FMCP 27

Ask an AI assistant anything about your Football Manager 27 career. It reads every player, club and match in your save.

FMCP 27 connects Claude, Codex or Pi to the game running on your Mac. Pause a match and ask what to change. Ask who to sign in January or why you drew. Play it straight with what your scouts know, or see everything the game knows.

Availability

Not yet available. Release news is on X at @TurfTerrace.

MAT-1

Half-time against PSG

Real session, condensed

Question to the assistant

Please check out my active match against PSG. We’re just past half-time and I want your tactical analysis.

What the assistant did

Read the match from the running game: every shot, the completed passes between each pair of players, and both teams’ tactics.

Score2–2

Shots12–4

On target6–3

Yours in the box9

Haaland, 2 shots1.00 xG

Answer

Keep your attacking shape. Add protection rather than chase the game.

Your attack is producing. Nine of your 12 shots came inside the area, and Woltemade has had three of them: two saved, one off the woodwork. Don’t change him because he hasn’t scored. PSG’s few chances are the dangerous ones. Haaland’s two shots were worth 0.67 and 0.33 xG.

Change Shea Charles from Box-to-Box Midfielder to Defensive Midfielder. Keep Positive mentality and the Mid Block. Both wing-backs already support attacks and Charles is told to advance too, so nobody screens when PSG win the ball. You lose a supporting runner.

Watch your right side. Mendes and Kvaratskhelia have exchanged 27 completed passes, PSG’s strongest link. Check again at 55 to 60 minutes: you want your box chances to continue and Haaland to receive less in the middle.

Log The next half hour

Same session

What was asked and answered during the rest of the match
When	You	The assistant
59:54	“Okay, it’s 59:54 now.”	Keep Charles holding. PSG have not had a shot since half-time. Neither Woltemade nor Karetsas has shot either, so give it until 65 minutes before another change.
63 mins	“Scored on a corner!”	Protect the balance, not just the lead. A corner goal does not show the open-play change is working. Watch your right: Livramento is down to 73% condition.
Minutes later	“They just had one disallowed from the same move all their chances come from: a big switch to a wide-open winger, then a pullback to Haaland.”	Act now, don’t wait until 70. That is far-side cover, not a failure to mark Haaland. Out of possession, both full-backs to Full-Back (Defend). In possession, both wing-backs to Full-Back (Support). You give up overlaps.
Full time	“Great win.”	You protected the lead without abandoning your threat. Charles holding protects the centre, but switches to the far wing need separate wide cover.

Examples

MAT-2

68 minutes, Man City v Newcastle

Real session, condensed

Question to the assistant

68 mins, we’re getting battered a bit. Work your magic. Look at all the data you can.

Score0–0

City shots, 2nd half3

Yours, 2nd half1

Karetsas condition77%

Fabbian condition100%

Answer

Make two changes now: High Press to Mid Block, and Fabbian for Karetsas.

City have not hit the target this half, so this is not a siege yet. But you have stopped threatening. Woltemade and Karetsas have not received a completed pass since the 58-minute read, and Robinson has received one since he came on.

High Press to Mid Block. You are pressing high and much more often with a lower defensive line, which leaves the front players chasing while the defence stays back. City get easier possession at the back. That is acceptable if their next pass meets a connected midfield.
Fabbian for Karetsas, same role. Fabbian has 16 for movement, anticipation, heading and jumping reach. You give up vision, 14 against 17, for a fresh runner who can arrive alongside Woltemade. Do not move him to striker.

Check again around 74 minutes. If neither central attacker is receiving, stop adding runners: the problem is getting the ball out to them.

PLR-1

Two bad ratings, same match

Real session, condensed

Question to the assistant

Woltemade and Henrique are both having terrible matches according to their rating. I would love to know what specifically they’re not doing well.

Woltemade and Luiz Henrique compared, late in the match
Measure	Woltemade	Luiz Henrique
Passes received	15	51, 29 of them from Livramento
Shots	1, missed from close range, 0.44 xG	1, blocked, 0.05 xG
Passes made	17, five to Henrique	36, two to Woltemade
What it means	Starved of service, then missed the one big chance.	On the ball a lot, with no end product.

Answer

They are struggling in different ways.

Earlier, blaming Woltemade’s finishing would have been unfair, because he hadn’t had a shot. Now there is a specific miss alongside the service problem. Henrique isn’t being bypassed. Your right side keeps the ball moving without reaching the players who can finish.

What the live data cannot show yet: failed dribbles, unsuccessful crosses and the exact rating deductions. And 51 received minus 36 sent is not a turnover count.

REV-1

After the match, Man City 0–0 Newcastle

Real session, condensed

Question to the assistant

I think your analysis is a bit shoddy. How could we have gotten more attackers in the box?

Shots11

On target2

xG0.87

In the box6

By your No. 10s0

Newcastle shots by player
Player	Shots	In the box
Gittens, left wing	3	2
Hall, left-back	3	1
Neves, midfield	3	1
Luiz Henrique, right wing	1	1
Woltemade, striker	1	1
Karetsas and Fabbian, No. 10	0	0

Answer

That’s fair criticism. I listed numbers without connecting them to how your setup got players into the box.

Your left-back shot as often as your winger, three times each, and your attacking midfielders never shot at all. Apart from Woltemade, the only central player to shoot from inside the box was Neves, and I had told you to hold him back. That was the wrong call for a match you wanted to win.

Let the full-backs provide the width and send both wide forwards inside. Livramento already played wider than Henrique on average, so Henrique as a winger doubled up. Against a back three the space is between the wide centre-back and the wing-back.
Make Neves the late runner, with the other midfielder holding. He produced your best central shot after Woltemade’s, and has the stamina (17) and movement (14) to arrive late.
Use your No. 10 for runs, not as an extra creator. Karetsas received 17 passes and never shot. Start Fabbian there, or keep Karetsas as the creator and let Neves do the arriving.
Change the delivery to suit the runners. You attempted 128 passes out wide in City’s final third, against Dias, Gvardiol and Koulierakis. Low crosses suit players arriving at the near post and the penalty spot.

What this costs you: Raum was City’s main outlet, with 52 passes received and four shots. With Henrique inside and Neves forward, your right side is more exposed when you lose the ball. Keep Livramento on a defend duty out of possession.

JAN-1

January window

Real session, condensed

Question to the assistant

Analyse the team’s performance this year, health, playing time and so on, and suggest a profile we could add in January.

Newcastle’s season to 30 November 2030, by competition
Competition	Record	Goals	xG for–against
Premier League	8 W, 3 D, 1 L	29–9	24.72–11.78
Champions League	2 W, 3 D, 0 L	13–10	9.76–8.17
Carabao Cup	2 W	3–0	2.50–2.36

Answer

A hard-working winger who can play on both flanks. Not another specialist defensive midfielder.

You are second, two points behind Arsenal with a game in hand. Europe is the warning: two goals conceded in every one of five matches.

Neves and Charles carry the highest fatigue in the squad, while Chema, an agreed Regular Starter, has two league starts. Use him more before you buy anyone.

Henrique, Gittens and Robinson all have work rate 12 and teamwork 12. Look for acceleration, pace and stamina of 15 or more, with work rate and teamwork to match. An £83m Hjulmand purchase would not address the clearest missing option in this squad.

If Gordon returns strongly and your wide defending improves, you may be better off making no January signing.

PRO-1

Midfield profiles

Real session, excerpts

Question to the assistant

Write a brief profile of each of my midfielders and their strengths and weaknesses, but don’t just cite their numbers in FM. Act like they’re real players.

Four of the profiles the assistant wrote
João Neves The all-action connector	A tenacious, energetic midfielder who can compete for possession and then do something constructive with it. He isn’t a major scoring threat or an aerial enforcer.
Adam Wharton The conductor	Your clearest candidate to make the game feel slower for everyone around him. Give him runners and protection rather than asking him to do everything.
Giovanni Fabbian The extra man in the box	A powerful midfielder whose movement and aerial threat give defenders another forward to worry about. Use him to finish moves rather than dictate them.
Konstantinos Karetsas The inventive number ten	An imaginative left-footer who can find pockets, turn neatly and spot the runner beyond the defence. Willingness to press isn’t the same as defensive effectiveness.

Then you asked

“So what’s the game model?” The answer began: draw them in, play through, accelerate. Patient before the opening, urgent after it.

ASK-1

What you can ask

Asked in real sessions

Questions managers have asked, by area
Matches	I’ve paused it at 31:42. Give it a read. It’s half-time. Break down the action. Ended in a draw. What should we have done differently? Can you see where the incompletions and lost passes have been? Scout Southampton, then create a tactic file for this matchup and give me your starting 11 and subs. What are the toughest parts of my fixture list, and where should I rotate?
Squad	Find interesting positional swaps: players I can train at a new position because they have the right traits. Give me a tier list of the players in the squad. Is 4-2-3-1 the right formation? Am I actually telling Costa to get forward, or is that just his role?
Transfers	Find me the keeper to succeed Kobel, even if it’s not this year. Look for a right centre-back who would be a genuine upgrade on Shea Charles. What do you think about adding Morten Hjulmand as an option in midfield? They asked for £83m and he’s got seven months left on his contract.
Money and board	We need to clear FFP room, I think. How would you do that? Can you look at other clubs’ FFP situations? United’s? What does the board expect from me this season, and what is the club vision? Who is agreed Regular Starter or above, and which of them started the fewest of my last five league matches?

SCT-1

Scouting shortlist

Real save, 10 December 2030

Question to the assistant

Give me a shortlist of young left-backs my scouts know.

What the assistant did

Searched all 66,043 players in the save for left-backs of 21 or under and ranked them on what your scouts know.

Read the same five players with nothing held back: potential ability and hidden attributes.

Return Five players, two views

Five left-backs aged 21 or under. In Manager view potential is in the game’s stars, from half a star to five. In Full read it is potential ability out of 200. Attribute values are on the game’s 1 to 20 scale.
Player	Potential	Wage / wk	Acceleration	Crossing	Tackling	Vision	Consistency	Big matches
Mark Springer-Downes 21, Fulham	4–4½ stars167 out of 200	£25,170	15	13	13	11	11	11
Nick Irwin 20, Tottenham Hotspur	3½–4½ stars168 out of 200	£25,439	15	8	10	10	7	7
Moussa Coumbassa 19, Hull City	3½–4 stars165 out of 200	£10,619	14	11	9	7	14	10
Güner Evren 19, Oxford United	3½–4 stars169 out of 200	£14,047	17	11	12	8	15	10
Nikita Chkareuli 20, Benfica	3–4½ stars176 out of 200	£7,020	17	13	12	9–1210	8	15

Answer

Prioritise Mark Springer-Downes for the strongest known potential floor. Investigate Nikita Chkareuli as the outstanding athletic alternative. These are successors to develop, not established upgrades on Hall or Diouf.

Full read changes the order. Chkareuli has the highest potential ability of the five, 176 out of 200, on £7,020 a week, with 15 for important matches and 8 for consistency. Irwin’s 168 comes with 7 for both, which no scout report shows.

VEW-1

Two views of your save

You choose, per question

What Manager view and Full read each show
Data	Manager view	Full read
What it is	The assistant knows what your club knows and nothing more. Use it to play the game as intended.	The assistant sees everything the game stores, for every player in the world.
Attributes	Exact, a range or unknown, as far as your scouts have got.	The true value.
Ability and potential	The game’s stars, as a range until your scouts are sure.	Current and potential ability as numbers.
Hidden attributes	Hidden	Consistency, important matches, injury proneness, versatility and dirtiness.
Personality	Hidden	Ambition, professionalism, loyalty, pressure, temperament and three more, as numbers.
Other clubs’ wages and contracts	Wages and expiry dates, as each player’s profile shows them. Clauses stay hidden.	Wages, expiry dates and clauses.
Your own players	Attributes, contracts, fitness and injuries, as the game shows you.	Everything.

Manager view works out what your club knows with the game’s own scouting rules, for every player in the save. Where it is unclear what the game would show you, it hides the value.

REG-1

What it can see

Tools today196

What FMCP 27 reads, by area
Players	Attributes, hidden attributes, ability and potential, personality, morale, fitness and injuries, contracts, wages, clauses and loans. Every past season’s statistics, each attribute month by month, and what a transfer target’s agent says he would want.
Staff	Your staff and every other club’s, with their roles, contracts and wages.
Clubs and money	Budgets, debt, FFP projections, transfer payment schedules, sell-on clauses and appearance clauses. Income and spending by category, sponsors and affiliated clubs.
Competitions	Tables, fixtures, stages, scorers and registration rules.
Tactics and training	Your tactics, player instructions, penalty takers, team sheet and training.
Matches	Live and past: shots with xG, pass networks, average positions, heatmaps, crosses and every player’s match statistics. Every result the save holds, 134,105 in this career, and each failed pass with who won the ball. For the match you are playing, every rating split into what earned it.
The game’s screens	Board confidence, inbox, calendar, club vision, squad dynamics with its leaders and social groups, happiness and promises, scouting, transfers, medical centre and youth intake.
Past seasons	Past winners of every competition and award, each club’s league and transfer history, and every player’s career and injuries. More detail from your saved games: old league tables, results and form.
Everything else	Any of the 2,269 fields in the game’s own database.

ADV

pi-fm, the adviser

Included

The pi-fm adviser
What it is	A terminal assistant built for FMCP 27. Start it beside the game and ask.
Reports	Ask for a report and it writes a page: a self-contained HTML report with tables, range bars for partly known values and pitch drawings.
Tactic files	Ask it to scout an opponent and it can write a tactic file for you to load in the game.
Or use your own	Claude, Codex and Pi connect to the same tools.

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How it works

On your Mac

Football Manager 27Your career, running
FMCP 27Reads the game while you play
Your assistantClaude, Codex, Pi or the pi-fm adviser
YouAsk in plain English

How FMCP 27 works with the game
Your save	It reads the career you have open, as it stands today. There is nothing to export.
The whole world	One career save held 170,499 people, 28,022 clubs and 8,136 competitions. A question across all of them takes about a second.
Keeps up	Each question checks the save against the running game and re-reads only what changed, in under a second. Opening a save for the first time takes about 20 seconds.
Live matches	During a match it reads the shots, passes, positions, both tactics and every player’s condition, as they stand at the minute you ask.
Hands off	It never advances the game or clicks the interface.
Read-only	It reads your save and changes nothing in it.
SQL	The save is also a SQL database. Your assistant writes the query, or you can.

Example query, Manager view

SELECT name, age, club,
       potential_ability_stars_min, potential_ability_stars_max,
       pace, crossing, tackling, positioning
FROM   m_scouted_player_view
WHERE  position = 'D (L)' AND age <= 21
ORDER BY potential_ability_stars_max DESC
LIMIT  5;

PLN-1

Roadmap

Status as of November 2026

Phase 1Read everything

Every part of the save you are playing, open to your assistant.

Built, in private testing
Not readable yet: parts of the game’s internal bookkeeping that no screen shows directly. Ask the assistant what it can see and it lists what is missing.
Phase 2Manager view

Fog of war. Limit any answer to what your club knows.

Built
Phase 3Edit the save

Change players, clubs and contracts while you play, in the manner of a real-time editor.

One edit so far: training intensity The rest not started
Phase 4Game control and automation

Drive the game as well as read and edit it.

Not started

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Requirements

Private testing

What FMCP 27 needs
Computer	A Mac with Apple SiliconWindows: coming soon.
Game	Football Manager 27Matched to build 27.0.0.2493426. FMCP 27 checks the game’s build and reads only the one it has been matched to.
Assistant	Claude, Codex, Pi or another client that speaks MCP
Price	Reading your save is free
Availability	Not yet availableThis page will say when it is. Release news is on X at @TurfTerrace.

FMCP 27

Half-time against PSG

Examples

68 minutes, Man City v Newcastle

Two bad ratings, same match

After the match, Man City 0–0 Newcastle

January window

Midfield profiles

What you can ask

Scouting shortlist

Two views of your save

What it can see

pi-fm, the adviser

How it works

Roadmap

Phase 1Read everything

Phase 2Manager view

Phase 3Edit the save

Phase 4Game control and automation

Requirements