Matthew Le God

Indeed, a massive saving per season.

It has been cleared. Not been made public how this was done. But Nicola Cortese has stated that we have "no debt". So no more stadium repayments.

We are debt free so no impact on the running costs what so ever.

Says the Pompey fan with nearly 300 posts on a Southampton forum

31 years old a youngster?

-10 points off Leicester last season and they would have been 3rd. Only 1 point away from 2nd.

Many think the game is designed well. But as shown here some people don't like the user interface so this allows people to change it. A happy medium I think.

I mean other management games of course! Like for like or no point making the statement.

FM is fully customizable if you don't like it. Plenty of people have made their own skins. Other games haven't programmed this facility.

That screenshot is the only one of FM2010 that exists in public and was leaked by accident.

You aren't comparing like for like! Have you seen the FM2010 training page?

Cheer up Marco. It does sound like the simpler FIFA manager with its superficial graphics and girlfriends/golf days/choosing the price of hotdogs is for you

What point are you trying to make? Can you bullet point them so I can respond please? To say that FM each year is just an update is clearly wrong. 60 staff working for 12 months on new features for each version. The data is done by over 1,500 researchers so thats where the data comes from. The way the game is made is modular and each module has changed massively over the years.

No, its not Keith Harris and Orville trying to take us over again. Saints are on Twitter. http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~1731195,00.html

SI can't recreate grounds like EA can, due to licensing issues. Third party stadium add-ons like with kits and logos for teams could be a possibility in the future. As for the standards of graphics remember that the 3D engine in FM09 was SI's first go at 3D. EA have had a 15 year head start so not bad from SI imo. It will improve dramatically in the coming years. The underlying match engine is far better than FIFA manager even if the graphics aren't.

Matterface is a terrible reporter and not because he has Skate ties. Nice welcome back Ed Chamberlain gets sitting next to Millie Clode every morning.

Surely a good PR company would keep this story out of the press as it was bound to not go down well with the fans.

Did you not know that matches in FM are now in 3D?

What would you consider as a "huge overhaul"?

It was a reserve team FRIENDLY against a team 2 leagues below us. Perspective man!

Well yeah, as I'm the one that decides it

Does he look like this?

What is his system? Formation and who played where?

His legs and engine have gone for a holding midfielder. I hope to be proved wrong but at 35 I think it may be too late for him in such a role.