The Manager : A Football Story
Here's a football manager game that's like nothing you've ever seen before. An app that's ram packed with features and highly addictive gameplay. A new kind of football manager sports game with a unique, fast paced ARCADE style of play, where it's easy to pick up and tap your way through hours and hours worth of entertaining fun.
Whether you call it a football or soccer game, all of the classic management elements are here. You create your own team from scratch, you build and sculpt your first squad to perfection. You then set your team on the path to glory, trying to claw your way out of the non-league park and up through five increasingly difficult leagues. If you've got what it takes to be a football manager then you'll finally make it to the glory and riches of the 'Gold league' summit, where only the best managers can survive. Be warned, competition is firece at the top, you'll be testing your football / soccer manager skill in every single game and you'll be up against the toughest opposition possible.
While climbing leagues, and playing in exciting cup games you'll be involved with managing a wide range of colourful player types. From psychopaths to fashion icons, will you be able to mould the perfect team and create a well oiled goal scoring football machine ?
Make no mistake, the path to glory is not easy... football management is meant to be challenging. You'll need all of your wits about you as manager, as you develop your own styles of play. Will you adapt to your opposition? Or will you stamp your authority all over the league and force them all to adapt to you ?
Decision making doesn't end there... it's tough going in the transfer market too. You'll need to always be 'on your game' as you search for the next superstar, bargain veteran or up and coming youth player. Wheel and deal your way to success with a tense, nail-biting bidding system. It's here where you'll compete with up to six opposition teams for your target player's signature.
You asked for unlockables. Well, we've got unlockables ! Lot's of them. Win matches and you unlock a whole bunch of advanced tactics to choose from. Up against a talented strike force? Put your star defender in the centre of the ultra-defensive 'park the bus' tactic. Pitting your wits against a weak defence in the cup semi-final? Why not go completely 'GUNG HO!' and blitz them with an all out attacking approach. There's long ball, keep the ball, counter-attacking play, defensive, hard tackling, not to mention the infamous, 'chop down star man' tactic... plus tons more to keep you entertained.
Everyone loves a good BONUS. Well we've got loads of those too ! Game time and success is rewarded in 'The manager : a football story'. Score goals, you get a bonus. Win the match, you get a bonus, come back from behind, you get a bonus (you get the idea). Keep playing and over time you're able to unlock the HUGE achievement bonuses that go directly into your club's 'Bank'.
There are too many features to list in 'The Manager : A Football Story', but here are some important points...
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- It's Extremely easy to pick up and play. (that is, if you can put it down).
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- Because absolutely nobody asked, we've included a FREE FULL EDITOR so that you can create your own in-game environment. Add and save your favorite teams at the start and simply tap any players name during the game to change it. Add favorite players, yourself, your brother, your sister, mum, dad, best friend or even your dog. We've given you the tools to create whatever you wish, now go and have some fun.
Category : Sports
Reviews (30)
It's good but it can be better. I think they can make it better by: like for example. When it's oficiall a club is relegated, promoted or champions why don't thry put the R, P or C sign. And why don't they make us choose our own sponsors. If you guys could really do those changes I would really appreciate and give it 5 stars
Very good arcade style management that takes you back to when you could just pick up a game and play instead of over thinking numerous areas. It's not easy so keeps you interested and forces you to claw your way to the top from scratch. Some minor improvements would be welcome but their lack of inclusion doesn't ruin the game. 1) Be able to see team performance post match. Currently you have to exit the match and look up each player individually or catch just before the end. 2) There is no exit game button.
Nice football manager sim. Easy to pick-up and play but tricky to master. All the usual team formations are available but having to earn various tactics is a nice twist. Difficult to escape the lower leagues, as it should be, and tough to stay at the top. Like that team and player names can be changed. A Q+A with the press would be a nice addition. Big plus is NO ads and no pressure to buy in-app items and it's free to play. Go for it and enjoy.
This game is superb. I'm a former tester for fm 2009 for Sega and this idea is awesome would love to trade ideas with pixels and get a online pc game sorted for this. I think it would be a massive success. Theres alot of things that can be changed. Winning youth players through spins. Finding out without Renewing contracts what the players rating is if they have a star. So you can compete with gold. And more competitions like a European one and more cups and winnings. Superb
Best mobile phone game I have played, without shadow of a doubt. Love that it stays true to football and really captures the essence of football. Simple gameplay and evokes exciting emotions. Only tip: Introduce fatigue mechanism to make the game more dynamic forcing us to play fit players. Keep it going!!
Nice small non-online game to have. Each match is short and simple which makes it pretty good. I read some people ask for more feature, disagree. It's good because it's simple which makes everything progresses fast and you don't have to spend hours just pondering what should you do next match. Good game, with no ads, fair rate of trade for cash player but you don't really need to pay, to be honest. Free players can still finish the game because it has a sensible level of difficulty.
This game is good fun, controls are tricky at first, things like holding down on people to get stats and make captain confused me at first, same as player ratings took me a while to work out. Now I know what I'm up to I'm happy and like the system, not too much to think about, just stick in your team formation and tactics and let them go. Maybe would like to choose primary penalty taker purely for the achievement of 100% penalties scored. Great game though.
1. Your seasons will always go like this: hard first season, second season cruise through division and get promoted. Doesn't matter how good your players are, I had worse players my second year in League 3 than in my first and won the league easily. 2. Transfers are icky because you only have one instance per year you can sign new players, and it's a very restrictive way of doing transfers. 3. You will always lose and get pissed. Even if you set your tactics to park the bus they will always score goals. I was up 3-1 and ended up tying 4-4 in 20 minutes. Either it's a rigged RNG system or its just bullshit AI. 4. You will always lose against teams higher rated than you. Nevermind even you tying or losing to lower rated teams. There's no way you can overpower a tougher opponent without conceding 3 or 4 goals.
No loads of useless stats, no bothering with too many modern game factors, this is the old school footy manager. Play to win, win to advance, simple as that. On the top of that the design is gorgeous and somewhat nostalgic. Small boys in the park, jumpers for goalposts in the era when most gamers wouldn't come close to anything smaller than Bernabeu altogether with naming rights and accurate sponsor logos on their team shirts... Rant over :) This one is very refreshing. Keep up the fantastic work!
Awesome game - no frills - chillingly realistic. You need to take your bad decisions on the chin n remedy them to make progress. Pls add intercontinental cup n youth system. Nothing to complain. Too addictive and not at all repetitive. Can you add 2 manager play in one game ? Great stuff
Game is simple and very fun. However, when you reach the gold league, you are forced to buy coins, otherwise it's simply impossible to win more than 5 matches, as the other teams are always stronger than you no matter how many seasons you play in the league.
oh what a game ! - this has all the qualities of a paid app, but is FREE. this is how free games use to be. no ads, no timers, only one currency, no forced IAP's and great simple gameplay to boot. i cannot put it down. ok, its not the best football manager out there, there are no real players or real teams, so if you're expecting to find wayne rooney, I'd suggest you try premium games - but after playing it who cares !! its great simple fun. for a free game this is one of the best out there. deserves a lot more - well done devs. 5 stars !
Pliz help me ,i love this game ,i buy 1M but i dont get it in my games. Pliz i want my 1Million dolar in my game .
This reminds me of when manager games were fun. I enjoyed Football masters and premier manager growing up as it was all about the games. This is exactly the same. Well done.
Needs commentary also more flexibility like hire a striker coach etc. And how about using coluored dots to represent teams on the field it will spice the game up a bit also the game freezes sometimes fix these I'll give it six stars but i do love your game. ...#booyah
Only thing that would make it better is if the players had attributes rather than just ratings. I've got a player rated 15 that is scoring more then players two and three times his rating.
I love how the game is played. But currently stuck in between silver league and league 1. Theres sort of income gap exist. Any income earned is not enough for me to improve my team to challenge in the silver league. Its like i need to make the iap for me to compete in silver league.
One of the best, if not the best football manager game on the market. Haven't gotten bored yet and i love how the developers didnt force me or offer me anything to leave a review. For the first time ever someone waited for me to enjoy a game before jamming a review offer down my throat!!
As good as football chairman only you're the manager. Never needed to spend money and I'm in the premier league
Too bad u actually have to spend money to buy players in order to win the gold league. I dont really know what the captain is for. And the player contracts are just a buzzkill.
Thank you Guys and Girls for providing an awesome offline game to play. Fell in love with it since the first run.
Loved the game.. could use a few more options.. but love the simple style.. took me sometime to reach the gold league but kept me engaged through the journey
Wonderful simple concept, but so much fun to play! Hope there is an update in the future for European league play with other countries.
Initially took a while to get the hang of it later it was very good. It would bemuch better if we could have a multi player contest and a save game.
Do like this game but spend 50m on a player and have a player that is worth less but is better. No way of checking players ability when buying them. Please fix this or tell how to check and will get 5 stars
Hardly won a game in the first season. Please help I don't know how to use the bid system for transfers at the end of the season. Love the game though!
Sixth review, dropped down to one star. Had this game for a bit now and played countless seasons, worked out the balancing is terrible. Just played a season in silver league, conceded 14 goals on 87 and 89 minutes, why these numbers all the time?? My team is 200 points more than everyone else, team harmony is 91%,all players in correct positions yet still lose to teams I should be beating. It's not random like matchday heroes, it's unbalanced and biased towards the Ai . throw in constant sending offs and injuries and it just comes frustrating. It's a good, fun game but the balance ruins it for me . Just played a game in silver league. Had 77% possession, 24 shots.,opponent had 3 shots. Game ended 1.1..what is with the balance??? Sort this out and I'll be reinstalling.
Nice little game but i want to play on my tablet and phone at different times with my team . But doesn't seem to be able to. Will rate higher if fixed. Not good enough
Nice game at the start . the fact you have to purchase money to win games in the top league regardless how long you play I hate games that aren't upfront and try to get you hooked then ask for money in order to proceed any further. So if you don't want spend the cash don't bother playing
Good but can be better