Madison, WI - Sources within Forward Madison indicate that the staff of the USL League One side has abandoned management of their USL1 Side to fully focus on their Football Manager save.

“We thought this partnership and contest with Football Manager was going to be fun for our fans but it turns out that everyone in the office is helping us play on this one save, now,” stated one anonymous insider. “We are currently in the offseason, but our scouting team is scouring the current Football Manager instance for any new e-players that we can sign.”

Current Forward Madison players were reportedly tasked with playing out in-game scenarios in a recent scrimmage as the blue and pink team played against each other in a consequence free wargame to illustrate different Football Manager tactics.

“We needed to figure out how to line up in the upcoming e-season we are starting this e-Saturday,” stated head coach Daryl Shore. “It’s important for our physical side to really show the limitations of the new e-formation we want to use in the upcoming e-season. Using our physical players to help with our current save is a way we can really avoid having to create a new career save if we rage quit.”

With all the resources now focused on Football Manager, Forward Madison are working on selling e-season tickets to their e-fans for a private Twitch stream of the staff playing Football Manager in their office.

“I can’t wait,” stated current season ticket holder Carla Jones. “I made some e-T.I.F.O that I’m going to e-raise for some e-players.”

The Nutmeg News will have more on this as some of the staff look up and realize it’s actually 4:00 in the morning and they are on year 42 of their season save and they ate Red Vines for dinner.