v0.45.3 update

Squad management and matches

• Fixed a bug that meant very short squads couldn’t open team selection.
• Added a warning when you’re starting short and have no spare players available.
• Fixed a bug that meant the pre-season friendly calendar could close too early. It now explains when friendlies are no longer available.

Transfers and contracts

• Fixed a bug that meant you could offer less than your club’s minimum wage and receive a misleading refusal.
• Fixed a bug that meant retired players could still show recruitment actions.
• Fixed a bug that meant clubs could loan-list players without accounting for already agreed arrivals and departures.

Players and squads

• Rebalanced squad sizes and youth intake to help prevent player shortages and excessive squad growth over long careers.
• Fixed a bug that meant new youth intake players could share a name with a team-mate.
• Fixed a bug that gave youth intake players first-team seasons and spells at other clubs. Future intakes have academy seasons at their own club only.
• Made player position names consistent across screens and corrected position codes in existing youth intake emails.

Clubs and competitions

• Fixed a bug that meant second teams could be placed too close to their first team in the league pyramid.
• Improved the names of reformed clubs, including how AFC is used.

Interface and stability

• Fixed a bug that could cause a crash on Mac when the game left full screen.
• Fixed a bug that meant window size and position weren’t always remembered after quitting on Windows.
• Long lists now fade at their edges to show when there’s more to scroll through.
• The retained list now names the players who still need a decision.

Your career

• Fixed a bug that caused cup emails about ties played before you joined a club, and corrected the dates used for cup byes.
• Fixed a bug that meant emergency staff recruitment could use next season’s club details or stop you continuing.