Scouting

I am slightly late to the game regarding the international and World Cup modes added to FM26 last month. This may be because I was enjoying my club save so much. To be honest, I was never the biggest fan of international football on FM....

Football analytics has transformed how pressing is understood and evaluated. What once relied entirely on the eye test a sense of how hard a team worked without the ball can now be measured, compared across seasons, and broken down to the individual player level. The...

Pressing has become one of football's most discussed tactical concepts, and with the growth of player tracking technology it has also become one of the most measurable. Where analysts once had to rely on subjective impressions of how intensely a team pressed, there are...

We are back with more tactic testing on FM26. The latest tactic we are testing is the GYR Red Guardian 343 FM26 by one of our favourite tactic creators, GYR. The tactic brought some good things and not-so-good things to our test. How was the...

If you mention the name Roony Bardghji to Football Manager players, many will instantly regale you with a story of how, as a wonderkid, he inspired their team to some sort of glory in FM24. Long before his high-profile switch to Catalan giants FC Barcelona...