Man City FM26 Team Guide – Dominate with Pep’s Tactical Blueprint

Man City FM26 Club Overview

Straight away we are going to look at the board and supporter objectives and how they will dictate our save game. The methodology of the Man City FM26 team guide starts with the information available to help us.

Let’s break this down. The board want:

• Attacking Football
• Develop young players
• Sign high reputation players
• Do not sign players over 29

These requests are all signs of a title challenger. Playing attacking football is the way to win things, as goals win games. Signing high reputation players is another sign as they are signing players who are ready now, at peak.

The board have identified that they feel buying players over 29 is a waste of investment and would rather focus on developing the youth players coming through. This is two fold, as Man City have done in real life, they develop a player and if he is not good enough he gets moved on. There will be sell on percentages etc included, so they are making money whatever the outcome.

The fans have a slightly different take to the board. They want:

• Entertaining football
• Possession football
• Developing youngsters

It’s pretty easy to combine entertaining football, with possession football and attacking football. The focus needs to be on the possession, creation and shooting metrics. Developing youngsters aligns with the above.

Man City FM26 Squad Guide

I must be honest I was looking forward to creating the Man City FM26 team guide after seeing the summer transfer business. They have bought some exciting player which will lead to even better attacking options.

Key Players

Here we look at the key players that we have, the most notable is Haaland obviously. No wonder Pep has problems picking a team, look at the quality they have, even with 2 AML.

There is definitely a lean towards the attacking players being better and therefore a midfield headache. Most of these guys pick themselves and it looks like a 4231 DM is the most likely to fit all of our key players in.

Best Youth Prospects

Now it’s time to look at the young talent we have in the squad. There are so many 5 star potential players, so we need to take advantage of this. What is quite funny is that the key players tend to be on the centre and left, where as the young talent tend to be on the centre and right.

When you map the key players positions and the young player positions you can easily see a 4231. In terms of formations, nothing has been clearer to see.

A quick word on squad depth. When you are using top squads they tend to have a squad that can work into any tactical size or shape, unless you use something radical. This means that if you want to make your stamp on the team you can by buying a few players straight away.

Man City FM26 Wonderkids & Young Talents

It has been widely reported that Man City have got stockades of wonderkids in their youth teams. The Man City FM26 team guide mentions the known ones and what to do with them. Here is the list:

• Claudio Echeverri
• Sverre Nypan
• Jeremy Monga
• Rico Lewis
• Juma Bah
• Nico O’Reilly
• Ben Vickery
• Vitor Reis
• Max Alleyne
• Lucien Mahovo
• Roi Torres
• Balde Aluko
• Jacob Wright
• Louis Page
• Will Alves
• Shakeel April
• Emile Witbooi
• Divine Mukasa

Credit: fmscout.com

As you can see it is a long list of wonderkids at Man City. If you can get a few of these close to their potential then you will be laughing in 3-5 years time as you will be unstoppable. Thanks to fmscout.com for helping me complete the wonderkid list.

Man City FM26 Tactics & Best Formation

This is where the creation of the Man City FM26 team guide gets it’s momentum, the tactics. We will now put together all of the data above and create a tactic that embodies the club culture.

As we spoke about earlier, after mapping out the formation of the young players and key players, it is obvious that 4231 is the one. This is a great formation for the gegenpress which I mentioned earlier. Gegenpress incorporates attacking, entertaining and possession football.

The way this transition works, is the left full back pushes up the wing to give width. The AML then drives into the ST role as a channel striker. The other full back moves into DM to create the screen in front of the two man DC.

This creates a lot of opportunities with two strikers who could score and three creative players feeding balls in.

Transfer Recommendations for Man City in FM26

Positions to Strengthen

So there is no serious need to sign anyone really. All position have depth and a young player in the position. I would just focus on buying the very best player you can buy every year. Take a Mourinho approach and buy a top star and a young star every window.

Potential Signings

I would look at buying players from Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Juventus, Inter, Dortmund, PSG. These are the top teams in the world and as a result they will have good players, strength yourself by weakening them.

Man City FM26 Save Challenges

The elite clubs do not have many options when it comes to custom challenges. As we have discussed before in the Man City FM26 team guide they need to win everything, and do it with style. So the challenges I recommend are:

• Win the Premier League in your first season, bring the glory back.
• Go unbeaten like the Invincibles.
• Focus on youth-only or nation-only policy.

Conclusion

Man City are a serious team. They have some of the best attacking players in the world, loads of money to spend and a competitive squad. Underestimate them at your peril, because they are really good.

I had a quick half of a season as you can see below. We were top with a game in hand, 40 goals in 16 games and bossing Europe too. I’m still a bit disappointed by one of the games we lost, which was against United. This Man City FM26 team guide will get you up and running.

If you choose to use Man City, enjoy it guys! The attacking options alone are enough to pick them. Next up the Man United FM26 team guide.

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