FM 2010 Backroom Advice Guides

FM 10 Backroom Advice is a newly added feature for this year Football Manager.

It's an exciting addition that makes the game better but how many players actually use it...the right way?

Using it the right way as in not believing everything the backroom advice given to you.Human make mistakes.So do your assistant and coaches.I will pull out an example to make it simpler and easier to understand.

I will take my next match as an example.

So,I'm playing West Ham United away next match.As usual, the scout will send in a report beforehand, highlighting what formation West Ham usually play with, who's the match winner and so on.


My scout, Hamilton, reported to me that West Ham normally play with 4-1-2-1-2 and their attacking midfielder Landon Donovan has the ability to be a match winner.So, I went on to the backroom advice after this scout report.


Gerhard Baier then highlighted 8 issues as his advice of which "coincidentally" , all agreed by my assistant manager, Richard Hill.


See the second opinion part? Yes, that's an important part.If someone disagree with this advice, then you have to take a close look into the advice and analyze who's the right one.Failing to do so might actually lose you the game.

An important reminder to all.Some people tend to treat the goal analysis like some spam advice given by the coaches in every single game but it's actually an important element.


For example, my coach reported to me that West Ham United scored most of their goals between 61st to 75th minutes of the game.If my team are only hanging on a goal lead,I will then put on defensive tactic in that particular 14minutes .The opponents are usually dangerous during that period of time.

Anyway, back to the last part of the back room advice given.The assistant manager himself has suggested that Jack Collison as the danger man of the team.



And another coach, Sergio Corino disagrees with him.


Remember what the scout report earlier? It mentions that Landon Donovan is someone who might caused us problems.So, it's 2 vs 1 now. David Hamilton and Sergio Corino vs Richard Hill.Who should you and I believe?

This is an interesting feature added, isn't it?There are disagreements between coaches and assistants which make the game even more interesting than the previous few versions.

Do remember one thing, singling out different danger man before the man might have different impact on your match later on.

What I do now is to see which one of them perform better in recent games.

Jack Collison assisted 3 goals in 10 league appearances so far while Landon Donovan

only started 5 league games(another 5 being subs) but already scored 6 goals and assisted another goal.

Who is more dangerous?I believe it's Donovan.

Some people wouldn't even bother to check out before following their assistant manager's advice and in the end, they ended up losing their match.For this new Backroom advice feature, you gotta be smart.Sometimes, your assistant manager can make mistakes too.He too, can provide some rubbish, pointless advice.

On another note, I'm not sure if anyone realize this but I would like to point it out.It seems like different advice are given based on different staff attributes.


The Danger man advice is actually related Man Management of your staff while the goal analysis is part of tactical area.

So, next time when you might want to consider the attributes and compare it with the scout reports.Do a brief research on the form and stats of the players mentioned before following it blindly.

Hope this little guide of mine will help you guys out.