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Old 02-17-2024, 06:32 PM   #59
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Originally Posted by dannibalcorpse View Post
from my (admittedly rudimentary) poking around, it looks like the Professional Footballers Association has a deal with Football Manger, but not the Premier League itself - kind of reminiscent of the old Sega game Sports Talk Baseball that had a deal with the MLBPA but not MLB itself, so you have Howard Johnson, but he only plays on the "New York team" and not the actual Mets.

Japan has its own version of the PBA, soI wonder if that's maybe an end-around that OOTP is working on.
This is pretty much correct.
For a long time, FM could not include the Japanese national team for this reason (but you could easily get around it with mods)

There was also a time that they could not include the German and Netherlands national teams.

They eventually licensed the Dutch national team, but still have yet to make deals with the German and Japanese national teams.
Despite having their domestic leagues in the game, so go figure.
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