How do you get a CM to play well?

So here's the thing, I will purchase someone like [edited]

You get the point basically some of the best CM's on the game.

I will either buy them at the start of the game or after a couple of seasons.

When I buy them after a couple of seasons they will average about 7.30 over the last 3 seasons grabbing loads of assists and goals.

Then when I buy them they will perform horribly, regardless of what formation I play them in.

For example when I had *** and ***, I played them in the exact same formation and position they played for Roma when they averaged like 7.40, 3 seasons in a row.

Yet when I play them they will always average like 6.80 and score naff all.

I haven't messed around with the player position tactic for CM. I have just left it at the default like nothing ticked.

Is there anyway to get them to recapture the form they were in at their old club and is there a screen shot of the way the CM's should be set up tactically.

Thanks for your time.

Whatever level I play at, my central midfielders are always the worst, ratings-wise. Whatever tactics I've used don't really help. I tried playing a wide game then through the middle to create space for them, played narrowly to see if that would help, adjusted forward/backward runs. Whatever I try, their ratings are by far the worst compared to other positions.

There's a bug with attacking mentality centre midfielders, it's being looked at.

There is a well known bug that the more attacking midfield players get unreasonably low ratings if they dont score or get an assist.

Hopefully it will be fixed in the next patch

Please do not player name in GD.

One thing you should note, IIRC, is that your player doesn't play poor: it's just his rating that's low. I think I read somewhere on this forum you can increase his rating by shortly playing him in another position (for instance amr/l or sc). Hope this helps.

How do you get a CM to play well?

Seriously, though, this is likely the thing with the poor ratings for AMCs which is quite well-documented, as others have said.