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5 Star Potential | A Football Manager Podcast — 420 episodes

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1

On The Market

2

Orange Injured

3

Scottish Reunion

4

The Climax

5

Progression

6

You Can't Win Anything With Kids

7

Work Ball Into Box

8

Change In Fortunes

9

Trials And Tribulations Of FM

10

Started From The Bottom, Now We're Here

11

Decisions, Decisions

12

Cup Wins & Potential Upsets

13

Premier League Problems

14

2026 Christmas Special!

15

A Little Known Podcast

16

Victory In Vitoria

17

Shout, Shout, Let It All Out

18

The Portuguese Puzzle

19

Patch Me Up

20

Sacked In The Morning

21

It's Your Tactics, Mate

22

How FM26 Is Treating Us...

23

FM26 is HERE! First Impressions & Save Plans

24

You BETA Believe It

25

Lost In Translation

26

In-N-Out

27

Is This Thing On?

28

Scudetto Diaries

29

Where is Paul Pogba in all of this?

30

Derby Della Capitale

31

We're Back!

32

The Returning OG

33

FM25 Save Seeking

34

Rising Stars In FM25

35

Gunning For Glory

36

The Christmas Draft

37

Bottom At Christmas

38

PentaDONE?

39

Retro Football Manager

40

The Spanish Inquisition

41

Outside Of The Box

42

Spanish Surge

43

Republic Of Deportivo

44

FM Bragging Rights

45

FM Food For Thought

46

FM25 - Better Late Than Never?

47

Podcasts Collide

48

Potential FM25 Wonderkids

49

The FM Network

50

Up The Clayts

51

FIFAe World Cup Experience!

52

Gauntlet Thrown Down

53

Love Me Like You Used To

54

Two Guys, Two Cups

55

Wonderkids! They're A Thing

56

Doop's New Challenge

57

Your League Winner Is...

58

What Does FM25 Need...

59

20 Minute Pod!

60

Two To Go...

61

Big FM25 Update!

62

It Has Been A Movie

63

Euro Fever

64

Back In The Game

65

A Familiar Face

66

This Time Next Week

67

Short & Sweet

68

Madd's Teenage Sensation

69

Big Man, Little Man

70

New Adventures

71

Madd's FM25 Wishlist

72

Swedish Bottlejob

73

Dave Rejects Doop

74

Chelsea Interested In Madd

75

Globetrotter

76

Money To Burn

77

Madd's Pursuit

78

Who Has Improved On The FM24 Update?

79

Doop Piles On The Pressure

80

A Surprise Return!

81

The Turkish Talisman

82

Doop's Staying Close To Home

83

One Down, Four To Go

84

It's Never Cloudy On FM

85

Is This The Best FM Yet?

86

Argentina's Next Generation 🇦🇷

87

Better Late Than Never

88

2023 Christmas Special!

89

The Sleeping Giant

90

That Calls For A Beier Moretti

91

More Draws Than Ikea

92

Venda Boys!

93

From Russia With Love

94

A Week Into FM24

95

FM24 OUT TODAY!

96

All Or Nothing!

97

FM24 First Thoughts!

98

FM24 Save Reveals!

99

Is The Beta Out Yet?

100

We Find The Best FM24 Wonderkid!

101

Even More FM24 News!

102

It's Time For FM24!

103

Sancho's Sticky Situation.

104

Sacked Again, Madd?

105

Deja Vu!

106

Adventures in Wonderkid-Land

107

Transfer battles in FM

108

New Season Predictions

109

ALIENS IN FOOTBALL MANAGER???

110

A Zlatan of new saves

111

Work The Space: Time For Something New.

112

The Future of Football Manager with Nic Madden

113

MaddFM - Mad About FM

114

'Wonderkids!'

115

Time For A Change...

116

Doctor Benjy: The Resurgence

117

It's Quite Breezy...

118

Transfer Silly Season

119

Prime Bottle Job!

120

Born On A Cold Tuesday Night In Stoke

121

Generational Talents

122

Eddie Howe Not To Play FM23

123

Backroom Boys!

124

Invasion Of The Inverted (Wingback)

125

A Pep In Their Step

126

Keep That Wonderkid!

127

Leading The Line

128

Inconsistently Inconsistent

129

Running Out Of Time

130

If They Are Good Enough...

131

Resurrection and Redemption

132

Winter Update Predictions

133

Klopp's Konundrum

134

Deadline Day Sleep Deprivation

135

Wales. Golf. WHOF. In That Order.

136

Cold Friday Night At Stoke!

137

The Inevitable End Of Season Slump

138

A Gulf In Class

139

Our Big Fat Quiz Of 2022

140

Hello, Merry Christmas 2022

141

I Wasn't Familiar With Your Game

142

The 3 Man Mid!

143

A Patch Is For Life, Not Just For Christmas

144

Bad Neighbours

145

World Cup Wonderkids

146

The Scouting Network

147

On a Madden

148

FM23 First Impressions

149

The One About The Graphics!

150

Our FM23 Plans

151

Our Thoughts On The FM23 Headline Features

152

Our FM22 Team Of The Year

153

Our FM22 Player Of The Year

154

Scouted By Joe

155

Our FM23 Wishlist

156

El Conejo

157

A Tale Of Two Transfer Windows

158

The SI Interviews: Anthony Ioannou

159

The SI Interviews: Ant Farley

160

5 YEARS!?

161

Blunting Three Up Top

162

Visiting SI Towers 3.0

163

Home Alone!

164

Is It Hard Enough?

165

The Man At Number 10.

166

Ring The Hall Of Fame Klaxon!

167

We're All LLAMAs Aren't We?

168

Introducing The London Monarchs

169

Premier League Vs Champions League

170

We Interview Miles Jacobson!

171

End Of Season Aftermath

172

The Wonderkid Hall of Fame is BACK!

173

The Day After The Match Before

174

Holly Plays To Win

175

Scouting Around The World

176

Meaty Man Meta

177

What It's Like To Be An FM Researcher

178

Sam Tighe Ranks FM

179

Master Negotiator

180

Versus Mode

181

The SI Interviews: Andrew Sinclair

182

Winter Update Save Suggestions

183

Who's the Boss?

184

Sliding Into The DMs

185

Midfield Triple Threat

186

Massive Attack

187

Defensive Trio

188

The Showdown's Back For FM22

189

Hacking The January Transfer Window

190

Mimicking Moyes

191

All Of The Quizzes

192

From China To Essex Via Newcastle

193

Christmas Special 2021

194

FM Christmas List

195

Near Post Nonsense

196

Youth Of Tomorrow

197

Morale Manager 2022

198

Three Little Ducks

199

The SI Interviews: Elliott Stapley

200

The SI Interviews: CJ Ramson

201

Love And Loathe: FM22 Edition

202

FM22 First Impressions

203

International Breakdown

204

Our FM21 Team Of The Year

205

FM22 Headline Feature Discussion

206

How To Pick Captain Fantastic

207

Our FM22 Wishlist

208

Our FM21 Wonderkid XI

209

Leaving A Legacy

210

Sticky Scenarios

211

Falling Back In Love With An Old Save

212

Perfecting Pre-Season

213

Replacing Your Talisman

214

Highly Debatable FM Decisions

215

Women's Football in FM

216

FM Refresher

217

Scouted Football Manager

218

Three Star Pod

219

Euro 2020 Wonderkids

220

Two Hundred Not Out...

221

Euro 2020 Preview

222

Sir Alex Challenges You

223

FM Dragons' Den

224

We Review YOUR Saves!

225

6 Months In...

226

Getting Strikers Firing

227

Our FM Hall Of Fame

228

In At The Deep End

229

Recreating The 'Free Eight'

230

Tactical Failures

231

How To Stop 'Being Spursy'

232

Question Time!

233

The Peter Taylor To Your Brian Clough

234

Assymetric Tactics, They're A Thing!

235

Need To Get Rich Quick

236

Don't Look Back In Angers

237

Transfer Tactics

238

Morale Manager?

239

Long Throws - Exploit or Advantage?

240

A Madd One

241

The Streamer Showdown Is Back!

242

Planning Matches For Days

243

Bugging Me Bugging You

244

Matters Of The Heart

245

In Memory Of Maxim

246

Christmas Special 2020

247

Let's Get Technical

248

Achievements: Hunted

249

Train Like A Fox

250

We're All Madd On FM21

251

Now For Something Completely Different...

252

FM21 Save Reveals

253

Miles' Hidden Features

254

Devil Is In The Detail

255

FM21 Features Revealed

256

You Asked, We Answered

257

Busting The Net

258

The SI Interviews: Seb Wassell Is Back Again

259

All Or Nothing

260

The SI Interviews: Simon Tipple

261

Meet The FM Community's Superfan

262

When Streamer Showdown Predictions Go Wrong

263

Our First American!

264

5 Star Potential Turns 3!

265

A True Master Of Disaster

266

Viking Dan's Sunday To Forget

267

TomFM's Bold Prediction

268

What's Going On Guys? Jack's Here!

269

Our FM21 Feature Predictions

270

The Origins Of The FM Community

271

Football Manager Is Still Ruining Lives

272

Rekindled FM Love

273

Lost On A Technicality

274

Communal Counter Attack

275

All The Hackz

276

The SI Boys Are Back In Town

277

FM Doppelganger

278

The Queen Of FM

279

Streamer Showdown Lowdown

280

There's A Draft In Here

281

Tactics, They're A Thing!

282

C.A.L.M Down

283

10,000 Likes To Save Curty's Quiz

284

Football Manager 5-a-Side

285

Quarantine

286

Cure Your Football Cravings

287

The Phil Foden Experience

288

It's A Beautiful Day

289

PEPeration

290

Many Money Questions

291

Spendin' All Yo Munay

292

Making Money In Football Manager

293

Pushing Curty's Buttons

294

Match Engine, Engine Number 9

295

Captain Fantastic

296

Pod Of The Decade

297

Just One More Game...

298

A Spot Of Bother With Squad Numbers

299

Preparation Prevents Piss Poor Performance

300

Here Comes The Money Ball

301

Grass And Gear Invasion

302

Hot Flushes About Hotfixes

303

You Can Never Have Too Many Save Reveals...

304

The SI Interviews: Nic Madden

305

The SI Interviews: Seb Wassell

306

The SI Interviews: Neil Brock

307

Mr & Mrs FM

308

Walk A Mile In Ole's Shoes

309

Bring Back Curty

310

Fox Out The Box

311

Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dom

312

FM20 Save Reveals

313

International Duty

314

Don't Call Us A Cup Team

315

Yes Ndidi

316

To Be Frank

317

Transfer Window Shopping

318

A Proudie Disasterclass

319

101 Degrees

320

Quiz Of The Century

321

Full Steam Ahead

322

Never Look Back

323

Miles Jacobson For A Day

324

The Future Of The 5 Star Pod

325

New Technology!

326

U20s World Cup Wonderkids

327

Dave's Got Problems

328

5 Star Potential Podcast Awards 2019

329

Tactical Prep Like Pep

330

Building Your Backroom

331

Failed Wonderkids

332

It Started With (A) K.I.S.S...

333

Easy Like Sunday Morning?

334

The Drop On Klopp

335

Opinions Are Like Arseholes

336

Tactics Like It's 1999

337

Living The Lower League Life

338

Tactical Journeys

339

New Host Who Dis

340

A Player Role For Every Hole

341

Need To Update This

342

Number 10 Love In

343

Bielsa's Spies

344

Too Much Of A Good Thing

345

Network Saves Are All The Rave

346

#74 - Not A Wrestling Podcast

347

#73 - Brazil Takes A Backseat

348

#72 - New Year, Old Us

349

#71 - The Last Pod Of 2018

350

5 Star Potential Christmas Special 2018

351

#70 - Twas The Night Before The Christmas Special

352

#69 - Filling Your Faces With Filth

353

#68 - MLS Mayhem

354

#67 - We Three Kings

355

#66 - You're In The Spotlight

356

#65 - Acrimonious Sackings

357

#64 - Sports Interactive Sponsorship

358

#63 - An FM19 Guide For Newbies

359

#62 - The Fox Is In The Box

360

#61 - SI's Curtis Morton Is In Town!

361

#60 - Before The Beta Drops

362

#59 - Training Talk

363

#58 - SI Announces FM19 Headline Features!

364

#57 - FM19 Predict-A-Feature

365

#56 - Just Launch It In

366

#55 - Are You For Villarreal?

367

#54 -SI's Social Media Storm

368

#53 - New Save Inspiration

369

#52 - Where's Our Present?

370

#51 - RIP Managerman

371

#50 - The Big Five Oh!

372

#49 - More Superstitions Than Stevie Wonder

373

#48 - So You Wanna Build A Tactic?

374

#47 - The Original FM Bottlejob

375

#46 - This May Not Age Well

376

#45 - VAR VAR Vroom

377

#44 - Set In Our Ways

378

#43 - My Violin's Smaller Than Your Violin

379

#42 - Butch Viking

380

#41 - A Clanger Or Two

381

#40 - The Steven Reid Treatment

382

#39 - Too Posh To Push

383

#38 - Affiliate Your Boots

384

#37 - Bug Bears

385

#36 - A Role For Every Hole

386

#35 - Retro Reminiscing

387

#34 - Don't Call It A Come Back

388

#33 - The Doctor Is In Session

389

#32 - Easter Treats

390

#31 - The Highlight Of Your Week

391

#30 - No Substitute

392

#29 - Intake Some Youth

393

#28 - Winter Update Wonderland

394

#27 - Exploit This

395

#26 - Striking A Balance

396

#25 - All Aboard Curty's Rustle Bus

397

#24 - Assist Me In Assisting You

398

#23 - The Window Slams Shut

399

#22 - Family Matters

400

#21 - Pesky Player Pursuits

401

#20 - And The Winner Is...

402

#19 - New Year, Same Old Tangents

403

#18 - 2017 Christmas Special

404

#17 - The Weatherman Says It's Raining

405

#16 - Parental Advisory

406

#15 - Super Subs Galore

407

#14 - Brexit Enthusiast

408

#13 - Unlucky For Some

409

#12 - Tactical Think Tank

410

#11 - You BETA Believe It

411

#10 - Man Down

412

#9 - Sports Science, Bitch!

413

#8 - Dynamic Chatter

414

#7 - This Is No FM18 Diss Track

415

#6 - Not Angry Just Disappointed

416

#5 - Two In A Bed

417

Kentucky Fried Benteke

418

Down To The Deach

419

The Wanderer Returns

420

Viking Invasion