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FM20 Tactic: Woden's Axe
This is a 4-1-4-1 formation in defence and a 4-3-3 in possession, creating a very solid defensive shape and also creating loads of goal scoring opportunities.
What tactic would you like to see re/created?
Hey, i want to use this section for people who have ideas of what tactic to be created I want the FM Community to see their ideas come to light in FM20. So, if any of you guys have a formation/tactic style you w...
FM20 Pre-Game Editor
Where to download it for free Hi all, can you please share where from I can download free the pre game editor for Football Manager 2020. Thanks in...
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Czech Fortuna CFL A 3D'2020/21 for FM20/21 New! (06/11/20)
Czech Fortuna CFL A 3D\'2020/21 for FM20/21 New! (06/11/20) FM21 Download posted on 3D Kits Forum for Football Manager 2021
The Journeyman | Rotterdam or Anywhere: Part 4 – Career Match 1,000
I don’t want to jump boat after a season as I’m keen to see if we can build something with this Feyenoord side. There’s plenty of potential in the club with several exciting youngsters (and there weren’t any other jobs going in the summer).
Football Manager 2021 Live Stream - FM21 First Look
Sports Interactive streamed live a play-through session of Football Manager 2021 for the first time. You can watch back the FM21 live stream!
Buy Football Manager 2021 at FMInside
Buy Football Manager 2021 at FMInside at get a massive 15% discount!
How to check on manager vacancies when employed?
Vacant Posts In FM2020, if you are employed, how do you get to see which other clubs are looking for a new manager ?...
Roth Raivers | Part 22: Season 7 Reflection
In 2035, Raith Rovers had reached a European final and qualified for Europe for the first time in 30 years. Could they build on that? You bet they could, as Robí di Lathamé’s team of heroes won the club’s first European trophy, won the League Cup and qualified for the Champions League for the first time in its history.
[FM20] The Teplice Trophy Hunt - A Czech Adventure
75 years and never league winners, lets change that! Welcome to my brand new Football Manager 2020 career, The Teplice Trophy Hunt, where I head over to the Czech Republic...
Best of 4231
Best of 4231 FM20 Download posted on Football Manager Tactics for Football Manager 2020
Down the Danube | #12 - News, Social and the Not-so-Never-Ending Story
Welcome back to the River Danube, where after a successful spell with Bulgaria's CSKA Sofia, Frank M. Athlete is now on the hunt for his third job as he continues his pursuit for greatness as a Football Manager. In this episode, we'll find out how Frank got on finding new employment, plus I'll disc
improving recent tactic
just wondering, ive made a tactic that involves wolves, and it is so far proving to be quite efficient, does anyone here have an...
Why Atlético Junior in #FM21? - La Plata: Colombia
My Football Manager 2021 save with Atlético Junior of Colombia. Detailing aims & aspirations. Features plans on training, tactics and youth development.
Searching the right club in Football Manager
Searching the right club in Football Manager.
Retro Review: Giant Killers
My review of Giant Killers – a long-forgotten (and very basic) football management game from 1999.
FC'12 France - Ligue 1 2020/21 - FM Slovakia
FC\'12 France - Ligue 1 2020/21 - FM Slovakia FM21 Download posted on FC'12 Kits Forum for Football Manager 2021
Football Manager Save Ideas for what Club to Manage
Struggling to find a save idea for your Football Manager career? We've asked the community how they select a club for their saves and put together this brilliant list of FM save ideas for you.
The Journeyman | Rotterdam or Anywhere: Part 3 – Season 1 Reflection
After winning leagues in Portugal, Spain, Germany and England, perennial title winner Robí Sebastian Jesús di Lathamé took a major challenge and sprinkled his magic dust across the Eredivisie.
Track 1 – The Masterplan
Take the time to make some sense of what you want to say, and cast your words away upon the waves Disclaimer: I’m fully aware that “Angers” and “Anger” are not pronounced the same – one will do anything for a bit of convenient wordplay 😄 Suggestion: Blogs aren’t made to be read in Twitter WordPress reader – click here to read in it’s original format if viewing on a mobile device. Football Manager 2021 is almost here. Despite everything that the year 2020 has thrown at us, the team at Sports Interactive have clearly gone above and beyond to deliver yet another (hopefully) epic edition for us, and we are eternally grateful not only for this but for the endless hours of enjoyment FM20 gave us during various stages of lockdown, quarantine, isolation and downtime that, even though most of us FM die-hards are well accustomed to (flying solo and spending endless hours away from the real world), all of us in some shape or form have had to endure, overcome and deal with in our own way as we adapted to the new abnormal normality we collectively live in today. On a positive note – what lockdown and isolation took away from us in terms of social life, travel and working in an actual office with human beings (remember that?), it more than made up for in Football Manager time and whilst we were midway through #MayTheFürthBeWithYou and squeezing every last minute out of FM20, plans for FM21 were already in motion and a desire to manage in a new league/country combined with a 25 year affiliation with Manchester legends Oasis (rivalled only by my 25 year obsession with CM/FM) led to a first confirmed save for the new edition of the game: That’s right – not only will we be embarking on my first ever save career in Ligue 1 as we take the reigns at Angers SCO, but it will also be a Homegrown only save in which we can only sign and recruit French nationals (players and staff) or players that have been produced and developed organically through the club’s academy. As if trying to compete with PSG, Lyon and Monaco wasn’t enough right? I’m not going to spend too much time delving into the club’s history, philosophy and general information as is usually the case with a new FM blog – everyone knows that Les Scoïstes aka Angers SCO (est. 1919) play at the 19,000 seater Stade Raymond Kopa where they have recently been enjoying Ligue 1 football since the 2015/2016 season right? Instead we will today discuss the inspiration behind this save, and how we will go about trying to successfully navigate a Homegrown challenge with a particular focus on the club infrastructure and our planned approach before setting out the main rules and objectives for this adventure. Let’s do this. A Degree of Pedigree We intend on not only building a homegrown squad capable of challenging at the higher echelons of French football, but also developing our somewhat non-existent conveyor belt of organically produced talent at the club – ideally through our youth setup and by recruiting young French talent with a view of placing them in our academy team until they are ready either for first-team football or to be sold for a tidy profit so as to continually reinvest in our production line. I know that every FM save ever talks of focusing on youth etc but for us, the main call-out is that we will not only try produce wonderkids and newgens each year but also spend a considerable portion of our transfer budget on players specifically for the U19 team that we can mould for first team football, and the U19 team will get almost as much attention as the first team throughout the save. While not historically blessed with talent coming from their youth system, we have seen a handful of well known players passing through the Angers youth teams and subsequently go on to have largely successful careers elsewhere – the likes of Nicolas Pépé, Étienne Capoue, Anthony Réveillere, Ulrich Ramé and the recently returned Sofiane Boufal are all graduates of Les Scoïstes youth team, while in recent times younger players such as Romain Saiss, Jeff Reine Adelaide, Jonathan Kodija and Karl Toko Ekambi all had successful spells at the club which inevitably led to big money moves away from the West of France. Reine-Adelaide, Saiss and Pepe at Angers This is what we intend to emulate and our focus will be as follows: Youth Academy – raising the quality of our homegrown produce via increased attention and investment in our youth facilities and recruitment, and most importantly only recruiting French backroom staff in doing so Affiliations – setting up links both with domestic lower league French clubs as well as overseas teams with a focus on both funneling players into our annual youth intake as well as having first options on youth players (more on this below) Smart Spending – rather than put all our eggs in one basket by focusing solely on our youth produce, we will also look to spend a considerable amount of our annual transfer budget on young French talent brought in specifically to play in our youth team wherein they will hopefully progress towards first team football or be primed and ready for the transfer market (every player has a price right?) Made in Africa If you are looking for either some quality football content or for some inspiration for your FM21 save, I highly recommend the Scouted Football podcast which is an extremely insightful in-depth look at U23 football across the world, produced by the guys who bring you the Scouted Football handbook every 3 months which contains analysis on the world’s top youth prospects. Recently I was highly inspired by two specific episodes where host Joe Donoghue spoke with both Lee Scott and Ed Aarons about the pipeline of young African players and their pathway into European football, the latter of whom wrote an exceptional book called Made in Africa which is a wonderful narrative on the history of African footballers in English football. What interested me particularly was the discussion around some of the football academies in Africa, more specifically the Generation Foot academy in Senegal (responsible for developing the likes of Sadio Mané and Ismaila Sarr) and the Right to Dream academy in Ghana where the likes of Mohammed Kudus and Kamaldeen Sulemana learned their trade before following that pipeline into Europe. The more they discussed this pipeline and the idea of European satellite clubs that recruit these types of players, groom them into elite footballers and then sell them on for considerable profit (including the likes of FC Metz, KRC Genk , Red Bull Salzburg and FC Nordsjælland who are responsible for the emergence of players such as Khalidou Koulibaly, Sadio Mané, Wilfried Ndidi and Naby Keita to name a few), the more I was drawn towards trying to replicate something similar in Football Manager. Obviously doing a homegrown save means that we can’t simply start snapping up players from these countries for little or nothing, however what we will incorporate into this save is to try and develop affiliations throughout some of these African countries e.g. Mali, Ghana, Algeria, Morocco etc in the hope that we can offer a similar pipeline to younger players who in turn will be produced as youth candidates at Angers and thus meet our homegrown requirements. We tried something similar in my FM20 save at Greuther Fürth in Germany whereby the goal was to develop Irish youth candidates at the club, a feat that took no fewer than 9 seasons to achieve. Hopefully we won’t have to wait as long this time around! Looking Back in Anger…literally Let’s talk about the elephant in the room. When I decided that Angers SCO were the club for me in FM21, a certain Rayan Aït-Nouri was the club’s first choice left-back and arguably one of the hottest defensive prospects in Europe with a host of top clubs rumoured to be interested in his signature. At just 19 years old, Aït-Nouri only broke into the Angers first team in 2018, and began the 2019/2020 season with two assists in three games helping the club to an 11th place finish in La Liga. Rewind – the date is the 4th of October 2020, and with one day remaining until the Covid-19 driven extended Transfer Window closes, Aït-Nouri is still an Angers player and my plans to build the team around him and do everything in my power to keep him at the club were well underway. ONE DAY. 24 hours later and he would still have been an Angers player – now we must commence the save without him, and to add insult to injury he has signed on loan meaning two things: We won’t really benefit financially as we start the save – obviously Wolves are covering his wages and probably paying a monthly fee for his services, but this won’t be of much use to us in the transfer market We are at the whim of whatever Wolves decide to do in-game with a £20m optional fee; seeing as we will be finished our first season long before real-life Wolves decide if they want him permanently – will he stay or will he go?! Odd One Out? Even if this photo is before your time (some of you weren’t even born when it was taken!) – more than likely you recognise it as one of the great World Cup winning teams with the likes of Zidane, Desailly, Thuram, Deschamps and Barthez all at the peak of their powers in 1998, helping their nation lift the Jules Rimet trophy for the first time in their history. What’s equally remarkable about this side is that, as you go through the first team squad you will see players from teams such as Real Madrid, Juventus, Bayern, Inter Milan, Chelsea, PSG and Arsenal but to name a few – all of that First XI were playing for some of the best clubs in Europe at the time. Well, almost all of them… Somewhat randomly, Auxerre’s Stéfane Guivarc’h found himself leading the line for the World Cup winners throughout the tournament after winning the Ligue 1 Golden Boot during the two previous seasons. Whether it was down to France Manager Aimee Jacquet’s fondness for a lone striker role, or just relatively lucky timing for Guivarc’h given that both Thierry Henry and David Trezeguet were only 20 years of age – either way he found himself in the Number 9 jersey playing among the best players in the world and lifting the World Cup trophy despite not even scoring for the whole tournament – not bad for a Striker plying his trade at the 7th best team in France at the time. Why is this relevant you ask; fast forward to the most recent World Cup in 2018 (also won by France of course) and you won’t find anyone in that final squad not playing for an elite European club (Pavard being the slight exception in that he hadn’t signed for Bayern yet). Barcelona, Real Madrid, Man Utd, PSG, Atletico Madrid, Chelsea – the quality of this France side means that it is almost a certainty that a repeat of the Guivarc’h debacle will never occur, and the chances of a player from any team outside of the Champions League starting for France in a World Cup are pretty much non-existent at this point. Save Rules & Objectives Rules 📜 1. Only Homegrown players can be signed and play for the club, with “Homegrown” defined as the following: Any player of French nationality (first or second etc) Any player that has earned French citizenship after spending minimum amount of time required to qualify (1,825 days i.e….
Atlantico FC
Atlantico FC FM20 Download posted on sortitoutsi Cut Out Player Faces Forum for Football Manager 2020
The Marquis Advice / FM21 Shortlist
A custom shortlist with recommended players for your Football Manager 2021 saves.
Small pack
Small pack FM25/26 Update Download posted on sortitoutsi Cut Out Player Faces Forum for Football Manager 2024/25
Varde IF Teampack
Varde IF Teampack FM25/26 Update Download posted on sortitoutsi Cut Out Player Faces Forum for Football Manager 2024/25
FM20 Story Hub
FM19 brought with it plenty of thrills and spills and now the FM20 season is nearly upon us! With FM20 comes a new rang...
Melilla Teampack
Melilla Teampack FM25/26 Update Download posted on sortitoutsi Cut Out Player Faces Forum for Football Manager 2024/25
FM Genie Scout 20 "g" edition now free!
Genie Scout 20g now free! You can now freely experience all the extra features of Genie Scout's special edition for Football Manager 2020.
Badajoz Teampack
Badajoz Teampack FM25/26 Update Download posted on sortitoutsi Cut Out Player Faces Forum for Football Manager 2024/25
Roth Raivers | Part 21: Challenging For Titles
The amazing rise of Raith Rovers has seen the club go from Scottish League One to European football, Scottish League Cup winners in 2025, through to sitting at the top of the Scottish Premiership moving into 2026.
In-game editor
I have a problem loading the in-game editor that I downloaded from epic. Any help I have a problem loading the in-game editor that I downloaded from epic. Any help...
Journeyman PC advice
Hi guys, I Missed out playing much fm20 due to my laptop being rubbish and Google stadia having bugs meaning I couldn't...
Dinamo Barnaul Teampack
Dinamo Barnaul Teampack FM25/26 Update Download posted on sortitoutsi Cut Out Player Faces Forum for Football Manager 2024/25
FC Scout database
https://www.fmscout.com/i-575-FC-Scout-database.html Can anybody help me please. I've downloaded the logos but the link for database doesn't work ....
Beta access in touch?
I have pre ordered fm21t .Do I have beta access from 10th of november or I will wait till 24th of november...
Will this laptop run FM21 smoothly ?
Dell Inspiron 3558 15" laptop i3 Dell Inspiron 3558 15 inch laptop. Fresh install of Windows 10 Pro Intel i3-5015u processor 6gb RAM 1TB SATA HDD Is this...
San Marino Mixpack Mixpack
San Marino Mixpack Mixpack FM25/26 Update Download posted on sortitoutsi Cut Out Player Faces Forum for Football Manager 2024/25
Story of the Year - FM2020
The end of yet another Football Manager season is upon us, with the release of Football Manager 2021 just a few weeks away. This...
Football Manager 2021 Match Engine Improvements
FM21 match engine AI gets an extra level of depth added to decision-making which has led to improvements across the pitch. The action will feel more realistic.
4-5-1 Light Press // FM20 Tactic
A regroup and much less urgent pressing tactic for FM 2020. Frustrate opponents by sitting deep before countering with lightning pace.