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227 hours later, Football Manager 26 is both broken and, begrudgingly, brilliant

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Ask me what I’m thinking about, at a random moment any hour of the day. There’s a good chance that however you time it, the answer will be either Roma youth academy players, Goncalo Ramos’ egregious salary demands, or that time Maurizio Sarri bodied me in a press conference following our Derby della Capitale. By rights this should not be the case.

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