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Football Manager (FM) is one of the best-selling sports games year by year and has been established since its first release in 1992 under the name Championship Manager. FM is also the world’s most successful football management simulation game, with a strong player community on the internet.
FM 25 will be released on 11/11/2024, with many new features and also the reduction of features from their previous franchise edition. On their official website, they mentioned plans to reduce the most used feature, touchline shout.
Sports Interactive, the developer, said on their official website that touchline shout only works when the ball has gone out of play. The issue is that they want the shout to happen instantly to provide the best experience for players, but unfortunately, that feature won’t be available this year. Be patient while playing FM 25, as you won’t be able to berate your striker when they fail to score a goal in 5 matches.
They are technically swapping social media into another game area to optimize their new game UI/UX, not removing it completely. Fortunately, the rumor about the removal of social media discussed on many game forums did not come to pass, and delusional fans will still cheer for you even after being relegated.
FM 25’s new UI is much cleaner and simpler than the previous series. The fresh UI is easier for players who are just about to fall into a black hole because there are no words like “my last FM series” when people decide to play this game.
The phrase “more than just a game” is very suitable to describe the FM series. 32 years of improving their game and sustaining in the gaming industry is a great accomplishment for Sports Interactive as a game developer. Losing the naming rights to Eidos Interactive, the original publisher when the series was still named Championship Manager, was not a problem for them to rise again and rebrand.
Aside from always selling millions of copies every year when they release a new series, this game has a huge legacy in football in the real world. This legacy came from the FM players alongside the game itself.
It’s a bizarre phenomenon when a person with zero experience as a football manager manages to become a manager by only using a simulator manager game as experience. Even though this is a one-in-a-million case, the complexity of the managerial mechanics made Huseynzade able to manage FC Baku, an Azerbaijani club.
He was given an 18-month contract by the club as a manager who managed transfers, planned budgets, scouted, marketed, and did everything aside from coaching. What makes his story incredible is Baku is a new club formed in 1997 and managed to finish in sixth and fifth positions in the Azerbaijani Premier League.
It didn’t stop there. An Englishman who lived in Belgium had a more insane story than the one above. Growing up and playing FM relentlessly with his brother, Will Still’s career as a Lens manager was like a fiction story written by Quentin Tarantino.
His journey with football began when he coached Preston North End Academy in England. Then he came back to Belgium to finish his college degree and joined Sint-Truiden, the Belgian second tier, as a video analyst, then became an assistant manager. After that, he moved on to be an assistant at Lierse in the same division, and when the manager was sacked, the owner wanted him to be a coach for that team.
Time passed, and he became Stade Reims’ assistant manager. Eventually, the same events repeated. The manager was sacked, and the owners called him to offer him the manager position. He managed to get a draw and a clean sheet against PSG when no other team in the league managed to clean sheet against them.
It’s not fair to only take examples from people who played FM and succeeded in the football industry. Actually, the game itself has a very complex and detailed database captured from the real world. The accuracy of FM’s prediction on unknown rising star players to become football stars is also helped by their accurate database assessment of players.
With this huge amount of data, Everton, a Premier League team, made a deal with SI in 2008 to use their data to search for new players and staff. Even many clubs in MLS use FM as their data source to contract players from Latin America.
So let’s meet again in the next FM series, online coaches!
