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Football Manager asks whether your squad can handle your philosophy

FM27's training preview separates senior match preparation from youth development, with a November release on the channel's calendar.

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

Training and Tactical Effectiveness | FM27 Feature Deep DiveTraining and Tactical Effectiveness | FM27 Feature Deep Dive

Assistant managers have apparently been assigned the homework. Beneath Football Manager's only new upload, viewers repeatedly joke about delegating the training changes to their virtual deputies, while one imagines the consequences for an ambitious lower-league gegenpressing system.

"Training and Tactical Effectiveness | FM27 Feature Deep Dive" reached about 89,000 views and is the official channel's most active video right now. Its central idea is that choosing a style and having players capable of executing it are different things. The description presents Tactical Effectiveness as a measure of how a squad's abilities suit its system, with Tactical Complexity adding a trade-off between ambition and what the team can manage.

Training gets a clearer division of labor, too: senior squads concentrate on match preparation, cohesion and tactical understanding, while youth squads focus on development. Beyond the assistant-manager jokes, viewers ask whether a weekly schedule can be applied across an entire season. Another points out how deeper tactical understanding could suit a save built around keeping players together rather than constantly replacing them.

The channel added roughly a quarter-million views over the week, with subscribers unchanged. Among nearby game-publisher and esports channels, Warhammer 40,000 and 2XKO had much larger viewing weeks, while Age of Empires and LA Thieves were quieter. Football Manager's daily viewing is currently well below its usual level.

The other active FM27 previews extend the same managerial theme. "Tactical Tweaks and Match Engine Upgrades | FM27 Feature Deep Dive" covers touchline adjustments, player movement and stamina, while "An Elevated Match Day Atmosphere | FM27 Feature Deep Dive" turns to crowds, weather and lighting. Together, they offer a catch-up that runs from planning the system to seeing it play out on match day.

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What viewers say

  • Hope my Assistant Manager is watching this.
  • Well there goes my 4-2-3-1 gegenpressing vertical tiki-taka in Malaysian 2nd division
    @WrathOfPhropetSee it on YouTube
  • Please god let me create a weekly schedule and apply it for the rest of the season with one click. Is that possible?
    @paddypower123See it on YouTube
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  • I like the levels of tactical understanding, I tend to keep players in my squads for alot of seasons rather than signing loads of players each window, so would benefit me more
  • One thing we really need in this game is all-time statistics. I want to see if Haaland can break the UCL goalscoring record, or if my regen can shatter every record out there.
    @AgileMinds123See it on YouTube
  • My assistant manager will love this
  • Wow, looking good!!!
    (*Delegating to Assistant Manager*)
    @simonvi8368See it on YouTube
  • Good stuff. Keep cooking lads.

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The facts
Subscribers
131,000
Channel views, last 7 days
246,208
Videos published this week
1
Video published
October 9, 2026
Video views so far
89,106
Views on its first day
73,436

The numbers

Here is Football Manager's week in views and subscribers.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels
2XKO
1,023,640
CayPlay
15,491
subscribers
131,000
no significant change in the last 7 days
total views
30,982,592
views per day
4,662
typical day: 30,082
first-day views of each video posted this week
subscribers: this channel and similar channels
CayPlay
168,000
2XKO
140,000
LA Thieves
121,000
As of October 13, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
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