Chat FMM26 General Discussion

[Rjgreeno]

15 hours ago, Jack said:

Quite enjoying the game, however it’s frustrating when you’re several goals up in a game but one mistake happens and then a player drops from having an 8 or 9 out of 10 rating to a 4 or 5 out of 10 rating. Also, I’m finding it much more challenging to sell or loan players in this edition - though I’ve found relegating the player to the reserves seems to help generate transfer interest…

It’s the ratings that are killing my interest honestly. My FBs DM are constantly finishing the season with very poor averages, even my IF Barrene has 6.1 something he’s performing ok and normally could see a 7 over the season nothing special but every now and then he gets a 4 for no good reason and that tanks his average.

 

It’s the one thing I hope they address in an update, luckily my gameplay has not been too affected by other issues that people have reported but this is killing me

[Mr B]

1 hour ago, Rjgreeno said:

It’s the ratings that are killing my interest honestly. My FBs DM are constantly finishing the season with very poor averages, even my IF Barrene has 6.1 something he’s performing ok and normally could see a 7 over the season nothing special but every now and then he gets a 4 for no good reason and that tanks his average.

 

It’s the one thing I hope they address in an update, luckily my gameplay has not been too affected by other issues that people have reported but this is killing me

Personally, I love it when the ratings are mostly good with the odd random awful one! Best of both worlds:

Good ratings help them develop.

Bad ratings mean you can discipline them to try and get personality improvements. 

 

 

[neutralstate]

21 minutes ago, Mr B said:

Personally, I love it when the ratings are mostly good with the odd random awful one! Best of both worlds:

Good ratings help them develop.

Bad ratings mean you can discipline them to try and get personality improvements. 

 

 

Wait what you can? What are the mechanics?

[SIR Highlight]

This must be a bug since the overall goes to 20 and this manager has ambition 27

[Mr B]

4 minutes ago, neutralstate said:

Wait what you can? What are the mechanics?

Straight after a bad performance, choose to "talk to player" about "last match."

Usually, if you criticise them, they'll agree with you that they weren't good enough and their morale will improve - but nothing else. 

If you discipline them, then they can agree with you and get a boost to professionalism, determination, work rate, ability to cope with pressure - I think that's all. It can backfire though and they may get upset with you for disciplining them unfairly - though I don't often get this. (They can also have no response.)

I usually just go for the formal warning. I think that the fines have a higher chance of a positive gain, but also a higher chance of a negative reaction. Not completely certain about that though. 

 

I learned this from @Scratch years ago, so he (or anyone else) could add more detail or correct me if I'm wrong on anything. 

[Scratch]

1 hour ago, SIR Highlight said:

This must be a bug since the overall goes to 20 and this manager has ambition 27

It's a strange thing, but seems to be legit - at least that's the way the game has been for the last couple of years, for players as well as managers.

For example, this is one of my players from FMM24, who really really really wanted to do great things!

[neutralstate]

1 hour ago, Mr B said:

Straight after a bad performance, choose to "talk to player" about "last match."

Usually, if you criticise them, they'll agree with you that they weren't good enough and their morale will improve - but nothing else. 

If you discipline them, then they can agree with you and get a boost to professionalism, determination, work rate, ability to cope with pressure - I think that's all. It can backfire though and they may get upset with you for disciplining them unfairly - though I don't often get this. (They can also have no response.)

I usually just go for the formal warning. I think that the fines have a higher chance of a positive gain, but also a higher chance of a negative reaction. Not completely certain about that though. 

 

I learned this from @Scratch years ago, so he (or anyone else) could add more detail or correct me if I'm wrong on anything. 

Gosh i am going to try right right now

 

I do notice that work rate improves when players are praised sometimes but i always assumed it was temporary 

[Scratch]

20 minutes ago, neutralstate said:

Gosh i am going to try right right now

 

I do notice that work rate improves when players are praised sometimes but i always assumed it was temporary 

It's permanent (or was in versions before 26, I haven't tested it yet in 26 yet)!

[neutralstate]

2 hours ago, Scratch said:

It's permanent (or was in versions before 26, I haven't tested it yet in 26 yet)!

Thats awesome, thanks!

[SIR Highlight]

3 hours ago, Scratch said:

It's a strange thing, but seems to be legit - at least that's the way the game has been for the last couple of years, for players as well as managers.

For example, this is one of my players from FMM24, who really really really wanted to do great things!

Thanks for the reply , seems okay that way , for some moment i thought was a bug and the ambition was highly increased

[SeVen7]

On 04/11/2025 at 22:58, attilaaajsj said:

I played 10 games in the prem, the game didn't change much, but feels good to finally have a new FM, my next save will a 100% be in spain because I have to beat this real Madrid team, What are they cooking

Can you post a picture after final match season of Spanish First Division table? I wana see Girona place. Thanks

[MikeF]

Pet peeve for 26. Why does it no longer say the round for cup competitions under fixtures. Just UCL, not quarter final etc. 

[Woody]

@Marc VaughanI'm playing on a Pixel 9 and I'm getting weird graphical bugs.

When one shows up I tend to get a few at the same time and have to save and reboot the game up for it to go back to how it should be. 

This one is the back arrow disappears on any player history page.(Top left).

This one is obvious.

All the player stat colours have turned into coloured boxes.

Is that a potential phone issue or an issue with the GUI with Pixel phones?

 

[leedsunited87]

9 minutes ago, Woody said:

@Marc VaughanI'm playing on a Pixel 9 and I'm getting weird graphical bugs.

When one shows up I tend to get a few at the same time and have to save and reboot the game up for it to go back to how it should be. 

This one is the back arrow disappears on any player history page.(Top left).

This one is obvious.

All the player stat colours have turned into coloured boxes.

Is that a potential phone issue or an issue with the GUI with Pixel phones?

 

Yeah I've had that happen to me numerous times woody. Think might be when I'm looking on the Internet while playing the game?  

[Marc Vaughan]

10 minutes ago, Woody said:

 

Is that a potential phone issue or an issue with the GUI with Pixel phones?

That sort of thing happens when a device gets really low on available contiguous memory (meaning a block of a required size being available not just little itty bits scattered around) - this normally only happens if a device isn't rebooted for a truck-ton of time.

Basically what you're seeing is that when it tries to build the UI it can't find memory space to load all the images in to display them, I do my utmost to keep things on their feet which is why its still rendering and moving, but I'd HEAVILY suggest saving your game and rebooting* your device ... you'll find things will be back to normal afterwards.

*Power it fully off and on, don't just hit the power button and turn the screen off, that does nothing to help the memory side of things.

[Marc Vaughan]

2 minutes ago, leedsunited87 said:

Yeah I've had that happen to me numerous times woody. Think might be when I'm looking on the Internet while playing the game?  

Kinda related but not - browsers on most mobile devices can be REALLY memory hungry and especially if they're the ones made by the manufacturer of the device they get a huge priority for resources such as memory, meaning other applications are often forced closed in the background because they're basically starved to death.

[Woody]

1 hour ago, Marc Vaughan said:

That sort of thing happens when a device gets really low on available contiguous memory (meaning a block of a required size being available not just little itty bits scattered around) - this normally only happens if a device isn't rebooted for a truck-ton of time.

Basically what you're seeing is that when it tries to build the UI it can't find memory space to load all the images in to display them, I do my utmost to keep things on their feet which is why its still rendering and moving, but I'd HEAVILY suggest saving your game and rebooting* your device ... you'll find things will be back to normal afterwards.

*Power it fully off and on, don't just hit the power button and turn the screen off, that does nothing to help the memory side of things.

Cheers Marc.

Makes sense as when I close the game down and load it back up like I said it goes back to normal.

Tbh...I quite like the coloured blocks instead of solid ones. 🤣

Edited December 3 by Woody

[deepheat83]

Hello.

I am doing a save with Chippenham and haven't signed any players all the way up to the Premiership. 

Sold a few but not for any major money.

Got plenty of millions in the bank but for some reason the board won't let me upgrade my facilities over 4 stars.

It has been the same for the last 3 seasons.

It is annoying my players and making them want to leave to fulfil their potential.

The board are still taking 50% of my transfer sales, which i am OK with.

But given all my finances are in the green and I have millions to play with why can't I upgrade my facilities?

 

Has anyone else had the same issues? If so, how did you resolve them?

I am getting bids of over £40 million for some of my players but I am reluctant to sell purely to increase facilities, especially without knowing if it will make any difference 

[Marc Vaughan]

2 hours ago, deepheat83 said:

I am doing a save with Chippenham and haven't signed any players all the way up to the Premiership. 

Sold a few but not for any major money.

Got plenty of millions in the bank but for some reason the board won't let me upgrade my facilities over 4 stars.

It has been the same for the last 3 seasons.

It is annoying my players and making them want to leave to fulfil their potential.

The board are still taking 50% of my transfer sales, which i am OK with.

But given all my finances are in the green and I have millions to play with why can't I upgrade my facilities?

Has anyone else had the same issues? If so, how did you resolve them?

I am getting bids of over £40 million for some of my players but I am reluctant to sell purely to increase facilities, especially without knowing if it will make any difference 

What financial state does your club have? - that combined with your transfer budget and the level you're playing at will determine how enthusiastic the club is about upgrading facilities.

Selling players will likely help make the board more open to upgrades, but its also important that you have the best coaching staff available - especially in the specialist areas for any players who feel they're being stifled.

[MikeF]

With a spurs save, I’m a world class manager in my second season but whenever I request an affiliate club the board tell me no because I’m inexperienced. 

[Mr B]

46 minutes ago, MikeF said:

With a spurs save, I’m a world class manager in my second season but whenever I request an affiliate club the board tell me no because I’m inexperienced. 

I'm getting the same at Leverkeusen. I had wondered if it was to do with being part of the Red Bull group, but they do say that as an inexperienced manager I should focus on the first team (or something like that).

[deepheat83]

3 hours ago, Marc Vaughan said:

What financial state does your club have? - that combined with your transfer budget and the level you're playing at will determine how enthusiastic the club is about upgrading facilities.

Selling players will likely help make the board more open to upgrades, but its also important that you have the best coaching staff available - especially in the specialist areas for any players who feel they're being stifled.

 

[Scratch]

4 hours ago, deepheat83 said:

 

Out of interest, what's your club's reputation in the club's general info screen? And your reputation for that matter?

I feel like this is something that the game has not been great at for years now - as you climb, the club's reputation and your reputation seem to lag behind what might seem realistic and it seems that makes it hard to upgrade facilities etc. Not sure if reputation comes into that or not, but I feel like it does. Maybe Marc can confirm if that's a factor or not.

 

[Jones444]

I understand that conceding a goal in the final minutes can happen, but this is really exaggerated it’s either you defend, or you concede a goal ?! 💀

[tummidge22]

Winning with 9 men for 75+ mins - priceless

 

[asdf380]

Anyone else has this thing where players start spawning from clubs in countries you didn't simulate, not as academy players but as normal player around 21/22? In my save Dutch clubs seems to spawn players from nowhere and in their history they only have 1 or 2 seasons (I'm at the end of season 3), pretty much fully developed at the age of 22

[Jones444]

Your tactics, strategies, and complete control mean nothing when Roberto Carlos decides to fire a shot from the middle of the pitch.

[Footyman]

Does anyone know if there is a difference between talking to a player based on game performance and talking to them about training performance?

Do these do different things other than moral boost?

[leedsunited87]

@Marc Vaughan

Hiya buddy happened again. My a national manager in my 3rd season, 4 star rep.

Happened to me on my other game, was World class, 4 and a half stars. Was at club 6 years 

[Marc Vaughan]

35 minutes ago, leedsunited87 said:

@Marc Vaughan

Hiya buddy happened again. My a national manager in my 3rd season, 4 star rep.

Happened to me on my other game, was World class, 4 and a half stars. Was at club 6 years 

Have you sent me a save game?