shanks

I know its not a major issue but i think in FM09 you should be able to retire certain shirt numbers of players who have perhaps been at the club thier whole career or something like that i.e. Maldini or Foe etc...

Would make a nice touch dont you think?

Somerandomguy

I'm all for it myself. In one save Aguero was with me for around 15 years. Now I refuse to give his squad number to anyone..

shanks

I had the immense Christopher Samba at Sunderland in my game and retired his number 5 shirt when he retired only to forget about it in the next season and i ended up giving his number to some random regen pillock.

Annoyed the hell out of me!!!

Should be some sort of permanent function in my opinion

IWWROCKS

It rarely happens in football, and you can do it yourself by not giving the number to someone so no need imo.

SWaRFeGa

Hardly anyone does it. Bit pointless if you're managing Rochdale. A needless feature.

Nomis07

Perhaps if it was an option when a player reached 600/700 appearances for the club, but not an option for anyone to use whenever.

Some guy....

I think Andy Carroll has earnt having his number retired now. He is 9 goals away from having more than Bloomer.

I think it would be a great idea to be able to do it properly. But as he said, it isn't all that important.

Box

I'd like to see players make a bigger fuss over over their player numbers as well. SI said they were looking into introducing this 2 seasons back, but as far as I can see it's not there yet

It would be a nice feature to see in the media (providing it wasnt brought up every game repeatedly) to see my squad at newcastle contesting each other for the famed number 9 shirt or to see Man U have made a big signing for their number 7 shirt with some kind of history to the shirt with Best Cantona, beckham, Ronaldo etc..

The media section needs to be completely overhauled anyway. It's ont eh right tracks with the overview page, but to repetitive. Needs to be more like USM back int he 90's with interesting and different stories each week, lots of mis quotes , some general player statements etc.

Ryknow

Maybe just when the player in question announces to retire the game then recongises if hes had a major role, eg, captian for years and years, mass amount of goals and so forth.

The board can then send you an email giving you the option if you would like to retire the players shirt number and ofcourse he would be high up on the clubs favoured personal. Wouldnt happen alot maybe once or twice in a game going to 2030.

? Just an idea

clarkeoh

i'm a fan of the idea, but its very american.

has it ever been done in football?