Football Manager Podcast - Seasons 2 - #2

Miles Jacobson, Studio Director of Sports Interactive talks to friends, colleagues and journalists all with one thing in common - an obsession with Football. This week Miles is joined by Andrew Dickens the editor of Shortlist.com & George Wales from Maxim Magazine.

This week the group will be giving the views on the Manchester City buyout and also more exclusive content on FM2009.

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Features announced via the first 2 episodes of the second season of the Football Manager Podcast...

Age rules for different competitions are now displayed for each comp as are transfer rules, such as the French “Joker” rule.

Enquire to loan a player - Sends a virtual fax out to all clubs to see which players they would be prepared to loan you. Can also be done per club.

Feeder club improvements -The ability, once your board trusts you, to ask for a specific feeder club/parent club.

Holiday job returning options - Option added to apply only for jobs in the top playable division, bottom playable division, lower division jobs, and any job.

In depth player ratings - Player ratings now out have a decimal point, for more in-depth analysis on how a player has performed, to give ratings such at 6.7 or 8.2 rather than just 7 or 8.

Position viewer - On the tactics screen, indication on how good a player is in a specific position.

Distance run - A new stat that shows how far a player has run per match.

Team report improvements - Team report now suggests new players for weak areas of the team.

Awards - Team awards now have a history rather than just showing the last winner. Like the best XI, they can be combined into an overall team for all the years stored.

Average ratings - Players who play less than 10 minutes no longer get ratings that can take down their average rating.

B Teams - Are now treated as affiliate clubs, rather than reserve teams for teams in countries where they might have 2 teams in different first team leagues (Spain / Barcelona, for example).

Stadium expansion - Now starts after last home game of the season, so stadium expansions are built quicker.

Injury time scorers - Game now shows injury time goals with “+x” rather than them all being in the 90th minute.

AI team trials - AI manager can now sign players on trial.