Sometimes - and I promise it's never for very long - I wonder why I like Football Manager. It's tempting to draw the easy comparison with football itself, to liken the highs and the lows to the perpetual undulations of your side's form out here in reality. But that's not it. Catch me at a moment of managerial despair and it'll rarely be after a loss, as much as those 40-shot, 80-per-cent-possession slumps at home can hurt. No, if I'm wondering why I do it to myself and what it's all for, it'll be because I've encountered a puzzle I cannot solve.
I know a lot of people are different, but that's why the cycle of despair is worth it for me: when you crack it. When you find the solution, be it a stubborn transfer negotiation or a huffing and puffing attack that just needs a goal to let the weight off. To get moving, so the old leviathan croaks and churns and rumbles into life. That too is why it's so frustrating when Football Manager 2019 teases you with a whole new way of solving your problems, a new toolbox for tinkering, only to force you away with an astonishing, extraordinarily impenetrable way of actually using it.
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In Football Manager 2019 that big, frustrating addition is a totally reworked way of handling training. I appreciate that sounds like it's not that big a deal but the training ground, when you think about it, is where a lot of any professional football club's time and effort is actually spent. Pundits call the midfield the engine room and that might be true, at least on the pitch, but the engine room of a club, the thing you're looking after, gaffer, is where you train. Put it like that and it makes sense Sports Interactive would look to expand on it in FM19. Training has often felt pretty neglected in Football Manager, given the sheer number of days you'd spend out there barking feedback and planning sessions if you were the real deal, with previous games in the series boiling it down to the essence of hiring your staff well and distributing their time efficiently. Get a five star coach in each discipline and hire enough of them to keep the workload light, and job done.
Outside of the anomaly of training for instance, clarity, and more importantly feedback on your many decisions' impact, has improved across the board. You can now see players' reactions to your touchline shouts mid-match, getting a sense of who's overwhelmed by the instruction and who's responded with a new sense of focus. It's one of feels-like-millions of the little changes for the better, that are now expected from and consistently delivered by Sports Interactive each year. Others include a display of your scouting team's priorities, so you can better understand and control the order in which they'll generate reports on scouted players, and the many improvements to animation in the match engine, ball movement in particular. I can tell you now that Football Manager 2019 has objectively the most swaz of any Football Manager so far.
Much of this has a direct impact on what you can ask your teams to do, allowing you to push your side more towards the Gegenpress extremes of the game than ever before, but some of it is more about adding to the illusion of control. It's just as important, and it brings me back to the original point. Football Manager is about feeling empowered, only in the opposite sense to usual video game empowerment. It's about being properly stumped, but feeling like you, the Boss, the Tinkerer, Le Professeur can crack it, if you're given the time. Where Football Manager 2019 understands that, it understands it better than anyone else, management sim or not. Where it's failed, its sky-high potential makes it all the more frustrating.
While choosing a small football club from one of the lower divisions is the best and most rewarding way to play the game, those without much experience playing the Football Manager games may give up early on due to the many obstacles that stand in the way of small team managers.
FIFA is a great football simulator. In fact, it is one of the best-selling sports games in the world as of 2021. Its managerial career mode is a highly entertaining way of experiencing all it has to offer. Much like Football Manager, this mode presents players with the opportunity to realize their footballing dreams by leading their favorite club to national and continental glory.
Whether it's signing new players or extending the contracts of footballers who are already part of their clubs, there is a tendency among new Football Manager players to crack under pressure when it comes to negotiating the terms of employment of their squad members.
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Hines might not be a league-winner in the mold of Kamara, Chubb or Mostert, but he could be a lesser version of guys like Ekeler, White and Tarik Cohen. And that's not a bad target with a late-round pick, especially in PPR. Hines is behind Marlon Mack and Jonathan Taylor for the Colts, but he should be the primary option on passing downs. I expect new Indianapolis quarterback Philip Rivers to lean on Hines, and Rivers has a lengthy track record of throwing to running backs. LaDainian Tomlinson, Darren Sproles, Mike Tolbert, Danny Woodhead, Gordon and Ekeler each had at least one season with 75-plus targets playing alongside Rivers in the Chargers' backfield. In 2019, Rivers connected with Gordon and Ekeler for 134 catches for 1,289 yards and nine touchdowns on 163 targets. In two seasons in the NFL, Hines has averaged 54 catches, 372 yards and one touchdown on 70 targets. This could be a tremendous marriage of Rivers and Hines in 2020.
Armstead is listed as third on the depth chart behind Leonard Fournette and Chris Thompson, but Armstead is the backup to Fournette given Thompson's role in the passing game. And I'm curious to see how the Jaguars plan to use Fournette this season after trying to trade him in the offseason. Armstead didn't do much as a fifth-round rookie in 2019, but he did perform well in a spot start in Week 17 against the Colts with 19 PPR points. It would likely take an injury to Fournette for Armstead to see a big role, unless the Jaguars just get frustrated with Fournette and want a change. Thompson is expected to be the lead option on passing downs, but don't be surprised if Armstead helps Fantasy managers in a big way if Fournette misses any time.
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