New to FM

[DCS Dylan]

Hi everyone, I'm new to Football Manager but finally decided to give 2020 a shot. I’m playing on my iPad and I plan to start with the team i support (Wolves). Does anyone have any tips or good tactics to use to help me learn? Thanks 🙏. 

[Marc Vaughan]

Hi - welcome aboard.

When you start the game it should start with relatively sensible and sane tactics and team selection for your team (the idea being that you're left with the state the prior manager had in place) ... this might not be 100% optimal but it should be reasonable and allow you to have some success.

Wolves are a decent side with reasonable resources (in comparison to Eastbourne Boro who I generally play as ) ... so I'd suggest scouring the transfer markets (through using 'Player Search') and using filters to try and find future stars.

I generally sign younger players with the idea they might improve and become more valuable, as in real-life players show their biggest improvements in ability when young (23 and under in the game generally although you can see players up to 26 shoot up sometimes) ... keep an eye out for warning signs about problem players, unprofessional players can especially disrupt a squad.

[DCS Dylan]

34 minutes ago, Marc Vaughan said:

Hi - welcome aboard.

When you start the game it should start with relatively sensible and sane tactics and team selection for your team (the idea being that you're left with the state the prior manager had in place) ... this might not be 100% optimal but it should be reasonable and allow you to have some success.

Wolves are a decent side with reasonable resources (in comparison to Eastbourne Boro who I generally play as ) ... so I'd suggest scouring the transfer markets (through using 'Player Search') and using filters to try and find future stars.

I generally sign younger players with the idea they might improve and become more valuable, as in real-life players show their biggest improvements in ability when young (23 and under in the game generally although you can see players up to 26 shoot up sometimes) ... keep an eye out for warning signs about problem players, unprofessional players can especially disrupt a squad.

Brilliant, thats a great help. Thanks