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When you get into all the detail I think its easily both sides being completely unprofessional.
 
Owners wise, should have sold the club years ago and they've not done really anything to make a connection with the fans or the town. Kept the lights on, but literally thats it. We've recouped a serious amount of money from players sales over the past 24 months and that has literally gone nowhere other than to the owners to keep lights on. The 'significant investment' words in the recent statement is actually quite laughable. 5 loans, loads of old, past prime players and now we're left with them to pick up wages when we still have a good chance of being in the playoffs come end of the season.
 
Manager wise - it really is an open secret that the club hasn't been flush for cash and we have to be shrewd and clever. He knew what what he was entering and how far the travel was and arguably it isn't that far for a Manager to travel to see the family whenever he wanted to get back. Reports have said for a while he has been applying for jobs behind the official media's noses and thats really not good when he's been preaching the words togetherness. Eustace has been a great manager and overall I'd put blame slightly more on the owners - but the more you read it still is quite insane to leave a club like ours with our history and extremely good youth setup, to go a club that is one of the favourites to go down.
 
The whole lot is just depressing more than anything. Hopefully, the news of this won't die off and it will cause action on both fronts.

I'm shocked Eustace would trade a playoff push for a relegation battle. If he thinks Derby is the best bet going forward then that is a worry for Blackburn but I just wonder if he's using it as an excuse to force a move through. I thought Rovers had a decent window in January and I get he has ties to Derby but it just seems a crazy move especially with them being in a terrible place in the league and off the field. 

I stopped watching at nil nil, glad I did 🤣

Spurs lose 4-0 in the second leg semi final and achieve zero shots on target which is less than how Accrington Stanley faired a few weeks ago there. The manner of the performance was absolutely appalling and there was just no fight. Spence tried really hard but the likes of Richarlison offered absolutely nothing and made no intelligent runs. It's not easy being down to the bare bones but what a dismal way to go out especially from the senior players. I honestly don't know how the club have amassed so many hopeless players especially for big money and quite a few of the experienced ones are Championship standard tops. 

I'd rather sometimes these annual games took a year out to make significant updates and changes so it feels more of a reason to buy the next game. Still never good to say you're releasing it and then bin it completely.

First season was rough, Keown, Adams and Seaman have been great for me, but Dixon and Winterburn were both 32+ when I started so they needed replacing. Seaman hung up his gloves after 2nd season so Van Der Saar only just came in. Sadly I had to sell Bergkamp as I had too many strikers and also had some issues with homegrown players… Shevchenko was a steal at 23, already one of the best in the world but he was still at Kyiv and they accepted bloody pennies for a man that should have set me back 100+ mil 😂😂 Batistuta is in a league of his own though even as he is about to turn 32

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That will probably be the best price we'll see for a while as I expect retailers and the publishers will keep it quite high after the cancellation news. Even CDKeys are charging £29 now! 

Fair play mate, your thrashing those camos. 

That's what I mean, people in general have waaaaay better connections than ever. 
But the servers are terrible, does Daniel Levy the Tottenham Chairman have a stake in Activision? 
The servers are the cheapest and tightest I've ever heard. 

That team is absolutely unreal, no wonder you won everything. 
 
Yeah I should of picked up Fm24, was on sale not that long ago. 
Decided to wait a couple of months for the new one instead. 
It was like £17 on steam a few weeks back, then went back up to £45.
 
Now although I can afford it, but it is the principal of it. 😜

It's a good job Sony are back-peddling on the PSN requirement for some of their PC games now. This was announced prior to this latest outage but it just goes to prove that such things just hamper their games and gamers alike. Imagine not being able to play a single player game on PC which is already DRM protected by Steam, just because Playstation is down once more. 
 
5 days free PSN is also a peculiar reward seeing that most people compensated will be rolling PSN members regardless. Doesn't make sense really. With a range of Microsoft games coming to PS5 soon like Halo and Forza Horizon 5, incidents like these will become even more embarrassing for them. 

As compensation we get 5 days free PSN. 

Seems to be all back in order now, but holy hell.  You'd figure they would've learned from the last time.

Pretty embarrassing for Sony especially with all the money that's involved on the network now with 3rd party games. Activision and Epic must be peeved! Wonder if they are getting DDOS'd like it's 2011 again🤣

Yay!!  Another PSN outage.  It's been down for me since last evening.  Grr and stuff.

Luckily only night missed of gaming and I wasn't on personally anyway so I didn't feel the impact tbh.
 
I always think these moments are because hackers took them down rather than their infrastructure got screwed. Obviously we'll probably never know but seems more feasible this can be happen in this day and age.

Wow, that's a huge disappointment! It's frustrating when expectations don’t meet the reality, especially for a dedicated fanbase. Hopefully, Sports Interactive takes this feedback seriously and puts more effort into aligning with what players actually want. Fingers crossed they course-correct for the next edition!

You should pick up Fm24 with the editor mod and download the retro databases from TheMadScientist. Currently playing an arsenal save that started in the 1998/99 season. Brought in Gabriel Batistuta, a 19 year old Ronaldinho, a 20-year old Nesta and I’ve got Kaka, Robben, Ribery, Eto’o and Vidic in my academy. On the 3rd season atm having won damn near everything 2 yesrs in a row. Current team is attached. Also brought in a 16 year old Lahm who’s already rated at 2 1/2 stars

Sega will definitely be fuming especially with the licencing costs they are shipping for what will be nothing this year! They'll also be furious that there isn't a contingency plan in place i.e have an annual update on the side, which they can charge a smaller amount for but at least it'll keep money coming in and people happy. Konami did the same for their final paid eFootball game before they transitioned to a new engine and a F2P model and that worked pretty well and they were also honest about what was going on and what would be in the final product. Definitely should've been in place especially with the amount of high-risk changes and updates they were doing for FM25 and you just can't get away with delays or non-releases in annual franchises. 
 
A rare but extremely costly mistake from SI games. Not a travesty for the community though as a database mod update will do the job but it's disappointing none the less.  

A whole new engine, the game is in no state to release to the public. 
Apparently they wanted to add woman's football leagues as well. 
 
I think people will be disappointed, but at least they will miss a year. 
Unlike Fifa or cod, they would just roll that shit out anyway. 
Sega will be pissed at all the preorders cancelled and refunds on FM25. 
 
I was actually thinking about picking it up, as I have been out of the FM series for a about a decade. 
I liked all the old school championship managers, premier manager, LMA Manager etc. 

I would say it's a shame but it's a bit like Fifa in that it does not really change all that much so missing out a year won't matter too much. I can only think they have spent time actually trying to implement something and it has yet to work and in turn it has held up the rest of the project.

Cancelled!
FM25: Football Manager sequel cancelled after two delays
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What a total cock up from Sports Interactive. 

That's what I mean, people in general have waaaaay better connections than ever. 
But the servers are terrible, does Daniel Levy the Tottenham Chairman have a stake in Activision? 
The servers are the cheapest and tightest I've ever heard. 

An issue that COD has had forever. They need to sort out their shit servers.

Desync....