Put your red and white scarf back on the coat rack, football friends. The match has been called off. The entire season, in fact.
Football Manager 25 has been cancelled because it has not met a high enough standard in time for its intended release next month, according to developers Sports Interactive.
Anyone who pre-ordered the game will be given a refund, they say. "Following extensive internal discussion and careful consideration with SEGA, we have made the difficult decision to cancel Football Manager 25 and shift our focus to the next release," said the developers in a statement. "Whilst many areas of the game have hit our targets, the overarching player experience and interface is not where we need it to be...
we’re too far away from the standards you deserve. "We could have pressed on, released FM25 in its current state, and fixed things down the line - but that’s not the right thing to do.
We were also unwilling to go beyond a March release as it would be too late in the football season to expect players to then buy another game later in the year." This other game is a reference to the next instalment, Football Manager 26.