Fm12 what makes a good coach

The goalkeeping coaches will only work with the goalkeepers in your team both first team and junior team , and will look to improve the goalkeeping player attributes such as a goalkeepers abilities at handling the ball, rushing out to deal with the striker in one on one situations or communicating with the defensive line. Goalkeeping coaches is specialists and will never be able to be assigned to the general training categories as long as he is under contract as goalkeeping coach. The Goalkeeping training category is split into two sub-categories for Football Manager ;.

Similar to the goalkeeper coaches and in difference to first team general coaches, the fitness coaches will work with every players in your team both first team, reserves and youth team. They will look to improve the players physical attributes, which is vital to endure the full 90 minutes of a match and cover the pitch no matter its surface and weather conditions, and ultimately have the physical preferences to play with your preferred playing style, either its a style based on physical strength and aggression, quick tempo or direct football where pace and covering large distances is in focus.

A coach signed as the role of a fitness coach can only be assigned to the two fitness categories, and are described as a specialist since they can not be assigned to any other coaching categories.

When looking for a good fitness coach you should set the minimum attribute level to at least 17 where 20 is the best, since there are few other parameters than the fitness attributes which determines his expertise and his quality of it. The general training categories are the most important training categories, and covers the players technical and tactical abilities — their set of skills which determine their best player role.

The coaching staff working to improve technical, tactical and secondly mental attributes is highly decisive in terms of match performance and player reaction on an event by event basis within the match engine.

The level of the coaching staff and your clubs training facilities will be some of the matters outside player potential and injury susceptibility which impacts on each players chance to improve their current ability and finally reach their potential ability level. Tactical coaches will spend their focus on the tactical side of the game providing more accurate advises and explicit information on how the players shall perform under the current tactical philosophy and chosen player roles.

The tactical coaches will look to improve the players interaction between each other and how the players shall behave in the benefit of the team as well as improving the players overall knowledge on being tactical astute. Herein lies focus on improving vital mental attributes such as decision making, anticipation, composure, concentration, vision, teamwork and off the ball. A tactical astute coach has the ability to accurately assess situations and therefore coach the tactical side of the game more effectively.

It is also important to look at the coaches tactical knowledge and his preferred formation according to your tactics, when choosing a good tactical coach.

Your tactical coach is also the natural choice to be responsible for backroom advice on the tactical area of the game. You can choose any of your general coaches or assistant manager to be responsible for providing you advice on tactical areas, but I recommend a staff with high level of tactical coaching and tactical knowledge.

Defending coaches will work with the out of possession phase of the game relating to situations where the team looks to recover possession of the ball and translate your instructions on how to keep shape or regroup in transition phases, players abilities with dealing with opposite players to reduce the risk of conceding e.

The defending training category are split into;. The coaches will work on the defensive areas of the game relating to aggression, concentration and positioning.

They will look to improve players defensive qualities out of possession and how the players shall deal with the negative transition of the game when the team loses possession of the ball. Their tactical understanding and pressing style is some of the related areas of importance. When coaching the defensive side of the game its important that the coach can translate tactical plans within your tactic in a way the players understands and improve players positioning and understanding on how they shall behave in the defensive phase more effectively.

Coaches assigned to the defending technical training will look to improve the players abilities in terms of marking and tackling. Broadly speaking they will look to improve players abilities in pressing intensity and how to recover possession of the ball and how to eliminate threats.

Their Marking Style is some of the related areas of importance. Good attacking coaches can be difficult to find and attract the interest of. Since their primarily focus will be on attacking movements, creativity and technical abilities in front of the goal they will have an important influence on the players tactical understanding of the attacking phase or situations where the team is in possession with the ball.

Attacking tactical coaches looks to improve the players creativity and unpredictability in movements and their composure in front of the goal or when in possession of the ball. The coaches assigned to attacking technical category will work primarily with player roles which will come into goal scoring opportunities and influence the game in the final third.

The coaches working at the possession training category will look to improve players tactical understanding of the game, such as reading of the game in and out of possession, their decision-making and broadly speaking their technical abilities with the ball.

Personally, this is one of the most important training areas and should be carefully attended with a skilled coach. The coaches playing style is one relating areas of importance that I tend to look at when signing coaches for this area. The coaches will work to improve technical abilities in possession of the ball. Herein comes technique, first touch, dribbling, passing and heading , some basic qualities for all footballers, either their in the defensive or attacking unit.

In regard to a short passing playing philosophy I would say all players needs to have the abilities to control the ball under pressure and often in tiny areas, something that requires both high tactical and technical abilities relating to the possession training category. Assigning a good possession technical coach is important but often difficult, due to the high ratings of technical attribute required in relationship to mental.

A high attribute will most often deliver more consistent and successful results than a low one. This means that a staff with excellent attributes for his position should be relied upon and trusted more. The reports, advices and feedback a staff with higher attributes will provide more truthful information. These staff with attributes in or around 10, which is a fairly great level for lower league staff, are of course less reliable.

But in fact, then the level of attributes for the staff will take into account the league average for the staff employed in that particular role. The league average is viewable within the Comparison tab for the coaching, recruitment and medical team within Staff Overview. To an example, if you possess a coaching team who are best at tactical coaching, possessing a coach with 11 in attribute when the league average is 6, it means that the advices and feedback he delivers might not be the most accurate, but will be the best within the club, for that particular playing level at the current time.

A top quality coach working with players below his ability are worth their weight in gold. Their effect on the squad and its development will be more noticeable and solid than one working on the same level as their abilities. Similar to any players, backroom staff has a current and potential ability attribute attached to their profile. While these attributes are hidden, staff with unfulfilled potential ability will have the chance to improve their staff attributes and star rating.

This is often the case for younger staff who sees the benefit of improving themselves — high determination — and are not reaching the latter days of their coaching career where certain staff attributes may stand still or decrease the older they gets.

His current star rating and coaching qualification will be some of the indicators of his current ability and could be some filters to set on the custom staff search view to track down the best backroom staff.

Since a staffs coaching qualification is related to his current ability, letting coaches attend coaching courses will eventually improve their level of staff attributes — their coaching quality and skills.

Normally I am a greedy one, so I search for the 3 attributes at 15 first with the primary training attribute too the default is 15 after all :P. Should be a helpful article, I used to search for man management instead of motivating last year : , perhaps we could make a coaches list too? What about Physios? Would the same search filter apply or is it not really necessary for that role? Good luck. Thanks a lot Johnny. Backroom matters are always so mysterious and I am one who constantly rotates coaches in and out of my set-up.

Good to see a concrete guide. One question though, I seem to notice that shooting coaches rely on three stats technical, attacking, and mental. Can you verify this?

Thanks for the heads up although I already knew must of it. However Johnny is there any benefit of having more than one coach for each training catagory? You need more coaches on a schedule if you have many players, that way the workload will be divided between those coaches.

Nice little guide that, always struggled with optimising my coaches to get my players to their full potential. Hey, im using mancity, some of my players are complaining about their high traning workload. Some of my players are complaining about that too, but just a couple of players. So my advice is to ignore the ones who complain if you have just one or two of those or change your training schedules if there are too many players that are complaining.

Hi, thanks for your suggestions! But if you do feel free to share ;. You have to check the finances screen, especially the expenses, and see where you can make some cuts. I guess you have to move forward a few days in the game and then try to offer him a contract as a coach. Im playing with QPR nd they dont allow me to have more than 4 coaches , I tried interact with the board but it didnt work… is there anything that I can do or I have to wait another season?

I became aware of it when I was signing players for Arsenal, at first the scouting reports for my old club Sheff. Wed came up, when I erased them and got the report from the Arsenal scout Peter Clark I was shocked to see that they were sometimes 2 stars lower than the Sheff Wed.

So the stars are not fixed general ratings, they depend on the squad that potential transfer would join. Makes sense? I have also had ppms take from a full season to just a few days to learn, so if the coach does make a difference to whether or not a ppm is learned and the time it takes then what attributes should i want in a coach who i only want for teaching ppms?

A good coach should have high determination, discipline and motivation. Apart from those, I think that the important attributes vary depending on the skill that you want them to teach: defending for defensive skills, technique for technical attributes and so on. Connect with us. Step 1 — Search The first thing that you have to do is go to the staff search screen.

Step 2 — Filters Once you reach the staff search screen you will have to filter the available staff to narrow down your search. Related Topics. Notify of. Oldest Newest Most Voted. Inline Feedbacks. Hi Johnny, This is great and I have just started a new save as well so I will use this to see if I can improve my fortunes on the pitch. PS; love your current save :.

Johnny Karp. Here are 10 reasons to join! Your content on FM Scout We are always looking for quality content creators, capable of producing insightful articles. Do YOU have what it takes? Top Free Agents on FM Absolute Best Coaches in FM Great guide. Used it for a while now. I'm also a member of FMBase.