Football Manager 2011

20 things I’ve learnt about the Premier League football from FM2011

1) Liverpool’s squad really is wafer thin;
2) Though you can still win the Premier League with Paul Konchesky as your left back (I did it in my third season);
3) Arsenal could win the title this year (they ran away with it in my virtual league);
4) Arsene Wenger is not indispensable;
5) Eden Hazard (see Lille squad) is going to be a top, top player;
6) As is Javier Pastore (see Palermo squad)
7) Barcelona are annoyingly good and equally greedy;
8) First team coaches behave more like mercenaries than any “money-hungry” player;
9) Most agents are greedy tossers;
10) Fans rarely sing at The Emirates;
11) Cesc Fabregas is annoyingly good at the Emirates;
12) Fernando Torres gets injured a lot;
13) Spurs buy a lot of old tat among their amazing “discoveries”;
14) There’s not much point in buying 14-year-old kids from Ecuador, they get homesick easily;
15) If you’re doing well in the Prem and in Europe, the League Cup teamsheet HAS to suffer;
16) It’s difficult to show any love/fondness/time at all to the missus whilst being a football manager;
17) Roy Hodgson should do everything he can to hold onto Jose Manuel Reina;
18) Mick McCarthy’s a lot easier to get on with than you think;
19) If one of your players has the flu, why on earth wouldn’t you send him home?;
20) In football, money talks!