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Month: December 2020

FM21 Training Features – Give Your Team the Edge!

FM21 Training Features – Give Your Team the Edge!

When managing your team, they say the hard work begins with the basics in training. In Football Manager, this is no exception. It’s not always about picking a tactic you think will work and giving a team talk to your fledgling players. Below, I guide you through the Training Features available in FM21 and using them to your advantage to give your team an edge over the competition.

FM21 – Championship Club Guide

FM21 – Championship Club Guide

In this post we’ll be taking an in depth look at each club in the Championship, including an overview of the club, predicted finish, club vision and some key players, hot prospects and finally I’ll suggest a formation. Welcome to the Football Manager 2021 Championship Guide.

Arsenal FC Club Guide

Arsenal FC Club Guide

So, you think that you can do better than Mikel Arteta? Of course you think that, and you are probably right as well. To help you achieve something other than mid-table mediocrity, here’s the Arsenal FC club guide for FM21!

How to deal with Football Manager frustration

How to deal with Football Manager frustration

It happened. You got scored on in the last minute of the final. Your team missed the last penalty of the shoot-out. Perhaps you simply lost it on goal average. Whatever it is, you’re angry, furious actually, and you wanna be rid of it all. Don’t! Here are five tips on how to deal with Football Manager frustration

Personalities to Look For and Avoid

Personalities to Look For and Avoid

Β Β Β Β Following on from my previous article: Personalities to Look For: 5 of the Best , I want to talk today about five Personalities it’s better to avoid. Once again, I’m focusing here on players in the main part of their career, not youth intake players. And I have deliberately eschewed the easy ones, such as Slack or Spineless. Without further explanation, let’s examine my five Personalities to look for and avoid.

Non-League Legends: Total Football = Total Training

Non-League Legends: Total Football = Total Training

When I set out to recreate Maslov’s style of football with Notts County, it started as a long-term project of developing an effectively simple 4-4-2. I was looking for a formation that could be successful in both lower leagues and the elite ones. For this to work the concepts of intense pressing, strategic possession and constant ball movement had to be central as they were essential in Viktor Maslov’s own tactics. In many ways, Maslov’s tactical ideas contained quite a…

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Five tips to awake a sleeping giant

Five tips to awake a sleeping giant

The Sleeping or Fallen Giant save is the quintessential Football Manager save. Historic venues, black-and-white glory, missed opportunities, flawed heroes; it’s got it all. But no matter if you’re going for an exotic name from an unknown land or one of the traditional powers of the old continent, the question remains: how do we rise again? That the aim of these five tips to awake a sleeping giant on Football Manager

Making a profit in FM21: Friendlies & Contracts

Making a profit in FM21: Friendlies & Contracts

Struggling with your finances in Football Manager 2021? This guide will help you improve your finances which will effect your finances both short and long term. The best way I look at this is as simple as you’re generating the club money which will be invested back in to the club. These simple methods will have an impact on your club and potentially change your outlook on finances. Let’s just get on with it, making a profit in FM21.

Personalities to Look For: 5 of the Best

Personalities to Look For: 5 of the Best

One of the most important qualities a player can have in Football Manager 2021 is his personality. This label is the product of examining the seven hidden attributes that make up Personality (Loyalty, Professionalism, Ambition, Controversy, Sportsmanship, Temperament, and Pressure), plus Determination and Leadership. In this piece I’ll be looking at the top five Personalities to look for in a player.

Backroom Staff in FM21: The Team Behind The Team

Backroom Staff in FM21: The Team Behind The Team

A team is more than the sum of its parts. It is more than just the players on the pitch and the manager. For every Clough there is a Taylor. For every Ferguson a Jackal or a Phelan, or for every Big Sam a suite of analysts and happy looking agents. A club is supported and nurtured by the backroom staff. An even the lowliest coach or physio can contribute to the success of the club, and often for a…

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