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  1. Just a quick possible change you could make as I have also been trying to replicate the Diniz style but on FM21. I dont like the AF position at all. It encourages too many long balls. Instead I settled on the Poacher role. My poacher has the dwells on the ball PPM and although his passing isnt the best I find him to be holding up the attack and then laying off the ball to his comrades sprinting forward. He then moves into typical poacher positions drawing the defenders with him which allows the two wide men (IWa and T) to come into the middle and offer an alternative goal scoring threat. I also use a balanced approach and switch this to positive or cautious depending on the scoreline/aim of my match outcome. Great write up and really good follow ups!
  2. Do I have to do something special for the staff pics to show up? I see the newgan pics when I put them in the relevant folders but I never see the staff pics show. Absolutely amazing work your doing here! Really adds to these long term career games I play! Thank you so much!
  3. I don't use work the ball into the box option and I regularly have 70+% of possession. I mostly use a balanced or cautious approach with shorter passing and the standard tempo those mentalities offer. You could try removing the pass into space option and drop your mentality a notch to balanced. Your player roles look good, similar to what i use. Positive mentality for my team seems to lose us possession a bit over balanced or cautious. I go positive when I'm really looking for a goal, my primary aim is retaining possession and working the ball around waiting for an opening.
  4. I used the Newgan app with the files posted here FMUGens – Newgen Facepack FM23 *MEGAPACK DOWNLOAD! UPDATE PACK 3 RELEASED 21/03/2023* - View From The Touchline Think I changed a couple of names in the folders, basically adding 'n' to Scandinavian and South American so it matched the Zealand folders from that newgen pack. I dont use Zealands faces, just the generated ones from the link above. It all works fine.
  5. I feel there is a big difference in the way a Ws is used by the ME compared to a Wa. Ws is more patient, plays off a pass earlier and isnt hyper about beating his man and getting crosses in. Wa just seems too hard coded to always dribble wide and cross.
  6. Not really much to share, the positions are included in the first pic so just copy those and then add your teams style to it.
  7. I've been using a 4-1-4-1 that morphs to a 3-2-5. This has worked well for me on FM20, FM21 and FM22. I use it as my basic shape and change players depending on what I want. If I'm wanting a goal the DMd becomes a DLPs and the IWBs becomes IWBa. Its a very versatile formation and little changes can really change how it looks and plays. I can play for 70% possession or change it to a Counter and sit back letting the opposition play around. New project.mp4
  8. I usually play this game to develop teams and specifically to create squads of academy players as much as I can. Presently playing FM21 and in Ligue 1 with Nice. I've spent the majority of available funds over the last 4 seasons on improving my youth set up so money poured into Youth recruitment, Youth Facilities and Youth coaching as I try to become the Rivieras top club for youth development battling the likes of Marseille and Monaco. I mostly agree with the majority and 2-star PA or below youngsters won't develop into much for ligue 1 standards, but I do keep them around until the youth contracts expire and let them go on frees just in case they have a developmental spur. Those initial PA ratings from the coaches are usually just guides for me. I've had players of 4.5-star potential come through and they just didn't improve in development and over time their rating would drop to 2.5/3 stars at best. I've had 3-star PA players change to 4/5-star players after a season or two when they are getting some first team matches. Personality of the youth player is vital; I've had some really good-looking players but are unambitious and no matter how I tried mentoring they just didn't shake their laziness or show any ambition to be a better player. Now I don't bother with unambitious personalities and stick to developing players with the right mindset from the off. I have a wonderkid CD and wonderkid DM in my present squad. Both developed differently too. One is from my youth set up, he was a 3 star player at first but has now developed to a 5 star wonderkid, the other was a purchase after PSG decided he wasnt going to make the grade and didnt offer him a new contract. I also was wondering why I bought him at one point but I threw him into a match as a sub and hes just improved match after match to now become a wonderkid DM after initial scout reports said he was a 3 star at best player for CA and PA. (My scouts are good too mostly have 18 JCA and JPA) Early youth development seems to have a nice random element so you never really know how they will progress but just have an idea and hope they will be the next big thing. Overall, I think its playing time that radically improves their development and its then the coach reports start becoming more accurate for giving you a better idea how they develop and handle competitive matches. (kind of like me irl.. a street legend in my neighbourhood but never good enough to play competitive probably because I'm unambitious and lazy hahaha)
  9. I just went through this on my game. I had left it to the chief scout for a few seasons, I presumed it would be fine, he was 20/20 in stats. I decided to change it myself for the new season and set up the scouts in nations I wanted.... So many more players come through now! Its night and day. So I think its worth it to manually assign where they scout.
  10. I'm finding a double DM tactic with one as Segundo Vol and the other as DM-d with two CD's as Ball Playing Defenders and a higher line will push up the CD's and the DM-d is usually in line with them or slightly ahead but pivoted to the side. In this tactical formation the DM-d will find himself as a playmaker-esque type of player but not a ball magnet for the team. Hes a safety pass to recycle possession or the one who play goes through when we slowly build up with play from the back. He will also mostly find himself sitting to the right side of the BPD behind the FB-s when we attack.
  11. I feel its to do with the role of AF. I kept using an AF in my lower league Stockport County game and it would happen quite a bit even though my team was instructed to play out of defence, distribute to FB or CD and use shorter passing like your using. I didnt mind it so much because the AF was a speedster compared to players in that league so I gained maybe 10 extra goals in the season with that long ball to him. No other players except the keeper did the long ball either. Next season he was sold and I went to a player using a CFs role. Didnt see that long ball anywhere near as much.
  12. I think the secret is Support roles. I usually have mostly support roles, maybe one or two players are not, defenders on Defend then the rest of the tactic is support duties. Use it with Positive mentality and little else and you just dominate matches.
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