Raymond85

I sometimes have one or both wingers cut inside with the ball, especially the one on attack, but depends on the player. I don't think it makes much of a difference, since in this system they play in a very varied way. I i like them to do their thing. Nothing else at the moment.

Long time lurker and reader of your posts and blogs, i have been very often inspired by your work. I have been using heavily your principles in my Ajax (only academy signings) save that i have just started, and gave the tactics my little twist to suit the mess of a squad they have this year. It was a real challenge to sort it out with friendlies, but i have hit a magnificent sweet spot, and knoking Man utd out of Europa League prompted me to chime in with the appreciation of this playing style. I adapted the defensive 3-2 to suit my players, set up in a 4-3-3 with a little more gegen kick to it, and ended up with this And results have been astinishing, when i was expecting it to be a real struggle to compete with Feyenoord. The team just became more and more solid as the season progressed Some very interesting defensive statistics show how we are compact and concede almost nothing to our opponents, straight from buildup and ball recycling. We don't lose much of the ball, we are compact when we do and we don't concede much. When we lose the ball, we are very good at winning it back and playing it to look for chances Something to work on is the offensive side of the game. We score a lot, but we are not as clinical as i would like to be. I think it's down to pure player quality, our forwards are not the best goalscorers, but are much more suited at retaining the ball and distributing it with quality. So i'm not really concerned with this, but it can get frustrating at times. It cost us top of the group in Europa League, but it gave me the fantastic win with Man Utd in return, where Brobbey steps up with his big match quality. I can't wait to develop the squad with this playing style DNA, i am already imprinting it in Jong and under 18 players with training, and identifying some to promote when big money offers come for my stars.

Very small touch, but i really love that we get an inbox message now for a new manager appointed in our league (at least I hope so, i got one in the first week of my FM23 imported save). Very nice QOL touch, i never used to be able to keep up with this

I’ve just come here from the future, tomorrow everyone is complaining about too many long shots. or wait, was that 2016?

Udinese: Thauvin-Samardzic-Deulofeu behind Beto

Udinese? They have Beto-Deulofeu-Thauvin-Samardzic and a very good defense

I’m sure i read it when it came out, but i have a flight on thursday and i’ll make sure to give it another read to refresh memory. Thanks for your answer

Very informative and a thorough insight into some differences i wasn’t very sure before this. Are there some player traits you think would be good or that could harm a regista specificly, other than the usual ones for a playmaking role? can’t wait to read the rest of the series too, there are not many articles that dive deep into 3 at the back systems, especially as peculiar as this one

Looking forward to them all. Especially the regista, as i am trying it out more now. But all will be helpful, i have been enjoying 3 atb systems for 3 years now

That's what i'm thinking too. It's a shame because some players i would like them to have that, and even though i would never play them as center back, being accomplished in game blocks it

Here, Youri Regeer is natural at MC, DR and WR it does not appear for me. He only has tries long range passes as a trait currently. I don't understand why many players have this for me. Maybe the accomplished CB?

Edit: i have to check something

Yes, but he's also natural at mc. Another one that cannot learn it is Florian Grillitsch. I think i'm noticing that only natural players in the AM strata can learn it, but i'm still looking around

i've tried multiple coaches, it seems to be a trend with players on multiple positions, even if versatile and fully fit to do the job i'm asking them. I'm out of ideas. One example is not managing to teach Jurrein Timber to play one-twos

I'm going crazy here, it might be right under my eyes but i just cannot get it. What makes some players unable to learn some traits? Like for example playing one-twos doesn't come up for every player

Really enjoying this read. It opened my mind both on the regista role (which i criminally underuse as i had some misconceptions) and on the interaction on wide centerbacks. Have been trying to nail them for quite a bit now and i was underestimating the PPM importance: they can work with more conservative type centerbacks too, but they shine in a more thoroughly thought plan like this

If you want the extra challenge, Rimini might be a nice idea. It's the most famous tourist beach town in Italy, and has never been in Serie A. They are the team that launched Arrigo Sacchi's manager career to top levels, and the only unbeaten team agains Juventus in that famous Serie B season after match fixing relegation, where they had a really strong but unlucky team, with Handanovic, Matri, Jeda, Brighi and Valliani who all went on to be serie A players (and Samir one of the best goalkeepers in the world). They are newly promoted in Serie C. I'm going to give them a go later in the year for sure and try and get the first Serie A promotion in history.

Non EU players is confusing when you reach serie A. Best you imagine them as a work permit, and you can only get 1 new one each season, unless you sell one out of italy or one retires or is set to release, then you can get 1 extra each season (1+1). Non eu transfers within italy are free and dont count on limits or freeing up second spot. Under Serie A you cannot get non eu players from out of italy, only within. This is the easiest quickest way to explain it, it's easier to understand it with experience rather than explaining it

Is it a new save? I would believe it is not in effect for saves already ongoing

Just like in real life

Udinese - 4-2-3-1 with Samardzic-Deulofeu-Thauvin behind Beto sounds really fun

Not that i have noticed so far. Looks good

I loaded almost everything, i have a new mac with apple processors, so it is a huge setup. But i'd go with the usual big 5 and neighbouring countries (bulgaria, romania, serbia have good players), maybe argentina, brazil and south africa for some wonderkids if you manage. Depends on your system

Why not try and change league? I am exploring lower nations on side saves. Hungary is the latest, quite fun

Looks like a problem with the skin, not the game