If you’ve encountered a message which states ‘An error has occurred while installing Football Manager 19 (missing app configuration)' when attempting to install Football Manager 2019, please shut down Steam and delete this file located at the following location:
Once you’ve completed this, launch Steam and attempt to reinstall and run the game.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\appcache\appinfo.vdf
Once you’ve completed this, launch Steam and attempt to reinstall and run the game.