We often get asked why we don't use real player and manager names in the game. Unfortunately this wouldn't be worthwhile, for a number of reasons.
For a start, in order to use the names of real players, we'd probably need to pay an extremely large licence fee. As a result we'd need to charge more for the game.
Secondly it would be a huge task to keep this database of players constantly updated. Big games like FIFA and Football Manager have lots of employees and a worldwide team of researchers who do that job for them. At Football Chairman we only have one full-time member of staff working on the game!
But even if we went to all that expense and trouble, it wouldn't actually be worth it anyway. Most people play Football Chairman for hundreds of years, so most of the 'real' players and managers would have retired within the first 10 years and be replaced by made-up characters anyway.