Football Manager 2024 players are concerned about attributes ‘not mattering enough’, saying it ‘makes the game a joke’
Football Manager 2024 players are concerned about their footballers’ attributes “not mattering enough,” as some have flagged that they can assign roles to people that shouldn’t fit them whatsoever, yet achieve surprisingly positive results.
Over on Football Manager 2024’s official feedback thread, on developer Sports Interactive’s community forums, user whatsupdoc shared that they’d experimented with putting their 17-year-old back-up goalkeeper, Tommy Setford, into the advanced forward position for a couple of games on their new Fulham save. They described what they found as an “example of attributes not mattering enough.”
They alleged that in the first league cup game, their team won 5-0, with Setford scoring and finishing on a rating of 7.6. Seemingly, this wasn’t a fluke, as despite the player’s team losing the next game, Setford still scored and was given a 7.1 rating, before going on to score again for a third game running. Needless to say, no one would really expect a goalkeeper to perform so well as a striker.
This has caused heated discussion on the forum over the current state of the management sim. Another player, dannyo666, wrote: “It seems only physical and mental matter in 24. I put [William] Saliba [a central defender] up front for a season, he got 15 goals, he looked like a world class poacher. [...] I really don't know where this series is going,” dannyo666 wrote.
“I don't know why this happens but it's been happening for a little while,” RDF Tactics commented. “Last year, Héctor Bellerin [a right defender and right wing back] was my top scorer as [advanced forward] at Barca due to [Robert] Lewandowski dropping form. I got frustrated and to prove a point on stream, we threw Héctor Bellerin up front as [an]
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