10. More Manager Options
When you consider a game built around pretending youre a football manager, youve got to welcome any additions that let you behave more like the suited (or tracksuited) individual, even if they make you out to be a money-grabbing arse. Yes, it appears that much like players, you too can now claim a loyalty bonus, only in your case it only happens after you turn down a rival club and it revolves around expanding your budgets. As well as meaning you can put the boards balls in a vice (something no self-respecting player would turn down), it means you can actually see a tangible reward for turning down a big club to stay at your small-town project. As someone who pathologically attempts to take Shrewsbury Town to the Premier League, I cant tell you how much I love this. The other cathartic addition is to hold an end-of-season meeting where you can yell at your charges and tell them their targets for next season. While that might seem like a trivial addition to proceedings, the ability to ruin a players holiday by telling him a comatose hamster couldve had a better season appeals to me somewhat. After all, somethings got to ruin their holiday, and if its not going to be a romp with a prostitute, why cant it be my harsh words?