Football Manager - I have 22 Working with Youngsters attribute, is this new or am I just a nonce?

I have 22 Working with Youngsters attribute, is this new or am I just a nonce?
Guys literally only want one thing
Sure, it's great to live out your fantasies of winning trophies and beating your rivals to make up for your real-life team being permanently mediocre. But this is the happiest moment I've had in FM for years.
Same story for years... Picking Barca from Pot 2
Was just checking the form of my loaned out players and found that an average centreback bagged a hattrick and assist in 45 minutes playing up front
What a whirlwind 6 minutes for Jermaine Jenas
"We're sorry, you didn't win the league well enough for our liking, even 6 years early, so we're going to have to let you go."
I tend to invite the same nearby (and very small) team for a pre-season friendly. A few years in, I'm starting to feel like a bully...
I turned Millwall into the most aggressive team in the world - Part XII
Was worried at first, but he lived up to his name...
My player just came out as gay and they just sent me a message this will increase my shirtsales?
Build it and they will come
Nothing better than thumping the team that sacked you with your newly promoted side.
Ladies and gentleman, we got him.
Son of Seedorf - Regen - Anyone else seen something similar?
Help me understand my team report better
Insane comeback against Real Madrid for a spot in the Europa League final
Alan Shearer won POTY
FM U21 Euros competition! Excited to be managing Italy! @Fwilkz on twitter to follow this journey!
Noob asking, is there a way to select which playera goes where when switching between formations? When i switch to a more defensive one, my striker goes to centerback instead of My defensive mid
Too short, can't jump, can't cross, can't take free kicks and he isn't so brave BUT he is probably the the best wonder-kid i ever had !!!
Dinamo Zagreb having the worst europaleague campaign i have ever seen. -40(!) in GD

I have 22 Working with Youngsters attribute, is this new or am I just a nonce?

Posted: 01 May 2020 06:45 PM PDT

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Guys literally only want one thing

Posted: 02 May 2020 12:33 AM PDT

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Sure, it's great to live out your fantasies of winning trophies and beating your rivals to make up for your real-life team being permanently mediocre. But this is the happiest moment I've had in FM for years.

Posted: 01 May 2020 09:04 AM PDT

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Same story for years... Picking Barca from Pot 2

Posted: 01 May 2020 09:49 PM PDT

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Was just checking the form of my loaned out players and found that an average centreback bagged a hattrick and assist in 45 minutes playing up front

Posted: 01 May 2020 06:28 PM PDT

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What a whirlwind 6 minutes for Jermaine Jenas

Posted: 01 May 2020 03:19 PM PDT

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"We're sorry, you didn't win the league well enough for our liking, even 6 years early, so we're going to have to let you go."

Posted: 01 May 2020 10:48 AM PDT

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I tend to invite the same nearby (and very small) team for a pre-season friendly. A few years in, I'm starting to feel like a bully...

Posted: 01 May 2020 06:39 AM PDT

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I turned Millwall into the most aggressive team in the world - Part XII

Posted: 02 May 2020 12:58 AM PDT

Links to Part I / II / III / IV / V / VI / VII / VIII / IX / X / XI

It turns out that building a Premier League team with an average age of nearly 29-years-old doesn't exactly work. But a win at last sees our anti-football heroes move up into 18th position. Can one of the worst teams ever seen in the English top flight do the impossible and stay up?

Season Targets

In my preseason rush to sign all the world's shithouses I forgot to set any objectives. Our abysmal start makes me scale back from any lofty ambitions I might have otherwise had. As far as I'm concerned, only two things matter from this season:

Break the Premier League record for worst discipline
Don't get sacked

I Am The One Who Fouls

With one win from seven, the derby against West Ham is made even more important. To try and gain an edge, I spend the run-up to the game slagging off Solskjær in the press. He has the last laugh. We lose 3-0, all three goals from set pieces, an infuriating side effect of giving away 30 free kicks a game…

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Our next two games see us travel to North London to play Spurs and Arsenal. We lose both, but pick up fifteen bookings and three red cards across the defeats – Medel the pick of the dismissals with a needless horror tackle against Arsenal. I defend our physicality after the game, angering manager Claude Puel in the process, who bizarrely claims my attitude will cost me my job. Does he not know who I am?

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I don't mind the losses to the big teams. As far as I'm concerned, they're merely an opportunity for us to get as many fouls as possible. Against the likes of Huddersfield, however, it's a completely different matter. Despite a screamer from Karamoko we fall to a humiliating 6-1 defeat, Costa the latest player to see red after two bookings in four minutes. The FA hit us with a record £75,000 fine.

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The Back Pages

We're rock bottom of the league, with a goal difference of -30. Ten defeats from eleven. Still, Everton see something to admire about what I'm doing at Millwall, and offer me the vacant manager's job. Watford jump on the bandwagon, offering me an interview the very next day. We do top the league for fouls, yellow cards, and red cards, but surely more is expected of a top flight manager these days? In any case, I will not abandon my post, and reject both approaches outright.

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As our form remains appalling, I keep a low media profile, despatching Cattermole to deal with the press on most occasions. When I do venture out in front of the cameras, I belittle my counterparts, criticise their football, and solemnly tell the world's media that team X are doomed to relegation. I also turn up to one as I hear they're discussing the Balon d'Or. I want to nominate Lewis Travis, but am restricted to the predictably bland choices of Mbappe, De Bruyne, et al. I storm out of the conference in disgust.

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In other news, there are growing rumours of a Millwall takeover. Details are scarce, but I can only assume a foreign dictator in control of a brutal human rights abusing regime has seen what we're doing here, and likes what they see. Not that the Premier League would ever allow such an owner, of course.

Relegation Six-Pointers. In November.

The collapse against Huddersfield spells the end for the diamond. With three crucial games coming up, I stop my futile attempts to tweak the formation and instead revert to our 5-2-3. It's a stoke of genius. Or luck. Who cares?

Though we sink to a disappointing 1-0 defeat to Villa, Rafferty compounding matters by deciding that getting sent off for a two-footed lunge deep into injury time is an ideal way to end the game, this is bookended by vital 2-0 wins against Everton and Bournemouth. Travis, Lenihan, Barnes, and Costa all managing to do what we've struggled to do so far – score goals. Where we don't struggle is with cards – the squad combining to add another fourteen yellows to the collection. The season review DVD is going to be glorious.

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The Ballad of Omani Primus

Our youth setup, colloquially known as La Hackia, has finally produced a player of note. Omani Primus. Already capped by Barbados at 17. Unfortunately he's best suited to a central playmaking role – something we at Millwall have no time for. He's duly retrained to a right wing back, and thrown into a mentoring group with Lewis Travis and Kamil Grabara. We will make a shithouse of him yet.

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Due to Rafferty's latest suspension, his chance in the first team comes much earlier than expected, coming off the bench in the Villa and Bournemouth games. And with Fisher picking up an injury, Primus is pencilled in to start against Chelsea. He warms up for the fixture by getting sent off 22 minutes into an U18 game, inexplicably ruling him out of the Chelsea game. Poetry in motion.

Record Breakers

We obviously lose to Chelsea, but I take heart from Shane Ferguson injuring Chiesa nine seconds in, and the seven bookings we amass. The FA fine us yet again, taking our tally to an amazing £225,000 for the season. We're not even half way through December. Lampard thinks I wouldn't send the players out to injure the opposition. If only he knew.

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An easier fixture away at West Brom goes terribly, with us barely getting near their goal. Besic is the latest player to see red, and in doing so puts us top of the one leaderboard I care about more than anything – the Premier League discipline table. We obliterate the existing record. In 17 games. I crack open a can of Carling to celebrate.

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Inspired by our success, we grab a crucial 1-0 against Stoke courtesy of a Cooper header, drawing us level on points with West Ham in 17th and a point away from Stoke in 16th. More importantly, the win puts us on 12 points – as bad as we are, we're still somehow better than Derby's legendary 07/08 team.

The FA, clearly unable to launder the sheer volume of cash we're giving them in ~~hush money~~ disciplinary fines, seem to have instructed the referees to stop booking us. This is the only logical explanation for our game against Liverpool. Forty-five fouls. Forty. Five. Fouls. Zero cards. An astonishing display of ineptitude by referee Andy Madley. We lose 6-0.

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The Definition of Insanity

The January transfer window is our last chance to solve some of the squad's issues. The board, gluttons for punishment, agree to give me more money to spend, claiming they agree with my judgement in the transfer market. The only problem is the lack of potential targets who "fit" the Millwall ethos. I've had my scouting network running on overdrive all year, the only requirement asked of my scouts is that they find players with high aggression. They've unearthed disappointingly little.

Our forward line is the biggest worry. With little else available, I make an audacious £68m bid for Morelos. West Ham accept, only for my own chairman to block it! I appeal this blinkered decision – the card-happy Colombian is our greatest hope – but the board hold firm.

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I try and bring Gabriel Barbosa in on loan from Man Utd, but he rejects the move. It's the same story with Spurs' Brandon Williams. Another shortlisted player, Ander Herrera, is apparently unhappy at PSG. We really don't need any more centre midfielders, but in true Harry Redknapp style I make a bid anyway, only to back out when he demands £125k a week.

With options running out, I bring in ex-Watford trio Troy Deeney on loan from PAOK, Allan Nyom from MLS obscurity, and 39-year-old José Holebas on a free transfer. Holebas can take decent corners, though I realise his limitations everywhere else on the pitch may cause issues.

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I'm forced to unregister two players to accommodate the new faces – Matt Smith and James McClean are sacrificed. It's not the ideal way for them to bow out, but I know McClean in particular will relish the opportunity to rack up more red cards in the reserves, having been sent off for the U23s after just 10 seconds earlier in the year.

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32 Hours of Hurt

The New Year starts against West Ham, who, unfortunately for us, have sacked Solskjær. We put on the complete Millwall performance for the TV audience – eight yellows and a last-minute thumping header from Barnes to steal a barely-deserved three points. Morelos manages to get himself booked too, in what I choose to believe is a "come and get me plea."

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Sadly, the win isn't a sign of things to come. We're dumped out of the FA Cup in our first game, against Torsten Frings' Burnley, before losing to Wolves, Spurs, Watford, and Liverpool. Zero goals for. Eleven against. Travis picks up a straight red against Burnley, then on his first game back picks up another straight red against Watford. I don't know whether to laugh or cry, especially seeing as we went on to lose the crucial Watford game 1-0.

After 24 games, things look bleak. We're on 15 points, with the worst defence, the worst attack, and have yet to pick up a single point away from The Den. Our strikers are all struggling for form – Vardy reaches 32 hours without scoring, Costa and Barnes have just three goals each. Deeney has somehow made things even worse.

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It's not all bad news. Incredibly, we're still only a point from safety. And, after steamrolling the previous disciplinary record, we've established an unassailable lead at the top of the cards and fouls tables. This is what football is all about.

We now have a ten day rest before a trip to high-flying Newcastle. The transfer window is still open, and hopefully I can find the right player to save our season before it shuts. It's all to play for…

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Was worried at first, but he lived up to his name...

Posted: 01 May 2020 11:04 PM PDT

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My player just came out as gay and they just sent me a message this will increase my shirtsales?

Posted: 02 May 2020 12:21 AM PDT

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Build it and they will come

Posted: 01 May 2020 10:16 PM PDT

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Nothing better than thumping the team that sacked you with your newly promoted side.

Posted: 01 May 2020 02:07 PM PDT

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Ladies and gentleman, we got him.

Posted: 01 May 2020 06:17 AM PDT

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Son of Seedorf - Regen - Anyone else seen something similar?

Posted: 01 May 2020 10:54 AM PDT

First Post Ever - So please be kind! But has anyone ever seen a Regen be the son of a coach/manager as I have found this with Clarence Seedorf on my West Ham save

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Help me understand my team report better

Posted: 02 May 2020 12:26 AM PDT

Hello everyone.

I have been playing FM for quite some time now, but i have never really used the team report section simply because i dont really know how to utilize the information im getting. So if you all would want to, we can go over the ones im confused about :)

"Good at passing" = What i understand about this one, is that my team can play balls deep, and long passes, and if it says bad at passing it would be that i should keep it short.

" low heading and jumping abilities" = keeping the crosses low and play wide in defence.

" good balance" = honestly dont really know how this impact the game, but i guess its good to have

"good concentration and work rate" = my team will give everything all 90 min.

"decision making good/or bad= if good play high tempo and vice versa

"poor overview" = honestly dont know.

"bad teamwork" = guess that would result in many misplaced passes.

if someone can explain maybe further or correct me, that would be nice :)

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Insane comeback against Real Madrid for a spot in the Europa League final

Posted: 01 May 2020 06:23 PM PDT

It's currently 3:23 am in Italy and I can't scream, but I'm doing it internally.

1st leg of semifinals, we get absolutely smashed, lose 4-0, all my hopes are destroyed to go and win the Europa League.

The time for the second leg comes, and I think about another loss coming very soon, but then my players decided to make me a happy man and almost make me cry.

Now it's time for the final, and it will be a dream match: Borussia Dortmund vs a reborn AC Milan.

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Alan Shearer won POTY

Posted: 01 May 2020 08:36 AM PDT