ImmersiveYour Director of Football. With opinions of his own.
The Director reads your save, forms opinions about it, and argues with you. He sits in the game on F7, over whatever screen you're on.
The mod is free and always will be. Membership pays for the hosted version of the chat, and for what comes next.
"Left-back is the fire we need to put out first. Tyrick Mitchell has carried nearly all the minutes there, Borna Sosa has barely featured, and Nathaniel Clyne is 34 and out of contract in June."
What he does
FM gives you a Director of Football. He does almost nothing.
The Director makes him real. He reads your save: your squad, your scouts' reports, the league table, the wage bill, the contracts running down, the kids coming through, who other clubs are bidding for. He forms opinions about all of it. He pushes back when you chase a striker who doesn't fit the way you play. He remembers what you told him the club was supposed to be, and holds you to it when you drift. And he argues the way the man in your save would: a DoF with 4 for Analysing Data talks from his gut; one with 18 for Judging Player Ability is sharper, and much harder to talk round.
Your squad
Depth by position, who's ahead of whom, contracts running down, who has nobody behind them, and where you sit in the league.
Targets, judged by your philosophy
Every target scored against what your club is for, not a generic rating. A verdict on each: sign, scout first, stretch, or no. With the reason, and the reason is arguable.
The market
Deals in progress, interest and bids for your players, scout reports and assignments, spend, fees received, net spend. All from the save.
The chat
Ask him anything about the club. In character, in your currency, a man speaking rather than writing.
How it works
Install, play, press F7
- InstallOne folder into your FM folder on Windows, one double-click on a Mac.
- PlaySave whenever you'd normally save. The weekly autosave is plenty.
- Press F7No terminal, no Python, no spreadsheet exports, no second plugin, no pressing a key on every screen you visit. It reads the save and keeps up on its own.
It doesn't cheat
He only knows what your scouts know. If you haven't scouted a player, he hasn't seen him, and he'll say so instead of pretending. Attributes reach him through the same fog of war you play with. Nothing is read out of the game's memory; nothing hidden is revealed. Half the point of a Director of Football is that he is sometimes wrong, and you have to decide whether to trust him anyway.
Talking to him
Four ways to reach a model. Pick one in Setup.
The Setup tab in the panel offers four, and you pick one; nothing is edited by hand.
Hosted by ImmersiveFM
Nothing to set up. Link your Patreon, paste one code into the panel, done. First Team and above; Free Agent and Squad Player members get the first 10 questions on me.
Your own API key
Paste a key from console.anthropic.com. Pay Anthropic per question. Unlimited, and nothing touches my server.
Claude Code
If it's installed and logged in on your machine, one click. Unlimited.
Another model
Any service that speaks the OpenAI chat format, or a local model through Ollama or LM Studio.
Membership
The mod is free. Membership pays for the hosted chat.
Every hosted question costs real money to answer; that is what membership covers. Annual pledges: twelve months for the price of ten.
The mod, every public build, the first 10 hosted questions.
The Discord, a say in what comes next, direct support, the first 10 hosted questions.
The DoF, hosted. 200 questions a month, what's left shown live in the panel. Run out and the panel keeps working; your own key is never limited.
500 questions a month, priority on bugs through a private channel, a direct line on what gets built next.
Your name credited inside the mod, founder status through FM27 and beyond, 500 questions a month.
Calm Dark, my FM27 skin
Neutral charcoal instead of FM's purples and club colours, fewer boxes, denser tables, and a player profile redrawn as one screen. With The Director installed, his verdict sits in the profile header.
See Calm Dark and download itDiscord and support
Install problems jump the queue over everything else. Join the Discord, say what you saw in #install-help, and attach BepInEx\LogOutput.log from your FM folder. When he says something stupid, screenshot it for #the-director-said-what; the bad answers are how he gets sharper.
Who's making it
One person, in the evenings, with a Crystal Palace test save that has been through more seasons than I'd like to admit. I built this because I wanted it to exist and nobody else had made it. I run a small games studio in my day-to-day life and have been playing FM/CM for over 30 years. The Director and Calm Dark will keep getting updates through FM27's life.