Football Manager 2024: Three basic mistakes you need to avoid as you start your FM24 save

Football Manager is quite an extraordinary game offering close to the real-world experience but it can be quite intimidating for beginners. Too much detail and requirement for patience is needed to enjoy the game to its full capacity.

So, our first tip for beginners will be not to hurry up too much with the game and look into everything on your screen carefully. Football Manager offers details of everything you see in the game in details and you must not miss out on those.

Here, we will take a look at three basic mistakes one must avoid after starting your save in Football Manager.

• Not assessing the squad you inherited

The first thing you must do when you take charge of any team is to look into your players and their attributes carefully. Look at their favored player roles, and assess their strengths and weaknesses. Every player present in the squad is there for the basic reason that they deserve to be there.

Try to set up your tactics by looking at the players’ strengths, weaknesses, and favored roles. Every tactic and formation can be effective and can be ineffective unless you are trying to implement the wrong things.

• Making too many transfers

Try not to make too many transfers in your very first transfer window unless you need to. It is advised not to make signings just for the sake of doing so. Transfers are very interesting but first, try to give the players you already have a chance to prove themselves in positions and roles they are suited to.

Try not to mess with the team's chemistry and dynamics and try to keep their team leaders and highly influential players happy as players’ happiness also makes an impact on the pitch.

• Check the registration rules carefully

The biggest mistake beginners tend to make in their early days in Football Manager is not to check with the registration rules. Every competition a team participates in has specific registration rules and in some competitions, they are quite strict. You must have a specific number of homegrown players at club and country while also abiding by the permissible limit of players you can register in total.

Signing a new player and not being able to register him can be a catastrophic mistake and you must avoid it by all means. Also, try to make a solid core of homegrown players as you advance through the game so that registration rules do not turn out to be a headache later.