retired_jjokisch

I took a look at my staff recently and I noticed that I wasn't surrounded by competent managers and scouts as I thought I was.
So I was wondering how important they are in my training regime and my players development.

retired_elpata

The coaches are very important, get bad ones and your players will suffer. Get good ones and your players should do well.

retired_Siwash

I figured I could ask here; I obviously understand the importance of attributes like Technical coaching and such that effect the # of stars in training, and likewise with Physiotherapy and Judging Potential/Current Ability for Physios and Scouts, but how important are the other staff attributes, and what exactly do they do?

Motivation + Man management is apparently important if you let your Ass. Manager handle team talks, but other than that? Do players under a coach with good motivation, man management and level of discipline train harder? Or are those attributes mainly made for managers? Likewise with Physios, do those three abilities speed up recovery? And do Physios work better with youngsters if they have good abilities there?

Does "Tactical Knowledge" matter if the coach in question doesn't lead the reserves/youth team? What's the relation, if any, between that and "Tactical Coaching"?

Lots of questions I know, and feel free to ask/answer any other, related, questions you might have. Personally I don't have either the time or the patience needed to do any serious testing on this I'm afraid, so all I have to contribute are "intuitions".

Destruction

things like discipline and motivation decrease the time it takes for your players to improve in training, i think that stats like adaptability means how well he will deal with multiple assignments, determination instills will to win in player? i think that the better they are in the mental stats the less the morale of the squad drops? this is all speculation btw.

retired_amberrose31

Yeah, this is something that has always confused me about FM as very few people seem to fully understand training, which is very obtuse at the best of times. Discipline and motivation affecting how quickly your players develop, interesting