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Headline Football Manager 2018 features revealed

Wenger out.

This is a nice idea. Sports Interactive has announced the headline features of Football Manager 2018 as if it were a segment on a BBC News broadcast.

The studio anchor outlines the rumours swirling around the game and then introduces her roving reporter colleague in the field - well, stand - who is chasing the scoop. SI studio manager Miles Jacobson even makes an appearance, with a microphone shoved under his nose as he drives into the studio - a riff on a harried football manager during deadline day or, well, any other day really.

The big changes to Football Manager 2018 are: new graphics for the match engine; an altered scouting system; improved stadium design and match presentation; and increased depth to sports science and tactics.

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There's also something called dynamics, "one of our big new features this year", said Jacobson, although he wasn't quite ready to go into detail on it. More information will follow in a flurry of upcoming videos.

Football Manager 2018, Football Manager Touch 2018, and Football Manager Mobile 2018 come out on 10th November.