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Charlie Austin cost Southampton just £4 million a few seasons back, whilst Alex Smithies was captured by the newly-promoted Cardiff City £3 million this season. In recent years, we at QPR have seen their most talented players leave for next-to-nothing. His pace as well as tight ball control and ability inside the penalty box quickly made him a fan-favourite at Loftus Road, and after a positive pre-season this time round, there was a lot of talk surrounding his future at the club.
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His professional debut came in January of last year playing 18 minutes in an FA Cup tie against Blackburn Rovers, but it was last season where he began to turn heads, netting twice in 16 appearances for then-manager Holloway.
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The tricky winger is complementary of the improved youth system at Queens Park Rangers which is host to a bunch of quality players and coaches, and one of whom who should be widely credited for said work is former first team manager, Chris Ramsey.Įze joined QPR on a free agent in August 2016 after spells in the youth set-ups of fellow London clubs Arsenal and Fulham, before a uneventful two-year loan at Championship rivals Millwall. When Lopez’ skullduggery was uncovered, Madeira was removed from future versions of the game, and the magical striker was once again just a figment of the imagination.But the standout player of this bunch is the London-born winger, Ebere Eze, who, to the relief of Twitter’s QPR faithful, put pen to paper in a three contract extension. Lopez revelled in the role of maker, and Madeira was given outrageously brilliant statistics and attributes in the game, and became a hero to millions of players. Rumour has it that Lopez chose the name Tó Madeira as a nod to his impending holiday to Madeira, the Portuguese island.
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Thus Tó Madeira was born, a fictional player to represent the career that Antonio Lopez had once dreamed about. However, Lopez’ time at Gouveia had been cut short by his studies, and Lopez had spotted a unique opportunity the chance to immortalise himself in a career that he’d never had. Lopez had actually represented Gouveia at youth level as a player, and was therefore seen as the ideal man to provide a realistic interpretation of the club’s playing staff. He was entrusted with the task of providing the information and squad list of the Portuguese team Gouveia.
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Naturally then, the creators of the series of games must use many researchers and scouts to build up this database of clubs, players and information.Īntónio Lopez was one such researcher. Top football managers such as Arsene Wenger have confessed to having used these databases in some way when searching for new players to recruit. Season after season within the game, Madeira would score goals at an alarming rate, often ending the campaign with a strike rate of more than one per game.īut it wasn’t his fictional managers that were responsible for his breathtaking form it was a man called António Lopez.Ĭhampionship Manager, and nowadays Football Manager, are games that are driven by hugely intricate and detailed databases. Yet intriguingly there was something even more extraordinary about Tó Madeira: he didn’t exist.
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If ever a side needed lifting, if ever a team needed a goal, Madeira was the man to provide it. All key attributes for the modern day striker, and Madeira was a man who had it all. Pace, finishing, dribbling, determination. Everything he touched seemed to turn to gold. There was something magical about Tó Madeira.
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Tó Madeira was a must-buy striker for Championship Manager 01/02 players, but there was a darker side to his meteoric rise. The fourth instalment of the Championship Manager Heroes series uncovers the truth about one of the game’s biggest stars.