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Although international management in Football Manager often felt more like a side event compared to the daily enjoyable slog of club management, having the former as an option was always better than not having it at all. Unfortunately, in the upcoming Football Manager 25, you will no longer be allowed to steer your country to a Euro, World Cup, or Copa America trophy since developer Sports Interactive is temporarily removing international management from the game.
“The challenges we’ve encountered in the development process over the last couple of months have led us to make another difficult decision around game content: international management will not be a playable mode in FM25,” said SI studio manager Miles Jacobson in a development update. This is likely to avoid more delays after he initially revealed their “target launch date has moved accordingly and is now scheduled for late November, rather than [their] usual early November slot.”
“However, international management will remain playable in FM25 Mobile as that’s on a different development track and codebase,” Jacobson continued. “For all other versions, international management will return in a much more feature-rich way to FM26, FM26 Console, and FM26 Touch in what will be an exciting year for international football with the World Cup expanding to 48 teams,” he added.
Since FM25 will be SI’s first game built using the Unity engine, issues like this will always be inevitable. But since the game’s release date is still far off, only time will tell if the final product will live up to player expectations. Based on a few recent comments, however, some seem to have their minds made up and are already planning to skip it because of the drastic changes the developers are planning to introduce.
Now, if you’re still enjoying last year’s release, why not check out our guides on the best GK to sign and the best LB to sign in FM24 so you can start a new save with the ideal backline?
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