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Football Manager Ultimate Training Schedule

Niall — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:53:50 +0000

This has been a long time coming but i have finally got round to putting together what I think is the perfect training schedule to get the most of of your entire squad in either FM08,FM09 or FM10.

Use this schedule and you can be pretty sure you’ll see an increase in a number of stats for your squad even after just the one season.

There are individual schedules for:

Goalkeepers
Full Backs
Centre Backs
Defensive Midfielders
Wingers
Attack Midfielders
Strikers

As always I’d love to know your thoughts and how it has worked out for you.

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FM2010 Tactic 4-2-3-1

Niall — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:41:05 +0000

This is a tactic I’ve been using with my West Ham team and I have had some fantastic results with it playing Football Manager 2010 patch 3, it’s a good tactic.

It essentially revolves around a short quick passing game and pressing the opposition to force errors.

The basic formation is a 4-2-3-1 like this:

Player Attributes

FB – Normal full back stats. Bonus attributes are first touch & passing
CB – Normal centre back stats. Bonus acceleration & pace
DMC – These are the main boys in the team so make sure you have some good players. You really want for these boys good passing, first touch, stamina, teamwork & tackling. Bonus would be concentration & positioning.
WG – What you’d expect dribbling, pace & crossing.
AC – Key really but think creativity, pace, passing & finishing.
ST – He will be your lone big dog up front so think heading, finishing, team work, acceleration & composure.

Team Instructions

So that’s about it. Feel free to ask questions and let me know how you get on.

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All Out Attack – Getting that late goal

Niall — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:13:15 +0000

Just a quick post that some of you might find useful but we have all been in that situation when we are chasing a goal (or two) with 15/20 miutes to go and we really need a goal.

I just thought I’d share share a couple of the things that I do that get some decent results.

Set though balls to often for all players.
Increase the amount of players making forward runs.
Set team mentality to ‘all out attack’.
Up all mentalities by a few clicks.
Move creativity three quarters of the way to the top NOT right to the top. That gets too messy.
Set tempo to fast.

If you get the goal you are after make sure you revert back to your original tactics because you’ll leave yourself way open at the back.

Football Manager Ultimate Training Schedule

Don’t Underestimate the Need for Good Backroom Staff

Niall — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:00:53 +0000

Behind every successful manager in FM09, is a good backroom coaching team. Good coaching equals good training, which over time improves players and performances. When you first start off on the game, you will inherit the backroom staff of the team you take over. I’ve always found it best to keep this backroom team together at the beginning of a game in FM09, as some of the players you have may have coaches, youth coaches or your assistant as their favored staff. Getting rid might have a negative effect on your team.

Starting with the member of your coaching team I find most important, is the assistant manager. Your assistant manager will know the squad better than any other member of the coaching team and is also vital for finding out important information. Requesting a team report early on (after the one automatically given to you), will find out areas of the team that need cover, improvement and strengthening. You assistant can also offer advice on who they believe you should sign to improve certain areas of your squad. For example, early on in my campaign as Q.P.R boss, my assistant Tim Flowers advised I sign Kevin Doyle from Reading, and he went on to be my leading goalscorer for three seasons in a row (including my first in the Premiership). Try and keep the assistant you start with, but if for some reason you lose them (Tim Flowers was mine for two seasons before being offered the Managers job at Leicester), then make sure you sign the right man for the job. You have to look for an assistant who has attributes that match yourself. For example, if you like to play attacking football, make sure your assistant has a good attacking attribute. Remember, in most cases, people will ask their assistant to give team talks and occasionally pick the team, so they have know what they’re doing. High attributes in ‘Judging Player Ability’, ‘Motivating’ and ‘Tactical Knowledge’ will make sure your assistant can step in for you when needed and do a good job. As the game goes on, your assistant will most likely become a favorite amongst fans and players quicker than you will, which is a good thing because whenever you need to call on them to help, you know they’ll do a stand up job. In past games, my assistant has been liked so much that he usually gets offered my old job when I leave for another team, but they usually always end up joining me again as my assistant at the new club.

1st Team coaches are also important, and I usually find that most teams you take over will either have no 1st team coaches, or just the one. What I like to do is look through my clubs favorite staff/icons/legends and see if any of them are now coaches so I can bring them in as my 1st team coach. This works well as players and fans alike are happy that a club favorite has returned. If you already have a club favorite in your coaching staff, then try offering them a new contract with a promotion to 1st team coach. Good attributes for a first team coach include the style of play you like to play i.e. attacking or defending and ‘Technical’, as they will be working with the team that you will be judged on.

Coaches should already be in place at your team and shouldn’t be worried about too much until further in the game. Having a good coaching team will help your training and a good balance across your first team/youth team and goalkeepers is essential. I always try and sign club favorites and former players of mine as coaches as the game goes on. This is usually because I still have players and staff members at the club who are listed as favored personnel so can be good for moral. This is exactly the same for youth coaches, goalkeeping coaches, physio’s and scouts.

All the previous information was for when you are starting off at a new club at the very beginning of the game. If during the game, you move to a new club, then depending on your status on the game and how long you were at your previous club should determine what you do next.

If you have a world class reputation and won many honors with your previous club, then when you join your new club, always try and take across your old staff. As you may have seen throughout the game via tips, staff at clubs you take over will always agree to a mutual termination of contract, so take advantage of this and save some money, whilst also bringing your old team in. I recommend keeping one or two of the old staff at the new club, as they may be a favorite for some players so them leaving could have a negative effect. Check this out before you start releasing staff from contracts.

If you were fired, or don’t have a high reputation, then the best idea would be keeping all the staff at your new job, as they will be able to give you the same help/guidance/information as you get when you start off at the beginning of the game. Only when you are quite well respected, will you be bigger than the staff at a squad and be able to bring over all your own without having too much of negative response from players.

What do you think?

This was a guest article written by James Mertz so be sure to let him know what you think!

FM09 – Good Signings League 1 Teams

Niall — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:27:16 +0000

As we know not everybody manages the Liverpool’s and Real Madrid’s of this world so this little article is going to point out some of the good solid players that will do the business for teams at a English League 1 kind of level.

I’ll get things started for us:

Name: Samuel Pietre
Position: AMR
Club: None
Age: 24
Value: Free

Name: Denes Rosa
Position: AMLC
Club: Wolves
Age: 31
Value: 24k

Name: Michael Gray
Position: D/WBL
Club: Wolves
Age: 34
Value: 100k

Name: Marvin Andrews
Position: CB
Club: None
Age: 32
Value: Free

Name: Jean-Joel Perrier Doumbe
Position: Right/Left Wing Back
Club: Celtic
Age:29
Value:10k to 100k

Name:Pena
Position: D/WBL
Club: Albacete
Age: 24
Value: Free

Have you got any to add? Lets see them!

Competition – Underrated Players

Niall — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:17:48 +0000

Right guys after the success of our last competition I think it’s time for another thefootymanager.com competition.

Once again it’s a simple comment to win competition which gives everybody who isn’t as gifted with words as good a chance as somebody who is to win. Although I want this one to provide worthwhile information to the thousands of daily visitors to thefootymanager.com so it will take just a little thought.

So what do I do

All you have to do to have a chance of winning is tell us who you think the most underrated players in Football Manager 2009 are in the comment box at the bottom of the page. The more information the better because it helps people looking for potential bargain buys although if you just want to drop a name in then that works just as well.

What can I win?

Well the lovely people at Sports Interactive (SI) have provided us with 3 packs of Limited Edition Football Manager Top Trumps so that is one pack for three lucky people.

I’m not a user of Top Trumps myself but I have flicked through a pack of them and they look very cool and I have looked on Google and can’t see where you can buy them so they do indeed look very limited.

When Can I enter?

Now, get posting in the comments below and I look forward to seeing what you guys have to say.

Participants can post comments until the 17th of January 2009. The comments will be closed on the 18th of January at 00:01 GMT.

FM09 – English Wonderkids?

Niall — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:39:06 +0000

This article was submitted by regular site visitor Claude Barry, if you would be interested in submitting an article get in touch.

In FM08 I choose to manage England, Chelsea and Newcastle. I like many others I love signing English wonderkids (which is crucial if you’re managing England as a country) however it seems like most of the good wonderkids in FM09 are from other countries so here is a list of some of the player who have impressed me so far on FM09 and were great on FM08;

Players who are top four Premier League standard

Billy Sharp – Sheffield United
Ryan Taylor – Wigan
Steven Taylor -Newcastle
Curtis Davies – Aston Villa
Scott Flinders- Crystal Palace
Leighton Baines – Everton
Giles Barnes – Derby
Nedum Onuoha – Man City

Players who I would consider good enough to play for England

Joe Mattock – Leicester
Michael woods – Chelsea
Michael Johnson – Man City
Adam Johnson – Middlesbrough
Victor Moses- Crystal Palace
Paul Anderson – Nottingham City
Scott Sinclair – Chelsea
Matt Derbyshire -Blackburn
Chris Taylor – Oldham

These are all of the players that I have found and would consider as wonderkids if you have any other suggestions excluding all of the obvious ones then please comment .

FM09 Demo Available – What do you think?

Niall — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:37:19 +0000

The Football Manager 2009 demo has been released today so get over to footballmanager.com and get it downloaded!

There are two different versions of the demo available for PC and MAC, a ‘strawberry’ and ‘vanilla’ version, with both providing half a season of gameplay. The saved games from the demo will be compatible with the full release of the game.

Vanilla Version

The vanilla version of the demo is English language only, and features the English and Scottish leagues, with no player photos or logos in order to reduce the size of the download.

Strawberry Version

The strawberry version of the demo includes all player pictures and logos, with quickstarts for the world’s biggest leagues, giving players a chance to try out their skills in leagues from multiple countries. Details of languages and leagues are below.

I’ve only just installed it myself so I’m not sure what it’s like yet although expect a full update in a day or two. What do you guys think? Is it as good as you had hoped?

Competition – Win Football Manager 2009

Niall — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:25:28 +0000

Well as we know Football Manager 2009 (FM09) is due to be released in roughly four weeks so to celebrate here at thefootymanager.com we have decided to have a little competition. We have three copies of the new game to give away to the fantastic readers of the site.

How can I participate?

Well that is the easy part. All you have to do is comment in this article what you are looking forward to most in Football Manager 2009. It can be three words, a sentance, a paragraph it’s totally up to you. We’ll then randomly pick the winners from the comments in this thread and notify you by email if you are one of the three lucky winners!

Please notice that:

participants can post comments until the 13th of November 2009. The comments will be closed on the 14th of November at 00:01 GMT.
the winners will be determined by a random generator;
make sure that you fill your e-mail in the comment field correctly, so we can contact you afterwards.

What can I Win?

Football Manager 2009′s match engine has seen more testing than ever before having been extensively beta tested in Football Manager Live for the past year.

The famous Football Manager match engine can now be viewed in full 3D with motion captured animations for the players. Sports Interactive has been working on the 3D match engine for nearly 3 years with the support of SEGA Japan’s Virtua Striker team who provided the motion capture data and some of the animations. You can now watch your matches in 3D from multiple camera angles and re-watch any part of the match by fast forwarding and rewinding the action using a new match time bar that flags the key moments in the game. The old 2D view of the match engine is still there, especially for those people whose computers aren’t powerful enough to take advantage of the 3D views.

As a result of usability testing on Football Manager 2008, this year sees widescreen support for the game for the first time, as well as lots of tweaks to the user interface for easier navigation.

Football Manager 2009 is fully updated for the new 2008/09 football season with all the latest league, club and player data, featuring over 5,000 playable clubs from over 50 countries, and around 350,000 players and staff from around the world, drawn fresh from the famous Sports Interactive database.

Sports Interactive have worked hard to reflect the greater impact the media has been having in recent years on the world of football, in the in-game dealings with the press. The game now features more news stories, more detail and greater media interaction than ever before, creating an even more realistic simulation of the football world.

When Will I Get My Prize?

Well the game is being released on the 14th November so we’ll select the winners and get the prizes sent out on that day. You should get the game through your letterbox on the 15th (the day after release) just in time for the weekend of FM09 abuse.

So spread the word of the competition to your friends, other websites and most importantly comment yourself to be in with a shout of winning.

The competition has now closed folks so the winners will be hearing from us in the next 24 hours!

Good luck, thefootymanager.com Team!

UPDATE – Congratulations to Paul Murrey, Carl Lightfoot and Frank Keegan our competition winners. Look out for more competitions in the near future.

Football Manager 2009 Wonderkids

Niall — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:38:42 +0000

As we all know Football Manager 2009 (FM09) is out although we are all having issues running the the bad boy. Although it’s early days I thought it might be a good idea for us to try and identify who we think the new future wonderkids in FM09 are. I’m sure some of the wonderkids from FM08 will be there again (I’m thinking Saivet, Vela, Bojan etc) but I’m thinking we should be able to pull some new names out of the hat. That said feel free to throw in some of the old names in there but you get less kudos if you do.

The obvious (and expensive):

Anderson (AMC) – Man Utd
Balotelli (AM RL, ST) – Inter
Giovinco (AM LC, FC) – Juventus
Walcott (AM LC, FC) – Arsenal
Bojan (FC) – Barcelona
Aguero (AM, FC) – At. Madrid
Dos Santos ( AM RLC, FC) – Tottenham
Fiorillo (GK) – Sampdoria
Galvan (Cruz Azul)
Hamsik (Napoli)
Kroos (FC Bayern)
Pato (A.C. Milan)
Pjanic (Olympique Lyonnais)
Benzema (Olympique Lyonnais)
Saivet (FC Girondins de Bordeaux)
Sakho (Paris Saint-Germain)
Vela (Arsenal)

Less obvious (not so expensive):

Bruna (Liverpool)
Boucher (Havre Athletic Club)
Alamo (Tapachula)
David Rochela (Deportivo B)
Ansaldi (Rubin)
Wijnaldum (Feyenoord)
De Gea (Atletico B)
Diaz (River)
Villaluz (Cruz Azul)
Walter (Internacional)
Wilshere (Arsenal)
Kolodziecziak (Racing Club de Lens)
Paulo Henrique (Santos)
Maidana (Spartak Moscow)
Davila (Chivas)
Nemeth (Liverpool)
Willian (Shakhtar)
Neymar (Santos)
Taison (Internacional)
Welbeck (Man Utd)
Tales (Internacional)
Monzon (Boca)
Hobbit Bermudez (Atlante)
Esparza (Chivas)
Fleck (Rangers)
Dalla Valle (Liverpool)
Delfouneso (Aston Villa)
Shea (FC Dallas)

Right that’ll do to start the ball rolling so who do you think the wonderkids of FM09 are?

What do you want to see from Football Manager 2011? How can they make it better?