Author: Espen Høgli

The Defining Moments Within The History of Football Tactics For The Evolution of the Tiki Taka For the last 20-25 years football has evolved into a battle of possession, where tempo and neat passes is utilized to its extreme. The move of players from Amateur to Professionals, gladiators of the sport, with sublime fitness and technical skills to master the art of controlling the match. One of the most successful clubs within this period has been the pride of Catalan, FC Barcelona. For around 10 years FC Barcelona has terrorized defenses with their beautiful attacking possession football. The origin of…

Key Attributes for the Football Manager Scout Roles: Chief Scout, Roaming Scout and Next Opposition Analyzer We start off our first guide about the amazing world of Football Manager Scouting by taking a closer look on the different scout roles’ key attributes – providing you a better understanding on how to find the best scouts in Football Manager. This elementary guide discusses the different aspects of the Football Manager scout attributes and which scout roles they are required for, in order to assign more reliable scouts. Passion4FM divide the types of scouts needed for a successful scouting network into four…

The Final Chapter of The Football Manager Mentality Ladder Focus on Tactical Priorities After over a week of great Football Manager tactics guides we have come to the final chapter of the Mentality Ladder. Here you will find explanations of the various tactical priorities in detail for the different player roles. You will hereby understand how a tactical priority serves as a general point of reference which let you see how a player is supposed to function within a broader tactical system. This part on tactical priorities in detail will let you understand how you can put the mentality ladder…

Understanding How the Mentality Ladder Influence Parts of play; Shape in Phases For the last 6 days we have been publishing all the different tactical priorities within the different mentality structures and fluidity settings from very fluid to balanced and very rigid, which we published yesterday. Now it’s time to change the focus to understanding how the mentality ladder influence all parts of play; the different phases where the player has the ball to defending and pressing. This section is one of the most in-depth and massive as it features so much! What’s certain is that this part is one…

Football Manager Very Rigid Mentality Structure – Part 6 of The Mentality Ladder Welcome to the final part about the specific fluidity settings in Football Manager. Here will the Football Manager Very rigid mentality structure be discussed in detail – looking at the player roles and positioning tactical priority in the different match strategies. Learn more about the very rigid mentality structure in Football Manager and player responsibilities when selecting this fluidity.

Part 5 of The Mentality Ladder – Football Manager Rigid Mentality Structure The time has now come to take a closer look on the Rigid Mentality Structure within the Football Manager Mentality ladder. Here will ‘The Hand of God’ analyze the gestalt tactical system which organize tactical priorities according to player positioning rather than the duty of the player role. This part about rigid mentality will let you discover how the rung of task and tactical priority will change for the different player roles when selecting a rigid mentality. Learn more about the sweeper and trequartista effect and the benefits…