Football Manager 2005 v5.0.3
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Please note, this patch is save game compatible and contains all the fixes in 5.0.2. You do not need to start a new game, however for the best results it is suggested.
> Transfers
- Fixed problem with manager being re-signed by old club after having already resigned just a short while before.
- Contracts in Chile now end in December instead of January.
- Assistant managers no longer renew contracts at the start of the game if human is on holiday and the assistant manager renew contracts option is not ticked.
- Player's who are transfer listed are a lot less likely to join arch rival clubs.
- Stopped player's being interested in joining disliked clubs.
- Ensured players are not interested in joining lower reputation clubs, when they are unhappy and want to move to a bigger club.
- Ensured human manager contracts are extended when they expire.
- Tweaked wage budget updates to prevent them from being dragged down when a manager cuts the level himself (so long as the club is considered financially stable by the board).
- Adjusted ideal/min/max squad size values for clubs in Czech Republic.
- Stopped "is hesitant to move whilst his current club continues to help him improve his game" reason appearing for a player's own club when rejecting a contract.
- Reduced loans between rival clubs.
- Reduced chance of players making two moves in very short space of time.
- Stopped news item saying player would leave on Bosman at end of current season when contract in fact expires end of the next season.
- Stopped non_bosman countries from using Bosman 2 ruling.
- Stopped the ability to offer player a new contract immediately after free transferring him.
- Stopped own players from requesting a new contract and then when trying to offer them a contract they refuse.
- Ensured you can't make changes to transfer clauses (buy back price, etc) and then immediately accept when computer team bids.
- Fixed a problem where the non-EU limit for Italian teams was not being updated properly after the transfer of a non EU player.
- Fixed a bug where renewing a coach's contract would forget which training schedules he was set to.
- Ensured remaining transfer budget is not rounded up on transfer offer screen.
- Fixed a problem with decision dates for Work permits in Iceland.
- Fixed problem with last club for human manager not being set properly when he resigns.
- Fixed problem where non human clubs are reluctant to approach players for pre-contract.
- Fixed problem where AI teams may spend money on a player coming out of contract after that player was offered to them for small fee.
- Fixed several issues to do with player/non_players retiring and the inability to offer them playing contracts during this phase.
- Fixed payments received from large monthly payments wipe out selling team's transfer budget.
- Stopped Athletico Bilbao from short listing non Basque players.
- Ensured that managers have previous club set after sacking/resignation.
- Stopped reserve players declaring their disinterest in joining their own team (contract offer screen).
- Fixed borderline contract decisions from players (interest wise), previously rejected, now accept.
- Ensured that rejected team in transfer between human club's receives news of rejection.
- Stopped clubs coming in for players just after player signed for someone else except in extreme circumstances.
- Tweaks to increase transfer movement and loan movement all round.
- Tweaked down contract demands for some players
> Interface
- Fixed a bug where some playoff matches would not allow the human manager to go to the match screen.
- Pressing Esc on the password dialog when taking control of a human player now works properly.
- Selected year is remembered in list of transfers when returning from a player profile.
- Made sure the Scouted Players section is disabled for unemployed scouts, when the human non player is unemployed.
- A clubs own reserve teams are no longer among the possible teams for a friendly tour.
- The status icon for Light Injury now has a higher priority than Foreign and Transfer Listed by Request on the squad screen.
- Using the Compare With action button now selects the correct player.
- More than one line of Favoured Personnel will now display correctly on the team information screen.
- Fixed a crash when user quickly changes sections in a network game.
- If a match screen is in the screen history, clicking on "Go To Match" now goes back to that screen instead of opening up a new match screen with all of its settings set to defaults.
- Fixed the Cup Tree view.
- Fixed problem when switching between first team squad and reserve team squad when selecting European squad.
- The overall value of a proposed transfer is now visible when a player is selected to be exchanged.
- Disabling EDT and DDT files in the preferences screen now works.
- Fixed a rare bug that meant the "Pick For Friendly" action button sometimes didn't work or wasn't displayed.
- Change and Withdraw Transfer buttons are now displayed on a players profile after going back from changing an offer.
- Human managers in the Hall of Fame outside the top 10/20 can now be selected.
- Clicking twice on the magnifying glass no longer clears the search list.
- A players contract details are no longer displayed as "-" on the shortlist.
- National team logos are now displayed on the match screen.
- If a human club is the only club interested in a player, the "WNT" icon will not be displayed for that player.
- Made sure the game doesn't go back to the default skin after changing language.
- When changing language, clicking cancel, selecting not to discard changes and then clicking confirm, the language wouldn't actually change.
- When a player picks up 2 yellow cards in a match, his disciplinary record will now just get the red card added and not the 2 yellows.
- Back/Forward mouse buttons button implemented (Windows ME/2000/XP only; Win98 need simulating software).
- Left/Right keys navigate back/forward in the screen history (Alt modifier key not required anymore).
- Now possible to change the contract offer to a player on free transfer.
- Fixed a crash on the team Coach Report screen.
- Using Overview in split screen would cut off fixture name.
- Returning to the fixture screen by clicking back, would make the fixture screen display the current year’s fixtures, and not the year that was selected before leaving the fixtures screen.
- Team Coach Report no longer uses players who are co-owned and not at the club currently.
- If a news message needed a scrollbar to display the entire message (international reports by assistant manager), the scroll position would be forgotten when returning to the news screen.
- When making an offer the fee would change back to the original fee when adding a player for exchange.
- Tactics: Player and team instruction "Closing Down" use more correct description: Rarely, Mixed, Often (instead of Own Area, Own Half, All Over).
- Tactics: swapping two players in the pitch while one was the selected row would cause both to be assigned the instructions of the selected player
- Tactics: swapping two players in the player list during a match while one was the selected row, would copy the instructions of the selected player to both players.
- Fixed a problem where the game would substitute a different player than the one selected.
- When a scout's search is saved, no error message now appears when he gets reassigned.
- The continue game timer now works properly at the end of a match.
- When offering a non-playing contract to a foreigner, no rules mentioning the foreign player limit are displayed.
- The language filter in the player search screen now uses the correct threshold value.
- Staff reputations shown in their profiles now have the correct value when there is no human manager active in the game.
- When changing the transfer date from "End Of Contract" to "Immediate" on the Approach To Sign screen, the compensation comment is now updated accordingly.
- The training assignments panel would sometimes not display the latest training data for players.
- Competition injury table now only shows teams who are still in the competition.
- When accepting a job for a team with a different team system, team screen filters might not work at all.
- Person search filters and sorts should now work faster for large save games.
> Regeneration, Retirements & Player development
- Fixed a couple of problems with the amount of youth regens getting allocated out at end of each season.
- Fixed rising mental attributes in regens as game goes on.
- Fixed stupidly low technique and first touch in regens and some young players at game start.
- Improved attribute balance vs overall ability for regens and developing players.
- Ensured club's in non-selected division within a selected nation don't hog all the regen players.
- Made a few more good pros play on for longer before retiring.
- Too many Italian players were getting Salva as their common name.
- Fixed bug where news about regened youth players didn't appear.
- Improved distribution of regen youth players in selected leagues.
- Set sensible second nation where applicable for youth regens.
> Awards
- Fixed a bug where some goals of the month were not able to be viewed.
- Fixed player winning two European player awards Defender/Midfielder/Striker of the year.
- Oceania player of the year now picks players based outside Oceania.
- Australian season awards are based on performances in the Championship cup and the Premier league.
- Fixed manager leaving club in one division close to end of the season and getting manager award in his new division.
- Third placed team in Malaysian Prem A/B history was not been shown. |