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Championship Manager: Season 00/01 Version 3.89
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New to version 3.89 (save game compatible)
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* Relaxed financial controls for larger clubs at the request of fans.
* Lessened advantage to players who are dominating the game (ie. lots of passes).
* Improved MLS fixture scheduling
* Greek Cup now uses national stadium for final
* Greek teams are now limited to 6 non EU players for matches
* Fixed bug in African World Cup qualification seeding routine
* Updated version of the editor (1.0.4). A whatsnew.txt can be found in the 'editor' directory of your CM install.
* Tuning of manager release clauses
* Corrected number of subs for several competitions
* Norwegian striker of year award now uses ratings rather than goals scored to find winner
* Fixed some Polish schedules and other issues
* Canada now always play in Confederations Cup 2001
* FA Trophy 2nd round no longer clashes with 1st round of FA Cup
* Changed some Copa America teams
* There was a problem with Virtual staff having a blank staff screen which has now been fixed
* Improved German clubs financial management (lowered stadium costs, increased ticket prices)
* Improved tactical selections for managers who prefer 451 and 343 formations
* Added in a couple of new tactics (451 and 343 formations).
* Fixed some Scottish Premier Division dates
* All Dutch teams playing in Europe now miss the group stage of the DUtch Cup
* Finnish month awards now are always awarded regardless of game start date
* Adjusted some fitness update variables to limit player fitness levels dropping too much
* Olympics 2004 now held in Greece
* Turkish teams now limited to 6 foreigners in squad
* Italian loan deals can now only be terminated in valid transfer windows
* Stopped Finnish teams loaning players for a month in preseason
* Fixed bug in which '0' may appear on some Spanish finance screens
* Norwegian First Division now starts later
* Keepers are now affected more from training
* Australian league games are now no longer televised
* All Oceanic players are now not treated as foreigners in Australia
* Removed foreigner restriction for MLS All Stars Game

NOTE : We believe that there is a corrupt version of the patch that affects the amount of media messages displayed - this version corrects that!

New to version 3.88a
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* Ensured that when not playing the game in English the speed when changing screens is correct

New to version 3.88
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* Tuned Player Ratings for tired creative players
* Fixed 'Match Freeze' bug.
* Tuned 'Wants new contract' unhappiness.
* Increased the media name occurances back up to pre 3.86 levels.


New to version 3.87
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* Stopped National team managers from taking coaching positions
* Ensured that big-name clubs won't take 'coaches' as managers, unless
  they come from within the club.
* Increased the wage budget for big-name clubs slightly
* Increase 'television' moeny in England in accordance with new deal 
  (as from 2001).


New to version 3.86
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* Scottish Premier League teams can no longer loan players off each other
* Fixed news bug with players being called up for international games not being displayed properly
* Fixed problem with Fans Player of the Year list not showing correctly
* Fixed rare crash in the Brazillian league.
* Fixed rare crash involving recently retired players.
* Fixed problem with club position in club screen being set wrongly for the Swedish Second Division.
* Fixed problems with some awards picking players from wrong nations.
* Turkish clubs buying foreign players were getting the wrong message when the transfers were cancelled. The message should have said that the club were not allowed to buy any more foreigners.
* You can now sign players for non-player only positions within the club instead of just player/non-player positions.
* Optimised the Minimum and Normal database settings to strip out a few more of the poor players.
Database size settings for these is now more similar to that of CM99/00. This will speed up the game for people with limited memory available. 
* Random player generation tweaked to stop very young players from starting with awesome amounts of caps.
* Tweaked match engine slightly.
* Allowed the 'pundit.cfg' file to contain references to non-english clubs:
  
	Format for this is:
	<text>	<media type> <club (for local media)> <nation involved>
  or
	<text>	<media type> <nation involved>

If a nation is not found then it is assumed to be 'England'. Please note there is still no support for non-english languages yet.

* Removed unneeded warning 'news.cpp 7624' and 'contract_manager.cpp 5568'.	
* Prevents Club Coaches from being shortlisted for international managers jobs at large nations
* Prevents Non-Players with who aren't physios from taking physio positions
* Implemented real-life increase in the Television cash given to clubs in the English league that
  will come into effect as from next season.
* Improved CPU Manager match AI slightly
* Prevented display of results from background leagues inappropriately

New to version 3.84
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* Fixed some Polish competition schedules and rules.
* Club finance screen - values in certain currencies are now right aligned and use less space if required.
* All selected nations now appear in menu for selecting a nation to scout in.
* Fixed a bug when negotiating a contract with a player. The squad status being offered would sometimes change to "First Team Regular" instead of being kept the same as the previous status offered.
* Fixed rare crash which occured when Next Match screen is viewed.
* Fixed an extremely rare media crash fixed.
* Media generation tuned slightly to prevent 'div 1' players being tipped for England CapsMatch Engine tweaked (and player ratings tuned)
* Players who are anxious to sign a new contract will always negotiate now.

Additional Information
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This update fixes all known problems with CM 00/01 and should you encounter further problems once installed please contact us at bugs@sportsinteractive.co.uk


