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Post by foster on Oct 12, 2017 8:52:07 GMT
This International league has been on Football Manager for a couple of seasons so therefore I'm an expert and can tell you it's just going to mean England losing to all the best teams in Europe before getting "relegated" to a league where we'll win every game and get promoted. This cycle will be then repeated for years. In a nutshell, it's to make friendlies more meaningful.. apparently. Only read the OP but isn't it meaningful if it determines your draw pot for the EUROs?
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Post by StoKeith on Oct 12, 2017 10:57:42 GMT
This International league has been on Football Manager for a couple of seasons so therefore I'm an expert and can tell you it's just going to mean England losing to all the best teams in Europe before getting "relegated" to a league where we'll win every game and get promoted. This cycle will be then repeated for years. In a nutshell, it's to make friendlies more meaningful.. apparently. Only read the OP but isn't it meaningful if it determines your draw pot for the EUROs? More than that, each tier winner automatically qualifies for Euro 2020. So as I said above, relegation into tier 2 would actually increase our chances of qualifying.
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Post by lordb on Oct 12, 2017 11:19:20 GMT
Am I right in thinking there wont be an increase in international fixtures just replacing majority of friendlies?
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Post by salopstick on Oct 12, 2017 14:44:19 GMT
If you know you have a good chance of qualifying by one route It may make you field weakened teams the other route.
A euro qualifying game will still be more important than this league.
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Post by PotterLog on Oct 12, 2017 16:56:19 GMT
If you know you have a good chance of qualifying by one route It may make you field weakened teams the other route. A euro qualifying game will still be more important than this league. Well not just "field a weakened team", there is potentially a danger that deliberately losing a game is incentivised.
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Post by ChesterStokie on Oct 12, 2017 17:11:51 GMT
This is maybe not a bad idea.
There really is nothing appealing about England having to play a seemingly endless series of easy qualifying games against the likes of Estonia, Moldova etc that didn't even exist as countries a few years back.
It just adds to the general gloom and doom surrounding the England team.
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