TIPS FOR TEAM TALKS
- Your assistant manager has the right approach 8/10 times, providing he has decent ,tactical,defending and motivation attribute. So trust his judgement and experiment between letting him do the team talk and taking it yourself to learn what works.
- I'd never recommend not doing a team talk, saying nothing to the players wont motivate them but could have a negative impact on their performance.
- Don't panic if your players fail to react during team talks. Sometimes you can't raise their morale much more and no reaction is better than a bad reaction (9 times out of 10 anyway.)
- When on a poor run of form, don't beat your players down and be negative, try and encourage your players and during extremely tough matches relax them.
- When everything is rosy and the wins keep piling in, be more demanding, be honest with your squad and let them know they are favorites.
- When playing in Europe or any two legged competition, if you have a good lead from the first leg always ?calmly? tell the squad not to get complacent.
- If you expect victory hands down and it doesn't happen, assertively inform your players they were disappointing.
- Try and be supportive, encouraging and positive with your players when possible. The more experienced FMer knows this isn't always the way forward, but for anyone struggling with team talks, its better to work this way, you?ll create yourself far less problems. It only takes a few poor matches and bad man management to destroy the teams confidence and morale, but you can manage the level it drops by encouraging your squad.
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