Football manager professional#

The season before he broke through at Monaco, that year when he had a run in the Champions League, our French researcher told me to look out for this player. 'Even Mbappe, that's a great example of the game reflecting reality. There's probably 20-30, maybe more, players who I've known through Football Manager.' Like Nick says, we get so many of the Wonderkids accurate, and that's down to the research team around the world. And now he's here, at the Nou Camp, starting with Lionel Messi. I remember watching him thinking: This is mad! I signed him randomly for my Portsmouth team on FM18. I remember being at a Barcelona game a few years ago, and Artur, the central midfielder who's now at Juventus, I'd found him in the game two years before that.

'Even if it's not looking at the players or teammates themselves, most people know about the Best Wonderkids in real world football through Football Manager. 'It's definitely something amongst the younger players as well, the ones that grew up playing Football Manager, or had access to it,' adds Ramson. You can say: how am I rated versus how is someone else rated?' This is a good way for them to do it – who's in the team, how are they compared? If you're playing professional,you can easily see your own data.

Football manager professional#

So it's clear that players do play our games we don't know fully how many do, but it wouldn't surprise me that there are professional players in the professional game that will look up particular clubs in the game. He's asking him if he wants to go to Newcastle and Mbappe is asking if it's cold there. 'In terms of players, Antoine Griezmann was on social media playing his Newcastle save – which is quite interesting now, given the takeover of Newcastle, and he's talking about having bought Mbappe. We're fortunate enough that we've got scouts all over the world that help make the game as realistic as it can be.' 'This can influence their transfer targets and it's no fluke that some players who are really good Wonder Kids in Football Manager always seem to make a good big transfer a couple of years down the line. We have had access to the managers themselves, and they've been able to look at our data which is something we've seen reported in the press,' continues Madden. 'We've worked closely with a huge number of football clubs.