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FM27 gives staff more and more actionable advice, gathers staff meeting suggestions into one message, adds the board's and supporters' ratings and deeper finances to monthly reports, and opens a save with a run of welcome messages including the board's club vision meeting; SI has not described other changes to the board or finances.
In Football Manager 27 your staff give more advice, and more of it actionable: staff meeting suggestions now arrive in one message with links to act on all or each, and monthly reports add the board's and supporters' ratings of you along with a deeper look at finances. Beyond that, Sports Interactive has described little change to the board, club vision or finances, so most of how they work is presumed to carry over from Football Manager 26. Everything here is from SI's reveals of development builds and its tips for the Launch Preview, which began on Oct 29, 2026; details may change by the Nov 10, 2026 release.
Quick facts
| Staff advice | More of it, more actionable |
| Staff meetings | Suggestions in one message, act on all or each |
| Responsibilities | Club > Responsibilities |
| Monthly reports | Board and supporter ratings, finances, loan players |
| Board | Club vision meeting in the welcome messages |
| Women's teams | At least two female backroom staff in FIFA competitions |
| Finance screens | Full screens, per FM Scout |
Sources: SI, 2D engine and deeper world deep dive, Oct 16, 2026; SI, first hours tips, Oct 29, 2026; FM Scout, Oct 27, 2026.
The welcome flow
A new job opens with a run of messages. SI's official screenshot of a Brighton save, dated Aug 21, 2026 in the game, shows the chairman Tony Bloom's "Welcome to Brighton!" with the club's founding year, reputation, stadium, honors, current season, finances and facilities, and a league history chart. Below it in the inbox sit introductions from the staff (the squad, responsibilities and tactics), the board's "Club vision and expectations meeting," a supporter profile introduction, a message on Financial Fair Play regulations, squad selection rules, and a first match preparation. In that save the board gives a transfer budget of £80.09M, a wage budget of £1.9M a week and a scouting budget of £390K, with the club's finances rated Secure. The screenshot is a development build.
Staff advice and staff meetings
Staff now give more and more actionable advice. Staff meeting suggestions arrive in one message with links to act on all of them or each one. In SI's Portal screenshot, advice arrives as separate messages tagged Staff Advice: development, recruitment and coaching. The Director of Football also advises on fees and payment structures in transfer talks; see Transfers and Contracts. During matches, staff in the dugout report the opponent's changes and say when to start or stop a Tactical Tweak, per Tactical Tweaks and Shouts.
Responsibilities and delegation
Under Club > Responsibilities you choose which tasks you handle and which your staff handle: media, training, scouting, friendly matches, team talks and organizing loan deals among them. Each main screen's control panel also has a delegation button. SI's Antony Farley told FourFourTwo that newcomers should make use of the delegation features, which he called "a little bit more front and centre this year." More first-save advice is on Beginner's Guide. The clip is WorkTheSpace's Oct 30, 2026 beginner's guide, which delegates media duties first.
Hiring staff
You inherit the club's staff on joining and can keep or replace them. SI's tips suggest starting with the Assistant Manager and filtering the Staff Database by the attributes you need. Staff Recruitment sits in the Recruitment menu. More tooltips now explain staff attribute descriptors, and FM Scout reports SI said staff attributes stay as text, not numbers.
FM27 models FIFA's staffing rule for women's football: women's teams in FIFA competitions need at least two female backroom staff, one of them Head Coach or Assistant Coach. More on Women's Football.
The board and club vision
The board sets its expectations in a club vision meeting early in the job, as the welcome inbox shows, and club previews before you choose a team list Notable Rivals, Supporter Culture and Board Expectation. Monthly reports now include the board's and supporters' ratings of you. SI has not described other changes to board requests or club vision as of Nov 1, 2026.
The Club Profile shows the condition of the Stadium, Corporate, Training and Youth Facilities, and SI's tips suggest using it to make the case to the board for investment.
Finances and budgets
Monthly reports go deeper on finances, and FM Scout reports finance screens are now full screens instead of pop-ups. Transfer and wage budgets sit in the Recruitment control panel, and the Contracts view shows where the wage budget goes. New Squad Cost Ratio rules and readjusted spending around the world arrive too, but SI has not published their details; see Transfers and Contracts. The clip is SI's Oct 22, 2026 First Look Livestream, played on a pre-launch build.
Dynamics
Dynamics sits in the Squad drop-down, per SI. SI named two changes: you can congratulate a player on several awards at once, and the game explains when a player will not speak to an unhappy teammate. The Captains screen now supports drag and drop. Player Buy-In is one of the four drivers of Tactical Effectiveness.
What is not known
As of Nov 1, 2026, SI has not described changes to board requests, club vision targets, sacking rules, press conferences or the finances beyond monthly reports.
Frequently asked questions
How do I delegate tasks in FM27? In FM27, open Club > Responsibilities to hand media, training, scouting, friendlies, team talks and loan deals to your staff. Each main screen's control panel also has a delegation button.
Does FM27 change staff advice? Yes. SI says FM27 staff give more and more actionable advice, and staff meeting suggestions arrive in one message with links to act on all or each.
Where is club vision in FM27? The board sets out its club vision and expectations in a meeting message among FM27's welcome messages when you take a job, and club previews show Board Expectation before you choose a team.
What is new in FM27 finances? FM27's monthly reports go deeper on finances and add board and supporter ratings, finance screens are full screens, and new Squad Cost Ratio rules arrive, though SI has not published their details as of Nov 1, 2026.
Sources
- FM27 Deep Dive: Navigation Upgrades, Sports Interactive, Sep 25, 2026
- FM27: 2D Match Engine, In-Game Editor and Deeper World Upgrades, Sports Interactive, Oct 16, 2026
- What we know about Football Manager 2027, FM Scout, Oct 27, 2026
- FM27 developer shares his best advice with FourFourTwo ahead of free release, FourFourTwo, Oct 28, 2026
- Maximising Your First Hours on FM27, Sports Interactive (Paul Madden), Oct 29, 2026
- Top Tips for Starting Your First FM27 Save, Sports Interactive, Oct 30, 2026
- Football Manager 27, Steam, screenshots as of Nov 1, 2026
- How to Play Football Manager 2027 | The Ultimate FM27 Beginner's Guide, WorkTheSpace, Oct 30, 2026 (video)
- FM27 | First Look Livestream, Football Manager, Oct 22, 2026 (video)
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How to Play Football Manager 2027 | The Ultimate FM27 Beginner's Guide
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Transfers and ContractsFM27 brings back Transfer Deadline Day, shows agent offers all window, makes young players weigh first-team time more in negotiations, shows sell-on fees in scout reports and adds new Squad Cost Ratio rules, whose details SI has not published.
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Tactical Tweaks and ShoutsTactical Tweaks are FM27's one-button in-match changes, such as swapping the wingers, sending the goalkeeper up or reducing the press, that sit beside Shouts on the match screen and stay on until deselected. Shouts were rebuilt to change players' mental state instead of giving small attribute boosts.
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Women's FootballWomen's football, added in Football Manager 26, returns in Football Manager 27 with France's Arkema Première Ligue newly licensed, Swiss-style women's league cups and mixed saves that let one career move between the men's and women's game. FM Scout counts 12 playable women's nations in FM27, up from 11.
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Tactical EffectivenessTactical Effectiveness is FM27's measure of how well your players can carry out your tactic, built on Tactical Familiarity and driven by Tactical Understanding, Player Ability, Player Buy-In and Next Match Information. Tactical Complexity sets how long a tactic takes to learn and how high it can reach.
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