Recent content by The Maestro

Did some testing yesterday. Player reputation doesn't matter for hidden fees. I got some very old domestic players with high reputation who are former full internationals. No hidden fees charged for them. Hidden fees thus far have only been charged for current under-19, under-21 and full...

In theory they were higher profile players, but they had mostly the same reputation as some of the young domestic freebies. Only thing they had going for them is that they were either European under-19 internationals or full internationals in smaller African and Asian countries. Since I don't...

I recognized this strange but interesting occurence in FM 2017, and was able to recreate it in FM 2018. Had two nice saves going with a lowly amateur club in Norway. Really cool country to start a lower league career btw. Team had no players at the start of the game other than the useless greyed...

Once had a nice save going on FM17 with 2 target men. The bigger stronger one I played as TM support, the quicker one with better finishing as advanced forward. Classic 4-4-2 with all 4 wing position being excellent at crossing and obviously the fullbacks overlapping in attack. In the center...

Update 2.0: Another year over and I'm already among the biggest clubs in South America. This time I couldn't stop my board from initiating the planning process for a new stadium. At least the planned capacity is 31,000. Not great, but much better than previously. With some expansions down the...

Update: One season later, when I ask the board for a new stadium again, the planned capacity has increased from 17,000 a year ago to 26,000. I've won Serie A and Copa Libertadores, and hopefully many more titles to come in the future. My current 20,000 seats aren't always sold out but very...

I have taken a small Serie D club in Brazil to Serie A. Five years into the game playing in Copa Libertadores already. My original stadium was 5,000 and expanded to 20,000 once I got promoted to Serie A. (On a side note: My old stadium had 4 small main stands and was open in the corners. The...