They’re wide-ranging and vary in priority – some clubs might see promotion to the top flight within three years as a non-negotiable, do-or-die mission. Here, the board of directors lay out a set of objectives and philosophies, adherence to which will define your performance as manager of the club. Most useful of all, for beginners and perennial junkies alike, is the introduction of the Club Vision system.
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What this boils down to is a series of tutorials, cunningly disguised as briefings from your backroom staff, which break down exactly what you’re looking at on each of the important menus – tactics, training, team talks, interviews and suchlike – and why you should care about the information therein. Therein lies another aspect of FM 2020’s new content: fresh user-friendliness. “All of which probably sounds so formidably complex and off-putting to someone who’s never played the series that it might as well be written in sanskrit.
If he were better integrated into the core group though, a shrewd manager might decide it’s better to maintain the positive squad dynamic and give Tammy the minutes he wants, albeit at a tradeoff of poorer performances upfront. Now there’s squad harmony to consider - Abraham doesn’t hang out with the really influential players in the squad, so the likes of Willian and Cesar Azpilicueta aren’t losing sleep over his lack of first-team football, and overall morale remains high. In earlier games the upshot would have been as simple as an ‘Unh’ box next to Abraham’s name and an email from his agent requesting a transfer. Still, what’s a manager to do when Olivier ‘The Jawline’ Giroud’s putting in a twilight season for the ages and locking down the deep-lying forward spot with his production? It’s these emerging, totally unscripted dilemmas that make modern FM so compelling. Young Chelsea forward Tammy Abraham suffered in my first save for not getting enough first team football, and my backroom staff let me know his stats weren’t progressing as they should be as a result. The Development Centre doesn’t ensure those promising kids all become world-beaters, but at a glance it’s at least apparent why they’re not flourishing.
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Traditionally, keeping tabs on your potential wonderkids has been one of the fiddlier and less enjoyable aspects of the job, too often leaving you stumped as to why the 16 year-old you'd pegged as the Bolivian Messi has a stats screen full of downward arrows. Top of the pile is the Development Centre, essentially a new menu which aggregates all the useful info you’d want to know about your young players in your organisation’s youth squads. That’s not to cast its new additions to the side altogether, though. Like a great impressionist painter, Football Manager 2020 captures the whole ecosystem of the sport using an email inbox, some menus, and a match engine that, yes, still looks more like Virtua Striker than FIFA. Instead, players are drawn into its intoxicating spreadsheets and carefully simulated calf strains by the things that don’t change: the astounding depth of its player database, the attention to detail in every aspect of its dutiful recreation of the football world. Nobody’s enticed into a new Football Manager game by its new features, however useful or profound they might be. The easiest explanation for its form would be the new features it includes, but that isn’t quite right. And yet Football Manager 2020 emerges from the undergrowth like a latter-day Jamie Vardy: not much to look at, but metronomically consistent, and good for another season of entertainment despite its advancing years. Amid all that noise, following up a widely celebrated iteration of Football Manager must feel like navigating a jungle without a map. Broadly similar to being an actual football manager, in that regard. Every day of the year your social media feed is inundated with feedback from fans whose suggestions range from genuinely useful insights to grounds for police action. Picture what it must be like to be Sports Interactive studio director Miles Jacobson and his team.
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