Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3233 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2006-11-02
• Rating: To Be Announced
• Platform: Windows XP

Manufacturer's Description
Control is everything in the world of football management, and this year FIFA Manager 07 provides all the tools you need to make it to the big time.

In the Office: Stay abreast of your career options by keeping an eye on rival teams' interest in you using the new Manager Transfer Market.

In the Dugout: Take your club to the next level with a more detailed transfer system. Sign cooperation agreements with other clubs to share players and resources and take responsibility for your four youth teams.

On the Field: Extend your influence onto the pitch by training a player and taking control of him during matches and by using advanced tactical changes and substitution options on-the-fly.

With an enhanced and user friendly editor system, upgraded player AI and polished match presentation, FIFA Manager 07 boasts stunning levels of realism that will have you sweating it out in your office awaiting the Chairman's dreaded vote of confidence!

Key Features:

Unearth Your Protégée
Select a player in Player Career mode, train him & develop his skills up until he's worthy of a slot in your starting 11. Then showcase those skills on the field by taking control of him in 3D Match Mode. Alternatively, increase your Manager Rating to control a different player every game in Match To Match mode.

Climb the Career Ladder
Scour the Manager Transfer Market as you build your reputation to view other clubs' opinions of you in real-time. Pre-signature deals that will influence the situation of your future clubs, and so much more...

Build Your Squad
Capitalise on successful loans with extensions or transfers, guided by players' wishes, and take advantage of swap deals involving up to three players on each side.

Increase Your Options
Team up with another club to establish a Cooperation Agreements. Then pool your resources by exchanging promising players and making use of each other's youth academies.

Prepare for the Future
Bring through tomorrow's stars by overseeing your youth team. View line-ups, match reports and full stats or scout international tournaments and camps to discover new talent. Set up your own youth camps around the globe and play the Youth Transfer Market to bring the best early stars to your club.

Experience More Realism
Enjoy improved AI and completely free camera control in 3D Match Mode. Make one-click tactical changes and use easy substitution options to impose yourself on the game, then save the resulting highlights to share with other players.

Play it Your Way
Craft your own players, clubs and leagues with FIFA Manager 07's enriched editor and swap your creations with other players.

Customer Reviews

Bigger & better than ever before
Footy management sims are kind like Marmite, you are either in the fan club and madly in love with them or you hate them with all your living soul.

IMO FIFA Manager (aka LFP Manager in France, Fussball Manager in Germany or Total Club Manager in Spain) is probably the most user friendly of all the footy management sims without selling out and just being a shell of a game that you will see through after a few hours.

Being an EA title is has all the licences that you can shake a pointy stick at (and growing, this year they added even more lower leagues from around Europe). Not only that the game also comes with a nifty and easy to use data editor so you can keep you database up to date with the latest signings or just modify the exist data as you see fit. Or if you can't be bothered with the extra hassle just download the databases that other users will modify.

The 3D engine makes this game stand out from other games in this genre but as you get engrossed into this game you will probably opt to review you matches via text or instant result mode just due to time constraints (keeping the luxury of the 3D mode for key matches).

This year you can also take control of a player in a 3D match via Player Career mode. The idea is you train him and develop his skills up until he's worthy of a slot in your starting 11. Then showcase those skills on the field by taking control of him in 3D Match Mode. Alternatively, increase your Manager Rating to control a different player every game in Match To Match mode. Toi take full advantage of this you really need a joypad and it helps if you know the FIFA action game controls as they are almost identical.

The youth squad has been bumped up as well to 4 age groups so make sure you invest in them if you want to reap the rewards later on in the game. One top-tip is when you start the game (at least in English) defalt the options to Star Ratings for the players, IMO this is a lot easier to get to grips with. The full on stats are really only for the hard core games out there.

This game really is the mutts nuts of footy management sims, get it now.

Great Once You Get To Grips With It
FIFA Manager 07 is a Great game once you get to grips with it.
It takes a day or two to work it out but once you have it is addictive!
There are thousands of teams to choose from and if you found a new club you can actully use your town to build it in.!IT EVEN HAD MY REAL MANAGER AS ONE OF MY COACHES!

The 3-D live game option is fantastic exept the commentry which is rubbish!

In all the Game is a must have for all football fans

I would recomend for ages 10+ because it is tricky

BUY IT

Hate it or Love it! I Hate it.
Hey, I was a massive fan of fifa manager 06 and as soon as I found out that this game was coming out I hurried off to my local asda and purchased this game for a retail price.
Before this I've studied the screenshots on the EA web-site and there were about 12 of them showing some new features and at the end we were promissed much more. Well, unfortunately there wasn't anything new there that wasn't on the screenshots. I was really dissapointed. It didn't improve much from 2006 version at all.
The rare leagues still have wrong league names, player names, even team names.
Comparing to 2006 version we don't even have real managers now, I was appalled that I wasn't able to compete with Greats like Jose and Sir Alex instead I saw names of Billy Bobkins and Luke McLaughlan, well I made up the names, because I don't actually remember the names. Good thing it came with a legitimate database editor this time.
Finally I thought to myself I'd be able to turn this game around and make it really fun. However you can not change team badges so the greats like CSKA Moscow would end up with stripy-red triangle for a badge and the faces and pictures are of 3-4 year ago. You can't add player pictures, team badges, fan chants, new adboards, league sponsors and badges, coaching staff and manager pictures,etc.
Worst of all when you change a league size the league doesn't appear in the selection. Oh well, never mind that, it is still ok and I was so glad to, again, find out there were no cheats to the game. However, I spent a few hours playing it and found a massive flaw in the game.
If you bid maximum ammount of money for the player and then click the change option, you change to a 0 and the player transfers for free subject to agreeying terms.
But then as all of the contracts for players are wrong I got Thierry Henry in a free transfer for Aberdeen in the start of the second season having paid him millions in signing fee. But then I thought to myself Aberdeen are currently in a massive debt. And there is no chance ever that Thierry Henry would come to Aberdeen having decided not to go to Barca earlier this season. But even then in the first place Aberdeen start off with 15mil in profit and it's quite easy to double that in a season.
But anyway I played the game without enjoying it too much. But one fine afternoon I got my internet finally back on. With the automatic update it downloaded I.E. 7 and ever since I am not able to play this game. I followed the instructions of uninstalling I.E. 7 and reinstalling I.E. 6, however it didn't work. And even then why do I have to compromise my experience on internet just to play a game.

Anyway I all forgot about it...
However I kept searching for a solution to my problem and was appalled when I found that "The Dirrty Greasy ..." People from EA germany have launched an expansion pack to the game called "EXTRA TIME". I appeal to you all not to purchase this game or the expansion pack.

P.S. This game is not better than the previous one but even worse. There aren't any significant changes to it and if you download the database editor for fifa manager 06 you can make it just as good as this one. It is too easy to win, takes up a lot of fun, if takes ~30 minutes to watch one game and you don't even realise that it takes about 1hr 30min-2hr to actually reach the first league match.