7. The Board Are More Demanding (And Nuts)
Remember when Hull almost derailed their promotion-winning season when they began signing in Egyptian players at the behest of their Egyptian owner? You know him that Aseem Allam character who recently changed the name of the club to Hull City Tigers? Well now, you too can have a chairman with ridiculous demands, thanks to the expanded philosophies section! You might remember the philosophies section as a new addition to FM 13, where your board would impose upon you demands to play attractive football, field a domestic eleven or blood more youngsters. Well now, you might have to play a swathe of players from the Far East after that Malaysian conglomerate takes you over. If anything, this stops the tycoon-takover becoming the equivalent of playing the game on easy difficulty, instead turning your oligarch-infested club into a more realistic headache. Because lets face it, if you get bought out by the Bhutanese and they demand some nationality changes, youre in all sorts of trouble. A further development to the board screen appears that you can now finally ask about two club issues at once, meaning you wont have to wait a few days between asking about the stadium and asking about the academy, something which was always a bugbear to ambitious players who assumed their board evacuated the room after the first round of questions. Well, in Portsmouths case, thats not entirely an un-truthful statement.