Football Manager 2021 is finally here, and we have found the best Premier League free agents in FM21. If you are unsure what type of player you want to sign, we have you covered with various players from around the world. There are a few surprise names in here, who you would expect to find a club. Be quick, as I am sure these players won’t be around long. Will these be your FM21 free agent signings?
In this series, I highlight a much-loved and talented footballer from the past. I’ll tell you a little bit about what I think their key qualities were that made them so special. We’ll go on to look at how best to re-live that legend in Football Manager, by naming a few current players who may be able to ‘mirror the magic’ of the superstar and potentially become your new FM20 hero. So far, we’ve had Juan Román Riquelme, Ronald Koeman…
Introduction I wrote this article last year on something at the time I called The Football Philosophy Index, while playing FM19. It was originally on my site FMStag.com and was picked up by a couple of community sites. Ridiculous title aside, I thought I’d bring it back with some updated advice. I know we all have our different ways of doing this, but this is how I export FM attribute data to Excel in order to drive immersion in my…
Three strikers might seem an extreme way of going about things but there are many ways to break down a defence. Sometimes the creation of space, overlaps and overloads are less about tactical refinement and more about brute force. We don’t all manage a team of La Liga or top-flight superstars so sometimes a more direct approach is needed to force the issue for smaller lower league sides operating on a budget. In this article, we float the idea of…
It is that time in the cycle where people are wanting the next edition of Football Manager, but we all have to wait. In this article I discuss five teams to manage FM20, and more specifically with an updated database. I have tried to mix it up so that the teams aren’t always the most obvious ones. We all know that this is the perfect time to start a new save, just to keep things fresh and with pr0 Transfers…
In this series, I highlight a much-loved and talented footballer from the past. I’ll tell you a little bit about what I think their key qualities were that made them so special. We’ll go on to look at how best to re-live that legend in Football Manager, by naming a few current players who may be able to ‘mirror the magic’ of the superstar and potentially become your new FM20 hero. Post one was Juan Román Riquelme, two was Ronald…
Introduction Since the dawn of Football Manager, we, the players, have focused our attention on any things. Some may have focused their attention on their youngsters, playing them week in, week out, in the hopes these wonderkids would become masters of the footballing world. Others may have focused on their teams tactics, hoping to string together a team not only able to play with each other, but that is also capable of outplaying any opposing teams simply through tactical play….
Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1 – Warren Buffett Introduction For a casual Football Manager like myself, managing finances has never really been at the forefront of the mind. However I found myself in a tricky situation recently, that required some book balancing and financial acumen.
There’s a new country in Europe, and it’s called Aswijan. Created by @chilled_moose, it provides 64 teams in three leagues, three cup competitions, and about 6000 created players. The teams vary widely, from fallen giants Hesef to world-class titans like Aswijan Mailkiy. This will be a guide to playing in Aswijan, in six parts. Each part will examine half of one of the three leagues, starting today with the lowest league, Liga Dukh. This league is comparable in quality to…
So far in my Total Football Journeyman series, I had covered some pretty great historic teams like Ajax, Barcelona, and Liverpool. But I feel that in recounting the stories of these giants, I lost track of something important. All those sides played beautiful fluid football but were already established world-class clubs. Yet the question remains, can a Total Football style be achieved by a club that is good but not world-class? And can Total Football be achieved on a budget?…