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 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.
@PoposVGCSee it on YouTubeWell there goes my 4-2-3-1 gegenpressing vertical tiki-taka in Malaysian 2nd division
@WrathOfPhropetSee it on YouTubePlease 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
@fmyouthdevSee it on YouTubeOne 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 YouTubeMy assistant manager will love this
@NerdyPaulSee it on YouTubeWow, looking good!!!
(*Delegating to Assistant Manager*)@simonvi8368See it on YouTubeGood stuff. Keep cooking lads.
@GoateelordSee it on YouTube
Public comments from the video's page on YouTube
The videos drawing views on Football Manager right now
- Channel
- Football Manager
- 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.
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