Player Manager - A Sports Progression Fantasy

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Player Manager 15 = Soccer Supremo 1 ... Books 1 to 6 are on All The Platforms!! Max Best is too smart for a normal career, but too poor to further his education. He has a dead-end job, and he's stuck there. That's until a chance encounter gives him new abilities - he can see the attributes of soccer players. Big deal. But will Max ever realise he's holding a winning lottery ticket? And is this ability a super power... or a curse? Player Manager is a progression fantasy set in the modern world. It's perfect for fans of Football Manager, the FIFA games, and last-minute disallowed goals. Soccer Supremo is the continuation series. Book 1 of that is book 15 of Player Manager. It makes sense, just go with it. Schedule: New chapters Monday and Friday.

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Status: Ongoing
Year: 2022
Author: TedSteel

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Rating: 4.7/ 5.0
Followers: 2,204
Views: 1,101,903

What readers say about Player Manager - A Sports Progression Fantasy

“This series was a total joy to read and experience. I care not about football or management and yet I devoured this for the past couple of months. its actually so entertaining and exciting and I wish the best for Chester football club and the Scottish demon…”
BillstersaurusRoyal Road5.0 / 5
“I can honestly say this is one of my favourite series ever. I have never played a serious game of soccer in my life but I’ve played plenty of other sports and this scratches and itch I didn’t even realise I had to cross sport and fantasy together. Never tho…”
BushyRoyal Road5.0 / 5

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Community Reviews(10)

BillstersaurusRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This series was a total joy to read and experience.
I care not about football or management and yet I devoured this for the past couple of months.
its actually so entertaining and exciting and I wish the best for Chester football club and the Scottish demon who kicked the story off.
Great read!
BushyRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I can honestly say this is one of my favourite series ever. I have never played a serious game of soccer in my life but I’ve played plenty of other sports and this scratches and itch I didn’t even realise I had to cross sport and fantasy together. Never thought I’d get the same or more enjoyment from an online novel progression fantasy as I did from anything by Brandon Sanderson or Robert Jordan but here we are with Max Best stealing the show. Whether you enjoy sport or not I think this is a cracking series but considering that I do it really catapults this series into something special for me.
CocolopolisRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This is probably the best story dialogue I've read in Royal Road, bar none. The protagonist is magnificently real. Supporting characters have their own agendas and add excellence to the pacing of this story.
Internal vs external conflict.
Internal vs external goals.
Conflicting agendas.
Multiple conflicts in multiple levels: Personal, situational, organizational, and global.
A story that focuses deeply on development of secondary characters.
Will there be typos? Legion. I've seen dozens of typos, malapropism, homophones, etc. The work could use a solid proofreader, but does not require extensive content or line editing.
Some of the chapter PoV and presentation choices pissed me right off: The overuse of news shows and podcasts (reminiscent of listening to the radio or watching the game on TV with commentators). I hated them... and yet... when they work.... they REALLY work.
It's a brave artistic choice, given the subject matter and the difficulty involved. It's innovative in its presentation and energy.
I guess the best way to describe this work is 'adrenalin.' This series is sports adrenalin.
This is one of those works that can be sold, typos and all, as posted here on Royal Road.
Craig CraigRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I know nothing of British jargon, much less soccer jargon, but somehow the story is absolutely captivating.
The MC has his world upended by a LitRPG system, and he responds with a manic and chaotic energy that will entertain you on every page.
I am super invested and you will be too.
DavidLingardAuthorRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The audiobooks ruined my life. That’s a good way to start actually. I went through books one to six in a matter of days, I didn’t sleep, I didn’t eat… I just listened, listened and listened.
I just hoped there would be more.
but after book six, the fantastically narrated audiobooks came to an end (so far) and I found myself needing more.
i then listened to “The Damned United” to try to scratch the football itch, but it just wasn’t good enough.
I haven’t read physical text in a long while - not for leisure anyway.
So when I say that I then signed up for the RR premium plan just so I could download the story and read it OFFLINE, that’s the one biggest compliment I could give.
I don’t regret my decision at all. I need to know more about Max Best and what’s happening to Chester. I need to know that the curse is going to last and that the ominous referee isn’t going to ruin everything. And you know what? I can still hear the narrator through the writing, the experience isn’t diminished not one bit.
This, Primal Hunter and Dungeon Crawler Carl are my top three series. I love it.
Thankyou for writing this amazing series!
DraneRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
An engaging story about a man having a chance encounter and slowly centering his life around football and finding joy in it. It starts off rough for me but I kept reading as it was a nice break from the action filled story I was mostly reading and glad I did it.
FakeKnightRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This is a nice story for everybody that knows football and how passionate people can be about the weirdest stuff. The author chose a nice starting point on lower divisions that most people don't care enough but it's always fun to watch and cheer for a team there (Hereford for me) and it's good overall on the progression of everything.
Now there are somethings on the character side that made me really struggle at the start, and that is Max himself someone so brash and explosive on every single issue was not super fun to read, it was like going back to 5 year olds crying on a market for their parents to buy stuff that they couldn't, it really was a 1.5/5 on the character score for me, but Ted made a good job improving on Max and surrounding cast, i like MD and Jackie and how they bounce off on the new Max, i like how harebrained the schemes are for people outside etc.
Grammar nice and clean not much to say here.
Story is good simple like that, read and form your own conclusions. Even if i kinda want more focus on managing and less Nick that part always feels like dragging everything down.
Tl;dr : Really good constant improvement from the author that impressed me.
LordOfMurderRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This story is great, it's amazing it's a tour de force. The highs are high, the lows are low, the pacing is excellent, the characters and emotions feel human and believable and the main characters struggle to get better at football and better at being a decent guy is riveting.
10/10
LordfalcosparveriusRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I originally reviewed this at chapter 6. I've left that original review below, but now I've been following this story for a couple of years, I just have to come back and say that absolutely everything has improved, and it started pretty great to begin with. The characters have really gelled, the writing is playful and fun, the sports moments are epic. This has become one of my absolute favorite litrpgs ever.
OG review;
The story definitely scratches the itch for anyone looking for a contemporary "normal world" Litrpg. We have an mc who sees player profiles after a freak chance encounter. The scouting abilities give info like you'd find in any sports management sim. You see skill numbers, speed, footedness, best position, etc. It's a very good blend of real life and game mechanics.
It's early days yet at chapter 6, but I am really excited to see where this story heads. It's got a great premise and the mc really seems to make rational decisions and believable mistakes. There's not really a ton of other characters fleshed out at this point, although we have met a few that are pretty interesting. There's some plot hooks that I don't know what the payoff will be, but I'm interested in finding out. But mainly what brings me in is the football content which is very good.
The grammar seems fine without any serious spelling mistakes. It's easy to read though it definitely has an urban England style to it.
All in all, I highly recommend this fic so far, especially for those looking to scratch that realistic modern sports Litrpg itch.
ArararaRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Oh wow! Definitely satisfies that "LiRPG but in the modern world" itch I've been feeling recently. Also, I LOOOVE the British humour, I wish it weren't such a rare thing to see on Royalroad. The progression is also nice, there's some lovely mystery, and I like the MC alot. The writing is on point, too! And the release rate! Stop, Mr. Author, I'm going to feint (swoon?)!!! Favourited, 5.0, nothing more to say. Stop reading reviews and open Chapter 1, Mr. Reader. Don't worry, you don't need to know shit about football to enjoy this gem.
Obligatory critique, since I put some in every review: he's banging too many hot women for my liking. Like it's no big deal, it gets glossed over like a normal Tuesday. We get it, he's a playa, goes well with the title, but its a bit cringe, or even pandery to me. (Even if it's because of some demonic Systemy influence...)