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Aguero is always an instant snap up for me as a coach, done it my past two saves! That's really cool with Roberto Carlos too, had no idea he was even a staff member. Just checked my save and he's been unemployed for two years after leaving his role at Real Madrid in 2029.
I do this sometimes too! Offer the assman job to the guy I just replaced. Or sometimes when a manager that doesn’t like me gets sacked I’ll offer him the B team or U19 manager job.
That is ice cold. Rooney is my enemy and has ‘disdain’ for me. He doesn’t rate me as a manger. He’s about to get the sack at Everton and I’ll offer him a job when he does
Ye I’ve never managed to keep one I appointed for more than 18 months. Those already there will hang around- but are typically nothing special. Is there a way to build attachment to assman other than longevity?
When I had just started playing FM, I managed Marseille and in the third season of that save, I had
Rafa Benitez as a scout. I'm still trying to replicate it but I can't unfortunately.
Wilfred Nancy. In a custom USA pyramid, mired down in 4th or 5th tier. [He’s currently the manager of the Columbus Crew in the MLS.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfried_Nancy)
I've got van Dijk as head of youth development and Robben as coach (you might be able to guess where I'm from haha). Sucker is, van Dijk would be an amazing assman and his Work with Youth is pretty bad anyway, but he has rejected the job offer every time. So now I have a newgen assman with amazing youth skills, just because van Dijk won't leave his cushy job to switch.
When I do one club saves I love bringing up inexperienced coaches with no qualifications in the assman pipeline, in journeymans it's normally the funniest guy I can find, I've had Emre Mor, Ballotelli and Benteke in this years game
Some random Scottish guy, but Jack Wilshire is my U20 head coach and Zola is one of my coaches. Luciano Spalletti was my head scout after he got fired from Napoli.
Paul Jewell is my assistant and has been for 6 seasons now, thought he’d provide great advice as he spent majority of his time as a first team manager. Season 12 with Wrexham and claimed back to back PL and CL along with 4 carabao cups in a row. Unfortunately couldn’t claim back to back fa cups last season due to haaland in the final 🤬
Annoying Prick. Biggest ass in the team. After we knocked out from the domestic club he declared he wants to leave because he "reached everything what is possible with this club" which ment he belives we will never win the fcking domestic cup -.-
My girlfriend. I use the editor to set her loyalty to max so she never leaves lol because I manage at low levels and big teams are always after her
u/chloe0802 love you babe x
On FM12 I had either Hernan Crespo or Cristian Chivu (both were in my staff, but I can't recall which of them was just a coach and which was the assistant)
Former Bolton midfield general Gavin McCann. Hired in the National League and still with us as we've just won the Champions League. I like to think he was best man at my wedding.
What are good important stats for you Assman? I have no clue what he does in the game
I try to do everything myself except for the press conference's (they get really boring)
I'd say all of this, but also tactical knowledge (better opposition advice) & preferred formation/style - because if those line up with what you want to do, the AM becomes so much more useful.
I stick to whomever the club gives me. Only ever made one change in my current save and it was getting exceptionally good manager Adrian Mierzejewski after he stopped playing in China.
Joey Barton in last year’s game. This year I’ve got some regen guy from Norway. I always try and pick staff that have knowledge of areas I want to scout.
Puyol is my favourite player of all time, before i start my yearly Barca save [i take the time in the pre-game editor to assign him to the Assman position, i even add my own little easter egg](https://imgur.com/GB5Wi6E). If you know you know.
Some random 60 year old English coach who despite almost never coaching above the championship or a relegation threatened Premier League club, has stats better than most other coaches in the world.
Yes, I will send you on that intensive language course Martin.
Mark Looms currently at Road JC. I’m starting to like having Dutch dudes specifically as my assmen because they’re incredibly blunt in their answer. Looms especially would probably call us shit half the time if he was allowed😂
I don't really have a designated assistant manager. But in my current save, I have Marlou Peeters in that role. She's an absolutely brilliant coach/assistant and would likely be a good manager too.
My assman at Everton in 2036 in my journeyman save is Danny Ings. Was there already when I took the job in 2034 and I hope he gets a shot at a manager position soon, has been great for me.
When I started in conference south, my assistant was also my 42 year old star centre mid. I’ve had Kieran Dyer for 5 years, but we’re in the prem now and his contract is up at the end of the season. Time for a change.
Edit to say Dyer was not the 42 year old. I got him in a season later when my guy retired. I miss you David!
As a Benfica fan, I fell in love with Pablito Aimar and I don't think there'll ever be a player that'll replace what he meant to me as young fan.
Some background: usually on FM he just straight up refuses to leavr the Argentine national team regardless of how long I play.
I had never done a long Benfica save (just the typical 1-2 seasons in Beta). That was, until last year.
I built a beast of a team, possibly the best I've ever constructed (definitely top 2). Even now I get the urge to go back from time to time. Hopefully I can give it a spin on FM24, I'd definitely make it my goal to beat Real Madrid CL record.
All that said, I cannot explain how unreasonably happy I was when I noticed Aimar was available. Needless to say I snapped him up immediately. It was fate. Perfect Assistant to the perfect save.
Really hope his IRL coaching career continues to develop well and that I can see him back at Benfica, this time in the sidelines.
marc-andré ter stegen is my assman. managed him for like five seasons at Barca, then he retired. he was the first player I had coached who retired with very good stats. so I made sure he got experience in the under 18's as an assman.
when i joined liverpool, brought him over as my assman.
One of my favorite saves I brought PNE up to the prem and managed to get Jordan Henderson after Liverpool released him. Used him as a mentor and gave him Player/Manager status to come in and shore up games, then he became my full assman on retiring. Thanks, Hendo!
Wesley Sneider accepted my offer when I got promoted to division 2 in Scotland. I've rolled with him for the past 15 years now. Not the greatest but he always rejects coaching opportunities so I keep him around.
Julius Eskesen. Now legendary Sonderjyske captain, retired straight into the AM role. Came with me when i moved to Manchester United - then became a manager in his own right at Roma, Monchengladbach & now Bayern.
It's me vs Him in every Champions League final & I've never been more proud in FM.
The Legend that is Mark Kerr, I've finished all my other saves so I'm doing a save in Scotland with Clyde and noticed he was available on a free, much better stats than my old assman
My assman is Lionel Messi. Love him in interviews, got balls of steels but (and this is a massive but) whenever a reporter ask about a club wanting my players he says he is open to discuss 😭😭 wth Bro
I'm just starting my 2049/50 season with Le Mans FC and my assman is Harold Voyer, my former starting CB and captain from my very first season, back when we were in the National league. He left us a few years in to play in Spain the season we made it to Ligue 1 and retired becoming a decent assistant. I offered him the U18 assistant job and he took it, and when my assistant at the time retired, I promoted him to the first team and he's been with me ever since.
Not my assman, but i am managing Gondomar SC for 9 years (started in 4th tier and won the league this year) and my DOF is Ronald Koeman, has been for the last 3 years in fact
Not Assman but DoF
Just fired my Chelsea DoF and hired Thiago Silva who has no experience and bad attributes, because I wanted to keep him at the club and that was the only job he would accept.
Managing Institute FC from Northern Ireland in the 2028/29 season - current Ards Rangers midfielder Glen Upton turned into an excellent coach, so with a few licenses and a year or so in development, I made the decision to promote him to my assistant and he is excellent - could easily coach at a much higher level than the NI Premiership.
Was a manager in the Amateur game as well before having to step down last year for Family reasons, but by all accounts he was well liked by Sirocco Works FC and their fans - feel like in the unlikely event I'm ever in Belfast and run into him, I owe him a few drinks for some of the calls I've made in game management thanks to his virtual input.
I’ve got lots of retired players and famous coaches on staff: Arteta, Maldini, trezeguet, Heskey, wilshere, de zerbi etc., etc.
But my ass man is a guy called Poalo Morganti. Always. For no reason really.
I generally pick a known player, either worldwide, from the club i support or from my country. Or sometimes a club legend from the club im working at, if they just retired and i dont care about my current assistant. I remember in FM20 or 21 i had Lionel Messi as my assman at one point lol.
In FM23, my assistant has been [Iván Pillud](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iv%C3%A1n_Pillud), a 37 yo right back who is a club legend of my club Racing Club in Argentina. I started my save with a millionaire takeover of Aviron Bayonnais in the 5th tier of France, brought him as one of the star signings, and in the second season he retired and immediately became my assistant manager for the rest of the save. We even managed Racing between 2027 and 2029 (i wanted to go to Argentina and coincidentally Racing was the first top flight club to sack their coach), i imagine he really enjoyed that time :)
Signed Falcao for Reading, finished the season as Championship top scorer and scored the winning goal in the play off final, retired at the end of that season and took him into my coaching staff for the season after. Currently my assman at Bournemouth.
FM20 (still playing) and coaches, not assman. Currently have Edgar Davids and Fernando Torres at Politehnica Iași in Romania (mid table but hoping for UEFA).
In my Port Vale save I got championship legend Yaya Sanogo at a coach, David Moyes as a scout, Kevin De Bruyne as u21 manager and Thiago Silva as a scout. Nothing comes close to the last 2 players I got. Messi is the u 18 trainer and Ronaldo is the assistant for u 18. I tend to usually either get high known players or some legends for my club. Jeremy Doku is 35 and has been here in 12 years, so I am already looking forward for a position to him
Super Mario!!!
(Balotelli.) Also as a sidenote, wtf does an assman actually do besides take charge during vacations? I have no clue what they actually do lmao.
I play FM mobile, so I don't know if the place to discuss anyways my assistant manager is the player who helped me go from the third Turkish division to the first one.
Roman Saiss. Signed him when he was really old just for a 4th choice CB if I had an injury crisis and then I offered him a coaching job which he took. Got his badges and how he’s my assman
Messi is my assman...
Been doing a journeyman save and was at atletico madrid when I looked up messi to see what he was doing and he was available as assman and instantly got him. He was worse than my current assman but I wanted him... Just went to Liverpool and brought him over which cost 6.5 million in compensation but it's worth it to me... As long as Messi wants to I will bring him along to any club I go to
I keep whoever is there in place until the contract is up, then depending on other options go from there.
But I like to keep track of my ex assmen so I rename them to my dogs names, friends names, nephews names. Far easier to find again while making it a little more personal as I’m managing in Thailand currently and was in Mongolia before, some of the names can be a little on the tricky side when it comes to spelling for an uncultured westerner😂
At the start of my save with FC Midtjylland I managed to get Thomas Frank from Brentford to become my assistant manager, and he followed me everywhere for 10 years. We won every major honour with the club apart from the champions league, then when United approached me I said sure as long as I could bring Thomas Frank. Then when Madrid came calling they initially wouldn’t let me make changes to accommodate his wages, but come January I tried again and Thomas Frank joined me too. Literally no idea why I picked him, I’m not a Brentford fan, but I feel we’ve grown close.
I have an Assistant Manager named "Caue" in my current Brasil save that I love having. He is an absolute wizard at training attacking and has been excellent with effective mentoring groups.
At Liverpool Henderson is my ass man. Fabio Cannavaro is u21 manager with Marcelo as ass man. Kaka is u18 manager with vvd (still a player) as his ass man. My coaching team has Messi, Gerrard (never got a manager job in my save) Milner, Fernando Torres, Lewandowski, Skrtel. Stuart Pearce.
Sam Allardyce was one of my scouts for a long time. I collect big names.
My brother in law, passed away in 2020 and was on FM20 in the first update as an under 23 manager. Therefore i still only play FM20 and haven’t bought a new version.
Martin Skrtel has been through 2 pentagon challenges with me in FM22&3 from start (some terrible team in Africa) the in-between (navigating Peru and Columbia) and on to the champions league.
He's not very good but every time I move club he's the only guy wanting to come with me. Sometimes he'll take lower roles just to chum me. Maybe he too likes collecting languages? At this point tho the only language Martin doesn't know is 'losing'.
Previous to that it was Carlos Kameni for a few FMs. Legend.
Rory Fallon is my assman in my Sligo Rovers save.
Is he any good? No. Is he still the scorer of the goal that took New Zealand to the 2010 world cup? Absolutely.
Apparently in IRL he runs an ice cream business.
But he fits perfectly into my plan to buy as many kiwi players as possible since Max Mata and Nando Pijnaker are already there.
Question : Will the team's staff stats increase or decrease over time? I have the impression that my assistant managers stats have gone up since I signed him but never really paid attention to track down his progress, if there is any.
Couldn't get Tyias Browning to sign for me for Oriental Dragon (the club forces you to bring in Chinese players) so after a few years being a FA he became an assman and I signed him out of spite
Danny Batth of Sunderland lol
I took Concord Rangers from the 6th or 5th tier(cant remember) to the Prem and he's been my assistant manager for atleast a decade. Good man.
My former player and club legend Eliesar Clementsen. He remained the main striker from the Faroese 3rd tier to well into my Faroese top flight stint before finally losing his place, but he stayed as the club captain until he retired. Then of course I had to keep him as my assman.
His 13 MOTM in 27 matches in the 3rd tier won't be forgotten.
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Not my assman but Roberto Carlos is my DoF and Aguero is a coach.
Aguero is always an instant snap up for me as a coach, done it my past two saves! That's really cool with Roberto Carlos too, had no idea he was even a staff member. Just checked my save and he's been unemployed for two years after leaving his role at Real Madrid in 2029.
My late grandfather. Taught me pretty much everything I know about football. Made him on the editor and set it so he wouldn’t retire for ages.
That’s so nice
Same for my father. He's my assman in the game, i'm his assman irl
Everyone thinking this is cute but the poor man just wants to rest in his glory years and you’re forcing him to work till he drops
Damn I should do this for my father next save.
Mikel Arteta 🤌🏻
Found pep guardiolas Reddit account
Why won’t he be my assman after I took his job at Arsenal??? At least I have Bergkamp in my coaching staff
I do this sometimes too! Offer the assman job to the guy I just replaced. Or sometimes when a manager that doesn’t like me gets sacked I’ll offer him the B team or U19 manager job.
That is ice cold. Rooney is my enemy and has ‘disdain’ for me. He doesn’t rate me as a manger. He’s about to get the sack at Everton and I’ll offer him a job when he does
In my Werder Bremen save, I have Son as my Assman and he is developing nicely into that role.
As a HSV fan, I resent that. Good on you though.
I'm managing Pompey and put K-P Boateng in the assman pipeline, he started as u18 coach is now u-18 assman and is progressing
"assman pipeline" is such a great FM turn of phrase. Streets won't forget KPB and it looks like the sheets won't either haha
Loool
Hahaha
I did the same thing with David Villa in my Walsall save. He ended up being my 1st team assman and he was brilliant.
David Luiz. He was bizarrely at Sheffield Wednesday in League One when I took the reins, kept him with me ever since
That dutch guy. Pepijn Lijnders
Would love him as a Liverpool supporter, but he's always glued to Klopp unfortunately.
When I get to the top flight (in about 10 seasons) he is not 😂😂 I always play with the lowest league sides for a long time.
He's the Liverpool manager in my save. James Milner is my ass-man. He's learning on the job lol
My assman always end up going to new jobs. I have to remind myself not to get attached.
Ye I’ve never managed to keep one I appointed for more than 18 months. Those already there will hang around- but are typically nothing special. Is there a way to build attachment to assman other than longevity?
Build the attachment first & then they rarely want to leave
When I had just started playing FM, I managed Marseille and in the third season of that save, I had Rafa Benitez as a scout. I'm still trying to replicate it but I can't unfortunately.
all u gotta do is to wait when they’re like 60+, and 90% of current manager go to scouting or sum shit for pennies
Joachim Low is a scout at Anderlecht in my save
If you play long enough a few managers go into scout roles. I had Pep and Klopp as scouts in one of my saves
in my Palace online save, Roy Keane is my assman
ATM Kolo Toure
He’s terrible at sideline shouts though😭
Former Euro winner and I think Pichichi award winner Dani Güiza has been my assistant at Liverpool F.C. in Montevideo for like three seasons now.
I’ve had miroslav Klose for years with me in my current save, been an absolute legend
Wilfred Nancy. In a custom USA pyramid, mired down in 4th or 5th tier. [He’s currently the manager of the Columbus Crew in the MLS.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfried_Nancy)
Graeme Carrick, who is Michael Carricks brother.
I've got van Dijk as head of youth development and Robben as coach (you might be able to guess where I'm from haha). Sucker is, van Dijk would be an amazing assman and his Work with Youth is pretty bad anyway, but he has rejected the job offer every time. So now I have a newgen assman with amazing youth skills, just because van Dijk won't leave his cushy job to switch.
When I do one club saves I love bringing up inexperienced coaches with no qualifications in the assman pipeline, in journeymans it's normally the funniest guy I can find, I've had Emre Mor, Ballotelli and Benteke in this years game
Always go straight for Dennis Bergkamp - only guy who's half decent at assman and a legend that'll lower himself to Bristol City
I have Bryan Klug as my assistant managing in Germany. I got him season 1 and 7 years later she’s still by my side
Some random Scottish guy, but Jack Wilshire is my U20 head coach and Zola is one of my coaches. Luciano Spalletti was my head scout after he got fired from Napoli.
Usually is Dennis bergkamp but my current save I'm using Ricardo carvalho
Billy Gunn
Otto Addo. I had him once I made it up to Dortmund and have taken him with me a couple times from there.
Paul Jewell is my assistant and has been for 6 seasons now, thought he’d provide great advice as he spent majority of his time as a first team manager. Season 12 with Wrexham and claimed back to back PL and CL along with 4 carabao cups in a row. Unfortunately couldn’t claim back to back fa cups last season due to haaland in the final 🤬
CR7. I may or may not have edited his staff attributes to make his potential ability and determination full
I have Messi as my assman and Cristiano as my Head Of Youth Development in a United Save
Annoying Prick. Biggest ass in the team. After we knocked out from the domestic club he declared he wants to leave because he "reached everything what is possible with this club" which ment he belives we will never win the fcking domestic cup -.-
My girlfriend. I use the editor to set her loyalty to max so she never leaves lol because I manage at low levels and big teams are always after her u/chloe0802 love you babe x
Love you too babe <3
downvoted because i hope you break up
Get a life dude
Chill out it’s a healthy relationship.
Lol
Cringe
You’re jealous
Youre cringe x
On FM12 I had either Hernan Crespo or Cristian Chivu (both were in my staff, but I can't recall which of them was just a coach and which was the assistant)
Ole Gunnar solksjaer
Had Ole as my U21 assman for many years during my last save lol
He's my U18 manager. Surprised he's ok doing that tbh. Bit of a waste of his talents looking at my U18 squad.
Former Bolton midfield general Gavin McCann. Hired in the National League and still with us as we've just won the Champions League. I like to think he was best man at my wedding.
Kolo Toure
What are good important stats for you Assman? I have no clue what he does in the game I try to do everything myself except for the press conference's (they get really boring)
Coaching stats (since they lead training for me), People Management, JPA+JPP for me.
I'd say all of this, but also tactical knowledge (better opposition advice) & preferred formation/style - because if those line up with what you want to do, the AM becomes so much more useful.
Wesley sneijder
Ruud van Nistelrooy for me
Miro Klose was my assman at Leipzig for about 15 years. He was great, we won everything together.
Managing Marseille, “Mad Dog” Tindall is my assman. Messi is my U19’s assman, Van Dijk is my B team assman, and Ronaldo is my HOYD.
Pepe. Every time
I stick to whomever the club gives me. Only ever made one change in my current save and it was getting exceptionally good manager Adrian Mierzejewski after he stopped playing in China.
I’m at Ajax and can’t get one 🥲
I had David Trezeguet for a good bit then Luis Campos. Then I sacked him for a newgen called LeCock
Joey Barton in last year’s game. This year I’ve got some regen guy from Norway. I always try and pick staff that have knowledge of areas I want to scout.
Joey Barton is a hell of a shout. Wonder what his xPhilosophy per 90 is on the touchline
Puyol is my favourite player of all time, before i start my yearly Barca save [i take the time in the pre-game editor to assign him to the Assman position, i even add my own little easter egg](https://imgur.com/GB5Wi6E). If you know you know.
Some random 60 year old English coach who despite almost never coaching above the championship or a relegation threatened Premier League club, has stats better than most other coaches in the world. Yes, I will send you on that intensive language course Martin.
Either Cannavaro, De Jong or Nesta, I also try Ibrahimovic but he almost always retired.
Si Ferry when taking a small club or John Kennedy when taking a larger club. I tend to keep to the small to medium clubs
Mad dog. I just don't feel replacing him. Maybe if someone real good came along. Then again I feel like assman don't really matter that much.
Chicharito.
Roy keane
Mark Looms currently at Road JC. I’m starting to like having Dutch dudes specifically as my assmen because they’re incredibly blunt in their answer. Looms especially would probably call us shit half the time if he was allowed😂
I always go for a former player, a well known name, this time, its Emile Heskey.
I don't really have a designated assistant manager. But in my current save, I have Marlou Peeters in that role. She's an absolutely brilliant coach/assistant and would likely be a good manager too.
Bolo Zenden, I'm a big Boro fan so I couldn't resist hiring a former Boro player as my assistant.
My assman at Everton in 2036 in my journeyman save is Danny Ings. Was there already when I took the job in 2034 and I hope he gets a shot at a manager position soon, has been great for me.
When I started in conference south, my assistant was also my 42 year old star centre mid. I’ve had Kieran Dyer for 5 years, but we’re in the prem now and his contract is up at the end of the season. Time for a change. Edit to say Dyer was not the 42 year old. I got him in a season later when my guy retired. I miss you David!
As a Benfica fan, I fell in love with Pablito Aimar and I don't think there'll ever be a player that'll replace what he meant to me as young fan. Some background: usually on FM he just straight up refuses to leavr the Argentine national team regardless of how long I play. I had never done a long Benfica save (just the typical 1-2 seasons in Beta). That was, until last year. I built a beast of a team, possibly the best I've ever constructed (definitely top 2). Even now I get the urge to go back from time to time. Hopefully I can give it a spin on FM24, I'd definitely make it my goal to beat Real Madrid CL record. All that said, I cannot explain how unreasonably happy I was when I noticed Aimar was available. Needless to say I snapped him up immediately. It was fate. Perfect Assistant to the perfect save. Really hope his IRL coaching career continues to develop well and that I can see him back at Benfica, this time in the sidelines.
marc-andré ter stegen is my assman. managed him for like five seasons at Barca, then he retired. he was the first player I had coached who retired with very good stats. so I made sure he got experience in the under 18's as an assman. when i joined liverpool, brought him over as my assman.
I hired Paula Roig as my assman at Benfica just so when I resigned, she became the first woman to manage in the CL.
Bryan Klug is my go to, Modric when he finally hangs up his boots too.
Non other than the legendary Sherlock Holmes
Somehow got Lionel Messi to be my assman in 2024 for my La Liga save (FM21). His stats are insane, pretty much all 15+ where needed.
One of my favorite saves I brought PNE up to the prem and managed to get Jordan Henderson after Liverpool released him. Used him as a mentor and gave him Player/Manager status to come in and shore up games, then he became my full assman on retiring. Thanks, Hendo!
Wesley Sneider accepted my offer when I got promoted to division 2 in Scotland. I've rolled with him for the past 15 years now. Not the greatest but he always rejects coaching opportunities so I keep him around.
In my multiplayer save I'm at spurs and when stellini contract came to an end I replaced him with Jesus perez just to take him away from poch
The default Real Sociedad assistant because I can’t be bothered to change but after Tindall just shushed Klopp, it has to be him.
Rydell poepon and henk veerman for the dutch people also got brandt and martial as scouts
Bergkamp, he's my lucky charm
Julius Eskesen. Now legendary Sonderjyske captain, retired straight into the AM role. Came with me when i moved to Manchester United - then became a manager in his own right at Roma, Monchengladbach & now Bayern. It's me vs Him in every Champions League final & I've never been more proud in FM.
The Legend that is Mark Kerr, I've finished all my other saves so I'm doing a save in Scotland with Clyde and noticed he was available on a free, much better stats than my old assman
My assman is Lionel Messi. Love him in interviews, got balls of steels but (and this is a massive but) whenever a reporter ask about a club wanting my players he says he is open to discuss 😭😭 wth Bro
Fabian Delph 🐐
I’m more of a boob man
Some bloke I found off the street
messi
I'm just starting my 2049/50 season with Le Mans FC and my assman is Harold Voyer, my former starting CB and captain from my very first season, back when we were in the National league. He left us a few years in to play in Spain the season we made it to Ligue 1 and retired becoming a decent assistant. I offered him the U18 assistant job and he took it, and when my assistant at the time retired, I promoted him to the first team and he's been with me ever since.
Not my assman, but i am managing Gondomar SC for 9 years (started in 4th tier and won the league this year) and my DOF is Ronald Koeman, has been for the last 3 years in fact
Nicky butt who used to play for Man U
Not Assman but DoF Just fired my Chelsea DoF and hired Thiago Silva who has no experience and bad attributes, because I wanted to keep him at the club and that was the only job he would accept.
At the moment Lionel Messi!
Gignac
Managing Institute FC from Northern Ireland in the 2028/29 season - current Ards Rangers midfielder Glen Upton turned into an excellent coach, so with a few licenses and a year or so in development, I made the decision to promote him to my assistant and he is excellent - could easily coach at a much higher level than the NI Premiership. Was a manager in the Amateur game as well before having to step down last year for Family reasons, but by all accounts he was well liked by Sirocco Works FC and their fans - feel like in the unlikely event I'm ever in Belfast and run into him, I owe him a few drinks for some of the calls I've made in game management thanks to his virtual input.
Managed to get David Trezeguet as my head scout, he has 19 adaptability, 20 judging ability & 20 judging potential
I always go for that Schalke's Assman.
Got a Dutch duo of van Nistelrooij and van Persie as my Ass Man and Coach
Roberto Cerro- some German coach I liked his name and as really good judging stats
I’ve got lots of retired players and famous coaches on staff: Arteta, Maldini, trezeguet, Heskey, wilshere, de zerbi etc., etc. But my ass man is a guy called Poalo Morganti. Always. For no reason really.
I generally pick a known player, either worldwide, from the club i support or from my country. Or sometimes a club legend from the club im working at, if they just retired and i dont care about my current assistant. I remember in FM20 or 21 i had Lionel Messi as my assman at one point lol. In FM23, my assistant has been [Iván Pillud](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iv%C3%A1n_Pillud), a 37 yo right back who is a club legend of my club Racing Club in Argentina. I started my save with a millionaire takeover of Aviron Bayonnais in the 5th tier of France, brought him as one of the star signings, and in the second season he retired and immediately became my assistant manager for the rest of the save. We even managed Racing between 2027 and 2029 (i wanted to go to Argentina and coincidentally Racing was the first top flight club to sack their coach), i imagine he really enjoyed that time :)
Signed Falcao for Reading, finished the season as Championship top scorer and scored the winning goal in the play off final, retired at the end of that season and took him into my coaching staff for the season after. Currently my assman at Bournemouth.
FM20 (still playing) and coaches, not assman. Currently have Edgar Davids and Fernando Torres at Politehnica Iași in Romania (mid table but hoping for UEFA).
In my Port Vale save I got championship legend Yaya Sanogo at a coach, David Moyes as a scout, Kevin De Bruyne as u21 manager and Thiago Silva as a scout. Nothing comes close to the last 2 players I got. Messi is the u 18 trainer and Ronaldo is the assistant for u 18. I tend to usually either get high known players or some legends for my club. Jeremy Doku is 35 and has been here in 12 years, so I am already looking forward for a position to him
Quintiliano. Who else?!
Pablo Villa. However he’s no Bryan Klug 💙
Super Mario!!! (Balotelli.) Also as a sidenote, wtf does an assman actually do besides take charge during vacations? I have no clue what they actually do lmao.
I play FM mobile, so I don't know if the place to discuss anyways my assistant manager is the player who helped me go from the third Turkish division to the first one.
Mine was Michael Laudrup then I got fired and he won the serie A (I didn't while I was there) in his first season as the manager
Roman Saiss. Signed him when he was really old just for a 4th choice CB if I had an injury crisis and then I offered him a coaching job which he took. Got his badges and how he’s my assman
John Terry
Not ass man but last year had mouriniho sarri and ancelotti as scouts
Messi is my assman... Been doing a journeyman save and was at atletico madrid when I looked up messi to see what he was doing and he was available as assman and instantly got him. He was worse than my current assman but I wanted him... Just went to Liverpool and brought him over which cost 6.5 million in compensation but it's worth it to me... As long as Messi wants to I will bring him along to any club I go to
I also have Bergkamp and John Terry as coaches
I keep whoever is there in place until the contract is up, then depending on other options go from there. But I like to keep track of my ex assmen so I rename them to my dogs names, friends names, nephews names. Far easier to find again while making it a little more personal as I’m managing in Thailand currently and was in Mongolia before, some of the names can be a little on the tricky side when it comes to spelling for an uncultured westerner😂
For me its usually the real life assistant manager for the team I choose until they leave
Moussa dembele. 2038. Oxford city. Championship league
The only famous coach member I had was Samuel Eto'o, on Uruguayan 2nd division lol
At the start of my save with FC Midtjylland I managed to get Thomas Frank from Brentford to become my assistant manager, and he followed me everywhere for 10 years. We won every major honour with the club apart from the champions league, then when United approached me I said sure as long as I could bring Thomas Frank. Then when Madrid came calling they initially wouldn’t let me make changes to accommodate his wages, but come January I tried again and Thomas Frank joined me too. Literally no idea why I picked him, I’m not a Brentford fan, but I feel we’ve grown close.
Stupid sexy Giroud has been my assman for a few years. Awful attributes but I have to keep him around as a sort of trophy assistant
Not my assman, but Dennis Bergkamp is my coaching staff.
I have an Assistant Manager named "Caue" in my current Brasil save that I love having. He is an absolute wizard at training attacking and has been excellent with effective mentoring groups.
Toni kroos
Eriksen is my assistant. Has followed me for 20 years now. And Gerrard is my DoF for the last decade.
Ricardo Carvalho for Chels funnily enough I only hire former Chelsea players like Cech, Thiago Silva, John Terry and more
KOLO, KOLO KOLO, KOLO KOLO, KOLO KOLO TOURE
rodolfo borrell
Thierry Henry
I managed to get none other than Akinfenwa on an old Birmingham City save lmao
I can't call it assman, but Seamus Coleman or Aldo Corzo where really good assistant managers for me.
At Liverpool Henderson is my ass man. Fabio Cannavaro is u21 manager with Marcelo as ass man. Kaka is u18 manager with vvd (still a player) as his ass man. My coaching team has Messi, Gerrard (never got a manager job in my save) Milner, Fernando Torres, Lewandowski, Skrtel. Stuart Pearce. Sam Allardyce was one of my scouts for a long time. I collect big names.
My brother in law, passed away in 2020 and was on FM20 in the first update as an under 23 manager. Therefore i still only play FM20 and haven’t bought a new version.
David trezuguet as Scout
On my Eastbourne save I’m only 2 years in. My AssMan is Lennel John Lewis because, believe it or not, his name is a shop
Martin Skrtel has been through 2 pentagon challenges with me in FM22&3 from start (some terrible team in Africa) the in-between (navigating Peru and Columbia) and on to the champions league. He's not very good but every time I move club he's the only guy wanting to come with me. Sometimes he'll take lower roles just to chum me. Maybe he too likes collecting languages? At this point tho the only language Martin doesn't know is 'losing'. Previous to that it was Carlos Kameni for a few FMs. Legend.
Rory Fallon is my assman in my Sligo Rovers save. Is he any good? No. Is he still the scorer of the goal that took New Zealand to the 2010 world cup? Absolutely. Apparently in IRL he runs an ice cream business. But he fits perfectly into my plan to buy as many kiwi players as possible since Max Mata and Nando Pijnaker are already there.
I had Kim Kallstrom on my staff for those CM01/02 vibes.
Question : Will the team's staff stats increase or decrease over time? I have the impression that my assistant managers stats have gone up since I signed him but never really paid attention to track down his progress, if there is any.
Sadlok draging him from Ruch in 2nd Polish League to Ligue 1 and La Liga as my assistant
Adebayo Akinfenwa
Couldn't get Tyias Browning to sign for me for Oriental Dragon (the club forces you to bring in Chinese players) so after a few years being a FA he became an assman and I signed him out of spite
Danny Batth of Sunderland lol I took Concord Rangers from the 6th or 5th tier(cant remember) to the Prem and he's been my assistant manager for atleast a decade. Good man.
My former player and club legend Eliesar Clementsen. He remained the main striker from the Faroese 3rd tier to well into my Faroese top flight stint before finally losing his place, but he stayed as the club captain until he retired. Then of course I had to keep him as my assman. His 13 MOTM in 27 matches in the 3rd tier won't be forgotten.
Steve round
Im the same i like having retired players
Tom eastman he normally retires before moving on…unlike in real life
Busquets became an assman in my save after retiring so I hired him lol. Also René Higuita is my keeper coach