Source: SI's Mark Vaughan

There are Six Types of Board Takeover in FM 2007. These are listed below:

There are several stages to a board takeover, each of which is detailed below:

• Rumour Mill - Rumours that the club may be subject to a bid soon. Depending on the type of takeover, the club may put a hold on in-coming transfers and board requests at this point
• In Talks - A formal proposal is submitted and will be discussed with the club's board.
• Talks Progress - Talks can go badly, go well or fail altogether. Obviously they can also succeed. If they fail, the restrictions on transfers etc will be lifted
• Takeover Completion - If the talks succeed, the old chairman will be replaced and the new chairman will step in. He will outline what changes (if any) will be made
• Post Takeover - After a bit of time, any longer-term aims of the chairman will be completed. e.g. facilities expansion or replacing the manager

You can create an edt config file to give yourself the chance of becoming chairman of your favourite club. This should take the following format:

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"BOARD_TAKEOVER" "Joe" "" "Bloggs" "01.01.1980" "England" "Ipswich" "England" "" "Media Corner Ltd"

These are, in order.

FIRST_NAME, COMMON_NAME, "SECOND_NAME", "DATE_OF_BIRTH", "NATIONALITY", "FAVOURITE_TEAM", "FAVOURITE_NATION", "UNUSED", "COMPANY_NAME";

If you leave the favourite_team field blank, it will choose you a team in the specified FAVOURITE_NATION i.e. any club in England. If you specify a favourite team, it will not link you to any other teams.

Save a text file with this information as "board_takeovers.edt" and place it in the db directory. You will need to start a new game for this to be read in by the game.

If you're really keen not to have a takeover, you do have that option. Open the edt file called "board_takeover_valid_types" and add the appropriate lines to disable aggressive takeovers in your game.

For example: "NO_RICH_INDIVIDUAL_TAKEOVER" "England".

You should also add the other takeover types e.g. "NO_PLC_TAKEOVER" "ENGLAND" in similar fashion (copying the examples which are already in the file). Bear in mind that you will not be able to prevent PROMOTION_FROM_WITHIN.