What to Know Before Starting a Manager Career

What changes when you start

When you start a manager career, that card is classified as a manager and removed from this season’s lineup, friendly squads and presets, its sale listing is taken down, and it can no longer be listed on the transfer market, released or locked. Team value drops by the amount taken out of the lineup. If you are entered in the Offside Cup, a player in the starting lineup cannot be turned into a manager.

You can have only one manager career in progress at a time. If you give up partway, the card returns to being a player, but you have to put it back into the lineup yourself.

Your playing records become the manager

Position leads to the manager’s style, professional seasons and appearances to Grip, the number of clubs you have been through to Adaptability, and the number of titles to Board trust. Peak OVR and legend score only feed into Reputation, which is the level of your first club. That is why a player who stayed at one club for a long time and won many titles can start more steadily as a manager than a player with a high Hall of Fame ranking.

Each season you set a formation (4-3-3, 4-4-2, 3-5-2), a style (attacking, balanced, defensive, counter-attacking) and a board target, pick one thing in the transfer market, answer 2 or 3 season stories, then see the review. If you fall short of the target you can be fired, and an offer from another club can get you back on your feet.

The manager card and manager slot

When you finish the career, a manager card is finalized with formation mastery (C to S), style, specialties (up to 2), grade and ending title. Each owner team has one manager slot, and the seated manager’s mastery of the current formation (S +1.0, A +0.6, B +0.3) is added to the three lines. A style raises one line at the cost of lowering another a little, and a specialty only adds its adjustment when its paired team synergy is active.

A manager card cannot be traded, but you can dismiss it from the manager screen. If it was a player you raised yourself, you receive club funds equal to the card’s base value, as with releasing a player, and if it was a signed player you receive no funds. Dismissal cannot be undone, and manager careers have no paid items.

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