BOSS93: Retro Football Manager

Match & gameplay Goalkeepers are now rated on the saves they could have made. A keeper's match rating used to be measured against a flat league average, so a keeper peppered by a ruthless forward line was marked down for goals nobody would have stopped — over a season, keepers rated up to half a point below outfielders of the same ability, and cheap keepers looked worse than they played. He's now judged against the chances he actually faced: stand on your head against a top attack and the rating says so; wave in soft shots from a blunt one and it says that too. Late substitutions no longer skip the penalty shoot-out. In a cup tie that went the distance, making a substitution in the dying minutes of extra time could dump you straight onto the result screen with the penalties already decided off-stage. The shoot-out now always plays out on screen, kick by kick, no matter how late you tinker. The Players Abroad list stops running out of defenders. Clubs shop the foreign list by position, and the end-of-season restock used to replace whoever left without minding what the list was short of — so after many seasons it could end up nearly all midfielders and attackers (one season-28 save was down to 14 defenders in 177). The restock now steers new arrivals into whichever positions the list is missing, and a lopsided list rebuilds its proper mix within a few seasons. No more managers called "New". A retired Brazilian great who goes by one name — a Romario, a Rivaldo — could pick up a bogus "New" first name when a club sacked him, and then turn up in the Manager Scores as NEW ROMARIO. He keeps his one name now, and any manager already carrying the bogus "New" loses it the next time you load the save. App & interface A RATE APP button. In the phone and tablet app, the Save Game screen now carries a RATE APP button. One tap opens the game's App Store or Play Store page so you can leave a rating — on iPhone, iPad and Mac it can bring up the review box there and then. It only appears in the installed app, where there's a store to open. The board menu no longer says Board Resign. The button is now just Board — its old name led some players to avoid it altogether, worried a tap would resign them on the spot. Several screens no longer slip into English mid-game. Confirm dialogs, a few match-commentary lines, board and transfer messages, and some player-status labels could show their English text no matter which language you'd picked — now translated.