12 Oct 2020 20:37:22
I thought this was actually a joke when I saw the headline, but in 2019 the local Manchester media explained that Ole honed his management skills on Football Manager.

"It's a fantastic game, I have learned a lot about football. I have learned a lot about players, especially young talent.

It resembles real life, when it comes to who will be good players. They have done incredible research. I remember thinking the same then, that I do as a manager, you want to give young guns the chance, see them develop.

You could push a few buttons and get extra millions to buy a player. I never enjoyed that. I would rather win in spite of, than because of.

Many of my players play FIFA and Football Manager. I think it helps them to understand football better. "

No further comment.

1.) 12 Oct 2020
12 Oct 2020 21:05:13
Redman
I worked with a guy who in the early 2000s told me that he got Exeter City to the FA Cup Final and wore a suit and tie to celebrate getting to Wembley. that's how real it is to some people 😂😂.

2.) 12 Oct 2020
12 Oct 2020 22:05:25
FMs accuracy is incredible and has been for decades. I really don’t see what is wrong here and it sounds like you are just looking for things now Redman. I’m sure more high profile figures have been cited as using the FM database as well.

3.) 13 Oct 2020
12 Oct 2020 23:11:44
Love FM its sooooo addictive. My mates and I used to spend whole days and barely got out of pre season 🤣.

4.) 13 Oct 2020
12 Oct 2020 23:57:47
Haha red man scraping the barrel on this one.

5.) 13 Oct 2020
13 Oct 2020 00:28:37
Jose plays football manager as shown in the documentary.

6.) 13 Oct 2020
13 Oct 2020 01:44:25
Nothing wrong with that Red Man. Many coaches get help from Football Manager sometimes. Mr Wenger too.

7.) 13 Oct 2020
13 Oct 2020 08:13:14
It’s a game. Did Mourinho and Wenger hone their skills on it? Should this now be on the CV of the manager, “Have taken their selected club to honours on football manager”. If one of the players is better on it than Ole, does he get to be next manager?

8.) 13 Oct 2020
13 Oct 2020 09:46:06
Where does Ole say he honed his skills on it? Football Manager is used by most big clubs as a means to spot potential talent, which is what Ole more or less says.

9.) 13 Oct 2020
13 Oct 2020 10:10:28
Red Man, this is grasping at straws. Ole has a FIFA pro license, he did the studying and he sat the exams and he passed them. Thus he is qualified to coach at this level. So what he plays computer games as well. Football manager spends a lot of money working out algorithms and modelling code to create as close as possible to a real life experience. From a tactical perspective it can be a useful tool to gain understanding on how different systems can play out vs other tactical systems. What it fails on is the human aspect. What happens when a player has had some bad news and is distracted, or has a cold or a bad nights sleep. While it also fails to capture how good a coach is at getting the tactics across to his players, or how he develops them and improves them.

In many walks of life computer models and simulations are run to determine possible potential outcomes and often policy is decided based on these models. While some will have significantly greater levels of investment and scientific backing behind them (such as the models the Met office use, along with their very impressive super computer) while others can be set up and run for less than a few hundred pounds and still be very accurate (although these tend to be used for undisputed science, with very predictable outcomes) . Football manager spends millions on developing their system. While not perfect for the reasons I stated above, it can still be useful for trying out different tactical ideas.

I think this is just a poor attempt by you to try and find fault in Ole, you seem to do this every international break or when the team haven't played in the last few days and you need fresh impetuous to continue driving your campaign against Ole.

{Ed025's Note - pieces of paper do not make a good coach shappy, sam allardyce for instance..

10.) 13 Oct 2020
13 Oct 2020 12:20:34
Red man. Ole didn’t say he honed his skills on it. You did.

Don’t twist quotes just to prove a point.

FM is a massive database, I believe they have more scourges than all PL clubs combined. Everton signed an exclusive deal to use their database, international managers use it to find players, it’s a huge amount of data.

11.) 13 Oct 2020
13 Oct 2020 12:53:37
Wazza and Co

Type Solskjaer and football manager into a search engine.