Send your assistant manager to the meetings and you never have to bother with them again. Only thing I find fiddly is having to sort out all the staff and training etc at the start of every playthrough. Often puts me off starting a game.I've sunk about 10 hours into that this weekend. I got bored and annoyed really quickly.
I've not properly played it for years so it seemed massively convoluted just for the sake of it. The press conferences and fake social media feed are the same 4-5 things again and again.
I just wanted to pick a team and play some games but the rest of the stuff around make it exhausting. Signing players was such a pain.
Maybe I should just get the tablet version or redownload FM2008 or something!