Make Signing Coaches Fun

How to turn a chore into fun

Make Signing Coaches Fun

Football Manager’s mechanism for signing coaches is no fun.

It’s boring. I mean, it’s really boring.

Everybody does it the same way. You search for coaching staff with certain attribute ratings, find them, and sign them. That’s it.

You have almost no interaction with coaches in your game. You sign them, assign them, and replace them when they leave.

You do have meetings in theory, but those meetings don’t vary at all regardless of who is in your staff or what country you are in. It’s the same thing every single time.

We can’t reprogram the game, and Sports Interactive doesn’t listen to us. However, never fear. Here are 4 things you can do to become more engaged with your coaches.

Learn their names. I spent time writing out the names of my coaches and the roles I wanted them to play. This at least helps turn them into something other than anonymous blobs of pixel.

Sign younger, unproven coaches. Older coaches retire, which means you’ll never have a connection with them anyway. Might as well sign some young talent that you might be able to keep around for 10, 20, or even 50 seasons.

Use coaching staff to expand your international reach. One trick few people mention is that your coaching staff (and even your players) has an impact on your scouting reach. If you’re poor like me, hire cheap coaches from abroad to make up for your low scouting budget.

Write backstories for your coaches. This is the hardest part of all, of course. Most of my coaching staff is Japanese. I need to spend some time thinking of good stories for each of these people. After all, the goal is to turn them from being mindless, formless collections of attributes into actual people, right?