retired_bgold17

What teams or type of teams do you normally play in friendlies.

I usually go for 2 or 3 big name teams and 2 or 3 terrible teams that i like the names of i.e civil service strollers and inverurie loco works

I also play all my games at home because im tight

retired_rotert

Speaking as a Leeds team back in the Prem and doing well...

One crappy non-league local team as a warm up(cos I'm a romantic at heart and want to give them a nice day), then a lower league local team. Both these two games see ten subs at half-time.

Then go on tour for four games - two smaller teams and then two larger teams, eg, in Spain I may go for Majorca and Getafe (still decent but not Champions) and two bigger teams like Sevilla and Deportivo - allowing most of my players 70 mins each at least. My main screen on here shows the players' fitness, so when they dip below 65% I can sub them.

Then back home where I invite two giants to Elland Road from different countries, eg, Bayern and Lazio. By now I have an inkling of what my best team should be and try to play them for the full 90 mins, again monitoring their fitness.

In League 1 and the Championship I usually had a pile of trialists too, so I'd organise a final friendly a couple of days before the season starts especially for my fringe players and trialists, usually a team from my current league or just below.

Oh, and I increase aerobic training on all training plans, decreasing something else to keep the workload the same. By the time the giants come to visit I have reverted back to normal.

retired_ohiostatesteff

I play 6 to 8 big names.

'Big' is correlated with your own reputation and position.
With a Conference League North team it will be hard to invite Barcelona to your ground.

Then I play 3 to 4 non-league teams to restore and enhance the moral & motivation.

I always play at home.

I always play with 22 players, each of them will play 45 minutes in each match.