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How you use the Press in Football Manager 2006, and how often, will help determine your profile in the game and influence your players and the behaviour of rivals and fellow professionals. Using media comments is the best way to forge your own personality in the game - choosing to engage in feuds with other managers will send you down the Arsene Wenger mind game routes, expressing total confidence in your team will expose you to the same jibes faced by Jose Mourinho, and quietly getting on with the job could call your charisma into question.

As ever with Football Manager then, there's no single right or wrong answer, but here's a few pointers to get you started on the way to media mastery...

GETTING STARTED
We recommend keeping a low profile when you take the reigns at your first club. As a rookie manager in FM 2006 you hold zero sway with other managers, players, the board and fans - who are likely to be seriously unimpressed by the appointment of a boss with no experience. Expect the media to be on your back if, as a rookie, you start making comments to journalists. After all, the Press will simply be pandering to your fan base, many of whom will be willing you to fail. As a result, reporters will be eager to pounce on any slip-ups or rifts you cause, which could escalate to the point where even your job is at risk.

If you keep your nose clean with the Press and, once you manage to string together a few decent results, it may be worth risking a controversial media comment - though you should be prepared for the inevitable backlash from some sections of the club's supporters. If in doubt, play it safe at first - issue a couple of admiring comments about popular bosses and you'll soon get into the swing of using the Press to your advantage.

MIND GAMES
The beauty of the way SI adds in elements to Football Manager during the development stage is that you don't have to do anything you don't want to. It's a golden rule, in fact. As in real life, there is no rule saying you have to talk about other managers before or after games if you don't want to. There are managers who choose to comment on their rivals and there are those who steer clear of it, and this is reflected in FM. We would certainly recommend that people give the manager mind games option a go as it can be a lot of fun, even if you don't always gain an edge over a rival boss. However, be warned that if you do not have the reputation to back up your words, you are likely to lose more than you gain. You may be able to get away with alienating a few players when times are good, but when the chips are down you'll need every bit of help from your stars that you can get.

Players and managers who respect your reputation are more likely to take heed of what you say. Once you feel you are in a position to wield your hard-won reputation release a few comments and see how the people in your game world react. You may find that some players respect you more if you display similar characteristics to them. In this way it can be a good way of determining whether the players in your team are really the ones who will back you to the death.

Often making a comment, say, that you feel confident you'll beat your next opponents - which can be interpreted as either cocky or confident - will prove especially effective in exposing potential fault-lines in your squad. Some players will come out in support of you; others will think you're unprofessional. If you modify your approach, you may be able to pander to more of your squad; otherwise you can always show your doubters the door. Hey, you're the boss.

PRAISE
You don't always have to praise a player because he has been performing well, though this will lead to a better relationship with the player and may even improve your standing with the fans, who like it when their team's boss celebrates a string of great performances from an individual with them. Look out for news stories about fans praising you for singling out an individual as a sure sign you are earning your spurs with the faithful.
Whether it's wise to praise a player who has not been performing so well, depends somewhat on the character of the player. An insecure player will be more likely to react favourably to praise, even when he has not been in the best of form. A veteran professional on the other hand is more likely to sneer at such praise, however, as he will realise you are simply paying him lip-service in an attempt to improve his morale or ingratiate yourself to him.

Be aware too that other members of your squad will be watching, and if they feel you are dishing out unmerited praise there could be some backlash. Even if they aren't performing so well, nobody likes a teacher's pet - especially one who doesn't deserve a pat on the back.

Remember too that, with the incorporation of team-talks into FM 2006, it is even more important to know your players' characters and deal with them appropriately.

CRITICISM
Don't be afraid to criticise players, though at the same time you must be sure to look before you leap into a negative assessment of one of your stars. Some managers think having a go at a player in the media will immediately sour the atmosphere at a club - and, certainly, singling out a player for repeated criticism or having a pop at someone who has actually put in decent performances or is popular is bound to but his and his friends' in the team nose out of joint. However, a well-placed piece of criticism will help to warn your squad against complacency if you are riding high in the league. Pick on the right person, who has a determined and professional outlook for instance, and you may even draw out better performances from him as well as giving your team a warning that they need to keep up their effort levels.

Criticising players when you are in the lower reaches of the division is an all-together more risky business. It may be that putting a rocket up them is a good tactic that will make them stand up and be counted. On the flip side, if you lower morale further you risk squeezing any hope out of your lads, and that's not the way to go about turning around a bad set of results. Once again, while you should be sure to approach your players as individuals and use your Press comments to best suit their personality, we'd recommend looking for positives to praise rather than jumping on failure, if your back is against the wall.


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PS: Mπορεί να μην είναι ποδοσφαιρική, αλλά τακτική είναι... :D
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