Football Manager 2023: Five of the best teams to manage

Football Manager 2023 is one of the most anticipated PC games of the year.

Sports Interactive have released a Football Manager game in every year since 2005, when the franchise split from Championship Manager.

FM22 has been a critical and commercial hit and recently passed the one million sales mark, as per Miles Jacobson, the head of SI.

Part of the joy of Football Manager is diving into saves that span years, although that will often depend on what kind of player you are.

Do you prefer to build a lower-league side up and eventually taste glory with them, decades after first taking the reigns? Or do you like to dive in with your favourite Premier League club and aim for trophies straight away?

We’ve put together a list of five of the most intriguing clubs to manage on FM23 when it finally releases.

The game’s release date has yet to be revealed.

Nottingham Forest

Forest are back in the big time.

Steve Cooper’s side were promoted from the Championship last season, eventually finding navigating their way through the play-offs.

And it’s a huge challenge to keep them up!

They are splashing the cash on a variety of new players, but Forest haven’t been in the top-flight since 1999.

Can you both keep them up and guide them to glory eventually?

Derby County

They were handed a huge points deduction last season and relegated from the Championship and since then, boss Wayne Rooney has left, and a number of players have also said goodbye to the Rams.

Now that they’re in League One, they will have to return soon enough or risk falling into something approaching financial oblivion.

Without their points deduction, they’d have been comfortably mid-table. Can you get them back to the second-tier and, eventually, to the Premier League?

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