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<\/p>\nI like the way that FM and football in-the-real-world (ITRW) interact.<\/p>\n
Before I go to a match, I check the FM database: it helps me to notice things about players. And sometimes watching a player fives me ideas for FM. Would, on FM15, Justin Hoyte have become sweeper at far-away FC Minsk if, ITRW, I hadn\u2019t been amongst the very select crowd who watched him play in the middle of a back three for Dagenham at Stevenage (2015-16) in the whatever the Not-even-the-League-Cup cup was called?<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve seen Nathan Smith play twice for Yeovil \u2013 at Stevenage in 2015-16 and at Cambridge in 2016-17.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s in an imperfect footballer (as I say, he plays for Yeovil). Probably he\u2019s not-exactly-a-left-back-but-not-exactly-a-centre-back-either.<\/p>\n
But I like him. He plays full-on. You couldn\u2019t accuse him of a lack of combativeness.<\/p>\n
At Cambridge I noticed him make a foray upward, give the ball way, realise he\u2019d left the defence open and press the accelerator to enable him to win it back. That cameo harmonises with his FM17 profile: weakish passing, anticipation, and positioning; plenty of acceleration, determination, and tackling ability, plus sufficient team work and work rate.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s a player who will make mistakes but take responsibility for them.<\/p>\n
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If only Yeovil wouldn\u2019t want something in the region of, according to our scouts, \u00a375k.<\/p>\n
I ask my assistant manager, Seb Rozental, what he thinks we should do. He took a half-consumed bottle of locally produced Arak from the shelf behind me, poured me a glass, and handed me the phone.<\/p>\n
I noticed he poured himself one too. Generous of him to keep me company.<\/p>\n
The phone call didn\u2019t get off to the best of starts. \u2018No, you probably haven\u2019t\u2026but then I doubt many people in Ashkelon have heard of Yeovil either.\u2019<\/p>\n
I wasn\u2019t on top form, so had to agree to eighty grand. Ouch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I like the way that FM and football in-the-real-world (ITRW) interact. Before I go to a match, I check the FM database: it helps me to notice things about players. And sometimes watching a player fives me ideas for FM. Would, on FM15, Justin Hoyte have become sweeper at far-away FC Minsk if, ITRW, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":8174,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,110],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n