Football Manager 2023 is out now, and also available via PC Game Pass

But I do wish Touch was back on PC

This year’s new features include a “Squad Planner and Experience Matrix”. This is a new screen that gathers together information about your squad to allow you to see at a glance how many players deep you are at each position, and what the squad might look like one and two seasons in advance. From here, you can theoretically make decisions about recruitment, spotting that your right-back position will need reinforcements 18 months in the future and directing your staff to start scouting replacements or developing youngsters.

I’ve played a lot of Football Manager over the past, oh no, 26 years. More recently, I’ve played it most in its “Classic” edition, which stripped back much of the modern faff of digital management - press conferences, training sessions, more press conferences - in favour of a version more closely aligned with the Championship Manager of old.

That edition was renamed Football Manager Touch and more recently has not been released on PC. This year, it’s available on Nintendo Switch and iOS devices via Apple Arcade.