How To Make Friends and Influence People in Football Manager

March 9th, 2010 in Management

The concepts here are taken from our newest eBook available March 16th:Communication & Psychological Warfare ‘10 In Football it is often managerial rivalry that gets focused upon. We like to see fights, controversial comments and psychological warfare that happens during the press conferences... Read more

How To Handle Bad Team Talks

March 1st, 2010 in In-Match

The concepts here are taken from our newest eBook available March 16th:Communication & Psychological Warfare ‘10 Morale in Football Manager has a serious effect on the way your team sets out to play. Confident happy players will be more lethal in front of goal and less prone to make silly... Read more

Building your defence: From the forwards

February 15th, 2010 in Strategy

Traditional thinking of forwards are those of goal threats. When you think of great players, you think of Ronaldo who scored in his last two seasons 30 to 40 goals as an inside forward. When he is scoring goals it is easy to forget about the defensive duties performed by the likes of Rooney,... Read more

Playing out of Position

February 3rd, 2010 in Players

Injuries, lack of money or even both can at times make it impossible to field a full side of players in their natural positions. During these bad times when you will look at your existing players to step up into positions away from their natural preference. Therefore, it can be useful to have... Read more

Building your defence: Centre Backs

January 27th, 2010 in Strategy

You can't lose a game if your not conceding. Although you may argue you can't win without scoring, but 1 point can make a big difference opposed to losing 3 to your league rivals. What elements of your squad and tactics make up a good defence? Starting a series of posts I start with the last line... Read more

Friendlies, The Tactical Playground

January 18th, 2010 in General

Friendlies seem to be an inconvenience for many football fans. Games during the pre-season that no one cares about. But what if I told you that friendlies could be the most important part of your Football Manager career? Would that make you more willing not to ask your assistant manager to take... Read more

3 Steps to Hold The Lead in the Last 10 minutes

January 12th, 2010 in In-Match

Football Manager gamers are some of the best to ask about conspiracy theories, many will swear to you that the Football Manager match engine and AI are out to get them and that it is their simply to stop and frustrate. The major complaints that I have found this year is that the game scores too... Read more