offer £5m for Afobe from MK Dons

Ripping man u to pieces

 

Are you Joe Kinnear?

Afobe is on loan from Arsenal.

 

I could do that against this united team

 

My grandma could.


Christ, even Potter could.

Speaking of which, I wonder if he's now supporting MK Dons

 

didn't know he was on loan from the arse, only just seen the 4th goal.

 

wonder if arsenal fans have even heard of him?

 

Haha 4-0? Thats some funny **** right there.

 

I wonder if this performance will put some people off welbeck, leaving the door open to us?

 

It'll have put us off Welbeck.

Apparently the next big striker in the Arsenal youth set up is Chuba Akpom.

 

Aye, I'm Arsenal manager on FM and he's class.

 

I think we could do with someone with a bit more experience than an 18 year old

 

Someone mentioned Dwight Gale as an option. He scored a first half hattrick tonight but against Walsall. How much can you gauge from that?

 

Palace surely won't let him go?

 

I signed him for Yeovil in my first season and he's now worth £15m and is a full England international.

But I heard it from a few Arsenal fans and he's featuring more and more in the first team.

 

Speaking of... Has that campbell played since the world cup for arsenal?

 

Yeah I think he played at the weekend.

 

I assume the OP plays Football Manager.

 

How'd you work that out?

 

- Assumes he is good enough from the Premiership.
- Plucks a random figure out of thin air.
- We should sign him based on one good performance.
- Doesn't realise he is on loan from Arsenal.

Kind of tell tale signs from people who can't separate the fiction of FIFA/FM and the reality of the semantics of football.

 

Thing is, I usually have FM on in the background of whatever I'm doing, it's actually pretty good for learning about different players. Most FM players will have known about the likes of Neymar or Luis Gustavo years ago and it's from that knowledge that you come to appreciate the wider world of football. The lines between reality and games are growing thinner; there was a really good debate about clubs using FM on 5live last week and the guy said that the database was so intrinsic, so detailed that it's now used as a valuable tool in the early stages of scouting. Many journalists also use it as a research tool (the guy in question used it when he had to cover a Thursday night Europa League game against Dnipro) to find out about opposition players and get context to give their commentary or match reports a bit of background.