

Not to mention a few other players missing altogether. For instance, my main boy Mark Beevers was in the Bolton side, but yet Francesco Pisano, who left before Beevers even arrived, is still in the side. It’s not like PES 2016 when the teams were still playing with the squads of the season prior without any transfers at all, no, some transfers had been done on this but not all of them. It doesn’t help Championship Manager that the squads aren’t fully completed in fact, they’re a complete mismatch that’s rather hard to decipher.
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Good job I’m a Bolton fan, innit? I understand that CM17 is free so the microtransactions are the way to make a revenue, but there’s a limit where that ruins the enjoyment of a game. You also can’t start at any club you wish either, as the world’s biggest clubs are locked behind a paywall. You can earn coins in-game by winning matches and completing tasks, but it’s such a small amount that it takes ages to save up for just one upgrade, and there’s so bloody many of them. During the tutorial you’re forced to buy certain things using your starting money, which leaves you with little left to buy what you actually want. The first leaves of most of the improvements are rather cheap, but the price soon sky-rockets and they become obscenely expensive. There are two currencies, coins and cash, cash being the currency you can buy via microtransactions. The problem arises with how you buy all these improvements. You can hire different coaches for various areas of the team, improve club facilities, hire different personnel to make the club run better and a whole host of details that all help to improve your club. This may sound off-putting to hardy veterans of FM, but it works on mobile as it means you’re not trawling through menu after menu just to get a player on the substitute bench. There are a lot of different aspects of your chosen club that you’re able to fiddle with, and crucially they’re done in a much simpler way than the beloved Football Manager series. An overreliance on microtransactions, dull match days, incomplete squads and a real drain on battery life made for an instantly forgettable experience. Aside from a half-entertaining way to waste time while sitting in the dentist waiting room and being a much cheaper, more accessible simulation of managing a football team, Championship Manager really does not have an awful lot to sing about.
