Football Manager 25 to remove Inbox, ability to hammer "Demand More" whenever you're losing

Some big changes are coming to FM25. Last year, in an exclusive interview with Eurogamer on the future of Football Manager, Sports Interactive gaffer Miles Jacobson described those big changes, particularly those coming to the game’s UI, as “the most dangerou changes you can make – because people who have muscle memory of knowing exactly where to go won’t have that anymore”

With a game like FM, where the UI effectively is the game, he’s not exaggerating. Now, we’ve had a first look at what some of those changes are, and it seems clear the studio is getting the negatives out of the way first. The first FM blog on FM25 lists a range of features that will be left out of the next game.

The biggest is the removal of the Inbox itself – that being effectively the main means of interaction. Until now, Football Manager has been about recieving either tasks or information via this Inbox and then dealing with it, be that via conversations with players, board meetings, or forays into tactics, training, and analytics data. You can see a first glimpse of an in-progress replacement for the Inbox below.

Alongside this, the big one is the removal of touchline shouts – the ability to quickly implement a motivational boost (or in many of my cases, demotivational boost) ot your players while a match is in motion. That means no more hammering “Demand More” every time you’re a goal behind, and also no more polite requests for your currently Aggressive holding midfielder to “Calm Down”.