This list will provide some of the new and improved features we want to see included in Football Manager 2023. Our Wishlist on new FM23 features.
Here’s our list of what new features, and improvements, we would like to see in FM23.
With the new football season already underway, the next iteration of Football Manager is just around the corner. This list will provide some of the new and improved features we want to see included in Football Manager 2023.
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After an incredible European Championships, women’s football is more popular than ever and is set to continue its growth. Now is the right time to bring the women’s game into Football Manager. Just over a year ago, Miles Jacobson, head of Sigames, announced that women’s football would be included in future FM additions, but he didn’t clarify when. It will be fascinating to see how the game’s male and female databases coexist. Sooner rather than later, please!
In elite football, over 30% of goals come from set pieces. Their importance in the game is absolutely essential, so much so that many clubs have hired their own specific set piece coach to give themselves that added advantage. In 2021, Roberto Mancini, Italy’s head coach, hired a relatively unknown coach called Giovanni Vio to help the national side’s freekicks and corners. Vio had spent 20 years studying set pieces and wrote a book called The Extra 30%. That dedication to set pieces certainly helped as Italy won the European Championships, with Leonardo Bonucci’s equaliser coming from a corner.
The creation of set pieces inside Football Manager needs to be updated as it has stayed relatively static for several years. The choice of player in each role is based on position, not on attributes. Say, for example, you have chosen your centre-back, who has a high heading rating to attack the near post. If you then substitute him, the player who replaces him will directly take up his role at each set piece, no matter whether he is good at heading or not, unless you individually change the set piece routine during the match.
Therefore a revamp of the set piece builder based on attributes and priorities rather than position would be a much appreciated new feature along with set piece coaches to make this part of the game even more realistic.
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The pinnacle of any manager is leading his team out at the World Cup. However, for a long time, the immersive nature of Football Manager, which is its greatest strength, has been left lacking when it comes to international management. The extremely detailed training plans in club management are not included. Adding this would make international tournaments more realistic. Similarly, international managers can’t rest players from training like in the club game. And so, these tournaments become almost attritional battles of who has the fittest players.
International football has long needed an update to make it generally less of a chore and more fun. Assimilating many of the club features will make that happen. Things like team leaders, the social circle, training, and board requests to the FA will help bring international football up to the level it deserves on FM.
Women’s Football
A revamp to the Set Piece Builder.
In elite football, over 30% of goals come from set pieces. Their importance in the game is absolutely essential, so much so that many clubs have hired their own specific set piece coach to give themselves that added advantage. In 2021, Roberto Mancini, Italy’s head coach, hired a relatively unknown coach called Giovanni Vio to help the national side’s freekicks and corners. Vio had spent 20 years studying set pieces and wrote a book called The Extra 30%. That dedication to set pieces certainly helped as Italy won the European Championships, with Leonardo Bonucci’s equaliser coming from a corner.
The creation of set pieces inside Football Manager needs to be updated as it has stayed relatively static for several years. The choice of player in each role is based on position, not on attributes. Say, for example, you have chosen your centre-back, who has a high heading rating to attack the near post. If you then substitute him, the player who replaces him will directly take up his role at each set piece, no matter whether he is good at heading or not, unless you individually change the set piece routine during the match.
Therefore a revamp of the set piece builder based on attributes and priorities rather than position would be a much appreciated new feature along with set piece coaches to make this part of the game even more realistic.
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Many people who play Football Manager enjoy journeyman save starting from the very bottom and trying to rise to the top. One way to make these saves more realistic and bigger would be for FM23 to give us the ability to be the manager of some club’s second-string sides without being in control of the main team. Although it is possible to manage B teams in Spain, adding this feature throughout would give more depth, realism and opportunity to a journeyman save.
The opportunity to manage Under 23, Reserves and B sides
Many people who play Football Manager enjoy journeyman save starting from the very bottom and trying to rise to the top. One way to make these saves more realistic and bigger would be for FM23 to give us the ability to be the manager of some club’s second-string sides without being in control of the main team. Although it is possible to manage B teams in Spain, adding this feature throughout would give more depth, realism and opportunity to a journeyman save.
International Football Revamp
The pinnacle of any manager is leading his team out at the World Cup. However, for a long time, the immersive nature of Football Manager, which is its greatest strength, has been left lacking when it comes to international management. The extremely detailed training plans in club management are not included. Adding this would make international tournaments more realistic. Similarly, international managers can’t rest players from training like in the club game. And so, these tournaments become almost attritional battles of who has the fittest players.
International football has long needed an update to make it generally less of a chore and more fun. Assimilating many of the club features will make that happen. Things like team leaders, the social circle, training, and board requests to the FA will help bring international football up to the level it deserves on FM.
