I'm back, baby. I'm back. I'm back. I'm sorry. I've been gone a long time been on holiday
I've been doing lots of things a lot of pooing
About a bad belly and then other things come up. So yeah, I'm back when you're as popular as we are on a on a
personal standpoint and from just a
Logistical standpoint of being the biggest UK gaming podcast there is sometimes
The the schedule has to change
It's true
You would think that after a month of not being here. I'd have so much to talk about
Relying on you, you know, I have one game to talk about one game only and no one's gonna be interested in it
football manager
Told you when I got that laptop, yeah, I have to stay away from football magic is one. Okay, I take it my life
Yeah, I bought it last Friday and
I've got over two days playing time
I think
What 48 hours? Yes. Yeah, seems like one day in 20 hours
See if I can find it on what is this on the laptop? Is it? Yeah, that's all I've been doing
They might you might see me on their PlayStation, but that's not me. That's the kids. Oh is it? Oh fair enough
Seventy seven point eight hours. Well, that's more than two days. That's more two days. That's quite a bit more than two days worth
I don't know when let me see when I bought it. The
thing is
Because when the kids are like playing
Because they play minecraft
um
So when they're playing minecraft if they're just doing that i'll just play that laptop
Yeah, so that's why I can play I can't put them sort of hours in on the playstation because you know
I'm not gonna play play. Does it not get it on a steam deck? No, probably but it's a bit this
It's a bit too much for the steam. There is it's too many
I don't know it'd be uncomfortable. I think for 3rd of august at 10 past 12. I bought it
Um, and what was that so that's
Okay, so that was two weeks ago tomorrow
Not a bad input it's a good haul and it's 77 hours. Um
I also spent a lot of that saturday
Like doing some crazy shit. You wouldn't expect me to be doing I was downloading face packs
and I was downloading face packs
club badges kits 3d kits
And uh, I was transferring them. I was creating files putting them in there. I was unzipping them
I was I was downloading applications. Yeah, I was torrenting a few things
I was seeding for people
It was a bit mental, right? Okay, so now i've got all the player faces and kits and stuff on there and uh,
I started off unemployed
I'm a sunday league level footballer. Um, I started off at dartford
Oh, wait, you start off as the player or you start off as the manager manager
So I started off as any manager a jobless manager because you're gonna have you're gonna have to
Oh, you don't know anything about football manager. No, we'll
We'll squeeze an hour out of this 45 to an hour. I think this is going to be possible, but I know
Very little. I know nothing about football manager, but I find
For myself this is going to be interesting because i've actually started to quite get into a little bit of football
I was on fucking astroturf yesterday, my loud and fucking playing a bit of the old ping
How people run on them pitches is beyond me
I think that was the first time i've ever been on a proper pitch. They're fucking huge
Those cunts are huge. Yeah, and I like to think my fitness is as much improved over the last couple of months
And I was I was fucking
I was fucking struggling with that shit, but it was so much fun. So
Feel free to fucking give me the give me the the beginning to end of how the fuck football manager works
Well, however, you want it to so if you want to you start you create your manager
And then you can have a different
Background so you can either be sunday league footballer semi-pro
National footballer international footballer world-renowned footballer. Obviously the higher you put that
The more respect you'll get from the players. Yeah, because you're you know, well known like a difficulty level essentially
Yeah, uh, and then you can choose what coaching badge you start
So obviously if you want to be a manager in real life, you have to coach your badges
So it'd be like uh national c national d
There's all different kinds of coaching badges up until you've completed them all obviously that'll make you more effective as well
um
And then you can just pick whatever team you want. You can be any team you want in the whole world
You can just choose who you want to be or you can do what I did
And I set everything to nothing. So the lowest sunday league footballer zero badges
So i'm literally just come out of working at asda's and i'm applying for manager jobs
Is essentially how that would be
So obviously with that in mind, you're not going to get a good job because you're not a manager. You're nobody
Yeah, you got no rapport or so I had the uh
So there's I was just looking at the job center and seeing all the jobs that were available
I was just pinging my cv off to all of them
Um a couple got back to me and only I had a couple of interviews put my glasses on try to be a professional
Wait, wait, wait
Wait, you you put your glasses on glasses on. Yeah
Well, you attend the interview now. She's a lot of questions. What?
What like an actual rundown interview? Yeah an actual interview. They ask you loads of questions and you have to like genuinely
Yeah, yeah genuine questions like what makes you want to be the manager of dartford and then there'll be like loads of different things that you can say
Um, I feel like I might be able to get into this and so
And i'm just like, yeah, i'm just winging my way through and they're like, oh do you think you can manage a club?
In and serious financial, you know problems and stuff and I was like, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No way
I just want a job. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, come on mate. I just want a job and that and then uh,
Uh, go on carry on as like is there anything you want from us? Um,
And I was like, well i'd like to go on like a coaching badge and there's like, yeah
The club's not in a financial position to put you what's a coaching badge?
Quickly give me a brief of that. Well, it's just it's just your level of ability
So you so you can be like the maximum of like a five-star manager
So then you're just like world class everyone you're like pep guardiola at that point. Yeah
Yeah, so i'm like i'm half star because i'm nothing and that's a that's a real thing. Is it coaching badges? Yeah. Yeah
You can't be a manager in every division. You have to have a certain level of coaching badges
So even if mancy gave you a job you couldn't be them because you haven't got the badges
It's like okay. It's like it's like pokemon badges in the gyms, you know, right? Yeah. Yeah
It's kind of like just collecting what's a fantastic way to make me understand that it's like pokemon badges
Anyway, I can just say really yeah fair play. All right
So yeah, they say is there anything you want and I was like, that's one of the options you can pick
I was like, yeah like coaching badges like we're not in a position financially to be able to offer you that
Um and I was like, okay and there's I will get back to you in a few weeks
Thanks for your time blah blah and then the press start getting involved little local newspapers
What do you mean? It's football manager. Yeah. Yeah, it's a reason why football manager is like the game that all football fans play
Yeah, this is fascinating. Um, so do you only local newspapers? Yeah. Yeah, but like so what you have to wait?
the
Did you just run the time forwards for you just press continue and then the day will go and if you got news pop up
You'll get new news in your inbox and stuff
So yeah, dark for local newspapers asking me. Oh, did you have an interview?
Uh, I attended the little phone call briefing. I was like, yeah hopeful blah blah blah because i'm no i'm new
I'm trying to be like i'm keen. Yeah. Yeah, so
um
Yeah, so eventually they got back to me and it was like, yeah what will offer you the job? I was like kusty i'm in
So i've got in i've met the players. I've had to you know, you do your little meeting
I'm sure you none of you have heard of me then you set your targets what your players you want
I want you to hit the playoffs. I want you to win. So is this preset this dialogue?
So so when they're asking you the questions i'd imagine so the responses are they is that a preset?
There's like fallout. Yeah loads, but there's loads of them. Yeah
And some of them will be promises and stuff like that
So if you make a promise you're held to that promise if you break that promise you're fucked
Yeah, it's not good. Yeah, careful if you're making promises. Yeah
um
So ie I can work with financial restraint is a promise
So if I fuck that up, they'll be like you promised us you weren't going to cripple the company
Crippled us on its knees. Sorry about that. I'm leaving
Best of luck. Uh
so I met the players and I said yeah, I want to I want to push for playoffs and then they was like
Yeah, let's do it. So I was like, yes exactly. So reaction I was like after
Um, and you can when you pick one of these responses is also like templates of how you want to respond
So you can respond say I want to say
Say I want to say ah, that's exactly the reaction I was after you can do that by holding your arms out
Banging a fist on the table. So a lot of my halftime team talks if they're not doing wrong, I'll kick water bottles
Yeah, and you say she's terrible. What are you doing here?
I do that by clicking the water bottle kick button so they know that i'm pissed
Um rather than just being like arms outstretched. So the so is there any
Football match like game play involved. Yeah, of course. Of course. Yeah. Yeah, so it's not it's not like fifa. You don't see
Oh, yeah, you see you see them play football, but you're not but you're not playing no
You're the manager so you can you can pause it or while they're doing it
You can shout at them encourage them berate them
Like um, remember, uh, was it battlefield four or something when you could you could be like the commander
Rather than being an actual soldier. I never did that
I clicked it a few times and you could just provide support to people rather than actually being on the ground and fucking killing
Maybe but but i'm sure it's not the same. No, the premises but
Yeah, ultimately, yeah, if you're it just depends how much you want to be into it
I mean you can have all the stats up right the game's playing and then there'll be a highlight
So then the game will switch to like fifa mode if you like you see stuff happening
Um and and and and you can have like the match stats to be like, ah, they're attacking a lot down the left
So I like double up i'll move some defenders over that way or i'll see that they've changed their formation
I'll be like, oh they're going to be vulnerable if I go over the top of the last defenders now
So I change his tactics for us to go long ball
Yeah, I mean it's all like that and then you'll see it in play happen what you've been telling the players
You know pass into space pass it slower pass it longer
Attack down the flanks roll the ball out from kickoffs press them. There's millions of them
There's millions millions of things you can do
So when you when you implement them changes and then watch them happen, you feel like a genius
Our tactical god, but anyway back to dartford
I won my first guy why don't well because I couldn't get a good job could I it was all that was off for the best of a bad bunch
Uh, so yeah, I went to dartford
We won our first game. Yeah, everyone was buzzing always a good one. Yeah, then I lost my next nine
And I got sacked before christmas
Just before christmas. Yeah, just for christmas. They sacked me. So there I was jobless
Embarrassed. Yeah, what was the do they do they do you like get to know your wage and shit?
Or is that not a relevant? Yeah, you can negotiate your wage. What was you what was you on at dafod?
100 quid a week or something 200 quid a week something shit
What league was you in national? Yeah, that was uh
Yeah national van ram and
National south I think it is because there's the bottom league is north and south. Yeah. Yeah, so I was in the same league as chumpsford city
Right on like 100 quid a week. Yeah on nothing basically and all the players ain't on contracts. They're all like part-time
It's the hardest way to play the game what i'm doing. Yeah
Um, because you have to worry about finances. You can't really scout players
So you can't really tell their stats properly before you like try and you know
Loan them or buy them or anything. You don't know their stats because you can't afford scouts
If I want to scout a player be like it costs 150 quid i'll be looking at the finances be like
It's not really viable. Well, the budget's that tight is it? It's got no money. Is that what it's like?
Is that what it's like for genuine like um national league because because forgive me
Um, I know people that are that are big football knowledge will probably like be cringing at half the shit that i'm going to say during this pod
So you got
prem
championship league one league two
league one league two
conference
I'm right so far
Is that right conference? Yeah, and then national underneath that van rammer north and south
I don't think there is a conference anymore. I think it's just van rammer. Is it
North and then south and then what's below that is just fucking it's just yeah, nothing nothing
There's like the proper lower lower lower shit
But the lower leagues are hard because only one team gets promoted
Is what out what out of those leagues is only one?
I think it's one team and then or it might be two teams in certain leagues out of north and south
No, no one of each of them
Oh, so only two teams. I think it might I think it might be two teams in each division and then four go down from
league two
Uh something like that. So your chances of going up are slim
Whereas in the championship you can finish first or second for my promotion or then you go third to fourth third to third to sixth
You get the playoffs. Yeah, another chance
You just don't mean to get that chance in the lower league. So it's a slog
But I lost my job anyway, so didn't matter
So then I moved to china
What was it called I went to shang what shangling ding long or something they were called
Shangling ding long that's got to be on the precipice
I swear was something called that
I was te I was keeping clarky updated with my what was going on of all the
The segues of that could have taken of all the fucking routes that we were about to go down
I never would have predicted you going so I moved to china
Whoopsie so who you being who you signing what's your budget?
So starting unemployed zero badges seeing where the journey takes me one file until football manager 25 whatever happens happens
But so this is this is football manager 24. Yeah, when does 25 come out november november. Okay, so
How how do you go from?
100 quid a match 100 quid a week
Sacked before christmas. I'm now going to move to china. Well, I'll tell you when I
Because I can't recall it but it'll be in these messages. I'm sure
Uh, he said I put the fan in this what a proper file this is
I said I'll interview acquired and that was at st. Albans st. Albans
Yeah, that's what it looks like. Yeah, albans st. Albans board invited you to attend an interview with them as they wish to discuss
The possibility of you becoming their new manager the board are impressed with your record
Which is why they've identified you as one of their top
top candidates
Although the board are confident in your ability to perform they do have some concerns about your suitability to deliver the club somewhat
Scaled back vision for the future. This is mainly a result of your as your slight lack of experience in leading teams to promotion
The interview will give the board the opportunity to discuss their ambitions and plans with you in more detail
So we can reinforce our belief in your suitability for this role
That is fantastic. I am just searching football manager now to
see
So I said interview acquired and then I replied five minutes later after the interview it's fucking
Or 18 quid on playstation. I paid 40 quid the other day that was on steam though
But the playstation version is different. Is it it's just like scaled down version. Oh, is it not the same?
So it's different
Um, I said it was going really well. They seemed keen
I like the look of the chairman call and this is for st. Albans
Yeah, okay
Like the look of the chairman to call guy until I asked for coaching badges as I haven't got any
They said no, I'm not going to be able to do that
I haven't got any they said no i'm adequate enough for the club as it is red flag
They're not going to invest in invest in me. I won't invest in them pastures new
So you
There now comes dartford with the interview from nowhere dartford interview went great tough interview though awaiting response
The royal antwerp under 23 job has become available
But I don't want to upset dartford as they weren't happy because I'd applied for loads of jobs as is here
We go look foot. Sorry football manager 2024 on steam is
1799 I paid 40 quid the other day
Fucking joke offer ends 21st of august. I might dependent on how this goes
I am I may end up buying this prince's park the dartford stadium is called
I said prince's park. Oh, baby. It was written in the stars. Let's go
It's written in the stars up the darts. There I am signed
And the dartford high harris prince eyebrows have been raised
This is fantastic, okay, this is what a player looks like there's fidel ross lang
He was my first signing right? Okay, so when you so when you become the manager
I take it you just inherit the the team that's already in place and then you get to fuck around real life
So all the teams would be the same as they are in real life. Wow
First signing I don't have any scouts. So I didn't have a clue what his stats were
They're all master stats had to take a punt on the fact that he came from city and south hampton
Um from what man city south hampton because he played for them because he played for them clubs
I was like he must be somewhat and then he ended up at dartford. He's at darford. Yeah on fucking what was he on?
625 quid a week not more than me
I needed him though. I needed a goal score. Yeah, look, there you go
So I said setting new records some things never change
Winless dartford hit new low dartford six games without winning from saturday the 12th of august 2023 is a new record
Fuck yeah now you increased it by another three weeks after that
Dartford helpless dartford well beaten 10 matches in a row without winning
Dartford's runner games without a win in the vanorama south has risen to 10 following a three nil
Will defeat against chippenham town although still early in the season the dartford faithful must be hugely disappointed with their start to the campaign
Haven't expected to be competing in the top half recent disappointing results have led few to believe that a season struggle lies ahead
Dartford have one of the leakiest defenses in the vanorama south conceding 23 goals in just 11 matches
And then there you go. Well, that's how long was this at 23.05
So
I got the dartford job at
half four
And by five past 11, I sacked
Fuck we regret to inform you we have taken the decision to terminate your contract at dartford
After our recent emergency meeting we believe it is the best is the best interest of the club
If we look for a new manager, paul would like to thank you for your service and wish you all the best in your future endeavors
And then the next message I got I sent i've gone china
Uh, I told you bro. Yeah, why be long ding? Why?
Be long ding why be long ding hi harris prince why be long ding if today can find the appointment of ashley ash prince is the club's new manager
Eyebrows have been raised in the yeah, but where did that come from? Where did that come from?
How do you go from i've managed dartford to right? These are these are like the bottom league in china
So they're just the equivalent. They're just in china. What are they doing looking for?
They're not looking i'm looking i'm looking at all available manager jobs. Oh, i'm applying
Oh, well, you've literally so you like gone on the football manager equivalent of indeed and just set the radius to unlimited
Yeah, I go on the I go on the um job center essentially and I go
Manager roles and then whatever comes out I go
I'm not good enough to apply for any of them
So i'll continue forward someone will get sacked and i'll go all right that job's available and then i'll apply for that job
So the yb long ding job come up why have you china?
Because no one else has given me a job
Uh, they've confirmed the appointment of me as a manager
Eyebrows have been raised in the world of football at the appointment of the 35 year old
Who has recently spent time away from club football because obviously it took me a long time to get this job
And he is sure to face plenty of questions when he faces the media for the first time at yanji ali people's sports center stadium
The house prince struggled at dartford and was eventually sacked he will now be hoping for a better experience upon taking the yb long ding post
He replaced his previous manager king bong gil
Chow zhang dong was considered to be the favorite for the job
But it's unclear whether the club favored harris prince all along yb long ding finished the season
Third in the chinese national first division long ding have recorded three wins and one draw in their last five matches
Is well, why was why were they looking for a new manager then it sounds like the manager they had at the time was decent
they
What why why why would that maybe maybe he maybe he went pastures new maybe he left and went somewhere else
Okay, so you've okay. So you've now gone over to china the
The the the wife the kids have been relocated. They've now had to come to china for how much per week?
Did it do can you remember?
Uh, I suppose it's in dong isn't it? I don't know dong are you getting
I don't know
It's not about money
Don't do it for the money
Are they gonna put you through your badges?
Yeah, I think there's one of reasons and then look there's my my board review for the month
I was untouchable to summarize the board for you were doing an unbelievable job and you're clearly the right manager for the job
Why what was your win? What what was the matches looking like you?
You're smashing it. You weren't containing. No, I was smashing it. I was
At the point I text clarkie. I was like top or near the top of the table
Unbeaten I was uh unbeaten third in the league. Oh still won't give me any fucking coachy badges though
Also, there's a racist reporter in every press conference. I do it says he has deep hatred for me and i've no idea why
Because obviously people different managers and reporters and all different people get opinions of it
Yeah, every time this reporter comes up obviously it says, oh, you know snow indifferent to you or whatever. This is a deep hatred
Why?
Just a racist geezer. He's got a deep hatred. Yeah for me for ashley
And yeah, this is this is this is where it got really shit. I remember now. Yeah, so I was smashing it
I was I just showed you untouchable at the club. My job was couldn't have been more secure. Yeah, then I got this fucking message
Why be long ding close to administration?
The board would like to make it clear the serious financial state the club now finds itself in
The club is 1.7 million in debt with losses of 122 000 last month. This is unsustainable financial position and
Uh if extra funds
Aren't required prospect to the club entering administration in the near future is a real possibility
uh
There you go. Then again, i'm untouchable set a club record of 11 undefeated dartford were fools to let me go
Set a new club record
You were you were 10
10 matches down the hole
At dot foot. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's different
Then but then I set a new I set a new league record
Yeah league record. I set a new league record for unbeaten games. Yeah
Yeah, I was oh, yeah top of the league. I'm beating in my whole tenure at the club
Then I got a message saying that in administration has released all my highest earners
Look at my fucking squad bro. They nicked my left winger my attacking midfielder my striker and my left back and my center midfielder
Well, they sold off your players to get the money because of the wages. They're all because they couldn't pay them
I I had I had to put like kids in the team like 15 year olds because I couldn't field a team
Labor in this fucking chinese football team
This game as well
Because it pissed me off so much
So I said I actually played that game by filling all them positions with my youth team and won
And I was top of the table, but I ain't gonna stay now the disrespect to a manager of my caliber
Yeah, but the team was gonna go the club was gonna go into administration
Is it you that racked up that debt? No, I didn't do anything. I couldn't buy anyone
Everything I had was free
Um then then then it did this look
Training facilities sold the decision has been made for the club to sell off the training facilities in a bid to help the current financial situation
They sold the gym the board of directors only arrived at this decision after a great deal of discussion
We rely on rented alternatives for the time being until the situation improves enough to acquire new facilities again
They sold the gym. So I said i've resigned fucking pointless
They released like eight more of my players and I could only make a start in 11 with four subs
And all the subs were three defenders and one goalkeeper. Fuck it. I'm off to belgium
So except so
So you you can resign whenever you want yeah, and then are you allowed to look for other jobs in whilst you're still employed?
Like real life. Yeah, someone can come to you. So I went from I went from uh, I went belgium happen then
Well, I resigned from them. Yeah, yeah, because i'm doing really well
I don't want to be because my thinking was
Before this is why football manager is bad for me because I get signed up if I start writing stuff down
I'm scouting players at work like i'm watching people play real life football
Scouting them because the stats the people there's managers that use football manager as a guideline for the stats correspond to the even
Sky Sports news will put football manager stats on players sometimes so this is what he looks like if you've never heard of them
Because the stats are so accurate
um
So when I was doing so well with long ding
I uh
Obviously I was top of the league and unbeaten
And now I can only put out 15 year olds. Yeah, I didn't want my
My legacy to be tarnished because then people would look at me in a different light when I applied for jobs before if I leave on my
Be half. Yeah, not my problem before you get sacked. Yeah, so I resigned them. There was uproar the fans were fuming
Fans were fuming at the club. Well, you get fan reaction off course you do
It's fans. Yeah, you get so okay. So what so you you resigned what what's then the immediate after that?
You've then gone right. This is enough for me. I'm fucking i'm off. See you later down the job center
No, but then what happened? So will you say fan reaction is our press conference?
Yeah, yeah, you'll get like interviews newspapers will come up to you and say oh, why did you leave and i'll be like
I'm not in your fucking business
And sometimes I think I wrote one of them myself. You'll find out all in my book when I release it in my later life
Some things are left best said unsaid and all that crap
But yeah, no, I didn't it was just it's a selfish reason but I was out there
So off to off to belgium I went I can't remember what the club was. I was running I was in the belgium
belgium third division
I'll tell you what the your poor families had to relocate fucking
England to china to belgium
Fucking hell. Yeah, and that's another problem is like
they um
Hold on belgium pro league is that they um
I know all these clubs now, yeah, because i've been fucking playing but I can't remember the fucking
The name of the the division
belgium pro league is the that is down from that so uh
Yeah, when you go to these different countries, they'll say, oh, but you can't speak the language
What are you gonna do? So you have to go on like language courses to be able to you know communicate?
um what
Yeah
What do you mean so you go you go on a language course no you have to otherwise you're not aha k a
k a s open
e u p e n k s open I went there so they're in like the
Not the top division not the second division the third division of belgium football
so
Yeah, I went there the the the team was like pretty good to be fair and there was a few quid there, but not a lot
Um, so I did what I could I was floating around relegation. I joined it was like near the end of season
I got him up mid table second season or my first full season
Pushed right to the top didn't I got him right up in the playoffs?
I was I was fucking smashing it to be fair. I was just I was like belgium football. This is easy
Easy peasy wheezy. Yeah
Antwerp came calling antwerp you want it into normal terms go on i'm managing
Fucking colchester. Yep
West uh west amicam locking
That a bigger difference. Yeah. Yeah, i'm in the third division in belgium football antwerp our top league
And they they won all they wanted me while I was still there. Why approached me? They don't need badges
Yeah, no, no. No. Yeah, i've got badges. I've got a couple of badges at this point. Not many
um and and and and awkwardly um
Youpan had put me through my latest coaching badges my life too
And I felt bad. I said to jim. I was like, I don't I don't think I can do it. I don't think
I don't think I can
Don't know if I can uh, I don't know if I can do it to it. Yeah, it's been good to me
Yeah, they've put me through two coaching badges, which no other club has yeah
Um, I don't know if I can yeah, I don't know if I can do it to them when I was up
You sat there around the table you've got
Your beautiful family is there
Jem's there the kids are there beans on toast or whatever the fuck you're eating at the moment
whatever the the
The meal of the day is turkey dinosaurs and fucking potato smiley is an absolute banger with some beans. All right
All right, and everyone's enjoying themselves and there's a silence for about two minutes raw silence and then just you
Head down just go slam the fucking knife and fork on the table. You go. I can't do this jim
She's thinking the worst
And then it's like I don't think I can do that. I can't go to antwerp
Football manager, right? She is invested in my journey. Okay, right scratch that then she takes it serious
You slam your fucking cutlery down and you go jim
I I can't fucking do this
She's in on it because no you can we need the money. Yeah, we need to do this
We're not we're not really i'm not relocating those children again. It's not happening
We've been to china now. We're in belgium. I'm not fucking doing anything else bearing in mind
I'm on still like 300 quid a week
Antwerp are coming offering me 2,800 a week. Oh, is that what they're offering?
Negotiated it to three grand to three grand and you're jim three grand. Yeah, she was all for it. She said fuck them
Use them as a stepping stone. Yeah, startford didn't look after you pretty selfish
Yeah, so I ling dong dong dong didn't fucking do anything. So I took the interview
and then
The media got whiff
And they come knocking. Yeah, and they was asking me about it
I was like can either confirm or deny if I met up with them. It was like how it's print spotted with fucking antwerp
executive shit then my board
Youpun, oh, they've pulled you in are they they pulled me they're questioning. Yeah, that was like we've heard
We've heard yeah, we we know what's going on here. You you little cunt. They said no
No, they said what can we do to keep you in? Yeah. Oh a little bit of pressure
Leverage and you know what I said, go on i've outgrown you
Thanks for the badges
They've built you up from nothing. No, I built nothing. I nearly got them promoted
They give you your badges. They fucking 300 big ones a week. They they fucking they put you
On the pathway to success. They are the reason why you're there. But i'm but you gotta look at it and then you've gone away
i've
i've outgrown you you've got to look at it from my point of view and and uh
Antwerp's point of view i'm an up-and-coming manager. I'm a young manager. I've got many years ahead of me
Yeah, yeah started off rocky. Yeah
Dartford didn't work out. I was happy to try out other things. I went to china. Yep didn't work out
But clearly not my fault. I was doing well my record speaks for itself. The record was good club was going to administration
I set a club record. I won manager of the month there as well. No, you sent a league record
Yeah, I sent both records and I got a manager of the month award and I left that club unbeaten
Unbeaten but you dropped you jumped shit before it sunk. Yeah. No, no, no, no, that wasn't my fault
The captain does not go down with his ship. I went no, I don't I went to I went to fucking belgium another country
By the way, I can speak english
Partial chinese and now i'm fluent in belgium. Yeah, so I went to belgium
Fluent in belgium
I I that's what it says fluent. Yeah. Yeah decent. I went to belgium
I took a team that was battling relegation and got them up to the upper echelons of the league table pushing for promotion to the
Next division and to have a looking at this going hold on we're struggling bottom of the league
He's a young manager. He's got a fantastic record. We'll forget dartford. He's got a fantastic record
We could have this manager for the next 10 20 years. Who knows he could be like the next alex fergson
It could be the next pep. We've got nothing to lose. We can't spend massive money on a manager
Let's just take him. It won't cost a lot of compensation to get him out of the club
So therefore I attended the interview. I accepted the interview. I said, thank you. You've been by about growing your goodbye
I've gone to i've gone to antwerp. What was their response?
Well, the fans were devastated the board would devastate everyone was sad. Even I was a bit sad
You didn't try and negotiate anything. No, you just saw this as an opportunity
Wait, if it's premier league club comes knocking you go going simple as that. I've come from yeah
But have you outgrown that are you ready for prem? Well, let me tell you
Yeah, so here we are bottom of the league. I come in I came in bottom of the league. Yeah. What did I do?
Pushed them up till like eighth in the league before season ended. They were
Buzzing their tits off with me. They were like, what a guy. What a man. Yeah, what a man
Next season starts
We've got no money. We've got nothing
We've got nothing not a pot to piss in but the difference of what i'm doing now
I've gone from having players that are not even on contracts. They're on part-time contracts. Anyone can sign them at any point for free
Yeah, yeah, I've now got full-time contract with players on like thousands of pounds a week
I've got a player that's worth 20 million pounds. I said you're fantastic, but you'll get it sold
Because I need to solve the club's financial issues. So I sold the striker the board
Thankfully are letting me keep 100% of transfer revenue going out
So whatever I sell I keep for my transfer key. I didn't spunk all up the wall
I bought a few little players in key areas. I thought would push us forward they did
The first season full season was all right. I think I finished eighth again, but it's not good enough
It's not what I wanted. So the next season where I've sold more players invested in the youth
I bought the youth up. I've got a lot of youth players coming through. They're getting better of each game
I sold another big old boy. It was worth a lot of money. I've sorted all the club's financial problems out
We are now not in debt completely fine. Yeah, lovely old job
Then there's a takeover talks from a consortium thinking about investing billions. Basically the new new castle. Yeah
That hit the rocks didn't go through. I was devastated. I thought I'm gonna be in billions here
Didn't happen this next season
I bought a new striker and and a new winger and a new center back and I loaned a brazilian keeper called ivan
30 years old
What a guy
Bought a man. What a guy I looked at a couple of the players that I really liked at upan
But they just didn't cut the mustard so I left them where they was
This season
Which i've just finished
I finished and and this is this is why I like it so much because i've never done a save like this normally
I'm just west end and that's it. I'll just play. Yeah
So this is all new to me playing in different leagues. They all have different rules which are real life rules
Which I don't understand so in belgium what happens?
Is you'll play because the premier league season is 38 games, right? Yeah in belgium. What happens is you play 30 games?
And the tops because there's I think there's 18 teams in the league. Yeah, so they sit the top six
Go into their own league the the next six go into another league and then the bottom six go into another league
So the top six play for european spots
And it's just a it's just 10 games. So you play each team twice. I think it is or something like that
So you'll play the five other teams. Yeah, so you play the five other teams in the league twice
And then you'll finish where you finish they halve your points
Yeah for what you've earned and then you'll play in a separate league table the bottom six will battle for relegation
So I finished uh, no, I didn't finish six. I finished fourth. Sorry, which is fucking incredible by the way
Very good. Yeah, very fucking good. Thank you
I finished fourth. Yeah out when it splits into that
Separate league and it gives 50 of your points
Um the top four qualifier for european competitions. Yeah, the bottom two don't right right
So after them 10 games
Came down to goal difference
I finished fourth
making us
Go on a pathway into europe. Oh
So not only him
So not only him third club in fourth club. Not only have I got us into the top four
I've also got us into don't get me wrong. This is european qualification. I'm not fully into europe yet, right?
So we've made it into europe. The fans are going
Ballistic absolutely insane. You're like, I can't believe these guys have delivered european football
Mental little old antwerp. Yeah at the bottom straight into fucking european european football mate
and
Out of all the clubs that we could draw I looked at the the teams that we could draw in it
I mean we're talking like squally wally and but it would do it just nobody so you wouldn't even heard these teams
Who do I draw psv fucking eindhoven?
The big dutch giants so you're fucking taking the fucking piss out of me
Yeah, the one chance I get to do something good with this club. Yeah, and I draw psv eindhoven
The last game I played last night was the first leg of the european journey the first step into proper european qualification
We are the underdogs in every sense of the word
Against these I meticulously planned the training before the game the days of rest
How do you train? How do you do all of that?
Well, it's called spreadsheet simulator for a reason you click on the training and you go
I want you to practice on your passing. I want you to practice on your first touch. I want you to do this
And you take the intensity levels and the game is the most it's the most in-depth game
You would ever play in your life. I mean everyone who has ever played it would say that
um
So yeah, I meticulously planned absolutely everything for this game. I i've watched their games from last season
I was looking at some of the way they play
I got my scout to give me like a they always give you a report
I've gone to give me an in-depth report on how they played how they passed does the keeper rush out
Does the keeper tend to stay in do the fullbacks bomb up do the fullbacks stay back?
I found out they're vulnerable to like short passing that's where they can see most of their goals you go long
They eat it up for breakfast. So I changed all my stat my tactics. I was like what we're going to do short short
Quick passing that was the whole game plan. I said to the boys short quick passing
Yeah with the underdogs the team talk was with the underdogs pressures all on them
Just go out and do your best
Five one
To antwerp
Five one five one and we went one nil down. I thought oh you thought here we go
Five one five one five one back. So what does that mean for them?
That means they've got to score four goals in the next leg
Take it to the door
So five one so i'm going to play the second leg tonight
And if I fucking lose four nil because I don't know if away goals count if the away goal will count
um
Then five one, but yeah if they score if they beat us four nil, they'll probably go through
But we just got to keep it defensive. We got to keep it together
If you come out on top this second game what then happens then we'll be through
I don't know because i've never seen this part of european competition
um, because normally the west like england they go straight through unless you
finish like seventh or something but
um
Well, I imagine we'll play another team in the next round of the qualifying for the europe because it's europe league
It's not the conference league the west ham one. This is the europe league. This is one down from champions league
So not only is this like amazing for the club. It's amazing for my reputation
I've gotten up half a star just from getting into european football
um, and it makes my reputation more like international as opposed to just
Yeah, so it does great for me. It does great for antwerp in their rankings
Does great for like how many fans you get in? Oh, actually fucking harris prince the manager of antwerp
Yeah, yeah, and i'm and i'm and i want to take them to a european journey
I don't think we're gonna I don't think don't get me wrong
We're not going to win it
But if you can just get into the group stages, that's a massive accomplishment for a little team
Like you get more money come through from yeah, yeah, because you get more money because you're in europe
So you're going to get you'll get televised television money
You're going to get sponsorship money. You're going to get games for you're going to get money like big money
Just for qualifying each round and stuff like that
So it's massive. It's like if you're for example, if you're playing as dartford and you're in the cup
Right, just say you're in uh, I don't know the league cup and you manage or fa cup and you manage to get through
Like the preliminary rounds and you finally make it to the third round which is where the big teams come in dartford draw man united
Uh away, which is what you want to do you because then dartford will get a percentage of the tickets
That's why all the little clubs want to play away at the big stadium because you think
You don't want to because you're going to lose but no because the club itself generates so much money you're going to a
80,000 seat a stadium where a club is
What a fuck all they're going to get millions through the door, which is just going to change their whole club
So that's why the little teams mean so much to go away
So things like that just that that'll just do so much for for antwerp and the community as a whole
um
You know this game you can be you can get statues built here like you know
You can be an icon in clubs. I've got so many players that i'm their favorite like they love me
Literally i've had rows with people on there like proper barnies i've thrown i've stormed out of press conferences
Harris goes berserk. It says yeah
Yeah, it's great. Is that this is fantastic. It just gets you so in depth
Yeah, i forgot to mention as well in the croaky cup, which is the only cup that gets played in there
We've got the league cup every cup. They've got something called the croaky cup
Drew youpon didn't I me old club?
Oh youpon. Yeah, and what happened there then have you not played out yet? Four nil smashing
Oh, I bet that fucking stung a little bit though, didn't it? I I felt bad. Oh imagine that I felt bad for him
I didn't want to you know, I didn't want to go easy on him. But my law is law of antwerp now. Um, you know
Do you know what hurts the most go on?
I've been at antwerp two and a half years now
They haven't put me on a single coaching badge and i've asked every time
Every six months you get to why they're not putting you on badges. They say you know what they say go on
But it's probably a bite in my own ass a little bit really it says uh, they say
That we worry if we give you more coaching badges, you're going to become more attractive to bigger clubs
So I kind of done it to myself
Yeah, but that's
That's food for thought though, isn't it? Well, this is what I mean. So what does that mean then?
What the the the the more
Reptile you're going to get what is that them saying that we aren't we aren't going to put you through badges because we don't want to make you more attractive
Yeah, exactly what they're saying. All that's doing is pushing you away. Exactly
Exactly because I had it in my head as well
When it come down to the last game of the season the very last game and I had to it didn't matter what I did
But gank had to lose
For me to stay in fourth position to to qualify for europe
If I if gank didn't lose and I didn't and we didn't qualify for europe. I was going to resign
So I was like you're not taking me anywhere
I've played two two and a half seasons now and i'm that close to you
If we don't quite make it i'm going to resign and try somewhere else
Now we're in europe. I've got a push for europe. I'm gonna push for europe
If I get into europe, there's going to be a massive coup for uh antwerp and
I will be poached
By a club and I just know it. I know there's i know there's european clubs
Circling me like vultures. I know they want me
Yeah, you're like a like a i'm getting whispers in the wind like a big fat juicy seal with sharks around
Everyone wants to take a bite. I've signed I can't quite remember his name. I think his name's hayoshi
Signed his japanese his japanese striker his japanese japanese Japanese striker
This year got him on a freeze worth about 30 million the geezer is fucking mustard and i've made a promise to me and him
Whatever club I go to he's coming with me. Don't care. He's coming
And that's why it's great because you can do that in football matter
You can build up fucking relationships with players. You can take them on journeys
Um, and and and it's not necessarily you can have a player with the worst stats in the game
But sometimes they're just the best players. You're like why is this geezer so consistently performing?
Why is this geezer with like 10 finishing?
Outscoring early in harland. Why is this geezer scoring 30 goals a season?
This geezer is scoring 10 this geezer is worth 100 million. This geezer is worth 200 grand doesn't make sense
Sometimes you just get their magical
You know them little things all the stories of like just about to go out a cup final and you know
You're you're last fro the dice you chuck on a 16 year old youth player stick him up front
He gets the fucking winner in the last minute. There's all these stories that stick with you
I could go back and talk for years about
Because me and clarky played these games for years and years and I remember he had a striker called laura for celtic
He banged in like 400 goals. The geezer was insane. He wasn't called laura. He changed his name to laura because it was funny
But yeah, we you know about the season that I played the whole season of aston villa
Didn't win a single game and got relegated like all these players and stories you go back to that's why it's like
It's it's a story man. The game is a story and I look back on my on my manager profile and
Go back to 2023 when I was at dartford and now managing in the top division of belgium
Through my own
actions decisions
playing and job interviews and my tactics and winning certain games and finishing in positions and
You know
It feels like I I know I know it's silly but it feels like i'm achieving something even though it's just a game
It feels like you're achieving so it gives you that feeling of i'm fucking progressing. Do you know what I mean?
That is exactly why everyone fucking loves gaming man, because you have you have that sense of accomplishment there
I feel like that the
I feel like there's no real difference between real life and game and your accomplishments your accomplishments
I go and fucking scale mount everest or I go and finish in the fucking top
0.1 of the pvp bracket on wow
It's relevant to your person, isn't it?
That for me on the wow spectrum is is one hell of a fucking achievement climbing mount everest would also be a very big achievement
but
The wow one would mean more to me
You know that that's that's where your bread and butter is and um
No, that's fantastic, man
I love it. I feel invested now. I feel I want I want communication from from tonight
As to how that game how that goes
I'll let you know. I want to know yeah, i'm going in i've already sat i've been thinking about it all day
Like I say i'm setting up what who's playing who's in the starting lineup?
What my tactics are i'm going to i'm going to sit defensive i'm going to hit them on the counter, but if we get to half time
And it's it's it's either if we get to half time and it's still nil nil
Or we get to half time and they've scored one or two if we're not winning basically that i'm going to turn
We're not counting we just ultimate defense because I don't need to score anymore. I just need them not to score
So we don't need to open ourselves up because you got a four four real difference. Yeah, we're five one up
So as long as they don't beat us four nil we're fine now what happens what happens if you go in?
Two nil up half time two nil up. Oh, I still tactics. They're the same. Yeah
Yeah, because it doesn't matter at that point this game over. They ain't fucking coming back
I'll probably still i'll probably still i might stick another center back on take a striker off. So really
You want you want to go one goal ahead and then you're pretty comfortable
Yeah, I mean chances of i'm scoring four slim chances i'm scoring five are non-existent
The fact that we scored five is mental. Well, they need to score six. They just they could not deal with us
And i'm talking like they've got
World-class players, they've got the psv eindhoven are a huge side huge side like champions league team
We're beating them five one little old antwerp from belgium little old antwerp sell about google antwerp
Yeah, little old antwerp mate
Beating
European giants psv five one. This is no small feat. I was expecting to get spanked three or four nil in the first leg
Royal antwerp fc. That's me
That is you
Where are they sitting currently? Oh, they're full
Fulfill the table. I mean the season's probably just started
Today because the premier league comes back today. Thank the lord for football. There's three matches played so far so far
Who's come back today? Is it and the lect is it?
um, westelow
Yeah, the andelec to the best team by far westelow denda
That apparently for some reason don't have a badge on here
And then and elect where's gank? They're a good side
gank is ninth at the moment it goes antwerp fourth and then
charleroy
I don't know
uh
ood heavily
something
Then there's one called standard
standard liage. Yeah
Uh union saint something gank
There's gent gank and gents. I like ganks badge ganks got like, uh indian chief for a badge. Yeah
Then you got like bruise. Yeah, bruise. You're a good side stvv
Yeah, they're fuckers. They're the team that I needed to lose. They're the thing I needed to lose
Wow
How interesting playing gank and I was uh, how crazy that um, because I didn't I didn't um, obviously
I'm barely fucking versed in english football. Let alone
football from entirely different countries I
Find it so interesting how the leagues differ. Oh, there's so much in there. You have to have like in in uh china
Um, because I look in the competition and I look in the rules because it's so different you have to have
at least three
uh
At least three under 21 chinese players in your in your matchday squad
And you can only sign chinese goalkeepers. I don't know why really that's the rule
I don't know why that's the rule but whatever is in football manager is is reality
Yeah, that's why it's so fantastic. That's why the player player base is so big
So where's the where's the move that we're thinking here? Okay, so and 12 i'm already premier league man
Of course, is that where you want to go?
I want the west ham job. I mean who was west ham boss, uh,
I can't remember who west ham boss was but he recently got sacked and sometimes you know
You'll get linked with jobs and I was looking through it and I was thinking I don't see my name there
I was hoping it'd be like oh and sdr's prince is on the radar because then you know
You can you can like declare your interest in stuff, which isn't a good idea because you're publicly declaring
I'm working for antoine, but i'll definitely be interested in the west ham job. That upsets a lot of people
Yeah, but um me and antoine we're getting on really well and i'm hoping that the club goes far but that west ham though
Yeah, that's west ham's nice, but you got like if you if you want to buy a player and the club don't want to sell him
But you know
Like that you can speak to the agent as well before you should be like
You reckon your players interested in playing from it. It'll be like, oh, yeah. Yeah, he's interested
This would probably be his wage demands and the club would probably expect between nine and 20 million something like that
So you can get a gauge of being you bid and the club's like no, he's not for sale
But you know that that player wants to play for you
You can declare your interest in that player go to the press and be like I really want to sign
mark noble and then it would be like
Mark noble will now know that you want to sign him
So he will be like no, I want to go hand in transfer request and then you're like
Then you can't you fuck the club up because you'd be like, oh, he's got two years left on his contract
If he don't if he wants to go he won't sign a new contract
So we have to sell him now we're going to go for free
Because if you get to end your contract if you get within the last six months of your contract someone can sign you for free
so
You kind of get is that down to the the the if the player wants to go?
So I say i've got six months left in my contract i'm at
i'm at fucking
Manchester united and I want to go over to brighton
I'm in the last six months brighton have been after me for the last fucking two seasons
but
Man, you're not everyone. Let me go. So last six months i can do them no more. Yeah, it's up to me
Is it as me and as long as brighton still want me and I can go you?
Fucking want me still want you and the best thing about that. That's why
players they try not to let players get into within the last two years their contract is because
You'll say you're on
100 grand a week and brighton are willing to give you, you know
100 grand a week
If they get you for free, which they will you can be like, well, you've paid no transfer fee for me
So I want 300 grand a week and that will work out that you've paid me paid 10 million for me
Yeah, of course in my contract
So that's why players like letting their contracts run out and then you've got buyout clauses and shit like that
Yeah minimum fee release clauses. Yeah
But yeah, if you get to within six months if it's the sixth of uh, june
Your contract runs out in the sixth of december
You you can sign the contract to play for brighton, but you still can't play for them until your contract's done
Yeah, but you can sign for anyone but then the club the club that you're currently play for can also renegotiate another contract
Is that if they like you as long as you don't sign that one first if you sign brighton's contract first?
Yeah, yeah, but if yeah if you if they both offer your contract and man, you're like, oh no, please stay
Please stay and we'll give you a bloody bloody blow. Exactly that. All right, i'll resign for but you've got all these things to think about
You're managing the club you're managing the finance and you can make as hard as you want
You can delegate a lot of stuff to your assistant manager if you've got one
Or director of football. Have you got one?
Assistant yeah, yeah, you've got a full team behind you. Yeah. I've got bob my assistant manager is called bob bob
I've got a director of football. Oh ash ash and bob the management team for antoine
It's cool because then when I go to the next club i'll sign bob to come with me to be my assistant
He's my assistant man. Yeah, been with me for years. We've pushed a team into europe
He has to be doing same right was he was he with you at um, no, no, no
No, no, no, I started when he started job. They're like, oh do you want to bring any of your staff?
I've uh, no i've got no relation with these bob. He's fine. He's done. Well, he's coming with me
Yeah, exactly and they have they have their own stats. How how good are they at man motivating?
How good are they at potential like working with youngsters? How good are they judging potential?
How good are they at judging ability now? It is so
Incredibly in depth mate. It's the most in-depth game you'd ever play
And all it is is to fucking boot a ball around a pitch like it's so crazy
Spreadsheet simulators then again, what's the fucking what's the point of anything that we do when you when you think of the
Nitty and gritty of it. Yeah gem gem loves it. She's so behind me. She's always like, how's it going? Mr. Manager?
Not going well today
It's a bad one. It's a struggle today. It's a struggle. I'm waiting for the fucking old shirt and tie there to come out
Do you know what's really cool as well and why I love doing this save so much is that
Like I I genuinely want to buy an antwerp shirt now
Yeah, because you feel the part of it. I feel like and that's why this game is so good because it does that
That's why you see so many like football youtubers like fifa football manager or just football in general
They have so many different football shirts because they just get affiliated with different clubs
You know, I don't want a fucking long ding shirt because they fucked me about sold my fucking training facilities
I don't want dartford. They didn't even give me a chance to get going
You know, uh, you put more good to me granted, but I didn't stay there long enough to build up an affinity
Antwerp we've this is my first
Top level job i've reached a european competition with
It just feels right. You know what I mean? And I like that shirt. I love that red shirt. Lovely an affiliation with antwerp
I've got affiliation with antwerp imagine that
Years years down the line and fucking you're wearing an antwerp shirt in in fucking maidenhead or wherever the fuck
random place in the uk
And then people are like why you fucking wearing that and you go, you don't know the law
You don't know the law. Yeah, however, if you listen to episode 106
Of what's the buttons then you'll you'll find out why you'll know and probably 107 as well and probably 107 and then potentially 108
I imagine 107. I imagine i'll be at pastures new by this time next week
Oh, i'm all for it, man. I love this shit. I think it's great because it's
I don't know anything about it
but
Just from the from the excitement in talking to you about it gets me excited for it
Chances are I won't buy it because it sounds way more in depth. I I don't fuck it
I was impressed with my mate j the other day. Um yesterday because he's he's massive into his football
westam supporter and
I was talking to him about um, he was the one that I was playing on the astroturf with
And I was like
giving him questions so he was able to like list off all the teams in the prem and the championship and so on and then
All of their managers and then all of their fucking team
But like not just last names first names and then their positions and everything and like the entire prem you're talking like they're
Their managers their entire fucking squad and the positions they play but not just the the positions they play the positions
They can play and i'm like
I was like, how do you know all of this shit and he's like i just watch a lot of football
That's not that's not a good enough answer for me. That is not good enough for me
How the fuck do you know all of that? It's incredible. It's not just that
It's the same me and clarkville has been the same with that. It's like, you know, their ages, you know their height
I just find it but at the same time when I was when I was at my absolute peak of bmx in
I suppose I was kind of the same with professional riders on that sense
I knew the companies that they were sponsored by I knew the
I suppose yeah, that explains it really I suppose if you're interested in something deeply then you do
It's football manager and fifa and all them because they're it's all the same shit in reality
But football manager's like obviously really in depth fifa's like bare bones. It's more about the game
but
Like you learn and you watch football and then you play football and then you play games about football and it's just your whole
Is your whole thing like i'd say football manager is far too complicated for you because it's but because I love football
And it's complicated for me. There's things that i'll just be like i'm not doing that
I'll let the assistant deal with that so it's just giving my deck
But the only way I could really understand how complicated you might find it is I was watching someone play f1 manager
Because that's a new game that came out recently
It's like I think it's the first of his kind
So they're going into the management sim and I was like that's interesting. I'm not really a big formula one fan
But I like the idea of these manager games. So I'll look at it and I was watching I was like, yeah, that's cool
I understand you're signing a new driver and you're getting the contracts that that exchange goes over from football manager. I get that
um
And then there's like highlights of the race where they're going around stuff
But then they're like, oh we need to lose this part and we we need to know when to pit and we need to know
When to change the tires i'm like i'm out. Yeah, I don't know anything about
Formula one once they get into the mechanical you're done. Yeah, so that was when I was like well i'm not doing that
You know, but I like the idea of it and if I if I watched formula one and I used to but I was still
Nowhere near this sort of level of knowledge, but if you're a formula one nerd, then you're all over it all over you
Yeah, if there was a well, there's no way of doing a wow simulator like that
But if it's if it's bmx manager and you knew all the stuff, yeah, it'd be the same shit man
It's just whatever you're interested. But football manager is just absolutely huge in all countries and
And yeah, it's a massive game. They're even making it a esport now
Alongside fifa they're doing a football manager world cup. Yeah, because the next football manager 2025
Is going to be they've like revamped it. So they've revamped the match engine
They've changed this one's been in works for years apparently
Um, they've took a lot of stuff out put a lot of stuff in and more importantly
They've changed the way the whole game looks whereas these like shots i've shown you
It's the same stuff with new words and stuff because we're much like dayz the game's about the story
You know what story you can tell when you finish?
um
So it's going to be completely different and something that I always like about the last five or so football managers, which
I haven't played but I know they've implemented is when you finish
Like say I finished this football manager
24 is it yeah football manager 24. I finished this one when football
I don't know if it'll be the same because this is like a new engine or whatever
But you when football manager 25 comes out you can load your save into that and carry on the same
Continue from the same. Yeah, so I think that's fucking sick. That'd be really cool. So you could just play the same save
Until you die. Yeah, I don't know what age you die on football manager. I'm not reaching you do you die?
I imagine you get you retire. I imagine you get to 100 and then retire
But then you could just add a new manager and carry on as your son or something if you wanted to
Uh for law reasons, but yeah, that's probably very boring for a lot of people
I don't think it is man. I think I think if you you speak with you speak about something with enough passion and in in
Enough enough depth. I think you tend to find anything interesting
But that's also the whole premise of this fucking podcast is we're free to be able to talk to talk about anything
well, I hope that
Even if you don't like football and you don't really understand anything you said you're now invested in the story and i'll keep you updated
For episode fucking 107 when that comes out
Right. Well absolutely fantastic. I cannot wait to hear more. See you. Hello everyone
See see you later everyone. Oh