Only 2 of my squad were from a transfer over the age of 18. The 15 of them mentioned above are all from the youth team, I have more in the reserves amongst the backup players. I also have 11 foreign players that were signed young. Would like to stay homegrown but can’t really build a squad solely from the youth team unless you get extremely lucky, I’m still struggling for defenders after 15 seasons and will have to buy some in again. Only place I could be lacking is players from other English clubs but there has been a few of those as well.
not sure what I could possibly be missing, I played these from championship manager 93/94, I still remember Blackburn having the colossal transfer budget of 16m… haha. Played right through to fm2009 so I’m familiar with most aspects.
the algorithm definitely tilts too far towards morale management for a performance these days. I guess fergie had old workhorse fletcher and some others playing above their level and I know it should make a difference in performance but you can smash premiership teams from league 1 without save scumming if you have a happy squad and get too many unrealistic cup runs.
Example. I went to the 5th round of the fa cup with Salisbury whilst in the VNS and had a bunch of free transfers and rubbish semi professionals with the mammoth 3k per week wage budget. Now winning everything with them including the champions league for 4 years in a row and I’m only 17 years in. That wouldn’t have been possible in the older versions, the only season I failed promotion was the VNL, I finished 2nd with 104 points and lost in the playoffs but got promoted the following season.
is it just the mobile version that’s been made easier and tilted towards the users enjoyment or is the desktop version the same these days? It’s got a bit too easy… you don’t seem to lose finals anymore.
venturing further away from the original topic, I’m a crap forum user lol… sorry
not sure what challenge to do next? Might try a survival specialist run as when I build my own team it ends up as “invincibles” and it’s getting a bit tedious but any other suggestions?