Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters See our Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid Email Hundreds of scouts gather data on the tens of thousands of real players included in the game’s database. But they’re not always right. Each generation includes teenage prodigies tipped to be the next big thing; legendary names that any Championship Manager fan will recognise. But for a lot of these kids, CM was the height of their fame – they never quite managed to match their in-game exploits.
Ever wondered what happened to the players that made up the core of your quadruple-winning sides of yesteryear? Tonton Zola Moukoko. Ganool semi terbaru. Edition: CM 01/02 Position: Striker In the game: It didn’t matter that they didn’t spell his name correctly (it’s actually “Maksim Tsyhalka”) – Max was blessed. If deployed correctly, as a poacher in the box, the Dinamo Minsk kid was known to score more than 100 goals a season. And all for a price of less than £2m. In real life: Retired by the age of 26, in 2009, because he was so injury prone he might as well have been made of biscuits. His twin brother is still a pro goalie, though, and luckily doesn’t appear to have the same problems keeping his body in one piece.
Championship Manager: Season 99/00 screenshots: Picture the scene - a crowd of lads in the pub, beers in hand, loudly discussing Saturday's full-time football scores. One of them bemoans the recent misfortunes of his lifelong supported team.
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Read More • 3. Ibrahima Bakayako Edition: CM 97/98 Position: Striker In the game: He made Bergkamp look like a white van with the parking brake left off, slowly backing into a canal. In real life: His nickname with Everton fans was “Baka-joke-o”, as his £4.5m move to Merseyside gave a return of only four goals.
Since he left England in 1999 he’s travelled Europe’s minor leagues, most recently finding some success in Greece’s second division. Serge Makofo. Grimsby Town Football Club first team during the photocall at Blundell Park, ahead of the 2011/2012 season.
Pictured wearing the teams home kit is Serge Makofo. Picture: Rick Byrne PICTURE: Rick Byrne / Grimsby Telegraph REQUESTED BY: Paul Smith CONTACT: DATE: POSTCODE: KEYWORDS: Mariners, home strip, kit Edition: CM4 Position: Striker (mostly) In the game: Every time you started a new game, Makofo – at then-new despicable franchise club MK Dons – played in a different position, but no matter where you put him he excelled.
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And thanks to his club’s financial problems, you could get him for close to nothing. In real life: Non-league journeyman, with seasons at such glamorous clubs as Maidenhead United, Potters Bar Town and Grimsby, where he was so awful even the club’s chairman. Cherno Samba.
PUBLIC Cherno Samba Millwall 2002/3 6-8-2002 Edition: CM 01/02 Position: Striker In the game: The kind of striker that doesn’t so much “kick a ball” as “hadouken the f**k out of it”. In real life: He scored 132 goals in 32 youth games at the tender age of 13, so the hype seemed fair. Except, well, like a lot of “teenage” African stars with missing birth certificates, “young” Cherno literally looked like a man playing against boys. He’s officially only 27, but he’s been released from his last club in Norway and by all accounts is nearly past it already. Edition: CM 03/04 Position: Winger/Striker/Attacking midfielder In the game: A ludicrously gifted 14-year-old, Freddy could slot straight into the first-XI of almost any team in the world. He’d only get better from there. In real life: Ah, hubris.
Freddy’s still only 22, but his early fame has made everything he’s done since look like failure. Everyone was treating him like a true superstar for so long – he was endorsing Campbell’s Soup and appearing on the cover of Sports Illustrated before he could grow facial hair – that, when it became clear that he was probably only Quite Good at best, it gave the phrase “the next Freddy Adu” something of an Ozymandian quality. He currently plays for Bahia in Brazil, on loan from the Philadelphia Union. Kennedy Bakircioglu. Taribo West of Derby County's hair was just special Edition: CM 01/02 Position: Defender In the game: Available on a free from AC Milan, Taribo was the solid first signing every manager made at the beginning of any new game. In real-life: After an early career being fought over by Italy’s biggest clubs, Taribo spent much of the 00s flitting around backwater European leagues while sporting the hairstyles that were terrible even for footballers.