Football Manager wonderkids are the stuff of legend. 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.
Football 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.
But sometimes they get it spot on. 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.
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.
Erling Haaland – FM18
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.
Don’t get us wrong, he was rated as a wonderkid. 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 became a cheap option for FM18 managers, helping to fire mid-table sides to Champions League spots in Germany, France, Italy and England.
But even that totally underestimated him. 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.
At least we’ll have the good old days.
#7 Goal of Haaland’s career
📆 1 Jul 2018
🏆 Eliteserien
SK Brann 0-4 Molde FK#superhaaland #haaland #moldefk #erlinghaaland #eliteserien pic.twitter.com/UN4jiPM17A
— Super Haaland (@SuperHaaland) May 4, 2021
Sergio Ramos – FM06
In 2005 Ramos got his…
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