The reason for that is pretty simple – podcast is the whay in which the Sports Interactive director presents the yet unpublished news about Football Manager 2009 to the public. This part contained ten of those...

• The distance a player runs throughout the match is calculated. It can be seen in player's match stats and is displayed in either miles or kilometers.
  
• The assistant's team report has been expanded – now if our assistant thinks our team needs strengthening in certain position he can suggest specific players.
  
• More options concerning going on holiday – you can now set to apply for a job in a team playing in a specific (top, lower, or the lowest) league.
  
• Further improvements of players' match rating – players who played for less than ten minutes won't be evaluated, so it won't affect their average rating.
  
• A suggestion can be made to the board for affiliating (as a parent or feeder) with a particular club, however, only if our superiors have a lot of confidence in us.
  
• The stadium extension works will finally start after the last home game of a season. Maybe it's hard to believe, but until now the works started at the beginning of a season.
  
• Enquiries about loans will be introduced, and these won't be limited to specific players only. These could be send to a club and we will receive a list of players the club is willing to loan.
  
• The transfer rules have been adjusted to domestic leagues – they will appear on league rules screen. A few of such exceptions have already been implemented, e.g. 'the joker rule' in France, or, what we've written about, intricate transfer regulations in MLS.
  
• B teams, popular for instance in Spain, who have been reserve teams are now implemented as feeder teams.
  
• Club awards have been improved – now the whole history will be recorded, not only the last winners.

This is probably the last podcast so abundant with Football Manager 2009 novelties due to the fact that the long awaited blog is to be started next week and the creators will reveal more secrets there as well. Nonetheless, the next part (in two weeks time) will surely be equally popular. For the time being, I invite you to downloading and listening to today's podcast.