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FM23: What Makes a Good Director of Football?

FM23: What Makes a Good Director of Football?

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The Director of Football has been part of Football Manager for a few versions now. The role has been fleshed out to incorporate their responsibilities throughout the game. The Director of Football forms part of your Recruitment Team on Football Manager which consists of the staff member responsible for player scouting and contracts. Do you want to find another type of backroom staff member? Check out the others below! Although there is not an academic definition of a Director of…

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Five Great Bits of Advice from Staff Meetings on FM22

Five Great Bits of Advice from Staff Meetings on FM22

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The introduction of the Staff Meetings has been one of Football Manager 2022’s key new features. It’s a total revamp of the way in which your staff helps you run your club, ditching the sometimes tiresome cascade of emails; instead, you get a concentrated, short order of business, that you can go through at any rate you want. With the release of the full game now just around the corner, we’ve all had a good chance to try out all…

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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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Backroom Staff in FM21: The Team Behind The Team

Backroom Staff in FM21: The Team Behind The Team

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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…

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The Importance of The Technical Director

The Importance of The Technical Director

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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….

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Starting a new save FM19
FM19 Guide | Starting A New Save

FM19 Guide | Starting A New Save

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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…

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