FM20 New Board Request Options

FM20 Features new board requests and as well as improvements to existing board requests. For example, if you now ask the board for an improved transfer budget, they will now come to you with a negotiable transfer budget offer. You will also notice there are more conversation options available to you when dealing with the board.

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FM20 Club Vision in Board Confidence

In FM20 Board Confidence has been updated to "Manager Performance" and the new "Club Visions" form part of a report card that is both in the monthly performance update that is delivered to your inbox. Each area of Performance is now graded from A+ to F (these grades are also localised for each territory) giving you a clear idea of how you’re performing in each area and which areas you need to focus on improving. You’ll be given an overall grade with your notable recent highlights and criticisms laid out.

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FM20 3D Board Room

In FM20 your Club Vision will first be presented to you in the new welcome meeting, another major element of a wider overhaul to the boardroom experience. The first thing you’ll do once you’ve selected your club or taken a new job in a save is to take part in a meeting within the new boardroom 3D environment. Like all of the environments that we introduced in FM19, the boardroom environment is scalable and will change depending on the level of the club you are managing.

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FM20 Manager Style Reputation

What you become known for as a manager can also have a bearing on your appeal to club boards across #FM20. For instance, if you’ve honed a particularly attacking style of football at a club, you’ll be known for this around the world which could make you more appealing to a board that has that playing style included as part of their club vision. This could even lead to you being picked ahead of the other candidates, even if you have less experience or are managing at a lower level than your competitors for the role.

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FM20 Dynamic Club Visions

In FM20 your club’s visions are dynamic and will change as you progress through the game. Achieving a period of sustained success and hitting your objectives early may lead to the board setting more ambitious targets over the following seasons. You’ll also be given new objectives when you join a new club that are contextualised to that club’s culture and position within the footballing world. This helps to keep long-term saves feeling fresh and ensures you will be challenged wherever you decide to move next.

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FM20 Negotiating Vision 2

In FM20 you can ask to adjust your season expectations, including the option to ask the board to not judge you on a certain competition. This could be particularly useful if you’re doing well in the league and want to sacrifice your performances in a cup competition to give you the best chance of achieving a good finishing position in the league. The board may however expect more from you in the remaining competitions.

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FM20 Negotiating Vision

In FM20 you’re able to suggest bringing objectives in your five year plan forward or pushing back by a season or two, depending on how your team is progressing towards the club’s overall vision. You can also suggest changing the objectives themselves. Let’s say you’ve been tasked with winning silverware in the next three years. You could negotiate with the board to remove this objective but you’ll need to offer something in return, such as qualifying for Europe one season earlier than expected or delivering a large increase to the club’s commercial revenue. However, if you then fail to achieve them in that time-frame you could find yourself in hot water with the board.

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FM20 Club Vision Meeting

In FM20 you will be able to negotiate your club vision at the end of the season or when you take a new job. During these meetings, the board will lay out the current the club culture, ongoing and five year plan objectives before moving on to the negotiation stage of the meeting.

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FM20 Ongoing Objectives

Ongoing objectives are tasks that you will be expected to stick to during your tenure as manager. These objectives are engrained into the identity of the club so, for example, if your club has a long-standing tradition of bringing players through the youth system then it will be up to you, as manager, to maintain that.

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FM20: Club 5 Year Plans

In FM20 new five year plan objectives are split season-by-season and show a pathway to your club either achieving a higher status within the game (if you have a very ambitious board) or consolidating your position (if you have a less ambitious board). These objectives might include a mixture of financial, infrastructure and competition objectives across five years to achieve the board’s ultimate vision. For example, if you’re at an ambitious second division club with the goal of turning out in European competition your five year plan may look like this: win promotion to the top division in the first season, secure your place in that league the following season, establish yourself in the league in season three, become the “best of the rest” in season four and finally finish in the European places by the fifth season.

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FM20 Club Culture Objectives

FM20 features new club culture objectives. These can include targets around the club’s transfer policy as well as the style of football the board expects you to play. The board will place almost as much importance on your ability to hit the club culture objectives as they do on your ability to hit your season expectations.

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FM20 Club Vision

In FM20 the board won't just lay out their expectations for the season ahead but plot a course for the club to progress to in seasons to come. The new Club Vision will help to create and strengthen the club's identity both on and off the pitch.

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FM20 Lighting

The lighting in #FM20 has been improved due to the introduction of image-based lighting. This improves the level of shading and exterior lighting during the match, allowing everything to be lit more naturally.

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FM20 Pitch Deterioration

FM20 has added water and mud particles flying off from the surface of the pitch which will lead to visible deterioration of the pitch over the course of a match. One of the most noticeable examples of this is when players make slide tackles, leaving a trail behind them from where they’ve connected with the turf.

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FM20 Grass Graphics

In FM20 it's now more obvious when pitches are affected by the weather. During a game played in rainy conditions you’ll notice sodden patches appearing in certain sections of the pitch whereas if a game is played out during a period of sunny weather, you’ll notice the pitch will appear dried out and lighter in colour.

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FM20 Manager Man Graphics

The Manager in FM20 not only looks more realistic than in FM19 but also has more detailed attire – in this instance, a tie clip and buttons on his suit jacket and trousers, laces on the shoes and given them a more discernible shape and improved creases and folds in the trousers and his shirt now fits more naturally.

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FM20 Improved Human Models

Human Models in FM20 represent a significant upgrade from FM19. It's now more lifelike with more depth than in previous years. The model now has a more realistic anatomy and bone structure which results in a more lifelike appearance. Additionally, the kit textures have been overhauled for FM20. Utilising new software to create more realistic clothing that drape more naturally over the model and features creases and folds and to ensure that they move more naturally with the player. These improved textures have also been applied to referee kits too.

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FM20 Head of Player Development

FM20 introduces the new Head of Player Development. This role is prominent in modern football, especially at elite clubs with significant numbers of loan players plying their trade at clubs across the globe for the new season. A Head of Player Development recommends the players they think would benefit from a loan spell and where he believes they should go while providing loan reports to the manager to easily track those players’ progress.

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FM20 Technical Director

FM20 sees a number of new staff roles added including the Technical Director, a role with the ability to offer backroom advice from the very top with two brand new attributes judging staff ability and judging staff potential. They are a highly senior member of staff, focusing on other senior members of the team to suggest coaching courses and report on staff progression, further proof of the long-term development that Football Manager 2020 allows you to oversee. Not only can you focus on bringing the best out of players but staff too, creating sustainability at the club with staff who grow with you.

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FM20 Responsibilities Overhaul

In FM20 the responsibilities screen has been overhauled. Your responsibilities are broken down by area and you can delegate or control each individual responsibility. You can also adjust when you receive advice and reports from your backroom staff and who sends them through.

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FM20 Responsibilities in News Items

In FM20 you now have the ability to change your responsibility settings from within news items. On a news item relating to scouting you can click the dropdown menu and adjust every aspect of your scouting responsibilities there and then, without having to go into the staff section and change it from there.

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FM20 Squares on the tactics screen

In Football Manager 2020 you can select any square on the tactics pitch, bringing up more detailed analysis on what factors are influencing your strength in that area of the pitch.

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FM20 Team Selection Advice 2

In FM20 you can hit ‘Selection Advice’ to see team selection advice from any member of your backroom team. You might want to take all of the advice of one member of your staff or see what the consensus is across the board before making your team selection decision.

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FM20 Team Selection Advice

Real life football clubs collaborate ahead of matchdays, particularly with selecting the matchday squad. This is implemented in #FM20 in the form of brand-new team selection advice. As part of your pre-match news flow, you’ll receive an inbox message informing you of your backroom team’s advice on who you should pick in your matchday squad. This advice takes into account a range of information from form, role suitability, player ability and relevant information on all the players in your proposed starting eleven. From within this news item you can choose to accept all, none or some of your backroom staff’s recommendations for the starting eleven. Simply tick or untick the selections you want to proceed with and then hit ‘Apply Changes’ and that line-up will automatically be added to the team selection screen on matchday. Don’t worry if you change your mind between receiving the news item and matchday itself as you can still make changes on the team selection screen before you head to kick-off.

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FM20 Career Pathways

To keep track of the changes, you’ll receive regular updates in this department. At the end of each season you’ll be notified by your backroom staff indicating the status your players are progressing to ahead of the new campaign. So, you’re aware that your former Future Prospect is now a Squad Player, and your former Star is now nothing more than a Fringe Player. This gives you, the manager, a chance to reassess each pathway in time to plan for the upcoming transfer window around the proposed playing time throughout the squad.

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FM20 Player Pathways - Loan Players

The new Playing Time Pathway in FM20 will impact players you send out on loan. You and the potential loan club will be able to negotiate in more detail just how they plan to use your youngster with a defined level of Playing Time. This will help you decide which destination would be the most suitable when weighing up multiple options.

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FM20 Pathways - Contracts

In Football Manager 2020 you can now set a players career path in their contract. Letting them know the roles they'll have season by season. If you have a youngster who'll only play in cup games, you can now promise him that he'll be in the first team in 2 or 3 years

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FM20 Goalkeeper Playing Times

In FM20 Goalkeepers now have their own tailored playing times. You can define a Goalkeeper as an Emergency Backup, Backup, Cup Goalkeeper or First Choice. An emergency backup will not be expecting any minutes and you can be sure he won't be complaining about it. But be careful dropping your cup goalkeeper from the final, he may not be happy.

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Define Career Pathways in Player Contracts

In FM20, when negotiating a player’s contract, you can fine tune their pathway through changes to their contract. You can alter their Playing Time with twelve descriptive statuses which indicate how much game-time you’re offering per season across their contract.

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FM2020 Playing Time Pathway

FM2020 has a completely new player development engine. You can now plan and create long term pathways for your players Defining how they develop from youngsters playing in cup games to first team stars.