Portugal's Liga 2, so the standards to be a good player for me aren't so high.

If I was to give it a shot, what would a good tactic to make the most of him look like... very high lines, counter pressing and short passing for lots of possession? Any other ideas? What kind of players does he want around him?

And is it crazy to try to design a tactic around a keeper?

June 18

B teams in general need to get blown up and reworked. from scratch.

June 15

Travel periods in general need to get reworked. 1, yes, no need to travel home and then leave again in many cases. 2, in many leagues "away" games with travel aren't any more "travel" than a team traveling from their training ground to a home match. FM thinks Benfica needs to travel to and from Amadora or Sporting. It's a 20 minute walk!

I pointed out previously that this travel obsession makes the international tour feature unworkable. If you go on tour, your team will travel to and from and then to and from again every match. So there is no benefit to calling it a tour.

June 15

On 28/12/2023 at 18:37, BeeInExile said:

The game appears to compensate for this by generating African youth prospects at certain European and other teams, even though they are generated under the legal age for a transfer abroad, which is 18 years old. Essentially, Ghanaian teams do not generate players who will become great for Ghana, because European teams don't sign them so they can't reach their potential, so the game is set up to compensate by generating lots of 15 year old Ghanaians at Nordsjaelland. This is an (illegal) sticking plaster on the problem.

I've always assumed this situation was to reflect immigrant family kids, who are eligible for a different nation but came up in youth football in the club's nation. Kids with African parents but raised (and often born) in Europe. So, a Cabo Verdean kid from Lisbon.

But yeah, the lack of African talent in FM24 is so so aggravating. Something needs to be done, crazy that I can send scouts to Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Cameroon, Nigeria, ect and they come back saying "nah, nothing to see here"

I like the agent idea. Clever, and would make agent relationships more important in the game.

June 15

Agreed. I assume for top leagues that there is some stat database out there that tracks the average number of times in a time a post or crossbar will be hit. I would LOVE it for SI to then compare the amount of times it happens in an FM match in those same leagues and see how (dis)similar they are. It's every 10 min in some of my matches!

Would also love SI to do the same comparison for offsides calls...

June 7

Sometimes you'll be prompted in Press Conference to give guys a day off after a win, or cancel a day off after a loss.

Would be neat to be able to promise that in the preseason as a constant thing, as is often the case IRL. In other words, in your preseason meeting you could tell your squad "Any time we win, you get a day off the next day!" or "Any game we lose, you'll be in for conditioning the next morning!"

Like with other promises it could make your players like you more, or pizz them off, depending on their character and your reputation, ect.

And maybe you could break the promise sometimes on a case-by-case basis... so if you win, but in weak fashion at home against a bottom of the table team maybe you cancel day off after that. Or you lose, but you played heroically on the road to a better team, maybe that's still worth a day off. Hopefully players could understand (or even appreciate) occasional breaks of that promise, but do it too much, or for not a good enough reason, and you lose the dressing room

June 7

16 hours ago, FrazT said:

It is also worth remembering that just because a player is eligible for citizenship in a new country, doesn't automatically mean that they will apply. Some countries do not allow dual citizenship and make the player give up their initial citizenship if they want to apply for another. The player would also have to consider what advantages there would be for him to get citizenship as well as the advantages for the club.

Point taken in general but for the Spanish/Lat Am thing all of those countries allow dual I believe, and I would hope the game has it coded that EU citizenship is always desirable ASAP for a player playing in Europe, or who would like to play in Europe, as it allows you to not count towards foreign limit in Spain and Italy.

On 05/06/2024 at 17:37, NineCloudNine said:

Go to the player's page, then Overview->Information. Right side of screen, in the middle, lists nationality progress. It's only 730 days in Spain but it has to be continuous.

730 days in Spain for guys from most Latin American countries (like Chile). 10 years if they're coming from anywhere else. And yeah, continuous. IIRC you can take a small break (less than a few months) and have it still count as continuous. IE, if you're an Italian team you could sign a Chilean, loan him to a club in Spain, then he comes back in July, then in August you loan him to Spain for another year, that month gap doesn't break the continuous.

However, be careful about screwing up what I once screwed up... there is an unpredictable lag (like IRL) between hitting the 2 year mark and actually getting the paperwork finalized. As a Spanish club I once signed an Argentine, he spent 2 years with me, then I sent him to my affiliate in Belgium thinking he had spent his 2 years in Spain he was EU now. Nope. He hit 2 years but didn't have paperwork done yet, so him leaving the country before paperwork was done reset everything to zero... womp womp

June 4

I'm genuinely not sure why this isn't already an option, but it would be so nice if we could set the tactics our youth and B teams play with.

As far as I can tell, right now, those teams either just play with whatever tactic the youth team manager likes, or they play with your main squad's tactics. Lots of good main squads will be using tactics built around specific players, often using roles that are not suitable for most players (like Regista or Complete Forward), so in my youth setup I'm stuck having to make some poor teenager play in a role really poor for his development.

It would be nice to set up a different tactic for those squads to best suit the development those youth players

May 5

Many current Head Scouts will only accept a job with you if that job is Head Scout. They will not accept a regular Scout role. Unfortunately, it is not possible to filter Scout vs Head Scout positions in Staff Search. It is, however, possible to search Performance Analyst vs Head Performance Analyst.

What gives?

April 3

On 01/04/2024 at 22:19, NineCloudNine said:

It commits you to maintaining whatever their agreed playing time was before they got the injury.

Personally I just do the console/encourage bit. No benefit to making a promise, which is what the playing time option does.

Gotcha, thanks! So as long as their status is youngster to breakthrough prospect I should be ok promising them that.

The benefit, as I see it, is that if you've broken some promises you then lose the ability to promise guys things and have them believe you. IE, a guy comes to me complaining about playing time, I promise him it will improve, and he'll say "nah, buzz off, can't trust you, you've broken too many other promises". So I'm trying to make and keep easy promises to get my success rate on that back up

April 1

Sometimes a youth teamer, or someone else that never sees the field for the first team, gets hurt and you'll have the option of consoling them OR promising them that the injury won't affect their playing time when they return. I'm always tempted to select the promise of "this won't affect your playing time" (because you weren't bloody getting any in the first place kid!) to boost my successful promise rate... but I'm afraid of it backfiring if it somehow means I do have to actually play the scrub on return to fulfill it.

Anyone tried this, anyone know?

March 24

As it is, it is nearly impossible to find form information for players not on your team. The game says that it is unavailable unless you add the guy to a shortlist. But even then, some guys you have on a shortlist and you'll get a message "player's form is being tracked by backroom staff but no information is available yet."

It's weird that, in real life, I can sit here on my laptop and get game by game data on guys in Portugal's freaking Liga 3 (barely professional football!) but in FM my La Liga team can't see that about another player in dadgum La Liga.

In real life I can easily lookup which games a guy has played in, at what position, what minute they were sub'd on on off, what minute they got a yellow or red card at, if they scored or assisted and, for games they didn't play in, if they were an unused sub or not on the bench at all, and if they were not on the bench if that was for injury or other reasons.

Feels very weird that for some reason SI thinks that info can't or shouldn't be shown in FM. Not asking for detailed scouting info, fair to make that something you only see via shortlisting, but simple data like this should be easily visible for any player in any kind of even slightly serious league you have loaded

March 18

I'm in 2037 with Recre Huelva, been at it 15 game years now (wow). I played around with FM24 when it first came out but got annoyed with some bugs... what is the post update consensus on 24 now? Should I move the save over before my next season? Anything new to be aware of and adjust for in 24?

March 12

Note: I'm speaking from an experience I had in FM23, but I don't think anything is different in FM24.

After 15 seasons in charge of Recre Huelva I've finally gotten suspended from the touchline for a game for complaining about my player's red card! Pretty fun feature honestly, didn't even realize it was possible.

My only problem with it is that, though I got to set a lineup in the pregame, when the game actually started a completely different 11 was on the pitch than I selected. My exhausted DM, who was due for a day off, was starting at CD, and my backup striker, a natural AF, was starting even though the tactic called for a DLF type (like my starter is). Pretty aggravating. I like the experience of being suspended, and having a game where you can't manage, its a fun twist, but IRL a suspended manager is still going to set the tactic and starting 11 even if he can't be on the touchline to handle in game adjustments/subs.

Its especially annoying because, on games you manage, once you've set the lineup you can't change it pre-game if you realize you've made a mistake. But I guess the AI can change it for you...

So, please FM, keep the occasional suspensions, but allow the suspended manager to at least set his preferred starting 11 before the match

March 10

On 07/03/2024 at 23:30, southside said:

Playing a save as man utd after the patch and the team travel for away games the day before the fixture(as in real life) play the game and then unlike real life stay in the city where we play and travel back the next day leading to ridiculous amounts of travel in multiple game weeks. Ive posted about this the last few years, its been fixed and now appears broken yet again, completely immersion breaking and one of the many small things that could so easily be better done in the game

Agreed. Also have noticed this happening when you play a local friendly while in preseason camp in a different location, or when doing a tour. I had camp in London and had a period of travel to and from Brentford the day before and after a friendly there. Another season I took a preseason tour, all the games were within maybe an hour of each other in the UAE... but there was a period of travel day before the first game, a period of travel day after it, then the next day another travel period to the second game, then another period day after it, ect.

So if you had 2 games a week on tour you'd see...Monday Travel - Tuesday Game - Wednesday Travel - Thursday Travel - Friday Game - Saturday Travel - Sunday Travel - Monday Game - Tuesday Travel - Wednesday Travel - Thursday Game - Friday Travel

Madness, I think it was sending my whole team back to Spain before and after every game despite being on tour.

March 10

On 08/03/2024 at 15:42, dothestrand said:

My bigger gripe in the game is young players, who've never been anywhere near the first team, asking for tens of thousands of pounds per week. When I play as Athletic Club, I don't have much choice as I need to retain these players, but this is completely unrealistic that a player would ask for that kind of salary.

And with big clubs paying it! Real Madrid and Barcelona B teamers, or sometimes guys who haven't even played for the B team yet, will be paid literally 1-2 million euros a year. Not only is that unrealistic, but it then makes it impossible for those to be signed by any other club, since they can't afford to match the wage... so these guys stay on the B team roster until they're 24 or so and then leave for free. Would love to see a more realistic development path for guys like this from the major academies who aren't going to make it for the main club... B team for a year or 2, then a loan, then a sale with large % of future sale clause to a smaller spanish team

March 10

Latin American citizens can obtain Spanish citizenship after 2 years of residency in Spain. I am a Spanish team (Recre Huelva), and I just signed a Chilean and I'd like to loan him out within Spain so he can get that citizenship and not take up a non-EU spot on my registration in the future. So, when offering him out for loan I selected to offer him to all clubs from Spain. FC Andorra plays in the Spanish leagues but is in Andorra.... and, of course, they are the only club that offered to take my guy on loan.

So... do we think FM will treat a loan to FC Andorra as Spanish residence?

Not to overthink it, but the real-life citizenship rule is about place of residence, not place of employment. I can imagine a club setting up a guy with an apartment on the Spanish side of the border while he was on loan at FC Andorra to keep his place of residence in Spain...

February 23

14 hours ago, fc.cadoni said:

I don't see anything there that addresses whether a youth team performance analyst affects the development of those players. Am I missing a section?

February 21

Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere, but I did a quick search and didn't see it.

Does anyone know hiring performance analysts for your B team or u19/u21/u23/ect helps the development of those players, or does it just help the coaching staffs of those teams formulate a winning gameplan?

I like my youth teams to win, sure, but I don't know if I'm so passionate about it that I want to spend extra money on those positions if they don't influence development.

February 9

Absolutely this yes please

February 9

Please God yes

January 28

thanks!

January 27

I just had a guy get injured around the 80th minute mark of a match I was leading 5-0. It was the kind of injury where he could (and did) stay on but should probably come off. With such a big lead I had already used all my subs to get some bench guys some minutes. With a generous lead against a bottom of the table opponent, I was going to just take the injured player off and play with 10 men for the remainder of the match, but I couldn't find a way to do this. Anyone know if it is possible?

January 20

Thanks

January 17

Hey all,

TLDR - Many cases of only Short Name Change being displayed when full name change should be displayed, I can't seem to figure it out. But it seems to happen ONLY in Portugal (except not to the Big 3) Any help appreciated. I tested several situations, if you'd like to read on...

I'm using FM Scout FM24 Clubs Names as a base but trying to tweak it to be a little more to be perfect for me. I like the flexibility lnc offers in this respect. I created 2 small, simple saves to test the changes, both based in Portugal with top few leagues of Portugal, England, Brasil, Germany, Spain added with small database.

So, the entry in the FM Scout Clubs names lnc file has this Porto entry.

"CLUB_NAME_CHANGE" 1478 "FC do Porto" ""
"CLUB_SHORT_NAME_CHANGE" 1478 "Porto" ""

If I change club name to FCx do Porto and change short name to Portox and reload the game on the standings screen it reads Portox, and when I click on that "Portox" to pull up the club profile it reads FCx do Porto. Ok, perfect. As, it should be, correct?

However, this is ONLY true of Porto, Sporting and Benfica. If you edit the full and short names of (I think) any other team in Portugal (including the B teams of those Big 3) in the Clubs Names lnc file it will display ONLY the new short name at the top of the club profile where it should display the full name.

However, everything seems to work fine for larger and smaller teams in Spain, Brasil and England. Arsenal, Forest Green, Palmeiras, Remo, Almeria, Amorebieta and Real Madrid were all tested as Porto was and all showed the correct, unique edits in the appropriate places for full and short names.

Additionally, if you take an existing entry in the lnc, and change just the short name for any non-big3 Portuguese club, and leave the full name as is, it will only show the newly edited short name where the full name should go. Further, if you change just the full name in an existing entry in the lnc, and leave short name unchanged, it now shows the short name in the full name spot.

Also, if you take a club that has no entry at all in the lnc file (and presumably is using the default names from FM24) and add just a short name it shows this new short name in both short and full name spots.

If you take a club that has no entry in the lnc file and add just a full name it now shows the new full name in both full and short name spots.

If you take a club that has no entry in the lnc and add both a short and a full it only shows the short.

Actually, now that I look more I'm noticing that on I think every club it is now only showing the short name, even if I haven't changed anything for that club. Again, only doing this in Portugal. So, at some point, with all these edits and reloads I must have triggered something that made it do this???

I just created a new save, based in England, and it still shows the changes for English and Spanish teams and Portuguese big 3 teams correctly... but every other name in Portugal outside the big 3 is short name only...

I have turned off caching and simulated a few days ahead as well, as well as turning off my laptop and reloading FM fully. I've had some mods (mostly Daveincid realism and related) installed in the past, but I actually completely uninstalled and deleted all FM24 data to see if I could replicate this from a clean install and sure enough it still happens. The only mods I have done at this point is "FM24 Club Names by FM Scout" and "FM24 Fix by FM Scout", as well as deleting the default FM files they suggest. The latter FM scout file edits league and award names, I seem to be able to edit those with no issue.

So, sorry this is long winded. But I'm curious if anyone has any insight on why this would be happening.

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