Football Manager 27 preview: tactical effectiveness and a UI rollback put the series back on track

After roughly half a day of hands-on play, Eurogamer says Football Manager 27 removes most of FM26's cards-and-tiles UI for faster navigation while keeping last year's reworked tactics systems. The new tactical effectiveness gauge is shaped by tactical understanding, player ability, player buy-in and next match info, with understanding itself tied to settings such as shape, passing style and pressing intensity plus training. Training is recategorised into tactical understanding, match preparation, player development and physical and recovery, which the author frames as a trade-off between short-term results and long-term tactical refinement.