It’s also a reminder that there’s always someone else who thinks they could do the job better than you. It doesn’t affect the game in a meaningful way but is a fun distraction to the serious business at hand. They’ll have opinions on your transfer speculation, tactics, and other decisions. But this extends to the social media relationship as fictional fans react to the actions in your fictional seasons. Thinking you could be the next Guardiola or Klopp is part of the allure of Football Manager 2020. It’s a nice feature that shifts the pace of focus from what can be a game-to-game treadmill once the season gets underway.
The fruits of my labour are updated at the end of each season so I could check my players were on track. These negotiations also apply when players leave on loan, ensuring your plans are maintained whilst they’re away. They could start as a fringe player, who then becomes a more permanent part of your plans for example. Within contracts, you plan your intentions for players over several seasons. They felt realistic and achievable, a far cry from the blanket “just win the league within three years” that I’m used to. To help achieve your Vision, team development has been given an overhaul. I chose various European clubs to test, and each had differing desires and future plans. You sign up to a forward-looking Team Vision from the board, tailored to the club. Rather than just concentrating on the season at hand, more emphasis is now placed on the next 3-5 years. The new additions focus on longer-term planning. The menus are presented in a clear, crisp, and ordered way, so navigating your way around soon becomes second nature.
Thankfully the clear explanations never bamboozled me for long, and often just playing around in different sections is the best way to learn. The sheer amount to learn was overwhelming at first, thanks to twenty years of ignorance. These tutorials do a solid job of introducing the basics, leaving the nuance and extra depth for you to discover. Everything from training regimes to scouting, to reviewing your injured players is discussed in detail. However, a robust set of tutorials for the uninitiated soon set me straight. The sheer breadth of options and considerations was staggering upon firing the game up and plumping for Career Mode. My concern about Football Manager 2020 being impenetrable wasn’t without reason.
But despite a continuous passion for the beautiful game, I dropped off the bandwagon around the time of Championship Manager 3 at the turn of the century, and the rest is history, and here I am now playing Football Manager 2020 every night. Finds like Ibrahima Bakayoko would become the stuff of legend as we trawled the databases looking for rough diamonds to transform into glittering superstars. Back in the late 90s, with Championship Manager, my friends and I poured in countless hours, in the strive for managerial dominance. I haven’t touched a Football Manager game in roughly two decades, and I suspect there may be a lot of people reading this in a similar situation.
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