SambaMaverick

His interviews crack me up

Best corner of all time

This turnaround really is bizarre but I'm not complaining, absolute joy to watch going forward

Onuachu is fucking gash

Fuck me... If this backfires SR should flog the club for a quid. A geriatric Ken Bates can buy it for all I care.

Yeah no real concerns about that, but those increases then put me about £300k/week in the red on my wage budget. I've sold/released a few to get it down to the right level, but now I have no scope to improve the side for the Premier League. Season expectations and wage budgets etc need to take the increases into account, surely.

This game is a pile of shit, promoted at a canter yet I'm given a paltry wage budget and then every first-team squad member gets a wage increase of 67% which puts me immediately in the red. Have to sell players before I even get going in the Prem.

He doesn't get in my best side, put it that way

Quarshie seems to be our best centre-back from the start, at least he is on my save, which is interesting... Not sure if that will have come from your side or from his previous data etc in Germany though. Everything else seems well balanced for now, both goalkeepers are incredibly shit and making me regret pledging to stick to our IRL squad for the first half of the season. Jay Robinson's potential looks very tasty. Also on Dibling's sell-on (20% of fee, not profit), will that be a best guess or is that true to life?

There are so many little details, bits and bobs that are just off compared to 24. I can't believe this game was tested and deemed fit for release. I would love to see the state of what 25 looked like before they decided to pull the plug. He's had a great innings, but that Miles chap will have to go for this. Hope they don't flush the series down the toilet by going the wrong direction next.

Got to say I'm disappointed with the "all new" graphics. Not the most important part of the game, granted, but I'm guessing it was a big part of the delay and it still looks like the players are waddling around with shit in their drawers, no accurate animations. But at least they've put in the womens leagues... fuck sake

No to Eckert, no no no

Go four at the back and get the goal difference back to 0

How does bazunu let that in

It's nice of him to pop up every now and again to make McCarthy look better, Alex must love that

Is Ramsdale recallable in January? Looking forward to getting stuck into my save in the next week, despite the negative headlines

Great news, let's hope he's been staying sharp. Should've been in the building as soon as he left Girona

@Matthew Le God

What

My first seasons in memory were the couple after relegation from the PL. Went through a lot on the playground in the years to follow, but I like to think it's given me a tough skin - not that the last few years haven't worn me down

Hopefully just practicing for when he gets amongst it in the dressing room with the rest of the jessies Not that bothered by it, me

It just doesn't happen any more, rightly or wrongly. Too much at stake I guess. Frank's Spurs just been booed off HT and FT after losing against Chelsea despite being third in the table. 17th last season ffs.

Yep. It's all very well saying he needs the right conditions for him to play well, but if you need a perfect storm just to trap a ball then it doesn't look like £15m well spent.

What happens when this guy pulls the plug? We're making fuck all money in the Championship, none of these losers will be worth a wank to resell. If Dragan were to stop the tap we'd be looking down the barrel pretty quickly. It's worrying.

I'd rather use my eyes than look at stats. Guly do Prado once scored 10 Championship goals in a season, was he worth £15m? Boro fans told us they weren't bothered if we bought him, we should've listened.