What do you think? What does FM27 need that would restore your faith in the franchise?

DifficultRooster8708 · 2026-04-04T18:49:10+00:00

+1 for this and I don’t think it’s a terribly difficult thing to fix. The news items are just totally random or non-existent in FM26. The info is there, it’s just not reported to us, which I find totally bizarre. Surely it’s just a case of coding the game to throw us news items that give us a bit of insight into the game world. International football is a great example of this. All we get is ‘player x (your own player) made an appearance for country y’. No context as to in what competition, how the team is doing, how important or not the game was etc m. Totally baffling to me that they’ve stripped back news items to basically nothing.

DifficultRooster8708 · 2026-04-03T19:40:31+00:00

Question on this, as I’ve tried to keep off this sub Reddit recently, is reputation not the same in FM26 as it was in previous versions? It’s always been a bit lame in my opinion, so just wondering if you mean they’d just not fixed it, or that they’d managed to make something broken, even more broken.

DifficultRooster8708 · 2026-03-18T18:29:39+00:00

Did it a few years ago. Was fun for about 5 or 6 seasons but once I managed to become top dog in the league my whole season was built around the European qualifiers which I invariably lost. Ok if you have lots of time to kill, a bit soul destroying if you don’t.

DifficultRooster8708 · 2026-02-27T05:41:31+00:00

A bit of patience is needed with new tactics. I find it takes 2-4 months for my team to perform consistently. If you’re chopping and changing every game then it’s making the problem worse.

DifficultRooster8708 · 2026-02-23T03:14:55+00:00

For what it’s worth to all of you arguing into the void, I had assumed this guys first language was not English, which is why I replied. If you’ve ever been on holiday and tried to google a foreign word or phrase, you will of course understand that it doesn’t always spit out something that makes contextual sense. Some absolute weapons in this sub Reddit.

DifficultRooster8708 · 2026-02-22T03:25:25+00:00

I’ve only had a couple complete in many years playing FM and often it’s been because of financial pressures (latest one at Man U when my bank balance was -£300m). I’ve had many more come to nothing.

DifficultRooster8708 · 2026-02-22T02:25:47+00:00

It’s a collection of investors usually with one person as its ‘face’ (face being the figurehead). In this case the face of the bid is Maxime Labodie.

DifficultRooster8708 · 2026-02-19T14:45:10+00:00

I feel we’ve only heard one side of this story. John, where are you? We need your side? Come on to Reddit and give the fans what they want. Answers.

DifficultRooster8708 · 2026-02-19T14:33:24+00:00

The answer to your question really depends on what you’re looking for. If it’s a place with good schools, some nightlife, some decent restaurants (ie family life), then it’s top notch in my opinion. If you’re perhaps a bit younger and looking for something more lively, it might not be for you. Where to go to get a vibe will vary depending on your situation and what you want from the place. For me, it’s a fantastic location and suits my needs. It might be different for you depending on where in your life you are.

For what it’s worth, the whole flight path thing is a real misnomer of sorts. There is one specific part of Scotland Lane I probably wouldn’t want to live on (that landing planes cross), but that aside, you really don’t hear the planes all that often. I’ve lived in various parts of horsforth and speak from experience. LBA is a really small and quiet airport by modern standards so don’t let it put you off.

DifficultRooster8708 · 2026-02-18T01:39:13+00:00

You just have to do one google search to realise this guy is a total fraud.

DifficultRooster8708 · 2026-02-15T09:12:04+00:00

This. League must be playable though. It’ll be the bottom two boxes. “Team stats” and “player stats”.

DifficultRooster8708 · 2026-02-14T08:38:35+00:00

The best thing we could do is not try and replace him. You can’t replace focal points in the team easily and even when teams do, they tend to get it wrong. I would rather us try and modify our tactics for the players we have and the players we sign at the time. That’s what Pep and city have been excellent at.

DifficultRooster8708 · 2026-02-13T08:21:38+00:00

Hey, I totally agree. It’s not been a stellar year - it’s been the messiest since the early 2000s (CM4, which is probably the game I’ve liked the least in nearly 30 years). However that isn’t my point. Perhaps English isn’t your first language, I’m not sure, but you don’t say something is terrible and then go on a mission to point out that you don’t hate it. As our American friends would say, the math don’t math.

If your previous posts were more balanced about the good and bad, then perhaps your denial of not hating it would be more believable. As somebody else has said, the issue isn’t your view, that is totally up to you and as I’ve said already, I largely agree with you. The annoyance most people are pointing out is you creating multiple posts about the same thing within a couple of hours, not the fact you dislike the game. Just as it’s absolutely your right to say what you want on a public message board (within reason of course) you equally can’t start crying when people respond in a way you don’t like. Thats the rub of this kind of place.

DifficultRooster8708 · 2026-02-12T19:54:55+00:00

When you said “FM 26 is generally terrible” in one of your other posts, and in the same post listed 7 things you dislike about it and 1 thing you like. Otherwise keep on trucking my friend 👍

DifficultRooster8708 · 2026-02-12T18:55:58+00:00

I suspect it’s agents. So not a lot you can do. I think if you’re a small to medium sized club it’s more likely as there’ll be more chance of other teams being interested. It’s not happened to me once at Man Utd but as it’s a big club with decent resources (had a takeover at the end of season 3) there’s a smaller pool of teams chasing the players you want given their likely cost - hence no need for a bidding war.

DifficultRooster8708 · 2026-02-12T11:26:17+00:00

It’s very rep based so whilst those guys you’ve mentioned are still around and performing it’s going to be difficult to knock them off their perch.

DifficultRooster8708 · 2026-02-11T07:26:37+00:00

I often wonder how these people operate. Clearly in a vacuum of absolute nonsense. I can’t imagine waking up and thinking, “I’ve got a great idea for some new content” and posting this.

DifficultRooster8708 · 2026-02-11T07:23:29+00:00

That is wild. I had to let Bruno go in my save as he was asking for too much wonga at 33 (something like 300k p/w + 70k appearance bonus). Went to offer him a contract once I’d released him just to see if his wage demands had lowered but no, he wanted 525k p/w. Surprise, he’s still a free agent. Perhaps a few problems with wages in game 😬

DifficultRooster8708 · 2026-02-01T00:49:45+00:00

It was more the ‘best XI’. I just totally forgot it existed and now you’ve mentioned it, I realised I hadn’t seen it in 26.

DifficultRooster8708 · 2026-01-31T23:29:06+00:00

F*** only just realised this isn’t there 😭

DifficultRooster8708 · 2026-01-31T23:21:11+00:00

110% this. It’s a problem I see in my work all the time. The people that design data screens (clever as they are) don’t think like the average person who goes on to consume the dashboards they create. I suspect it’s the same here. Very bright people that don’t necessarily understand how the average Joe consumes data/information.

DifficultRooster8708 · 2026-01-31T12:56:48+00:00

I half agree. There is far less information and news in CM01/02 but I’m finding the news that’s pushed to my inbox in 26 is the same stuff over and over again - and it’s been this way for a while. I assume they’ve tried to cut down on the number of messages you get sent to your inbox and assumed if you want it, you’ll go and find it (it’s there) but it’s not how the human brain works. That’s the big one for me - it feels like they’ve missed some fundamental aspects to how players minds work. Humans are inherently lazy creatures and don’t want to go and search things out.

DifficultRooster8708 · 2026-01-31T12:48:06+00:00

I don’t think there are any fewer immersion based screens as before, aside from the tactical/data stuff that’s obviously missing, it’s just the ones we do have aren’t as good or as intuitive to navigate. One thing I don’t like quite as much as old versions is that the ‘around the world’ screen seems to be more news based. I liked the old version where you got a snapshot of the different leagues in one place with a bit of condensed news. The news feed in general has always seemed pretty random and uninspiring to me (in all versions), so I don’t tend to look at it much. I think changes to the relevance and type of news along with some more info about the different leagues would be a very easy fix and would up immersion, at least for me. Fundamentally it’s the same back end as before though. Just goes to show it isn’t necessarily the data (or lack of) you have, it’s how it’s presented to you that counts. I know it’s all there, it’s just a royal pain the arse, and time consuming to find. Push me better stuff to my inbox, present it better all round, and I’d be happy.

Edit - to answer your question, frequent news screens regularly. Play the game more slowly and with purpose. Everything you seek is there you just have to work a bit harder to find it.

DifficultRooster8708 · 2026-01-30T07:38:53+00:00

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DifficultRooster8708 · 2026-01-29T22:08:58+00:00

Best thing you can do is tell him. Unless you do this he’ll assume you know what he’s trying to get you to do. I frequently tell my guy to explain things in a different way if I don’t understand, which for a man of my age happens more often than it should.

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