Sussex Hammer

To add depth to my West Ham squad I have retrained Veloso as a left back, Gabbidon and Ferdinand as Right Backs and Mark Noble as both AM and DM.

My question is in three parts.

a. If you retrain a player do they lose effectiveness on their natural position?

b. Is "accomplished" as high as you will get on a retrained player or can they go as far as becoming "natural" to a new position?

c. Once they have retrained to that position do you leave them continuously retraining or put them back to default?

Thanks,.

FrazT

a. if you dont play them in their natural position then yes- if you continue to play them sometime , then no.

b.this has always been a thorny question but the consensus has been that you cannot get any better than accomplished, unless that is your starting point.

c. once they have reached the level you want, they can go back on their normal schedules.

kristoaster

I've always found that if you retrain a player to a new position, they will lose it after a few weeks if you stop training them for it

Cleon

b) If the player is young then there is a chance he can learn a new natural position, but for this he already needs a decent rating for the position you are training him.

isuckatfm

Older players with low versatility are less likely to maintain their retrained position without keeping the training even if they continue to play in that position.

I had this with Justin Hoyte. I retrained him as a left back, his positional rating went up but he started moaning about it so I took him off the training. Despite still playing regularly as a left back his positional rating dropped back down to where it had been prior to the specific new position training.

Although this is only one player in one scenario so it might not be the 'normal' behaviour.