Dan

You've gone a bit early refunding it based on a couple of hours. I very rarely like a new FM in the first couple of hours but get used to it and enjoy it.

I know that it's relative to the current squad but I think it's fair to assume that some of our players will be rated already as PL level - to have a few five stars tells me that we probably have at worst about 2/3 Premier League players in our academy. I think for anyone who is relatively good at the game we will be a quite easy fix - particularly if you can still get £15mil for Faes, Soumare etc.. - but it will still be fun to actually carry out. With basically every team I manage, my second summer is normally manic with probably 30+ incomings/outgoings combined. With the contempt I have for our squad this will be probably happening in the first summer. I very rarely manage Leicester for long. I'm about due a proper lower league England save to be fair. But my general method of playing the game is to spin a wheel to pick a new country, and club to manage and work my way through. On 24 as a result I won leagues in Sweden, Croatia, Czech Republic, Austria and Isra*l (I think if I post their actual name it moderates my post ). Had a hell of a lot of fun doing it and got plenty of leagues to chip through still.

It's great but looks like it'll remain a total doddle with the AI being as dumb as ever with transfers.

**** me it's gonna be a doddle isn't it.

We're actually going to be a genuinely fun save based on this. Loads of 5 star youngsters.

I was waiting until a new laptop for FM26 but honestly might just have to buy it now and do it. I'm going to drop an absolute bomb on this squad.

Southampton are baffling. Their performances are better than ours but results even worse - somehow.

We will go down again next season.

Another blagger manager.

They're not at the club because they would actually address issues - Rudkin and eventually Aiyawatt. So we've got two utterly useless idiots who wouldn't even take help if offered it because they know it would expose them. Aiyawatt and Rudkin are bigger than the club in Aiyawatt and Rudkin's eyes.

We already know the rebuild isn't coming under this bloke. I would possibly overlook the tactical deficiencies if I saw signs of it. I expected disjointedness as part of the overhaul. Maybe even the odd bad loss. We have made 'zero' progress this season. Literally zero.

Another night of hammerings.

He is not perfect by any means. He's probably an upper Championship / lower PL goalkeeper. You could get promoted with him and I don't think he was terrible last year either. Obviously a downgrade on Hermansen. Really surprised by the latters drop off. Has that injury ruined him?

Find the goals prevented numbers interesting which measures the quality of shots. Hull last night had 3.36 from their shots on target so Stolarczyk actually did well again despite a couple of shaky moments. He's not perfect but been probably in our top three players so far. With Ward in goal yesterday we probably lose 5-1 - no joke.

Yeah but getting the ball forward is archaic and old fashioned. We're above that sort of thing apparently.

That isn't worse

Yes

Not a single sign of this has happened. Not one. We stand to do neither.

Do it. We all know Martin's coming one day. At least if we appoint Martin we're a day closer to the day we sack Martin.

I am as well as ridiculous as it seems. It isn't even necessarily just disagreeing with his decisions - it's completely at odds with everything he said. It's like Enzo Maresca saying all he did when he came in and serving up Dycheball.

Absolutely baffled how incapable so many of our fans are of realising that it's possible that Cifuentes is shit (he is) and the board and ownership are shit (they are). I absolutely despise this board. They run the club how I would if I somehow inherited Nottingham Forest. But that doesn't mean Cifuentes is good enough - there is not a single positive you can cling onto now that the fluke unbeaten run and playoff position has gone. Not a single one. I'd love to see anyone attempt to name one.

If that points deduction is heavy then we're genuinely in the mix. We are that bad.

Honestly unbelievable.

Have to say I fully back this whole thing but the absence of this is poor - this should have been consistent and it seems to have fizzled out because.... what? We drew our way to being below Coventry and Stoke? It looks weaker if this isn't consistently maintained.