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They must have sorted it out with the JLeague as he is now in the game if you start a new game with latest SI update. 

Transfer market now reflects this pending change too - https://www.transfermarkt.com/justin-devenny/profil/spieler/747009 

Transfermarket now reflects this pending change too - https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/jonathan-afolabi/profil/spieler/444209 

Will add them to next update, probably some time next week. Will let you know.

Hi, amazing as always, is it possible to request Matt O'Riley at Celtic?

Thanks

Thanks, but Dundee play in the Scottish Premiership not the Scottish Championship

Hi, 

Would it be possible to create the following Celtic players please?

Reo Hatate

Daizen Maeda

Yosuke Ideguchi

Osaze Urhoghide

Thanks

Yeah, I switch between them, Flut is great but like OPZ Blackout too. Yeah the language issue with Kyogo is strange but SI know about it

I think they broadly do play in correct positions. Maeda is an AM either wing or striker and in game this is what his profile shows. Hatate is not a left back, despite some weak Scottish journalism stating he is. He mainly plays off the striker and Ideguchi is a CM.

There is a JLeague player file out there on this site and others under the JLeague league structure post. Easiest interim solution is to use that file, load editor, change contract to Celtic for the three players (one is on loan initially). It can be used in conjunction with the sortitoutsi update. I have it working with the three players now at Celtic. See screenshot of Celtic squad and you will see the three players there. 

Hi Cylano, 

No, sorry, have never heard of this issue before. I will try to replicate it but new to me. In theory there should be no difference as the hosts files should apply to all saves. Do the clients have the same file (I know it should not matter)?

Is it happening on news items, or when they search for the media are some present on the host but not clients?

Thanks

Hi, 

I saw this thread when about to post about an issue with the update. At the moment, there seems to be inconsistency with a few transfers.

For example, on the most recent update version, Nathan Paterson and Vitaliy Mykolenko have both moved to Everton and appear at Everton at the start of a new save (Summer 2021). However, Ferran Torres has been moved to Barcelona as a future transfer in January 2022. This means he is still at City in game until the January. 

Why the inconsistency across transfers? My understanding is that Torres should be at Barcelona in the same way Paterson and Mykolenko are at Everton. I have only spotted this with Ferran Torres but there could be others it applies to as well. 

Thanks

Why is this transfer set as a future transfer in game but some others are set with immediate effect?

Hi Hammer, thanks, but I am confused, do you mean the file cannot be updated but the kit packs need to change? I can 100% confirm that the information I shared about Scotland is correct. @FrankJ would be able to do so too but he is referring to the same sources I am.

hammer, thanks for updating Celtic. For Scottish SPL, the following teams in game appear to have third kits, but in real life they only have home and away kits this season. It means if using an accurate pack, the third kits are just generated in game. The clubs in question are: Aberdeen, St. Johnstone, Motherwell, Livingston, Dundee, Dundee United, Ross County, St. Mirren. Some kit pack creators just used last season's away or third kits for those clubs, but they do not have a third kit at all this year.  This can be confirmed on all of their official websites. Thanks.

Yes, if you want to use only this one, remove the media and bookmaker files from the other pack. 

This has nothing to do with agents. Agents is a separate pack, and you would need the agents pack loaded too. 

Another minor update, also on Steam Workshop. Resolves some issues with some sources appearing in game but not contributing. 

Fantastic work as always hammer. For Celtic, it looks like the foreground colour for the third kit is one of the green colours. This then means that there is very little difference at all between home and third and how the game allocates (it basically doesn't allocate the third at all with this setup). Would it maybe be worth making the foreground pink, as the amount of pink and green on the actual kit is very similar. If Pink, it might trigger use of the kit, as at the moment it seems to ignore the third kit as it is essentially the same setup as the home kit. Thanks for considering.

Mons (Creator of sortitoutsi file) has commented on this above, and shared his opinion. He has said that the sortioutsi file was last updated a few years ago. I cannot comment for certain on every single media source, but it is highly likely that this pack has all of the ones in the sortitout pack plus another 2000. If you use them both together, you will get duplicate entries. Mons has also said I can use the sources he has if any are missing, which I intend to look at in the coming weeks, but I am fairly certain that almost all will be covered here, plus the additional 2000 this file gives. 

I had edited my post while you were entering this one. 

I think the German file is more extensive for German football than this one. This file is very extensive for English, Greek, Scottish, and many more countries (albeit some are more up to date than others). 

In an ideal world, there would be one huge media file, but that would require all those creating small packs to give permission for their files to be included in a larger file, whether that be this one or another one. 

Obviously, no one owns the sole right to include media sources in their files, so any one can add any media to the files that they put out. It has always been my intention to try to make this file a rolling update and I will add to this file, but I won't have the local level of knowledge that some of those creating very specific nation packs might have. 

You can use both, but you will see some media outlets appear more than once. So:

Either Nik33 (this file) + German

OR

Sortitoutsi file + German

Would be my advice, if you can live with some duplicates. 

If you want me to add German sources and journalists to this file, then send me a PM with the details but I won't just load in other people's work. If anything is added it will be manually so that it is not taking the work of another without permission. 

I would need to check, but I don't think the metallic logo media you mention is a media file, is it not just logos? If it is a media file, I would need to load it and see. 

A comparison between the sortitoutsi file and this one was covered above, both by me and by mons (creator of sortitoutsi file). 

There are then lots of small nation specific packs out there, which can be fantastic. I have not looked at the German pack you mention. 

The worst thing that can happen if you use more than one media file at the same time is that you get duplicate copies of media sources and journalists. It should not result in a crash.

EDIT - I looked at the german forum and file. Personally, if I wanted full German coverage, that file looks brilliant. You could then use it with one of the others. This file is very, very broad, in that it covers many nations. Ideally, users here will contribute to get as many new sources and journalists in as possible, but you would be fine to use the german file with this file if you can live with some duplicate media source (because this file will contain some of the sources in their file). 

Alternatively, you could use the German file for a German save and this one for any other nation. It is really up to you. 

This pack does not contain any logos. It will add media and journalists to the game where they are not in the game already. The logos in the metallic pack will probably be for the 100 or so media sources that come with the game by default. 

There are another 4150 media sources in this update, and their logos will probably not be part of the metallic pack. Adding logos might be something that I look at in the future, but for FM22 the priority will be adding media and journalists and removing redundant media and journalists. 

The issue preventing users from seeing all created people from editor files will have gone in the next official patch for the game. 

That means I can now take requests to add journalists to sources. If you have used the file and can see the sources you want in game, but not real journalists for those sources, then send me a pm. I don't want to bog the thread down with detail needed for each journalist. We will get them in. 

You can also request sources, but I haven't had any requests yet, which makes me think that source coverage is probably pretty good. 

This pack was brilliant for FM21. However, the SPL ball (Scottish) is yellow (as it should be). Has anyone noticed that when playing in Scotland, there is a white circle around the middle of the ball, almost as if the two halves don't join properly. It probably goes totally unnoticed on the other balls as most have white as a core colour. I noticed it in FM21 but never got round to posting. 

Anyone have any advice on how to fix it, as now that I can see it I can't unsee it!

MrGizMo, 

The default FM22 database with no media add on has 109 media sources.

The name fix file update has 2203 media sources.

This file has 4200 media sources. 

There may be some sources covered in one file and not another, but the chances are that this pack will have almost all of those in the name fix plus another 2000.

As well as sources, journalists are included in this pack. I can't figure out how many are in each file overall. I can say that for the UK alone in this file there are over 300 journalists and pundits linked to specific sources. 

It is entirely up to each individual user in terms of what they prefer.  Your best bet would probably be to load a game with one, test it, and then do the same with the other. Compare media input. Use the file you prefer thereafter. 

The final point is that this file includes media and bookmakers in one file. If you end up preferring the name fix media file then use both the media and bookmaker files together from the name fix. If you prefer this one, then you would use this instead of both the media and bookmaker files from the name fix download. 

Basically you either use this file alone, or you use the media and bookmaker name fix files together. If you try to use this with those, you will end up with duplicate media and bookmakers which could become irritating in game. 

More broadly, it would be good to hear from anyone using the pack so far, as when packs go out feedback is rare (either positive or negative).

Minor Update - Sorted some Scottish and English media that were not appearing properly and added DAZN. Please note, it is not currently possible to add journalists until SI fix an issue with the editor. It is possible to request sources and I will add those. 

The FM22 editor is broken in that it will let you create new players, staff, journalists, but does not port them into the game even if they show in the editor. SI Games are aware of this and have said that they hope to fix it. They released an update today, and I intend to test it tonight but if that does not work, it will not be possible to add any new journalists until they fix the error. It may be that the issue is resolved for playing staff but it was not working for journalists. 

In terms of including full profiles in FM23 for journalists, SI know that users want to see this feature but it is one of thousands they are asked to consider. So far, they do not appear to want to open it up in this way. 

It is possible to add new media sources, Sky (shows as Sky Deutschland), ARD, Kicker and ZDF are all in this file, so if you load a new game you should see them. DAZN is not. Is DAZN mainly a streaming video service? If so, I can add them to cover the Bundesliga. 

If you want me to add specific journalists or additional sources for Germany, then please send me a pm and I will add them to the next update if the editor errors have been fixed. 

It is not really possible for the journalists, as you cannot click on their profile in game and there is no static UID for them. Basically, from one PC to the next, the UID (Unique Identifier) will be different depending upon which additional files are used by the user in their editor folder. 

There may be a workaround, but as they don't have profiles that are visible, it is a bit of a guessing game. 

For the actual media source, it would be possible to create a background pack, so that if you click on their profile you see a background image. There is one out there somewhere for the 100 or so sources that come automatically, but for the other 4300 in this pack it would take a lot of time and would probably be something that need be worked on by one user for a good while. That user would need to create a background pack using the UIDs that they get and then release a pack that others would need to alter to match their UIDs. 

If SI opened journalists up so that you could view profiles (like players, agents, managers etc.) it would be possible. 

@Footygamer, that sounds great as a starting point, I think I should be able to do that, I had just never thought of conversion to CSV. Let me try tonight and I will let you know how I get on. For now, if I can even create a directory that can be viewed online (I would probably just share via cloud this year and discuss with Nik33) it would help figure out which media need added etc.