Varierty of tactics
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It depends entirely on the qualities of your players and how effectively you can shape a system to bring the best out of them. I've seen some posts where FMers have won everything in their first season or two playing as an already established top team, but to take a mediocre or lower league team to glory, I think you have to be a bit cuter about it.
In my 10-season Southampton save, I have gone from playing my FM2011 tactic of 4-5-1 Assymetric to rotating between three systems - which was when I really started to get sustained success from 2018/19 - before settling on 4-4-1-1 with prolific goalscoring from the Shadow Striker and both of the Deep-Lying Forwards I had on rotation. Then that system stopped working during the run-in to last season (I don't know why!) so I experimented during pre-season and decided on 3-5-2 with my best player operating as an Advanced Playmaker from the centre of a flat midfield-5 and a False-9_Support / Advanced Forward_Attack combination up-front.
Playing that 3-5-2 for most of this season, I have scored 105 goals in the Premier League, although I need Chelsea to slip up in their last match of the season for me to win the title for a 3rd time. I've won both domestic cups and face Porto in the Final of the Champions League, having just overturned a 0-2 1st Leg defeat at the Nou Camp to beat Barcelona 3-2 on aggregate after extra-time at St. Mary's in the Semi-Final.
Having an excellent youth academy and being bought by a wealthy new owner obviously helped, because it enabled me to concentrate my transfer budget on specific areas of the team where I didn't already have a potential 4-star player coming through, to supplement the squad with several U21s who don't have to be registered in the Premier League or European 25-man squads and to maintain a roughly 50% English contingent to my squad - which is also helpful in terms of squad registration when those players get older.
In my 10-season Southampton save, I have gone from playing my FM2011 tactic of 4-5-1 Assymetric to rotating between three systems - which was when I really started to get sustained success from 2018/19 - before settling on 4-4-1-1 with prolific goalscoring from the Shadow Striker and both of the Deep-Lying Forwards I had on rotation. Then that system stopped working during the run-in to last season (I don't know why!) so I experimented during pre-season and decided on 3-5-2 with my best player operating as an Advanced Playmaker from the centre of a flat midfield-5 and a False-9_Support / Advanced Forward_Attack combination up-front.
Playing that 3-5-2 for most of this season, I have scored 105 goals in the Premier League, although I need Chelsea to slip up in their last match of the season for me to win the title for a 3rd time. I've won both domestic cups and face Porto in the Final of the Champions League, having just overturned a 0-2 1st Leg defeat at the Nou Camp to beat Barcelona 3-2 on aggregate after extra-time at St. Mary's in the Semi-Final.
Having an excellent youth academy and being bought by a wealthy new owner obviously helped, because it enabled me to concentrate my transfer budget on specific areas of the team where I didn't already have a potential 4-star player coming through, to supplement the squad with several U21s who don't have to be registered in the Premier League or European 25-man squads and to maintain a roughly 50% English contingent to my squad - which is also helpful in terms of squad registration when those players get older.
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Well, if this is a sim, then it should simulate real life. Looking at clubs with long term managers, they don't really change their approach or formation, they have three options depending on whome they face, and what players they have available. Most long term coaches have an idea of how football should be played, and they stick with that, and just get players that fit their vision. I doubt the game has some sort of algorithm to screw up your tactic, it's just that you need proper players for your tactic...and I mean proper players, not wonderkids but players that fit at least one role and duty in your tactic, preferably more positions.