Post original de u\/Jokuzz no r\/footballmanagergames, com os coment\u00e1rios da comunidade<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"H\u00e1 uns dias, um utilizador do Reddit contou uma situa\u00e7\u00e3o que muitos treinadores de FM j\u00e1 viveram: vai disputar a final do Mundial e, de repente, percebe que um dos seus jogadores se reformou. Neste caso foi o Alexander S\u00f8rloth, com 34 anos, no dia da final contra a Fran\u00e7a. Ainda assim, o post, de […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":20436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_fmpt_thumbnail_en":20436,"_fmpt_metadesc_en":"In an FM26 save, a striker retired on World Cup final day. The community says it is an old problem. Here is the story.","_fmpt_content_en":"
A few days ago, a Reddit user shared a situation many FM managers have lived through: you are about to play the World Cup final and suddenly find out one of your players has retired. In this case it was Alexander S\u00f8rloth, aged 34, on the day of the final against France. Still, the post by Jokuzz reached 257 upvotes and reopened an old debate about how FM handles retirements.<\/p>\n
An FM26 striker who hung up his boots on the worst day<\/h2>\n
S\u00f8rloth was the backup striker, and the news popped up as if nothing had happened. Even so, for the author it is the kind of thing that breaks immersion. He also noted that \u00d8degaard, according to the save, will leave international football in six months, aged 31.<\/p>\n
![\"Not\u00edcia](\"https:\/\/fmportugal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/sorloth-captura-1.png\")
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(Captura: u\/Jokuzz, r\/footballmanagergames)<\/em><\/p>\n![\"Calend\u00e1rio](\"https:\/\/fmportugal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/sorloth-captura-2.png\")
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(Captura: u\/Jokuzz, r\/footballmanagergames)<\/em><\/p>\nIt is not the first time in FM26<\/h2>\n
The comments show the problem is not new. For example, one user said his captain and best player, Eto'o, retired right after the team got through the World Cup group stage, about ten years ago. Another saw an Argentine striker leave the national team at 29, even though the team was doing well. Finally, someone recalled that in FM2006 a Czech captain retired before a semi-final, a case more than 20 years old.<\/p>\n
Haaland was also caught out in a recent post, where he retired at 30. In other words, the list of cases is long.<\/p>\n
What the community says about a fix in FM26<\/h2>\n
One comment suggested the problem is already fixed in FM26, or at least reduced. However, we found no official confirmation, so treat it as the community's guess. In addition, another user recalled that about 15 years ago players delayed retirement during major tournaments. The logic existed, and it may have been lost along the way.<\/p>\n
Our take on FM26<\/h2>\n
It is a small detail, but exactly the kind of thing that takes the fun out of a long career. So anyone who has lost a captain halfway through a World Cup knows FM is not just numbers.<\/p>\n