Antoine Griezmann enjoys playing Football Manager, but there's a good reason the Atletico Madrid attacker hasn't signed himself this season.
Thanks to the amazing people at Sports Interactive, many of us have spent a lot of time acting as if we were in charge of a football team.
Because they truly become your team in FM, as anyone who has played it enough can attest, it can cause people to become completely fixated on the most unlikely of teams.
That explains why a Spanish man went to watch sixth-tier Alfreton Town play on his stag do and even had the opportunity to serve as the team's mascot for the day.
Another man traveled more than a thousand miles to watch a third-tier team in Italy, and it was even implicated as the cause of some divorces.
When Laura Woods shited on our affection for those interactive spreadsheets from a great height, it delivered a huge blow to those of us who adore them, but at least we're not the only ones—even football players participate.
One of the most well-known players that dabbles with FM is Griezmann, who has announced that he will continue be playing this season while managing Bordeaux.
He said to ESPN that the French team's standing in Ligue 2 has prohibited him from signing himself because he would be making too much money or would at the very least have to down his salaries too much, and it's simply not feasable.
Without a doubt, Atleti's capacity to afford the France star this year almost destroyed his season as a real player on a real football field.
At the start of the previous campaign, he returned to the club on loan from Barcelona, but due to a provision in the agreement, Diego Simeone was under strict orders not to play him.
If he had played too frequently, the team would have needed to spend a lot of money on him to make his return to the Wanda Metropolitano permanent.
He continued to enter the game in the 60th minute until a new arrangement with Barcelona was reached because the club from the Spanish capital could not afford that fee.
He had a good season with his club in addition to his stellar performance for France at the World Cup, which helped them advance to the final.
But Didier Deschamps chose Kylian Mbappe as the new captain instead of the guy who served as Hugo Lloris' deputy captain, casting some doubt on his future with the national team.
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