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I thought I may have clicked something but no, I was supposed to be attending those as before. But as soon as I posted this, they started again, as misteriously as they vanished before.
What baffled me the most was that an unknown manager won everything his first season (was with Liverpool, that's pretty much easy mode), and despite all reporters were so keen to ask me "do you think your team has what it takes to win this match?" 10 times per conference against much inferior teams, they didn't bother to ask anything before or after the damn supercup. It's like "the supercup? no we don't care about that, let's wait for them to play millwall to bombard the manager with repeating questions".
Just a side note, I hate press conferences. I've been playing this game since CM 96/97 so I've been through all of the changes over the years and can honestly say press conferences are the cancer of this game. Pure waste of time. But you have to do it, and you can't just be yourself on the replies, you have to reply a certain way to avoid your players to be unhappy. You can't even atempt to do mind games because your players will take your words seriously and think you show a lack of ambition or something, even if you've just won 20 games in a row (yes, it did happen to me, 26 games to be exact and they still thought I wasn't ambitious enough).
You can argue you can delegate the conferences to your assistant, but judging from what he suggests I tell the players during half time (for example), those conferences would be a tragedy, and the players would be with a constant morale like their mothers had just died.
Another stupid thing that happened to me during this save was getting a really good offer for a player from Real Madrid. And me thinking "ok, I don't want to sell the player, but it's a good offer and a good opportunity for him. If he goes, I get money, if he refuses it's also good because I got him", so I accepted the offer. And the player reacted like I had stabbed his son. I had to apologize and promisse I wouldn't sell him. Only after over a full year he was like "ok, I guess we're good now, I forgive your betrail".
Listing players for transfer is also a tragedy. Everyone is unhappy, and I mean everyone, including the frikin chairman, because I listed a player that spent the season injured and didn't perform when he recovered, and by that time I already had a better replacement. What?
The transfer system is super unrealistic by the way. A team will only sell their mostly unknown youngster for 100M but will try to buy your star player underpriced and will cancel negotiations as soon as you ask for a bit more? And to top it off, you're trying to bring down the price of the youngster to about 20M plus adds, but then your rival comes in and just offers 120M plus adds even after they had already spent 150M? Where the hell do computer teams get their money?
Anyway, sorry about the rant guys, I love this game and have been a fan for over 20 years, but they just kept adding and adding stuff to it on the quest to make it hyper realistic but they just took most of the fun out of it, because in their quest for hyper realism they messed up completely exactly what they were trying to achieve.
Cheers