Some journos will grill you about your decision to drop your first-choice keeper, and others will give you an easy ride with generic questions – but you can approach them as you see fit. But that isn’t the only place you can get chatty, as Football Manger 2015 sees you speaking with the media on a more regular basis with pre and post-match interviews. How much they listen to your demands is debatable if you’ve lost control of the dressing room, of course. If you need your winger to concentrate more you can. If you want your team to push forward you can tell your eleven men to do so. Changing tactics has been here before, but now, as well as team talks before and after matches, you can shout instructions during the ninety minutes of play. With a number of points to spend on both sides of the managerial spectrum, it’s important to use them wisely, as a manager that’s more inclined to focus on drills on the training pitch will have a squad of players that aren’t as receptive to changing tactics mid-way through a cold, wet Wednesday night in Stoke.Īmong some of the changes is the ability to scream encouragement (or abuse) from the sidelines during a match. The tactical, suit-wearing manager revolves around your ability to deal with player concerns, your motivational skills, and things of that ilk. The tracksuit manager is more of a hands-on type of choice, where you apply your trade as a coach, working with the upcoming stars of your club and apply your mental prowess on the training pitch. These options aren’t related to a costume change, it must be said. Sure, you can walk the fine line of trying to keep all plates spinning at the one time, but things may come unglued because of your aspirations to become all things to all men. When starting out your career as professional babysitter for a group of overgrown children, you’re given the option of being either a tracksuit manager, or a tactical manager. Football Manager 2015 doesn’t reinvent the genre, but it tweaks enough to satiate long time players. The stories are infamous at this stage friends calling in sick to work because they’ve taken Bolton to the Champions League semi-final against Bayern Munich, college students dropping out because it’s Old Firm day and they just can’t wait to stick it to the other half of Glasgow. Year after year, Sports Interactive’s cult following eats up their management sim like Adriano devours pies. I can hear the “Ooooh, Rob-in Van Per-sie” chants (in my head) as the Dutch striker puts the ball in Leicester’s net as we celebrate an 8-0 win.įootball Manager is an institution at this stage. it’s early January, and Manchester United are just four points off league leaders Chelsea, in third place. The board gave me an ultimatum either get three points against Everton in the upcoming game, or get down to the job centre and start looking for new employment. By early November I’d accumulated six losses in the league, including an embarrassing 10-3 at the hands of The Special One’s Chelsea, and found myself toiling in mid-table mediocrity. The board were putting pressure on me, my players didn’t have faith, and I wasn’t even sure myself if I’d taken on more than I’d bargained for. Upon taking the job at the Theatre of Dreams, I instantly started to feel the heat, too. He had some great years at Everton and really proved himself to be a manager worthy of a bigger club, but when he became the successor to Sir Alex Ferguson, it all came apart.
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