My fifa manager 09 saviour. Looking back I can’t believe they actually competed with FM for a little bit
I went back to it and still play it. Honestly, the real management parts of the game are way better than those of FM. FM is just a coaching simulator while the FIFA Manager really allows you to manage the whole club.
There’s an active community which releases a patch every year. You can download like 50 gigs of updated teams/pictures/stadiums and whatever you desire.
I’ve a long term save there which is about 18 seasons in. Contrary to FM you can actually develop a whole country there which is hella fun.
Fans and supporters are better simulated there, as well as infrastructures and sponsorships. When you’re doing a good job on international level, the whole league will grow in viewership and sponsorships money, which benefits the other clubs as well.
Going deeper, you can affiliate with other clubs and give them economic boosts, which really make a difference there and they aren’t only implemented for your personal enjoyment/benefits like in FM.
If you build up something financially stable you can build a bunch of youth camps which are expensive af, but drastically increase the amount of talents your academy generates. You can use those talents to further boost the other clubs and either loan or sell them right away.
I started my save in the Czech Republic and seeing a second club from the league in the CL about 12 years in felt extremely accomplishing, more than anything in FM. Fighting for the top 5 leagues spot right now is also an unique experience.
Oh, another great perk is the simulation of your private life, cause you can hoard money there. After those many years and many investments I got a private bankroll of ~150m which I can either use to pump it into my own club, or into other clubs through the stock market.
I miss those economic parts in FM. I find managing your merch, fanbase and infrastructures on a micro level more enjoyable than constantly fighting the locker and being confronted with weird, random player personalities. I think the old Fifa FM is more realistic there cause you get more informations about players which allow you to judge who you are dealing with, kinda like it’s going on in real life as well.
so yeah, the game definitely still has a niche with the community updates.
Damn I had no idea, definitely will check that out. Thanks for sharing :)
Compete is generous. Just an alternative, like LMA Manager or Premier Manager. FM/CM has always been head and shoulders above any other management game.
You could count on him scoring a banger every season
Iniesta could take a page out of this guys book.
The GOAT
Rest up 👑 I will never forget the golden age of weekly bangers feat. Fabio and Zlatan!
Love a random Italian striker that sticks around for ages
Miccoli was another and di natale to some extent although he was much better
GOATed player
I turned 40 a few weeks back…I now understand.
This got me wondered… has Kazu Miura retired yet?
2nd division in Portugal.
It’s wild to me that he ended up accumulating almost 300 games for a single club. A person who’s unfamiliar with him would look at his wiki and think he was most well known as a Sampdoria legend, but in reality he only (re-)joined them when he was 33 and until that point had spent his entire career as a Serie A journeyman.
I hope, with his consent of course, that someone makes a documentary/film about his stalker situation because it’s genuinely an insane story.
Anyone got the short summary of this?
Really the story is crazier than any summary can do it justice - link
Buuut…
That would make such a good movie or book.
Even a game, how many games are based around stalkers? Seems like some potential there
but the person he hired ended up being the actual stalker
Holy, this could be a story for a great thriller!
Really didn’t expect that.
Well that was some read…
Woa woa woa… what the actual fxxx?! This is some next level story. Now that’s what I call a proper weekend read.
I think they should do it without permission, it’s more immersive that way.
Why?
don’t cry because it’s over smile because it happened
Brilliant player. Still remember the scare he was giving us Slovaks in the 2010 World Cup match - he brought the real flair to the Italian game.
What a legend
A technically gifted and an intelligent player. We aren’t making strikers like him anymore.
We had guys like him, Di Natale, Di Vaio, Miccoli, Cassano, Totti, Del Piero all at the same time. I can even mention guys like Maresca, Rossi besides whomever is slipping my mind.