Why that many? As Miles writes, he asked one of his colleagues in the SI to choose any number from 1 to 6 and the answer was a four. Nothing better than a well thought-through marketing campaign... However, moving on - below is the list of the novelties:

• expanded on the things you can do on a group of players from the national pool, now it will be easier to move players from one squad to another
• newgens who use nicknames (as for example a large number of players from South America) will have more realistic names
• newgens with several nationalities will be generated and later in the game they will decide for which national team they want to play
• club records have been expanded on, for example a statistic of the fastest scored goal was added

It is clear to see that the newest features belong more to the group of curiosities than revolutionary changes, but not all the novelties can be on a level with the 3D view. Since I mentioned it, the most important information from this blog was that this week we will find out how much the PC requirements were heightened up by the 3D in Football Manager 2009.