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This week's Wednesday Wisdom focuses on developing young players and creating a pathway for your promising youngsters. This is one of the most exciting parts of Football Manager, as explained brilliantly by @InvWingBacks

The latest edition of Why I Love FM features our chat with prolific striker and current Sydney FC number nine - Adam Le Fondre. 

Today's Wednesday Wisdom comes courtesy of @FM_Grasshopper who is here to tell you how to make your players more versatile so you can get the best out of them across all areas of the pitch. 

If you think you've got what it takes to spread your own Wednesday Wisdom then drop us a line at byline@sigames.com. 

This week's edition of Why I Love FM features our chat with writer, journalist and broadcaster Carl Anka who rolls back the years to recall the very best moments from his Football Manager career. 

It’s been another memorable Ligue 1 Conforama season packed with surprise performers and emerging talents. We’ve seen plenty of players make their name in the league over the last few years and what better way to increase your knowledge of French football and acquaint yourselves with some of the stars of the future than by getting stuck into a Ligue 1 Conforama save on Football Manager 2019?

This week’s Wednesday Wisdom is a debut piece from @DictateTheGame with a focus on the Libero. The defensive role is one that isn’t spoken about too often in the mainstream analysis of football, but its fundamentals are very much ingrained in the modern game. 

We sat down with the lovely chaps at Mundial to talk all things Football Manager. It’s fair to say that they’re big fans of ours with references to the game and its cultural impact cropping up in the magazine and website. Issue 18 of the Mundial mag is now available to order, we thoroughly suggest you check it out. Their writing is very good, annoyingly good.

Great commentary can stir our emotions and stick in our memories, becoming almost as unforgettable as the action itself. Commentary plays a vital part in the Football Manager match-day experience too, with hundreds of different lines appearing, all triggered by different events in your favourite simulation. Some only crop up during those special, once-in-a-save moments and, of course, there are some you’d rather never see. Here are the highs and lows of football illustrated by FM commentary lines.

This week's wisdom is being spread by @DazzaFM who has focused on match preparation. Failure to prepare is preparing to fail…   

‘It’s going to be a long summer without any football’ they’re all saying. Nothing to watch, follow or get excited about. You, an intellectual with your finger on the pulse of football culture, sit back in your chair and laugh.

We've got some time until we need to think about domestic football again. There’s the small matter of an international tournament that England – yes, England – are the favourites to win.

Our next instalment of Why I Love FM saw us sit down with author, journalist and all-round football expert Michael Cox. Michael's obsession with tactics is something very much shared in our office and we're already getting stuck into his latest book, Zonal Marking - The Making of Modern European Football. You can pick it up now, here. 

Wednesday Wisdom returns thanks to @FM_Samo who takes on the subject of captaincy. It's a large part of a manager's responsibility, so how do you get it right?