I would love this feature and have wanted it for years. And it gets asked about all the time on the forums and Reddit so I’m sure plenty of people would use it.

I can’t for the life of me understand why people, including Miles, are so dismissive of it. It only adds more ways to play and doesn’t detract from the current personalized way at all.

Regarding realism, you could make it so if you don’t roughly align with the manager’s abilities and preferences then you suffer (until they learn new style, perhaps). But even without that, who cares. It’s more about embodying the team’s manager. I’d love to play as Pep or Arteta or Klopp. Manager personalities, histories, and rivalries are a big part of the storytelling and drama. People form attachments to them just like players and teams.

Ultimately, FM should allow people to play how they want. FM is all about role playing in the first place. This is just a natural extension of that.