The pointless meaningless press conferences that never seem to end and just repeat the same nonsense questions which makes you wanna throw your laptop out the window but all this shit needs to be done to maximise your squad and moraleģ. Just all the little exploits of the game like constantly praising or talking to your players makes it overpowered If you have hours of your life to waste you can go around your 100 man squad boosting them all with little chats for morale. Like having lots of specialised roles on a fluid system worked on some match engines when in theory it never should as specialisation of set roles needs a very rigid system in real life footballĢ.

So replicating tactics for me felt uninspiring I would seek help on the old forums there from so called tactical guru's trying to help develop certain tactical setups or strategies like an Italian very rigid style with a trequartista and deep lying playmaker but failed and to be fair many people did help me there and even tried tweaking what I created and failed only for the usual robotic defence of the game. What else use to bug me with the tactics is how team reputation effected what tactical systems you could use example trying to replicate a defensive counter strategy with Atletico Madrid would be limited as the match engine would at least need your side to play standard or control mentality say at home to Levante or a Osasuna. Yeah I get that football can be random sometimes and you will get surprise results and smash and grab performances from far inferior teams but the way it happens in FM makes no sense to me whatsoever and the FM fanboys will always support the fantasical illusion that the game is near on perfect and constructive criticism of a franchise they love so much is taken personally The tactical systems just felt so random on all versions past fm13 how winning 4-0 to a far superior team away from home with such dominance could then be followed up with a 0-3 home loss to a team right at the bottom league you dominate the match statistics see different strikers and attacking players miss about 5 one on ones each and you post about it on the forums only to be told ''it's your tactics''

I would type this out in the SI forums and did in the past and got banned there for expressing my opinions I was expecting too as well tbh it is ultimately a forum set up to sell the game and promote it (happened years ago)ġ. FM on the surface to me always looked compelling the huge amount of depth, statistics, data analysis, micro managing and even some cool 3d effects but in reality it just started to feel like an over polished turd when I played the later versions

Fm 2005 Tactics