CMfrenzy dilivering you the scope on football manager 2009: Find out all about the new features here. View the screenshots to get a more personal look in the game. Oh yeah and watch the exclusive, revolutionary 3D match engine footage!!

Remember that if you want to see the video announcements, you can do so on www.youtube.co.uk/sigames - there will be more features announced, more improvements announced, and an indepth look at some of the features, in the coming months.

Exclusive 3D match engine footage!- This is a short 30 second clip of the 3d match engine. Okay it's short, and still very much a work in progress but it's the longer than anything you will see on the net.

Screenshots - 15 screenies of brand new features in football manager 2009. A picture tells a thousand words!

Transfer rumours

Invitation to England trials

Press Conference 1

Overall Confidence

Press conference

Press conference - female manager

Preferred moves

Football Manager 2009 Match day 1

Football Manager 2009 Match day 2

Football Manager 2009 Match day 3

Football Manager 2009 Match day 4

Football Manager 2009 Match day 5

Improved Modules

Improved Media - SI have worked hard to reflect the greater impact the media has been having in recent years on the world of football, in the in-game dealings with the press. The game now features more news stories, more detail and greater media interaction than ever before.

Board Confidence- Following on from its addition in Football Manager 2008, board confidence has been expanded and improved. In addition, the board will now also feedback to you on your squad harmony and the club's stature in the football world.

Realistic Finances - SI have listened to feedback from all of their researchers to try and model every single financial area of the game correctly for each country, including transfers, staff wages, budgets, ticket prices, season tickets, competition bonuses and club sponsorships.

Updated Competitions - Fully updated for the new 2008/09 football season with all the latest league, club and player data, featuring over 5,000 playable clubs from over 50 countries, and around 350,000 players and staff from around the world, drawn fresh from the famous Sports Interactive database.

Transfer System - Completely new and re-written transfer system code, providing an even more realistic simulation of real-life football transfers.

And regens have also been improved...

Match engine / 3d view / TV view

This year's match engine has seen more testing than ever before having been extensively beta tested in Football Manager? Live for the past year.

The famous Football Manager match engine can now be viewed in full 3D with motion captured animations the players. Sports Interactive has been working on the 3D match engine with the support of SEGA Japan's football development team who provided the motion capture data and some of the animations.

You can now watch your matches in 3D from multiple camera angles and re-watch any part of the match by fast forwarding and rewinding the action using a new match time bar that flags the key moments in the game.

The old 2d view of the match engine is still there, especially for those people whose computers aren't powerful enough to take advantage of the 3d views.

Watch your matches in new full screen TV view and customise your match day screen with widgets to view the information you need as a football manager, be it player performance, match action zones, pitch radar, latest scores and many more.

Press Conferences

Attend pre-match and post-match press conferences with local and national journalists and build up relationships with them over time, but choose your answers carefully because they could come back to haunt you in the media at a later date.
assistant manager feedback

Pre-match and in-match feedback from your Assistant Manager on how the team is performing and your player's motivation levels, as well as hints on how your tactics are working and how you could outwit the opposition's tactics.