The Football Manager Football Show

And just like that, European competition has rolled around. This week, despite seeing a twelve-day international break, we've got a lot going on. It's our first FM22 transfer deadline day, which in Turkey happens to be 8 September and also the last day for squad registration before early January Shane's bound for Cyprus as the Europa Conference League group stages get underway Ken's heading back t...

Oh, hello regular season, it's been a while! With pre-season in Turkey wrapping up, it turns out we've got a couple of very important play-off fixtures to get through if we're to achieve some part of our boards' targets for 2021/22. Last week we found Shane knocked out of the Champions League qualifiers so we're both into the final Europa League playoffs with St. Johnstone and Royal Antwerp on the...

Away goals don't count any more, that's what we're told. So what impact will it have as Galatasaray heading into Champions League qualifiers this early in the season? A trip to the group stages would mean massive money... This week on the podcast we're wrapping up pre-season - just about anyway - but we're taking a bit of time to analyse our squad and options before kicking off the league proper n...

We asked, you answered. Football Manager 2022 is upon us and our timing couldn't have been better. With the new game dropping a little earlier than expected, it turns out we finished up life in La Liga at exactly the right time. We took to Twitter for your suggestions (and gave away a copy of FM22 in the process) on where we should start the new season and new game. Believe us, there were so many...

It's the final chapter of our Football Manager 2021 journey but before we go, we must close out life in La Liga. There are just four games left in the league. Can Real finish on top? How vital will Atletico v Barcelona prove? Has a certain superstar kicked his last ball? Will the pressures of the Champions League prove too much? So many questions! Let's go finish our FM21 journey!

It's going to come down to the wire, isn't it? With two months left to play in La Liga, we're back to normal programming this week with Shane returning to the helm of Atlético and Ken gearing up to take Real into a Champions League quarter-final. With rumours circulating of an Atléti takeover, is this the episode that finally sees Mr. O'Keeffe get the boot, or will his Wolves arrivals dig deep and...

While the Cat's away, the Corkonians will play. In a one-week break from our La Liga adventure, Ken is joined by @kahunagaming339 to chat about his FM21 journey, database editing, we run the first ever FMFShow draft - live - and get set for FM22. Funnily enough, Shane's in Spain - whether he's genuinely in talks with Atlético or brushing up on his Spanish - but manages to send a postcard to Cork t...

This week we're blitzing through the month of March in our fourth and final season of FM21. There's two giant games against Barcelona for Ken and some redemption for Shane looks like it's on the way. Oh it's busy busy! We've got Copa Del Rey action, more Champions League action against Rangers and Manchester City and a string of lofty and frustrating league fixtures to chomp our way through. There...

Have you ever had those moments in Football Manager where you know the curly finger is coming? How do you approach it? Beg for forgiveness? Plead your case? Tell the board that they're the ones who need to get in line? Well, for one of our intrepid managers this week, the board comes calling. Days are numbered, players are frustrated, but when you look at the money laid down in January's transfer...

January brings renewed hope, new year resolutions, a transfer window and, oh yeah, Real v Atlético, baby. We're into our final season of FM21 action and it's been a long road so the countdown to FM22 starts now. Between here and then we've got a lot of things to wrap up when it comes to life in La Liga. So this month (January) we've got  Our first taste of the Copa del Rey A trip to Saudi Arabia f...

Football Manager 2022 is on the way and we're still in Spain but we're cruising towards Christmas with some Champions League success along the way. This week we kick off with a look at some of the early Football Manager 2022 features before working through the thick of our December in La Liga. Can the working man's club turn a corner? Will Haaland "real-ly" start to improve? With Barcelona setting...

Episode 34 is in the wild and on this week's podcast we've managed to get the whole way through an actual month in game, meaning we're clearing the end of October in Spain all the way through to the start of December. The fixtures list is a mess, the injuries have mounted up, star players need resting, team meetings are dividing dressing rooms and we're both still dropping points to teams at the f...

Ooooooh-sasuna where the winds go sweeping down the plains... It's been an interesting week in Spain, and by week we mean month as we get through October's helping of league and Champions League games for episode 33 of The Football Manager Football Show. In Champions League action this week we're coming up against Liverpool, Anderlecht, Porto and Chelsea while trying to gain ground in the league a...

It wasn't supposed to be like this. Now six games into life in La Liga, with our Champions League accounts open for the first time, frustrations are creeping in. Team meetings have to be held. Defenders are leaking goals. Instructions are being ignored. Maybe there really is a language barrier. How can you go out and trash someone 7-0 midweek then struggle to a draw four days later? How can you ha...

This week on The Football Manager Football Show we've managed to kick off life in La Liga where we'll walk through the first few games of the season while admiring the fact that Barcelona already look unstoppable  hit transfer deadline day, go panic shopping and see what situation the finances are in for both clubs  play our first Madrid derby - proper - and it's only the second game of the league...

As The Football Manager Football Show hits episode 30, we've dug deep for this week and our first podcast giveaway. Yes, hilarity may ensue, but we've got an exclusive, still-sealed-in-the-plastic-wrapper copy of the one and only Football Manager 2017 to give away! No Steam codes here, straight up hard copy! How do you get your hands on this most epic of prizes? You'll find out in the opening few...

Season 4 has kicked off! Between the jigs and the reels of the working world, we've managed to start Season 4 of The Football Manager Football Show this week and we've got a feeling it's going to be all about heroes and villains this time out. Our Premier League journey has come to an end and it's time to move on to pastures new so we're off to the continent, while we had our entire season planned...

It's the end of season 3. Seven games remain to decide the path of the Premier League trophy with Wolves in pole position. Can they hold on? Can Leicester cause an upset? Or did the wheels really come off last week? As far as opponents go, we've found ourselves in a situation where our mutual run-ins include the likes of Chelsea, Man City, Liverpool, Leeds, West Ham, Norwich and Arsenal. Strikers...

It's episode 27 of The Football Manager Football Show and if things were heating up last week, the wheels may well be coming off this week. Between Ken forgetting he's still manager of Germany, to both Wolves and Leicester dropping points in key fixtures, players who can't find the net at club level smashing them in during the international break to FA cup upsets and more, there's plenty to be hap...

We've got FA Cup, League Cup and top-of-the-table league action this week as Leicester, Wolves, Man City and Man United all jockey for position with ten games to play. It's also been a busy week in Football Manager land with the news that women's football is set for representation within the FM world, a move that can only do wonders for the sport. PES too is changing as Konami kill off the legenda...

As we get a quarter-way to 100 episodes (we've got targets you know), we've got plenty to chat about this week. We'll start with a look at Castlewarren Celtic's cup adventure in the real world before breaking into a run of four games in February.  Just when he thought he had things sewn up early in the season, are Leicester closing the gap on Wolves? It's already looking like Adeyemi could finish...

It's 2023, we're blitzing a January transfer window, navigating a crazy post-World Cup schedule and one former United and Arsenal player is causing headaches. There's a whole rake of things happening this week as injuries are piling up for Leicester, there are big games against Man City and Liverpool along with cup days with both the Carabao Cup and FA Cup to put up with. We're talking player rela...

The World Cup is done and we're back to the league.  This week we're arranging some pre-Christmas friendlies to warm up the legs by destroying local opposition while getting ready for a little bit of window shopping in January. The Chinese, PSG and more are all sniffing around Wolves and Leicester but will anyone be shown the door? Are player relationships and certain player traits the keys to unl...

This week's Football Manager Football Show is a 2022 FIFA World Cup special. Yes, the boys are off to Qatar having recently taken over as the managers of Germany and France respectively. Ken (Germany) draws Denmark, Mexico and Egypt in his group while Shane (France) pulls South Korea, DR Congo and Italy. Minnows will rise. Big names will fall. Ultimately, we'll have two nights of craic at the Worl...

The World Cup awaits. As we were working out the episode structure for the next few weeks and what we could cram in across Wednesday and Thursday night, we came to the realisation that episode 22 would land in 2022 in time for the World Cup in Qatar. How apt. But this is episode 21, which means we're all about warming up for the World Cup and getting to grips with international management. Last we...