Think you can do better? It's your decisions that count: your budget, your buys, your formation, your tactics... your chance to prove it! Use your skills and knowledge to manage your club the way you feel it should be - now it's your turn.
All football fans around the world, believe they know more about football than anybody else. More than the guy sat next to them at the match, more than the people commentating on the game, more than the manager of their local team.
Championship Manager is the closest you'll ever come to the highs and lows of a truly realistic football management.
Here are some key features of "Championship Manager 2006":
· Updated Player and Competition data: Player data completely updated. The only game on PC to contain signings from the January transfer window!
· Revolutionary Gameplan Engine: New Gameplan technology gives you the choice of camera angles and 3D TV aspects, providing the most exciting match day coverage available.
· Simulated World: All non-selected leagues still play out through the game engine enabling you to keep track of potential new signings and top points scorers from around the World.
· Transfer system: Much greater realism. Clubs now haggle during negotiations, other clubs try to out-bid you and rivals don't make it easy for you to get their star players! Player enquiries allow you to gauge a players interest before entering negotiations.
· Greater Player/Board interaction: Communicate with your squad and try to appease disgruntled players. The board now take your league position into consideration when approached with your requests or ultimatums.
· Club benefactor: The height of fashion in today's football world; a mega-rich chairman. Be warned though; the pressure will be immense.
What's New in This Release:
New Additions
· International Management with the option to start at the world cup
· Manager opinions on players available for international duty
· New GUI look
· New sidebar navigation system
· In-game help for team selection, tactics and sidebar
· Ability to pick team from the tactics screen
· New player tool tip displaying key information including age, position, form
· Updated data for players, staff and competitions
· Added Dutch playoff system
· More realistic manager hiring and firing
· Can now save and load player search filters
· World rankings screen added
Major improvements including:
· Match Engine
· Less throw-ins
· Better GK (now much better from long range)
· Less red cards
· Better runs and passing
· More varied goals
· New player model graphic
· Offside given when a player receives a throw-in
· Corner goals
· Defender booting ball out for corners
· Wingers far more effective with better skills and crossing
· Passing is more expansive and the game is spread out more
· Less careless clearances
· Better off the ball runs
· Improved dribbling
· Offside rule overhauled
· Ball is now re-spotted by players
· Improved penalty taking
· Improved player acceleration
Transfers
· Contracts always vetoed when wages is set to `Pay Monthly'
· Improved Veto on contract renewals
· Club now less likely to see players without cover
· Players on exchange not getting work permits
· Newly bought players not appearing in squad
· Transfer work around fixed
· Player exchanges when one player refuses to move
· Game crash when a player is awaiting the end of his trial to move club and get a work permit
· Duplicate transfer message
GUI
· Can no longer change the status of loaned-in players
· Early history entries in player profiles have been fixed
· News screen refreshes while user is viewing it.
Other
· Getting stuck after receiving board rejection message is fixed
· Players can only play a single match per day
· Game crash when joining a team about to get relegated to a non-playable league
· Forest green data
· English, French and Italian league cup fixes
· Scheduling improvements
· Improved world cup draws
· World cup build up international friendly's
· Text improvements and errors fixed