I realise there's probably not a huge audience of GBers playing this, but I wanted to know if any of the few that are, are experience the same annoyances as I am.  
 
Players are far too easy to upset 
So much as asking one of your players to try something new on the field can result in them getting pissed off and leaving the conversation.   

Ex: Me: "I'd like you to try and get forward when possible";  
Them: "I don't think that will improve my game";  
Me: "I'd like you to at least try it";  
Them: "I stand by what I said. I think I'd better leave before I say something I regret".            

WHAT? Why do they suddenly come over all aggravated? I'm the fucking manager, I tell you what to do! If the player disagrees, you should be able to talk about it and come to an agreement on perhaps another focus of development, but you can't. You have to take a bit of lip from an unrealistically disrespectful player and risk the possibility of a knock-on effect of morale dropping throughout the squad, just because you're trying to turn a middling club into a very successful one with a chance of Champion's league qualification.  
 
Not only do players get upset by private chats, but also by you saying something "bad" in a press conference, even though you were trying your best to answer questions with as many positive and optimistic things about the club as you could, and have no clue what the fuck exactly you said to upset them. Also, trying to give the appropriate team-talk before, during, or after a match is like Russian Roulette. Tell the team they can win a game against a comparable team, and some players might look confused. Or they might look demotivated, delighted or may not be listening at all - who knows! Speak to a player after a match where you think he's done well, and he'll tell you he actually thought his performance was rubbish, and says he's confused by my comments. Reload a save before that chat and say the polar opposite (your performance wasn't good enough) and he'll tell you you're being unfair, and that he thought he was playing well. Players aren't this retarded and fickle in real life (well, not all of them), so it just seems dumb to see them represented like this in a game that prides itself on realism. 
 
A million injuries 
Players get injured far too frequently. It may be unrealistic, but I'd rather disable injuries altogether instead of the current system of getting almost one bad injury per match. My players have an average workload in training, and I rarely start a player on the pitch who has less than 90% fitness, yet somehow I seem to pick up injuries very easily. My tactics don't include harsh talking or pressing, so I'm confused as to why my players are dropping like flies. Last night I picked up three in one match - two of them were very important players to the squad; the third was another starting player, so it fucks up my plans pretty badly. The fun in the game for me does not come from having to organise a team of reserves to play first team football, so I don't care if the injury thing is even remotely realistic - the fact is that I'm not having fun seeing my decent players placed on the long term injury list.
 
Wage budget  
Not a big issue really, this has only really bothered me in one instance, but I can't seem to be able to request the board increase their wage budget for one player, despite being able to land the player for an incredibly low fee. The player in question was Roque Santa Cruz, being offered by Manchester City. He had been offered at 3.5M, but were ready to sign a deal at 1M, but his wage request was about £6K over budget. I had about 4M left in my transfer budget, but there didn't seem to be a way to free up some of that cash for his wage. You can adjust a slider between wage budget and transfer budget, but it's not very flexible, and I have no idea if it would actually increase the max I could spend on his wage, or just the max I could spend on cumulative wages (leaving the max individual wage the same). It didn't matter anyway, because the only way I could add more to the wage budget was by moving the slider once to the left, which halved my transfer budget, which wouldn't leave enough to cover both the club fee and his signing on fee (and the agent's ridiculously high fee) as well. 
 
 
Anyway, I'm loving the game apart from the problems I'm encountering. Anyone else feel the same way?

Haven't bought it yet, but that doesn't sound too well. Could it be some kind of weird bug?

" Haven't bought it yet, but that doesn't sound too well. Could it be some kind of weird bug? "

There's no injury bug. There was an really bad injury bug one year, now a few serious injuries and people claim there's an injjury bug.
 
If Santa Cruz is on 100,000, he won't accept 50,000 somewhere else. If you're Sheffield Utd, the board won't let you offer 80,000 in wages.
 
The conversation is a new feature, won't be perfect first time around. You can usually guess their response by the type of player they are though, and one way or another (new contract, selling them) issues get resolved.
 
One thing you can try if you can't offer the wages a player wants, is to set a massive signing on fee and agent fee. Will get them to accept much lower wages, but is an easy way to get into debt. Fees come out of your balance, not your transfer budget.

" There's no injury bug. There was an really bad injury bug one year, now a few serious injuries and people claim there's an injjury bug.  If Santa Cruz is on 100,000, he won't accept 50,000 somewhere else. If you're Sheffield Utd, the board won't let you offer 80,000 in wages.  The conversation is a new feature, won't be perfect first time around. You can usually guess their response by the type of player they are though, and one way or another (new contract, selling them) issues get resolved.  One thing you can try if you can't offer the wages a player wants, is to set a massive signing on fee and agent fee. Will get them to accept much lower wages, but is an easy way to get into debt. Fees come out of your balance, not your transfer budget. "

Yeah I get you, its just annoyances though. Unknown players demanding 100k a week and 8million sign on fees? Such a joke
 
There are some pretty big bugs though, the yellow card suspension rule is 2 in Spain instead of 5, and shit doesn't get fixed until the February update.

Well have you tried just editing your budget manually?
 
Oh and as for the injuries, thats not soooo unrealistic, just look at Man Utd, almost half of the squad was out injured before the Shitty match.
But I would think that SI as always will fix the injury rates on players in a patch, that's been a common problem for as long as I played the FM series.

the only way to win a football manager game is to not play it. *nods*