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Hired one with good stats for it and ended up taking it over. Had him setup the set pieces to try it out. in short, we lost the 2nd ball too much and condeded goals from the edge of the box (We had wide open opposition). Now IMHO - A Set piece coach with high tactical and set piece stats should see this, but this did not get suggested or reviewed, which it should. It did not in 3 months of staff meetings or tactical setup. Although this is FM and staff advise might be better overall, but has a long way to go. Funny enough - all I did was move a few players to defend the edge of the box, and we've conceded much less since. What we have conceded has been completely understandable (Mis-Matched Header matchup due to injuries etc). I've not had enough time to see if training the set pieces really makes them grow much as yet, although the same staff member does do that training

To add to this as a spurs fan - Conte is stubborn (70 minute subs etc) Same with his loyalty to players (Emerson - Possibly the worst right back offensivley going). Injuries have not helped him, as well as what yopu can see from Conte's reluctance to play Bissouma (Dpemanding that his fit his tactical style before playing, but still persistis with the same 2 in Midfields - He demands players are almost peak, but favours certain players over others, very clearly. These are the reasons why he can't get a game. Skipp was rated very highly, and name as a potential future Captain during the youth times. He was prasied as a Defensive Midfielder in his first loan at Norwich, buy much more experieced players, in which he played most of theier games. He's been rated by nearly ever manager that's come in as a star for the future, so I'm dissapointed in the fix. IMHO - His top variable top PA was good enough - Note, I'm still not asking that to be higher. Managing spurs, he still got linkned with Real Madrid, so the fix did not work. A new contract did keep him for me. Maybe this issue is signficantly more to do with youth players reputation not increasing, reducing the amount of young players that come through and this creating a smaller pool of players to buy. Still, even with all that - Looking at the DM\MC young players Real have, they have no need to buy him As for being sold - Conte prefers experience over youth most times, so would likely not fight to hold onto him as much. Combined with youth players rep not increasing as the game goes on, I'd put that most likely as one reason he's sold in game.

From the ingame tips, Determination is supposed to have an affect. I'd assume personality as well, just as players "should" also have an affect, but you'd need SI to confirm that. As per above, Licences definitiely do, I tracked a few staff on FM22 that all improved post passing a liscence. My FM23 save is too new, but I do track the progress of certain staff I bring in - I mainly track former players that I bring back as coaches, if they have a good personality (+ attributes, and Personality) - Jan Vertonghen as a youth coach for example. Staff attributes also decline a bit after certain ages (Motivatoin espesically)

Nice - Staff advice has been broken for years, hopefully this goes towards fixing that.

Did staff Advice get a little tweak as well?

Great work! Following this with a lot of interest. I'm actually playing a 4-3-3 ATM with very simlar roles. I only have 1 current Needle type player, so my 2nd MC is a good old CM-S ATM

Running this ATM: Picket has great free kicks, which helped him Grow. Reid has 1 trait - Gets forward whenever possible. He's also Provided some nice assists for the AF as well at the end of those runs Love the Left IF-S picking the ball up playing into the CM-A running Open, into the box on the counter. Those runs from deep are deadly.

I'm actually tracking the progress of a few coaches: WWY - I think this is static. but I did not track this coaches starting stats On The one I tracked DDM actually increased as per below: (Adaptabilty. Determisation, Disipline Motivating, and People Management) - 2 More are being tracked, but a long way off from completing courses). National A Continetal C A 15 15 Det 15 16 D 12 12 M 9 11 P 9 10 So we can see that the courses can increase DDM. I've noted this on other low trained staff I've brought, but I've not tracked it as much so can't give the numbers as yet. Of course - CA\PA, Personality all come into play as well The main reason for the low training courses in my case, is getting ex Pro's in as part of the coaching team (I just want to see how\if they can improve to be good coaches + I have enough to get away with lower coaches right now).

What about the respective ratings for: Concentration (Bentancur), Anticipation, decisions? Players need to KNOW (Mental) where to be, then to be able to REACH (Physical) the ball and only THEN can they DO something (Technical) with the ball. Tactically - Does the WP-A not take away from the CM-A? I'd swap the CM-A to the othe side. You then need the width on the right to create space for the WP-A\CF. Even if that's done for an overload, only Son is Attack that space, or a thread the needle pass is needed for Kane. Son as a W-A will look to cross, but only has Kane, or the Deep running CM-A No holder in the Midfield you can get away with vs a lot of teams (I Switch a DM-S\D in my 4-3-3 DM), but I would not vs Man UTD - They are stupidly overpowered in this game, and have been for years. They have good pace as well, especially out wide, so if you not covering that, it'll be how they get at you. the DC on a cover role could be lkiing to drop too deep and giving Felix the sapce he needs to play

Defintely keep As above useful for match fitness. Also good to promote the U18's that are clearly too good for that squad and take up playing time for others to develop, or alternatively, the Over18 player who's got potential, but clearly not really good enough for a loan. I keep the latter players until 19 in that case before loaning them out to League 1/2 or above, or selling. Having senior players help the U23's get better results can also aid the development of the U23's as well - Better ratings = better growth. Of course, Training\coaching\facilities play a big part at that age as well.

I like plays one-two's, especially when i'm not playing a max tempo (Never do anyway) as that can add another dimension. Switch ball wide I'd like to less resticted to from the middle (Think TAA for liverpool for example) Drops deep + Killer balls was an outstanding combination for a newgen DLF I got, combined with the AM-A\SS (Gets into box). Stays back goes on my DC's mainly, or maybe a true Anchor man who can tackle\pass but not dribble. As per Above post - I use the one's that fit my tactic and players only. Untraining traits is painfully slow and doesn't work all the time. Rounding keeper seems to be recommendended for lower fnishing. Places shots I'm not keen on, sometimes my AML (IF-A) looks more like he's passing the ball to the keeper vs shooting. Seems to be tied to hiugher finshing.

Intellegence + Phsycals to reach + Technicals to pull it off. I'm recruiting for the top level in that method, and the DC you have is very good for that level. If they are already in the right place, they might not even need to tackle is an example of that method. Headers are a massive part of ratings, I can geniuinly see the ratings of my DC's go up\down based soley on headers.

I think it's more down to his reputation. I had staff tell me to replace a 5 star Fitness coach with no rep. Then again, staff advices is horrfic anyway, and needs a major overhaul