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I would but itā€™s asking me to link a parent account like Iā€™m not well into my 30sā€¦.

Anyone ever tried it on a mac?

I got the free FM23 last year on my macbook air and it works fine.

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Gotta say itā€™s definitely a frustrating play first time with Sydney FC. Been trying to get my wages down using the editor, but still way outside of the wages. They havenā€™t applied the correct cap exemptions for the players, so everyone is counted towards the final cut. Have to use the editor or hope for updated contracts to get it happening, otherwise thereā€™s no way to get the team the same as we had last yearā€¦

More annoying because they have what 40 top tier leagues, youā€™d assume theyā€™d get a top tier league correct, rather than just leaving it unfinished. Especially as it doesnā€™t seem like thereā€™s THAT many changes from 2023

Itā€™s a reason I havenā€™t played a full Sydney FC save in many, many years. They just donā€™t seem to care for doing it properly, and thereā€™s less to do in terms of building the club up. No pro/rel. Pretty much one game a week for most/all of the season. I find it quite boring.

I did a Sydney FC save in FM14. Itā€™s a pretty easy save once you get the squad right. Won the AFC Cup and Champions League several times.

Once I built up my youth development we would walk the league by 20+ points per season every year. Iā€™d end up selling 8 or 9 players to Europe for several million each. It got to the point where basically the Australia team was 90% Sydney FC players, and the youth Iā€™d bring in to cover those on NT duty were just as good as the first XI players.

Whilst smashing WS and Australiaā€™s Shame 3 or 4 times per year was satisfying, it did get a bit boring, especially once Champions League stopped being a challenge. The club did end up with the financial revenue of Manchester City, however, so that was pretty satisfying.

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I did SFC in 2023 and found that it wasnā€™t actually the worst. The player singings were fine and wasnā€™t an issue to get the players into the team. The worst part of A-League is the friendlies leading in, you end up smashing every team 9-0 and just becomes very very boring at the end of the day, until the main league starts. The joy of SFC is finding that random loan players that end up destroying the league, before going back to where they came from.

I do generally do my SFC saves as a way to get a bit of rep before going into one of the bigger leagues. Mentioned before that I did 2 years with SFC, won the Asian Champions League, before moving over to manage Leeds and getting them from a relegation position to mid table finish. Next year got them through to Europa Cup qualification, after which we got kicked out in the Semiā€™s

I think Iā€™ll try SFC one more time from the beginning. I thought setting the designated players would be fine, but probably need to do the other designations as well to make sure weā€™re all good and covered so I have a full team of players.

Once I get a new laptop, Iā€™ll get back into FM.

Now that Iā€™m single and got nothing better to do with my time. :sweat_smile:

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