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If you want the space to be created behind the opposition defense then you need to let them play out and step up a bit - so a lower LoE and lower LoD. Otherwise, you risk pinning them back against their own 18yd line.
The Counter-press does mean your players will try and win the ball back as soon as it is lost, so if I am reading you correctly, I would possibly try it without the CP or Regroup selected and see if that opens a bit of space, OR go straight to Regroup to allow the opposition to play out to half-wayish giving you space behind to exploit. Key would be to lower the LoE so you are not pressing too high and restricting the space you want to create.
So the higher you are trying to win the ball, the deeper your opponents will be, the less space there will be for you to exploit as the play will become compressed into a smaller area of the pitch.
Dropping back (LoD) and allowing them time to play forward into midfield (LoE) will leave space behind the defense, and between their midfield and defense for you to use when you win the ball back around half-way or just inside your own half.
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If you are trying to win the ball back higher up the pitch, that;s where your LoE should be set. With an Attacking mentality, this puts your forward players on the front foot, pressing and harrying the oppo's defense into making mistakes.
A lower LoE and your front players will drop back a little deeper and allow the oppo to play out with less pressure.
Your DL is the 'line' at which you don;t want to allow the opposition past. Do you want to defend the 18yd box, or defend your own half of the pitch?
So, if you want to draw the opposition out to open up space for you to attack into, set a lower LoE, if you want to pin them into their own half, a higher LoE and higher DL and press hard.
Remember as well, the space between your DL and LoE can impact the way you attack - the further apart they are set, the further apart your players can end up when you do win the ball. Which will tend to longer balls forward. For a shorter passing game, keeping the two lines closer together will keep the players a bit tighter vertically as well.
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An age old 'gripe' on the forums. Not much can be done unfortunately.
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@Jack722 has it pretty well summed up. To expand a bit on that post - I have some mentoring groups set up in my age-group squads as well as the first team, not as effective as first team mentoring but still getting some positives from it.
I have three or four younger players in the first team squad, but those that are ready for some first-team action - I also make sure they DO get first team minutes as well, cup games and final 20 of games we are winning well. They are also 'Available for u23s'. It does mean my set up tactically and pre-match selections for players available for u23s can be a bit time consuming,
As for loaning, I still work on the advice from here that under the age of 18, training is more influential on their development, 18 and older, game time is the biggest influence. So once they turn 18 I am willing to loan them to a club at the appropriate level with average or better training facilities. At 20, I would hope to have them breaking into the first team as 2nd choice for the position.0 -
If he is in the u18s he staff can influence him in that regard as well - good staff personalities can rub off on youngsters.
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I have never trusted staff with hiring staff (or players for that matter) - at the very least I would need to keep the final say on contracts. Like you, I find they often hire the dross for some reason.
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AS the manager there are only limited things you are in control of to help the finances. Keeping within your budgets is the first and most obvious step. The rest is a long-game strategy, win games, be successful and attract the crowds (gate receipts), sell more merch, attract bigger sponsors etc etc.
Unfortunately it is the board that is ultimately in control of the finances so you are in the hands of their fiscal abilities but there really isn't very much money until you reach the Championship, and even then it's a struggle for smaller rep clubs.
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You can loan him out, but he will need to be at your club, being trained at your club for three of the years within the time limit - I don't believe they have to be consecutive years so you may be able to afford one season loan of him.
My own policy, is to keep the youngsters at home until they have achieved trained at club, I also have a policy never to loan out an u18 so most of my guys from youth intake get a couple of seasons being trained how I want them play in the u 18s, then a season in the u23s THEN a couple of loan seasons if necessary.
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What @The Gold Guard said.
I have a Caucasian friend whose step-brother is black and has a Nigerian accent. While they both have hyphenated surnames they are switched so, using your examples, one is N'Goma-Schopf and the other Schopf-N'Goma.
Both your guys show as Austrian so there may be Austrian in N'Goma's line for a generation or two.
My be just the brother from another mother.
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At most I think it may influence the body language - Blades players may be 'uninterested'
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Yeah, it sounds like a reputation thing working against you here. The new owners have brought in a higher profile manager, you haven;t had time to build a strong enough rep to get one for the bigger jobs yet.
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A quick fix I found can work is setting your AML/R PIs to include tighter marking. That way, he should track back a little more as the 'default' player to mark would be his opposite WB. It does limit his ability to exploit any space left behind though.
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No, I don't think there is
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6 hours ago, FKPartizan said:
If you don't train defend free kick at least three times every week you always concede 1 or even 2 or 3 goals from free kicks and headers.
This raised a bit of a flag for me.
While I am open to correction, I don't believe the Set piece training sessions 'stack' so you only need do it once in the week to impact the following game. I would only set it in a week preceding an opponent who is good on set pieces (use the scout and analyst 'Next Opposition' reports) to decide if it's needed. That would open a couple of training sessions for you to work on other, general, defensive things that may help longer term.
Also look at your defensive set up for set pieces, there may be a hole in there that has nothing to do with the training and opposition are simply taking advantage of a very well trained but poorly set up defence.
Personally, my defend free kick routines are all left on Default, I rarely ever (maybe once or twice a season) train the set piece defense and don;t concede many from these situations.
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4 minutes ago, prot651 said:
But most of the Bigger Clubs get huge TV deals but they wont if games are not played and probably a lot less when it starts up again
Yep, you are right - everyone will take a hit of course, but I couldn't ever argue that Man Utd, Everton and Crystal Palace are going to struggle anywhere near as hard as Morecambe, Hungerford or Notts County without the games to play.
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The UEFA coefficients are largely irrelevant depending on how far into the game you are.
It is the reputation within the FM game I was referring to, which can drift some way away from real world coefficients.
So, without knowing the full details of the transfer agreed, I still justify to myself that Barca will always be more likely to sign a player I am after if I am managing Arsenal. The difference in fee could be any number of things - friendly arranged, (worth a mill?), future fees, player exchange or simply the player himself saying to his club "I don't want to go to Arsenal' "OK, we'll try and get as much as we absolutely can from them, see if it puts them off' ..... "ooohhh look, Barca want me!"
If you are interested in a player, watch what other clubs are offering for him, offer that as a start.
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3 minutes ago, Geordieboy52 said:
It's not the player he's grumbling about tho...
???? but, Barca would unsettle the player more than Arsenal would surely?
THe deal is more likely to go through as the OP described if the player is saying 'let me talk to Barca'
We may not see it, but I ma pretty sure it influences the process.
Club rep will have an effect won;t it?
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It depends on their CA and the scout report.
If they are already good enough for the first team they will get in the team.
If the coach report says 'Currently playing at.....' the same level as I am in, then they will at least get bench time and some rotational starts.
If coach says one league below us, then they could get some backup appearances, or would get loaned out (if over 18)
Playing them in matches is most effective if they play at a suitable level so the reports tend to guide me in this question.
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Also, they were Barcelona - you were Arsenal.
I think there is an effect there that comes into play. The bigger rep team finds it easier to convince players to come.
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14 hours ago, prot651 said:
You would think smaller clubs have less overheads though . Bigger clubs might have the money but for how long
A much bigger percentage of revenue comes from match day for smaller clubs - no matches for them is a massive blow to the revenue stream. EPL clubs: 18 out of 20 make a profit before ticket sales are factored in (in a normal season of course). Also on lower revenues, most will have debt of one kind or another, again, a bigger percentage of turnover would be for debt management in smaller clubs, lack of revenue + debt maintenance and no business can manage to survive for long.
Fewer overheads yes, but massive drop in income is the problem for them. Premier league (most of them) clubs can survive a lot longer without playing.
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At the end of the day, if the club doesn't exist in real life then it won;t appear in the game.
I saw an interview, on the Keys and Grey show last night with Mark Palios, Tranmere owner, talking about the situation and how it impacts smaller clubs and lower leagues and the knock-on effect financially.
SI, with this game we love, have to reflect the world as it is in the game, so I would see a future where the game is released with whatever clubs are competing at the time. A fan somewhere will create a 3rd party database with the 'phoenix' clubs included and we all play however we want to enjoy it.
Sad state of affairs, but noone is at fault, and it will be what it will be in the end unfrtunately.
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On 05/02/2018 at 12:14, phd_angel said:
Does a coach effectiveness decline during the language course? How so, or by how much?
Likewise, if I don't send him to a language course, I assume that he will learn the language but at a lower pace, and that in the meantime, his effectiveness is also reduced, right? How bad is the impact?...
Is it like as it he had less star(s), or a lower coaching rate?
Thanks.
To be honest I haven't noticed a drop in effectiveness while they are on the course. Although I can see your logic, if there is an effect I think it would be minimal and something I for one am not concerned about.
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I believe the budget is set based on the financial data available rather then actual finances.
So, the budget you are given for the season would be what the club can afford over the course of the season - which would include the incoming revenue from installments.
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If they have the attributes for the position and role - they can do the job. The familiarity disc can be misleading, and the match raitng is influenced by so many other things.
Of course, we all play the game our way, but give them a few games and see if the overall tactic looks more like you want to see.
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Newbie question about staff
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My approach with staff is to only change the ones whose contracts are near the end. It's cheaper.
Then I hire, or try to hire, the best available replacement at the time.
Having 11/6 scouts could work in your favour, as you have a team of 11 scouts, sacking 5 or mutually terminating 5 will cost you - in this situation I keep them on until five contracts run down and then 'shuffle' a few around so I end up keeping the best 6.
I would still hire for the empty staff slots as the board have approved the spend there already but the scout situation is one you inherited. Use all of them while you can!