Furthermore, should they lose interest in the club or run out of cash, they may invite offers for the club, which will certainly impact on the security of your job.Īs for the aforementioned youth team, the entire process has been overhauled.
Again reflecting real life, they can also decide to up sticks and move to a new stadium. As is becoming commonplace in modern football, the board can now overrule the manager should they receive an offer for a player that's too good to refuse. Chairman Of The BoredĬhurlishness aside, there is a host of new stuff to be found here, from boardroom level right down to the youth team. If you call having an official club badge for every league team a feature, that's 92 of them taken care of already. Yep, that's the message coming out of the Sports Interactive office, although what their definition of a feature is remains unconfirmed. So what is this year's model offering? 100 new features.
All things considered, I'm better off without it - you have more time on your hands, enabling you to embark on other arguably equally pointless pursuits.Īs such, when the annual update (and it is just an update) comes around, it's with a vague sense of superiority that I boot it up and scoff at its array of new features, all designed to lure me into its sick world. I gave up playing Football Manager (or Championship Manager, as was) years ago, following a wretched existence of meaningless campaigns that were a waste of life, the hours ticking by in a fetid existence of lower league survival. It's Debatable What the biggest waste of time is: the annual Football Manager update or my annual review of it Seasoned readers will know what to expect: a denial that I'm addicted to the game, a list of new features, a whimsical tale that suggests that perhaps I am still slightly addicted, all topped off with a shiny conspiracy-theorist baiting 90% score and a reminder that it's still the best game of its type available to mankind.