A Fair Review...
Navigation
CM07 navigation is fantastic, most screens are accessiable within 2 clicks. The right click short cut is a blessing which allows u to travel to screen you mostly visit. However be warn of backscreen. It works abit differntly from FM. For example a player attribute screen is different from his histroy screen. A back space from histroy screen will take you back to the attribute screen unlike FM which consider the 2 screen as 1.
Comprehensive
One of the most important expect, the joy of finding a wonderkid. Sadly CM07 is not as comprehensive as FM. When i started italian league, it doesn' t even have Freddy Adu. And that pretty much explain it, it just lack a lot of player for you to "explore".
Training wise it blows FM away. With the detail training of what type of traing you wish your player to do in CM07 pretty much like those good old CM04. But to be honest I don't really cares, never touch it.
Match wise we will have to touch on Pro-link, a system used by professional managers, providing detail analysis of what went right and wrong. But well this is another option which is too comprehensive and I wouldn't use it unless my bread and butter is on the line... It will take ages to finish to a season.
Lastly it can provide player rating up to a scale of hundred instead of the traditional 20.
Realistic
Now for players status, it really bugs me as to how players like Aggar and Oliver Kapo has GOD-LIKE state in just the first season. I am sure they might become player of that calibre in given time but by no way they are that cool. Likewise some better players will seems to have lower state.
As for transfers it is easier to see player at a higher price but at the same time players are also sold at reasonable price, Messi cost around 35mil no 60mil like in FM07.
AI
This is something that is really annoying. Players will start complaining when you just "rest" them, even when they only miss out on 3 or 4 match in a season they will whine that you are not playing them enough. After 2 match of rating 8 or above, if you put them on sub bench they will also complain.
Speed
Starting and loading of game speed are decent but the match seems to flow a little too fast. But while passing through days there isn't really much of a loading time as you are still able to navigate and read mails etc.
Graphic
Overall the games seems empty. But who cares about graphic when it comes to game of this gender. But something that really bugs me at the start is playing player and substitute player. The colour could be confusing esp for those playing club with dark jersey. For Juventus, active players are black while non-playing are yellow. The colour can somewhat confuse who are your active and who are not.
Sound
Nobody cares but if anything it does have a "ping" sound when you got mail. So thats a thumbs up.
Last Note
CM07 is inferior to FM07 thought overall it might not lack the comprehensiveness in most aspect but it does lack wide pool of player and realistic of state. And unfortunately the comprehensiveness fall into the region that nobody cares. One of the main reason i am sticking to FM07 should be attributed to the superior AI emotion of FM compare to the dumb AI of CM.