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Think they did fan polling and fans wanted a round badge.

I think the only real problem with it is the 'City' writing not following the curvature

but when compared to the other one with the Eagle being sick, the three non-sensical stars and what what I think is a mistake in the Latin its much better.

First goal was offside in the buildup, second goal the defender was tripped, the other two were fine. Still though, Arsenal were shit.

From a designer point of view I really don't like the new Man City logo. The modern looking typeface annoys me, the whole thing looks really fan made and it looks too similar to the NY logo. They should have just brought back the 1972 one unchanged.

How much longer is Kompany out for? City really need him back.

As Ninja said Mangala/Otamendi is a terrible partnership.

Don't think I could cope with supporting Man City. Would spend most of days absolutely being frustrated as fuck by Yaya

You've probably been the better side in all fairness just horrendous at the back.

No its just an abundantly stupid point to make.

There's plenty of things to criticise him for legitimately. But the quality of players he's bought is low down on that list. No manager has a 100% record, but we've generally bought well under him. You can argue that we haven't bought enough, that we haven't sold particularly well. But we've bought well in terms of who we've got in.

I got shadowbanned (not supposed to be doing this anymore) as I asked him if he planned to get drunk and accuse of paying customers of being thieves again.

You don't need a PayPal account to use it though, do you? You can pay through PayPal without having an account which should essentially do the exact same thing as a plain credit card payment.

He was shit today... He should have wrapped it up when you countered towards the end, he had Sterling and someone else available but was greedy cunt and fucked it up. Sterling wanted the penalty bad as well and I can see him being greedy in games this season

Bony and Stirling being greedy bastards will be fun to watch over the season

I'm not comparing them, just pointing out that both teams had an equal share of luck. I've seen plenty of City fans elsewhere moaning about 2 of our goals coming from offside while forgetting they had one of their own and should've been down to 10 men.

Dele Alli has been awesome so far this season, I'd have him in there starting with Dier regularly now. I don't mind the dirtiness to be honest, its about time we had a central midfielder that likes to get stuck in, he kind of reminds me a bit of Gerrard.

We actually beat City for once. Yeah we had two offside goals but they had one too and should've had Demichelis sent off. Apart from the first 20-25 minutes, they looked piss poor without Silva and Kompany. That keeper is awful as well.

4-1 City have gone from looking unstoppable to being a shambles.

What a pass from Pogba. Finish wasn't too bad either.

You'll win fairly easily tonight.

I felt exactly the same about the 3D engine, seeing this stuff about CUSTOMISING THE WAY YOUR MANAGER LOOKS does absolutely nothing for me. Maybe the kids are hype for it, I'm not, but then again, I'm not the SI target demographic. I've played FM since CM, I don't watch the matches in 2D or 3D, I play in the non-major leagues and I just want hardcore game mechanic improvements.

Right about now in my life I have time for FM, so I'll always buy it regardless. SI want to attract the new customers who will buy the game every year for the next decade. What's gonna do that? All this crap with Sky Sports, the 3D lark, trying to make FM into an accepted real-life statistical tool, aesthetic tweaks, app ability, social media connectivity, etc. My FM aspirations and SIs P&L will never match up, doesn't bother me as much as it did. Business is business, SI can't go fixing and improving everything they know needs doing, will kill them in the long-term.

I'm interested in their Prozone deal, hopefully its more than a shitty mutual advertising link-up and brings some real value. I'd love to go Moneyball up in this mug. The one place where FM would be better off being more like a spreadsheet is in the player stats department (not attributes). We could pivot table all sorts of great stuff, key passes vs total passes, key passes in the opposition box, cross completion vs crosses attempted, etc, etc. Combine that with scouting reports that actually take tactics into account (this player is a good crosser, we have a tall ST, our current RM has a poor cross completion, our tactics call for wing play, this lad would be a good tactical fit). Infact you could split the scout reports into;

Transfer and contract
Personality
Attribute analysis
Tactical fit
Current squad needs fit
Misc.

Yes it's always been available through the editor, but most of the average players are really not familiar with it and a lot of people don't even know it exists. I think it's a great addition to the game and makes creating your own team simple and easy and anyone can now do it without knowing anything about the editor. It must be a lot faster to do it through the new system as well. And since it's a feature that's basically already in the game, I doubt it has taken too much time to make that simple tool for FM16 so I see no harm done there.

The game has always been released between late October and mid November, so the release date is not exactly surpsising. And remember that if you pre-order the game you will get to play the beta, which so far has always been released 2 weeks prior the full release. So that would be in the end of October. I personally pre-ordered the game the second it became available and I'm very excited about it, the Fantasy Draft specifically.

And I find people often complaining how there's not much new every year with the new FM release, but you guys have to remember that it's not an AAA title and that it's being released every single year so there's not very much of time to do all the improvements. Most of the sequels come with around 2 to 4 years apart and often with higher budget, so you often get a completely, or at least majorly, new gaming experience. It's not the case with Football Manager, like it's not with any Sports Games which are released every year, and a lot of people seems to forget that. If you compare every third Football Manager, which would be an average time for a normal sequel to be released, you can see some major changes and upgrades.

The multi-platform support is also very much understandable as it's a business after all and they are there to make money. And there is a lot of people who actually do play the game on other platform than a desktop computer so it's even further understandable that they also focus in that area. I don't personally play the game on anything else but a PC, but I find the new cross-platform save support an excellent addition. You can start the game at home and continue it while on the road and then keep playing once you are at home again. Sound very good to me, even though I won't be using it personally.

Overall, I'm probably more excited about a new FM than ever before and I'm a hardcore FM fan who pre-orders the game the day it becomes available, every single year. That said, FM has completely destroyed my social life as I seems to spend thousands of hours in it every year. That's the only negative thing about FM!

I took a look at the release dates of the past FMs a few year back and seeing they went Oct/Nov/Oct/Nov, with Fm15 coming out in November of last year I was hoping for an October FM16. I dig the fantasy draft too, if done right it could be a good gimmick for 1 off matches and also whole-season deals. Opens up the possibility of some fantasy football FM style competitions, all depends on the format SI head down.

I agree people moan too much on new features, the thing I find most frustrating personally is SI purposefully holding off on new features (which from a business standpoint I can understand, but as an FM player I'm sick of the limitations in scouting and training), but more-so the lack of care given to non-English leagues in the game. I'd love to see some new leagues, some working transfer dynamics at lower levels, working finances at lower levels, etc. I'll say one thing, the rep system for managers is the best its ever been in FM, hopefully they don't cock it up for FM16 like they cocked it up a few year back after getting it right one year.

There's superglue that's easier to loosen than Adebayor's grip to his Spurs contract.

Everton getting Lennon and Funes Mori full transfer. Shocking that that's the only bit of business they've done when they were in talks with Yarmolenko, van Dijk, de Guzman, and, since they were targeting River Plate players, quite possibly should've gone after the better RP defender in Alvarez Balanta.