Football Manager Discussion

Anyone else get bored and mess around with the editor? I've created a rival league to the MLS, a wealthy business man has set up a rival league using the US territory Puerto Rico. It's has 2 top leagues running side by side, American West and American East leagues, 20 existing teams from the top US cities battle it out in each league, the top 8 in each league play in a championship playoff. The All American Cup pits all 40 teams against each other in 8 groups of 5, the teams play each other twice, with the top 2 going through to the knockout stages, the winner of this plays in the CONCACAF Champions League All teams have had an increase in reputation and have been gi…

Is this a new thing? Never seen this before, surprised (in a very good way!) to read a story like this!

This is one of my star players: Since I bought him he practically wins/won everything there is to win, except that he constantly gets NOT called up AT ALL for the German national team. Ever. I am still trying to figure out why this is, even opening the ingame editor to see if the manager maybe dislikes him or something... Ever had anything similar like this?

Obviously we all know how players develop (Well, most FM gamers do know how this works), but how does a coach develop his attributes, and to his full potential? Is there an article on this subject somewhere, because I'm very curious about how this works in the game :)

I am not sure what else I can put him on to improve? Not sure if I should put him on strength training or individual something like advanced playmaker? He currently plays as central midfielder on defend. Also on attacking movement training as well.

What skin is everybody using at the moment? I have always been a fan of FLUT, wannachup and OPZ, but I find the designs too complicated... They used to be simple but more and more is added to them. I like simple skins and currently using Dark Polish

Newcastle United have been in the headlines this week with huge investment from Saudi Arabia which will surely lead to the club being a popular choice as an FM22 first game. The wealth of their new owners make Manchester City's look insignificant by comparison but I wonder what will their approach be. Financial Fair Play will be interesting and I'm sure they will try to work their way around it somehow but how will it compare to Chelsea and Manchester City's transformations? I'm sure they would like to make some marque signings as City did with Robinho but I've taken the approach of looking at signings from the Premier League only to see how their first eleven could lo…