Football Manager 2020 | Steam

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The game, as with the rest of the series, allows the player to build a football team from scratch, or take over the management of an existing team. The player must use funds wisely, buying good players without overspending, and investing just enough in infrastructure to keep facilities good and financial reserves growing.

With this game, the data is colossal: players' stats change as they train and advance or even if they get injured, so it's up to you to keep an eye on that, reducing training when your players' fitness deteriorates, also allowing rest days when injuries start to build up. And of course, making sure that rest days don't cost too much!

All your actions are supervised by the board of directors, who will sometimes challenge you and who will notice any mistakes you might make, asking you why players didn't seize the opportunities available to them, why they didn't rise to the occasion, or asking you why certain players were bought at the expense of others. If you don't provide the right answers to these questions, the board of directors will make your life miserable and could damage your long-term plans!

Be strategic

As always, the game hinges on your ability to read the data and draw the right conclusions from the statistics. In this game, you have more information than ever before, which means you can analyse players, teams and your best options for success in great detail.

Of course, this means you have to be prepared to work hard, read the information available and think carefully about what it means! Misreading the data can lead to misplays and lost matches - something that's sure to earn you some remarks from the board!

Review your tactics and theories in practice. Once you've devised a strategy and come up with ideas for your teams, it's extremely rewarding to implement them and see that you were right in your assumptions.

Use statistics to keep your eyes open for new young players who are the rising stars of tomorrow. Every football team ages eventually, and your dream team that outperforms today may well lose its edge tomorrow, as older, less fit or injured players have to be replaced by younger, more motivated team-mates.

A few figures on the game

There are fifty countries represented by their amateur football teams in this game, so you can choose any country in which to practise your magic strategy. These include all the most famous football-loving countries, but a number of them will also be new to you, introducing you to new styles of play and adding extra interest with each new game.

The above is reinforced by access to two thousand five hundred (2,500) clubs operating at all levels, from grassroots clubs with no budget and little enthusiasm to the highest paid Premier League and international champions.

You have access to over five hundred thousand real players, coaches, trainers and managers to choose from in order to set up and properly equip your team, whether you are managing seasoned players or young players eager to prove themselves and win the big prize.