Keeping the same style carried from the ANSTOSS series to Total Club Manager
2003, in _FIFA Manager 07_ the player has the complete club at his disposal,
from managing the team at all levels, dealing in the transfer market to
deciding on where the team should expand facilities (now using an isometric
city view not unlike SimCity 3000) and increase stadium capacity. Of course,
for those less interested in these aspects, they can all be assigned to the
appropriate staff member, but good results can only be obtained by hiring the
best staff (the team money and prestige) can buy.

Along dozens of minor improvements (such as interface tweaks, the return of
fan opinions, inaccurate injury diagnoses, career-ending injuries, more player
talk options and more stats screens), _FM07_ features a revamped youth system
with match reports and a transfer market where the player must outbid the
competition to hire the most promising upcoming stars. Along that, Cooperation
deals allow bigger teams without league reserve sides to give their upcoming
players a chance to taste real competition without the pressure of the highest
level of competition.

After FIFA Manager 06 moved to the Champions League 2004-2005 engine (still
used in this game) and FIFA 06 debuted a whole new engine, players could no
longer use the “Football Fusion” feature, which allowed owners of both _FIFA_
and _TCM_ games of their 2004 and 2005 versions to play matches from _TCM_ in
_FIFA_ and import clubs from the larger _TCM_ database into _FIFA_. While the
ability to play like any other football game was not restored, now the manager
can either select a player as his “prot ege”, train him to first team level
and (optionally) take control of him during the 3D matches in “Player Career”
or select a player from the starting eleven at each match, with the best
players being only available to the best managers. The player can still choose
to not take part in a match, and just attend the 3D match. The remaining
visualization modes, text and instant calculation were enhanced to offer more
game situations (in the first) and accurate automatic substitution rules, and
a new mode, videotext, was added. This mode mixes both the quickness of the
instant result with the ability to follow up other games scorelines.

Also making a return is the personal area, typical of the _ANSTOSS_ series;
the manager not only has to manage the club, but also his personal life, and
if the player neglects his family, he might well find his luggage at the door
one day. On the other side, golfing skills might come in handy to impress the
president… either on the good or the bad side.

Along the usual tools and team updates, the game received an expansion named
FIFA Manager 07: Extra Time.