
His career saw him climb all the way to the highest echelons of Madrid folklore to sit alongside its greatest Gods, Raul and Alfredo de Stefano.Įven the most committed of FM bosses probably couldn’t deliver digital Ramos the trophy cabinet of the one in real life. Of course, what we now know is that Ramos would become one of the greatest centre-backs of all time. He was a solid rotation option for any Madrid manager and a great signing if you could prise him away in later years. He was seen as a solid investment for the future, and one who would go on to be a key Real Madrid player.įM06 reflected that, giving him some good potential. In 2005 Ramos got his dream move from Sevilla to Real Madrid. SK Brann 0-4 Molde FK #superhaaland #haaland #moldefk #erlinghaaland #eliteserien /UN4jiPM17A His announcement to the world with Red Bull Salzburg in 2019 saw him become the hottest property in Europe, and now he’s off to Manchester City to ruin pretty much every English league save in the coming Football Manager instalments. He became a cheap option for FM18 managers, helping to fire mid-table sides to Champions League spots in Germany, France, Italy and England.īut even that totally underestimated him. Manchester United scouts were supposedly watching when he scored four goals at the age of 17 but that was for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s Molde, where he was quietly bubbling under the surface. He might be one of the biggest names in world football now, but back in 2017, Haaland was far from the man-mountain-cum-goal-robot he is now.ĭon’t get us wrong, he was rated as a wonderkid. So from players who were predicted to be good but became great, to those that were not seen as anything special at all, here are five FM wonderkids who were even better in real life than they were in the game. They are so right in fact, that they go all the way back round to being wrong again because the players went on to become just so good in real life that they were in fact underappreciated in the game. There are hundreds you can purchase for your team to take them to the next level, but while most don’t make it in real life there are some who are so good their FM stats actually undersold them.įootball Manager simply gets most players’ stats wrong, giving them a potential ability that is simply too high and unrealistic for the real life youngsters to attain.īut sometimes they get it spot on.

Football Manager wonderkids are the stuff of legend.
