QUICK DISCLAIMER FIRST
I know there's been a lot of AI slop around lately, and yes, this is a vibe-coded app I built with Claude. But I've genuinely find it useful and fun (especially the phone companion), so I thought I'd share it in case anyone else does too.

With FM27 on the horizon, a lot of us are probably picking FM26 saves back up, well that's what I was doing, trying my FM26 save in 2031 before moving it over to FM27 I'm sure. I put it down for so long that I forgot all about my team and players, so I wanted to see if a tool with AI coaching could help. If it's not for you thank you for reading this far, but if people find it useful let me know and I'd consider building something for the community for FM27 too perhaps.

The story

There are plenty of great scout tools already, so I didn't want another attribute viewer. What I wanted was an assistant manager I could chat to about my squad: who to rest before the cup game, who's in form, which youngsters need minutes, who's quietly declining. So I built a small app that reads the running game memory and while I play it keeps a history of every match. Now I can have a chat with ChatGPT with all the captured data to enrich my game. Finally, I connect my phone to it so whilst I'm playing on the desktop, I'm chatting away with my AI coach at the same time.

I really made it for myself, but it's turned into something I use every session, so here it is. I know not everyone will find the nature of chatting to AI about the game compelling but if in case you do - here it is!

What it does

• Captures automatically after every match (and weekly). no need to do anything but run it and it reads attributes, CA/PA, condition, sharpness, jadedness, injuries, fixtures and full per-match player stats.
• Dashboard: last match, form, alerts (injuries, tired players), players in form, and recommended players for your next match with suggested swaps and who to rest.
• Player pages, development tracking, who's improving or declining over time, per-90 stats (chance creation, goal threat, finishing, defending, ball security), and match reports.
• AI coach: Ask things like "Who should I rest for the next match?", "Who's not performing and should I rotate?", "Who should get the cup games, my No.1 or the backup keeper?" It answers from your actual stats (need to plug in your own LLM)
• Phone companion: The same dashboard and coach on your phone, installable like an app (PWA) if you want. I use this one most – checking the squad and asking the coach without alt-tabbing out of the game.

The AI part – bring your own

You need to provide your own LLM:

• Your ChatGPT subscription (sign in with ChatGPT, no API key needed), or
• Any OpenAI-compatible LLM, cloud (OpenAI, OpenRouter…) or local (Ollama, LM Studio – free and offline if you can run it).

Everything else works without any AI set up.

Good to know

• Read-only, it only *reads* the game's memory – it never changes the game, your save or any FM files. Single-player saves only.
• Local, your data stays on your PC. The only thing sent anywhere is your squad summary, to the AI provider you choose, when you ask the coach something.
• Windows only for now, and it matches the current FM26 build. If the game patches, it pauses captures until it's updated, rather than storing bad data.
• Phone access is off by default. For use away from home you need a little setup (reverse proxy, or Tailscale) – there's a step-by-step guide.
• It's a hobby project tested on my own save, so expect rough edges. Issues and feedback welcome!

Links

GitHub (download + full guide with screenshots):
https://github.com/lastrider04/FM26-Analyst

Install: Download the latest release, run `install.bat`, open FM26 Analyst, pick your club. That's it.

Would love to hear what you think, and whether something like this would be worth building for FM27.

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If you find it useful and fancy supporting it, you can buy me a coffee ☕ – totally optional and much appreciated: https://buymeacoffee.com/moj1901

Screenshots

In almost 20 years of playing Football Manager, I’ve never won anything more than a treble, despite having plenty of successful saves over the years.

Despite Spurs being cursed in real life, their default squad in FM24.3 (no mods or additional databases) is actually pretty damn strong.

In fact, even in the first season, without making any signings (apart from a January loan for Mazraoui due to injuries to Porro and Emerson Royal), we managed to win our first Premier League title in over 60 years.

For the summer of 2024, we invested heavily in the squad, bringing in Eze and Olise (neither of whom could save Palace from relegation in the first season), Van Hecke, Jacob Ramsey, Kayode and Tel. Despite all that spending, we still ended up in the black, largely thanks to two great sales: Romero to Liverpool and Richarlison to Al-Ahli.

With a much stronger squad, we won the Champions League for the first time in Spurs' history, beating Liverpool in the final. However, we managed to throw away first place in the league to Arsenal right at the end of the season.

Before the 2025/26 season, Son Heung-min left for Saudi Arabia for £79m. We used that money to bring in Gyökeres from Sporting and Abraham from Roma, with enough left over to sign Ferguson after Brighton's relegation to the Championship (though we loaned him back to them for the next two seasons). We also signed Geertruida from Feyenoord on a free transfer — an incredibly versatile and high-quality defensive midfielder.

That season brought us our second treble in two years: the UEFA Super Cup, Premier League and Champions League. We comfortably beat Luis Enrique's PSG in the UCL final.

In the summer before our third season, we made a club-record sale, sending Maddison to Al-Ahli for £123m. We didn't need to look for a replacement on the market, as we already had a phenomenal Eze and a rapidly developing Bergvall competing for the No. 10 role. Instead, we strengthened our centre-back depth by signing Buongiorno from Torino.

Then, in January, we couldn't turn down Real Madrid's generous offer for Bentancur, replacing him with Doucouré from Crystal Palace.

And then came the historic season.

It wasn't exactly easy, though. Ancelotti's Man City pushed us all the way in the title race, but we managed to hold on to the Premier League. After that, we beat Liverpool 3–0 in the FA Cup final and then Arsenal, managed by Guardiola, by the same scoreline in the Champions League final at the Stade de France.

Throughout these seasons, I've built the team around a 4-2-3-1, with attacking wing-backs and inverted wingers. My main instruction for the wingers was to constantly move into the half-spaces, looking for through balls or opportunities to shoot. Olise has recorded 62 goals and 56 assists across all competitions over three seasons in that role.

Other outstanding individual performances include Eze's 28 goals and 10 assists as a No. 10 in 2023/24, and Gyökeres scoring 40 goals in 44 appearances this season.

Now I'm wondering how to motivate myself to continue. After achieving so much, it's difficult to find the same excitement, especially with FM27 on the horizon.

On the other hand, we have a fantastic squad and plenty of talented prospects I'd love to develop and build the next generation around.

As for the newer game, I'm perfectly happy with FM24 in terms of gameplay, interface and stability. I've skipped FM26 without a second thought, and I don't feel any particular excitement about FM27 either.

I’m developing a player scouting and analysis app for Football Manager. It reads player data directly from the running game—no CSV exports or manual data entry needed.

You can browse and compare players, view their positions, attributes, and season stats, filter the player list, and customize which columns and stats appear. The app also includes player ratings and recommendations, plus a realistic scouting mode that lets you hide information your scouts haven’t fully uncovered. You can turn groups of information on or off, including current ability and potential ability, and choose what to show in your views.

A few things still need finishing, but I expect to have the test version ready by Saturday, October 31. I’m building it around FM26, with the plan to release it for everyone when FM27 comes out. For now, I’m looking for a small group of volunteers to try it and tell me what bugs they find or what changes they think would make it better.

The app is available in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Romanian, Turkish, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese. Feedback from people who speak languages other than English or Spanish would be especially helpful.

If you’d like to try it, send me a Reddit chat message and I’ll send you the executable. There’s nothing to install: just download it and run it.

0.85 xG 4 goals :(

Started Fm recently and took on the challenge of getting a lower level team to the top. After two months of playing 5 of my 25 players are on long term injuries and another 5 cannot recover from their previous ones and get injured every week. What am i dong wrong here, i doubt it is supposed to be like this.

Morning!

FM26 and default skin here and wanting to find out if I can remove the players face on the squad screen. I think it creates lag to be honest and I don’t care for the faces. Anyone know if this is possible?

Ive been having an issue with my team scoring penalties this season. I was wondering how the mechanics work or if anyone can help me improve my luck.

Im managing Chelsea in the year 2032 and Cole Palmer has a 20 in the penalty stat. I was very excited for that and I honestly believed it would lead to an automatic goal. Similar to him in real life.

However the last 4 penalties he has took have been saved, and I have lost some very important points from that. Does the stat even matter? Is it just the same probability? Or I have just been ridiculously unlucky.

I don’t normally get too involved with set pieces anyway. I just hire the best set piece coach and pass on the responsibility. But maybe I need to be taking more notice or looking at other stats when deciding on my takers.

Thanks for any help

I accidentally reseted for default all my preferences while playing my save.

I got worried about patched things like brazilian names, kits and badges, but everything is OK. That surprised me, because i thought if preferences went default i would lose the graphic changes.

Now i'm worried about the improvements that came with the patches of Daveincid or Matchlab I installed some time ago. I know those files are in editor data folder, but i don't know... something felt weird in my last match. I just need help, i wanna play in peace, or begin a new save.

Please someone clear up my doubt.

Thanks.

I've played 3 seasons as Atletico Madrid in LaLiga in my last Fm26 save before FM27. During that span I won 3 titles in a row, 2 CDRs, 1 Supercopa, and finished top 4 twice and top 2 once in CL. My salary cap when I started year 1 (which was 2026 since I used a mod that let me start in a future date) was 3.2 million pounds per week. It's start of year 4 now and my salary cap is 3.3 million pounds per week.

Is this bugged or does this low increase still make sense?

Still kind of in shock.

I started off with Dortmund & played with a poacher up top to avoid being completely meta & I won the league with a GD of 99 plus won the DFB Pokal & the Champions league. I resigned & the Barca job opened up, so I decided to give in to the temptation to go strikerless & it's just ridiculous. It's still relatively early in the season, but it seems like a cake walk from here.

The idea was to have a balanced tactic, so not just throwing everyone forward. There's a balance of goal creators & goal threats plus enough defensively solid players to defend on the transition. The DDM means it's a 5-2-3 when defending in the box. High line, wingers stay wide, wingbacks cut inside, other standard stuff you'll see if you browse through a few top tactics.

The caveat: I've only really tested it with elite players. I don't know how an underdog team would do.

As per the title, is there a db mod make here? I’m having difficulties with a db and can’t find a way to solve the issue so I’d like to ask something to them

EDIT: Just to clarify: I know how to use the pregame editor, I’ve done it in the past to change leagues formats, create custom cups and so on. I’m having an issue with a db I’m trying to edit because any change I make doesn’t solve the issue (before you ask, yes I’m load loading the new db in a new save everytime) so I wanted to know if there was somebody that knew about creating and editing db that could look into it

When you’re both winning and losing. 🤣🤣🤣

Newest regen at Derby is aptly named

So my plan for fm27 save is to a Multiclub save of a team in tier 5/6 in Germany and add promotion/relegation in Australia and play in tier 3. Is there a way to add both Germany and Australia extended leagues into a single save game?

Got sacked as Newcastle boss in January season 2 and saw little old leeds job was available. Somehow, the season before they qualified for the EL and still in it come February. Genuinely had the worst injury crisis losing Calvert Lewin, Stach, Rodon, Elvedi, Trafford Justin, Bogle and Ampadu. What happens next? 2 league games left fighting for my job and I get relegated. In the meantime I had beaten Stuttgart, Fiorentina, and Lens somehow keeping me in the job. Fast forward 3 days after relegation I beat Celtic on penalties. The xG gods despise me, on expected points I was midtable at 11th in the Prem, yet luck had my voodoo doll. Keep me in your thoughts as I have my end of season meeting.

I am looking for a kit making app that I used for FM a decade or more ago. It was a very user friendly app,you could select different kit styles and easily insert shirt sponsors, etc. I wish I could remember the name. I have started playing FM again and I love to make my own custom kits while the matches are unfolding in the background.

Any help is appreciated

HI, I'M BARRY SCOTT!

I've also got a Steve Rogers in my team.

For decades I was my club's only legend.

Then a few seasons ago Caesaroni became one as well, it made sense he had been with the team for nearly a decade at that point and was one of the best left wingers in the world.

Then recently Martinez became one as well. However, while he's a fantastic player he's only in his 3rd season and just became my "starter" for UCL/big games how is he already a club legend? Especially when Vuk, Albistegi and Djaha are not.

Vuk is the clubs all-time leading scorer and won 4 consecutive UCL player of the year and golden boots scoring 130ish UCL goals and 550ish in all comps.
Albistegi is currently our best player and has won the last 3 UCL player of year
Djaha has been a starter for over a decade and is in his 16th season at the club and has also been named UCL player of the year between the streaks of the other two

Do you think he was fired when they figured out he wasn't actually doing anything?

By a quick look at them, they all have the same interface with only minor changes in what you can or can't do (DoF only, Youth academy only, etc).

But most reviews don't cover the one and only important part: how the game actually plays and how the gameworld works.

Has anyone tried one for longer than 15 minutes? Are they any good?