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FM23: What Makes a Good Goalkeeping Coach?

FM23: What Makes a Good Goalkeeping Coach?

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A good Goalkeeping Coach on Football Manager are vital. At most clubs on Football Manager, you can have Goalkeeping Coaches for both your main team and youth teams. The modern and future goalkeeper coach is more than just “the guy that prepares the club’s goalkeepers”. In today’s game, he should have a greater role to play in the process of pre-match preparation, particularly in the area of set pieces. This is where he should be liaising with other staff members…

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Motivation in Football Manager
Motivation in Football Manager

Motivation in Football Manager

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An interesting subject in Football Manager, that can really negatively and positively affect performances is motivation and people management. You have to be able to read the personalities in your squad and figure out ways to get the best performances out of your players, beyond tactical familiarity and training methods. The ways you talk to your players are vitally important. Assessing the personalities in your squad Right off the bat, every team will be a different soup of personalities and…

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Scoring Tips for Struggling Teams
Scoring Tips for Struggling Teams in Football Manager

Scoring Tips for Struggling Teams in Football Manager

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A lot of teams go through dry spells during a season, some teams never get scoring at all to start a campaign. I’ve found a few ways to help this situation during my current journeyman save in Singapore. (Follow me on Twitter for updates 😉 These are scoring tips for struggling teams in Football Manager. Tactics Starting off we’re going to take a look at your tactics. Many managers play in many different ways, and there is always a way…

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School of Thought – Develop young managers on FM

School of Thought – Develop young managers on FM

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With the announcement that Julian Nagelsmann will be taking over at Bayern Munich for next season, that will make it three coaches in succession that have taken German football’s most laureate job after having worked for one of Red Bull’s network of teams. His successor at Leipzig, Jesse Marsch, comes from the same school. Others managers linked with that structure, like Marco Rose, Roger Schmidt, Oliver Glasner or Adi Hutter, are succeeding elsewhere. Red Bull academy’s influence can be seen…

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Non-League Legends: Total Football = Total Training

Non-League Legends: Total Football = Total Training

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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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Personalities to Look For: 5 of the Best

Personalities to Look For: 5 of the Best

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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.

The Football Philosophy Index

The Football Philosophy Index

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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…

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Unsung Heroes: Complete Wing Back FM

Unsung Heroes: Complete Wing Back FM

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In this unsung heroes article, I focus on the complete wing back role in Football Manager. A role which is commonly used around football, especially in recent times. The complete wing back in FM has been influential in my side’s success, offering offensive outlets and defensive stability. I will be applying everything to my Uruguay save, which has given me a lot of success.

Total Football Journeyman: Giant-Killing & Second Chances in La Liga

Total Football Journeyman: Giant-Killing & Second Chances in La Liga

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Part 1: Building a Total Football Club in FM20 One country has always fascinated me. España. The historian in me is attracted to its turbulent history of conquests and revolutions. And Spanish football is no less interesting. As a nation it is united by its love of the beautiful game. Nevertheless it is divided politically and geographically. Each autonomous community comes with its own distinct culture and languages. And it is this vibrant multi-cultural mosaic that also gives Spanish football…

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Red Star Alliance: Resultism (30 Ways To Not Lose)

Red Star Alliance: Resultism (30 Ways To Not Lose)

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As mentioned in my previous articles in this series, I wanted to achieve success playing pragmatic football. Considering we’ve taken Red Star Wrexham from the VNL to the Championship in just three seasons, pragmatism doesn’t quite cut it as a good description. To use a term attributed to our lord and saviour Big Sam, we can only call it one thing: Resultism.  If pragmatism is the acceptance of who you are and making the best of what you’ve got, resultism…

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