Mourinho's Tactics Stationary Pad From "All Or Nothing"

[Rooneye]

When watching All or Nothing I noticed Mourinho was using a custom tactics stationary pad. It's pretty simple with 4 pitches on an A4 page. So I thought I'd create it with Procreate while I was watching along.

Here is the pad in the documentary:

(notice how thick that pad is too! lol)

Anyways I quickly mocked it up into this:

(It's not perfect, the squares are a bit **** as I just used a brush to quickly do it.)

 As you can see above it just has date and venue boxes, so I added opponent and kick off time (Like a digital clock style digits so you just black out the parts to make the correct time and date as you can see below). Then I thought I'd make it a little less boring, but still very simple. I wanted to add the club name in the official font, which Levy had custom made just for them which is pretty cool. So after a bit of further work I came up with this:

 

I'm always drawing down my team and formation etc. on paper so this make it really nice to do so rather that just blank paper.

Edited September 14, 2020 by Rooneye

[Rooneye]

Then I thought let's try some different clubs:

(Again tried to use official fonts for the text)

Edited September 14, 2020 by Rooneye

[Rooneye]

Also I noticed on his desk he also uses "Taktik-Planer" books:

(They're actually really cheap you can get a 5 pack for like £12.

[JordanMilly]

That's really cool, cheers for sharing @Rooneye!

[Brother Ben]

Thanks for sharing.  Little things like this are what make the Football Manager community great

Now I just need to covertly print a few hundred in work tomorrow 

[latrell]

i am getting it my wife is gonna think i have lost the plot though 

[CameronAshworth1981]

19 hours ago, Rooneye said:

Also I noticed on his desk he also uses "Taktik-Planer" books:

(They're actually really cheap you can get a 5 pack for like £12.

https://www.teamsports.com/football/coach-equipment/football-planner-for-coaches-100-pages/a-1926/?ReferrerID=7&gclid=CjwKCAjwzIH7BRAbEiwAoDxxTnSStvSqA083fn6yBYp7DGWBWNyH5daGNqY2bH0wNSN2TRPiZ4uDVRoCMgoQAvD_BwE

 

Great find

[Rooneye]

BTW If anyone wants one of a particular team feel free to ask and I can post them here.

[Scotty Walds]

These would be perfect for SI to release as FM merch.

[Zemahh]

Pretty sure Jose is also an avid FM player himself. 

[Rooneye]

New episode and finally we can see him use it for actual formations. Here is his 4-2-3-1 on the left with players list for each position, seems like they're short at left back! Also looks like he's listed every single keeper at the club lol (HORRIBLE the way it's all positioned lol). As well as a 3-4-3 in progress on the right.

 

Also notice that the pitch on the left with the players list for each position of the 4-2-3-1 is printed. Seems like they've edited the pad and that list is on every page now, you see in the video when he rips that page out of the pad the next page has that same list on. 

 

 

Seems like when he's doing REAL tactical work though he uses what looks kinda like the Taktik-Planer above, but actually isn't. Again it's just a custom made pad just like the first pad I showed above with the badge and instead of date and venue it just says Formation_____________ But the same heading style. But with a full page pitch for proper tactics planning:

 

Really wish they showed the full thing for the whole tactic, but I guess that would be terrible TV for people who aren't tactics geeks like us lol

Edited September 15, 2020 by Rooneye

[Rooneye]

1 hour ago, Zemahh said:

Pretty sure Jose is also an avid FM player himself. 

 

Oh wow I didn't even know he played. I know AVB played a LOT and it played a big part in his managerial development and statistical thinking etc. Maybe he got Jose into it back when they were friends and colleges 😁

 

 

2 hours ago, Scotty Walds said:

These would be perfect for SI to release as FM merch.

 

lol would be cool, but then the licensing would be an issue. Maybe just a generic pad though and you fill in the team name yourself, but it just feels way better with the club badge on it. But yeah a proper made pad rather than just printed sheets would be cool af. I know you can get pads made yourself with your own design from print shops. I may look into that actually.

 

 

23 hours ago, JordanMillward_1 said:

That's really cool, cheers for sharing @Rooneye!

17 hours ago, Brother Ben said:

Thanks for sharing.  Little things like this are what make the Football Manager community great

Now I just need to covertly print a few hundred in work tomorrow 

Thanks for the kind words guys

Edited September 15, 2020 by Rooneye

[Scotty Walds]

32 minutes ago, Rooneye said:

lol would be cool, but then the licensing would be an issue. Maybe just a generic pad though and you fill in the team name yourself, but it just feels way better with the club badge on it. But yeah a proper made pad rather than just printed sheets would be cool af. I know you can get pads made yourself with your own design from print shops. I may look into that actually.

I just meant an FM-branded one

[Rooneye]

12 minutes ago, Scotty Walds said:

I just meant an FM-branded one

Yeah could be really cool. But not just a pad with a design like this on every page. Maybe like a place for shortlists, a training schedule, like a proper FM tactics section where it has all the options with maybe tick boxes or something to show how your team would be set up etc. etc. Could even have like an appendix part at the back for newer players where it lists every attribute and tells you what they are in terms of FM as well as general info and tips. I can remember back in the CM 01/02 days there were the the Prima Strategy Guides. I used to LOVE them lol Obviously they went out due to the internet as you could just get all the info there, but with a book/pad like this you would buy it to actually write in and not just read.

Edited September 15, 2020 by Rooneye

[Brother Ben]

3 hours ago, Rooneye said:

BTW If anyone wants one of a particular team feel free to ask and I can post them here.

Aye go on then i'd love a Stalybridge Celtic one

Thanks 

[Rooneye]

35 minutes ago, Brother Ben said:

Aye go on then i'd love a Stalybridge Celtic one

Thanks 

NP  I did two. One has a yellow accent that I notice you have at your stadium with the yellow stairs. The other is just blue and white (but when white is the accent colour my little borders around the oppo and venue have to have only single line rather than double as the box is white):

 

 

(Pretty sure Sofia Pro is the official font that you guys use)

Edited September 15, 2020 by Rooneye

[Brother Ben]

Top work that mate, thanks a lot

[Connor]

@RooneyeCan you mock one up with the words "Football Manager" instead of a team name please?

Edited September 15, 2020 by Connor

[Rooneye]

21 hours ago, Connor said:

@RooneyeCan you mock one up with the words "Football Manager" instead of a team name please?

Sorry for the delay didn't see this till now.

So I did these two variations that are in the same format as the club ones above with a logo on the right. Did them in the proper FM purple. One with a cyan accent that SI uses and the other with a white header:

 

 

But then I thought it would look better with just the full logo in the center:

 

 

And without the year:

 

Edited September 16, 2020 by Rooneye

[Connor]

21 minutes ago, Rooneye said:

Sorry for the delay didn't see this till now.

So I did these two variations that are in the same format as the club ones above with a logo on the right. Did them in the proper FM purple. One with a cyan accent that SI uses and the other with a white header:

 

 

But then I thought it would look better with just the full logo in the center:

 

 

And without the year:

 

top work, thank you

[janrzm]

Bumping this. 

Anyone found any more alternative stationary?

 I'm always on the lookout for the perfect note/record keeping setup.

[phd_angel]

Not criticizing this, but you can buy these tactical pads on paper or magnetic boards on Amazon...

[thefmveteran86]

Would you Stockport for me please?

[Brother Ben]

On 16/08/2021 at 06:18, phd_angel said:

Not criticizing this, but you can buy these tactical pads on paper or magnetic boards on Amazon...

"buy" being the operative word

[Platinum]

Could someone explain what the use of this is as FM players. Are you suggested we use actual notepad to make this, use your image on our computer or are you suggesting it as a feature for future games?

[Brother Ben]

1 hour ago, Platinum said:

Could someone explain what the use of this is as FM players. Are you suggested we use actual notepad to make this, use your image on our computer or are you suggesting it as a feature for future games?

You just print it out and lay out your strategy with it, i've found it very useful but then i'm old school and love a bit of pen and paper