Football Manager 2024 has been released live on Steam through early access and fans of the popular game are already sinking their teeth into the latest edition. The series is now over 30-years old and an impressive worldwide database of clubs, players and staff gives gamers the opportunity to take charge of their beloved clubs and attempt to guide them to unprecedented successes.
Just for fun, we simulated three years into the future with the new game to see how clubs across the Scottish Premiership and the rest of the world had fared. Here is how the Hearts starting XI looked in our simulation at the close of the 2026 summer transfer window:
9. CAM - Lyall Cameron
Hearts pay Dundee £450k for the then 21-year old in 2024 and he establishes himself as a first team regular in the 2025/26 season with four league goals in 36 appearances
10. CAM - Omari Hutchinson
A new signing at the start of the 2026/27 seasons who arrives on a free transfer from Chelsea after a loan spell with Wigan Athletic in English Legue One
11. CF - Lawrence Shankland
Now the vice captain at Tynecastle, he scores 41 league goals in three seasons between 2023 and 2026 but Scotland chances are slim and he fails to add to his five caps
12. Manager - Derek McInnes
Steven Naismith leads the club to back-to-back fifth place finishes then is sacked after finishing sixth at the end of the 2025/26 seasons with McInnes coming in from Kilmarnock