Football Manager 27: Player Fixes, Tips and Guides

Workshop

The problem

Where is workshop

Zangelmi, original post

What players suggest

not in yet, I guess it will come when we get first update.

MaX-NOR

u can reach it via shop, but its empty

B3nn GER

You can find this one as a net page. Using Steam - no. It's empty. https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/browse/?appid=4530370&browsesort=mostrecent&section=collections

rristola

where is it

jonbea6

weiß einer was mit dem workshop lost is? der is immer noch leer

sebi1905

Leer? Bei mir ist der garnicht da

Karnivor

Keen for the additional lower leagues add on for the English leagues. Does anyone know where I can get one with the workshop out of action?

CubeW

Leer? Bei mir ist der garnicht da ja stimmt... ich hab schon FM deutschland bei insta kontaktiert aber bisher noch keine antwort erhalten....

sebi1905

WHERE IS THE WORKSHOP

jonbea6

Still no workshop :-S

jadams1511

Lower leagues,

The problem

Where are the lower leagues, level eight down.

The Den, original post

What players suggest

never been part of the game - only ever gone as far as Tier 6 - you will have to download a custom database when one is available

Richy

They were all in FM24

The Den

As a custom database. FM standard only goes down to National league north/south which is 6th tier.

Andy

Thank you for the feed back.

The Den

the leagues are in the Database but you have to man set them up

berryman81

Sorry to interrupt this thread, but when I try to add Regional First Division Level (Level 8) it says the wrong division Level is set, even though it is correct, does anyone know how to correct this?

dljay1977

The lower leagues are all in FM24, so why have they been discontinued?

The Den

Nobody said they're discontinued, the games been out for 24 hours, the mods/databases will catch up. It doesn't take people 5 minutes to knock those things up

Taterz

They should have been a part of the released game, You don't add them at a later date.

The Den

Wasn't this accurately answered in the very first reply?

warped

Issue with recruitment staff

The problem

Is anyone else having issues with the staff recruitment screen? All available staff have disappeared, leaving only those interested in signing a contract. If I click on the three filter boxes, everyone vanishes. It was working fine, and then this suddenly happened—I’ve tried everything... It might be a bug.

jorge.iglesias, original post

What players suggest

It's an absolute mess. Agreed.

Dynadroo

i believe those check boxes are mutually exclusive - so each filter is a different set of staff, turning all on assumes a staff must qualify for all 3 which is never the case. its a logic that is simple, but flawed way of displaying it so it feels like its broken when its working as assumed. same applied to player recruitment

Aston

The boxes are all disabled, the options for specifically searching for staff are completely clear, and no staff members appear—only those who are interested in signing up. The strangest part is that it was working correctly, and then, all of a sudden, it stopped. I am experienced in this specific area, and something very strange has happened.

jorge.iglesias

Yes... The strangest part is that it was working correctly, and then, all of a sudden, it stopped. I am experienced in this specific area, and something very strange has happened.

jorge.iglesias

Problem I'm getting is that the "Interested - First Team" seems to not be doing anything, as I have top top staff "interested" in joining a league 2 team, go in for a contract and obviously doesn't want to have talk. So why are they there if interest has been checked. Very frustrating.

welshbluebird26

listen to advice?

The problem

hey guys, do you recommend to listen and follow the advice from the assistant coach? im clueless regarding tactis but I feel like he is too. so im unsure if i do more harm following him blindly

| 顔 |, original post

What players suggest

use your own judgement. if you absolutely have no clue, then yeah, you could probably do worse than following their advice. As you get more experience you will be able to realise that what they're suggesting may not be the best advice and you tweak it, or go with something completely different

Autumn

Sometimes they'll tell me a team like Malaga are favorites against us, Barca, so we need to play more defensively. I've no idea how they come up with something like that, so yeah, make your own judgement.

Zulu

In match engine: ---------------------- Perhaps 0-2 suggestion pr match - see what suggestion is - see if you can do somethig similar manual that follows your tacktics first. Before match: ------------------- Read all advice and remember them if your want to do changes in match engine. Use at most 0-2 of them for the next match only if they just smal tweak of the current tactics. Generally: the game offer way to many suggestions in my mind.

MaX-NOR

same thing happened to me . I am playing Milan i am coming up against Udinze which in my save was 6-0-0 litreally wining against everyone. game tell me i am fav to win though my season didnt go well i am 3-2-1 . of course asking me to playing attacking . i cant take this anymore so many wrong things AI does i started to ignore everything . litreally everything .

soul like that be capable of

Fired for being relegated and i finished 7th

The problem

Started the ururguayan save and completed the season at position 7. I was fired for finished at the relegation spot when i was not relegated.

tamzi, original post

What players suggest

I got fired from a job with a Chile club because I failed to meet the objective of winning a cup and getting playoff places in the league. However I only took the job with 8 games left in the season, so it was the previous manager who failed all these things. My task was to avoid relegation with 8 games left, as the club was bottom when I started managing.

cwattyeso

You are playing an alpha version of the game. Report your findings on the official forum, so they can patch the game up. Expect the game to be somewhat functional in January or February. That is usually the time it takes them to patch up the game to a proper standard (it is not exclusive to FM27)

AdahnGorion

Thank you!

tamzi

I love playing in Uruguay hehe

Dr. Pooper

FM27 is IMPOSSIBLE… Until You Fix This

So, FM 27 is proving to be harder than usual. And listen, I'd be lying if I said that I hadn't also experienced this feeling. However, I am here today to make a quick video to let you know that there is a way to manage this. If you do this one thing [music] that I'm going to tell you about today, you shouldn't find it quite as difficult anymore. All right, then. Welcome back to another video. Today, we need to talk about how difficult FM 27 seems to be. So many of you are feeding back to me that you are finding this year's game that that little bit harder than usual. And whilst loads of you are loving the challenge of this, some of you are also getting a little bit frustrated, too. I hold my hands up. This has been my experience a little bit as well on stream. This is my stream save here. And as you can kind of see, the results in it, they've not been great. Specifically, if you actually look at just the league results here, we're not winning many games. In fact, we're struggling in pretty much all of them. And so, there's been a lot of soul-searching and trying to work out why this is the case. I tweeted asking if you guys were finding this year's game hard, and the response was overwhelming. The answer is yes. FM 27 is more difficult than older FM games. And for years, the complaint has been that this game is too easy. So, I'm not saying that this isn't a good thing. However, I think it is worthwhile bringing you guys a little bit of an update on what I've now worked out to be the ways to fix this. Basically, the things that you should be doing to stop you from getting sacked in your saves. In fact, I'm going to say it right now. If you've been sacked in your save already, you need to let me know in the comment section down below. It's a safe space here. We can talk about it. And you may already know this by now, but I want to go through it in a little bit of detail, but I think it all comes down to this screen here. This year, Sports Interactive have introduced a new mechanic in the game called tactical effectiveness. This screen breaks it down in detail, and it was included in all of the deep dives before the game launched, but I don't think any of us quite expected it to be as impactful as it seems to actually be. Back in the day, the way that you would fix a bit of bad form would be to change tactic or maybe tweak a few of the instructions. But now, in FM27, that's not quite viable because if you do change tactic, we'll look like this. You'll have these red boxes down the bottom telling you that you need to work on specific aspects in training or your tactic is too complex for your players. Or it could be as simple as what I've experienced in my save, the players hate you. And this now means that we must change the way that we play this game. If you, like me, never usually touch training, well, I've got a little bit of bad news or perhaps it's good news. You're going to have to do training in FM27. It's a thing that you can't neglect anymore, at least unless Sports Interactive patch this. Because I think the difficulty of this year's game boils down almost entirely to how much you have managed to sort out your tactical effectiveness. You simply have to pay attention to these columns and try and get them all into the positive. Otherwise, you will be hampered when you go into games. Your players will play as if they don't know each other's names. There will be no passes successfully made and you'll be conceding that horrible goal where the opposition puts that low cross in and the striker finishes it. So, how would you go about fixing this? That's what I want to tell you in today's video and that's what I want to actually go through so that you can take this screen, your tactical effectiveness, from looking like this to looking a little bit more like this. This is my actual stream example. So, everything that I'm telling you here today is something that I've actually done whilst discussing it with lots of you guys, the viewers. I've managed to fix my tactical understanding for the most part. The one thing that we are still lacking is that this 4-3-3 is still a little bit too complex for my players in terms of the instructions, but I have managed to make sure that we are well suited for player ability. I've worked on my player buying quite heavily and I've even made some little changes that have improved my next match info. In my experience so far, it's this column, the tactical understanding and the player buying, that have been the most tricky ones to work on. And I want to start with player buying because I actually think this area has been my biggest hindrance in this save so far. We have more recently turned it around slightly. We've got three wins in our last four games, and I do think this has come from those tweaks that we've made. But, my biggest issue, and the reason I think that we got off to a really bad start here, is that the players had no respect for me. The coaching badge that I chose when creating my manager and adding a manager to Hertha Berlin was much too low for the level that I was managing at. And because of this, this managerial respect meter was in the red, and the players simply didn't like me. And this meant that this player buying bar was super low, and I think this made us play badly in the first few games of the season. Alongside some of these other areas of the tactical effectiveness screen also being low at the beginning, I want to just point out that you do need to be really super careful with those coaching badge choices and your level of reputation as a manager. If your reputation is too low for the club that you're managing, it's going to be really tricky. Almost became a little bit of a death spiral in this save. Players didn't respect me, so they played badly, and then because they played badly, they lost football matches. Because they lost football matches, they didn't support me as a manager. Because they didn't support me as a manager, they lost more football matches. And then they lost confidence in me because we were rubbish and losing matches. And then the goalkeeper came to complain to me saying we needed to change formation and tactics. But, I didn't want to change formation and tactics because I've been working so hard on the tactical understanding and the tactic that we were in. If I changed tactics, the tactical effectiveness would be really low again. And that would mean that we would lose matches, and then I would end up getting sacked. This was the death spiral that I found myself in unless I did something quite drastic. And so, the first thing was that I needed to make sure that I got myself on a coaching course to try and get a better coaching badge. And I started working on trying to get the players to like me. We held a team meeting that actually went well, and usually that feels like a trap that you should never fall into. I was praising training. I was praising last matches. I was praising the conduct of players. I was even going to press conferences just to try and make the players like me. And this has improved slightly, even if the managerial support isn't quite there cuz we haven't quite fully turned it around yet. I'm hoping that this is going to be the next step. So, that's the player buying aspect of this, but I think the main part of tactical effectiveness is this tactical understanding here. For the tactic that you are choosing to play, you need to try and sort out these circles so that they can actually play that tactic effectively. That's why it's called tactical effectiveness. And this comes down to training. If you are struggling in this year's game and you are still delegating your training to your assistant manager, you need to stop doing that. I say this as somebody who has almost always delegated my training. It felt like a non-impactful part of the game. It felt like something that was a bit of a waste of time, and I'm here to tell you that in FM27, that's no longer the case. First things first, make sure this is important that your primary trained tactic is the one that you're actually going to be playing. And I would also say that make sure you've got three tactics loaded in so that if you do need to change or tweak anything, at least you've got three of them trained in and [music] started to be bedded in where they've got a little bit more effectiveness. And then once you've ensured that your tactic is the primary trained tactic, you then need to do basically this that is on the screen. Every green training session that you see on my training schedule here is one of these tactical understanding training schedules. Now, this is a little bit absurd, and I think this is definitely something that we shouldn't have to do in Football Manager because it's not really, really sticky. I've changed every training session over the past month or two to be working on tactical understanding, cycling through these eight sessions to work so that these eight circles are improving. [music] And they've gone, as I showed you before, from being red to now looking pretty good. You may also, and lots of people have been suggesting this too, you may also want to include some team bonding sessions to try and get that cohesion and and good feeling, good dynamics running through your squad as well. This might well help with things like player buying as mentioned before. But genuinely, if you're not doing this, I think you are only hamstringing yourself slightly because this now just fast-forwards how quickly your players pick up the tactic that you want them to play. And then once they're actually able to play it, only then can you actually find out if it's a good tactic. Because look what happens if I tried to change tactic. I've just loaded in a a park the bus tactic here, and just notice how much these circles change if you try to make tactical changes. I'm under no illusions that if I did this before a game, I would see the effect of this in the way that the players play. They might be able to still create chances. I'm sure we would see defensive problems because of the issues with line of engagement or with pressing trap here. But this means that I think you need to be thinking about all of this all of the time in your save. What I will say also is that once you've done this intense period of only training these tactical understanding sessions, it does then become easier to switch between tactics. For example, this is my 4-3-3 and the effectiveness is looking pretty good at the moment. It's a tiki-taka style system attacking. But if I was to switch to a preset 4-2-4 gegenpress, for example, it still means [music] that they can kind of do most of it. So, if you're starting a new save, I genuinely think the most impactful thing that you could do is to do loads of these sessions, play loads of preseason friendlies, and try and get your tactical effectiveness to the best that it can possibly be, and then you're going to get off to the best possible start. It also means that now when recruiting players, I'm going to be thinking about this so much more. They mentioned this in the deep dives, did Sports Interactive, and I kind of thought, "Yeah, but they kind of say these things every year." But now, genuinely, I'm going to be looking at players when I go to recruit them, and yeah, I'm going to be paying attention to this tactical effectiveness bar here. I mean, I'm genuinely looking at Adam Hložek here at Hoffenheim and thinking, "He's not super expensive, and he would come in with decent tactical effectiveness straight off the bat." That's an interesting one. The final little bit of advice that I have for you is to do your individual player position training as well, in possession and out of possession, and ensure that your players are training in their correct in possession roles and out of possession roles. This can only help as well. And so, yeah, if you're struggling with FM27 so far, and you've sort of…

FM27 Beginner's Guide: Everything You Need to Know!

Football Manager 27 is going to be free to play on release. And you watching may have seen this game before, but seen it to be too daunting and confusing to ever give a go. Well, whether you're watching this on release day or on a cold Tuesday night in Stoke, this guide is going to help you kick-start your Football Manager journey. And even for you experienced guys watching, believe me, there's going to be things in this video in FM27 that you've never seen before. Now that we're on Football Manager 27, we need to start a new game. We're then going to select the advanced setup career, which then takes us to our first daunting screen. No, but seriously, this screen is very daunting the first time you look at it. So, I'm going to make it very simple and explain it in the most simple way possible. First of all, we've got the game start date. We can click on this and select a drop down of when we want to start our game. For example, if I was managing in the Premier League, I might want to start early or late into pre-season or right at the start of the season. If anybody watching this video is selecting something like the first matches in the Conference League and starting a career mode halfway through a season, please just click off this video. You're not a true FM-er. Next up, you've got your transfer mode. And personally, I just use the original mode. It's just the transfers from the real-life season before the new Football Manager game comes out every single year. If you want to read through the other options and maybe there's something fun that you want to try, you sure can. But in my opinion, original is just the easiest way to go for starting your first save. As we now head over to continue flow, I recommend just keeping it on balance. Some of these options are new to Football Manager this year, and it is literally, you know, in the title. Balanced is balanced. Balanced is a version of all of these things balanced. Balanced, just pick balanced. And now it's time for your advanced settings, which can be quite technical. As we click into here, we've got all these different options. And for me, setting up a save, there's only a couple that actually matter. I'm going to base this off the fact that you're not doing a save in the 10th tier of Brazil for your first Football Manager save. You're probably going to go with something a little more easy to understand. You can tick use real fixtures to use the real fixture list from the '26-'27 season. So, for example, if you tick this, whole city will be modeling Manchester United at home 2-0. Now, something if you're new to Football Manager you will never have heard of before is player attribute masking. There is actually experienced players who still make this mistake though. If we go over and allow player attribute masking, this means that players in your save won't have their attributes appearing for you as soon as you click on them. You will have to scout them in game that can take a [music] week up to 2 weeks to actually see a player's attributes. But, if you want to disable them just like this, ta-da. This means that when you click on a player you will just see their attributes straight away. There's no need to scout and wait. And for me personally, if I was playing this game for the first time, and I still use this to this day, keep this on ticked. It just makes your game flow a lot smoother. But, if you are somebody who wants that immersion of having to scout every single player you find, and you can't just see how good their attributes are, stats if you want to call them that, you can keep it ticked. Now, we move on to the active nations in your save. You can add all different nations to your save if you want to, but for this video today I'm just going to use the top five nations with the top five leagues. And as we hover over the league selector, as it says, choosing the leagues you want to load from this country is the level that you want to load it from. So, for example, now in England I want to load the Sky Bet Championship and above. But, if I was to click Sky Bet League Two and above, just take a quick look at the bottom of the screen where it says total player count. As I click this option, it actually increases the player count. It's because it's loading from League Two and above. Now, for example, to make this all easier to understand, the save I'm going to be doing today is Tottenham Hotspur. So, I want to load the Championship and above as I may sign players from the Championship. And it's also important for me as a Premier League Manager to know what is going on in the league below. The same with League One, I'm going to do from League Two and above. In Germany, I'm going to do from Bundesliga Two and above. In Italy, the Serie BKT and above. And then finally, in Spain, the Spanish Second Division and above. You get the gist of what you're doing when loading these nations now. Another thing to look at is the setting of your save. So, if we have it on playable on this right hand side, that means the leagues can be managed in and interacted with fully. If we're going to do the view only leagues, this means that we simulate the competition, but we cannot manage in that league. So, be very careful if you're wanting to move around the leagues that you don't put a nation on view only cuz you won't be able to join a club there. Or an option I recommend the playable / view only, where it offers a balance of these two options within the same country, affording full engagement at the higher levels and a more streamlined approach further down. Meaning that you can manage in these countries, but further down the leagues you may get less information. You can set these up as you see fit with the save you're doing. So, for example, if you know you're going to do a one-club save like I'm doing Tottenham today and I'm never going to move, you don't need any other leagues to be playable. And I just want you to watch closely as I change these settings, watch this total player count in the bottom. So, if I change this to view only, if I change this to view only, if I have this as view only, it actually loads less players into the game and changes my game speed to fast. But, if I want a little bit more detail and I put on playable view only, playable view only, playable view only, as you can see now the player count is [music] now at 39,000, going up 17,000, loading more people into your database. This is a very basic summary of how to set up your first save in this screen. There'll be other tutorials out there on YouTube that dedicate 15, 20, 25 minutes to saves that are a little bit more complicated than just managing Tottenham Hotspur. If you want to check them out, you'll find them on YouTube. But, if I was just starting my first save and starting in a top five league, something a bit familiar, this is how I would set up my first save. You can also on the total player count down here change the size of your database. You can go large, for example, you can go medium with the options that you've selected. Or you can go small and as you can see, it changes the player count. This is also dependent on your computer or your laptop or whatever you're playing on there, how it is going to react to the game. So, if I select a large database and I have 39K players, my estimated game speed is quick, so I can do this. But, some people on certain engines and laptops and computers won't be able to have higher players and go at a high speed. So, adjust this to your computer and how you see fit. But, everything I have selected now, I am ready to start my Tottenham Hotspur save. I'm going to go to the bottom right and I'm going to load my database. We're going to confirm this setup and let's get into the game screen. And just like that, we are into FM 27. Bang, it is the Premier League. We need to go and find Spurs. So, we scroll down this list and bang, Spurs are at the bottom predicted to finish seventh under my management, probably half that. Take a few off, probably 16 for him my first season if I'm honest. But, we've selected Spurs and we can go next to our manager profile. But, just a quick note before we go forward, you can actually start unemployed if you tick this box and go through to your manager profile. If you want to do that type of save where you look for a job straight away. But, that's for our veterans Football Manager. Let's take some baby steps. We're going to click next to the manager profile now. And this is where you can create your manager, your look, your tactics, the way you want to be as a manager. You could have a green suit with blue pants, do whatever you want. This is a very fun part of the game, very self-explanatory. You don't need a tutorial to go through it. If you need a tutorial to how to set up a manager and put your name in and pick what suit you want to wear, I recommend FC 27. So, as you can see, the pillar, number 14, is ready to go. We're going to click on here and we are going to start our game in the bottom right. It is time to become an FM-er. Spurs, appoint the pillar. Let's get into it. We begin our career in the top right. We save our game file and we are into Football Manager 27. Now, this is where a lot of people can get overwhelmed at the first sight of the game. Even for a veteran and the pillar, this can be a little bit intimidating as you load in. FM 27 has changed a lot of its screens this year and there's a lot of new features and there's a lot of new screen flow, which means the way that you navigate through the game. So, even myself, I'm getting used to it. But, I can very much easily here give you the basics to give you a kick-start of getting into Football Manager. These first set of emails, we're going to sort of do it like a play-through. Welcome to Spurs, Robo is here. 14 has been hired. You can see we have our club vision, so this is what the club wants us to do in the current season. They want us to at least finish in the top half, which is a major required thing, so make sure you do that or you could lose your job. And a lot of other objectives below. But, what a cool feature about Football Manager is that you can see the next seasons as we click through, how they want you to progress through your time as a manager at the club. So, we know that in two years' time, even though this season they want us to finish in the top half, they're wanting qualification for Champions League. So, we better get something right. We can accept that current vision in the bottom right. Move on to our next email. We've then got the introduction to tactics. Tactics are a massive part of Football Manager. One of the most important features on the entire game. You can have the best players in the world, but if you cannot set them up properly, you are not going to win games on Football Manager, period. And as we begin our introduction to tactics in the bottom right, we click on that tactic screen and we can set up our first tactic. And as you can see here, we have got a lot of presets. This kind of suits how you want to play football, right? If you've got an understanding of the club, this can help. But if you're completely new to the club and don't really know any of the players in the squad, you're going to want to make your own shape. If you're a manager that loves possession, control possession. If you love the Jurgen Klopp style of football and you want to Gegenpress, Gegenpress. You can read as well if you click into certain ones like vertical tiki-taka, it will give you a description as you click into different ones of what that tactic has inside of its instructions. Now, for me with Tottenham Hotspur knowing the squad, I want to Gegenpress. I think we have a great midfield with a lot of stamina and a lot of tackling midfielders. There's a lot of pace in defense as well and a lot of pace up front. So, I think playing an aggressive pressing style is going to suit my club. And as we go into the…

The ONLY FM27 Guide You Need to Win Everything | Football Manager 2027

So, when a new game of Football Manager comes out, some things get moved about, some things get added. I'm going to give an experienced player or brand new to the game, it is time to figure out where everything is. I've put together 15 tips to help you get started and win more matches in the new game. The start is going to be right here on the tactics page with one of the new features. It is effectiveness. And if we click into it right by there, we've got next match info looking good at the moment. So, on one of my tests, that was right on the floor with a rating cuz we didn't have any more games and the season was over. We've got details like player buying so managerial support, teammates, and staff relationships, managerial tendency. Managerial support here looking a bit down. I've only just joined the club. We're about to play our first game. That'll build up as you build your relationships with the players as they have more respect for you, as you win games and things go well. You need to manage teammates and relationships. Things like dynamics are going to be good for this, but also managing players' happiness. Player ability, just an overview of your team and the capability of the tactic. And then you've got tactical understanding and this shows you the things that the team need to work on on the training pitch. One thing that I always say to do is individual training and think it becomes even more important when helping the players understand your tactic in the effectiveness. Okay, so the next thing we're going to look at is that individual training. I always mention it in every tactic video, how important it is to get your players training their in and out of possession roles. And now I'm going to show you exactly how to do it. So, we're going to use Joshua Zirkzee as an example. I know he's on the bench. If we click into him, we've got a poacher up front and he only has a two-star rating in that role. So, first way of doing it is clicking here on actions, go into training, and if we go down to striker uh train him as a poacher. That is one way to do it. The other way is come up here to training, into individual training, then we need to find Joshua Zirkzee, who is there. I go to actions, I go to out of possession, and he is a tracking center forward. And there you go, I have set Joshua Zirkzee up to train both roles in and out of possession in this tactic. So, when we need to use him, he's ready to go. So, the next tip, and this ties into the effectiveness. If you're going to build that up, spoken about training, how important it is. So, you need to focus on the tactic that you want to use, your main tactic. Now, if I look at this, I've got a generic 4-3-3 here, and it's currently my primary tactic. But in slot number one, I've got loaded the Beast tactic that we dropped over the weekend, but I want to use that as my main tactic, cuz I know it works. So, if I click there on the tactic, set as primary train tactic, this is going to speed up the focus on the tactic in training, and help that tactical effectiveness. So, the next feature I want to look at is advice, and it's up here on the tactics page. If we click into it, tactical evaluation. Now, I've tested Beast, I know that it works. But if you're making your own tactic, you just wanted some advice on things that could be causing problems in your tactics, this is the place to get it from your assistant manager. So, it says here, you shouldn't have a box-to-box playmaker with a box-to-box midfielder. [music] Completely agree, if we're using logic, that's going to leave your midfield open. You've got a box-to-box and a playmaker stepping up up with your number 10, lots of space in the midfield. In the game, it works, but the logic is sound. So, if you're building a tactic and you're looking for realism, great advice there. Out of possession, absolutely none on this one. I'm going to stick with Beast exactly as it is, however. Now, if we want more advice on different things, this is the place to go. So, this tells me advice on the squad. It mentions is Tom Heaton the or vice captain, but it also mentions that could be an issue taking it off Lisandro Martinez. As tempting as it might be after his performance on the weekend. Uh in here you can also get advice on tactics, recruitment from your director of football if you trust them, training and the club. All the advice you need from different people if you just need a bit of a hand and you can't make a decision on what to do next. So, another thing I mention on all of my videos is training intensity. You can see up here how intense this beast tactic is and historically the FM meta is intense tactic. But, that comes with a lot of injuries, a lot of tired players and that can see your form dip off either through missing players or them just not being fit enough to play the games. So, one way to manage that, if we come up to training and we go to training intensity, I set these up like this like I show in all of my videos. I set them up so I'm my players are having a rest unless they are almost fully fit, then they're not training. Resting in between games so they can be 100% for the matches. So, we saw earlier that player happiness and morale and dynamics are built in to the tactical effectiveness. So, they're going to have an impact and that means it's even more important than ever to manage the player happiness. One thing I like to do when I take over a new team or when I start a save [music] is assess the squad, decide who's going to be my first team players and bring down those who I'm not going to use, bring down their expected game time. So, we'll use an example here. If I go into dynamics and then I go into happiness. Now, Youri Tielemans is a really good player, but for me he isn't going to be a natural start. He's not going to start every game. He's not an important player. He is a very good player. He's going to be a regular starter or a squad player. I've got Kobbie Mainoo, I've got Balewa, I've got Bruno depending on what formation we want to play. So, I've got a a options including Andrey Santos. So, if I try and put it down, I can't put it down to a squad player because it says he's going to be unhappy, and I don't want to destroy his happiness [music] when at the moment he's delighted. What I can do though is move it down to regular starter. He's happy with that agreed playing time, and that means if he doesn't start a few games, he's not going to come knocking on my door kicking off. He's already expected to be a regular starter, but he's not guaranteed to start in my team. So, you need to add players to your squad and you want to scout them as quickly as possible. What you need to do is come up here to player database, see all the players here laid out. If we organize them by value, and then you left click on the top player, hold down shift, and you can select the multiple players in one go. Then I hit right click and fully scout. Do you want to scout the 13 selected players? Yes, I do. And you can scout up to 50 in one go using this method. If you want to find your wonder kids as quickly as possible, this is the method to use. Some of you might not want to use this. It might feel a little bit like cheating. Completely understand that. The way I see it, it isn't because the information is just there. It's available, and it makes sense. So, if I right click there and I go to general info and media description, you can see here we got a bunch. So, we got tireless midfielder, elite attacking midfielder, and number three is Endrick described as a wonder kid. So, if I organize that in alphabetical order starting with a W, we've got world-class midfielder, world-class goalkeeper, and a whole list of wonder kids which I can scout using the method we discussed a minute ago and get all that good information and decide which one I'm going to add to my squad. There's another way to scout players as well, and that is by setting up a recruitment focus. So, we go up here to recruitment in the scouting and recruitment focus. We've already got a few automatically set up, but if I go to create new focus, I don't want it for any position and I want it for the Beast tactic. We're going to look to bring in a new left back to replace or compete with Luke Shaw. So, we're going to put him as a wing-back. I want him to be very good at that role. Out of possession, it's going to be a full-back and then we're going to click find a replacement. We'll go for a replacement for Luke Shaw. So, I want the minimum potential ability to be three and a half stars. We're looking for an upgrade. I'm happy for the minimum current ability to be three and a half. We can develop him over the season. And then we click ongoing, click confirm, and let's see. If we click down here, there is a new recruitment focus built called replacement for Luke Shaw. If I click on it, it'll show me some good options. We've got Diogo Dalot, Balde, and Maatsen to have a look at and make a decision who we want in as our new left back. There are times we need a little bit more money to sign that key player, but you don't want to lose any players from your squad. One way to check to see if you can get that little bit of extra cash is to come here to recruitment, down to transfers, and into the clauses. So, if I go to in, it shows all the money all the clauses that would bring money into the club. And if we click on Alejandro Garnacho, there's an option to sell his 10% profit clause that he has on his transfer. That one is going to bring me 875,000 pounds. So, we're going to sell that one. Then we're going to scroll down and if we have a look any more any more good James Garner. Let's have a look. 20% sell-on clause. If we sell that, we will bring in 4.4 million. So, we will click yes on that. And just like that, we've added over 5 million to our transfer budget for this season. There's another way to get money in fast, but you are going to have to sell a player. But to actively do that, you can go to transfer room and transfer room out. And it tells you all the clubs that might be interested in one of your players. So, if we look at the top here, it says PSG. And if I remove myself, let's have a Let's remove myself over here. You can see offer Diogo Dalot to PSG. Let's do that. Let's do it. Let's offer him and see what happened. And you can see here 3 days later, they came back with an offer of 34 million. I've managed to push them up to 40 million. We've sold Diogo Dalot to PSG. It's time to find a right back. There may come a time where you've had enough of your director of football making bad decisions and you decide it's time to move clubs. The way to check what jobs are available is you go up to portal, to career, down to managerial vacancies. And you can see here it is just the Leeds job available at the moment. I'm going to stay where I am, but a good one to keep an eye on if you're planning to move teams. You've had a look through the club, you've looked at the training facilities, the transfer budget, and the stadium. And you decide you need a bit more from your board. The way to request that is go up to club, up to club vision, and click into club vision again. And up here we've got make board request. You can expand the stadium. You can ask them to build a new stadium if they're not already on it. You can ask for more finances in the coaching budget, and we will do that. And you can even ask to get an extra affiliate club to send those wonder kids out for that much needed game time. But, there are some things in the game I just don't like doing, and one of those is set pieces. I don't use custom set pieces. I find they mess up the tactics just the way the players move back into position after using them. So, I don't like to do that. I like to leave them to my assistant manager or set piece coach. So, if you haven't done that before, you come here to club responsibilities, down to set pieces, and I'm…

What players say

FM27 is IMPOSSIBLE… Until You Fix This

Now Man U Fans will understand the pain their managers are going through

Kamo-l5f9e

Everyone wants FM to be harder… until it actually is.

Andrew-b9s7w

Definitely. But I started my save at West Ham with no badges. Never had any player buy-in and actually for the first time ever had a team meeting for losing the dressing room. I like that it actually matters

Rakettivuori

I wish they'd bring back Match Review and Match Practice, they were always great at helping players understand the tactics and building relationships together

acehole7147

It is my exam week at Uni and i couldn't resist myself. I played fm27 instead of studying my exams. I played with Karlshure. All of my matches were under 2.5 goals in 12 matches i only got 4 points 4 draws. I just scored twice but the problem is i didnt scored twice. I scored 19 goals and 17 goals got disallowed because of offside. Same thing was happening to my opponents but their dissallows were smaller. It was like 25 goals 10 dissallows but almost every goal of mine was dissallowed. I…

kursuvat1109

I don’t think it needs to be “patched”, I think FM has just been too easy in the past

osagiestuart8552

Will never understand why they removed the option for your badges and past experience to match the level of the club you manage

joestevenson8740

Got sacked by Spurs. I thought I was just getting the real-life experience of being a Spurs manager. Next year, I got hired by Crystal Palace in the middle of the season, when they were dead last in the league. Managed to finish 16th. It felt better than achieving anything else in any FM game.

Tromort77

I'm loving tactical effectiveness so far , requires more finesse and slow tweaks over time and juggling training schedules , even your manager style needs to be a gradual change , can't set up a defensive tactic if you are known for attacking football day one , much more hands on

subzero-wo9ri

They need to add some basic options for delegation of training - even if it's just focuses. "Focus on tactical familiarity" "focus on technical" "focus on conditioning" etc. The assistant then arranges the training based on what you've picked.

Dehumanised47

It's absolutely impossible to improve effectiveness at semi pro level as there's only two training sessions a week. I was sacked in my first season at Stirling, and I then moved to Northern Ireland and having exactly the same issues. I'm all for the game being harder but if you make it impossible to improve, it needs tweaked to say the least.

StewartyMac

It's ridiculous. I shouldn't need 3 months of training exercises for Man City to be able to beat Burnley in a 4-3-3

mtndewhero

Yeah, I'm not gonna do that. Leave it to AM. The training screens are abysmally designed. I feel no desire to even look at them.

neilmarkell1414

I love that it’s made me pay attention to training for probably the first time ever in FM, however I think it needs to be tweaked in a patch to be less prominent. However, it’s making me play the game in a new way, and I do like that

CR04094

This is good, we can actually failed as a manager and it add to the immersion

bidgsadge7758

Sorting out tactical effectiveness in lower leagues is very difficult, but it should be the same for all teams in the same league who nearly always sign players on 1 year contracts and have high player turn over. But the other teams all do better. So, it's like AI can cheat this.

mrflibble9783

I am finding it hard, but that is good. It gets old just plugging and playing a 433/4231 gegenpress and immediately winning.

Combatwombat-sn7ng

I always do trainig, I love it. I take care players to be rest , team bond, I just love it.

krle1984

Let's see how my zero experience, zero coaching badges manager is going to do. At least I started unemployed so presumably my reputation is at least somewhat close to the team that hired me.

generaldreagonlps6889

Thank you @clayts! I am struggling for league wins and I haven’t looked at this in my save yet. Great research and content! Much appreciated

derschlager8504

FM27 Beginner's Guide: Everything You Need to Know!

I'm just starting to play FM, and dude, you're an absolute legend! You explained everything so well. Thanks a ton, man!

TokyoForester

Never played Football Manager before since I played lots of Manager Career Mode on FIFA, I tried FM 26 last year and.... the game crashed and barely could do anything with menus consistently overriding each other and just cannot do anything. So, trying this year and 1000x times better with everything that went wrong last year is now fixed so happy days 😂 And now, I love this video because for someone that somewhat knows the basic of managing, time to put to the test in a by far more realistic…

CoolzTR

I've been playing FM since late 2024 and have always put in a custom training schedule, I got so overwhelmed by this years training menu

TheWhiteNancyPelosi

Just a bit of advice, if you’re making a video for new players trying to get into the game for the first time. You might want to slow down a little, maybe show where you’re clicking to bring up that info and so on. This game has a ton of info. Some of which is easy to understand while other parts are hard to. I feel strongly that the game could easily make some things a lot easier.

Pdog1964

So what do we think about the game? I love it. It's so much better than FM26. They've removed most of the popups which is great. The UI feels snappy and smooth. From what I've seen, skinning is easier than in FM26 which means by the time the game launches fully on the 10th, we'll have at least a handful to choose from.

anonymoususer0415

"spurs are quite a good premier league team" coughs in 14th

toxic0022gd

After ur recent managerial performances I don’t think I can trust you. #glasersandpillarout

Labonk261

i know a good guide for FM27.....dont even bother installing it, FM24 is far better game.

michaelfebers7796

This game is absolute garbage. A blurry, half-baked mess with zero tactical readability, awful graphics, and broken mechanics. Charging full price for this regression is an insult to the players. Stick to FM26, where the game actually works and looks decent. Total disappointment.

niniobueno

The ONLY FM27 Guide You Need to Win Everything | Football Manager 2027

This video was much required as all of us are struggling in the new FM 27, really appreciate your help and efforts GYR :D

devilshaven

Excellent, good to see the tactic GOAT doing so well on YouTube. This video may have convinced me to actually buy the game

IAmShanahan85

Brilliant idea mate, I feel sorry for the brand new fm players if some of us veterans are struggling 😂 I’d like to add that I’ve found that your Assistant doesn’t train all of the tactical effectiveness when you delegate your General Training to him. My issue in my Juve save was my passing style was never being trained so my teams form plummeted mid season. I feel in FM27 this year it’s best to assign general training yourself and train what needs a boost in tactical effectiveness. Looking…

AlbelTheWicked86

Yet another masterpiece by Gyrdiola…keep going legend 💪

kenanaltandarzoglu6554

Really helpful definitely up for you doing more stuff besides tactics. Great work keep it up

JohnGooding-t9n

Hi mate, hope you are well? Doing some prep before the proper game release and adding many of these to my checklist - Thank you ... great stuff!

notsosecretfm7515

Brilliant video! Will help me buy wonderkids! Is there a way to make the youth teams use the same tactic at the first team?

RobP45

This will help me as a new fm player a lot. However the wonderkid tips doesn’t work for me, can’t see anyone with that description 😮

weekendwarrior396

2:11 It would even be easier to change that on top op the screen. Way less clicking

jeroencJK

You could do with turning the music down (or off) it's hard to hear you!

Amiga1984

Good vid mate - do you delegate training to your assistant?

samuelgreenberg7056

Hi, mate just got the fm27 what's the current most efficient tactic would you say?

Supplementbenefits

Im actually doing ok with my save. As always i started my first save as unemployed with just one coaching badge. I ended up getting a job with Telford and have saved them from relegation. But nor without some struggles. Anyway i pre ordered the game though the GYR link and looking forward to see what you come up with this year.

drama772