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
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.
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…
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
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.
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.
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…
The following continues my guide on creating Possession-style tactics. My hope is that by putting it in a more systematic way, this process can be made easier. Creating Tiki-Taka or Total Football (The Holy Grail for us FM possession freaks!) tactics is never easy. Hopefully some of the tools and tips presented in this and previous articles, can make this process more intuitive and transparent. So read on if you want to learn how to create your very own Total…
In this FM21 guide, we will be showing you every FM21 MLS team’s club vision. Club Vision is a vital part of Football Manager 2021 and underlines your time at the club for many years to come. Failure to meet the proposed club vision could lead to putting your job at serious risk! If you are managing in the MLS for the first time, why not check out our how to manage guide and our who to sign guide? Atlanta…
Every manager in the ‘real’ world (we all know that exists, right?) has his quirks. Those little habits on matchday; from Antonio Conte maniacally thrashing his arms, or Neil Warnock being angry at, well just about everyone. Pep Guardiola’s sauve demeanor or Marcelo Bielsa’s superstitious bucket sitting. Well, they all have one thing in common, they all make tactical decisions. I’m talking in the moment, tactical decisions during a game of football, that influence the game. Funnily enough, Football…