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Is there something to be lost by assigning an extra coach to a training category if his attribute in that area is low? In each category, the only feedback the game gives you is coaches' workload and lead coach star rating. There's nothing about average or overall rating or anything like that. On...

So, sending out young players on loan is obviously beneficial since they get first-team football, but the trade-off is that a team willing to play your youngsters would have substantially inferior coaching staff and training/youth facilities. So where do you draw the line? Generally...

Not sure if this belongs here but, I'm playing in English League 1. The state of the club is as follows: I joined half way through the 16/17 season, when the team was expected mid-table finish but was in the relegation zone. Finished that season in 5th, lost in the playoff final. This...

How important is quickness for centre backs? From what I've read, this is both acceleration and pace. The reason I ask is that my staff are always bugging me to set essentially all my centre bscks' individual training focus on quickness, but I feel like they'd be better off focusing on other...

Is it just me or do the goalkeepers recover substantially slower after stopping a shot in FM15? As in, they would stop a shot, stay down for a while, and take his sweet time getting up, reoriented, and ready to stop subsequent shots. This whole recovery process seems much longer than it was in...

Do you guys feel that you have to mix up your tactics every now and then? I'm not talking about adjusting it based on the strengths/weaknesses of a particular opponent, but mixing it up just for the sake of mixing it up, maybe so that you're not predictable or something. One of the manager...