Football Manager 2014: 12 New Features To Be Excited About

7. The Board Are More Demanding (And Nuts)

Board 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 let€™s face it, if you get bought out by the Bhutanese and they demand some nationality changes, you€™re 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 won€™t 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 Portsmouth€™s case, that€™s not entirely an un-truthful statement.
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