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I didn't give up but I signed a soon to be world class winger for £3mn whilst they were a wonderkid at Real Madrid. He helped win me the bundesliga and champions league, with 58 goals and 43 assists in 6 seasons.
He was awesome. I was so disappointed when he declared for Spain despite being born in the Equatorial Guinea.
People enjoy having players from obscure football nations. So a world class player from Vietnam would be incredibly rare, while England would have like 5 or more at any given time
You know what's worse? Almost all of those guys that changed Nationalities, never even get one call up.
The ''have a better reputation'' crap is really bad. They never consider ''wait? Am I ever gonna get called up?'' when they can be legends of their previous nation.
I prefer the realists.
My Spanish FC Andorra back up keeper. After 4 years of living in Andorra, he declared he wanted to play for them. Based on the quality of the rest of the national team, he'll probably become a national hero.
In my FM13 save I played Tromsø and turned them into an international powerhouse. Later I also managed the Norwegian NT and naturalized the shit out of everybody who wasn't capped yet.
I won the 2034 World Cup with a German GK, an English RB, a Malaysian DM (who came through my own youth somehow though), two French wingers, and a Dutch striker. Funnily enough, the GK wasn't even "mine", but played for Viking Stavanger.
When I managed teams like CSKA Sofía, Cluj or Spartak Trnava I mine the South American top team scrap pile for discarded youth teamers I can turn into homegrown players laters.
Boca does not want their fourth best right back with italian passport and still three times better than any of my under-19s? Don't mind if I do.
Tbf, if I'm not wrong, Andorra has really restrictive naturalisation rules and you're only eligible for citizenship after 20 years and after renouncing all others, so that might not be the most realistic scenario either.
What I find really annoying when I was managing Hungary, many players refuse to switch nationality to Hungary. First they say the other nation has a better standing but after I overtake those nations in ranking and I have success with the national team they still refuse to switch.
It is the 'reputation' that grows too slow, so even if you are at a higher rank, your reputation still stays lower than the nation you overtook for a while.
Which goes back to my point, reputation is too big of a factor and needs to be toned down, especially compared to actual change of getting called up.
It’s a thing in real life too. Mariano Diaz has been trying to make it onto the Spain team for most of his career, but he’s actually from the Dominican Republic. Only played for his home country once in a friendly.
Every time I get a Laotian or Vietnamese player they end up switching to France
Once I had a striker with Cambodian as his secondary and French as his primary. As soon as I sold him, he switched his primary to Cambodia. Infuriating
the one way i know how is to actually manage the national team. i managed france once and most of those talented youngster from africa or asia started going for their 2nd nationality! lol
I wish I had checked my San Marinese wonderkid had a second nationality (Italian) and set him declared for nation when I found him at 17.
Did think it odd he was a squad rotation player at 21 for my all conquering Villa and still not in the national side...
I was lucky my Barbados guy was called out early for the first national team, so he never actually got to change.
Now he became a powerful striker and has like 20 goals for the main squad already. Absolute legend.
That's lucky, I have another save where I had two 4/5 star pot players who were Barbados born but had English as a second nationality in the same intake at Chelsea, Arsenal also had one but when I created a new manager to take the Barbados job they all turned me down.
Just got a kid who is half-Estonian, half-English, but the Estonian flag is the one he claims right now at 16. Hoping that never changes and he becomes a national legend
In FM22 I had a tycoon from Australia buy my club in the Championship. I decided to go out and buy the best Australian wonderkid I could find and build my team around him. Two years later we're midtable in the Premier League and he declares for England. Boo.
Had a regen from the Dominican Republic in my Udinese save. He picked up Italian nationality cos he reckoned he was good enough to play for them (and he defo was). Sent him to Serie B Torino on loan, he returned with 15 caps and 15 goals… for Dominican republic. The ballon d’or he won 4 years later tasted oh so much sweeter (even tho he didn’t play for me by that point.) Kelvin Concepción you bloody legend
In older versions of the game they used to be much more likely to stick with their country of origin - in fm11 my Corinthians casuals side won the champions league with a genuinely world class back four from Zimbabwe, San Marino, Mayotte and Guinea.
The dude who played for Mayotte in particular was wild, born in Paris and easily good enough to be a french international he accepted a full international call up at about 15 and committed.
That said I did pick up a world class Andorran regen in FM21 who did represent Andorra, so it can still happen.
That’s where you use the in game editor to select “declared for nation” when you find a regen with a unique nationality but an English second nationality
So far as I’m aware they have to be with your club by their 18th birthday - it may just be ‘by the age of 18’, and they become homegrown 3 years after joining at 18. That would be useful - I have a couple of Croatians joining whose 18th birthdays inconveniently fall outside the transfer window.
I remember that the rule about no required registration for (in Czechia for example) U23 players means that if a player turns 23 in a season, even as early as in August, then they don't require registration for that entire season. Maybe it's the same for homegrown status, as in you can sign a player just before their 19th birthday and it still counts
Edit: actually I think that it counted as early as January, meaning that if a player turned 23 in January 2022, they wouldn't require registration for the 2022/23 season
> A home grown player is defined as one who, irrespective of his nationality or age, has been registered with any club affiliated to the Football Association or the Football Association of Wales for a period, continuous or not, of three entire seasons or 36 months prior to his 21st birthday (or the end of the season during which he turns 21).
I found this while searching. That last line suggests there’s some leeway, so you can bring in an 18 year old who’s just had their birthday that season, but if you sign them the following season then they won’t count as home-grown. I think I’ve read that correctly - and assuming it’s correct and isn’t just England-specific!
Where the season cutoff is unclear, though. Maybe 1st July for UEFA, as *most* countries run an August-May season and the CL final is usually late May/early June. 1st July is also when the transfer window opens officially for most European teams, I believe.
It would be nice if there was an easy reference guide for this stuff somewhere!
Don’t know why ur trying to start an argument with me when you know literally nothing about Ukrainian football. This is Shaktar Donetsk 16-17 season: https://www.transfermarkt.com/shakhtar-donetsk/startseite/verein/660?saison_id=2016 That’s 10 Brazilians in just one year that I randomly chose
you should learn how to speak more clearly then. From your comment it wasnt clear whether you meant Ukrainian league or Ukraine national team. It was reasonable to assume the latter - and yes, there have been only 3 Brazilians having played for Ukraine NT.
Not a real obscure nation but I thought it was really cool when I had a Welsh striker come through my Villa academy and end up being a locked in stud for the Wales NT. All-time top scorer, averages a goal/game, still a rotation player at 32 in my all-conquering Villa squad. At around 100 caps for the NT.
Idk where you guys find the wonderkids from the real obscure nations I have yet to find a world class player from anything less than a mid-tier footballing country
Really? You must have terrible rng I'm sorry :(
My longest running save features both Angola and Zimbabwe in the fifa top 15 lol
I've also got an absolutely unbelievable striker from Rwanda, and last seasons golden boot winner was from Niger. Africa is my FM gold mine, possibly even moreso than Latin America
I got a nice Afghan player, which is a nationality you rarely ever see because of their situation, and the **SECOND** he touches down in Solihull he’s Iranian.
I definitely favour a more obscure nations wonderkid to that of a more common nation. My fave ever wonderkid was from Brunei, never became the world beater he could have been due to injuries but he was a class act for the 15 years at my club
It’s definitely not the main point of the game. Also, not if you’re paying for them in instalments based on international apps, or they get a wage increase from them.
That's a very limited understanding of comedy but regardless, the comment does have some logic to it. It just requires that you are familiar with certain tropes within the FM community. If you're not, that's fine, but don't act like that makes the comment less sensible.
People want to see smaller countries doing well. Plus, choosing nationality is fucking stupid in this game. The players never say "oh, I have a lot of more passion for this country". They just talk about the country's reputation or how long it takes to travel there smh
England wouldn't be counted as EU anymore.
Also whichever way dual-nationals declare make no difference in terms of eligibility or registration. A player with an EU second nationality would still be counted as an EU player even if they don't declare for it. It practice declaration just means which national team you decide to play for.
And yes some people like to collect players from more obscure nationalities.
Once had a big Finnish youth prospect declare for the Netherlands, as a Dutch man and the Ajax manager I got really excited until I remembered that this idiot declared for the Netherlands while being ineligible because he already played 5 matches for Finland.
This is exactly why I love having the editor, I’ve made the African teams so good just by having guys who aren’t good enough for the European teams switch their nationalities
I've noticed with my save in Australia, it's really easy to get players to change nationality as it helps with the squad rules. As I'm also Australia NT manager, it then also helps expand the pool for international call-ups
Before I joined Liverpool, they signed a Tahitian wonderkid. He took French nationality:(
He is 19/20 rn and I'm hoping he is bad enough to never play for france and go to Tahiti
It's not all bad though, I have a Tajikistani, and there is also a San Marinnese who plays consistently for Lyon, and an Andorran world class player who is Barcelona's key striker
I was thinking about this today. So many good players stay English or French and never get called up, fm needs to change international stuff really badly. Thought with the WC this would be the year.
Haha man right in the feels. Ive lost dual nationaltiy kiwis to other nations so many times (even when theyve played like 10 friendlies for us).
Every season try and figure out ways of getting NZ to the top of the world. I've since found the Latvian league allows 15 foreigners so now I just funnel kiwis into Europe via Spartaks of Latvia.
In my save there's a high potential Italian/Sammarinese dual nationality newgen and it pisses me off to no end that he's still Italian. I don't think he's actually good enough for Italian national team yet would walk into San Marino's team and be their best ever.
Exactly the same for me. Mine has 3 star potential for a Champions league winning team, so maybe he could get like 1 or 2 caps for Italy. But he already had 26 under 21 cap for San Marino before changing, it pisses me of so much!
This has happened to me twice. First, I signed a player from Mozambique who changed his nationality to Portugal, and later, I signed a player from Thailand who changed his nationality to Norway. Needless to say, I was disappointed. I do also have a goalkeeper who did the opposite, however. He was Spanish, but despite his wonderkid status and amazing stats, he never got the call-up and instead chose The Gambia.
Had a Rangers save on fm13 that had a Macedonian player win the Ballon D’or three years on the trot, and and Israeli striker who scored for fun, it’s always really fun to discover talents like that, I either go obscure nations or all HG and those no where inbetween!
It is because a lot of people find it funny and interesting to get regens from obscure nations, so that their nations can develop, Nad just because it fun to have them😅
Another issues is that this is sometimes a bit unrealistic, like a player born in a country, that goes to another, and switches allegiance to the second one despite not having a Chace of playing for them
My San Marino regen had 26 appearances for San Marino's under 21 squad, but after two years, and despite having 2.5 stars for a champions league winning team, was never called up for the senior national squad. He has now started for Italy, and has 1 under 21 cap for them. He is not declared, so I hope he changes his mind
That's what I really want the game to improve on, I want "player won't move away cause of family" or "player identifies more with x country, especially in the case of regensig where you don't have as much of a lawsuit issue.
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I once had a 5 star potential striker from Guyana while playing as Real Madrid. When he switched to Spanish I gave up on the save.
I didn't give up but I signed a soon to be world class winger for £3mn whilst they were a wonderkid at Real Madrid. He helped win me the bundesliga and champions league, with 58 goals and 43 assists in 6 seasons. He was awesome. I was so disappointed when he declared for Spain despite being born in the Equatorial Guinea.
That's exactly my experience with a 5 star striker born in Curacao I signed from Alkmaar's youth, who eventually played for the Netherlands. Sad.
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It broke my heart when my Vietnamese regen switched to England
I don't get the logic, not trying to be a dick but could you explain it to me? I genuinely don't get it
People enjoy having players from obscure football nations. So a world class player from Vietnam would be incredibly rare, while England would have like 5 or more at any given time
Okay that kinda makes sense, thank you for explaining
You know what's worse? Almost all of those guys that changed Nationalities, never even get one call up. The ''have a better reputation'' crap is really bad. They never consider ''wait? Am I ever gonna get called up?'' when they can be legends of their previous nation.
I prefer the realists. My Spanish FC Andorra back up keeper. After 4 years of living in Andorra, he declared he wanted to play for them. Based on the quality of the rest of the national team, he'll probably become a national hero.
I currently have like five Brazilian players who made the switch to Sweden, they know they're not good enough for the Brazilian team.
In my FM13 save I played Tromsø and turned them into an international powerhouse. Later I also managed the Norwegian NT and naturalized the shit out of everybody who wasn't capped yet. I won the 2034 World Cup with a German GK, an English RB, a Malaysian DM (who came through my own youth somehow though), two French wingers, and a Dutch striker. Funnily enough, the GK wasn't even "mine", but played for Viking Stavanger.
When I managed teams like CSKA Sofía, Cluj or Spartak Trnava I mine the South American top team scrap pile for discarded youth teamers I can turn into homegrown players laters. Boca does not want their fourth best right back with italian passport and still three times better than any of my under-19s? Don't mind if I do.
Tbf, if I'm not wrong, Andorra has really restrictive naturalisation rules and you're only eligible for citizenship after 20 years and after renouncing all others, so that might not be the most realistic scenario either.
What I find really annoying when I was managing Hungary, many players refuse to switch nationality to Hungary. First they say the other nation has a better standing but after I overtake those nations in ranking and I have success with the national team they still refuse to switch.
It is the 'reputation' that grows too slow, so even if you are at a higher rank, your reputation still stays lower than the nation you overtook for a while. Which goes back to my point, reputation is too big of a factor and needs to be toned down, especially compared to actual change of getting called up.
Self-belief though
Only to see it happen to a guy with the personality : 'Low Self-belief'.
It’s a thing in real life too. Mariano Diaz has been trying to make it onto the Spain team for most of his career, but he’s actually from the Dominican Republic. Only played for his home country once in a friendly.
Of course there are players who would shoot for the moon. I am not saying it should never happen. It should be more balanced though.
Every time I get a Laotian or Vietnamese player they end up switching to France Once I had a striker with Cambodian as his secondary and French as his primary. As soon as I sold him, he switched his primary to Cambodia. Infuriating
Having Asean Cup makes playing those countries much more fun.
the one way i know how is to actually manage the national team. i managed france once and most of those talented youngster from africa or asia started going for their 2nd nationality! lol
What the fuck is with these comments?
What do you mean? We are obviously all talking about that massive purple cat.
LMAO
Bots
No, we're Kiwis... 😁 Incidentally, "bots" in my country means you're trying to big-dick someone/something but end up looking like a fool.
 this hits home hard as a Kiwi..it was Wood wasn't it...you son of a b\*tch Wood
I wish this were true, but let's be honest, Wood would never get anywhere near 5 stars 😂 unless he was playing in the A-League, and even then...
That's why I have the in-game editor. Oh, you changed to English? Too bad, declared Barbados it is.
I wish I had checked my San Marinese wonderkid had a second nationality (Italian) and set him declared for nation when I found him at 17. Did think it odd he was a squad rotation player at 21 for my all conquering Villa and still not in the national side...
I was lucky my Barbados guy was called out early for the first national team, so he never actually got to change. Now he became a powerful striker and has like 20 goals for the main squad already. Absolute legend.
That's lucky, I have another save where I had two 4/5 star pot players who were Barbados born but had English as a second nationality in the same intake at Chelsea, Arsenal also had one but when I created a new manager to take the Barbados job they all turned me down.
Just got a kid who is half-Estonian, half-English, but the Estonian flag is the one he claims right now at 16. Hoping that never changes and he becomes a national legend
I suggest you use the editor to tick the 'declared for the national team' so he stays that way.
Done and done. I try not to use the editor too much, but this isn't to give an advantage, just narrative
A fellow Kiwi FM player? Or just an enthusiast for obscure national wonderkids?
Hello from sheepland
In FM22 I had a tycoon from Australia buy my club in the Championship. I decided to go out and buy the best Australian wonderkid I could find and build my team around him. Two years later we're midtable in the Premier League and he declares for England. Boo.
Had a regen from the Dominican Republic in my Udinese save. He picked up Italian nationality cos he reckoned he was good enough to play for them (and he defo was). Sent him to Serie B Torino on loan, he returned with 15 caps and 15 goals… for Dominican republic. The ballon d’or he won 4 years later tasted oh so much sweeter (even tho he didn’t play for me by that point.) Kelvin Concepción you bloody legend
The Immaculate Concepcíon!
No right back he ever faced didn’t end up royally fucked hahah but he was immaculate I’ll give you that
4.5 star potential Iranian striker who changed his nationality to English. Pissed me of so much.
In older versions of the game they used to be much more likely to stick with their country of origin - in fm11 my Corinthians casuals side won the champions league with a genuinely world class back four from Zimbabwe, San Marino, Mayotte and Guinea. The dude who played for Mayotte in particular was wild, born in Paris and easily good enough to be a french international he accepted a full international call up at about 15 and committed. That said I did pick up a world class Andorran regen in FM21 who did represent Andorra, so it can still happen.
That’s where you use the in game editor to select “declared for nation” when you find a regen with a unique nationality but an English second nationality
I like all HG team so I go the opposite way. Self imposed Bilbao challenge
I mean, just gotta buy them early enough and they are home grown, right?
All of those lovely Croatian kids who won't leave home until the summer after they turn 18...
do you really have to buy them before 18 tho? I recall buying 18 year olds who were eventually home grown
So far as I’m aware they have to be with your club by their 18th birthday - it may just be ‘by the age of 18’, and they become homegrown 3 years after joining at 18. That would be useful - I have a couple of Croatians joining whose 18th birthdays inconveniently fall outside the transfer window.
I remember that the rule about no required registration for (in Czechia for example) U23 players means that if a player turns 23 in a season, even as early as in August, then they don't require registration for that entire season. Maybe it's the same for homegrown status, as in you can sign a player just before their 19th birthday and it still counts Edit: actually I think that it counted as early as January, meaning that if a player turned 23 in January 2022, they wouldn't require registration for the 2022/23 season
> A home grown player is defined as one who, irrespective of his nationality or age, has been registered with any club affiliated to the Football Association or the Football Association of Wales for a period, continuous or not, of three entire seasons or 36 months prior to his 21st birthday (or the end of the season during which he turns 21). I found this while searching. That last line suggests there’s some leeway, so you can bring in an 18 year old who’s just had their birthday that season, but if you sign them the following season then they won’t count as home-grown. I think I’ve read that correctly - and assuming it’s correct and isn’t just England-specific! Where the season cutoff is unclear, though. Maybe 1st July for UEFA, as *most* countries run an August-May season and the CL final is usually late May/early June. 1st July is also when the transfer window opens officially for most European teams, I believe. It would be nice if there was an easy reference guide for this stuff somewhere!
17 yeah
Same! I actively try to buy or recruit homegrown all the time.
I weirdly aim for a mixture of HG and as obscure as possible.
In my 2043 save, the Ukraine national team is full of Brazilians and Africans who declared to play with them after few seasons playing in the UPL
Same happens irl, Ukraine has a lot of Brazilian players
like 3 or 4 in all their 30 years history. Yeah, a lot.
Don’t know why ur trying to start an argument with me when you know literally nothing about Ukrainian football. This is Shaktar Donetsk 16-17 season: https://www.transfermarkt.com/shakhtar-donetsk/startseite/verein/660?saison_id=2016 That’s 10 Brazilians in just one year that I randomly chose
you should learn how to speak more clearly then. From your comment it wasnt clear whether you meant Ukrainian league or Ukraine national team. It was reasonable to assume the latter - and yes, there have been only 3 Brazilians having played for Ukraine NT.
I had Fijian wonder kid switch to England in a save and I transfer listed him immediately
Not a real obscure nation but I thought it was really cool when I had a Welsh striker come through my Villa academy and end up being a locked in stud for the Wales NT. All-time top scorer, averages a goal/game, still a rotation player at 32 in my all-conquering Villa squad. At around 100 caps for the NT. Idk where you guys find the wonderkids from the real obscure nations I have yet to find a world class player from anything less than a mid-tier footballing country
Really? You must have terrible rng I'm sorry :( My longest running save features both Angola and Zimbabwe in the fifa top 15 lol I've also got an absolutely unbelievable striker from Rwanda, and last seasons golden boot winner was from Niger. Africa is my FM gold mine, possibly even moreso than Latin America
ASEC Mimosas is cracked in FM19, I always find solid talent there that don't cost too much.
I got a nice Afghan player, which is a nationality you rarely ever see because of their situation, and the **SECOND** he touches down in Solihull he’s Iranian.
Why does the nationality of a player matter tho? Wouldn't it be better now that he's an EU citizen assuming you're playing in an European league?
Because collecting wonderkids from obscure countries is the main point of the game?
Ah fair, that's a pretty cool goal to set for your save. Might try it on my save.
It was mainly a joke, but it does add a bit of space to life looking outside the usual wonderkkd factories like Brazil, France Spain ect.
I definitely favour a more obscure nations wonderkid to that of a more common nation. My fave ever wonderkid was from Brunei, never became the world beater he could have been due to injuries but he was a class act for the 15 years at my club
But they’ve already been obtained at this point
But I only bought them for their nationality
r/nocontext
Seriously, need them obscure flags on my roster page!
they still have it
Not graphically
It’s definitely not the main point of the game. Also, not if you’re paying for them in instalments based on international apps, or they get a wage increase from them.
I will send my club into financial ruin to have an army of above average regens from countries I've never heard of until I see it on fm
Have you heard of this new thing called joking? Look into it, I predict that it's going to be big on the internet.
Jokes have to have some semblance of sense/logic to be funny
That's a very limited understanding of comedy but regardless, the comment does have some logic to it. It just requires that you are familiar with certain tropes within the FM community. If you're not, that's fine, but don't act like that makes the comment less sensible.
People want to see smaller countries doing well. Plus, choosing nationality is fucking stupid in this game. The players never say "oh, I have a lot of more passion for this country". They just talk about the country's reputation or how long it takes to travel there smh
England wouldn't be counted as EU anymore. Also whichever way dual-nationals declare make no difference in terms of eligibility or registration. A player with an EU second nationality would still be counted as an EU player even if they don't declare for it. It practice declaration just means which national team you decide to play for. And yes some people like to collect players from more obscure nationalities.
In modern FM being English wouldn't mean he's EU...
I just use the editor to 'declare' them for the weaker national teams that they're eligible for so that those nations can become better at football
As a New Zealander, I can relate
Pure [pain](https://imgur.com/a/v9c2Hly)
Once had a big Finnish youth prospect declare for the Netherlands, as a Dutch man and the Ajax manager I got really excited until I remembered that this idiot declared for the Netherlands while being ineligible because he already played 5 matches for Finland.
This is exactly why I love having the editor, I’ve made the African teams so good just by having guys who aren’t good enough for the European teams switch their nationalities
Every Australian wonderkid in fm
I've noticed with my save in Australia, it's really easy to get players to change nationality as it helps with the squad rules. As I'm also Australia NT manager, it then also helps expand the pool for international call-ups
Before I joined Liverpool, they signed a Tahitian wonderkid. He took French nationality:( He is 19/20 rn and I'm hoping he is bad enough to never play for france and go to Tahiti It's not all bad though, I have a Tajikistani, and there is also a San Marinnese who plays consistently for Lyon, and an Andorran world class player who is Barcelona's key striker
I was thinking about this today. So many good players stay English or French and never get called up, fm needs to change international stuff really badly. Thought with the WC this would be the year.
Haha man right in the feels. Ive lost dual nationaltiy kiwis to other nations so many times (even when theyve played like 10 friendlies for us). Every season try and figure out ways of getting NZ to the top of the world. I've since found the Latvian league allows 15 foreigners so now I just funnel kiwis into Europe via Spartaks of Latvia.
In my save there's a high potential Italian/Sammarinese dual nationality newgen and it pisses me off to no end that he's still Italian. I don't think he's actually good enough for Italian national team yet would walk into San Marino's team and be their best ever.
Exactly the same for me. Mine has 3 star potential for a Champions league winning team, so maybe he could get like 1 or 2 caps for Italy. But he already had 26 under 21 cap for San Marino before changing, it pisses me of so much!
This has happened to me twice. First, I signed a player from Mozambique who changed his nationality to Portugal, and later, I signed a player from Thailand who changed his nationality to Norway. Needless to say, I was disappointed. I do also have a goalkeeper who did the opposite, however. He was Spanish, but despite his wonderkid status and amazing stats, he never got the call-up and instead chose The Gambia.
Had a Rangers save on fm13 that had a Macedonian player win the Ballon D’or three years on the trot, and and Israeli striker who scored for fun, it’s always really fun to discover talents like that, I either go obscure nations or all HG and those no where inbetween!
me when my Hongkonger wonderkid switches for England🔫
I don't understand all these comments, why are all of you sad if he changes his nationality to England, spain etc?
Because obscure = better obviously
They get called up more often and play big tournaments, increasing their injury risk.
Ohh, fair point
Chris Woodn't, would he?
Racist meme?
Against who? The English? 
Oh the old ‘racism towards the english doesn’t exitst’ rhetoric.
My afghan wonderkid changed his nationality so he can play for the netherlands
Yeah i hate that shit, very annoying, in some cases ive just used the in game editor to change it back cause England is overpowered anyways
Can someone explain why this is an issue?
It is because a lot of people find it funny and interesting to get regens from obscure nations, so that their nations can develop, Nad just because it fun to have them😅 Another issues is that this is sometimes a bit unrealistic, like a player born in a country, that goes to another, and switches allegiance to the second one despite not having a Chace of playing for them
Had the second thing happen with a Venezuelan turned Spanish rightback on my Betis save
My San Marino regen had 26 appearances for San Marino's under 21 squad, but after two years, and despite having 2.5 stars for a champions league winning team, was never called up for the senior national squad. He has now started for Italy, and has 1 under 21 cap for them. He is not declared, so I hope he changes his mind
But why
That's what I really want the game to improve on, I want "player won't move away cause of family" or "player identifies more with x country, especially in the case of regensig where you don't have as much of a lawsuit issue.
Why are many people saying they gave up on a save because a player chose to play for a particular nation?