Yeah i agree with whats being said here, its like the players are doing you a favour by playing for you, instead of actually being employees. Though they do tend to become far more agreeable when youve established a friendship with them or have played for you for a longer time.
I asked Wayne Rooney to do something in the first week into my Man Utd save and he refused then his relationship status said "has a poor opinion of you".
The players in this game are far to confrontational, when you join a new club. The players should be far more agreeable and "on edge" because the reason you are there is because the team underperformed under the old manager and got him the sack, so in theory they should be worried your going to identify them as a problem and kick them out. Not going looking for a confrontation with you. Quite frankly all but the worlds best should be jumping through hoops to impress you.
As a rule I generally put any disruptive player in the u18's team for the duration of his contract if they play up, and refuse to talk to him, at least I feel as though ive won then. Yes he got paid but youve effectivly wrecked his career as well.
Ive actually done this to Wayne Rooney. put him to not needed, rejected all offers that came in to him, dumped him with the kids and ignored any requests to talk. the funny thing was someone declared interest for him and despite what id done to him, and his agent still had the cheek to request a better contract on account of the interest being shown in him.
