Editorial update (16 July 2026): This article records the May 2026 Research launch. That temporary May access period has ended. The current offer monitors 200+ multilingual sources daily and publishes evidence-qualified reports in English after editorial review; there is no report quota or time guarantee. Opinion remains free, while free Research signup provides launch and access updates rather than paid full reports. Paid Research is planned annual-first at $144/year ($12/month billed annually), with a $15 monthly fallback. Checkout and launch timing remain unconfirmed pending merchant-of-record approval. Research is not opponent scouting, session generation, or consulting.

Tactics Journal Research went live on May 1, and the website was completely redesigned. A temporary free access period was active for that launch; it is no longer open. Here is what was new at launch.

The site has been redesigned. The home page, about page, account page, and research pages were rebuilt around one design system. Less clutter, flatter aesthetic, writing front and center.

Dark mode. Toggle it from the footer, the site menu, or the account page. Your choice persists across pages.

Search. It reads every post on the site and answers questions in plain language, with sources. If it cannot answer, the question routes to me directly. I can respond in real time, and the answer appears in the same chat. If I do not respond in a timely manner, the answer arrives by email.

Research is live. The first report has been posted.

I wrote about it the previous month. The first report was published on May 1. Research now monitors 200+ multilingual sources daily and develops candidate ideas for review. An English report publishes only when it identifies a concrete tactical mechanism; provides a traceable source trail and credible support or corroboration, or states explicit single-source limits; addresses counterevidence and other limits; and passes editorial review. There is no daily quota or publication-time guarantee.

Opinion posts remain free.

The temporary May access period has ended. Paid Research is planned to include every full report as it publishes, the complete archive, source trails, counterevidence and limits, editorial review, and private subscriber RSS. Annual access is planned first at $144/year ($12/month billed annually), with a $15 monthly fallback. Checkout is not open and launch timing is not confirmed while merchant-of-record approval is pending.

The launch demonstrated that a source outside the usual English-language discussion could become a candidate for deeper research. It did not establish a guaranteed drafting speed or publishing cadence. Each candidate must clear the current evidence and editorial threshold before an English report is published.

I learned a great deal about football in those first two weeks reading the source material and reviewing the Research output.

There is a great deal of high-quality football content in other languages that English-speaking audiences miss. Research monitors those multilingual sources, then preserves their context, uncertainty, and limits in reports currently published in English.

The product is for professional coaches and analysts at lean football clubs who need credible global tactical ideas and qualified peer discussion without stitching together fragmented research or overreading one source. It is editorial research input, not opponent scouting, session generation, or consulting.

The monitoring broadens the source material I can review. Editorial judgment determines what becomes a published report.

The possibilities are endless, and we are just getting started.

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