Well, personally, I would suggest a 4-2-3-1 - whether that be with defensive midfielders or central midfielders, it doesn't matter that much really as both can be used as primary or secondary formations in a rotational system. The 4-2-3-1 formation maintains possession, keeps direct control of the match and allows the team to basically attack whenever they feel best. Liverpool, on Football Manager, are more than capable of doing so and the players in their current crop (as they show now in real-life) under Dalglish.
It should have Andy Carroll as an Advanced Forward, but under the instructions of the 'modern Target Man, Suarez and Kuyt as wingers and either Steven Gerrard or Raul Meireles (an option nonetheless) as an attacking midfielder. Suggested roles for them are Suarez as an Inside Forward (Attack), Kuyt as a Defensive Winger or normal Winger (Both on Attack) and Raul Meireles as an Advanced Playmaker (Support) or as a Trequartista.
Then you could have Lucas and another midfielder, whoever you choose to be the 'destroyer - creator' midfield partnership that is often associated with the formation. Lucas could be a Deep-Lying Playmaker (Defend) and the other as a Ball-Winning Midfielder (Support or Defend, whichever). At the back, the usual, but would recommend one of your defenders as a Limited Defender and the other as a Ball-Playing Defender (Both on Defend duty) whilst the Full Backs are normal and play with Automatic duty.
As for the team instructions, the combinations of Fluid with Standard and Balanced with Counter help in both home and away games and against larger teams than yourself. Short passing, expressive creative freedom, mixed around with high closing down (Press More) and Default tackling would help. Zonal marking, Default crossing and Stick to Position. With Default tackling, I would suggest altering that individually so that it differs in the various thirds of the pitch. The same with Crossing. I would suggest one crosses to the Target Man (Supposedly the one with the better Crossing, Anticipation and Decisions attributes) and the other one to the Far Post. The full backs cross from deep and 'Hug the Touchline'.
I hope that's enough and you gain success from it.
Thanks mate I'll make a new one similar to this one, I made my own tactic yesterday with the modern fullbacks and Andy Carroll as a Target Man - Support with the modern Target Man instructions and put Suarez up as a Complete Forward - Attack, I bough a lot of players (I do that in the first season and then calm down) and I put in AML & AMR as Wingers - Attack those are Eden Hazard & Douglas Costa, both left footed but that's ok in my opinion, they're both naturally AMC's but I'm retraining them to AML & AMR (both accomplished in those positions), I have Steven Gerrard as an Adv. Playmaker - Attack in the MCL position and Lucas as a Ball Winning Midfielder - Support. The Modern Fullbacks are Aly Cissokho and Glen Johnson, then I have Sakho as a normal defender - cover and Phil Jones as a Ball Playing Defender - Stopper, it's still early but my first two games were against Skonto in the EC and I wont 0-4 away and 9-0 home.
Going to make another one with your instructions because I have enough dept in my squad for new tactics and it's always nice to give the AI a tactical surprise.
My squad:
GK: Reina, Alex Smithies, Brad Jones.
DR: Johnson, Sebastian Jung, Jordan Spence (P/Ex for Kyrgiakos).
DL: Cissokho, Aurelio, Wilson, Robinson.
Ball Playing DC: Phil Jones, Wilson, Carragher.
Covering DC: Sakho, Carragher, Wilson.
Ball Winning MC: Lucas, Gerrard, Meireles, Poulsen (He's going out next season lol)
Adv. Playmaker: Gerrard, Meireles, Cairney, Shelvey.
AMR: Douglas Costa, Kuyt, Gerrard, Joe Cole.
AML: Eden Hazard, Martin Zeman, Joe Cole, Vaclav Kadlec, Kuyt.
Target Man: Andy Carroll, Tomas Necid.
Complete Forward: Luis Suarez, Vaclav Kadlec.
I usually always change something in the player roles, so not all of the roles are in the default settings.
