In the last two versions of Football Manager, we've run experiments with Big Sam Allardyce stepping in to try and rescue teams sitting bottom of their leagues at Christmas time. We weren't planning to run it on FM24 but, with the delay to FM25, this Christmas period seemed like a good time to revive the series.
Heading back 30 years in time, Atalanta have just been relegated from the greatest league in the world, Italy's Serie A, and are red-hot favourites to be promoted at the first time of asking. To achieve that aim, the club took a massive gamble by turning to a rookie local football lover to deliver a change in fortunes - Bergamo-born coach Roberto Lombardi.
Growing up in the early 1990s, some of my earliest memories of "getting into" football news and watching football were formed by Channel 4's Football Italia. We'll celebrate that with new series in the 1994/95 database for FM24.
If you like the idea of the English "big six" languishing in tier six and the likes of Bonnyrigg Rose and Llantwit Major at the top of the pyramid, this will be the database for you.
With EURO 2024 ongoing and England just about scraping into the last eight, it got me wondering how good this current set of players are and how they'd fare as a club side. To put that to test, what better way than to put the current England squad into the Premier League?
Having created save files with all the real-life squads for the European Championships, which kick off in Germany next Sunday, I thought we'd use FM24 to see who the game thinks will win the tournament. I simulated the tournament five times to see who came out on top.
EURO 2024 is nearly one week away and I recently noticed there were no databases available to play the tournament with the real-life groups and final confirmed squads on Football Manager 2024. So I took to FM to do what I could to create the final squads.
The Trebor Mahtal dynasty at Bolton Wanderers was in full flow as the Zambian manager led Bolton Wanderers to three consecutive Premier League titles. But all eyes were on another African legend ahead of the manager's seventh season in charge.
Trebor Mahtal had well and truly rewritten Bolton Wanderers history as, four years on from the departure of Big Sam Allardyce, he led the Trotters to their maiden English title. But he wasn't content with that, as he eyed up defending the title and improving their European form.
Bolton Wanderers pushed Chelsea all the way in Trebor Mahtal's third season at the club, only missing out on their maiden English title on goal difference. And Mahtal was convinced that, with the right signings and a little more attacking intent, he could push beyond England's big boys.
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