Football Manager 2022: 10 Signings You Must Make Every Time

10. Berat Djimsiti

The most interesting update to the upcoming instalment of Football Manager is generally agreed to be the addition of the Wide Centre Back role, the first truly new role to be introduced since a revamp of the midfield in the mid-2010s.

The Wide Centre Back can be deployed in a number of ways, either in a defensive back three allowing Wing Backs the licence to push on, secure in the knowledge any counter attack down the wings can be cut out, à la Thomas Tuchel's Chelsea, or providing an attacking threat themselves, underlapping more defensively minded Full Backs.

Chris Wilder's Sheffield United is, at least in the UK, citied as the most high profile example of the underlapping Centre Back, but it is Italy's Atalanta who have deployed this tactic to the greatest success.

Cristian Romero is usually referred to as the driving force behind the success of this set-up last season, but with Serie A's Defender Of The Season 2020-2021 moving on loan to Tottenham this summer, he will be unavailable in the first year, and presumably very expensive after that.

Players should therefore turn to Albania's Berat Djimsiti, a creative centre back who usually features on the right side of a back three. Valued at just over £8m on FM21, and providing 5 league assists last year he is an ideal candidate to drop straight into this exciting new system.