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Appreciate you guys looking into it. Not an easy task to balance. Obviously teams get pipped all the time and we shouldn't always get our transfer targets. Just felt like this was one to flag and hopefully it provides some insight.

Added another save game file. TammyEasySign.fm this starts a few days before the bad transfer pre bid and no one tries to swoop in last minute. Find it rather ridiculous that the difference in a few days you can't sign a player that is clearly not on another team's radar.

I also added bad transfer pre bid.fm as a file

Thanks, Michael.

Appreciate the reply. Yes I recognize some are flaws in the match engine and trying to work around them is challenging. The crossing is annoying but I can kind of live with it. It galls me when I see my players just stand around waiting to be closed down with 3 or 4 options and then lose possession. I set Erikson on attack for Volante because he has a PPM that says comes deep to get ball so he sits quite deeper than a normal VOL-a would. When I play Rice I set him to VOL-s. I don't have explicit instructions set here but the idea is to build down the left before switching flanks to an open Sancho or Porro. Porro is often in acres of space and is effectively a winger. McTominany or Casemiro provides balance to that side with the Anchor duty in the event I get caught too far forward while in possession on the left. I don't necessarily want Rashford to make runs forward as much as I want him supporting possession and creating an overload down the left flank/left central. He is much more effective when there is space to run behind after dragging players away than having him occupy the space during the build up phase. Ideally a ball is played through to Rashford or Fernandes from Erikson or Shaw and Martial and Sancho are darting into the box for cutbacks/crosses. But perhaps I'm misinterpreting roles here. I don't know if I've seen the same thing but it's worth a try. I did start the season playing Martial on CF but wanted to build the tactic around my midfield three as they are significantly better to give free reign to than Ronaldo or Martial. I don't know if Ronaldo or Martial have the attributes to be effective support forwards though (Ronaldo too selfish, Martial lacks the passing and vision and strength to really hold the ball up effectively). Rashford is much better suited for it imo or if I get my way in the transfer market I'm going to try and bring Tammy Abraham in. Thanks again. I'll give your suggestions a go and see what changes that brings for the squad.

Yeah it definitely used to. I don't know why it would be taken out...

I wouldn't say I struggle. Been playing a quick run through with Man Utd to work out the ME. Should finish 2nd in the league. That said playing away causes my players to somehow forget how to pass the ball to each other, dally on the ball, take really really poor touches (Varane decided to just trap a ball and leave it inside the penalty area in Europa League match once). But I can't quite work out why because I'll play at home with the same tactic or slight variation of it against the same team and dominate. I'm not expecting world beating performances away from home but I go from 2-3 xG to barely being able to get a shot away. I typically start here. Though I may invert the midfield depending on the opposition. Recently played Bayer Leverkusen in a Europa league tie with this same formation. Struggled to draw 1-1 away from home (It wasn't exactly this tactic but same principles) and my players could not/would not connect a pass. Played at home and smashed them 4-0. I'm happy to take my medicine and sit back and play a low block against more skillful teams and grind out a result. And I recognize that some days teams just don't have it and that's part of the game. I've contemplated pressure of games, end season mentality, player fatigue. I actually did the most risky thing any FM manager could do. I praised them at halftime in the 4-0 home win v BL04 despite being up on 1-0 to help lift some of the pressure because I'd been hammering the don't get complacent message for a few weeks. Just feels like either the away team gets nerfed or the home team gets buffed in this game so far. But that doesn't feel like a satisfactory answer. Typical changes include setting my LB to FBs if I sense danger of a counter or to balance out individual mentality. I might play a low block with a standard line and push the trigger press to much more. The 4-3-3 variant that I play will tyipcally see the DM on Anchor, Erikson on APs on the right and Fernandes as a Mezzala-a on the left. my wingers will be set to IWs and IFs. Generally results in an overload on the left side that Fernandes/Rashford/Sancho can take advantage of and score.

The home team (doesn't matter who) always seems to have some boost in ability. I've seen away team players just dallying on the ball, not passing forward, ignoring obvious goal scoring opportunities. Anyone else having similar observations?