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Wonderkid Randomly Worsening

I have this player who when I signed 1.5 years ago could only play striker. Throughout his first year I retrained him at CB so that he was natural by the end of his first season. Now, it is January of his second season, he has been a regular starter this year but has randomly began worsening drastically. He has not had any injuries, has good morale, is playing well and receives solid if unremarkable training ratings. Has anyone seen this before and could offer solutions as to how to prevent this spiralling.

u/Economy-Cow-1521 — 23 hours ago
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FM24. What are your tips for youth development.

Usually, I just give experience by loan or sporadic first team appearances, but is there anything more passive to be working on? Training for example? Any special examples in your save?

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u/HereForThePersuasion — 23 hours ago

Just noticed that i clocked in over 1500 hours in the Pre Game Editor (FM24)

Perks of skipping FM 26 led me to accumulate ~4500h in the game itself and 11h in the Resource Archiver, but it was all fun.

u/Time_Fragments24h — 1 day ago

Was a tough meeting to stay focused during this contract negotiation

Was doing a contract negotiation in FM21 and just saw the agent's name. Not messing with this guy

u/reddit_robogarda — 21 hours ago
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Spanish Nationality but no EU status?

Managing Malaga in La Liga and I've got a Brazilian player who's been at the club over 2 years, not on loan anywhere. Brazilian players get spanish nationality after 2 years and I can see this in the first image. However when I try to register him he still counts as non-EU.

Have I not understood the rules right or is this a bug?

u/wankflap — 23 hours ago

I am a beginner playing fm26 mobile need some tips?

About to start my first save what are the things I should keep in mind as beginner and what should I avoid as mistakes

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u/Key_Way2390 — 22 hours ago

FM26 - Youth to gold.

Hey guys,

I’m planning to start a youth-to-gold type of save and try to turn a small club into the No. 1 club in the world (win league, cup, Champions League...). I still haven’t decided on the league or club yet — maybe a non-league to top-tier challenge. I’d like to commit to at least 10 seasons.

I’ve watched quite a few YouTube videos about this kind of save, but I’m still not fully sure how everything works. For example, I’ve seen some people completely get rid of players older than 29 and focus almost entirely on wonderkids, so not sure how to go through it within the first few seasons. I’m not super experienced in FM — I played FM24 a lot with some top-tier clubs, but that’s about it.

What I really want is to learn scouting, understand player roles better, and figure out how to judge whether a young player will actually become good enough to keep, or if it makes more sense to develop, how to develop, and/or sell him for profit.

I also love the idea of scouting obscure nations to find unique wonderkids/regens instead of relying on the usual countries like England, Spain, France, etc.

So yeah — any tips on how to approach this? How do you pick an “ideal club” for this type of save? Any good guides (in other words, super simple) for scouting wonderkids, understanding attributes/numbers, judging potential, and developing young players?

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u/SaltAlps992 — 1 day ago
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I'll lose my mind shortly: Andorra's world domination save STARTING

For my last save of fm24 I decided I will build a nation and get it to win the worlds. I'll use the https://fmdaveincid.com/ megapack for FM24 and a Database from September 2025.

Looking at internet I found the San Marino's Challenge; I thought to myself "No, don't, that's death" so I searched for similar clubs and found Andorra, the ultimate goal is to win world cup with its selection, but how?, I'll train their club to form a beast over years of hard work and wanting to quit due to suffering. Editor off, in the screenshots you'll see the pencil not active. And I'll avoid Gegenpressing to make it a bit harder.

I'll make 2 managers ( I'll make them unsackables because I don't want to worry about it). For the firsts years (5 or so) I'll simulate the Andorran Nation manager and focus on the team. I'll be using AI to make some pictures to have more inmersion if anyone opposes to this, just don't follow it, it's my way of playing.

From the 6th season on:

- Try to sell all players non andorran or at least not homegrown between 15-21.
- Play with only Andorran or players that came through youth system (Like Bilbao)
- If I can't sell a nonplayable player by the latter rules I'll but them onto the s-19 or second team until they go free, finally sell or retire
- I have to try HARD to get the andorran retired players as staff, and eventually have all the staff be Andorran too

Achivements I have to make:

Andorra FC

Finish 10th+ in LaLiga2
Reach LaLiga2 Playoffs
Obtain the promotion to LaLiga
Avoid relegation
Finish 17th+ without fighting for relegation
Finish Midtable
Finish 10th+
Get into an European Cup
Finals - Semi Finals of La copa del Rey
Finish 4th+ to enter the UCL
Be competitive in the UCL
Win La Copa del Rey
Reach final draft of the UCL
Beat RM or Barça in the league, that means finishing +2nd
Win LaLiga

Andorran National Team

The goal here is to win the worlds cup, I'm not really into the national management as only I played once with a selection so i think it goes like this:

Qualify for the Nations League
Qualify for the EURO
Be competitive in the World Cups qualifiers
Reach final bracket on the Nations
Reach final bracket on the EURO
Reach groups stage on the Worlds Cup
Win something
Win the Fifa Worlds Cup

I'll be a long journey until I get there but you know, without sacrifice there's no victory (Thank you Witwicky).

I'll be updating my Journey season through season and maybe lone posts if I have to rage. Anyone who wants to give advice or criticise is welcomed, but don't be a dick.

As you sure noticed English is not my first language but I try, sorry for any misspell and structure writing.

u/Shirolan- — 1 day ago

Tactics randomly stopped working

Can anyone help me here (I'm on fm 24 so I hope that is not an issue)
I won the league and FA cup with Chelsea in my 2nd season managing the club, made it to the semis of the europa league as well.

Had the club world cup in preseason and made it into the final (Lost of penalties to PSG) In my third season now and my team genuinley cant do anything, I just lost 1-0 to Luton and have a win rate of around 2/6 in the prem (lost to West ham, Everton, Luton). I'm not sure why this is happening because I didn't even sell any starting players.

I've tried tweaking my tactics but my main issue is that I can't create chances at all, even against much worse teams (I switch between balanced and positive based on the team i'm playing)

Lowkey addicted

Can't tell if im just enjoying the game or if im genuinely addicted

Started a save in January which I already have over 500 hours on and am in the year 2038

I dont even find the premise of the game that entertaining or good i don't know why I enjoy it but I just do

It's not like it's consuming my life but I feel like it's took enjoyment out of any other games I play I just want to play fm and only fm im kinda scared

Can't tell if its just a fun hobby i enjoy or if this is getting serious

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