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Hey, Football Manager, I miss you!
The Football Manager game was always a big part of my life. And it still is in some way, although I didn’t play the game for almost the whole year of 2025. Maybe that’s the reason why I’m writing this blog. I woke up on Thursday morning, I did my usual morning routines, walked the kids to the kindergarten and school, and when I came home after a short walk, I realised I miss Football Manager.
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FM25 cancelled. It’s not the end of the world
Back in October last year the Football Manager developers announced the Football Manager 2025 edition will be delayed. It took a couple of months but we now know the game will not be released on any platforms. My opinion? It’s not the end of the world. There are too many things to do despite there won’t be a new edition soon.The announcement was released worldwide on the night of February 7, 2025. I remember I thought it would be best to cancel the FM25 already. Why? I don’t want the unfinished game. The same as the last couple of years. I don’t want…
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FM24 | Honorary save | Six seasons with Reading FC
I spent 24 years with Reading FC back in the Football Manager 2017. This time, in FM24, it was only six years. For some, it’s too many years with a single club, especially within the save that’s a journeyman save in some way. But waiting (and hitting the spacebar) for some/any FM25 news resulted in almost a complete save in terms of the longevity and how I started the development of the club itself and some players. I joined the club at the end of the virtual calendar year of 2029 after three seasons with Perugia and two seasons with…
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FM24 | Replicating real-life lower league tactic
I didn’t play Football Manager 2024 for a while but wanted to get back into it. My FM24 save with Perugia, Dijon and Reading was still among the saved files, and I restarted it. I’m in 2030 and at the start of the new season with Reading FC in the Premier League. I replicated all three tactics I used while I was playing with these three clubs in the past. I didn’t have to continue with 3-5-2/4-4-1-1 or 4-1-3-2. I decided to replicate the tactic I’m currently using with my local town team in the 8th tier. Intro It’s not…
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FM24 | Honorary save | Reading 2028/2029
June 5, 2029. The in-game date of my resignation as a Dijon FCO manager. I decided to leave this French club a season earlier than planned for this save, but I felt it was the best decision in combination with winning the domestic double twice in a row and winning the Champions League in the second season too. My next aim was to become the Reading FC manager as the club is the last one on my list of clubs I want to play with in FM24. They had their manager who was the fan’s favourite and he was able…
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FM24 | Honorary save | Dijon 2027/2028
“I considered leaving Dijon after this incredible season because I don’t think I can make it again.” That was one of the last sentences of the previous blog post about this save when I reviewed the 2026/27 season with Dijon FCO. I stayed for another season and I also signed an extension of my contract until 2029. I just resigned a little bit and I thought it would give me one season to build some quality squad ahead of the third and the last season with the French club. But I got ahead of myself in time. Why? Let’s find…
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FM24 | Honorary save | Dijon 2026/2027
The fourth of possible nine seasons of my Football Manager 2024 save is over. It was my first season in France with Dijon FCO. I won two promotions with Perugia and finished fourth in Seria A before I left Italy. I was lucky that the other two clubs – Dijon and Reading – also won promotions in the opening three seasons so I was able to manage Dijon straight in the French top tier. Just a reminder – I aim to play three seasons with all these mentioned clubs and I’m playing with the blank database full of newly created/fake…
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FM24 | Honorary save | Life in the new club step by step
It’s the same save, a new club but it feels like a new game. The motivation to create something new is high. The mood and desire to build something is so big. At least I got this perfect feeling when I moved to Dijon after three years with Perugia. There was a lot of room for improvement in all areas from the squad building to staff, training regime and mainly – the new tactic. The club change meant I got 100% new motivation to play the game again because of THAT feeling ‘there’s something new’. It also inspired me to…
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FM24 | Honorary save | Perugia 2025/2026
One month = one season? It looks like it right now. I play quite fast, but finding enough time to finish the season and write about it isn’t easy. The end of this 2025/2026 season speaks for itself – it took me one real-life week to play the last league match of the campaign to find out how it will end. The third season within this FM24 save was also the last season with Perugia and the 3-5-2 formation. How the season did end? And how is the future resolved for itself? Let me tell you about it… Transfers Let’s…