retired_ella67

So if you sat Wenger or Ferguson down at FM would they be able to master it?

Personally I don't think so. The object of a football game (Not just FM) isn't to find a tactic that would work in Real, it's to find the best tactics that the game designers have implemented into the game.

What do you think?

retired_aries

I doubt they would have the time

retired_cRankLin

As much as FM is a realistic it gets as far as a computer simulation goes, I agree that it is about finding tactics that work in the game, not what you think would work irl.
I've seen some crazy tactics and formations work in FM, that have probably mever been tried irl because they are so crazy.
I suppose,in theory, playing with 1 centre back and have 2 DM's with arrows going back to DC positions would work, but in the real world I reckon it would be complete chaos. :eek:

retired_aries

Although I'm convinced that some transfers arise out of "looking" at the game.

Seriously, the amount of relatively obscure foreign players I've seen move to pastures new in real terms after being being "mini-gods" on FM is too curious to contemplate heh!

There must be better scouts in the real game than I have in my PC game

retired_ella67

Lol heathxxx, they don't have the willpower that we do.

Davey

I dont think so, the sliders are very hard to observe properly from just watching the games. To implement them to achieve in the game has often little in relation to a real match.

Harry Redknapp doesn't say we need to go up two notches in closeing down and push up our defenseive line by three.

retired_sossywood

No they wouldn't as fm is nothing like real life. What they do with their team would probably have the opposite effect on football manager.

retired_bob33

I just dont see Ferguson on a computer. He is more kick a boot kind of a guy.

retired_aag117

I bet Steve McClaren plays quite a bit of FM these days.

glitzchic

Back in the CM days, there was I think a football magazine that actually had Ron Atkinson play the game. He'd go into a bit of detail about his tactics and all that pre-game. Quite a fun diary - this would have been about 95-96 I believe, as I'm sure he was managing Coventry in-game just like irl.