Cut Out Player Faces Megapack

Our Cut-Out Faces Megapack is the biggest collection of Football Manager Player Faces available. All players are available in the default cut-out style. When you download our Cut-Out Faces Megapack, you'll receive over 450,000 player faces to spice up your copy of Football Manager.

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  • 2024.06 - Released on 17 Mar 2024
Cut Out Player Faces Megapack

Installation Instructions

1. How do I install the cut-out megapack if I’m using Steam on Windows?

Watch this YouTube tutorial video, which should you guide you on the steps you need to follow to install it. Although it is for an older version of FM, the steps are still the same.  You need to use Winrar (or a similar program) to extract the downloaded file.

 

This is what the MP folder should look like for the respective version of FM you're using:


Anything beyond the blue line is up to you and how you want to structure your folders. 

 

The preferences should look like in the below screenshot:

 

To get them to look like this, navigate to your preferences on the welcome screen or by using the drop-down menu near the top right of the menu within your save game.

 

Choose the advanced tab (the blue square within the screenshot above) and select all from the drop-down menu on the right (the red square within the screenshot above).

 

Scroll down to the interface section near the middle of the list, where you are to make sure that:
• the “Use caching to decrease page loading times” box is unticked
• the “Reload skin when confirming changes in Preferences” box is ticked

 

After clicking confirm, it may take a few seconds or minutes for all the graphics to be loaded and you should now see all the graphics you have downloaded appear in your save game.

 

Once your skin is reloaded, you can re-tick the "Use Caching to Decrease Page Loading Time" button so that the splash screen at the start takes a lot less longer to load. However, the above process needs to be undertaken every time you add graphics to your game to ensure that the game "reads" them.

 


2. How do I install the cut-out megapack if I’m using a Mac OS?

From FM20 onwards, there's been a substantial change to how Mac FM documents are stored. Previously the files would automatically go in the Documents folder here:

Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 202x

 

Now the files will instead appear in the following location:

Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 202x

 

By default this folder is hidden, so to access you need to do as follows:

Open Finder
Click ‘Go’ from the menubar
Press and hold down the ‘Option’ (Alt) key
This will bring up the ‘Library’, click to enter then go to ‘Application Support’ -> ‘Sports Interactive’ -> ‘Football Manager 202x -> graphics’ (create the last folder if necessary

 

Anything beyond this path line is up to you and how you want to structure your folders.

 

The preferences should look like in the below screenshot:

 

To get them to look like this, navigate to your preferences on the welcome screen or by using the drop-down menu near the top right of the menu within your save game.

 

Choose the advanced tab (the blue square within the screenshot above) and select all from the drop-down menu on the right (the red square within the screenshot above).

 

Scroll down to the interface section near the middle of the list, where you are to make sure that:
• the “Use caching to decrease page loading times” box is unticked
• the “Reload skin when confirming changes in Preferences” box is ticked

 

After clicking confirm, it may take a few seconds or minutes for all the graphics to be loaded and you should now see all the graphics you have downloaded appear in your save game.

 

Once your skin is reloaded, you can re-tick the "Use Caching to Decrease Page Loading Time" button so that the splash screen at the start takes a lot less longer to load. However, the above process needs to be undertaken every time you add graphics to your game to ensure that the game "reads" them.

 


3. I don’t want to have the megapack in the default user data folder – can I place it elsewhere and how would I do so?

You need to change your user data location. Simple steps on how to do so can be found here.

The above step does not apply if you’re playing on Gamepass, in which case the user data location has to be the default one (i.e. Documents / Sports Interactive / Football Manager 202x)

It is recommended that the user data location is not placed within the Steam installation folder as this may cause issues.

 


4. How do I install the cut-out megapack if I’m using Gamepass?

If you're using Gamepass, then you have to use the default user data folder - point 4 above does not and can not apply to you.

Frequently Asked Questions

If you've never downloaded the pack before, you should just download the larger "complete pack".

If you're not a premium member, it is recommended that you download the base megapack via torrent by going to our cut-out megapack download page. After which, you should then download all the update packs released to date and apply them chronologically.

If you're a premium member, just download the most recent complete pack.

If you already have a version of our Cut-Out Faces Megapack installed, then click "Download Latest Changes" and you'll be presented with a list of all the updates we've released since you've last downloaded a file. Simply download any you might have missed, starting with the oldest.
Watch this YouTube tutorial video, which should you guide you on the steps you need to follow to install it. Although it is for an older version of FM, the steps are still the same. You need to use Winrar (or a similar program) to extract the downloaded file.

This is what the MP folder should look like:
https://i.imgur.com/85lGeDc.png

The preferences should look like in the below screenshot:

https://i.imgur.com/jbZkFfw.png

To get them to look like this, navigate to your preferences on the welcome screen or by using the drop-down menu near the top right of the menu within your save game.

Choose the advanced tab (the blue square within the screenshot above) and select all from the drop-down menu on the right (the red square within the screenshot above).

Scroll down to the interface section near the middle of the list, where you are to make sure that:
• the “Use caching to decrease page loading times” box is unticked
• the “Reload skin when confirming changes in Preferences” box is ticked

After clicking confirm, it may take a few seconds or minutes for all the graphics to be loaded and you should now see all the graphics you have downloaded appear in your save game.

Once your skin is reloaded, you can re-tick the "Use Caching to Decrease Page Loading Time" button so that the splash screen at the start takes a lot less longer to load. However, the above process needs to be undertaken every time you add graphics to your game to ensure that the game "reads" them.
From FM20 onwards, there's been a substantial change to how Mac FM documents are stored. Previously the files would automatically go in the Documents folder here:

Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 202x

Now the files will instead appear in the following location:

Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 202x

By default this folder is hidden, so to access you need to do as follows:

Open Finder
Click ‘Go’ from the menubar
Press and hold down the ‘Option’ (Alt) key
This will bring up the ‘Library’, click to enter then go to ‘Application Support’ -> ‘Sports Interactive’ -> ‘Football Manager 202x’

Anything beyond the blue line is up to you and how you want to structure your folders.

The preferences should look like in the below screenshot:
https://i.imgur.com/jbZkFfw.png

To get them to look like this, navigate to your preferences on the welcome screen or by using the drop-down menu near the top right of the menu within your save game.

Choose the advanced tab (the blue square within the screenshot above) and select all from the drop-down menu on the right (the red square within the screenshot above).

Scroll down to the interface section near the middle of the list, where you are to make sure that:
• the “Use caching to decrease page loading times” box is unticked
• the “Reload skin when confirming changes in Preferences” box is ticked

After clicking confirm, it may take a few seconds or minutes for all the graphics to be loaded and you should now see all the graphics you have downloaded appear in your save game.

Once your skin is reloaded, you can re-tick the "Use Caching to Decrease Page Loading Time" button so that the splash screen at the start takes a lot less longer to load. However, the above process needs to be undertaken every time you add graphics to your game to ensure that the game "reads" them.
You need to change your user data location. Simple steps on how to do so can be found here.

The above step does not apply if you’re playing on Gamepass, in which case the user data location has to be the default one (i.e. Documents / Sports Interactive / Football Manager 202x)

It is recommended that the user data location is not placed within the Steam installation folder as this may cause issues.
If you're using Gamepass, then you have to use the default user data folder (i.e. Documents / Sports Interactive / Football Manager 202x)
The torrent file includes the base megapack uploaded just before that year’s FM version is released. Any and all subsequent update packs are to be downloaded separately.
For those who have never used torrents, in the vast majority of cases, it's just a question of downloading the client program (a small file, less than 1MB) and then downloading the megapack torrent file (a tiny file, around 20k) and then letting the program do the job.

Torrent files need a torrent client to be downloaded. I personally use µTorrent but other common clients are BitTorrent, Vuze and Deluge. For those using torrents for the first time, here is a general walk-through on how to download torrents and a specific guide for µTorrent.

Be aware that it will take a substantial amount of time to download the file due to its sheer size and that other people depend on you hosting the file to get it so please leave your torrent client on after you have fully downloaded it. The etiquette is generally accepted to be to upload as much as you download, although this might not always be possible. The older the torrent file, the less likely it is that there will still be users seeding it.
You need to copy and overwrite the faces and the new config file from the update pack into the faces folder and follow the same procedure for the iconfaces folder.

If done correctly, you should be asked if you want to overwrite files – accept. You should have one folder for faces and another folder for iconfaces, and no sub-folder whatsoever in them.

These steps are to be repeated for every update pack downloaded, and they are to be installed chronologically.
Please report this so that they can be reuploaded.
Extracting the file will take a while, but it shouldn't take the hours and hours that the program extracting will sometimes say it will. To speed it up, it is recommended that you have as few programs running as possible so that the system can dedicate as many resources to the extraction as it possibly can.

Secondly, for files as large as this, the calculation of the extraction time will be wildly incorrect at the start. After a while, it'll show a more realistic timeframe, which shouldn't be more than an hour or two if you have a good setup and few programs running at the same time.
You might have a poor internet connection or your browser might have some extensions which interrupt this download. Having loads of downloads ongoing and/or streaming may also de-prioritise this download.

Try using Google Chrome in incognito mode (or the equivalent mode for other browsers) and you should be able to resume the download from the point it was interrupted, if that happens.
This download has two folders: one is the faces folder which contains the cut-outs which should be displayed on this screen. There is also a file titled config.xml which tells the game which images to assign to which person. The other folder is the iconfaces folder which contains the smaller images displayed near a person's name on the menu which comes up when you right-click on them, and also includes a different config file for this folder.

The likelihood is that you've put the iconfaces in the faces folder, or used the wrong config file for each folder. As a result, the smaller images (in 25x18) are being upscaled to be displayed in the person's profile, hence the blurring. Re-install the update pack again, making sure you put the contents of each folder in the right place.
The most recent update pack will include the most recent config file, so you can choose to download it and use it from there.

Alternatively, you can download fmXML and generate a config yourself. There's a video on YouTube on how to use it but it's really easy and the instructions are quite straight-forward.
Down the years, after an update pack was released, it was noted that some images included therein where of the wrong person, with a wrong extension or duplicated. Due to the way the download system is structured, these cannot be removed from the download, so there may well be a couple of hundred images’ worth of difference, depending on the version you download.
Our megapack covers 25,000 teams and it's impossible to cater for these kind of requests since players and staff get transferred or sacked or retire etc and recreating and reuploading 25,000 different smaller packs would be an impossible task. That's why we have all the images in a megapack so that everything is captured therein.
These persons do not appear in the default database for licensing reasons. This means that they only appear in your save-game because they were added via a custom file, generally the real name fix file. However, this means that their UID (which is what is used to map a person's image to the right individual) is different, and so the game cannot assign the image to them from your existing facepack.

To get them to show, you should individually download the cut-out faces that you want from here (or use the UID to find them in your existing facepack if you don't use the cut-out megapack), put them in a separate folder to your existing facepack and create a config file just for them using the method outlined in here (which works for all facepack styles, not just the cut-out megapack).
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By s-d-b89 27 October 2021 - 18:37 PM UTC 

is that possible? I've downloaded the last Cut Out Facepack V.2022.00 and at the faces/folder there's no config? Only at the iconfaces folder

 

No idea how you managed that. Here it is to avoid you having to download it again.

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By mons 27 October 2021 - 19:04 PM UTC 

No idea how you managed that. Here it is to avoid you having to download it again.

 

Thx Mate. I've created a new one with fmxml.

 

178933 Files at the Faces Folder and 331554 Files at the Icon Faces? Is that correct? I wonder why theres some German 4th Level Players which have an Cut Out at the Database. But not at the Latest Facepack. 

 

Examples: Eric Gründemann (VfB Lübeck) 92090306. In the player search theres one for him and in the faces folder theres no file with that ID.

Same for Morten Rüdiger (Lübeck too) 91147353

 

Are some Players sorted out of the facepack?

 

 

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By s-d-b89 27 October 2021 - 19:28 PM UTC 

Thx Mate. I've created a new one with fmxml.

 

178933 Files at the Faces Folder and 331554 Files at the Icon Faces? Is that correct? I wonder why theres some German 4th Level Players which have an Cut Out at the Database. But not at the Latest Facepack. 

 

Examples: Eric Gründemann (VfB Lübeck) 92090306. In the player search theres one for him and in the faces folder theres no file with that ID.

Same for Morten Rüdiger (Lübeck too) 91147353

 

Are some Players sorted out of the facepack?

 

You don't seem to have downloaded the full file or to have extracted the full faces folder, you should have over 331k images in the faces folder too.

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ok I will try it again.

fatmup
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By mons 24 October 2021 - 19:56 PM UTC 

Course they do. You probably haven't installed things correctly.

 

Did you change the preferences to look like this?

 

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/ddxsJBZ1AGXdLpBKoLPUMRzid79j9iur1rCL2yIN.png

 

Yeah I'd done nothing wrong myself, been using your packs for years and just did the same I always do. Reloading the skin in the game wasn't working after I installed the facepack and so I quit the game and restarted it and they still weren't showing. But then I went into preferences and clicked ‘reload skin’ and this time they all started showing as normal. Bit weird because it's not something that I've seen happen before but at least they work now! Thanks for all your hard work.

 

Jason Cheung
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Can I copy the fm21 megapack 13.0 -13.5 and 2022.0 (214mb) to FM22 ? 

Is it work on fm22?

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By Jason Cheung 29 October 2021 - 09:14 AM UTC 

Can I copy the fm21 megapack 13.0 -13.5 and 2022.0 (214mb) to FM22 ? 

Is it work on fm22?

 

Yes, of course. Just for the record, the final 13.x update pack was 13.15, not 13.5. I'm assuming it's a typo, but if not, I suggest removing your current files and downloading the 22.0 torrent, which will include the whole megapack.

JimmyHS
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I've downloaded the megapack with torrent but I can't extract them… 
I've tried different app to extract the rar file but none of them are working. It stops at 0% or like 97%. 
Why ? What could be the problem ? Is it just really really the size that makes it very very long to extract (more than 20 minutes as I type) ? Should I just wait ? 

EDIT: Sorry, it just finished as I finished typing that message… Just had to wait longer. 
Want to delete this comment now but don't know how.
Thanks for the work you're doing every year, really appreciate what you guys do for the community ! Cheers 🙂

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By JimmyHS 29 October 2021 - 11:55 AM UTC 

I've downloaded the megapack with torrent but I can't extract them… 
I've tried different app to extract the rar file but none of them are working. It stops at 0% or like 97%. 
Why ? What could be the problem ? Is it just really really the size that makes it very very long to extract (more than 20 minutes as I type) ? Should I just wait ? 
Help ! 😢

 

How big is the file you downloaded? Are you sure it fully downloaded?

And yes, a file this big will generally take much more than 20 minutes to extract.

ChandalAzul
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Hey,

Thank you for the amazing job every year ! Do you know if their is a way to extract original faces from players already include in the game without the fm resource archiver tool please ? Thanks

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By ChandalAzul 30 October 2021 - 15:39 PM UTC 

Hey,

Thank you for the amazing job every year ! Do you know if their is a way to extract original faces from players already include in the game without the fm resource archiver tool please ? Thanks

 

No, that's the only way.

dedsnek
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The link for the torrent on this page is completely dead for me. I really dont know whats wrong.

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By dedsnek 31 October 2021 - 01:05 AM UTC 

The link for the torrent on this page is completely dead for me. I really dont know whats wrong.

 

Trying a different browser fixed it. Issue was with Brave Browser, download worked with Edge.

sixteen_weasels
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I have downloaded the 2022.0 megapack and successfully installed it for FM22; however I have added some additional faces to the game from the completed submissions page on Sortitoutsi and I can't get these to display in my game. They're in the correct folder location; correct format and I have unchecked caching/ticked reload skin but cannot get the new added faces to show. Any ideas?

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By Dom_Nelson 31 October 2021 - 08:35 AM UTC 

I have downloaded the 2022.0 megapack and successfully installed it for FM22; however I have added some additional faces to the game from the completed submissions page on Sortitoutsi and I can't get these to display in my game. They're in the correct folder location; correct format and I have unchecked caching/ticked reload skin but cannot get the new added faces to show. Any ideas?

 

Have you added the players added to the config file?

 

For every player added to you need to add an additional config line :

 

<record from="*****" to="graphics/pictures/person/*****/portrait"/>

 

Replace the 5* in the above example with the players UID

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By Deano1903 31 October 2021 - 09:10 AM UTC 

Have you added the players added to the config file?

 

For every player added to you need to add an additional config line :

 

<record from="*****" to="graphics/pictures/person/*****/portrait"/>

 

Replace the 5* in the above example with the players UID

 

Thanks for that! where can I find the config file?

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By sixteen_weasels 31 October 2021 - 09:30 AM UTC 

Thanks for that! where can I find the config file?

 

Should be in the "faces" folders

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By Deano1903 31 October 2021 - 09:40 AM UTC 

Should be in the "faces" folders

 

Still no luck; do the UIDs need to be added in sequential order or can it be added to the end of the list? ie:

 

 <record from="999" to="graphics/pictures/person/999/portrait"/>
 <record from="9997" to="graphics/pictures/person/9997/portrait"/>
 <record from="desktop" to="graphics/pictures/person/0/portrait"/>

 <record from="2000102538" to="graphics/pictures/person/2000102538/portrait"/>
</list>
</record>

K_Mort23
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I've downloaded the FM22 Megapack but seem to be missing Spanish leagues, English leagues atm. Will these be added in future updates? Thanks

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By sixteen_weasels 31 October 2021 - 10:03 AM UTC 

Still no luck; do the UIDs need to be added in sequential order or can it be added to the end of the list? ie:

 

 <record from="999" to="graphics/pictures/person/999/portrait"/>
 <record from="9997" to="graphics/pictures/person/9997/portrait"/>
 <record from="desktop" to="graphics/pictures/person/0/portrait"/>

 <record from="2000102538" to="graphics/pictures/person/2000102538/portrait"/>
</list>
</record>

 

From my experience they can be added at the bottom.

 

The faces you've added manually, are they named as the players UID and not the players name?

 

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By Deano1903 31 October 2021 - 10:16 AM UTC 

From my experience they can be added at the bottom.

 

The faces you've added manually, are they named as the players UID and not the players name?

 

UID's were correct; I just had saved them in the wrong folder - all sorted. Thanks for your help!

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By sixteen_weasels 31 October 2021 - 10:42 AM UTC 

UID's were correct; I just had saved them in the wrong folder - all sorted. Thanks for your help!

 

No problem, glad you've got it sorted

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By K_Mort23 31 October 2021 - 10:15 AM UTC 

I've downloaded the FM22 Megapack but seem to be missing Spanish leagues, English leagues atm. Will these be added in future updates? Thanks

 

There are more than 330,000 cut-outs in the megapack, and that is the amount of images which should be in your faces folder. If that is not the case, then you have not downloaded the full megapack, and I suspect this is why the Spanish and English leagues aren't displaying for you.

 

That, or you haven't changed the preferences to look like this:

 

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By mons 31 October 2021 - 11:01 AM UTC 

There are more than 330,000 cut-outs in the megapack, and that is the amount of images which should be in your faces folder. If that is not the case, then you have not downloaded the full megapack, and I suspect this is why the Spanish and English leagues aren't displaying for you.

 

That, or you haven't changed the preferences to look like this:

 

 

Thanks

 

I do have over 330000 faces in the icon faces folder. I downloaded the megabuck from torrent option this morning, and I've just confirmed that me preferences are as above. There's still a lot of faces not loading up on the game. I must be missing something very simple

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By K_Mort23 31 October 2021 - 11:15 AM UTC 

Thanks

 

I do have over 330000 faces in the icon faces folder. I downloaded the megabuck from torrent option this morning, and I've just confirmed that me preferences are as above. There's still a lot of faces not loading up on the game. I must be missing something very simple

 

Can you give a couple of examples, with screenshots, of players you think should have a cut-out but don't?

 

Do you have a file titled config.xml in your faces folder?

 

Can I have a screenshot of your faces folder? If possible, I'd like to see the full path it's in too.

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By mons 31 October 2021 - 11:19 AM UTC 

Can you give a couple of examples, with screenshots, of players you think should have a cut-out but don't?

 

Do you have a file titled config.xml in your faces folder?

 

Can I have a screenshot of your faces folder? If possible, I'd like to see the full path it's in too.

 

 

 

 

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By K_Mort23 31 October 2021 - 11:28 AM UTC 

 

 

 

The faces folder is within the application support-sports interactive-football manager 2022-graphics path. The one thing I can't see is the config.xml folder

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By K_Mort23 31 October 2021 - 11:31 AM UTC 

The faces folder is within the application support-sports interactive-football manager 2022-graphics path. The one thing I can't see is the config.xml folder

 

By the screenshots you've uploaded, it's clear the game isn't reading them at all. The config.xml file is the most important one, it tells the game which image to display for which person. If you're missing it, it's a bit like having possession of a mansion but not having a key to the door 😉

 

Check in the original torrent file - there should be a file titled config.xml in the faces folder, and copy it over to the faces folder.

 

Otherwise, wait until later this afternoon when I hope to have a new update pack available for download and use the new config file together with all the new images 😉

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By mons 31 October 2021 - 11:47 AM UTC 

By the screenshots you've uploaded, it's clear the game isn't reading them at all. The config.xml file is the most important one, it tells the game which image to display for which person. If you're missing it, it's a bit like having possession of a mansion but not having a key to the door 😉

 

Check in the original torrent file - there should be a file titled config.xml in the faces folder, and copy it over to the faces folder.

 

Otherwise, wait until later this afternoon when I hope to have a new update pack available for download and use the new config file together with all the new images 😉

Ok that's brilliant. Thanks for your help

 

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Is this new update from today added new player faces for fm22? ie new players in the game born 2005 for example that werent on fm21

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