[Great players in FM that never made it irl]

I remember signing this young kid Sergio Aguero many years back in FM. Haven't heard much of him recently

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Composure and decision-making, they can go a long way towards making players play more intelligently.

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A balanced set up is one that has players in attacking, defending and supporting roles. Period. You want your forwards and wingers to attack generally, midfielders and fullbacks to support, and defenders to focus on defending. Balanced means you won't commit too many players forward, hence you won't be caught out on the counter as much, but your attack will be built up using fewer players. Whats wrong with experimenting a bit?

hello.. i wonder if there any good standard balanced setup for a 4-4-2? i mean just a simple one in the tactic creator? i play with Leeds. if any could help me i really would appreciate it.

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I play FM11, but I fix my defensive line, width and tempo, and allow changes in mentality to alter everything else, closing down, passing, but most important for me is that the teams mentality changes, but not the width of the team, the general position of the d-line, or the tempo. I can alter those separately, of course, but I don't do that in game, I will do that if I think opposition are adapting to my tactics, and just alter it slightly, a little deeper line, a little faster tempo, that kind of thing.

The additional width would probably mean there is more space to work in, for your inside forwards, but they would be more isolated as well. I think of narrow width as benefitting my teams defense, and a wider formation benefits my attacking game, so I would never want to be too extreme on either of those. Who needs the added benefit on offense if it means there is a gap a mile wide between CBs?

One thing I've been curious about in terms of width in the team instructions settings is that when you use a more attacking mentality, the width increases as well. I'm wondering as to whether that would be beneficial to a tactic using Inside Forwards instead of wingers since they're looking to cut inside. Is it better to just narrow it manually instead of leaving it alone, or would the width help out in other ways with fullbacks and defensive shape for it to be beneficial to just leave it at the default settings? I generally play a standard mentality with the 4-5-1 with both inside forwards with the width narrowed by a couple of ticks, but I'm unsure as to whether I'm helping or hurting the tactic.

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So you would say that the player should have high CF? And how would I go about making room?

Does the player have good creativity and decision making, other wise don't give him too much freedom! Think about it. As for making room for the winger, if there are other players making runs that will tend to open up space. If a player (FB) runs on the outside the defender will move outside, meaning there is more space centrally. So either the forward closest to them making a forward run, a supporting midfielder who joins the attack, or even the fullback joining in will make the defenders move and tend to open up space. Easy

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I have this young regen with a PA of 180. He is 19 now, and I have Goran Pandev tutoring him at the moment. I'm trying to play him at every opportunity with the first team. Is there anyway that I could burn him out?

He could actually become worse from the tutoring, I have only seen determination drop, but if he doesn't get along with Goran then there will be a bit of a personnel issue, nothing long lasting, but the positive impact of tutoring will be minimal. Don't train him in a new position, working on a specific attribute and learning a preferred move, their overall attribute gain will be minimal! When he is 28-40 and you have won everything he may ask for a new challenge, but thats 10 years down the line!