Football Manager 2012 is a great game, we’ve all enjoyed it and most of us still are. But I can’t help thinking about the new game, Football Manager 2013, and the novelties that it will bring. What I want with this post is to create a collective and interactive wishlist of new features that we want in the game.
I’ll start with one feature, then you will add your wishes in the comments and I’ll then add the most interesting requests in the post.
Here’s the list:
1. Better set pieces management — I would like to have a more complex approach to set pieces, both attacking and defending. For instance, I’d like to be able to set up a free kick routine where a player could surprise the opposition by playing a pass down the flank, followed by another pass back to him and then a pass in the middle from where a decisive shot could be launched. Clear enough? :D Or maybe having a player lob the ball past the wall on a free kick, as a pass for somebody lurking behind the wall. That could be spectacular.
2. Job Interviews — Where when applying for a job you can have an actual interview and discuss transfer budget and your plans for the team, instead of just being rejected there and then. — suggested by Ed Wylie
3. Better reserves/youth team management — I would like it if I could just setup my reserve/youth lineups for their matches without taking over the team (would still like assistant/coach to play the match for me) as sometimes they do not pick players who need match fitness in my first team, not even on the subs bench! — suggested by CS Atlantis
4. Improved highlight uploads — It would be cool to be able to easily select chances as well as goals for YouTube. — suggested by Darren Smith
5. Adding Directors of Football — suggested by Adam D, details in the comment
6. Position covering — When you have roaming players, especially if they are defenders (fullback, ball playing defenders) and you send them to attack, you should have an option to pick a player to take their possition immediately. A DM could become a CB, after the CB roams forwards for example. — suggested by Heresy
7. Better scheduling — Don’t you hate it when you get 4 matches to play in 5 days? There should be a rule that there has to be at least a 2 day period of rest after a match and that this rule cannot be broken. — suggested by Heresy
8. Sponsoring — I’d like to see shirt change option when the club gets a new sponsor. — suggested by Heresy
9. Transfers — When you’re taking over a club and want to get rid of unneeded players, some don’t want to go because they’ve just got signed. I’d like the transfer policy on this to be the same as with the staff. They should simply agree to be put on the market. — suggested by Heresy
10. More extensive youth development network — with more participation on the manager’s part, with the inclusion of foreign academies for example, such as Ajax’s in South Africa. — suggested by Yippy
11. In-game set piece taker selection — I think when there a free kick within striking range, or a penalty comes up, you should have the ability to make a change to the taker. The current fixed list is just not realistic enough. If you have a player who has scored 2 goals already, you might want to give him the chance to take this penalty. — suggested by The Ziggy
12. Being able to use the money you earn as manager — suggested by ZenPancakes
13. Interviews for players — For example you could talk to a player who doesn’t seeminterested in moving and explain your goals, would make it more realistic. — suggested by Aaron
14. Complaining to the officials during the game over a dubious decision — suggested by Benjy
15. Pre season training camps — like nearly every club in real life do and therefore afterwards an update which player had a very good preparation and which are not completely ready for the season and so on. — suggested by Burns
16. Negotiating with sponsors — I want the ability to speak with sponsors. In order to make the best possible deal that could benefit my team. It would be nice to be in the president’s room at these conversations and ask or suggest things in the negotiations. — suggested by George K.
17. Trophy Presentations – Cup finals don’t feel as good when our virtual lads aren’t lifting any trophy. The confetti was a nice touch but I do feel winning a cup or title isn’t special because it’s not like real life. — suggested by Saltwater
18. Dynamic Rivalry – After a certain amount of “special matches” with a team, say thrillers (4-2 5-3 etc), or maybe your bogey team, or a team that you score/concede late goals constantly against, maybe they can be added to your rivalry information. This would be good as it would make some “nothing” matches important, and teams who have no real rivals (Norwich, Stoke) could build this through cup ties or something. — suggested by Saltwater and Jonathan Carver
19. Career Mode — a special mode in which you would start as the under19 manager of a small team in a lower league and try to ascend. the trick here is that you would have to gain the board’s trust, meaning you director of football would have the final say in negotiations and business until you prove yourself and gain everyone’s trust. — suggested by Pedro Roriz
20. Individual Touchline Shouts — I would like to be able to say specific things to individual players during the game: For example, reprimand my players for wasting possession, tell them to player deeper/higher up etc. — suggested by Tyler
21. More intense transfer deadline day — At the moment it’s just like any other day, while in reality it’s a hectic day when millions of fans world wide gather in front of the tv for the excitement. It should be a chaotic and hectic day when anything can happen. — suggested by Mussolini, Gaurav and Saltwater
22. Competition Heads Up — I would like to have a feature where one of my scouts tells me every time there is a new competition starting that can be scouted. — suggested by Mariano
23. Medical Insurance — I would lik to be able to get a money refund from insurance when a players gets injured over a long period of time (this should then be negotiated after every year, giving you a better deal if you didn’t have that many injuries and otherwise a bad deal if you had many injuries). — suggested by Koenig
24. Internal Club Set of Rules — When a player signs his contract, I would like to be able to also negotiate a club agreement where rules of conduct is placed. I would like to make my own rules of how the players should behave. Let’s say that a player gets a red card and in his contract, or and overall player/club agreement, states that everytime he gets a red card he should be fined 1 or 2 weeks of pay. And then there wouldn’t be any anger from the player as he signed the deal. But, of course, they should be able to say, if the ruling was unfair, that they didn’t want to pay. — suggested by Koenig
Now it’s time for your requests, do share and discuss!
