Fact or Fiction - What's Your Manager Profile?

I've heard that some managers create a fictional profile for themselves as a manager. Others like me have remained true to their real life identity and the advantages or disadvantages that it can bring based on nationality and experience.

So which do you choose when creating a new game? Your real name, nationality, and lack of experience? A fictional manager of the same nationality but different experience? Or a fictional manager with a different nationality and different experience?

Depends. For some games I use 'The Stig/Theo Stigarakis' and have my details and on others I use names of regens from previous releases.

real name n nationality, different experience (depending on who im managing. if its liverpool then i lie about it, if its llm, then im honest!)

edit: i do set meself a nickname though, so i always appear as "rinso" in game.. i dont mind sounding like a soap-powder...

I use a few different ones for my career game of Sunderland I use my real name. For virtually every other game I use a shortened version of my real name which varies depending on where I play.

Mac - England

Macces - Spain

Macanov - Russia

Macavinski - Ukraine

Macaldinho - Brazilian

You get the idea lol.

All depends on the country, yet its always the bottom option, when its in Holland I choose a Dutch Antillean, Erwin van den Skulter, when its England an English Howard Mansfell, in Italy, an Italian Emiliano Schiavetti, in Belgium a Belge Thomas Delwartes, never started in other countries than the ones listed though. Never started in my country, weird huh?

Real name, real country for every game. The only difference is in my career games i use my real experience (sunday league footballer) whereas in my "mess about" saves i use international footballer.

I use my real name and automatic experience.

Only exception is in my recently started "Real Madrid save", there I've chosen to use International experience.

Reason I did that was to give myself the challenge to try and buy the same team they have now irl within 2 seasons time.

Unfortunately I didn't got Kaka but everybody else is now in my team.

My real name, nationality and experience every time

I'm using semi-pro footballer, but real name/nationality.

real name, nationality and experience

real name and nationality, but different experience based on who i'm managing.

Pre-FM09, I always felt I had to create a male fictional character due to the lack of female gender options - having my name referred to as "he" broke the immersion. But with FM09, I play as myself, and it's better now - it's me and my achievements, and not a storyline for a fictional character.

I generally play with fictional people - a little like Brendever (see above). It depends on which country I'm in (and who I play as when in England).

Portsmouth - Daniel Knight [shameless plug]

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Sheffield United - Benjamin Grantham

Anywhere else in England - Adam Stansfield

Spain - Álvaro De La Rosa

Holland - Stijn Dijkstra

etc. etc.

Fictional name and different nationality/experience. I like my game as realistic as possible and in real life I am not a football manager.

Fictional name and different exp, but nowadays same nationality-English/NZ

depends If a carrear game then real everything apart from age.......I always make my self 40???? im 20 IRL

On mess about games i either just make it all up, or become an ex-footballer who didn't go into management...i.e Alan Hansen

always use my real name because i love it if i become a great and my name appears in the hall of fame :-)

I use a real person, just not myself.

For most games I use Patrick Morrissey (yes that Morrissey).

I always use "Ungface McUng" from Slovakia. Dont ask why.

I creates 'Niko Sogetzu' from romanian/japanese. Pretty funny..

Always 'alter-ago' name, but always real nationality (inc 2nd nationality), and always max experience as I've noticed that seems to have had an effect on team performance, no coincidence that I've been much more successful since 07 when I've been able to start with a good reputation.

I use a few different ones for my career game of Sunderland I use my real name. For virtually every other game I use a shortened version of my real name which varies depending on where I play.

Mac - England

Macces - Spain

Macanov - Russia

Macavinski - Ukraine

Macaldinho - Brazilian

You get the idea lol.

McMac - Scotland

Big Mac - USA

Fictional name with real Nationality and real experience.

I've always gone with the highest experience, just to make it that little bit easier

And I used to just used my details, but recently I like creating my own "characters", usually a combination of the names of great players / managers

Alexandre Aniquilara, Carlo Baggio, Guus Michels & Sir Luis Zagallo being my favourites so far.

I always play as on of two fictional characters depending on my mood:

Anthoine Welmisteau - France, aged 40 (semi-pro experience)

Mohammed Khaled - Morocco, aged 54 (automatic experience)

I always start in England and haven't done a league above League 1 since FM07 (not started in it anyway, I've been promoted through the leagues before) so the lack of experience doesn't bother me, it helps me build up my reputation from scratch.

You don't have my option: real name, age, nationality; experience - hopeless couch potato.

I like starting with no experience, makes the start of game harder.

I've always gone with the highest experience, just to make it that little bit easier

Same here and then my real name and nationalities because I usually start in a top flight league and it wouldn't be realistic if they appointed a nobody.

Although in my current game I'm using a fictional character, mr. Johnny English from England with automatic experience because I started in the Blue Square South with a team I created myself where I try to become as successful as possible using only the club's own youth players, and if that was IRL they'd probably have an English manager

McMac - Scotland

Big Mac - USA

lol, Big Mac thats one I never thought of.

I use my name as it appears on my profile here, SJ Funk (only if Im on the databases that contain myself as a player.) However if I am doing a random game without me on the players list then I'll Use my real name.

Both times I use my nationality but with a different experience.

I always use my real name these days, but I had an alter-ego for a while called Joe Carabali. He was from New Zealand, but had Colombia as second nationality as his surname comes from a Colombian centre back I had on an FM2006 save. I assume I chose Joe as my middle name is Joseph.

I only made up this character for a save game I had on FM2006 where I planned to manage the New Zealand national team, and the NZ Knights in the A-League, and I wanted to ensure I got the national job when I applied for it. In the end I decided I didn't want to manage the Knights and just managed the national team.

I used the name on a couple of other saves, but I don't tend to anymore.

Reading the "Arsenal - England, What To Expect?" thread, I'm going to start something similar. Given that the challenge is England based, I thought Brian Ramsey has a ring to it, Alf Clough didn't sound right.

Actually I also have a Luxembourgian alter ago that I sometimes use for sign-ups in the Challenges forum that I may use as a manager, Gregory Le Quack

Real name, just like in the forums, give myself a second nationality, and the experience has to be made up, I only ever played at underage level locally.

Real everything for my first save, generally my longest save. After that save though, I always use fictional names and nationalities. Generally never change my experience as I prefer the challenge of building my rep.

Don't know why but I always become a former play who will most likely manage in the future (real life) i.e Jamie Redknapp, Zidane, Figo. But in 2010 i think ill use my own name

I use a few different ones for my career game of Sunderland I use my real name. For virtually every other game I use a shortened version of my real name which varies depending on where I play.

Mac - England

Macces - Spain

Macanov - Russia

Macavinski - Ukraine

Macaldinho - Brazilian

You get the idea lol.

I read somewhere that dinho means little in Brazil so Robinho (little prince) Ronaldinho (little Ronaldo).

Brazilian chacitas might be curious to know how you got that name, especially if you're a big lad.

Real everything, but that's mostly because I'm lazy. I fill everything in once then just click on my name in the recent users list every time I start a new game.

Usually I play with a fictional character from a random place. When I play with my beloved Leeds though I use my real name as I want to be recognised for taking them back to the top!

Real name, semi-real other. Least experience possible ... I forget the setting, whatever it is. I give myself dual ciitizenship (U.S. and Spain), because I want to be able to speak Spanish (which I do in real life) and that's the way to make it happen (plus in real life I think I'm eligible for dual citizenship). Finally, I give the real day and month of my birthday, but change the year to make myself 40 years old at the start of the game. 40 is arbitrary ... I just don't want to use my real age (56) because if I managed to get a game going for many years, I'd be too old in the game to continue managing :-).

I use a few different ones for my career game of Sunderland I use my real name. For virtually every other game I use a shortened version of my real name which varies depending on where I play.

Mac - England

Macces - Spain

Macanov - Russia

Macavinski - Ukraine

Macaldinho - Brazilian

You get the idea lol.

I do that like you, too.

I usually use my real name, but sometimes i take the name, nationality, DOB etc. of some of my fantastic regens, such as Bernard Brennan

im always my real self , pro footballer with my real name .

however i once toyed around and managed as 'Ryan Giggs' .

i was both welsh and Manchester united manager.

i use the name Howard Marks, sometimes i use the name Pablo Escobar, this is because i add myself as a player

I sometimes set my real name, but I mostly use names of retired footballers I used to like. Winterburn, Keown, Adams, Deschamps, Cantona and others. My latest alter-ego is Youri Djorkaeff

I use my real name and nationalities, but I make up my experience - I generally go for the kind of experience the club I'm joining would expect.