When Man Utd are struggling to get many shots on target, for example, clicking the button to apply Steve Round's advice saw my squad booting balls at goal from all over the pitch, ignoring my strategy of retaining possession. In the middle of matches, that includes listening to their recommendations, the quality of which are dictated by the stats of your managerial sidekick, but also by the strange blind spots in the game's AI. Football Manager lets you expand the role of your assistant manager, letting them take control of the parts of the game that overwhelm or bore you. You'll be better off making match decisions for yourself. That means being able to deploy players in the midfield as a trequartista, a false nine or an enganche. Most notable for fans of modern football is the inclusion of expanded player roles, and a tactics system that replaces sliders with the language of real football tacticians. This release doesn't have any equivalent flagship feature, but the hundreds of changes it does make are important. The mode returns in Football Manager 2014, and it's still my favourite way to play the game. Introduced last year, it strips back the game to something that, on the surface, resembles Championship Manager from ten years ago, but is underpinned by the same rich simulation that drives the main game. I never seemed to be able to tell what information mattered, and which decisions were the cause of my various triumphs and failures.Ĭlassic Mode changed that. The series had slowly driven me away as it crammed more detail into its already stat-heavy simulation of football. Football Manager makes sense to me again.
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