Player roles

I coach Bayern and I have Schweinsteiger and Kroos both as CMs, but the coaches say they both work best by being employed as deep-lying playmakers. Now would it be a problem if I would set both of them as DLPs? I assume that some conflicts might be generated.

Also, Muller is my AMC and works best as a trequartista, but my backup AMC works best as an attacking midfielder. I know that changing tactics all the time is not good, but does changing player roles count as changing the tactic?

Yes changing player roles is changing the tactic. However, the game is about finding the best way to use the tactic to your advantage. If what you see is good, doing this is not a problem even in the long term.

Two deep-lying playmakers is an unrealistic tactic, but it may work in FM. If it is exploitative, it may reduce your enjoyment of the game, If not, it's just an adjustment to theplayers you have at your disposal.

Don't read too much into the suggested best role. Some of the specialist roles require some pretty solid attributes to work well (imagine a playmaker with low creativity), so the player could have some important shortcomings that a mere total of the required attributes would not reveal.

Just play one as a DLP (defend), the other as an AP (support), based on who suits the AP role better than the other. This is how my midfield is set up and works brilliantly.

As said above, don't look into the player's best role too much, especially with the playmakers as deep-lying is very similar to advanced. Most of my coaches say that my top DC's best role is Ball-Playing Defender (Cover) but I ignore this and play him as Central Defender (Defend) because it suits my tactics better.

As for changing the role frequently, it doesn't change the familiarity of the tactic so it should be okay. I rotate 2 left-wingers, one plays as an IF and the next game I bring in the other as an AP and it doesn't affect my team's performance negatively or the familiarity bar.

Like has been said ignore the best role advice from your Assistant I had a midfielder who had great passing and poor tackling but my Assistant said hes best suited to a Ball Winner Support role

Great advices guys, thank you!

Only one question to Kenco: you say you have a DLP with defensive role. How come? A playmaker would normally think more of attack and creating chances than defending, even if he is deep lying.

I know the question is to Kenco but Think Xavi Alonso, Michael Carrick, Andrea Pirlo.

With a DLP with a defend duty, think of a Xabi Alonso type player who sits back and breaks up the opposition attacks, but still tries to set things up with classy passing.

As for having two DLPs, I used to have a tactic that used both central midfielders as deep-lying playmakers (oddly enough for my Bayern team too). Sit back and play very direct on the counter attack, out to the flanks where the wingers did all the work. That said, I usually played Schweinsteiger as a box-to-box midfielder, until he got too old to last more than half a match!

I am in 2016 and the weird part is that Schweinsteiger can hold up to full games, while Kroos needs to be replaced by the 70th minute all the time. It's like having 2 substitutions available, because you know that one of them is always taken by him :-)