Football Manager 2021: 12 Essential Improvements It Needs
9. Career Mode
The footballing world doesn't catapult people straight into managing at Old Trafford, or even being unemployed for a bit and then taking up a post in the National League. It starts with coaching and earning badges before progressing.
Start as a coach at a club and work your way up to Assistant Manager and then fully-fledged manager. If done well, it would be a very unique selling point to add to a market leading game.
The manager could come to you for advice. Depending on how the interaction goes and the outcome of it, it could lead to earning those precious badges and being able to be an Assistant Manager. You could even go straight into managing if you perform well enough as a coach. Maybe your manager trusts you enough to take the reins of the under-19s squad. Perform miracles with them and a few bad results for the first team means you become the head honcho.
It adds a new dimension to the game and allows you to gain the experience before plunging into the full game. An extended tutorial if you will.