Football Manager 2020: 10 Essential Fan Demands It Must Include

7. A Challenge Mode

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Denmark’s also-rans win the 1992 European Championship? Fergie winning everything with kids? Porto becoming the kings of Europe in 2004? Leicester City shock the Premier League in 2016? West Brom’s great escape of 2005?

All of the above are some of the greatest underdog tales in the landscape of (relatively) modern football. Beforehand, these tasks seemed unimaginable. For instance, even the great Sir Alex Ferguson seemed up against it when he sold megastars such as Mark Hughes, Paul Ince and Andrei Kanchelskis, and put all of his faith in a group of spotty no-name youngsters. And let's not even start on how much of an uphill battle Leicester had as they won the Premier League.

Throughout the plentiful outings for the Championship Manager-cum-Football Manager franchise, it seems only natural to have introduced a challenge mode of sorts at some point. Despite that, Sports Interactive has yet to make such an addition. Maybe now, with FM 2020 on the horizon, it would be the perfect chance to give gamers the chance to try their hand at some legendary, seemingly impossible tasks.

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