Trial and Error: Guide to Trials in Football Manager
Lower leagues saves can be great fun, but it’s hard to find the right signings. Learn how to with this Guide on Trials on Football Manager.
Managing in the Lower Leagues in Football Manager
This is my lower league love story. It may be intimidating to start all the way down in the depths of Lower Leagues in Football Manager. You might be scared of how hard this could be to start winning, and how long it could take to work your way up to the top. Maybe you don’t have the patience? However, you may be able to find a diamond in the rough. There are many nations in Football Manager that have…
The impact of the Medical Team in FM21
In a previous article I focused on the impact of one specific member of the Medical Team, the Physio. Some experiments were run using out special league and we were able to see what sort of impact a good physio (or not) can have on things like the amount of injuries, injury length and overall performance. But the Physio is but one member of the Medical Team. From the Premiership down to the lower leagues it is common for there…
8 more Teams to try on the Winter Update
No messing around today. Who even reads introductions? You’re all here to skip through this part and read the headings, see one that catches your interest and then load up FM. Right? Did I get away with not writing an intro? Anyways the Winter Update gave us some small changes, and we’ve looked through the patch notes (which can be found here: https://community.sigames.com/forums/topic/548954-football-manager-213-main-winter-update-out-now/) to find some fun saves for you to try! Chelsea – A familiar name in an unfamiliar…
Aston Villa FC Club Guide
Jack Grealish is the best player in Birmingham, no doubt about that. At the moment Aston Villa is the best club in Birmingham. How do you take the next step? How do you go from relegation battles via mid-table mediocrity to break the top 6? To help you achieve that, here’s the Aston Villa FC club guide for FM21!
How to Recreate Tactics on Football Manager
It’s not a stretch to say that every FM player is, to some degree, a football fan. But even as we all share the love of the beautiful game, everyone has their favourite style. Be it a possession heavy style or a deadly countering team, we all want our side playing a certain way. When the time comes to take inspiration from our favourite real-life managers, however, the job can get tricky. Fear not, for help is on the way,…
FM21 | Guide to Moving Clubs
There comes a time in every football manager’s career where the grass looks greener. It might be that you feel you’ve taken your current clubs as far as they can go, or you’ve received an offer you simply cannot refuse. Either way, this article should help you make the transition as smooth as possible. This is my guide to moving clubs in FM21.
Using the Similar Player Filter: Buying Like for Like in FM21
Player transfers play a huge part in most FM21 saves. That’s part of the draw of Football Manager. Whether you are in the Premiership making big money deals or down in the lower leagues fighting for scraps and free transfers. Almost all of us (I’m ignoring you hardcore youth academy challengers) have dabbled in the transfer market to improve our teams. But what if we don’t want to, or can’t afford to, upgrade our teams? What if we have a…
The Title Defense: 4 Principles
So, you’ve won the title. You’ve worked hard, dragged your team up the leagues, and finally won the national title. How do you keep it? This article aims to help you with your Title Defense.
FM21 – Get the most out of your players
Footballers are humans. Albeit sometimes very well paid, slightly pampered, self entitled and warped, but human non the less. Football Manager gives you the opportunity to dictate these humans virtual lives, and I’ll wager that some of them have tried and tested your patience to the point of almost disliking the real life version of said player, even though he hasn’t wronged you in any way. Read on to find learn some secrets of how to get the most out…