Can succeeding in reality help you get a real life football managers job?  Let’s take a look at those who thought it could…..

Won Jae Yang (Bath City)

Won Jae Yang was a 17 year old student from Korea when he thought he would try his luck at obtaining the Bath City job.  He was so obsessed with wanting the Bath City manager’s job he emailed them over 100 emails asking to replace manager Adie Britton.  Within each of his emails, he goes into detail about what the manager should of done during each game to win it.
Bath City has decided to publish some of the letters which Won Jae Yang sent them, here’s a snipet from one of them: -

“Hello. My name is Won Jae Yang from Korea. The reason why I am sending you an e-mail is because I want to be Bath City’ Manager. On its last game, I believe that the Bath City’ played well but has not 1played to its full potential. The c urrent ranking shows you that. Honestly, I do not understand Manager, His tactic fluctuates harshly. He does not satisfy Bath City’s passion.”

Won Jae Yang currently refers to himself as the Honorary Director of Tactics for Bath City FC.

John Boileau (Middlesbrough)

Back in 2005, John Boileau had a CV that had seen him take Nuneaton Borough from the Conference North to the Championship in eight seasons and also won the Swedish top flight with small club Kalmar FF.  Ok, it was on Football Manager but still a feat nonetheless.  So with this experience behind him, In 2006 John thought he would apply for the Middlesbrough managers job (this was when Middlesbrough were a Premiership team).

John sent his letter and a CV to Middlesbrough Football Club chairman Steve Gibson and was honestly hoping to be invited for an interview.  In his letter, the 25-year-old, from Rugby in Warwickshire, jokingly said he could manage the Premiership football club after becoming proficient at the Football Manager computer game.

Middlesbrough saw the funny side of this letter and responded by saying: -

“You were of course the outstanding candidate but we decided against your appointment.  Quite frankly we were of the opinion your tenure with us would have been short-lived, as your undoubted talent would result in one of the big European Clubs seeking your services.”

John is still waiting for his first real life manager’s job.

Mac Wilson (Doncaster Rovers)

Football managers are getting younger and younger these days with Karl Robinson of MK Dons the current youngest league manager at 32 years old.  Mac Wilson nearly took this crown from Karl Robinson to become the league’s youngest manager at only 8 years old.

His letter was received by Donny chairman John Ryan back in January 2013 after Dean Saunders was shown the exit.  John Ryan was so impressed with Mac’s letter and positivity as he stated he would get Doncaster Rover’s into the Premier League within three years!  John Ryan decided to give Mac and ring and ask him to come down, have a look around, meet the players and have an interview.

Sadly, Doncaster Rovers went with a 57 year old in the form of former Wales Under 21 manager Brian Flynn.

Don’t let the above three unsuccessful stories put you off though as just like all fairy tales, there is a happy ending and prove that dreams do come true……

Vugar Huseynzade (FK Baku)

In November 2012, FK Baku of the Azerbaijani Premier League hired Vugar Huseynzade in an advisory role.  Since then, Vugar, a 21-year-old Azerbaijan-born, Sweden-based student is now been appointed manager of the club’s ‘A’ side (reserves).  His appointment was solely down to his strength of his Football Manager resumé.

Huseynzade has no actual managerial experience and was fresh out of Business School, with a month or two’s work experience at an American sports agency.  FK Baku initially hired the Baku-born student based solely on being impressed by the knowledge of the game Vugar applied in setting up and running his Football Manager team.

Eight months down the line and FK Baku have decided that Huseynzade is the man to whip their ‘A’ side into shape having been without a manager for two whole years since previous incumbent Kamran Ismayilov upped and left.

Huseynzade was reportedly appointed ahead off former Marseille and France legend Jean-Pierre Papin (crazy!).

Since his appointment, Vugar still tries to relates the real game to Football Manager.  Here are of his classic lines: -

“We have big game tmo and I need to get off to good start, so I’ll save the game now; if I lose, I switch it off and try again.”

“I just stormed out of the press conference. I didn’t have a multiple choice answer sheet to use to reply to their questions.”

“I don’t need scouts. I just use Player Search to find my targets.”

“I told the board when interviewing that team talks are a strong point of mine. I have over four different team talks at my disposal.”

It just shows that there is hope and being a good manager on Football Manager does pay off.  Not sure about you lot, but I’m getting my CV up to date for those reserve teams in the Maldives maybe or failing that I’ve heard good things about Bali in the Indian Ocean.

As FM fans there is one thing we all have in common, one thing that takes us to the internet (unless you are dodgy and have the RTE) searching for, wonderkids. The young whipper-snappers that can make the difference to our teams in the years to come.

Wonderkids are like gold dust on many of the FM games of the past, but with the invent of the real-time editors lists can be found across the web from all and sundry, but how do you know which ones are any good? That’s were we come in.

I used to spend hours finding lists and scouting every player on their to then find that i was looking at a list of ‘Wonderkids for the Championship’ or like, so now, with my headache of the past in mind I have put together the ultimate list of wonderkids.

Whether you are looking for the best young stars of England, cheapo’s, foreigners or conference players they are all on this page, you will never need to go anywhere else to find wonderkids, star players and must buys for your team ever again.

Football Manager 2013 Wonderkids: Ultimate List (link)

This is a great list of over 200 wonderkids for FM 2013 from Aid the Boss. A cracking collection containing most of the ‘obvious’ choice wonderkids and some players that would suit mid-lower premier league teams, it contains everything from name, age, club, country and value at the start of the game.

Star player form the list: Kurt Zouma

List rating: 4/5

Ideal list for: Liverpool, Everton and Newcastle

Football Manager 2013 Wonderkids and Young Talents (link)

A very comprehensive list of FM wonderkids from True Football Manager, you can find everything here from decent Championship signings all the way up to superstar Champions League winners, my favourite and most used list which also has  all the key ingredients for finding the player on the game as well as some idea of wages.

Star player form the list: Luke Shaw

List rating: 5/5

Ideal list for: Everyone from low-level Championship teams to the best teams in the world.

250+ Football Manager 2013 Wonderkids (link)

A good-looking list from FM Scout, a good selection of players but only really useful for the best teams in the World, I feel there is also some TOP quality obvious English talents that are missing from the list, i.e Will Hughes and Luke Shaw, both 5 star Premier League players after several seasons. There is some great players on the list though that some others haven’t picked up on.

Star player form the list: Raheem Stirling

List rating: 3.5/5

Ideal list for: Mainly top teams but the odd ‘bottom half’ signing about.

250+ Bargain Buys (link)

Another decent list from the guys over at FM Scout, presented as well as the others but I feel this is more useful than most as its very well researched, bargain buys for FM 13 are harder to find. Its a decent list, would be nice if it was presented in a way that ‘filtered’ out unrealistic targets for those in leagues above or below the players’ expectations.

Star player form the list: Felipe Anderson

List rating: 4/5

Ideal list for: Just about everyone.

Football Manager Wonderkids Shortlist 425+ (link)

This is a good list from My Passion for Football Manager, it does require a download to see the whole lot but you can upload that straight into your game so the shortlist is on the game, no need to copy and paste for a few hours! It’s also great for finding the perfect player match as it breaks up players into playing personalities, I.E Ball Winning Midfielders. The only problem I see with this bunch is the presentation for those who don’t want to download the FM 13 Wonderkids Shortlist, the formatting isn’t the best.

Star player form the list: Sime Vrsalijko

List rating: 4.5/5

Ideal list for: Everyone, especially if you’re looking for a gem of a particular playing personality

250+ Best Free Players on FM 2013 (link)

Another list from the guys over at FM Scout, though I rarely use this type of player I’m sure there is a few of you out there who have a bigger interest than me, looks a good list and I can see a few cracking signings who I will definitely be checking out next time I start a new game.

Star player form the list: Roysten Drenthe

List rating: 4/5

Ideal list for: Lower league teams and teams with zero budgets (Liverpool)

Football Manager 2013 best wonderkids list (link)

For me this is the best list out there, its comprehensive, it offers so much more depth that enables anyone with a little time to see what the player looks like in a few season in to the future. Kudos to Darren Smith for putting this together, it must have taken weeks to perfect it. There isn’t much more to say really, this is THE place to be for finding, researching and signing players for any team, in any league.

Star player form the list: Kevin Volland

List rating: 5/5

Ideal list for: Everyone

400+ 2013 Wonderkids (link)

A nice little list from FM-Indo.blogspot. Fairly comprehensive and contains a LOT of players that are not picked up on any other list, its a brilliant resource for mid-table clubs and those on a tight budget. Can’t fault the list though I wonder if missing out a lot of ‘big names’ is intentional or not.

Star player form the list: Moritz Leitner

List rating: 4/5

Ideal list for: Something for everyone here, from lower leagues to CL winners.

Best Of FM 2013 Wonderkids and Young Talents 500+ (link)

A really good list of players from all across the globe, though I do feel that there is a few missing from the English leagues which is normally a staple diet for me, fairly good collection with something for most but like all of the above, what is lacking is some kind of segmentation for those looking for a particular ‘level’ of player, Championship, League 1 for example. Has everything needed to find the players you want quickly.

Star player form the list: Granit Xhaka

List rating: 3.5/5

Ideal list for: Loads of players with some uniques in there too, something for all.

The Ultimate Wonderkids Shortlist For FM13 (link)

A good little list of a couple of hundred names, there is some good picks in there but some that you wont be able to find unless you have some not so popular leagues activated on your database, you do need to download the list though, there is no mention of it online at all.

Star player form the list: Nick Powell

List rating: 3/5

Ideal list for: Plenty to choose from for everyone

Best French Wonderkids

Italian Wonderkids on FM 13

English Wonderkids and Must Buys

Spanish Wonderkids

Best Brazilian Wonderkids

Top Wonderkid Strikers

 Putting an end to the post…

Well thats it, we couldn’t find any other lists online that offered any value to you guys so thats the end of it.

There will no doubt be a lot of duplicates within the lists above but just pick and choose the ones that suit your current team and transfer policies best, for me the wonderkids list by Darren Smith is the best by a long way, check it out, the work that went in to it is ridiculously complex and you will definitely find some players on there that you would have never seen or heard of before.

Get involved, if you have any lists to add to this let us know using the comments below.

The amount of free stuff on the net, blogs giving you advice and lists for this that and the other can be daunting, especially when you don’t know who to trust or are just starting out with FM.

So we have cut the wheat from the chaff and put together the ultimate cheat-sheet for you.

The one big bug-bear with FM is the lack of imagery, be it player faces, badges or league images, they are all lacking and for many it’s a big problem so there is no better place to start than that.

Note: We are in no way associated to any of the websites we recommend, we just think the content we have linked to is the best online for that category.

Face-packs

Talk to anyone about face-packs for Football Manager and they will probably tell you to get the DF11 mega-pack from FM Scout, it’s the best out there by far, only problem is its size. At over 5GB it can be daunting and cumbersome to newbies trying to keep a ‘clean’ laptop.

Another notable mention is the ‘Cut out player faces mega-pack‘ from Sortitoutsi.net, there’s almost twice the amount of faces compared to the FM Scout version, but it also a bigger download. For no reason whatsoever I have always used the FM Scout version, not to say it’s better, just personal preference.

You can get the DF11 face-pack here or the Sortitoutsi.net version here, but for those who want a smaller, tighter download area covering a league or two then your best bet is to read on.

You can’t really go wrong with Sortitoutsi.net for face-packs and their section dedicated to single club face-pack downloads is second to none, if you just want to get the faces of your team, this is the place for you.

FM-base is also fairly good for face-packs, especially for single clubs or leagues. There are a couple of not-so-good packs thrown in so just look at the comments before you download, there’s loads of packs here.

Team badges

Though I’m sure you would be able to find some real good team badge packs over at Sort it out SI and FM Scout I have never gone further than the offering from Aid the boss.

The badges are clean, crisp and fit in to the game perfectly. This pack also contains every badge/icon for every team on the game, it’s a fairly big download, but its well worth it.

You can download the pack here.

I’m not going to recommend anyone else’s packs, there is no doubt some good ones, but I only use this one so it’s the only one I can vouch for.

Theme-skins

The world is your oyster for skins, there’s thousands about and everyone will like what they like so its difficult to recommend individual skins, but here is the one I use, it’s a fairly dark model from Football Manager Story.

You can pretty much find whatever you like, just beware with some skins not working with certain patches especially if you are using the latest updates, they will nearly all work but some will have some gnarly positioning if they are older models.

FM Scout have a really good index of potential themes, most are just colour changes, but there is certainly a lot to choose from on this page.

Theres plenty more skins here and here, from Sortitoutsi.net and truefootballmanager.com respectively.

How to install this shizz

Just a quick note, if you’re downloading all these packs for the first time, you are going to need to install them.

Unfortunately it’s not as easy as uploading to the game (there’s one for you SI), you have to actually place the files in the right place within the games’ folders. It sounds complicated, but its fine if you have the right guide showing you how, I nicked most of this from True Football Manager, thanks dude.

• Download the file.
• Unpack the download archive file via WinZip, 7-Zip, or WinRar ignoring warning messages.
• Go to My Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2013/Graphics
• If there is no “Graphics” folder, create one.
• Put the now un-archived files into the “Graphics” subfolder.
• Load up the game, go to settings/preferances and set “Use caching to decrease page loading times” to “Off “
• Then set “Reload skin when confirming changes in Preferences” to “On”

You’re done, once reloaded this should put all the new images in to the game.

Player lists

For the player list section I am only going to recommend one for each category, there are literally hundreds to choose from and each one contains thousands of players, most of which are duplicated so you would just be getting the same lists with a few additions each time.

So, the lists I recommend offer the biggest and best collection of players while also offering the most accurate and most diverse player-profiles.

Best players

Now, I realise that ‘best players’ is relative to what team you’re using so rather than give you a huge list that you would have no idea of who fits what team and you spending days scouting the players to find that you are not worthy of his services, these two suggestions have taken the statement literally.

The first selection from Football Manager Story is a great resource, it literally shows you the best 200+ players in the game according to in-game ability. So these are literally, the best players on the game, here’s the link.

The second ‘list’ is one of our own, it isn’ a best players list like the above, its a free e-book that we put together fairly recently that identifies 12 players that perform better than Messi. They don’t have stats better or better star ratings, they just perform this week in week out on the pitch and most will go to ANY top-flight team in Europe. Here’s the link.

Free players

You can’t go in to any game on FM without checking out who is available on a free transfer, every team from CL winners to semi-pro teams are in need of free transfers and there is some great finds to be had.

Because of that, there’s hundreds of these lists about but IMO, this is the best one.

It’s another list from FM Scout, they’re shit-hot aint they!?

You can get your hands on it here.

Lower league players

If you, unlike me, like the challenge of taking on lower league teams there can be a lack of information and resources around for you to find the players that suit your expectations in that division.

I have found a couple that look pretty good and the players they recommend are certainly awesome in the lower-leagues.

Heres a great guide from Football Manager Story, you can skip over the first half of the page unless you need some help setting up the databases.

I also saw this small collection of players, but after scouting them, they’re great finds that will certainly perform well in the lower leagues.

Wonderkids lists

We have covered the collection of wonderkids’ lists loads over here and to be honest, that is a great place to find some wonderkids, theres thousands of them on that page.

But if you had to push me on one list that is the best around, I would definitely say this one from True Football Manager.

Formations

Formations are a huge consideration, especially when you’re trying to fit all these new awesome players in straight away and still get some results.

I tend to stick to the same 2 formations but have a 3rd ‘winger’ tactic that is something new and out of the box, take my current 1-2-1-3-1-2 formation for example!

I know a lot of you out there like playing around with formations more than me and some of you have even published some awesome results online, these are available for download if you’re interested and I reckon this and this are your best option.

Optional extras

We’re pretty much there, you are all set and now have the best collection of downloadable content available online but I just wanted to give you one quick nudge towards our e-book, which gives you all the strategy you need to win every single penalty shootout on any FM game.

It’s here and well worth a look, especially if you are in lots of finals!

You don’t even know the best part yet, it’s all free, well next to free.

Let me tell you how I got to this, for the last few weeks I have been relentlessly loading up old FM saves, clicking space bar a few times than systematically getting bored and turning it off, this ain’t right, we need some fresh enthusiasm and I think I have the cure.

I just bought 5 awesome classic games online from Amazon (which by the way is far cheaper than anywhere online or off) and like a kid at Christmas I just can’t wait for the postman to come in the morning to drop them off, I got’em all for under a tenor including delivery, there’s some real classics here that are sure to sit in my collection for years to come.

For those who prefer playing on a PC/Mac

First up is the legendary Championship Manager 01/02, this has to be the most played game in football management game in history and for me has never been bettered.

Though compared to the previous release there wasn’t too many new features or additions apart from player masking being an optional extra, it was the gameplay itself that really got fans purring.

A game that is leaps and bounds above everything else for one reason alone, the balance between fun and football simulation was utter perfection and this alone set Championship Manager 01/02 apart from every other game in its class.

There was just enough ‘depth’ to the game and the right blend of tactical, transfer and skill was required to get through a season, which you could do at your own pace or super-fast if you wanted to hop through the years quickly.

For those who prefer a retro and no ‘faff’ management game, CM is by far the best instalment over the last 20 years and a must for every Football Manager fans’ collection.

You can get your hands on Championship Manager here from £1.65.

Next up is Football Manager 2005, what a game this was. With 158 divisions and 51 countries to choose from it was first game to also feature the media interaction element that is common-place in the more recent games.

Another awesome new feature of the 2005 version was the ability to start unemployed, this gave the user the ability to ‘play the field’ and possibly holiday for a number of days, months or seasons until the right job came up. Something that I thought really enhanced the options of the game.

Football Manager 2005 was the first FM to really have a smooth match engine, it was stripped right back and is a lot more predictable with dodgy players doing dodgy stuff and better players being more reliable from 4 yards.

You can get Football Manager 2005 from £0.71p here.

Console gamers

LMA Manager 2006 is the perfect accompaniment for the console gamer in need of a football management fix. Though the match engine and graphics are not on a par with its PC counterparts, they are plenty good enough for a console.

It’s retro feel coupled with a really cool menu system and a feature that I really liked in the ‘progression bar’, rather than seeing loads of arrows on FM you get one overall bar that shows the players progression in an easily manageable way makes this the best console option for those who like a pad in their hands.

Though the game didn’t get massively good reviews  these were because all were comparing it with FM on the PC, you simply can’t do that and for me this was massively unfair on this game, trust me its brilliant and will keep you entertained for hours.

You can buy LMA Manager 2006 here for 1p, yep that is one pence.

Second up for you console gamers is FA Premier League Football Manager 2000, though its available on PC and Playstation I reckon the console game is by far the better proposition.

LMA offers the player some awesome options and ways to build and manage your squad, think of all the players at the heights of their careers that you could sign, Rivaldo, Ronaldo, a young David Beckham?  That is enough to get the juices going and this is a great way of turning back the years and building a team that can only dream of bringing Wayne Rooney through the youth set up.

Like LMA Manager, this game is available from 1p, obviously you need to pay postage but that don’t count!

You can buy it here.

The Wildcard

I know it’s not really a ‘classic’ game yet but I had to throw this one in just for what it ‘meant’ to the Football Manager series, for me it is also the best FM since 2005 and one that I hope SI look into for the next release.

Football Manager 2011 is awesome, it just is, it’s the one that I spent the most time playing and one that has been lost by me in the transition from PC to Mac a few years ago, I just bought it, I cannot wait for this game, I will have a bear come next weekend when i smell, am pale and have no blood left in my fingers because this is going to be my life for the next week or more.

I can’t believe that its available on Amazon for £2.30, what a result.

Pretty much every review site out there gave this game a 9/10, most notably for its longevity and they are spot on.

For me the mix of classic old school players like Beckham, Ronaldinho and even the likes of Mark Viduka is a lure that I can’t resist, if you like Football Manager, any of the series, you have to own this game.

I feel like I just stole this game for £2.30 from here.

By my reckoning that’s 5 awesome games for a combined £4.68, what more could you want. I reckon that works out at less than 1p an hour for the enjoyment you will get out of all these, try going down the cinema with a chick for that!

I hope you enjoy the games, let me know if you buy them!

In little over 4 weeks we have had an astonishing 5,620 responses and if you took part, thanks a bunch!

We thought it would be selfish of us to keep the results to ourselves so here we go, lets see what you lot had to say.

The first question in the survey was “What is your overall opinion of Football Manager 2013?”

The responses matched our opinion of the game really, 43% said the game was “pretty good” and 39% answered that the game was “awesome”.

Importantly for SI, only 6% believed the game was the “best one ever”, which when you consider the game was the best-selling version of the game ever, isn’t the best feedback.

Interestingly though, not one single respondent said the game was “very poor”.

What does this tell us?: FM 2013 was by far the biggest selling version of the game in its existence, more people are buying it that ever so surely each one should be better than the last? Guess not, in my opinion 2012 is the best version in a long time and it seems everyone else isn’t too far behind those thoughts.

The second question in the survey was designed to understand the age range of the respondents.

The largest proportion of which were 22-29 years old which was more than double of that in any other age range.

What does this tell us?: Some people and some FM bloggers around at the moment believe FM is only a game for younger-heads, kids who need their parents to buy the game for them, it certainly is not. The majority (large) of our 5,620 respondents were between the ages of 22 and 29, couple that with the fact most people are playing the game ‘most days’ it seems the average FM player is a working man. That’s certainly the case in my experience.

Thirdly we asked “What ‘stature’ of team do you usually manage in your first season?”

We felt this was an important question to ask, though not relevant to much other than ‘how people play the game’ we thought it important.

The results of this question was fairly unexpected by us, we assumed that most people would be taking over at ‘top 6′ teams but the majority (28%) of our visitors were taking over mid-table teams in their first game on Football Manager 2013.

Only 8% of people take over the ‘best teams in the league’, with 7% taking over at the helm of ‘relegation battlers’.

What does this tell us?: You could be forgiven for thinking that people would follow their off-game support of football teams with their first club in-game but this doesn’t seem to be ringing true.  With only 8% of people taking over one of the best teams in the league, it seems we FM prefer a challenge over our loyal support.

The fourth question in our survey was designed to understand the credentials of our respondents.

“How long have you been playing the Football Manager series?”

By far the biggest response, over 54% was from people who had been playing FM ‘since Champ-man days’ which really added some authority to the answers we were getting.

What does this tell us?: This is a crucial question for the credibility of our answers, more than 54% of the people who got involved in our survey have been playing the game since Championship Manager days. In combination with some other answers you can start to see a loyal fan-base maybe turning slightly sour with the way the game is progressing.

Fifth in the survey was “How often do you play Football Manager?”

Only 3 answers were really used with this question, 94% of the respondents either played FM every day (27%), most days (41%) or a few times a week (26%).

The 6th question was by far the most important for our survey, it signifies what the real experts of the game think could change, the question was:

“What changes would most improve Football Manager 2014?”

Lots of the answers on the list were popular, with “Improve youth training – give ability to ‘mould’ young players” being the most popular, 69% of respondents wanted to see changes in this area of the game.

The second most popular answer was ”Improve youth training – give ability to ‘mould’ young players” with 67% of respondents thinking it would be a worthy addition.

Other notable answers included improving scout accuracy, giving the manager more control over sponsorship deals and to give the manager the ability to spend his/her personal earnings in-game. All of which were wanted by between 50-55% of the respondents.

Question 7 was designed to understand the buyer behaviours and the anticipation of Football Manager 2014, this, along with the first question gives us a realistic barring on the real-success of the game.

We asked “When will you buy Football Manager 2014?”

The answers were split across a few results but the bulk of people were either going to buy the game “as soon as it is available for pre-order” or on “the day it is released”. These made up 56% of the answers.

Question 8 was “Not including in-game issues, what is your biggest frustration with the FM series? “

A lot of the answers to this question were popular but the biggest concern was users getting bored and needing to start multiple games, 22% of respondents had the same issue.

This has to be a big concern for the game makers and I can say that I agree, I find myself getting bored after a few seasons because the game becomes ruled by regens. I know they are a necessity in the games longevity but there is ways and means of extending the life-span of any given game. For me the best way to do this would be to build a proper Youth Development structure, where you could recruit kids as young as 10, because these regens would have been developed by you, they wouldn’t be as detrimental to the future annoyance of them taking over.

For question 9 we wanted to understand what information people look for online, this was mainly so we could make sure we had that information on the site for you, the question was:

“What information do you look/search for online about Football Manager?”

Turns out you all want to see information on the best players and downloads, go figure!

The final question was ”How many of your friends play FM?”

This was a bit of a wildcard really, I have several friends that play FM but its a fairly ‘solo’ game so we wanted to know if it was the same for everyone else.

Over 28% of you have ’2 or 3′ friends that play FM, snap! Seems we are more alike than you might think.

I’m sure you are drawing your own conclusions about what this information means for the game, for SI and for the forthcoming 2014 release but what other things can we learn about FM based on these results?

For example, when you combine the age groups and the fact people play ‘most days’ more than any other result, you can safely say that most FM players work full-time.

You can also assume that because the majority prefer a challenge over team-loyalty they, in most cases, will need to find online help and guidance to find the players that suit the team they have chosen rather than knowing that already.

Do you have any conclusions? Let’s talk below.

To survive and rise !  An eight point plan we  had. Eight points to improve our standing; eight points to raise much needed cash; eight points to improve our squad. And just how did the author of those eight points perform ? Was he good enough to heed his own advice ? And did he survive his first term ?

Now my little bat-friends; my little wanderer friends; my lost wanderers … shall we turn the page? …

• Coaches:
• Scouts:

The key was HIRE SOME MORE !! … and so we did … the team was crying out for both more coaches and scouts, and by October’s end, we had three new coaches on board.

We wanted mental toughness; tactical awareness; and technical ability so our coaches could impart their knowledge and experience to our playing staff. Very happy we were indeed with our new employees; just goes to show who is out there looking for a job … even with a team such as ours .. down here in League Two. In John Murtough (oh we hope he is mucho tough!!) and Keith Ryan, we should be able to upgrade our playing level and become much more competitive.

The Board were very happy for us to add three coaches without question, and we have managed to do just that. Getting them to work straight away with the players will no doubt only help to strengthen the side.

And by the calendar year end 2010, we have also added a couple of scouts to help ferret out more talent. And also … (as you can see) come season’s end 2010/11, my assistant (or rather erstwhile assistant, as it is in the present tense) has left the club via mutual consent. Well, alright then, I actually nudged him toward the exit door, and booted him through it thoroughly once close enough. The falling out?? Well, no, of course it had nought to do with his earning more money than yours truly .. but rather .. you do remember he was tres loyal to his former boss (and also stuck in his, and those old ways) and he would mostly tend to disagree (vehemently) with my selections. So Martin Kuhl and I decided to a parting of the ways (alright – I decided – the joys of being THE boss) and prior to season’s end, Martin became … as the saying goes … history. Better to bring in a happy and new face in the new season to come, someone eager to prove himself, someone not spoiled by the old ways …..

Affiliated Clubs

It took a wee while to obtain our desire. We were twinned with Brentford of the second tier for a while, and then we landed the plum of Tottenham Hotspur. Oh the joy ! They pay us £44,000 per year, chicken feed for them (but we have a lot of chickens here at Wycombe—and some who fancy themselves roosters) We also now get to keep the entire gate receipts when Spurs come to Adams Park for their yearly sold-out friendly. In addition, they will usually loan us a very promising youngster from their ranks and cover 100% of his wages to boot. Nice, very nice.

 Youth

Our youth recruitment policy has always been fairly basic with just the bare bones of facilities. My feeling is, it will take many years of hard slog to build up a half-decent academy. We were turned down by The Board for our request to upgrade. Reason: lack of funds. So the local lads we attract are very low on skills and most likely will not be sticking around very long. They will be wandering but not Wanderers. (unless Bolton or Wolves pick them up J )

My young friend, above, is a case in point. Already 18 years of age, horribly low on technical ability; and no where near the mental strength to feature even in OUR first team. As a defender,  tremendously low in marking; tackling; concentration; technique – oh dearie dearie me !! I could go on and on and on …. Stamina ; strength ….the only thing Man U about Leika is his name !! … and he is about the standard young “starlets” we are attracting to our under-18’s. It is a revolving door policy mostly – in one year and out the next … even offers to other clubs – even those non-league sides – attract not a jot of interest – I don’t think even exceptional coaching can save the first few years crop !  ….

And , I am afraid, it will be quite some years before we have enough spare funds lying around to work on upgrading the facilities, and thus attract the quality of youth we want and need. In the interim, we will have our scouts look for promising youngsters elsewhere and hope to grab a few on ‘a free’ and build up the under-18 squad. – Unless of course, we attract a sugar-daddy (or sweet momma) with deep pockets. Yes, it is going to be a very slow process and methinks we will be fortunate to find two or three youngsters graduate to the first team in the un-for-see-able future.

Friendlies

We had mentioned friendlies, especially home matches, as a good way of obtaining some much needed income. In addition to evaluating your squad and how they perform, friendlies get them into match-shape for the coming season. Don’t forget to arrange matches for your reserve and youth sides as well. And pop down to the under 18 games once in a while and see for yourself just who may be worth a call-up to the big side.

Yes, we arranged quite a few friendlies for the team, with lots at home, and also inaugurated a yearly tournament: ‘the Wycombe friendly cup’; each year in pre-season we will invite three different sides to compete with us in a competition at Adams Park. Its fun, it draws crowds, teams from the world over, and creates some much needed cash for us, all at the same time. It also gives us a glimpse at our players in matches against diversified and top sides, as in future, even premiership sides will be keen to attend.

The Board

If the Board is good enough to hire you in the first place, do not ever be afraid to approach them every so often with a shopping list of your requests. You may wish for more staff – coaches; scouts; physios. Perhaps upgrade the training facilities – perhaps ask for more transfer funds – perhaps a new contract for yourself – perhaps help to sign a really big transfer target you believe will really make a difference. Never be afraid to approach them, they may say ‘no’, but as yet, they could surprise and help out and release funds you thought you were locked away in the vault and would never see the light of day. Although my own Board turned down my, I thought, reasonable request to build a youth academy, they did say ‘yes’ to relaying our mangled pitch; ‘yes’ to requests for more scouts and physios; ‘yes’ to obtain affiliated clubs, both parent and feeder; even ‘yes’ to raising the wage budget !  (although Mr W Rooney still remains out of reach!). So always make the approach, I feel the Board are there to help and not hinder.

Loans

And here, we come to the crux of the matter. It is not only loans, but transfers, and especially,  FREE TRANSFERS, where elevation of the club is paramount. Of course, most times, you do have to free up funds by dumping those you deem unworthy. (oh dear, as in my case with Chris Westwood, among others) … but at least you do not pick up the tab for the loan signings, and well, as regards the frees, one must be circumspect with weekly wages and stay within budget whilst still striving forwards as a club.  Here’s a look at our dealings in the market during our first season.

As you can see, each and every transaction was a FREE. We garnered four loan signings in our first season, including two from Liverpool ! It does not harm to ask the big clubs, as they may be very willing to send their players even to a club in the fourth tier. Also the players themselves sometimes recognize playing time is much more important than just sitting on the bench at their parent club. In fact, our four loan signings played a total of 106 matches for us in the season, just goes to show how valuable they can be, and Victor Palsson came back once again the following season on loan and played a further 34 games. Alexis Nikolas, our first ever signing, on a free, played 35 matches during the season and added steel and guile to our midfield. He had been with Chelsea for four years, but never played a game; released to Brighton in the Championship, he made 44 appearances over two years without scoring and was let go on a free to St Albans in the Blue Square Premier from whence we reeled him in. This is the way of life at the bottom, surviving on the scraps; the shrimps the big fish throw overboard; dining on the krill, before the whales and sharks gobble it all up; attempting to turn  Abyssobrotula Galatheae  into beautiful, sleek, fast swimming Dolphins. (is it possible??)

Tutoring

Approach as many of the senior players and request they tutor the youngsters. Nearly all will be delighted and ready to help. Attempt to match positions and personality types. You will find this goes down a treat. The younger players will learn and become friends with their mentors if all goes well. This has the added effect of creating squad harmony. The younger players will learn and the older ones will be happy to impart their knowledge and will appreciate being asked by you. Just be careful not to match volatile personality types, but for the most part, tutoring can only but help the club and draw them closer together as a unit.

Summary

So when all is said and done … as the saying goes … just where did we finish ? Remember the Board wished for a straight return to League One, and despite backing me all the way, I was still afraid I was only going to last only the one year. As the season wound down, and March saw us winless in four, I thought the barnacles were on the anchor, and knew it to be impossible. Even four wins and a draw in our last six matches did not matter. I anticipated I would be walking the plank at the end of the season … our lack of goals (as fore-seen) only 50 in the league, was a sore we were unable to heal. At the end, we finished 9^th, and I feared the powers that be would cast me overboard.

The only reason, I gathered why they let me survive to fight again the next season, was that I had built up a good relationship with the team, the players, the Board themselves, and kept slowly, slowly, slowly building.

They gave me another chance … another chance to avoid the jellyfish and the barracudas that prey on the weak, another chance to struggle for oxygen and to sorely glimpse the light far above at the surface ….. but I knew it was a chance I had to take next year …. I knew next season I had to rise to League One at the very very least … I knew … if I failed … by next season’s end … I would be the one sealed up in Davy Jones’ Locker …  the rusted key dissolved in the sandy brine below the Titanic … and me … a barnacle-encrusted relic … telling tall salty tales in the local coffee house ….

(the tales of eamonn o’hanlon)

From all the football books that I read a year, below are my top 5 books that I think are a definite for all us Football Managers to help us improve our game.  These books range from gaining a better understanding of the beautiful game from tactics to player strops, speaking with the people who created Football Manager and FM’ers who have taken things a little too far.

1) Football Manager Stole My Life: 20 Years of Beautiful Obsession

This has got to be the top book every FM obsessed fan needs to read.  Not just to have a laugh at others misfortune, but just to remind us that there is actually a real footballing world out there no matter how good FM is.  This book is written by Iain Macintosh (a sports journalist in Singapore), Kenny Millar (sports writer for The Sunday Post and not the ex striker of Celtic and Rangers) and Neil White.

The book goes into details about Nostalgia, Inspirational stories, and failed FM world beaters who never made it in the real world.  These stories range from a boy taking full use of his parents going on holiday and hooking his laptop up to the big screen TV, to Tonton Moukoko getting calls to this day from avid fans asking him where it all went wrong, and an FM addict is put on the psychologists coach to discover what 20 years as a virtual football manager has done to him.  These are just a handful of some of the funny stories which are within this book.

2) FC Barcelona – A Tactical Analysis: Defending

“If you never concede a goal, you’re going to win more games than you lose” – Bobby Moore.  There has never been a truer word spoken and is exactly what this book is for.  What better team to base your defensive tactics on than Barcelona who went 30 home league games unbeaten during the 2010/11 season.

Pep Guardiola’s blue print to get Barcelona so tight defensively was so good, that it didn’t matter who took over from him when he left, it’s legacy still worked without much effort or changes having to be made by the new gaffer.

This book goes into detail about what defensive tactics Barcelona use and could be used by you for your own FM team or potentially against Barca when you next come up against them.

3) Set Plays: Organizing and Coaching Dead Ball Situations

A slightly older book which was published back in April 2005.  It is still worth a read though as it takes an in-depth look at the single most important aspect of scoring and preventing goals from dead ball situations such as Free kicks, Kick-offs, Goal kicks and Corners.

Good set-pieces can be the difference between no points, one point or three. Taking advantage of the numerous dead-ball situations within FM which occur in matches can work massively to your benefit and by reading this book.  We would all love a Steven Gerrard or Gareth Bale in our team to score a direct free kick, but what do we do with indirect free kicks?  This book can certainly give you plenty of food for thought to how we set up our team in the different situations.

4) Coaching Soccer: Match Strategy and Tactics

Match coaching is often overlooked in football coaching in favour of drills and training methods. This book tackles the tough task of preparing for, executing, and analysing the match.  Sometimes it is not always about putting out your best players but instead trying to outfox your opponent.  To do this, you have to send your scout out the week before to compile a report on how they play.  However, this is only the first stage of operation hoodwink.  It’s all well and good having this information, but what does it mean?!  This book is perfect for that to help you understand the match strategies and tactics used within the footballing world.  Once you understand these, coupled with the Barca defending tactics from the earlier book, the world is your oyster – easy!

Let’s read on and I wonder what book is next – yep, you guess it, attacking.

5) Attacking Soccer: Mastering the Modern Game

So by now, we have mastered the dead ball situations, understood the different strategies, and firmed up our defences.  All what is left to do now is score that all important goal.  This book helps football fans from around the world adore the offensive style of play based on fast passing combinations, spectacular dribbling, and the art of beautifully shot goals. The question regarding this style of game is how to coach your team to embrace fast attacking soccer.

This book is written by Peter Schreiner and Norbert Elgert, who are renowned German coaches who give their answers to the modern attacking game, including systematically approaches.  Every coach can easily shape his training programs with easy to use exercises, but is what you are doing making any differences come match day.  This book should help with making sure you are putting your players through the correct attacking exercises and hopefully bring the end of those dreaded goalscoring drought messages that I get all to frequently.

There is one final book to consider, it isn’t out yet but looks a real treat and you can actually pre-order it now.

The Manager: Inside the Minds of Football’s Leaders

This book is due for release on 29th August 2013.  The book goes into detail on all aspects within the footballing world from the post room to the boot room.  With all the big billionaire owners coming over and running the British clubs more as a business than a hobby, working there must just be like working for a FTSE 100 company.

All stories come from some of the 30 biggest names in the game.  If for nothing else, you will learn real life lessons of what these managers have learnt along their way and what methods they have used.  Could help with those tricky FM team talks or handling the media minefield.

Don’t just put these on your ‘to read’ list and stare at the titles thoughtfully every now and then. Go out, buy them, and then read them and hopefully (like me), it will whet your appetite ready for FM14.  After all, until FM14 is out, what else do you have to do!

If you found this article interesting, why not read our other article about 5 Must Own Classic Football Manager Games for £4.68.

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Messi, Neymar, Cristiano Ronaldo, Iniesta, Rooney,… Top players, role models, heroes. Probably the reason why games such as Football Manager are a big success. To actually be the manager of these great players, to live the dream of actually coach them and to manage some of the world’s greatest teams. But who has heard of Marta, Prinz, Hamm, Smith,…? Alan Smith, you mean? No, Kelly Smith! Why is it that there is so little interest in the gaming industry for women’s football? Or is it only following the poor general interest in women’s football in real life?

I guess you can call it evolution. In lots of sports, female athletes had to struggle in getting more attention, more tv coverage and better prize money. In the individual sports – athletics, swimming, tennis – some kind of equality was reached. In team sports this equality is still far gone, with the exception of an Olympic survival every four years. And in the most typical ‘male sport’ of all times, we can still talk about a taboo. Not that women’s football is non-existing. Far from it. But let’s say that 90% of the male spectators don’t even want to discuss the topic: ‘Yes to football, women and cars. But please don’t mix them all together.’ But let’s violate the taboo for once and think about the surplus value of women’s football in gaming.

Boosting interest

Game developers react that there is no demand for women’s football. This is logical, because people don’t know the female players or leagues. You can talk about a vicious circle. Why not boosting attention for women’s football by including it in games? You get an extra dimension to the game, not by adding a brand new feature or a new country league, but by opening the game to both genders. This will open a window for new opportunities. Both male and female gamers get into contact with female players and can become more interested. More viewers to women’s football on television, more spectators to the stadiums, more income, more sponsors,…

Improving the game

Yes, I know, adding a women’s football database will not directly improve the Football Manager game. But there is a kind of attribution to the game of soccer. A few decades ago, I had to agree with critics that said women’s football was lacking in speed, technical ability and tactics. These last 20 years, the world of women’s football changed. More and more girls find the way to the football fields. A count by FIFA in 2006 indicated that 270 million persons were playing football and 26 million of them are women, that’s nearly 10 %. This percentage will only increase in the future. Let’s put it like this: if those percentages in 2006 were turned around, women’s football would look a whole lot better than the men’s game. And as some say on the internet: ‘the dribbling moves of new star Neymar look a lot like those of female superstar Marta’.

Popular teams

Even if the female players are not that famous, the teams they play for are. Also in women’s football, you will encounter teams such as Arsenal, Liverpool, Barcelona, Olympique Lyon, PSG, Bayern Munich, Ajax and Anderlecht. And yes, also my favorite team OH Leuven is playing in the Belgian-Dutch BeNe League. If you are a true fan of these top teams, why not try them out in a women’s football game or database? Ok, the number of spectators will be lower, wages will be lower, some player abilities will be less, but that’s again a new challenge.

Beauty of the game

We can even mention an extra factor of purity: women’s football is not yet dominated by money as much as the world of their male counterparts. Here we can still talk about passion and the beauty of the game. Lots of players play five, ten, fifteen years in the same club. Something we don’t see too often anymore in the men’s game. Foreign female players are mostly ‘attracted’ by clubs because they have a surplus value, not because the club thinks the player can be worth two or three times as much next season. So, ‘attraction’ above buying and selling… Has a nice ring to it, wouldn’t you say?

Sexier game

Game developers may argue that the mainly male audience are not interested in the female players. Are they sure of this? Strangely enough I saw the question for women’s football databases pop up several time these last few years. Why? Active football players, guys whose girlfriend plays football at a local team (yes, you can count me to this group) or perhaps gamers that like to play with female teams because… it’s sexier. Do you like to be the tennis coach of Sharapova? Of course, you do. So why not coaching female football players like Alex Morgan, Louisa Necib, Selina Wagner, Hope Solo, Rachel Unitt or Lotta Schelin? If you don’t know them, just google them. I rest my case. Or not yet…

Small efforts

At least, not before asking the main question: ‘Why not?’ My all-time-favorite game FM doesn’t require big changes. An extra database can be easily created with some ‘local scouts’ that know the local women’s football leagues. Another requirement: female pictures and names for generating new players. But that’s mainly it. Let’s give women’s football the attention it deserves, also in gaming. Let’s give gamers a choice between coaching Messi or Marta.

Tom Schelfhout

Flemish FM fan

That dream is reignited after a couple of seasons when regens start to become the top transfer targets for every team across the world. Some young whippersnapper with stats coming out his arse bum and has the potential to set the league alight.

Unfortunately for me, my mindset is one of negativity towards regens, a double-edged sword if you will. Let me explain.

I’m a bit of a purist Football Manager player, one that likes to progress youth and regens but also one that feels the ‘magic’ diminishes from the game when those youth and regen players that have reached their potential are filling your squad. But for those 4-5 years in the middle, there is nothing better than regen hunting, discovering a gem in the rough that even Arsene himself would be proud of.

I want everyone to be a part of that mystery, that inquisitiveness that can quickly turn to a childlike excitement if you find the next Messi.

For that reason alone I have put together the techniques that I use to find the best regens on the game, without cheating with RTE’s.

I may be taking a bit of a ‘punt’ here but I am guessing SI won’t overhaul the game in the way I think it should be and so these practices will work on FM 2014 too. (I’ve been using the same tactics since about FM 08).

First off, you must have the right scouts

The first step to finding awesome regens is having the right scouts.

It is a common mis-conception amongst newbie’s to the game that scouts are only for scouting, they’re not. Not only do they evaluate and point out the key credentials of any would-be signings but they increase the range/knowledge in countries and continents across the globe, in-turn increasing the amount of regens (and other players) that show up in your results.

believe it or not, 32% World knowledge is pretty good!

As a starting point if you’re a top-level team you need to have the right scouts under your employment, scouts that cover the main countries across the globe that produce high volumes of regens.

For me this entails Brazil, Argentina, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Holland, USA, Ivory Coast, Austria, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey.  I don’t know if these are the ‘official’ places that produce the most regens, but for me these are my gut instinct about the countries that produce the best, after several years and hundreds of seasons in the game.

You need a scout for each country, in other words one that is native or has a more than 75% knowledge of that region. Secondary to that knowledge is the scouts skills and both identifying current player ability and potential ability, note that at this stage, scout stats are firmly secondary to the knowledge he/she possesses.

Heres one of mine, for Holland.

So once you have a nice collection of scouts for those regions mentioned, you are ready for the next step.

Get the search criteria right

The next step is to actually start searching for the regens you crave, here though, don’t be tempted to streamline your approach, don’t be tempted to search for all players under a certain age, if you’re looking for a defender add that position and the same for all of them.

Heres the search that I use if looking for a midfielder.

Make sure that you do not ‘check’ ‘unrealistic targets’ as many regens start on youth contracts or are not listed on transfer and loan list so unless you have 100% scouting in that region, these players will be filtered out.

Typically I find that using ’20′ as the max age gives you a good start, its rare that a regen starts the game older and usually if so they are the ones that clubs just won’t let you buy anyway.

When you have your results you need to select show ‘attributes’ and for midfielders and strikers, go for ‘technical’ as below:

Now,  your list is getting towards where you want to be, as a default it is probably showing the players listed in order of ‘value’ unless you have previously selected something else.

What you want to do now is either highlight the most important stat for your ‘perfect player’ or just flick through, pushing each stat to the top individually and having a scan through the top few dozen players looking for ‘blue numbers’.

If I was looking for a central midfielder passing and first touch would be first on my list, attacking midfielders would see me looking more towards technique and dribbling but obviously you want an all rounded player.

You can find some cracking gems doing this but you can also be fooled.

Scouting the right way

When you have found a regen or ten, the next step is to scout them which is something that I see done completely incorrectly by so many people, especially on Football Manager 14.

You have just spent thousands recruiting a scouting network that knows the regions, use that ability to get the most accurate scout report, I have seen scouts vary by 2 full stars, just because of regional knowledge.

Use a specific scout who has knowledge of the regen that the player is currently playing in. Do not use one based on nationality.

What to look out for on a report

Dealing with your scout reports become second nature once you know what to look for, they are fairly basic and to be honest i hope there is more ‘depth’ to be added to these come FM 14 but anyway, the key components here are matching a few bits of data together.

Firstly, do you trust your scout? Secondly does the regen have the current ability to help your team or the future potential to be a star? Lastly is their any frightening ‘stuff’ on the report?

As a standard, I never sign a regen or youth player unless he has a potential of 4.5 stars. The only time I would sign a potential of 4 stars is if the player is good enough to play regularly for me straight away. You will find out why in a minute.

Be sure that there is no ugly traits of the player your scouting, for example I tend to avoid anyone who ‘lacks consistency’ is poor in the big games and is ‘injury prone’. All of these will affect how effectively the player reaches his potential, which after-all is the reason you are looking to sign him.

Understand the ‘flex’ effect

The ‘flex’ effect is a name I just made up, literally this minute. But this effect is a real thing, its something that needs to be addressed.

When signing a regen or any player for that matter the ‘flex’ effect is what the real potential of the player will be if you a) played him every game, b) played him regularly or c)put him in the reserves or sent him on loan.

The flex effect swings both ways, if you for example sign a player with the potential to be 4 stars and play him often, he could easily ‘flex’ to be 4.5 or even a 5 star player in the future.

On the other hand, a young player who isn’t given time in the first team, tutored and trained specifically to hit his prime, he won’t do so. His potential could drop by 2 stars, (most I’ve seen).

It is easy to get it wrong

Stats can be deceiving, they can ‘cloud’ your judgement, lots of blues on one player can be a huge distraction that leads you to make an un-informed bid, check this dude out:

On first inspection you’re thinking “what a find”, young, stats all-over the place and cheap at that, perfect.

But look closer, this guy is an AMC, apart from decent technique and flair he just isn’t up to scratch for that position. At 19 you would want a much better passing, finishing, creativity and positioning stats for an AMC, not to mention better pace and acceleration.

Your cause isn’t helped by a scout telling you this dude could hit 4 stars, he couldn’t, as he wouldn’t perform at a level high enough for you to play him consistently enough to get to that level.

Here’s what you could have won

If you get it right the rewards are certainly there, here’s a couple of awesome regens that I have found using the techniques above. Fingers crossed that you guys are ready to find some cracking regens when FM 2014 comes out, as soon as its available for pre-order you can find it here.

CM, the next David Beckham?

Awesome striker!

By far the best RB regen I have ever seen