You are able to play without substitutes but I wouldn’t recommend that.
General staff responsibilities in Football Manager focusses on staff recruitment and development. There are three sections to the staff responsibilities area: General, Contracts, and Advice and Reports General This section covers all tasks relating to the staff at your football club, like finding and signing new staff members, to deciding who is going to give you updates on the players out at development clubs. Not to be confused with all of the responsibilities you can assign to the staff. This is called the staff responsibilities area. Staff Responsibilities Michael Zorc – Borussia Dortmund Director of FootballĬonfusingly, within responsibilities, you can delegate certain tasks pertaining to the management of staff to your backroom team. I have grouped those teams who are not the first team into ‘non-first team’ responsibilities. Note: Most clubs will have more than one team, for example a first team, and then a reserve or B team, under 19s or under 18s etc. I will also include my preference with the tasks with justification for why I make the decision to delegate or keep control of these tasks.
For each of the staff responsibilities in Football Manager I will highlight the priority order that the game will use when looking for the right staff to assign the jobs to. Generally, if you don’t have many staff at the club then these tasks will fall at the feet of the board members. For example, if you want to delegate hiring and firing the loan manager, when you select to automatically assign this role the game will check first to see if you have a Technical Director, and if you do will assign this task to them, if not then it goes to the Director of Football, and so on until it finds a role filled. If you don’t have a particular role filled, then the game will automatically select the next available staff member.
When assigning staff responsibilities in Football Manager you have the option to automatically assign the task to a member of the backroom team, and this will be done on a pre-defined list of roles.
This guide talks through all the available staff responsibilities in Football Manager, shows you who can and should pick up these responsibilities so that you can crack on with the important jobs like convincing your star player that he doesn’t need to move to another club for more money. When setting your staff responsibilities in Football Manager, you are entrusting those around you to carry out jobs that you as a manager shouldn’t really be doing, like negotiating staff contract renewals and finding clubs to send your promising youth players to. To enable you to spend more time managing the team rather than managing the football club, one of the first tasks you should be thinking about is setting the staff responsibilities.