
A big question I ask other players is do you come in with a style and impose that on your team, signing players to match that philosophy. Similarly, new season or club usually requires you to look the tactics screen again and either change the way you play entirely, or improve on what went wrong.

Tactic fit the Players, or Players fits the Tactic? These goals should be measurable and challenging but achievable, without causing you too much stress on top of managing and imaginary team of footballers. The point is you’ve started with an aim and it will help you to stay motivated in your save, as well as give you ideas on what to do next. These can be direct copies of what your board expects, it might be to have a certain player score 20+ goals this season or to beat someone 8-0 using my awful tactic. The first thing you should think about when you join a club, or start a new season is to set yourself a few personal goals.

Me – 2018Ģ018 me was along the right, and the article still holds true for the training side of things however in this article I’d like to focus on what “putting more effort” into your save looks like, and how it can make a difference. You might still do worse than if you coasted through, but you can safely say it was you doing it and can be proud of the commitment. You might find that results will tend to go your way, and the payoff is ecstatic. Find the perfect player and micro-manage your imaginary staff to an infinite degree. If however you decide to fully invest into the save and create a detailed tactic, scour nation after nation.

Perhaps you’ll do a bit better than expected or maybe a bit worse, but you’ll do alright. The relevance of this? Read here what I said about putting in effort to your saves:Īs with lots of creative or inventory management games (in this case footballers) there is a ‘golden rule’ for success: Input = Output What I mean by this is that if you decide to plug in a tactic from a content creator, leave your assistant to run training and tactics and just meander through the season, you’ll probably do alright.
