Player: "I'm not getting first team football and I want to leave" Me: "You weren't good enough last time I played you which is why you're not in the team" Player: "I don't care, I want to leave" Me: "Fine, I'll let you leave. Why don't you terminate your contract?" Player: "I can't believe you're trying to force me out of the club." Every. Fucking. Time.
Haha, yes. Or telling them to STFU when they want to leave, them apologising, then having a paddy when you change your mind and list them a few days later.
My favourite: Player: "The squad isn't strong enough" Me: "Okay I'll make a few signings" *two £20m signings later" Player: "Why haven't you even tried to improve the squad? I want to leave"
At least they've fixed it so players recognise when you've tried to sell them. I remember falling out with Kagawa in FM12 because he wanted a move, I promised to let him go and no-one wanted to buy him.
Made it through to the FA Trophy semis with Brentwood. Gateshead just defeated Chester in the other Semi 4 - 0. Nothing odd there apart from the fact: Gateshead 4 - 0 Chester M Pattison (pen 6, pen 22, pen 47, pen 49) Seemed a little bizarre to me.
Made it through the other semi against Wrexham on Penalties (2 - 1 home leg, 1 - 0 away leg). The penalties scoreline was 23 - 22. Now that's what I call a shootout!
FMD. Sold Sturridge to Madrid for 61M and they dropped him straight to Castilla. Now he asked for a transfer and is available for 32M 6 months later. So Strange. Has not played one competeitve game for them yet
The AI is so, so bad at running the transfers for big clubs. Real & PSG in particular seem to regularly have 200-300k p/w salary players in their reserves.
Taken over Arsenal in my game (its now 2022). They'd signed Origi for £60m after he'd had a couple of good seasons at QPR, played him mainly as a sub first year, barely that 2nd, then sold him to Southampton for £8m just before I took over. He's scored 15 in 20 for Soton, and I'm left with one striker (Lukaku), 2 promising youngsters not ready for the first team, and a transfer budget of £6m as they spunked £100m in the summer on shit not good enough for the first team
Its a very frustrating part of the game and stops me playing for more than 5 seasons because the difficulty curve tails off really quickly