citizenkidd

It's different for everyone. Here's mine: I am a sucker for roleplaying, been doing it on FIFA for years and finally decided to try FM, I have been playing FIFA Manager 2013 with mods before, Explaining it in a list is easier. Before starting any saves, do your research, for example: I once watched/read about AFC Wimbledon famous Crazy Gang in the 80s where they beat Liverpool in the FA Cup. Read the history from wikipedia and some key historic players from transfermarkt. Determine style of play or club culture, usually related to player's attribute I am going to focus on. In this case, Aggressiveness is key to build a culture of dirty players. Pick several other key attributes/traits to focus on building the team, this will infect our scouting, transfer, and training preferences. Choose an ex player/manager from that famous era. If there's no one good enough for a story: (like in this case Vinny Jones is an actor so it's quite unrealistic for him to be a manager) Browse the club legendary players and find one you'd like. You now have your chosen club, culture, and manager to start. For more immersion, download a cutout image of the manager you're roleplaying as. Use the image to generate 3d face, and as your manager profile picture in game. This method allows me to not focus on wonderkids and min-maxing stuffs but instead have a storyline to built upon, thus making it more interesting. Currently I am on save of Ryan Shawcross taking over Stoke City as the manager. He's been taking coaching licenses since he's on Inter Miami and currently is the Youth Coach of Stoke's IRL. He's famous for the dirty tackles on several Arsenal players, been on the squad at their prime Premier League era. So based on all that, I know what tactics, training, player's attributes I am going to focus on. There are tons of new save story I'd like to do, here are some of them: Andres Iniesta taking over Barca and focuses on using all La Masia (Youth) players, using Tiki Taka of course. Gareth Bale managing Cardiff City since he is one of their Youth products and was born there. He'll focus on improving youth products to help improve Wales player quality. His culture is using any tactics focusing attacking from the wing, primary player attribute to search for are Pace and Acceleration since Bale is one of the fastest footballers of all time. Thierry Henry managing AS Monaco, already happened actually IRL but he failed to impress anyone. My plan is for him to focus on Monaco's youth and improve France's youth players aswell. In the long term, he'll take the job at Arsenal to finally try on the Zidane's path of glory as player and manager.