Football Manager 2022: 10 New Features To Be Excited About

5. Better Communication With Your Staff

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Whether you opt to use it or not, Football Manager 2022 will offer up better ways to communicate with your staff.

This improved communication will allow you to have more detailed chats with your own backroom staff, while also seemingly opening the door for more discussions with your club's Director of Football - should said club have one under its employ, of course.

For several years now, FM has seen gamers having their heads pecked by interfering, overly-opinionated staff from higher up your club's food chain, and it remains to be seen just how exactly this renewed focus on staff communication plays out in Football Manager 2022.

Similarly, it should be interesting to see what happens to a manager should they constantly go against the instructions being fed down from a Director of Football or Technical Director. After all, if you're insistent on promoting youth players within, whilst the DoF is adamant about making big-name signings, chances are you'll be on a collision course sooner rather than later.

Still, knowing the communication aspect of Football Manager has been improved for FM22 is nothing if not a major positive.

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