The Football Manager Football Show
174 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 days ago -Join Ken McGuire and Shane O'Keeffe every Friday as they take on the world one league at a time in The Football Manager Football Show, a podcast all about the world of Football Manager and gaming, sprinkled with some real-life football chat.
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E169: The Football Manager Football Show finale? Ndidi it is.
April 25, 2024 23:00 - 31 minutes - 28.8 MBAfter three years and 12 seasons, crossing from South America to England, Spain, Turkey, Italy, Scotland, France, South Africa, Portugal, Germany and back to England once again, it's time to bid farewell to The Football Manager Football Show. Like Arsenal's bid to become Premier League champions and Jurgen Klopp's reign at perennial contenders Liverpool, all good things must come to an end and having seen Shane secure a Premier League trophy - his first league title since Galatasar...
E168: Signing off season 12 with a very Football Manager Champions League Final and plotting our next adventure!
April 18, 2024 23:00 - 37 minutes - 43.5 MBOur English Premier League journey, for the second time, finished last week with Manchester City crowned league champions, denying Liverpool what would have been an incredible three-in-a-row following a close-fought season. While City (and Shane) can celebrate a league title, there's the small matter of a Champions League final for Liverpool (and Ken) with this week seeing the Reds in action against Bayern in Paris. We'll get a feel for City's season, and sow the seeds for where w...
E167: And with that, our Football Manager journey through the Premier League is at an end [Live Episode]
April 11, 2024 23:00 - 47 minutes - 54.6 MBIt's finally over. Four months on since the release of Football Manager 2024, our Premier League adventures come to a close this week. The two-season arc is finished and the race for the title came all the way down to the final episode of the season. With a game in hand, can City make the extra points a possibility or will their poor run of form continue to haunt them with Liverpool - mathematically at least - still in the league? It's City v Spurs, Man United and Southampton, ...
E166: Under pressure? For Liverpool v Man City again? In Football Manager? [Live Episode]
April 04, 2024 23:00 - 49 minutes - 57 MBFor the second, third and final times in this Football Manager journey of ours, it's back to the Etihad we go this week as Ken's Liverpool make the trip to Shane's 'The Manchester' to settle the trilogy and close out the season. With a 5-1 aggregate lead from last week's Champions League semi-final, Ken reckons he has this one in the bag, until he realises that the Liverpool prodigy-in-the-making, Fred Kalenga, is going to have to make an appearance with Yunus Musah collecting a po...
E165: The biggest clash in our Football Manager journey is here… the Champions League semi-finals
March 29, 2024 14:46 - 43 minutes - 49.4 MBOn paper, this might be the biggest clash of our Football Manager journey to date. While the race for the Premier League title has Man City clear of Liverpool by 6 points, the sides have been paired once again in Europe and this week we’ve got the first of our Champions League semi-finals along with some league action. Between this week and next, we’ll play each other on three occasions, twice in Europe and once in the league in a bid to settle our final English stint once and for...
E164: The Football Manager Master Save Scummers of the Universe aka save your games!
March 22, 2024 16:53 - 50 minutes - 115 MBThis week on The Football Manager Show, we're going back in time. You see, there may have been a mishap after last week's episode in that, well, when it was supposed to save, it didn't save. Or maybe Ken didn't save the game. Or maybe the laptop died, or something happened, but the save wasn't there and the backup wasn't there, so where we took off and played our Champions League quarter-finals against Benfica and Real Madrid with Ken winning 2-0 against his old club (while playin...
E163: It's finally April, so can the gap at the top of the Premier League be closed?
March 15, 2024 10:04 - 47 minutes - 43.6 MBIt's finally April. We're into single figures remaining in the Premier League, while the Champions League hits the quarter-final stages. Can Ken's old boys Leicester cause an upset at Man City? Will Haaland have the edge over Real Madrid? Will Benfica come back to haunt Ken at Anfield and dent hopes of European success in our final season in England? So many questions, so many concerns! Let's get into it and start the countdown to the end of our Premier League stay. Contains str...
E162: Still hurting, it's the shortest episode of The Football Manager Football Show
March 08, 2024 23:11 - 32 minutes - 37.7 MBIt's Friday. It's podcast day. We almost didn't make it, but we did. For the first time in 3 years, through a myriad of real-world events, it's taken us until late on release day to find 30 minutes together to unwind with some Football Manager. The gas thing, Shane's still hurting after last week's League Cup Final collapse. But it doesn't matter too much as Ken's Liverpool are just hurting full stop as injuries mount with the calendar turning into April. Games are shy, cup comp...
E161: It's the biggest game in Football Manager - The Caribbean Cup Final, and it's live!
March 01, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 55 MBThe Caribbean God versus the pretender to the throne. The current FA Cup holders versus the current Premier League holders. Good versus evil? For the first time ever in 161 episodes, we're going all-in on one game. Yes, this season has been a slog, but it's also been methodical to a point and as results mounted up, the path was paved to send Man City and Liverpool to this year's Carabao Cup final. Granted, it took a rub of the green for both along the way, but they made it and no...
E160: It's like the Football Manager Football Show of old, ish, with an epic finish to boot
February 23, 2024 00:00 - 50 minutes - 57.7 MBWe're mixing things up a little this week. For the first time in a while, we've managed to get some games under our respective belts this week before we actually press record. Remember when we used to do this before season 12? Recognising that last week segued into all manner of discussion, we're getting into the action early this week as we navigate the last sixteen of the UEFA Champions League before getting in some Premier League action. We're wrapping up things up this week wi...
E159: Is there cheating in Football Manager 2024? And how magic are Jack Grealish's calves?
February 16, 2024 21:35 - 1 hour - 58.5 MBIt's been a busy week at FMFShow towers, and a crazy week in the world of Football Manager. Before it gets patched (presuming it gets patched anyway), we put the latest 'no money down' transfer moves into play to see if you really can lure some of the biggest players in the game to greener shores for little to no cash. We've got two must-win games in the Premier League, Ken's off to the Amex to take on Brighton in the FA Cup and we're cracking into the last 16 of the Champions Le...
E158: It's our last Premier League transfer window in Football Manager, but is it too little, too late in the title race?
February 09, 2024 00:00 - 57 minutes - 65.5 MBThis week seeks the January transfer window slam shut, Liverpool continue their FA Cup journey and February's league games start with trips to Sheffield United and Chelsea. With 13 games left in the league, every point counts and with our next league destination pretty much in the bag, it's time to throw caution to the wind at all costs meaning there's a bit of shuffling for our last Premier League transfer window. But are we talking big money moves, or shrewd loans to seal the cr...
E157: Year 4 begins and now it's Ken's turn to get proper Football Manager'd
February 02, 2024 00:00 - 43 minutes - 50.2 MBWith three years of weekly Football Manager podcasts behind us, year four begins with Liverpool and Man City arriving at the end of January, a crunch time for any Premier League duo. There's the small matter of needing to win in the last game in the Champions League new table stage to seal automatic progress to the knockouts. There's also the small matter of the January transfer window looming only, instead of it being in January, it's the second of February. Oh, and while Shane go...
E156: Three years on, in Football Manager, mocking is catching
January 26, 2024 00:08 - 47 minutes - 54.1 MBHappy birthday to us. Three years on, working our way towards a million podcast streams, two Irish lads who love Football Manager are celebrating three years talking about just that... Football Manager. Sure, Covid has been and gone, work life has stepped up, live comedy is on the rise, we've had the launch of The Wrestling Fan Wrestling Show and Ken On Food, but there's still important business to attend to as we get back in the Champions League swing of things this week while Sh...
E155: From a good Football Manager comeback story to everyone heading to Saudi Arabia in 2026
January 19, 2024 00:13 - 59 minutes - 68.5 MBIt's episode 155 of The Football Manager Football Show and this week we've got a mix of FA Cup, League Cup and Premier League drama to unfold while the January transfer window is very much open for business in 2026. So much so, that some of the Saudi Arabian heavy hitters are coming in strong for key names for both City and Liverpool, causing ructions in one dressing room in particular as the cracks look like they're beginning to show - or are they? As a pre-cursor, there is added ...
E154: The one were Ken finally gets properly Football Managered as we ring in 2026 in FM24 [Live episode]
January 12, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 75 MBThere are three things certain in this life. Death. Taxes. And if you play FM, getting properly Football Managered. If you've experienced it, you'll know exactly what we mean. Last-minute highlights, out of nowhere, breaking your heart, no chance to bounce back. It's a win that turns to a draw. It's a draw that turns into a hopeless defeat. It's taken a while, but it finally happens. This week on the podcast we've got two helpings of Premier League action plus the first round of...
E153: Happy New Year to all Football Manager Fans, let's crack on with the last games of December
January 05, 2024 13:39 - 1 hour - 69.5 MBHappy New Year, Happy New Year, may we all have our hopes, our will to try, if we don't we might as well lay down and die. So say Abba, but there's no sense of laying down and dying this weather as we finally get to close out another calendar year of fixtures and brace ourselves for the ridiculous onslaught of January. This week, with the last of the Christmas holiday days upon us, we're recording on release day with Ken at home, Shane in the office and Liverpool and Man City sti...
E152: Westlife or Take That, the Ian Holloway Challenge and a happy Football Manager new year! [Live Episode]
December 29, 2023 14:57 - 51 minutes - 59.2 MBOn this week's podcast, we're winding out 2023 with a return to the Champions League, Premier League and the Carabao Cup as the January transfer window beckons. Shane's on air, Ken's still remote and on holiday and plans for the post-Premier League era begin to take shape as we wonder if there's a potential Football Manager challenge to be had by following the career paths of Ian Holloway, Dennis Wise, Joe Kinnear and the mysterious one himself, Alan Curbishly. Also, why is Sam All...
E151: Merry Christmas, happy Football Manager holiday season, and it's Liverpool v Man City time
December 22, 2023 18:32 - 1 hour - 83.8 MBIt's tiiiiiiiiime. Recorded on release day (22 December), we're squeezing in an episode just in time for Christmas, that lovely time of year that we hope sees everyone get a proper rattle at FM24, or you get to drag your FM23 season kicking and screaming into the New Year. We've still got another episode to go this year but this week we've the important bit of business in Liverpool's hosting of Man City for the first league meeting of Ken and Shane this term. Shane gets a warmup i...
E150: Football Manager chills, they're multiplying, and I've got West Ham at home [Live Episode]
December 15, 2023 00:00 - 55 minutes - 63.3 MBOne minute you're cruising, the next you're running into obstacles at the most inopportune time. On this week's helping of The Football Manager Football Show we're back for some lunchtime FM action, rolling tape as Liverpool and Man City jet off to Europe to take on the mighty giants that are Real Madrid and Bayern Munich. Before that we've got some league action with Leicester, Bournemouth, Brentford and West Ham all rearing their heads, producing some mixed results and another ma...
E149: More Football Manager 2024 wonderkids, Rochdale latest and is Yeremi Pino a busted flush? [Live Episode]
December 08, 2023 00:38 - 57 minutes - 65.6 MBAnother week rolls around in our weird, wild and wonderful world of Football Manager 2024 and this week we're in Premier League, League Cup and Champions League action. A few things are starting to happen. Haaland's misfiring. Liverpool may be hitting an injury crisis, not helped by the lack of suitable cover registered for Europe with a whole bunch of games still to play in the new format Champions League. Plus, after dropping €100m on him for Man City, is Yeremi Pino turning out ...
E148: The one where Shane finds out he's class at Football Manager
December 01, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 56.7 MBHello December! We're into the final month of the year and it's a fast-paced episode of The Football Manager Football Show this week as we continue to get to grips with Football Manager 2024. The upgrade is done, the next big update is out and between Man City and Liverpool, the battle for the top spot in the Premier League is well underway with Champions League football also on the cards this week. Grumpy footballers are getting sold off, Ken's aggressive play is starting to leak...
E147: It's finally happened - we've upgrade to Football Manager 2024 [Live Episode]
November 24, 2023 00:41 - 1 hour - 71.2 MBFinally. While Ken's got a month of Football Manager 2024 under his belt, Shane's finally ponied up and bought his upgrade. Farewell Football Manager 2023, you were class, but we're all in on FM24. Not only that, but thanks to one of the best features to hit Football Manager in its history, you can finally port games from the previous year's version into this version meaning our Football Manager 2023 universe is making the leap into 2024 and now we've to figure out what - if anyth...
E146: Getting FMd in real life, Football Manager 2024 wonderkids and return of the Caribbean Cup [Live Epiosde]
November 17, 2023 00:00 - 47 minutes - 44 MBFootball Manager 2024 is in the wild, wonderkids are on the move and it turns out Shane's already got one or two on his bench. While our Champions League journey got underway last week, we've got some league and League Cup action this week. While Shane's Man City side get a plum draw against Walsall, Ken's bringing Liverpool to London to take on Chelsea in the third round. It turns out Shane's also getting FM'd in real life and we get an update from listeners on how their early FM...
E145: Football Manager 2024 is out, David Ginola's hair, Ken's Liverpool meltdown and other FM stories [Live Episode]
November 10, 2023 00:07 - 1 hour - 65.7 MBE145: Football Manager 2024 is out, David Ginola's hair, Ken's Liverpool meltdown and other FM stories [Live Episode] In what's one of our most whirlwind episodes to date, we're back for our last game in Football Manager 2023 thanks to the official release of Football Manager 2024 this past Monday. Yes, it's out now, if you haven't gotten a copy already, grab links from FootballManager.com. So what does David Ginola's hair have to do with this week's episode? Quite a lot as it ha...
E144: Football Manager 2024 is *nearly* here but it's ok, Shane's cheering for "Manchester", right?
November 03, 2023 00:00 - 51 minutes - 59.2 MBWith less cans of Monster and cups of tea than in previous weeks, we're finally back in the studio and find ourselves just days away from the official release of Football Manager 2024. Ken's been getting to grips with Rochdale during #FM24EarlyAccess but in Football Manager 2023 land, the Premier League is underway as Liverpool and City take on West Ham, Chelsea, Chelsea and Sheffield United. As in, they get two games each and both end up playing Chelsea. IRL, Castlewarren are win...
E143: Oh my Johnny, it's the Charity Shield as we start pulling the plug on Football Manager 2023 [Live Episode]
October 26, 2023 23:00 - 50 minutes - 117 MBThe Football Manager 2024 beta - aka Early Access - is here. Ken's on holiday for this one so while he's away we've managed to get a remote link to do the podcast this week and it all builds to just one match before we make the jump to Football Manager 2024. It's the biggest game of the pre-season. All the preparation comes down to this - the FA Community Shield (nee the much-loved Charity Shield) as Liverpool and Man City lock horns for the first time this season. Liverpool have ...
E142: A record-breaking victory in Football Manager as City and Liverpool head to Singapore, USA [Live Episode]
October 19, 2023 23:00 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MBWith the Club World Cup behind us (and another trophy in the bag for Liverpool), Shane's bound for Singapore where he's intent on making an example of the locals. The sprawling extent of Liverpool's finances are revealed as the lads effectively draw a line under their transfer activity well ahead of the closing of the window. And it's the last game in the save before the FM24 beta gets released - though if we're right, it will have been released on the day of recording, i.e. yesterd...
E141: Headbutts, stilettos, anticlimatic penalty shootouts for some fly on the wall Football Manager 2023 time [Live Episode]
October 12, 2023 23:00 - 50 minutes - 46.7 MBThis week on the podcast it's a fly-on-the-wall approach to our Club World Cup journey with Liverpool and Man City facing heavy opposition in the form of PSG and Bayern. Recorded over a lunchtime sandwich, you'll get a feel for how our live plays for Football Manager 2023 are getting somewhat frustrating, with a whole season yet to come and a Premier League campaign that we need to rip through once our transfer business is complete. Let's get to some games - all very sweary - and ...
E140: For the first time in Football Manager, we're in the Club World Cup [Live Episode]
October 05, 2023 23:00 - 59 minutes - 54.6 MBAs we begin our fourth and final season in the Football Manager 2023 universe we find ourselves in new territory - the FIFA Club World Cup. What's managed to escape us in recent years because, well, we weren't winning Premier League titles or Champions League titles or FA Cups or anything like that, both Liverpool and Man City are in the FIFA Club World Cup. That means we've packed our bags to head to Japan for a few weeks in lieu of the regular pre-season to try get our hands on t...
E139: Our FINAL Football Manager 2023 gets underway and the transfer battles have started [Live Episode]
September 28, 2023 23:53 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MBIt's time to start sending Football Manager 2023 home, and do it in style. For season 12, we're going to try and squeeze it all into the month of October, right up to the lead off of Football Manager 2024 which - if you've been living under a rock and not heard already - gets a release at 4pm on 6 November. Picking up where we left of last week, Shane's landed himself at Man City for our FM23 swan song and with that comes a war chest of over €230m to spend as he sees fit. Can he ...
E138: The Football Manager season 11 grand finale where the air and the tide turn blue [Live Episode]
September 21, 2023 23:00 - 49 minutes - 45.2 MBOn this week's podcast we're finally drawing a line under season 11 of The Football Manager Football Show. Liverpool have won the Premier League, Hoffenheim have finished outside of the European placings and a season that started united (no pun intended), ended divided which means it's time to settle on where we go for season 12. With Football Manager 2024 virtually around the corner (it's out in under two months from now), we've got a look at some more of the details emerging on ...
E137: With Football Manager 2024 announced, it's time to start wrapping up Football Manager 2023
September 14, 2023 23:00 - 1 hour - 55.3 MBIt's been a big week for Football Manager fans. The game's 2024 edition just got a release date - 6 November - there are competitions for copies flying all over the place, save reveals are happening, Twitter (X) is tearing apart the launch trailer to look for any hidden details that might give something away and pre-orders are open via Steam with early access included for the beta release once more. While all that's going on, we've got to wrap up season 11 of the podcast and close...
E136: Just when you're flying high in Football Manager, you get absolutely hammered [Live Episode]
September 07, 2023 23:36 - 57 minutes - 52.2 MBThe wins are adding up for Hoffenheim and European qualification is within grasp. For Liverpool, a draw is all that's needed to secure the first Premier League title for the podcast since we launched and there's every possibility it could happen at Anfield. But then, the most curious thing of the entire season happens. Perhaps the entire three seasons to date for FM23. There's an implosion, while we're live. One minute the champagne is being prepared, the next you're staring int...
E135: From low lines of engagement to almost winning the Premier League
August 31, 2023 23:00 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MBIt's just another day in paradise for The Football Manager Football Show. March turns into April this week as we continue the live-plays in studio where fresh from their exit of both the Champions League and FA Cup at the hands of Arsenal and Man City respectively, Liverpool start the month with a tough home fixture against Chelsea before heading on to Leeds while Newcastle are waiting in the wings. If cup competitions aren't Ken's thing this season, is there enough left in the tan...
E134: Football Manager 2023, it's a funny old game, innit? [Live Episode]
August 24, 2023 23:59 - 1 hour - 60.6 MBWe're back in the studio, recording some live play this week as we move through March in season 11 - now combining the Premier League and Bundesliga. On the domestic front, Shane's struggling to score goals but is doing a reasonable job of not conceding them at the same time. In Europe, however, Newcastle are on their way back with a 4-1 lead in town. Could he actually crack it and get Hoffenheim over the line at the expense of the magpies? And as for Liverpool, well, they're a di...
E133: Old Football Manager habits die hard [Live episode]
August 17, 2023 23:25 - 1 hour - 63 MBWe're back in the studio again this week for another live-play fix from the topsy-turvy world of our Football Manager multiverse. This week we'll - Find out what Ken's been up to with Benfica - Get the latest from Shane on his return to Preston and Man United - Take in some Europa Conference League, FA Cup, Premier League, Bundesliga AND Champions League action - Discuss player development while dissecting each others' work and more It gets animated but we'll quickly discover that...
E132: A Football Manager reborn in a foreign land [Live Episode]
August 10, 2023 23:01 - 59 minutes - 54.3 MBWe're back in another "live" episode this week as we get to grips with the Europa Conference League for Shane's Hoffenheim while Ken's getting reacquainted with an old flame in the FA Cup. Frankfurt make a fleeting return to the podcast too this week but between squad registration woes and big ticket injuries, there are causes for concern for both sides as we leave the transfer window behind us and move through February. We've got three months left in the season to make something ...
E131: The most wonderful time of the year - Transfer Deadline Day in Football Manager [Live Episode]
August 03, 2023 23:05 - 59 minutes - 54.1 MBLike two kids in a sweetshop, Ken and Shane have money to burn and it's transfer deadline day so we're going with one more live episode to get us across the line and into February. For Ken, there's about €20m to play with at Anfield though with the squad registration full, it's got to be one-in-one-out and the offers aren't exactly forthcoming. Shane has a shade over €60m to play with a new job as he takes over Hoffenheim. Can he rebuild the squad in his own vision, in one day, and...
E130: A Football Manager like no other, could this be the second coming of The Caribbean God? [Live Episode]
July 27, 2023 23:04 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBFootball Manager slows for no man, woman or child. As we tick towards the January transfer window, Shane's still jobless having suffered at the hands of the Man Utd board last time out with his unceremonious sacking. But with the clock ticking down to transfer deadline day, is there any hope of him securing a job, let alone one that might allow him to dip his toes into the transfer market? It's another live episode as we work through job hunting for Shane while Ken's ticking towar...
E129: You don't always get to win at Football Manager [Live Episode]
July 20, 2023 23:00 - 1 hour - 55.2 MBUnbeaten streaks are there to be broken. Small teams exist to cause you to let your guard down, trip you up. Sometimes the big names fall. Sometimes, you don't always get to win. That's what it feels a little like this week as we move into January. We arrived there in last week's episode, the new year bringing renewed hope and optimism. Shane's got himself a league cup semi-final against Leicester with the Foxes - Ken's former club - having dumped Liverpool out at the quarter-final...
E128: You're getting sacked in the morning... ding dong the Beljo's gonna chime!
July 14, 2023 18:17 - 1 hour - 61.1 MBIt's episode 128 and in the studio this week we've been blitzing a whopping eight games in December between the Premier League, Champions League and League Cup with more mixed results this week. Now, Shane's not been sacked - yet - though we're playing through some live elements this episode to see if it will happen or if he can actually pull off the greatest of escapes. Augsburg just needed to reach January before going on a five-month rip, can the same happen at Old Trafford thi...
E127: The board are unhappy, the fans are unhappy and Shane hates Football Manager [Live Episode]
July 06, 2023 23:00 - 1 hour - 162 MBIn a break from our usual approach to playing, we've decided to take the studio for a long lunch break and bounce out the month of November in our third season in Football Manager 2023. We floated the idea last week that with Shane's ongoing frustrations with Man United winning in Europe but performing miserably in the league, we would record 'as live' to share some of his sheer mental anguish with the game. The board are on his back, the fans are on his back, he's lost most of the...
E126: Football Manager making big moves for 2024, 2025, but in 2023 the struggle is still real for Man United
June 29, 2023 23:00 - 1 hour - 57.7 MBOn this week's helping of The Football Manager Football Show, we've got some immediate reaction to the announcement from the Sports Interactive announcement on changes coming down the track for FM24 and FM25. We'll get into it more down the line but it's safe to say that, on paper, it's a bold statement that sets out a clear path for the future of Football Manager and should go a long way towards easing some long-term fans concerns over the current iteration of the game. As Octobe...
E125: Luke Shaw is scoring worldies in Football Manager but United can't buy a win - or can they?
June 23, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 61.2 MBIn a week where Luke Shaw has been showing Shane that he's got Puskas credentials, we're getting through September and into October as our return to the Premier League continues. Not only that but we've got the first taste of two cup competitions with Liverpool and Man United in Champions League action against some familiar opposition while the League Cup gets underway on home soil, one of our intrepid duo getting a more favourable draw. To squad rotate or not, to play wingers or ...
E124: King of the North West - The Premier League season starts and we've got Liverpool away to Man United already
June 15, 2023 23:00 - 55 minutes - 50.6 MBThe 2024/25 Premier League season is underway! With pre-season wrapped and a transfer deadline day looming, the Premier League season starts properly with Liverpool at home to Arsenal on the opening day of the season while Man United make the trip to West Ham. We'll get through the month of August and through to mid-September including our first Premier League transfer deadline day since Season 3 (Leicester/Wolves), along with the draw for the new-look Champions League and the thi...
E123: A very Premier League pre-season as Football Manager transfer woes persist for one club
June 08, 2023 23:00 - 1 hour - 60.6 MBIt's a very Premier League pre-season as we get through our entire calendar of pre-season games this week for Liverpool and Man United. While Liverpool seem to be able to raise transfer funds through departures like Henderson, Thiago, Keita and more, United can't seem to sell a sinner get a bloated squad trimmed before the league kicks off. As pre-season goes, we've got Bayern, PSG, a trip to China, Liverpool in Spain and Scotland and we're packing in games, testing out squads and...
E122: Season 11 starts with a Football Manager rivalry for the ages
June 02, 2023 12:49 - 1 hour - 62 MBIt's the season 11 premiere that we've been waiting for since, well, season 1. Germany is in the rearview mirror and we're off to pastures new. We've had suggestions of Holland, ducking down to Serie C, going to the depths of the English football pyramid, heading to Australia or backpacking across Asia. But at the end of the day, there's one footballing rivalry that we've been looking to sink our teeth into since we started the podcast and for some reason, we've danced around it b...
E121: Our Football Manager journey in Germany is officially complete - Season 10 finale
May 25, 2023 23:00 - 45 minutes - 42 MBSo it turns out that when we put our minds to it, we can actually blaze through a whole bunch of games in Football Manager when the pressure is on and things need to get turned around quickly - namely us closing out the final six weeks of our time in Germany and the Bundesliga. We won't spoil it entirely, but there are a few positives to take away from the whole experience - though how does it all work out? Just when it looks like Frankfurt were cruising, the wheels started to com...
E120: The European dream is over for another Football Manager season and the end is nigh in Germany
May 19, 2023 10:09 - 59 minutes - 54.7 MBThe end is nigh in Germany as we get through the penultimate month of the Bundlesliga where, somewhat surprisingly, results of improved a bit for both Frankfurt and Augsburg. At least that's what the game would like you to think before it transpires that Shane's still under press while Ken's good run of form - up until the moment you hit save and close the game - looks like it's evaporated and the timing couldn't be worse with Chelsea on the horizon for the Europa League knockouts....