During the game element, you control your players directly with the touch controls, which are quite responsive (they have their moments, but you shouldn't see too many of them). During the RPG element, you wander round scouting out new players and strengthening your current ones (and every so often advancing the plot). The gameplay is split into two parts: one part RPG, one part football sim.
Once it gets going, though, it's of high-enough quality to be a stand-alone game. This looks like a fairly dull game it's football, and it's a game based off a TV show (an anime, if you hadn't noticed the boxart yet).