This year, I think I felt even more underwhelmed than usual. Being able to delegate the role of shouting from the touchline was one of the heights of the FM20 new features announced. Almost everyone I spoke to felt the same way. There wasn’t much to be excited about before the FM20 beta came out, but it was still a chance to start afresh with updated squads. Yet the game feels more professional and realistic. Let me explain!
Football Manager 2020 is expected to release in November and you’re probably wondering what team to go on the beta. In this PL Teams to Manage in FM20 guide, I will cover youth players and key players for each team. Will it be the newly promoted teams like Aston Villa, or European champions Liverpool, you might even try Chelsea under a transfer embargo? This guide should help you pick a Premier League Team to manage. In part one I will…
Brexit is coming into FM20. No, that’s not the tagline to Boris Johnson’s Game of Thrones themed leaving-do but instead a reality that the United Kingdom is facing, whether we like it or not. Regardless of if or what you voted in the referendum, because fundamentally this is Dictate the Game and not Newsnight, many of us are sick to death of hearing about it. Britain will likely leave the European Union at the end of October. When it happens,…
What a surprise, huh? I’m used to describing my possession tactics every week; now I’ll tell you about counter-attacking slickly in FM19. Strangely, my WBA side is still set up to control possession patiently. However, there are a few alterations, which have made the passing style slightly more mixed. Obviously, I will explain this in the article below! Hamburg 1-5 West Bromwich Albion I did not expect to concede 56% of the ball in this game. I also didn’t expect…
My last post discussed how you can use data to improve my save. The eagle eyed among you may have noticed I was using a Vertical Tiki Taka tactic, one I have been tweaking for a while now. In this post I will explain what the tactic is designed to do, how effective it is, and where it’s shortcomings are.
Finding Wonderkids on Football Manager Everyone has different methods when looking at bringing in the next Wonderkid for Football Manager. In this particular guide, I will explain the methods I have used in my online FM19 save which has allowed me to take a Vanamara National League team in to the Premier League. Before I start, I use these easy methods across all of my saves, and this one in particular is the save where I have reaped the rewards….
Italian football historically has had some of the most fascinating storylines over the 21st century. You can create more with your Italian sides in FM20. At the turn of the millennium, Italian clubs were outspending their other European counterparts. The likes of Juventus, Lazio and Inter, amongst others, spent large amounts of money on bringing the top stars to their teams. In the mid-nighties, Calcio was plagued by the infamous Calciopoli saga; various clubs were found guilty of match-fixing. More…
If you’re anything like me, you’ll get to a point some time when you’re thinking about starting a new save in FM19. Recently, I was missing English football, having started my first save in Italy, and wanted to start a save in the Championship. While this is a guide for starting fresh, there are a lot of similarities to starting at a new club, so this post will be useful to those players also. Starting out well at a new…
Recently I wrote an article showing how to start a new save well, if you missed it you can check it out here. With a strong start in the league, I decided to continue my Brentford save and see where we ended up. After an expected finish of mid table, we won the league, finishing with 88 points. Here’s my guide to adjusting to promotion in FM19. After the success I’d had, I decided to give it a go in the…
Defensive width in FM19 is supposed to be self-explanatory. In the FM19 tactics creator, you only get an explanation for the option you pick; you get nothing about what defensive width means in itself. That said, you get a helpful interactive graph: