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FM27. One question: What did we actually learn from FM26? FM26 had a terrible UI. But tactically? It gave us something valuable: variety. META tactics worked. Control Possession worked. Recreations worked. We even managed to build an Allegri-style system and remain competitive. Different ideas could survive inside the same engine. Now the first FM27 data is making me ask questions. If pressing effectiveness has changed so heavily, why? Are we nerfing Gegenpressing specifically, or pressing itself? Because those are NOT the same thing. You can play Control Possession and still need to win the ball back. You can defend deeper and still press specific moments. Real football is not “press” versus “don’t press”. So what is the objective? More realism? Fine. But then another question: What do Football Manager players actually want? Some want realism. Some want to build a story. Some want their striker scoring 60 goals. Some want balanced scoring. Some want tactical recreations. Some just want to play 100 hours and have fun. FM26, despite all its problems, allowed many of those players to coexist. My concern from the early FM27 data is simple: have we gained realism by losing tactical variety? I haven't played a single minute yet. Right now I'm only testing the environment and calibrating the new testing system. These are still limited vacation runs. The serious work starts when FM27 is officially released. Then we go much deeper. Home vs Away. Large samples. Preset testing. Proper controlled data. Not vacation crap. No verdict yet. Just questions. Because before hunting the FM27 META, I want to understand what kind of engine we're actually playing. We test, we don't guess. #FM27 #FootballManager

🇪🇸🗣️ Nico Williams: "Neymar Jr, Cristiano Ronaldo, I have always liked these kinds of attackers. Wilfried Zaha, who I haven’t already named, I LOVED him when he was at Crystal Palace." 🔴🔵 "He was a player that I loved to watch. I cut my hair like this to look like him. I tried to copy Neymar, Ronaldo and Zaha's dribbles, to copy them as much as possible and move like them, just to do 5% of what they could do." (France Football)

Man Utd sacked the only man who was willing to make the hard decisions to change the culture in the club and start a proper rebuild btw

🚨🎙️ | Ole Gunnar Solskjær: "I feel that I have something UNFINISHED. "Of course, it would have been GREAT to have the opportunity again." [@tv2sport]