Football Manager has never been released but it will be a new version of Championship Mangager in many respects. What happened was Edios (the company that published CM) and SI (the company that developed CM) split and will not be developing a game. Edios owns the name Championship Manager and will be developing a new football management game of their own this year. Sports Interactive lost the name Championship Manager but are develping Football Manager (and entered into a publishing/distribution deal with sega) from the same code as CM with the same programmers and researchers that have always worked on CM.
So even though it won't have the same name, Football Manger (or MLS Manger as it will be released in the US) will pretty much be the new version of CM and CM will be a different game.
just a warning, last time i tried to do a multiplayer it didn't work, in fact i have played about 5 multiplayer games only one of which actually worked :groan: