Football Manager 2017 casts the player as the person running a football club, framing the sport around decisions made off the pitch as well as the match itself. Its scale comes through a database of real clubs and footballers, giving the management role a broad pool of teams and personnel to work with.
The core responsibilities range from transfers and team selection to tactics, team talks and instructions during play. Matches can be followed through a 3D engine, while the wider job also involves responding to football media, addressing player happiness and answering to the board. That mix makes the game less about directly controlling a footballer and more about balancing sporting choices with the demands surrounding a club.
The listing does not specify how multiplayer works, but the single-player designation also reflects the personal, managerial perspective at the heart of the game.
