FM Dossier v1.11.0

Home-grown status — which club a player was trained at, and which nation he was developed in — is now
read from your save and available as a filter everywhere.

A full re-read is needed to load it. Everything else in your database is untouched, and nothing
forces the re-read: until you do one, the home-grown panels simply say so rather than pretending a
player has no status.

Trained at club, trained in nation

FM tracks two separate facts about every player: the clubs he was trained at, and the nations he was
developed in. Both now appear on the player dossier, with the age window FM applies — "3 years, ages
15–21" and so on.

The nation side is the interesting one, because it has nothing to do with nationality. A player
can hold one passport and have been developed somewhere else entirely, and that is precisely the
player who is hard to find any other way.

Filtering

Player Search → Filters → Home-grown status offers five settings:

• Trained at club — anywhere, or narrowed to your own club
• Trained in nation — anywhere, or narrowed to the nation you manage
• Either
• Not home-grown

This is the squad-registration question. If your league requires a minimum number of domestically
developed players, you can now list exactly who counts, of any nationality, instead of checking
players one at a time.

The filter works on the player search, on Suggestions and on the national pool, and it clears from the
chip row or from "Clear all" like every other filter.

For national team managers

The nation pool has a "Trained in ⟨nation⟩" button. It shows every player FM records as developed
in your country — including those who hold another nationality and would never appear in a
nationality-based list.

What is not shown

FM's editor offers nine home-grown categories, and all nine are labelled here — "3 years, ages 15–21",
"4 years, ages 0–19" and the rest. A small number of players carry an internal category FM's own
editor never offers. Those still show the club or nation they were trained at; only the age-window
detail is left off, because an unconfirmed label is worse than no label.

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Also in this release, carried over from work that had not yet shipped:

The national-team call-up list

If you manage a nation, the pool tabs could disagree with the list under them. The header said one
number of called-up players and the table showed fewer, which read as players going missing.

They were never missing. Any active filter narrowed the list while the tab kept reporting the
unfiltered total. The active tab now says both — "Called up · 19 of 22" — so you can always see
when a filter is hiding part of the squad.

The same investigation found that Quick presets in the Filters panel were not reaching the list you
were looking at. On the nation pool and the staff search, clicking a preset silently filtered the
Player Search screen instead. Presets now apply to whichever list you opened them from.

Women's and men's national squads no longer overwrite each other

On a save with women's football enabled, a nation's men's and women's squads were treated as one
squad, and the smaller of the two was silently discarded. Both squads are now kept and shown to the
manager they belong to.

Scout mode no longer reveals potential

The "Wonderkids to watch" panel picked its players by their true Potential Ability and printed that
number on the card — including in Scout mode, where CA and PA are hidden everywhere else. In Scout
mode it now selects and ranks by world renown, a signal your scouts can actually see.

Hide the wonderkid tag until you have scouted him

A new Settings option, off by default: in Moneyball mode, only show the WK tag once your own
scouts have fully assessed the player. Full mode is unaffected — it shows everything by design.

Recruit tab

• CA and PA columns in Full mode, so you can judge a signing without opening each player.
• Results are kept when you open a player and come back. Previously that re-ran one search per
  formation slot, which on a large save meant a long wait every time.

Position filter: require every position

The position picker now has a "Must cover all picked" switch. With it on, a player has to play
every position you selected, not just one of them — useful when a role needs one position in
possession and another out of possession. It appears once you have picked two or more positions.

Window position

FM Dossier now remembers where you left its window, what size it was, and whether it was maximised.

Smaller fixes

• The first-run language picker's "selected" outline never actually rendered.
• A staff willingness note used an undefined colour and inherited the wrong one.
• Quick presets applied on the Staff search now filter the staff list, not the player search.

FM Dossier v1.10.1

A fix-and-polish release built almost entirely from user reports. Two of the fixes are things
that had been quietly wrong for a while, and one of them could affect anyone managing a club and a
country.

Staff search finally hides the people you can't sign

Chairmen, presidents and club doctors were topping the coaching rankings — they have the authority and
people-management attributes those rankings weight, so they floated to the top of every list. "Hide
unavailable staff" now removes them properly, including the ones FM never gave a formal job title.

We also confirmed something along the way that we had only guessed at before: FM does record a person's
appetite for a chairman role, and it is unmistakable — every single chairperson and president in the
database carries it.

Filter staff by what job they actually want

New in the staff filter: Prefers this job — pick a role, set a minimum, and only see people who
want that kind of work.

One honest caveat, because we measured it: this is a person's stated preference, not a prediction
that they will negotiate. We approached two staff in game who rated a coaching role 1/20 and both
agreed to talk. So it is a useful way to narrow a list, and it is not a signing forecast. It is off by
default.

The window no longer freezes when you open Settings

Opening Settings could lock the app for many seconds if you keep several saves — it was reading every
one of them on the interface thread. That work has moved off it, along with 22 other operations that
were doing the same thing.

We also rewrote the check that was supposed to catch this class of problem. The old one tested for the
specific mechanism behind a previous freeze rather than for the rule itself, so this one walked
straight past it. It now checks the rule, and a new operation has to be justified rather than assumed
safe.

For anyone managing a club and a country

If you manage both, your second job's data lived in a separate file that no read could ever update —
so the app asked you to reload it every time you switched, and reloading never satisfied the request.

A hand-added second job now shares your main save, so the prompt is gone and both jobs stay current.
Your old file is kept, not deleted — anything you had saved in it is copied across first.

Separately, some saves had ended up with two conflicting identity records after upgrading through
earlier versions, which could make the app read stale details about which club you manage. Those are
repaired automatically on open.

Which formation suits your squad — now where you actually pick it

The shape advisor from v1.10.0 told you your best formations, but finding a particular one meant
scrolling a list of 350.

• Your formation's fit and rank now sit beside the formation picker itself — switch to 4-4-2 and
  see immediately what it scores and where it ranks.
• Search the ranking by name. Type 442, 4-4-2 or 4 4 2 — and aliases work too, so searching
  3-5-2 finds the shape listed as 5-3-2, since FM uses both names for the same eleven positions.
• The "You play" line now tells you where your current shape ranks, not just its percentage.

Player profiles are easier to read

The information under a player's name is now grouped — Player, Club, Money, Right now — instead of
one long unbroken line. On a well-documented player with several bonus clauses, that line had become
difficult to scan.

Youth intake says what it actually knows

The intake panel was labelling the players who were already at your club when the feature first ran
with a year they never earned. It now says so plainly instead of inventing an intake date. Cohorts that
genuinely arrived while you were tracking keep their year.

Also fixed

• You can delete your last shortlist. The button was disabled with an explanation almost nobody
  saw, so a list you no longer wanted looked permanent.
• Long lists behave. Expanding the full formation ranking scrolls inside its panel instead of
  stretching the page.
• Staff filters are visible again once you close the filter window, with a Clear all beside them,
  and the match count updates as you change them.
• Twelve languages had the staff preference description written in the masculine. FM has female staff;
  the wording no longer assumes otherwise.

Still looking into

Freezing when adding a large batch of players to a shortlist. We could not reproduce it, so rather than
guess we made the diagnostics able to answer the question — the app now records enough to tell us
exactly where it stalls. If it happens to you, please send a report right after; the log will finally
say something useful.

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No reload required. Your saves keep working as they are.

FM Dossier v1.10.0

This release needs one full re-read of your save. FM Dossier will prompt you. Several of the fixes
below can only be applied by reading the save again — until you do, the old behaviour continues.

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Your squad only contains people who are actually in your save

FM Dossier stored every player it had ever read and never removed anyone who left the game. On a long
save that quietly builds up: retired players, players removed from the game world, people who simply
no longer exist. Most of them sat unnoticed in search results — but any who had been at your club kept
their place in your squad, your depth chart and your best-per-position board, and could even show up
as called up for a national team.

They are now filtered out of the squad, the depth chart, the boards, the national-team pool and the
player search. If one is on a shortlist you built by hand he is still there, tagged Gone with an
explanation, rather than vanishing without a word.

New: which shape suits your squad?

FM Dossier has always answered "I want to play this formation — who fits, and what am I missing?"
The reverse question is new: give it your squad and it tells you which shapes actually suit the
players you have.

• 350 formations are searched, not a handful — every FM formation plus the legal variants around
  them, in and out of possession.
• A top three for each phase, with a rating for every shape and an expandable full ranking, so you
  can see the reasoning rather than take the answer on trust.
• Out-of-possession shapes are judged on the same eleven your in-possession answer picked, because
  that is how a tactic works — you do not substitute between phases.
• Each recommendation names which positions carry the shape and which are thin.
• When your squad genuinely has no strong preference, it says so instead of picking one.

It sits on the club overview and on the national-team tactics tab.

There is no "meta" in this. FM Dossier does not know which roles the match engine favours this patch,
so it does not pretend to — the answer is built from your players' positions and role fits.

New: youth intake history

A new panel tracks each year's youth intake and what became of them — still at the club, moved on, or
no longer in the save at all.

It can only track from your first full read onward. Nothing in a save links a player who has
already left back to the club that produced him, so FM Dossier records what it sees from now on rather
than inventing a history it cannot know. The panel says this on screen. If it looks sparse today, that
is the honest answer — it fills as you play.

Best per position now ranks by fit at that position

Previously each player was listed under a single position. That hid whole positions: if nobody's
primary position was left wing-back, the card disappeared entirely — even with eight players who
play there naturally.

Players are now listed at every position they are natural at, ranked by how well they fit that
position. A centre-back who can fill in at left-back appears in the left-back list near the bottom,
where he belongs, with the real left-backs above him.

Staff personality attributes

Staff dossiers previously showed one of Football Manager's eight personality attributes. All eight are
now read and displayed: Adaptability, Ambition, Loyalty, Pressure, Professionalism, Sportsmanship,
Temperament and Controversy.

East Asian names now match Football Manager

Where Football Manager writes a name surname-first, FM Dossier now does too. The convention is learned
from the names Football Manager itself supplies in your save rather than from a fixed list of
countries, so it adapts to the database you are playing — and a player with a Western name who holds
one of those nationalities is left exactly as Football Manager writes him.

Progression graphs show their numbers

The starting and finishing value of each line is now printed on the graph, and hovering any point
shows its date and value. The axis labels show the scale, not where a particular player began and
ended, so reading them was never able to answer that question.

Also fixed

• Contract and signing dates on long saves. A date range in the reader had a fixed upper year, so
  on a save played far enough forward signing dates were discarded — on a late save this removed them
  from essentially every youth contract. Dates now follow the save's own clock.
• National teams are pinned at the top of the nation list again, including one you added yourself.
• The "My formation" filter on the best-per-position board now names the shape it is filtering by,
  and is no longer offered when that shape is a default you never chose.
• A player who has retired into a coaching role no longer lingers in your squad.

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Database: schema 68, data epoch 11. A full re-read is required and FM Dossier will ask for one.

FM Dossier v1.9.11

A community release: five reported bugs fixed, the squad views made a lot more flexible, and FM's
face/appearance data now travels with every AI export.

Fixes from your reports

The "Loan reach" badge appeared on your entire squad. Your club's reputation was read with an
unordered LIMIT 1, so a single stale row — typically a player who retired seasons ago and is still
enrolled — could decide it for everyone. It now takes the value the squad actually agrees on.

A player who retired and became a coach stayed in your squad. Squad membership was keyed purely
off "belongs to this club" with no retirement or staff condition. Someone who holds a staff record
and is not a player-coach is now correctly staff, not a squad member — in the squad list and in the
depth and gaps views that read it.

Role weights would not export. "Export All" wrote {"weights":{}} unless you had already edited
a role, because only overrides were written. Both editors now export the effective weights —
catalog defaults merged with your changes — so the full Export → edit externally → Import round trip
works from a clean install. Positional weights were always fine; role weights are now too.

"Clear All" flooded the player list with staff. Clearing filters dropped the player scope
entirely. There is now a visible Show staff members switch, on by default, so the behaviour is
both correct and yours to change.

Blank circles where a fit percentage should be. They were never blank — the top band's colour
was byte-identical to the background accent, so the best players in your squad were printing green
on green. Every formation token is legible again.

Squad views: any combination of your squads

The Senior only / + Youth squads toggle is now one chip per squad. Turn on any combination —
First Team + Reserves, Reserves + U19 — or switch Senior off entirely for a youth-only view when
you are planning youth recruitment.

The scope drives the squad table, depth chart, gaps and targets, best-per-position, the formation
picker and Auto-XI. Your saved lineup is never affected by changing it: a player you have already
picked keeps his place whatever the chips say.

Transfer plan, Development and the backroom deliberately stay on the squad you have selected — they
are per-squad tools, and a transfer plan that files 16-year-olds under "Sell" would not be doing you
a favour.

Transfer plan: "Incoming" is now "Targets"

The lane never listed pending transfers — it lists your shortlist plus players who fill a gap, i.e.
people you could go for. Both of its labels suggested otherwise, so "Incoming" is now Targets,
the "Transfer OK" chip reads Transfer realistic (it always meant "a permanent move is realistic
for your club", never "agreed"), and the lane says outright that nothing in it is agreed business.

The depth target the Fringe lane quotes — "#3 of want 2" — has always been yours to set, with the
▴ ▾ beside each position on the Squad tab's Gaps panel. The lane now says so, since the number was
being read as a fact rather than as a setting.

Appearance data in AI exports

FM models each person's ethnicity and skin tone, and both are now read directly from the
game and written into every player and club AI export as names — never raw numbers — alongside the
face group used by newgen face packs. Exports also carry each person's player ID, and you can
export the IDs for a whole filtered search or squad at once, which makes bulk face-pack work
practical instead of manual.

Staff carry the same appearance data, measured separately rather than assumed from the player
layout.

Also in this release

• Squad ID shown beside a player's name in his dossier, selectable for copying.
• A Player / Staff switcher on anyone who is both. It appears only when we genuinely hold both
  records, which today is a small minority of dual-role people.
• Youth squads list in age order instead of arbitrary order.
• The header's Menu no longer disappears when the window is maximised at some widths.
• Staff suggestions now weigh a candidate's division as well as his club's standing, so the
  "within reach" scope reflects more of what the game actually looks at.
• Best per position can follow your current formation instead of listing every position.

Notes

This release adds two database columns for the appearance data. They fill on your next full read
of the save — everything else works immediately, and no re-read is required for any other feature.

FM Dossier v1.9.10

A big one: five fixes for things that were quietly not working, and five new pieces built straight
from what you asked for. No reload needed — your save data is untouched.

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Backroom suggestions: a better "realistic" line, measured in-game

"Upgrade your backroom" was showing the wrong people — in both directions.

The list is filtered by whether your club is big enough to approach someone. That line has now been
set by actually approaching a dozen staff in Football Manager and recording what the game said,
rather than by estimating: the previous setting was too strict and was hiding staff you could
genuinely sign, while still letting a few through who would never talk to you.

Clubs up to about a third larger than yours are now treated as realistic, with a hard ceiling so a
mid-table side is never told it can raid the elite. Youth and reserve sides are judged by their
parent club, which is how the game judges them — previously a coach at a big club's academy
looked far more reachable than he was.

FM stores a preference rating for every job type, and Dossier has been reading it and showing it as
Prefers N/20 for a while — it just never used it. The effect was worst exactly where the tool is
most useful: at a small club, the reachability filter narrows you to lower-profile staff, and that
group is overwhelmingly made up of people who do not want a coaching job. On a semi-professional
club, every single name on the list could be at the bottom of the preference scale.

Each role now has a Prefers this role / Any switch, and every candidate shows Prefers N/20 —
FM's own record of how much they want that kind of job.

The switch is off by default, deliberately. Testing it in-game showed that a low preference does
not mean someone will refuse to talk: two staff sitting at 1/20 for coaching both agreed to
negotiate a coaching job. So the number is worth seeing, and worth filtering on when you want people
who actively want the role — but it is not a reliable "will they join" signal, and defaulting it on
would have hidden people you can actually sign.

Scout mode no longer leaks role fits into the AI export

In Scout mode, attributes you have not scouted show as ranges or dashes — but "Export for AI" was
still writing the exact role-fit and style-fit percentages, which are calculated from those same
hidden attributes. So the export masked an attribute and then handed over a precise score derived
from it.

Scout exports now carry a fit range instead of a single number, and drop the star rating (stars
are derived from the exact figure). Full mode, your own players and fully-scouted players are
completely unchanged. The export's own legend explains the new field, so whatever you paste it into
knows the number is uncertain.

Searching for a name with accents now works without typing the accents

Searching "Lourenco", "Ibanez" or "Kranjcar" found nobody. You had to reproduce the exact
diacritics — ç, á/ñ, č — before the name would come up. Roughly a fifth of the staff in a typical
save have a name like that, and over half of those were effectively unreachable through search.

Both the staff search and the player search now ignore accents and case, so type it however your
keyboard makes it easy. Non-Latin scripts are deliberately left alone — folding those together would
merge genuinely different people.

Filter staff by nationality

The staff search can now be narrowed to a single nationality, in the Standing tab of the staff
filter, with the same accent-insensitive picker the player filter uses.

Region filters (e.g. "East Asia", "Caribbean") are not possible and we would rather say so than
half-do it: Football Manager does not record which continent a nation belongs to anywhere we can
read. Building our own list would mean guessing, and it would silently miss every custom nation in
your database.

Staff sorting now covers your whole list, not just the part you have scrolled

Clicking a staff column header is supposed to re-sort every matching person, not the rows loaded so
far. That was true of some columns and quietly untrue of others — nationality, job, club, badge,
wage and contract expiry sorted only what was on screen, and looked exactly like the columns that
did the right thing.

All six now sort the full list. Best role still sorts only the loaded rows — it is worked out on
your machine from all nineteen role ratings, so the database cannot order by it — and its header now
says so instead of pretending otherwise.

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New

Find your best players at each position, in your own squad

Sitting directly above the depth chart: Best per position, your strongest three at every position
they can actually play. Depth tells you who covers a position; this tells you who is best at it,
and they now sit together instead of being spread across the app.

Follows the senior / +youth toggle, so a wonderkid shows up the moment you widen the scope.

"Must have these, and any two of these"

Every filter used to be an AND, so each attribute you added narrowed the list until it hit zero — with
nothing to tell you which one did it.

The attribute panel now has a second half: Nice to have — match some of these. Add as many
attributes as you like and set how many of them have to be met. A striker who must have Finishing
and Composure, and any two of First Touch, Work Rate, Balance and Agility, is now one filter.

And when a search does come back empty, it says so in plain terms and points at the fix, instead of
leaving you to guess which of eight filters was the culprit.

Five role presets built on season stats

New one-tap chips beside the existing presets: Ball-playing CB · Ball-winning DM · Creative
midfielder · Pressing forward · Clinical finisher. Each sets the position, the relevant per-90
metrics and the ranking, so you are not assembling three of sixty-five metrics by hand.

They rank rather than impose a cut-off, deliberately. A hard threshold like "2.1 interceptions per
90" is wrong the moment you change league, season length or era — it would look authoritative and
quietly mislead. The only number involved is a 450-minute sample floor, so a one-game cameo cannot top
the list.

Export every squad in one go

A second export button on your club: Export all squads — senior and youth together, one document,
each squad kept separate. No more exporting them one at a time and stitching the files together
yourself.

Staff at youth and reserve sides are no longer labelled as senior staff

When a coach works for a club's youth or reserve side, Football Manager often gives that side no name
of its own — so Dossier showed the parent club instead. A youth coach at Manchester United's academy
simply read "Manchester United", you went looking for him in the senior staff list, and he was not
there. It affected roughly one in seven employed staff.

Those rows now say "(youth / reserve side)" next to the club, with a note explaining he will not
appear in the senior list in-game.

The national board says where its call-up marks come from

National squads are only re-read during a full save load — a quick refresh does not touch them. So
anyone you called up since your last full read still showed as "not called up", stated as though it
were current. The Best per position board now says so in a line under the heading.

A minimum attribute across every backroom suggestion

If one attribute matters in every hire you make — Working with Youngsters on a youth-only save, say —
set it once at the top of "Upgrade your backroom" and it applies to every role you open.

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Under the hood: no database migration, no re-read required. If the app is working for you, this
update changes nothing about your saved data.

FM Dossier v1.9.9

Two improvements that both came from the same conversation with a national-team manager: Best per
position now shows ten players instead of two, and the staff upgrade suggestions can be narrowed
to coaching staff, so your eight slots aren't spent on jobs you only have one of.

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Best per position now goes ten deep

The national-team Best per position board listed the two strongest players at each position. Two
turned out to be the wrong number for almost everyone.

If you play a back three you are picking six centre-backs, not two. And a squad list is only half the
job — the other half is spotting the players who are nearly there, so you can keep an eye on them
and see whether they kick on. A top-two list can't show you either.

It now shows ten per position. Positions with fewer eligible players simply show fewer, and the
header still reports how many players qualify in total. A versatile player still appears under every
position he plays naturally — so with ten deep, one player holding a high place in three lists no
longer pushes genuine specialists off the board.

Staff suggestions: narrow to coaching staff

The staff upgrade suggestions rank everyone in the save by how well they'd do the coaching duty you
picked. That ranking is honest, but it has an awkward side effect: assistant managers and heads of
youth development are senior, well-rounded staff, so they score highly on coaching duties and take up
places in the list — and you can only employ one of each.

Open any of the nine coaching duties and there's now an All staff / Coaching staff only toggle.
Coaching staff only keeps people already working as coaches, plus anyone currently without a club,
and sets the rest aside. It stays where you put it while you work through the different duties.

Alongside it, a candidate who already holds a job we can score now shows how good they are at that
job, right next to its name — so an assistant manager who tops your defending list at 90 but reads
21 as an assistant manager is obvious at a glance, rather than something you find out afterwards.

⚠️ Two honest notes. Football Manager never records which coaching duty a coach is employed for, so
this stays a list you scope yourself rather than one we filter on your behalf. And the duties overlap
by design — attacking (tactical) and attacking (technical) are scored on almost the same attributes,
so the same names will legitimately appear in both.

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No reload needed. Nothing in this release changes how your save is read, so your existing data
carries straight over.

FM Dossier v1.9.8

FM Dossier has a Discord. Join the DB Football community to ask questions, share ideas and get
release news as it lands — there's now a button in the header, and a link wherever you send feedback.

This release also fixes a staff-recommendation filter that was doing nothing at bigger clubs.

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Join the community

FM Dossier now lives in the DB Football Discord, with its own channels for discussion and for release
notes. You'll find a Discord button in the header, plus links on the start screen, in Settings,
and next to the feedback form.

If you have a question, an idea, or you just want to compare notes with other managers, that's the
place — the in-app feedback form is still the best route for a bug report, because it attaches your
diagnostic log automatically.

"Realistic targets" now actually filters

The staff upgrade suggestions have a Realistic targets / Everyone toggle, meant to hide people
whose current club is far bigger than yours. On many saves it was hiding nobody.

The scope compared employers against a ceiling of one-and-a-half times your club's reputation — but
reputation tops out at a fixed maximum, so once your club grew past roughly two-thirds of that
scale, the ceiling sat above every club in the game and the toggle became incapable of excluding
anyone. Long saves were affected worst, because that's where clubs grow.

Realistic targets now means what it says: staff whose current club is at or below your own
standing. Someone a step above is still shown under Everyone, labelled A stretch, so you can
see the borderline cases and decide for yourself. The candidate pool was widened to match, so the
list stays full now that the filter genuinely cuts.

⚠️ Worth saying plainly: this is an estimate built on club reputation. Football Manager works out
whether someone will actually talk to you using information the save doesn't expose, so a shorter,
more realistic list is still a list of likely targets, not a guarantee.

Best per position, for national teams

A new Best per position tab on the nation view ranks every player eligible for your country,
position by position, and marks who you have already called up.

It's built for the "clear the squad, then pick the two strongest at each position" routine. Because
it ranks everyone who qualifies — not just the players the game has already put in front of you — it
surfaces eligible players you may never have been offered.

Smaller things

• Import all… / Export all… — the weights editors have always saved and loaded every
  customised role or position in one file. The buttons now say so; sitting next to "Reset this role",
  the old labels read as if they only covered the one you had open.
• A "Squad only" marker appears next to the save date when your last quick refresh updated your
  squad and shortlist but the rest of the data is from an older full read. It's just a note — nothing
  reloads on its own, so you keep choosing when to pay for a full read.
• Both weights editors now say what they change. Role weights drive role fit and the Top Role
  ranking; position weights drive the position rating. They're separate signals, and neither feeds
  the other.
• Interface: the Discord button degrades to an icon on narrow windows, so the top bar never wraps.

Under the hood

• No migration. Save schema stays 63, data epoch stays 10 — no reload needed.
• All new text ships in all 20 supported languages.

FM Dossier v1.9.7

The app no longer freezes while it works

If you have ever added a batch of players to a shortlist on a big save and watched the window go
completely unresponsive — that is fixed, and it was not really about shortlists.

Saving a shortlist change also updates the list of players FM Dossier tracks for development history.
That update was running on the same thread that draws the window, so it had to wait its turn behind
whatever database work was already in flight. While it waited, nothing could repaint and nothing
responded to a click. On a large save that wait could run to a minute. The work itself always
finished correctly, which is why everything was intact after a restart — the app was never broken,
just unable to say so.

Thirty database calls were in that position. All thirty now run off the drawing thread, so a slow
query can no longer freeze the window. Several things get noticeably better as a side effect:

• Opening a saved game, listing scout notes, and loading imported tactics were all on the
  drawing thread. On the largest saves those had been freezing the app for seconds at a time — and
  because the diagnostic log is written from that same thread, the freeze could not even be reported.
• The [perf-slow] numbers in the log for those calls were mostly time spent waiting, not working.

A guard now fails the build if a database call is ever added back onto the drawing thread.

Top 10

• Position boards now mean what they say. Clicking ST used to include anyone who could fill in up
  front. A board now lists only players rated at least 16/20 in that position, so a genuine
  two-position player still appears on both boards and an emergency stand-in appears on neither.
• The position picker is a proper control. Thirteen bare three-letter codes in one row have been
  grouped into Goalkeeper / Defence / Midfield / Attack, with buttons that look like buttons and a
  clearly filled state for the one you are on.
• Opening a player and coming back keeps you on Top 10, on the same position, instead of dropping
  you into the full search list.

Shortlists

• Clear a list without deleting it — remove every player, keep the list, its name and its place.
• Manage lists is always available in the player search toolbar. Renaming, moving, copying,
  exporting and deleting have been there since v1.5.2, but the door to them only appeared while the
  shortlist view was switched on.
• When only one list remains, Delete now explains why it is unavailable instead of quietly doing
  nothing.

Selecting several players at once

This has existed since v1.5.2 and was hard to find, so:

• Shortlist, Top 10 and Select now stand out from the rest of the toolbar and clearly show
  when they are on.
• Turning Select on immediately explains what the tick boxes are for, instead of showing a column
  of empty boxes and nothing else.
• Reminder of what it does: tick any number of players, shift-click to take a whole run of them, then
  add the lot to any shortlist in one go.

Staff suggestions you could actually sign

The staff upgrade suggestions ranked the best people in the game world regardless of whether they
would ever consider your club — which made the feature close to useless for smaller clubs.

• Suggestions are now scoped to staff your club could plausibly attract, judged by the standing
  of the club they would be leaving. Managers, who top most rankings and are almost never
  signable, are left out.
• Each suggestion is marked Reachable, A stretch or Out of reach so you can weigh it
  yourself. Where a reputation cannot be read, no claim is made at all.
• A Realistic targets / Everyone switch widens it again whenever you want the full picture.
• Candidates who cannot be hired are filtered before the shortlist is drawn up, so the suggestions
  are spent on real options.

Worth a note on why it is the employing club's standing rather than the person's own: a staff
member's personal reputation is a much smaller number than a club's, so a chairman at one of the
biggest clubs in the world reads lower than a solid mid-table side. Judging by the person lets
exactly the people you cannot get straight through the filter.

Scrolling in long lists

Long lists could stop short — a search showing a fraction of the players it had loaded, with dead
space beneath and no way to scroll to the rest. Changing the text size appeared to fix it, which was
the clue: the list was sizing itself from a measurement that only refreshed when the window resized,
and changing the text size resizes the window.

Lists now re-measure themselves as they draw. This affects the player search and every table built
on the same component — the nation pool, the Top 10 boards and the squad views.

National teams: who you are not calling up

A new Not called up tab in the Nation view lists everyone eligible for the nation who is not in
the current squad.

Everyone there was always in the eligibility pool — the problem was that the two dozen players you
already select sit at the top of any ability sort, so a newly eligible player at a big club was
buried behind the squad you know by heart. Subtracting the squad is the whole point.

If the national squad has not been loaded from FM yet, the tab shows the full pool rather than
guessing who is selected.

Also

• Corrected an internal note that described the role-weight editor as display-only. It is not:
  editing a role's weights changes role fit percentages, the Top Role column and its whole-save sort.
  Position weights really are display-only — they drive the profile's Position rating and nothing
  else.

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No database migration. Your save data is unchanged and no reload is required.

FM Dossier v1.9.6

A fix for quick refresh refusing to run, a Top 10 leaderboard in player search, and staff
recommendations for your backroom.

Quick refresh works again on every installation

On some installations, quick refresh never ran. It always stopped with "The in-game date
couldn't be read" and sent you to a full read instead — the slow read that quick refresh exists to
replace. On a large save that is the difference between a few seconds and several minutes, every
single time.

Nothing was wrong with your save, and nothing you could change made a difference: switching the
app's language or Football Manager's did nothing, because the message was translated correctly and
the failure was underneath it.

The app has two independent ways of reading the current in-game date. A full read tries both, so it
always found one. Quick refresh only ever tried the second — and that one depends on a fixed
landmark inside Football Manager that moves between game builds. Anyone whose build had moved it hit
a wall that could never clear on its own.

Both readings are now behind a single shared step, so no path can end up with only one of them.
Quick refresh still tries the instant method first and pays nothing extra when it works; the other
is there for when it doesn't.

Full reads got slightly faster as part of the same change, since the search for that landmark is now
aimed at the right part of the game rather than the whole of memory. If it ever looks in the wrong
place it simply widens the search again, so the date is never lost to save a moment.

A quick refresh now tells you it worked, with the number of players it updated. Previously it
said nothing at all on success, which made a refresh that had worked perfectly hard to tell apart
from one that had quietly done nothing.

That confirmation also explains something that looks wrong but isn't: the save date at the top does
not move after a quick refresh, and it shouldn't. A quick refresh updates your squad and shortlist
— not the other hundred thousand players in the save. The date describes when the whole world was
last read, so advancing it would claim a freshness that only a few dozen players actually have.
Run a full read when you want that date to move.

Top 10 — the best players in your search, ranked

Player search has a new Top 10 button. It turns your current search into three leaderboards:

• Best player — highest current ability
• Best bargain — best ability for the price
• Most promising — highest potential, aged 21 and under

Twelve position buttons narrow all three at once, so "the ten best right backs I can actually see"
is two clicks rather than a filter you build by hand each time.

The important part is what it doesn't do: it has no filters of its own. It ranks within the search
you already set — your country, league, age and budget filters all still apply — so you never have
to keep two sets of criteria in step. Switch it off and your normal results table is exactly as you
left it.

One honest limitation, since it was specifically asked for: there is no "by continent" option.
Football Manager does not record which continent a nation belongs to anywhere the app can read, and
inventing that list ourselves would quietly leave out every custom nation in your database. Country
and league are real and are already yours to filter on.

Staff recommendations for your backroom

The club Staff tab now has Upgrade your backroom underneath your current staff.

It lists every backroom role with your best person's rating for it, weakest first — so the areas
where your club is thin come to the top on their own. Open any role and you get the people in your
save who genuinely beat that rating, each with the rating they'd bring, how much better that is, and
how keen they'd be to take the job.

Some deliberate choices:

• Only genuine upgrades appear. Someone matching your current staff isn't an upgrade, so the
  list asks for better and nothing else.
• Nobody you can't sign, and nobody you already employ. Board and medical roles are appointed
  rather than signed, and your own staff are the thing being replaced.
• Willingness is shown next to ability, never mixed into it. A brilliant coach who doesn't fancy
  the job is still brilliant; you should be able to see both facts separately and decide.
• It's organised by role, not by person. Football Manager records that someone is a "Coach"
  without recording which area of training they coach, so pairing your staff to a specialty
  automatically would mean guessing. You pick the role, and every number answers that question.

Your own staff's ratings are worked out on the spot from data already loaded, so the list appears
immediately even on a very large save. Only the role you open searches the database.

Also in this release

• Diagnostic logs now record when a slow operation was simply waiting its turn behind another
  one, rather than being slow itself. The two look identical in a log and need opposite fixes — this
  makes future performance reports far easier to act on.

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No re-read of your save is required for this release. If you are coming from a version before v1.9.4
and play a long save, reloading is still worth doing — v1.9.4 repaired missing young players and
wrong contract dates, and those repairs only land on a fresh read.

FM Dossier v1.9.5

A squad-depth improvement, clearer marking for players you have out on loan, and a fix for managers
who hold more than one job.

Check a teenager against your first team without switching tabs

The club view now has a Senior only / + Youth squads toggle beside the squad selector.

Turn it on and every youth side is folded into the main squad view, so the squad table, Squad
depth and Gaps & targets all read across your whole club at once. You can see straight away
whether a 17-year-old is already your third-best option at right back, instead of holding two
screens in your head and comparing by memory.

A few deliberate choices:

• The formation board follows it too. With the toggle on, clicking a position offers your youth
  players and you can put one straight into the XI. With it off, the picker is senior-only again —
  but a youth player you already picked stays where you put him. Flicking the toggle never rewrites
  a lineup you have set.
• Gaps respects it too. A hole in your squad that your own academy already covers is not a hole
  you need to buy for — so the targets panel reads the merged squad as well.
• Top Role fills in for the youth players too. With the toggle on, the youth rows now carry their
  role ratings straight away rather than only after you had visited each youth squad in turn.
• Players out on loan stay out of it. They are at other clubs and unavailable to you, and
  counting them as depth would report cover you do not actually have.

The toggle only appears at your own club, on the senior squad, and only when you have youth sides.
It is off by default, so nothing moves until you ask for it.

Players you have out on loan are marked everywhere

Previously, a player you had loaned out was only shown as such inside the Out on loan group. In
player search, on his own profile, in squad depth and in comparisons, his name looked like anyone
else's — so it was easy to plan around a player who was not actually available to you.

He is now marked as on loan on every one of those screens.

The reason it was ever missed is worth explaining, because it also explains who this fixes it for.
A contract describes the deal with the club that owns a player, not the club he is currently
playing for. A young player loaned out on a youth contract therefore reads as "youth", never as
"loan", and the old check looked only at that word. The app now asks the question that actually
matters: do we hold his contract while he plays somewhere else?

That question is answered from data already on screen, so there is nothing to re-read and no setting
to change. It applies to players you own — if you are managing a national side rather than a
club, the app leaves the marking alone rather than guessing about players at clubs it knows nothing
about.

Managers with a club and a country

If you manage a club and a national team at the same time, the switcher could offer you a country
you have never actually managed — and switching to it produced a squad that made no sense.

The cause: a manager can be linked to several international sides across a long career, and the app
picked between them in an order that had nothing to do with which job was real — a single manager
can end up with three countries attached, only one of them ever actually held.

Football Manager does not record, anywhere the app can read, which of those is the live appointment.
So rather than guess and be confidently wrong, the app now shows a second job only when there is
exactly one possibility. If it cannot tell, it shows nothing instead of showing the wrong country.

Managers with one club and one country — the ordinary case — are completely unaffected, and a
contract renewed with the same country still counts as one job rather than two.

And you can now tell it the job it can't work out

Abstaining is the honest answer, but it left anyone genuinely managing a club and a country with
one of them simply missing. So there's now a small button beside your team in the header: pick the
national team you manage and it's added to your job list.

It only ever offers the one you're missing — a club if it found your country, a country if it found
your club — because you can only hold one of each. Your choice is remembered when you reload your
save, and if Football Manager ever reports the job itself, that always wins.

Also in this release

• The reasoning behind the youth toggle and the multi-job fix is pinned by tests, so neither can be
  quietly undone by a later change.

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No re-read of your save is required for this release. If you are coming from a version before
v1.9.4 and play a long save, reloading is still worth doing — v1.9.4 repaired missing young players
and wrong contract dates, and those repairs only land on a fresh read.

FM Dossier v1.9.4

Two save-reading fixes that matter most to long-running saves, a new Out on loan squad view, and several smaller corrections.

This release asks you to reload your save from Football Manager. Both fixes below change what the app reads, and the data they replace isn't merely missing — it's wrong in ways nothing on screen would reveal. A reload is what repairs it, so the app will prompt you.

Young players were missing from long-running saves

If your save has run many seasons into the future, some of your youngest players were not being read at all. They did not appear in your squad, in search, in the youth teams, or anywhere else — as though they did not exist.

The cause was a hard-coded date limit deep in the save reader. It was written as a fixed calendar year rather than being worked out from the save itself, so it behaved correctly for years and then quietly began discarding real players once a save aged past it. Every further season made it worse, because one more age group fell behind the limit each year.

The effect was heaviest exactly where it was hardest to notice: a first team of adults looked completely normal while the youth squads underneath it were being emptied out. Youth-only and long-term saves were hit hardest of all.

The limit is now derived from your save's own in-game date — a player simply cannot have been born after today — so it cannot expire again. No action is needed beyond reloading your save; the recovered players appear on the next read.

If a youth or reserve side has looked strangely small or empty, this is why.

Contract dates, loan end dates and agreed transfers in long saves

The same kind of fixed-date limit was also being applied to contract expiry dates, contract lengths,
loan end dates, agreed future transfers and staff contracts — with a ceiling a few years further out.

On a save that had run past that ceiling the effect was severe and easy to misread as missing data:
contract lengths were blank for everyone, agreed future transfers never appeared at all, loan end dates
were empty, and the expiry dates that did show were the wrong ones — the app was picking the largest
date it was willing to accept, which on such a save is a date already in your past.

Every one of these windows is now anchored to your save's own year instead of a fixed one.

Like the fix above, this needs a reload from FM to take effect.

Managing a club and a country at the same time

If you hold both a club job and a national-team job, the app now opens on the job the game itself lists as your current appointment — in practice, your club.

Previously it picked whichever of the two had the lower internal ID number. Club and country IDs are unrelated numbering systems, so which one won was effectively arbitrary, and some managers were dropped straight into their national team on every fresh start, with the wrong squad marked as theirs. Switching managers by hand always worked and still does; this only changes where you land when there is no previous choice to restore.

Players you own but have loaned out are yours again

A player your club owns but has loaned out now counts as one of your players. He was previously treated as belonging to the club he is playing for, so he dropped out of your squad, your development tracking, and every "your players" view — which also made it impossible to keep an eye on how a loan was going.

Players you have loaned in are unaffected: they were already treated as part of your squad, and still are.

New: an "Out on loan" view

Your club page now has an Out on loan group alongside the senior and youth squads, listing every player you own who is currently playing elsewhere — with the club he's at, and the appearances, minutes, goals and average rating he's putting up there.

It only appears when you actually have players out on loan, so it won't clutter clubs you're browsing.

This is the other half of the fix above: those players had to count as yours before there was anything to list. Their development is tracked on the Development board like the rest of your squad.

Youth and reserve team names

For clubs whose youth and reserve sides the game does not give us a name for, the app labels them from the squad's age profile. Two changes:

• The label is now based on the squad's oldest player rather than its average age. An age-limited team is defined by its ceiling, and an average is easily skewed — badly so in a small squad.
• Two sides at the same club can no longer be given the same label. This became visible once the fix above restored the missing young players, since several youth sides suddenly held players of very similar ages.

Teams the game does name are untouched and always keep their real name.

Switching manager

Changing manager now takes you to the Player tab rather than the search screen.

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No database migration, but the app will ask you to reload your save from Football Manager once, and it's worth doing even if everything looks fine.

Both fixes above are read-time: the app can only repair a save by reading it again. On an affected save the stored data isn't blank — it's plausible and wrong, which means nothing on screen would ever look broken enough to prompt you. Missing players simply aren't there to be noticed, and a contract expiry showing the wrong date looks exactly like one showing the right date. A single reload replaces the lot.

FM Dossier v1.9.3

A national-team patch. Everything here came from the field, and the headline fix turned out to reach
further than the report that found it.

Role fit was scored at the wrong position

When you inspected a slot on the tactic board, any player who cannot play that position was
silently scored at his own position instead — and the number shown next to him was that other
position's fit, at full strength.

So a natural defensive midfielder inspected at an attacking-midfield slot could read 85%, while a
genuine attacking midfielder standing next to him read 55% — and the defender sorted above him.
The list looked as though it grouped players by their natural position rather than sorting them by
fit, because in effect it did: everyone who could not play the slot was quietly measured somewhere
else.

A player who cannot play the inspected position now shows no fit rather than a borrowed one, and the
candidate list sorts in strict descending order of the fit you can actually see.

This affects the club tactic board as well as the national one — the pitch tokens, the inspect
panel, the XI roles list and the Try-in-XI comparison all read from the same place.

Candidates sort purely by fit

The national-team slot picker used to place everyone in your current call-up above everyone else,
before fit was considered at all — a called-up player at 20% ranked above an uncalled player at 90%.
Fit now comes first and call-up status only breaks a tie. The ● marker still shows who is in the
squad.

Squad depth over your call-ups

The national tactic board's depth panel measured your whole eligible pool, with no way to read it over
the players you have actually called up. A Pool / Call-ups switch now sits in the panel header.

The gaps panel below it deliberately keeps working from the full pool — its job is to tell you who is
missing, not who is already there.

National-team managers: the dossier's squad-fit verdict

"Fills your biggest gap" needed a managed club, so it never appeared for anyone managing a country. It
now measures a player against your current senior call-ups. If FM had no squad loaded, the verdict is
omitted rather than computed against nobody.

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No database migration, no forced re-read. Your existing save data is used as-is.

FM Dossier v1.9.2

A field-report patch. The headline is a fix for national-team saves, which have not worked properly
since v1.7.2 — eight releases. Thank you to everyone who files reports with logs attached; two of the
five fixes below came from logs where the reporter was writing in about something else entirely.

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Fixed: national-team saves never detected your manager

If you manage a national team, FM Dossier could not work out who you were. There was no manager in
the header, no "yours" squad, no manager switcher — and because auto-detection had failed, the manual
Set your club picker offered only clubs, so there was no way to reach your national side at all. The
app quietly fell back to a generic save profile and carried on.

What went wrong. When the app finds the human managers in a save, it locates each one through their
employment record and then asks that manager for their current appointment to learn which team they
run. Football Manager leaves that current-appointment field empty for a national-team job. The app
treated an empty field as "this person manages nothing" and discarded them — even though the employment
record it had just used to find them names the national team directly.

It now falls back to that record. Club saves are entirely unaffected: the original route is still tried
first and resolves exactly as before.

Also improved: when a manager genuinely cannot be resolved, the log now records which step failed
rather than only a count. Detection has more than one way to come up empty, and until now they were
indistinguishable in a report.

Fixed: the "Wonderkids ≤20" filter preset hid most of its results

The quick preset that finds young prospects also applies a minimum-potential requirement. That is
intentional — it is what makes them wonderkids rather than simply young — but raw ability filters are
a Full-mode feature, and the preset was applying it in Moneyball and Scout modes too, where the app
otherwise never filters on those values.

On a large database the potential floor removes nearly everyone, so the preset could come back with a
handful of players or none, reading as though under-20 players were missing from search entirely.

Outside Full mode the preset now does exactly what its label says: filter by age. In Full mode it is
unchanged. Saved filter presets get the same treatment, since a preset saved in one mode can be loaded
in another. An active ability filter is also now always shown as a removable chip rather than being
hidden in some modes while still narrowing your results.

Fixed: club badges could overflow their card when no logo pack image was found

Where a club or competition has no image in your logo pack, FM Dossier shows a neutral two-letter badge
instead. On the Set your club list and the Find a club competition grid that placeholder ignored the
size it was asked for and stretched to the full width of its card, pushing the name and the line beneath
it down and out through the bottom of the button.

The placeholder now honours its intended size everywhere. Crests that were already displaying correctly
are pixel-identical to before.

If you are seeing two-letter badges where you expect real crests, it is usually the graphics-pack path:
point it at the folder that directly contains the image files, not at the pack's top-level folder.

New: text size

Settings → Appearance → Text size scales the whole interface between 90% and 150%. It scales layout
as well as type, so tables, panels and controls grow together rather than text overflowing its
surroundings — at larger sizes the interface reflows exactly as it does in a smaller window. The choice
persists across restarts, and it is independent of the existing Density setting: density changes
spacing, this changes size.

Ctrl + 0 resets it at any time, and Ctrl + - / Ctrl + + step it — so a scale you don't like is
never something you have to hunt through Settings to undo.

Fixed: reopening FM Dossier could return you to the wrong save

If you had several careers on disk, closing and reopening the app could land you in a different one
than the save you were last using — most likely when you had just started a new career.

The app chose which save to reopen by looking at which file on disk had been touched most recently.
That sounds reasonable and isn't: the app opens every save briefly to build the "Saves on disk" list,
which updates those same timestamps, so the ordering it relied on was being scrambled by its own
bookkeeping. It now simply remembers which save you had open and reopens that one.

Fixed: managing a club and a country at the same time

If you hold a club job and an international job, only the club appeared. FM records each manager's
"current appointment" as a single value, and that was the only place we looked — so the second job was
never seen at all. Both now appear in the manager switcher and can be switched between, each with its
own squad and scope.

Only a job of a different type is added this way: a second club contract is ignored on purpose,
because a club you used to manage is indistinguishable from one you manage now, and inventing a
current job out of an old one would be worse than missing one.

Fixed: national teams showed as a blank row in the manager switcher

Club names were resolved when the switcher list was built; nation names never were, so any
national-team entry rendered with no text beside a correctly-named club. Names are now filled in from
the save itself, which also repairs lists that were already stored blank — no re-read needed.

Fixed: the Tactics page now works for national-team managers

A consequence of the fix above. Because national-team saves were never detected, parts of the app that
assume you manage a club had never been reached by a national manager — and the Tactics page assumed
it twice.

Squad fit told you "we don't know which club you manage" on a page that has nothing to do with
clubs. It now scores your call-ups against the tactic, exactly as it does a club squad. If no
call-ups have been recorded yet it says so and points you at Load from FM on the Nation view, rather
than showing an empty table that looks like nobody fits.

Recruit claimed your "transfer reach" was unknown, which reads like something failed to load. It
isn't a loading problem: you don't sign players for a national team, you select from those eligible.
The tab now says that and points you at the Nation view.

Club saves are unaffected.

Fixed: accented names were hard to find by typing

Searching the nation, competition and league pickers matched accents literally, so Türkiye could
only be reached by producing a "ü" — typing "Turkiye" found nothing at all, with no hint that the
keyboard rather than the data was the problem. The same applied to every accented name: Köln, Málaga,
Beşiktaş, Łódź, Ørn.

Those pickers now ignore accents, in both directions: "Turkiye" and "Türkiye" each find Türkiye. This
covers the nation, competition and reference-league pickers and the ⌘K palette. Player name search
is unchanged for now — it runs in the database layer and needs a different fix.

Improved: the Rec column shows its underlying score on hover

The Rec column has always sorted the whole save by the recommendation score — the column header
says so — but it displays a letter grade, while a player's dossier shows the same quantity as a bar.
The two didn't obviously refer to the same number.

Hovering a grade now shows the score behind it (e.g. "Score 78/100"), so the letter, the dossier and
the sort are visibly one thing. Nothing else changed: the grade, its colour and the sort order are
exactly as before.

Improved: Tactics → Squad fit lists positions in order

The Squad-fit table showed the eleven roles in the order they happened to appear inside the imported
tactic file, which is arbitrary. Rows now read goalkeeper first and then back to front, matching how
Football Manager itself lists positions.

Under the hood

• A new test fails the build if a translated string in any of the 19 non-English packs is left as an
  untranslated English placeholder. Key coverage was already enforced; this closes the gap where a key
  could be present but never actually translated, which is how four messages shipped in English to every
  non-English user in v1.8.1.
• The national-team fix is covered by tests that build a synthetic memory image, so it is verified on
  every commit rather than only when a national-team save happens to be open.

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As always: FM Dossier reads your save; it never writes to it. No player data leaves your PC.

FM Dossier v1.9.1

A focused patch built from field reports. The headline is a fix for a feature that has quietly been
broken since v1.8.3 — thank you to everyone who reported it rather than assuming it was working as
intended.

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Fixed: "Since last load" always said nothing had changed

The Team → Development board has a Since last load view, added in v1.8.3, that should show what
your squad's attributes did between your previous read and this one.

It never worked. Not "sometimes", not "on large saves" — it returned an empty result on every save, for
every user, from v1.8.3 onwards. If you had been told "Nothing changed for this squad since your last
load" for entire seasons, that message was wrong, and your development data was there the whole time.

What went wrong. The board asks the database for changes recorded after a given date. It was
handing over a real-world clock timestamp while every recorded change is stamped with the in-game
date. Those two numbers are thousands of times apart, so the comparison could never match anything.
Nothing crashed and nothing warned — the board just returned an empty list, which looks exactly like a
squad that genuinely hasn't developed.

What's fixed. The window now uses the in-game date of your previous read, which is the same clock
the change history is recorded on. Your existing history is backfilled on upgrade, so the window works
from your very next read rather than needing two.

Nothing in your save is re-read and nothing is re-collected — all of this data was already stored
correctly. Only the question being asked of it was wrong.

New: budget filters on the Tactics → Recruit list

The Recruit tab now has Max age and Max value filters, shared across all eleven slots.

Recruit suggestions are ranked by how well a player fits the role and gated by whether your club is
realistically in range for him — but "in range" is a reputation judgement, not a budget one, so a
modest club could still be shown targets far beyond what it can actually spend. These filters answer
the other half of that question directly: set a ceiling and the list only offers players under it.

The bounds are applied when the candidates are chosen, not afterwards, so each position still returns a
full set of suggestions rather than a short list with most of it filtered away. Clearing either field
returns to the unfiltered view.

Fixed: a quick refresh could discard your squad's development

Related, and found while checking the above.

A quick refresh reads your tracked players' current values and records what changed. If it could not
read the in-game date, it still wrote the new values but recorded no history — and that loss was
permanent, because the next full read then compared against values that already matched and found
nothing to report. In practice: a month of development could vanish between two loads, with nothing to
indicate it.

A quick refresh that cannot determine the in-game date now declines and asks you to run a full read,
rather than proceeding and losing the history. A quick refresh that works normally records your squad's
development exactly as a full read does — that has always been its job, and now it reliably does it.

Improved: the long "attaching to Football Manager" stage now shows progress

On a large save, the first stage of a load — locating your manager and club in Football Manager's
memory — can take several minutes. It was reported as a single static line with no progress at all, so
it was impossible to tell a working load from a frozen one.

That stage now reports real progress and the amount scanned, and it occupies a share of the progress bar
that reflects how long it genuinely takes (previously it was allotted two percent of the bar while doing
roughly half the work).

This does not make loading faster. The stage still costs what it costs; it simply no longer looks
like the app has stopped responding. Reducing that time is a larger piece of work and is next on the
list.

Under the hood

• The vtable scan used to detect your managed club now has a single shared definition rather than a
  dozen near-copies, and a test that prevents the retired hardcoded address range from returning. This
  is the same class of problem behind the "no human manager" club-detection bug fixed in v1.9.0.
• New regression tests cover the composed paths that the old tests missed — in particular, tests that
  check a value's units, not just that it was passed along. The previous tests asserted the
  Development board forwarded its date correctly, and it did; the date itself was the wrong kind.

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As always: FM Dossier reads your save; it never writes to it. No player data leaves your PC.

FM Dossier v1.9.0

Loading your save is substantially faster, staff you could see are now staff you can search, morale is
back as a readable word, and the Scout radar no longer quietly shows you the answer.

This update re-reads your save once. That is deliberate — it is what fills in morale and the new club
finance figures. Let it run; afterwards everything is as quick as before, quicker in fact.

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Fixed: "couldn't detect my club"

On some machines FM Dossier would load your save but fail to work out which club you manage — no squad, no
"yours" markers, and a prompt to pick a club manually.

The cause was an assumption about where Windows places one of Football Manager's internal components in
memory. Windows is free to place it anywhere, and when it chose a different spot the app looked in the wrong
range and concluded there was no manager at all. It now works this out from the running game rather than
assuming.

If you have ever seen this, it should simply stop happening. It was never anything to do with your save.

Loading is faster — one pass instead of two

Every load used to scan your save twice: once for players, then again from scratch for staff. The
second pass re-read the whole thing to find people the first pass had already walked past.

Now it is one pass. Players and staff are picked up together.

Measured on a real save (19,373 players, 8,016 staff), the read went from 13.05s to 8.16s — 37% off.
The saving grows with the size of your save, because what disappeared is an entire second sweep of it.

There is a second, subtler improvement. The old staff pass reported no progress at all, so the loading
bar reached 100% and then the app sat there for several seconds looking stuck. That dead time is gone,
and the bar now covers the actual work.

Long saves were the single most common piece of feedback we had. This is the fix.

Morale

Your players' morale is now on the player page, in FM's own words — Good, Quite Good, Poor, Abysmal and
the rest of the ladder.

If a reading is not one we can vouch for, the line is left out rather than showing you something invented.

Staff you can see, you can now search

Three jobs were readable in the app but missing from the staff search, so you could look at a Loan
Manager and then find no way to search for one. Fixed:

• Loan Manager
• Performance Analyst
• Recruitment Analyst

Each is scored on the attributes Football Manager itself lists as important for that job, not on
something we invented. "Head of" variants share their base job's requirements, so a Head Physio is found
by a Physio search.

One correction while we were here: the app used to offer a role called "Data Analyst". Football Manager
has no such job — it has Recruitment Analyst and Performance Analyst. That name is gone.

Club finances

The club page gains six figures it already knew but never showed:

• Wage bill — what you are actually paying now, shown in red when it is over your budget
• Maximum wage — the most you can offer a single player
• Transfer revenue available — the share of incoming transfer income the board lets you spend
• Corporate facilities — in FM's own words, from None through to Excellent
• Youth importance and club morale

Incoming transfer offers

Each player's page now shows how your club is set to handle offers that come in for him — respond
yourself, accept everything, accept only above the asking price, reject everything, and the loan
equivalents. It is FM's own setting, read straight from your save.

Role suitability on the pitch

The formation view has a new Fit button next to CA / Face / Pos / Role. Turn it on and every player
on the pitch shows how well he suits the role he is standing in — the same percentage the side panel
already gives you, without having to click each player.

In Scout mode this shows a range rather than an exact figure, matching everything else in Scout mode: you
see what your scouting actually supports, not the answer.

Release clause shows up when you filter on it

Filtering by release clause now brings the clause column onto the table automatically, so you can see the
figure you are filtering on — and sort by it, since sorting is a click on the column header.

The column appears only while that filter is on and disappears when you clear it; it does not change your
saved column choices.

Sorting the recruitment suggestions

The Recruit list under the Tactics tab now has sortable columns — player, club, age, value, and both fit
percentages. Click a header to sort, click it again to reverse. Age and value start with the smallest first,
the fit columns with the best first, which is the way round you usually want them.

The sort applies to every position at once, so "show me the youngest option for each role" is one click
rather than eleven.

Multi-select in the player list

Shift+Click selects a whole range of players at once, so building a shortlist no longer means ticking
rows one at a time. Ranges add to your selection rather than replacing it, and the selection survives
sorting and paging.

Scout mode no longer leaks the answer

The eight-axis radar on a scouted player's page was drawn from the midpoint of each scouted range. Because
those ranges sit symmetrically around the true value, the midpoint reproduced the exact shape you would
see in Full mode — the radar was quietly showing you the attributes it was supposed to be hiding.

It is now drawn as a band: the floor and ceiling of what your scouting actually supports. A
fully-scouted player's band collapses to a single line, exactly as before. Unscouted attributes widen it
honestly instead of dragging the shape down.

Ranking and sorting are unchanged — only what is displayed.

Smaller things

• File-picker dialogs no longer get reported as slow app operations in diagnostics; the app was timing how
  long you spent choosing a file.
• Fixed a case where a player search could show an out-of-date column set.

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Reading your save is entirely read-only, as always. FM Dossier never writes to your game.

FM Dossier v1.8.3

Search by any statistic, a Development board that finally answers "what changed since my last load",
and a quick-refresh fix that was quietly undoing real data.

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Filter by any statistic

v1.8.2 put around 55 season metrics on every player's page. You could read them — you could not
search on them.

Now you can. The filter panel has a new Statistics section where you add as many conditions as you
like:

• Any metric, not a curated shortlist — xG, npxG, xA, shots on target, chances created, key passes,
  progressive passes, cross %, tackles won, tackle %, interceptions, aerials won, pressures, save %,
  clean sheets, distance covered, and the rest of the set.
• Minimum, maximum, or both. "xG at least 8" and "under 21 goals conceded" are both one row.
• Per 90 on any counting stat, so a rotation player is judged on rate rather than volume. Per-90
  conditions only count players with at least 450 minutes played, so one cameo can't fake a rate.
• Each condition gets its own chip in the toolbar and clears on its own.

Metric names are the same ones the player page uses, in all 20 languages.

Two details worth knowing, because they change which players come back:

• For counting stats (goals, shots, tackles), a player with no reading counts as zero — the same
  rule the existing goals and assists filters have always used.
• For percentages and averages (pass %, save %, average rating), no reading means no sample, not
  zero. Those players are excluded rather than reported as 0%. An outfielder who never faced a shot
  will not appear in a save-percentage search.

Development board: since your last load

The Development board showed everything ever recorded for your squad. The request behind it was
narrower — what changed since the last load — and that is now a switch at the top of the board:

• Since last load shows only what moved since the previous time you read the save. This is the
  default.
• All recorded keeps the full history.

On a save you've only read once there is nothing earlier to compare against, so the board says so and
shows the full history instead of an empty list.

Fixed: quick refresh was undoing data

"Refresh my squad" re-reads only your own squad and shortlist, which makes it fast — but it can only
see part of each player's record. Anything outside that part was being written back as though it had
been re-read and found empty.

For every refreshed player, a quick refresh was:

• clearing their traits / preferred moves
• clearing injury type and severity
• clearing their agreed playing time and contract signing date
• clearing the transfer-listed by request, set for release and unavailable for loan flags
• replacing their wage with a different, incorrect figure — and with zero for players edited in
  the in-game editor

Agreed playing time also feeds the "within reach" calculation, so this could quietly change which
players were judged realistic signings — for your own squad and shortlist specifically.

A quick refresh now writes only what it actually read; everything else is left alone.

If you have used "refresh my squad" before this release, do one full read of your save. A full read
has always had the correct values, so it restores everything a refresh had overwritten. Nothing else is
required, and this release does not force a re-read on its own.

This is the fourth defect of its kind since quick refresh shipped. There is now an automated guard over
the whole write path, so a future addition cannot reintroduce it silently.

Also in this release

• Tactics — Squad fit rows open the player. Every row that names a player now opens that player's
  page, by mouse or keyboard. Rows with no player assigned no longer look clickable.
• The Development board's empty state now tells you whether nothing changed, or whether nothing has
  been recorded yet — those meant the same thing before, and they are not the same thing.

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Updating: the app updates itself. This release does not force a re-read — but if you have used
quick refresh before now, one full read will restore the data described above.

Every stat we have

The dossier has been reading far more than it showed you. This release surfaces it.

A full stats view for every player

A new Stats tab on the player dossier, with around 55 metrics grouped the way the game groups
them — Attacking, Passing, Defending, Goalkeeping and General. Groups open based on where the player
plays, but nothing is hidden: a defender's attacking numbers are one click away, not missing.

That fixes a real gap. Assists, penalties, expected assists, key passes, pressures, distance covered and
much more were already being read from your save and simply never displayed — and some of them, assists
included, were previously only visible for attacking players.

A genuine zero now reads as 0, while a stat we have no reading for reads as —. Those are
different things and they no longer look the same.

Career, properly

The career line becomes a career block with three strands:

• Club — appearances and goals
• International — caps and goals (new)
• Youth — appearances and goals (new)

International and youth records were being read on every load and thrown away. They are now kept.

Club appearances were also reading the wrong figure and could be one or two too high. This is fixed
and now matches the game's own career screen exactly.

A strand with no data is left out entirely rather than shown as zero.

Six new search columns

xG, xA, key passes, tackles won, interceptions and save % can be switched on from the column picker
and sort across your whole save.

Fixes

• Quick refresh could corrupt your squad data. Refreshed players could end up with an age of 0 and
  be relabelled as free agents, with their transfer-listed status cleared. Both causes are fixed. This
  release re-reads your save once on first launch, which also repairs any save already affected.
• Role-fit percentages went blank after a quick refresh until you left the screen and came back.
  Fixed everywhere it could happen — squad view, national pool and the tactic recruitment view.
• All new terminology is available in every supported language.

Note

This release re-reads your save once when you first open it, so the new career data can be filled in.
Larger saves will take a few minutes. It only happens once, and it is also what repairs the quick-refresh
issue described above.

FM Dossier v1.8.1

Faster refreshes

Re-reading your save no longer means re-reading everything.

Dossier now remembers where each of your tracked players lives in Football Manager's memory, so a
refresh can go straight to them instead of walking the entire database again. For the players you
actually follow — your own squad, plus anyone on a shortlist or watchlist — a refresh that used to take
minutes now finishes in well under a second.

How it works

• Fast refresh updates your squad and your shortlisted/watchlisted players.
• Full read still does everything, and is still what you want after a transfer window, a big
  scouting push, or any time you want the whole database current.

Two timestamps, both shown. The header now displays when you last did a full read and when
you last did a fast refresh, so it is always clear how current each part of your data is. A fast
refresh never overwrites the full-read timestamp — it cannot make your data look more complete than it
is.

It knows when it can't be trusted. The shortcut is only valid while Football Manager stays open.
Restart the game and Dossier detects it immediately and falls back to a full read rather than showing
you stale information. Every refreshed player is verified on arrival, and if too many look wrong the
whole fast refresh is abandoned in favour of a full read. The safe path is always the fallback.

Attribute changes, progression and role-fit scores are all recalculated for the refreshed players, so a
fast refresh leaves them just as complete as a full read would.

Fixes

• Scout mode: exact role-fit percentages could leak in "Try in XI". When trying a player in your
  XI while in Scout mode, the role-fit figures for players you don't manage were shown exactly instead
  of as a fogged range — including in the hover tooltip. Scout mode is meant to show you only what your
  scouting has actually established, and this was showing more. Both the on-screen figure and the
  tooltip now respect the same fog rules used everywhere else, and players you manage, fully-scouted
  players and explicitly revealed players are unaffected.

Under the hood

No change to how your save is read, so this update does not force a re-read — your existing data
carries straight over.

FM Dossier v1.8.0

Import your Football Manager tactics straight into FM Dossier and get recommendations built around the roles you actually play. No re-read of your save is required.

New — import a tactic, get players who fit it

• Import an FM tactic file (.fmf). From the Formation section of your club overview, choose Import tactic… — the file picker opens straight in your Football Manager tactics folder. FM Dossier reads the tactic and sets your formation and every position's roles for you.
• Both phases, properly. FM 2026 gives each position an in-possession role and an out-of-possession role, and many tactics change shape between the two — a player who attacks at defensive midfield may defend at right-back. FM Dossier reads all of that: both roles for all 11 positions, and each position's out-of-possession slot where it differs. Roles that were set with extra player instructions are read correctly too.
• Imported tactics are saved. Each import is stored under the tactic's own name, so you can switch back to it later. Importing over an existing name asks first.
• A Tactics section for every imported tactic, with three views:
  • Formation — the shape on a pitch, with each position's in- and out-of-possession role, and the position change where the shape shifts between phases.
  • Squad fit — your best XI for that tactic's specific roles, scored per position for both phases separately, with the positions where you're weak or short on depth.
  • Recruit — for each position, the best realistic signings for that role, limited to players within your club's reach and excluding players you already have.

New — a clearer "will they join you?" filter

• The player-search filter that estimates whether a target is realistically gettable now uses the same wording as the player profile: Will they join you? with Realistic target and Realistic loan target. It's the same assessment as before — your club's standing versus the player's, covering transfers and loans — just easier to connect to what you see on a player's page.

Fixes

• Scout mode no longer reveals exact role-fit percentages for players you don't own. In three places — the search's role-filter column and both role-fit columns in the compact player tables, including the national-team pool — a scouted player's role fit could be shown as an exact figure instead of a range. Both the visible figure and the hover tooltip are now correctly limited to what your scouting actually justifies. Your own players, Full mode, and fully-scouted targets are unaffected and still show exact values.
• Realism Mod errors now show the actual reason. If the Realism Mod fails to start, the message reported the real cause instead of a placeholder. If it can't reach our server to download, that will now say so — usually a firewall, antivirus or DNS issue on the machine.
• Clicking your club in the header opens your club again when a save has more than one human manager. Switching between managers has moved to its own selector next to the Mode control, showing the current manager's name.

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As always: player and staff data never leaves your PC.

FM Dossier v1.7.2

A staff-tool follow-up plus a big one for anyone running more than one team in a single save. No re-read of your save is required.

New — manage multiple teams in one save

• Switch between your managers. If a single save has two human managers — for example you're managing a men's side and someone (or you) is managing a women's side — FM Dossier now detects both and lets you switch between them from the header. Each manager keeps its own squad view, scouting scope, within-reach baseline, gender, shortlists and watchlist — switching swaps the whole context, and the app remembers which team you were last on across reloads. Single-manager saves are unaffected.

Fixes

• Staff who coach a national team are no longer shown as "Free Agent." A coach whose only job is with a national side now shows that nation as their employer, both in the staff list and on their dossier. "Free agent" is now reserved for staff with no club and no national appointment.
• Staff dossier labels tidied. The "Club" and "Nation" headings on a staff member's record are now capitalized correctly in every language.

Additions

• Role willingness on staff role cards. Each role on a staff member's dossier now shows how much they prefer that role (their preference out of 20), alongside how suited they are to it. Roles they're lukewarm about are flagged as harder to sign — a strong coach who doesn't fancy the job is a tougher hire than the fit number alone suggests. The suitability score itself is unchanged; this is a separate signal.

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As always: player and staff data never leaves your PC.

FM Dossier v1.7.1

A small follow-up to the v1.7.0 staff update — two fixes from the field and a couple of requested columns. No re-read of your save is required.

Fixes

• Scout Mode role ranges now cover the Top Role too. In Scout Mode the per-role fit already showed a range instead of an exact number; the Top Role summary on a player's dossier and the Top Role column in the search list were still showing the precise figure. They now show the same fogged range, so a scouted player never leaks an exact role fit.
• Staff attribute highlighting now matches the game. When you pick a staff role, the highlighted attributes now line up with the game's own key-attribute lists — for example Set Pieces now includes Tactical Knowledge. Staff role-fit scoring was realigned to the same lists so the highlight and the fit number always agree.

Additions

• Contract column in the Club Squad view — see each player's contract expiry at a glance (enable it from the column picker).
• Wage and Contract columns in the Staff view — a staff member's wage and contract expiry, from their current club role (enable them from the column picker).

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As always: player and staff data never leaves your PC.

FM Dossier v1.7.0

The biggest release yet: a full staff tool that reads your backroom the way Dossier already reads
players, a correctness fix that makes wages match the figure Football Manager actually shows, and a
batch of dossier and search improvements.

New — a proper staff tool

FM26 replaced staff attribute numbers with words. Dossier gives you the numbers back — the same 1–20
scale you already read for players — and wraps them in the tools you already know.

• Every coach, scout, physio, analyst and director, in full. The complete attribute set — coaching,
  mental, knowledge, medical and data — plus reputation and coaching badge. No hidden guesswork: an
  attribute is shown as its exact 1–20 value or not at all.
• A dedicated Staff screen that works like Player Search. Search the whole world of staff with a live
  "X of Y" count, scroll to load more, and click any column header to sort the entire set — not just the
  page on screen. Pick which columns you see with the column picker on the right. Staff photos sit beside
  every name.
• Filter staff like you filter players. A filter panel in the same design as the player one: rank by a
  coaching or backroom role, set a minimum role-fit, require a minimum coaching badge or league
  reputation, and set a floor on any individual attribute. A role quick-pick fills in a role's key
  attributes at a value you choose, in one click.
• Show only who you can actually get. Hide unavailable drops auto-assigned board and directors you
  can't recruit, Hide managers drops the rival managers who top every ranking but almost never move, and
  Within reach keeps the list to staff a club of your standing could realistically sign.
• Role fit for staff. See how well someone fits a coaching assignment or a backroom role, scored the
  same transparent way as player role fit — so you find the right specialist, not just the biggest name.
• A staff dossier that reads like a player dossier. A full-size record with the photo, the key facts
  (age, nationality, club, wage, contract expiry and coaching badge), the complete attribute grid, best
  role and every role fit. Click any role in the list and the attributes that matter to that role light up
  in the grid — it opens on the staff member's best role by default. Preferred jobs are shown as bars
  underneath.
• Compare and shortlist. Put staff side by side with a best-role headline for each, add the ones
  you're tracking to a shortlist (with the same highlight and export you use for players), and browse a
  Backroom and a Board & Medical tab on every club — your own and anyone else's.

Fixed — wages now match what the game shows

Player wages now read the real weekly wage Football Manager displays. Previously the figure came from an
internal total that could read high (it folded in appearance and bonus money) and read zero for edited
or newly created players. Dossier now reads the same base weekly wage the game shows, everywhere it
appears — the dossier, Moneyball value and efficiency, the wage filter and the AI export. Staff wages read
the same way; where a role genuinely has no disclosed wage (some board and director posts), the line is
simply left off rather than shown as £0.

New — Scout mode shows role fit as a range

Under the fog of war, a player's role-fit percentage is no longer a single exact number quietly computed
from attributes you haven't scouted yet. It's now a range that reflects only what your scouting
actually knows, and it narrows to the exact figure as you scout the player fully. Full mode is unchanged.

New — more on the player dossier

• Five more hidden attributes. Dirtiness, Consistency, Important Matches, Injury Proneness and
  Versatility now show on the dossier.
• Contract bonuses. Appearance fee, goal bonus, assist bonus, clean-sheet bonus and unused-substitute
  fee now appear on a player's contract when present.
• Stadium capacity. A club's ground capacity now shows on its profile.

New — Player Search columns

• Contract expiry. An optional column showing each player's contract end date, so expiring deals and
  free-agents-to-be stand out at a glance. Turn it on in the column picker.
• Morale. An optional column for each player's mood, drawn from the same reading that powers the
  "unsettled" filter.

Polish and fixes

• Readable club finances. Large club balances are now abbreviated like every other money figure
  (for example −£240.3M instead of a raw nine-digit number), negatives included.
• Staff always show their real club. Staff employed by a reserve or affiliate side now show the named
  senior club and its crest, instead of an internal placeholder.
• Unified club staff view. A club's staff tab now uses the same card and table styling as its squad,
  photos included.

A note on the first read

This update reads new information from your save, so the first time you open Dossier after updating it
does one fresh read of your save. After that it's back to normal.

All new text is fully localized across all 20 supported languages.

FM Dossier v1.6.5

Fixed

• Search filters now respect your currency. If your display currency was set to anything other than
  pounds, the value, wage, fee and release-clause filters silently read your number as
  pounds — so a €1M cap actually returned players worth up to €1.15M, and the mismatch grew with the
  exchange rate. Those filters now interpret what you type in the currency you're looking at, everywhere
  they appear: Player Search, Suggestions and Gaps & Targets. Saved filters round-trip to the same number
  you typed. If you use pounds, nothing changes.
• The value-over-time chart no longer clips its axis labels. The space reserved for the left-hand
  labels was a fixed width that fitted pound amounts and little else, so most currencies had their
  figures cut off at the edge. The chart now measures its labels and sizes the gutter to fit — and the
  axis lays out correctly in right-to-left languages, which had the same problem from the opposite side.

New — squad view

• Rank your squad by in-possession, out-of-possession or potential. The Role column already showed
  both phases; now it carries the same IP / OOP / POT controls as Player Search, so you can sort your
  squad by the phase you actually care about instead of a blend of both.
• Attributes as squad columns. The column picker now offers the full attribute list, sharing exactly
  the same cells and scouting rules as Player Search. They're off by default — turn on the ones you want.
• A Development board. A new tab on your club shows how your players have moved: which attributes
  changed and from what to what, alongside ability and value movement, sorted so the biggest movers come
  first. It's available for your youth and reserve sides too, not just the senior squad. Nothing new is
  read from your save — this history has been recorded on every load for some time and simply had nowhere
  to be seen.

Polish

• Cleaner diagnostics. The log attached to bug reports was being flooded by a repeated internal
  warning and by performance breadcrumbs, which crowded out the information that actually helps diagnose
  a problem. Both are now proportionate, so a report you send is far more useful.
• Accessibility. Every dialog now describes itself properly to screen readers.

All new text is localized across all supported languages.

FM Dossier v1.6.4

Fixed

• Very large saves no longer crash. On databases with hundreds of thousands of players, one step
  of the Moneyball analysis used to load the entire player set into the display at once, which could
  overflow the display engine's memory and crash the page ("STATUS_BREAKPOINT"). Those cohort
  comparisons are now computed in the backend and delivered in a compact form, so the data stays
  bounded no matter how large the save is.

New — player status intelligence

• Happiness & unsettled players. Each player's happiness now shows on their dossier, and a new
  Unsettled search filter surfaces players who are unhappy or agitating to leave — handy for
  spotting gettable targets.
• Agreed future transfers. When a player has already agreed a move to another club, their dossier
  shows "Joining {club} on {date}", and a search badge flags players with an agreed move.
• Complete squad-status labels. Every Agreed Playing Time status now shows a proper label (no more
  blank statuses), along with a player's previous status and any promised future playing time.
• Sell-on & loan obligations. A player's sell-on clause percentage and any agreed loan buy-fee are
  now surfaced, and the sell-on is factored into the Moneyball resale view.

New — squad view

• Column picker + wage column on your squad table — choose which columns to show, including wages.
• Depth-priority reorder. Drag or use the menu to set your preferred order within each depth-chart
  position; your choices drive the depth chart, transfer-plan seeding, sell suggestions, Auto-XI
  tie-breaks, and the AI export.

Polish

• Dossier de-clutter, a clearer scouting reveal control, and internal cleanups.

All new text is localized across all supported languages.

FM Dossier v1.6.3

Fully-scouted players now show their real attributes

When you scout a player to completion, FM Dossier now shows their exact attribute values in
Scout mode — matching what the game itself shows — instead of leaving them as estimated ranges.
This fixes two separate causes: the app now reads and uses FM's per-player scouting percentage
(previously it only tracked the coarse knowledge tier), and it now reads a player's complete
scouting knowledge even when the game stores it across more than one place (some fully-scouted
players were being treated as unscouted).

There's also a new "Reveal attributes" button on a scouted player's page (Scout mode). If you
consider a player fully scouted but the app still shows ranges, one click — behind a quick
confirmation — reveals their true values on that player's page. Revealed players carry that state
into the AI export too, clearly marked so the export stays honest about what you chose to reveal.
(The reveal applies to the player's own page; search and squad lists still show the scouted range.)

Your bug reports and ideas now include a diagnostic log

When you send feedback or a bug report from inside the app, it now automatically includes the
app's diagnostic log. That means issues can be understood and fixed far faster — no more
back-and-forth asking for logs. The log contains only app diagnostics (and things like file paths
and save names); it never contains player or squad data, and the report form tells you the log is
attached.

Second-team (reserve/B team) players now visible

If you manage a club whose reserve or B team plays in the league pyramid — common in Germany and
elsewhere — that team's players now show their full attributes, the same as in the game. Before,
because a second team is technically a separate club, the app treated its players as outsiders and
hid their details.

Under the hood

• Database schema update (scouting percentage).
• Reliability and diagnostics improvements.

FM Dossier v1.6.2

Realistic handling of players out on loan

• Reach is now judged by the club that owns them. A player parked on loan at a smaller club is
  no longer treated as if that loan club sets his level — the "will they join you?" verdict, the
  within-reach search gate, and the dossier all judge him against his parent club and its league.
• No more impossible loan targets. Players who are already out on loan can't be loaned again,
  so they no longer appear as loan-reachable anywhere: the dossier now says "Already out on
  loan" (in all 20 languages), the loan-reach badge stays off, and the "Approachable: on loan"
  filter excludes them.

Fixes

• Transfer-listed filter: players who are transfer-listed by request now show up in the
  Transfer-listed filter, the "Lst" row chip, and the dossier's Transfer Listed tag — previously
  only club-listed players matched. "Consider selling" is consistent with this too: players
  already listed by request are no longer suggested (they're already on the market).

Faster on very large saves

• Reopening a save is much lighter. The save-wide Recommendation letters are only recomputed
  when something actually changed (a fresh read from FM, a reference-league change, or a role-weight
  edit) — reopening the app no longer redoes the whole pass.
• Smoother browsing while background work runs. The heavy whole-save reads that power the
  Moneyball and Recommendation engines now run on a separate read-only connection, so opening
  dossiers and switching screens stays responsive right after a load.
• Fewer repeated counts. Search result totals are remembered per save and filter until the data
  changes.

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FM Dossier is an independent fan-made tool and is not affiliated with Sports Interactive or SEGA.

FM Dossier v1.6.1

Your watchlist now follows your career, not just the save file

Football Manager sometimes carries a career forward into a new save file — a new season rolling
over, a cloud sync, a restored backup, or simply "Save As". Previously, FM Dossier tracked your
shortlists, scout notes, transfer plans and progression history against the exact save file it was
opened from, so a new file for the same career could look empty even though your history was still
sitting in the old one.

FM Dossier now recognises when a save is a continuation of a career it already knows, and carries
your watchlist, notes, call-up plans and tracked-player history over automatically. When it's not
completely sure two saves belong to the same career, it asks you first instead of guessing — a
one-time prompt lets you confirm the match (or say no and keep both separate).

After a recovery, the superseded save data is kept as a safety copy. You can see and delete these
copies any time under Settings → Save & data → Adoption backups to free disk space.

More realistic reach for big, high-reputation clubs

The "within reach" gate that flags realistic transfer and loan targets has been recalibrated for
clubs near the top of the reputation scale. The previous check compared a player's own reputation
to the managed club's using a flat ratio, which stopped meaningfully filtering once a club's
reputation got high enough — so some names who would never realistically join, loan or otherwise,
could still show up as "in reach". The gate now measures headroom against the top of the scale
instead of a flat ratio, so it keeps working correctly all the way up, without narrowing reach for
smaller and mid-table clubs.

Faster to open

Opening a save — including on app startup, when it has to pick the most recently used one — no
longer touches every save database on disk. It now opens exactly the one it needs, which
noticeably speeds up load times if you keep a lot of saves around.

Reliability

• Fixed a rare crash that could occur while the app was shutting down.
• Added more detailed diagnostic logging around club/nation detection, to make future reports
  easier to track down.

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FM Dossier is an independent fan-made tool and is not affiliated with Sports Interactive or SEGA.

FM Dossier v1.6.0

New: the Realism Mod

A brand-new optional companion that makes each match play out more realistically for your club.

Open the new Realism Mod tab, pick a strength — Slight, Moderate, Harsh or Extreme — press
Start, and play. Your side competes at the level you chose, automatically, with nothing to press
during matches.

• Offline single-player only.
• Your save is never modified. Everything is applied to live memory while you play, and reverts the
  moment you stop.
• Completely optional. Download and enable it from inside FM Dossier whenever you want it — and just
  ignore it if you don't.

Because it works alongside a running game, some antivirus tools may flag it. This is expected for this
kind of tool, and you're always in control of when it runs.

Improvements

• The Realism Mod is fully translated into all 20 supported languages.
• General reliability and polish.

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FM Dossier v1.5.2 — Community fixes & shortlist workflow

Thanks for all the reports and suggestions — this release is built from them.

Shortlist workflow

• Right-click a player in Player Search to add or remove them from any of your shortlists, create a new list on the spot, or open their dossier.
• Select mode: a new Select button turns on checkboxes — pick any number of players (select-all included) and add them to a shortlist in one go.
• The dossier's Shortlist button now asks which list when you have more than one (it always went to the active list before).

Search & filters

• The column picker now always matches what's on screen. Columns added automatically by an active role filter show a role tag (uncheck one to keep it hidden), and CA/PA are marked Full mode only instead of silently not appearing in Scout/Moneyball.
• Release clause: filter by has a release clause and clause at most X under Value & Contract, and add the sortable Clause column from the column picker.
• Window free agents: a new suggestion + Expiring ≤ 6mo quick filter for players inside the pre-contract window — approach them now, sign them free next window. The dossier shows a pre-contract window badge on these players.

National team

• Best XI now picks from your call-ups first — players you actually called up fill the XI, with the wider pool only filling positions no call-up can play. The slot picker also ranks call-ups on top.

Tactic board

• The slot picker ranks by overall role fit: one descending list using the familiarity-weighted rating across both phases (in and out of possession) — and each row now shows that rating, so the order is always explained by the number you see.

Fixes & polish

• Settings: the left-hand section highlight now follows as you scroll (the scroll tracking never activated before — fixed for good, with tests).
• Player traits: internal flags that FM doesn't show as traits no longer appear as placeholder "PPM #…" entries.
• License screen: the key field is now paste-friendly with an accurate hint — it no longer reshapes your input toward a short-key format that never existed.
• Saved column order, widths and sort preferences for the Value column carry over correctly after the internal column rename.
• A pre-contract tooltip, sharper in-app translations for the new strings in all 20 languages, and assorted test hardening under the hood.

FM Dossier 1.5.1

Try a signing in your XI before you buy, see any player's release clause, smarter "will
they join you?" that reads the league pyramid, even more of the game translated — plus a
batch of community-requested touches and fixes.

New

• Release clauses. A player's minimum-fee-release clause now shows on his profile — the fee that
  lets you sign him outright, whatever his club would otherwise ask. It's read straight from your save.
• Try a signing in your XI. On your club's formation board, flip on Try in XI and
  drop a shortlisted player or a suggested market target onto any position to preview how
  he'd fit — his role fit, familiarity, and how much better (or worse) he'd be than the man
  he'd displace. It's a preview only: your real lineup is never touched, and one click puts
  everything back.
• Position codes in your language. The short position labels (the AMC / D (C) style
  shorthand in tables and on the pitch) now read in Football Manager's own wording for your
  language, matching the full position names already localized.
• Smarter "within reach". Whether a player would realistically join you now understands
  the league pyramid: a settled starter won't be suggested for a club several divisions below
  him, while a squad player or a youngster still can drop down. A player's agreed playing time
  (star, squad player, surplus, and so on) feeds into it too. Each player's dossier explains
  it — e.g. "Won't drop more than N divisions."
• Squad status & personality in your language. A player's agreed playing time and
  personality now read in Football Manager's own wording per language, harvested straight from
  the game.
• Find similar players, faster. Search a player from the header and jump straight to
  "players like him" without opening the full profile first.
• Edit a player's position on the depth chart. Change the position you're assessing a
  squad player at directly from the depth chart, without leaving the squad view.
• Men / Women / Both. On international saves that include both, a quick toggle switches the
  whole app between the men's and women's games (or shows both together).

Improved

• A tidier transfer plan. The Transfer Plan's Incoming lane no longer floods with
  auto-suggested targets — it shows a handful with a Show more to reveal the rest.
  Players you've shortlisted or placed yourself are always shown.
• Friendlier build labels. A player's build (Lean, Athletic, Powerful, …) now reads in
  plain, localized words.
• Settings stay put. The settings side menu no longer scrolls away as you move through a
  long section.
• Small fixes. A rare crash on some player tables is fixed, and a couple of Moneyball
  explanations that could show an internal code now read properly.

Notes

• Exports for AI stay in English, so the analysis you paste into an assistant stays
  consistent whatever language you use the app in.
• Anything Football Manager itself doesn't translate falls back to English, so you'll never
  see a blank label.