If you want to achieve success in Football Manager 2012 you need good players, that’s the first thing. But having good players is not enough because those players have to train properly in order to perform well on the pitch and that’s where coaches come in. A winning team needs good coaches and I’m going to help you understand how you can find the best coaches in Football Manager 2012. This is a simple step by step guide that can be very useful even for beginners.
Step 1 — Search
The first thing that you have to do is go to the staff search screen. That’s easy: just click on your name in the top navigation bar, then move your mouse cursor over «Search» in the drop-down menu and then click on «Staff» in the new menu that pops up.
Step 2 — Filters
Once you reach the staff search screen you will have to filter the available staff to narrow down your search. First make sure that you check the box that allows your assistant to filter out the unrealistic target and then add the following attribute filters: Determination, Level of Discipline and Motivating. These three mental attributes are essential for any good coach and my recommendation is to sign coaches with at least 10 for each of these attributes and even more if you manage a top team.
Step 3 — Specialists
My recommendation is to have at least 5 coaches, 2 fitness coaches and 2 goalkeeping coaches and assign them according to their attributes in your training screen by clicking on the «coaches» tab. The goal is to have as many stars as possible for each training category.
Last but not least, here are the coaching attributes that are important for each training category:
Aerobic — Fitness
Strength — Fitness
Shot Stopping — Goalkeepers
Handling — Goalkeepers
Tactics — Tactical
Ball control — Technical (primary) + Mental
Attacking — Attacking (primary) + Tactical
Defending — Defending (primary) + Tactical
Shooting — Technical (primary) + Attacking
That’s how it’s done, let me know if you have any questions or if you need more details.
P.S.: This is just the first post of a series of «how to» FM 2012 posts that I want to publish and I am looking forward to any suggestions of topics that you would want me to cover.
Neil_b
6 января, 2012 at 14:26
Hi Johnny,
This is great and I have just started a new save as well so I will use this to see if I can improve my fortunes on the pitch.
I have just finished a save were I was Man Utd and I did really well for four Seasons then all the players that I new about were old and pretty poor.I would like to know how to set up a really good scouting network so that I can get good players in before there value goes up and I have to spend a fortune to acquire them. I use the Y2G model but never seem to reap the full benefits.
PS; love your current save :)
Nathan
6 января, 2012 at 15:03
Get some good scouts, make sure you scout Brazil as I’ve found a few cheap regens who are gems there :)
If I’m not wrong the regen date for Germany is something like the 10th of March, and Spain soon after (basically 3 months before the FM2011 regen dates). Italy is also around that time, I’ve found great regens there as well. If you get in early, you can sign the players before they sign a contract, so you only have to pay a low fee if they want to join you. Basically pick up players with good potential, but also check out their stats to see if they’re what you want. High determination and work rate are important, if a player has great stats but low determination get someone with high determination to tutor them. I think Darren should just write a guide on it :)
Scouting european international U19s, and a few of the U19/U18 leagues will also help, along with roaming scouts who are set to find young players. 2 of my best regens are norwegians, also cheap, probably from a roaming or international U19 scout. As you can see I focus on Europe mostly.
Johnny Karp
6 января, 2012 at 15:12
I will do a future post on scouts, stay tuned ;)
Neil_b
6 января, 2012 at 15:21
Nathan/Johnny thanks for this hopefully i will pick up some hints and tips to make my save successful.
vaibhavc
6 января, 2012 at 16:20
Wow this is a good guide. I still use the handbook to help me find scouts as well. I can’t wait to see your other guides that are coming up.
Johnny Karp
6 января, 2012 at 17:04
Thanks Vaibhav, I will try to add more of these as often as possible. As for the handbook, most of the things in there apply to FM 2012 as well.
TheZiggy
6 января, 2012 at 19:16
What you’ve put is great when you’re playing with a club that doesn’t put wage restrictions in the way. What I found when I started with Torquay was that I couldn’t really find affordable coaches very easily. I made a mistake my first season, and only really worked out a good approach for the second season. I then looked for coaches who had good attributes for whichever training category I was looking for, and then tried to pick out those who had a decent combination of determination, motivation and discipline.
Jody Morris is a particular example, who is 4 star rated for Ball Control, but only has the dmd stats of 12, 9 and 12, has 20 in mental and 16 in technical. He is easily affordable for clubs with tight finances. Once my finances are much better, I’ll be able to search based on their DMD attributes, as they seem to be the coaches demanding the highest wages.
Johnny Karp
6 января, 2012 at 19:23
You are right, the minimum of 10 for DDM can be a bit high for smaller clubs but you can lower that gradually until you find suitable staff.
Ana Garcia
6 января, 2012 at 19:25
Very useful!
The first thing I usually do is to get as many coaches as I can to boost my training schedules. Some how I always remember what to look for in each coach!
I am too intrigued to see the other guides, you can never stop learning as they say!
I would love a guide on how to win playoff games. :)
Johnny Karp
6 января, 2012 at 19:29
Thanks Ana. I’m afraid I won’t have a guide on how to win playoff games though, that’s mostly about luck and you can’t train luck ;)
Darren Smith
6 января, 2012 at 19:34
Good guide Johnny and I do exactly the same as you I think. I enter the staff role, the key ‘DMD’ attributes at minimum of 10 and then minimum of 15 for the technical, attacking… attributes. I then lower the attributes accordingly if wages are a problem. Anyway, can’t wait to see your next subject, it can be tough to understand massive guides as your brain can only process so much info, but these snippets work well.
Johnny Karp
6 января, 2012 at 19:44
It’s no surprise to see that we think alike on yet another topic :)
Victor
6 января, 2012 at 20:11
It is a very helpful post and I’ll try to do exactly as you advised here and I hope my players will be able to train better.
I hope you’ll continue successful this series of tutorials.
Johnny Karp
6 января, 2012 at 20:24
Thanks Victor, I’ll try to keep the series going and I also hope that you will make good use of the advice.
Kevin
6 января, 2012 at 20:22
Hi Johnny
I’ve been using the worng filters the whole time, no wonder my traing sucks!
Next guide: how to play like Johnny and score loads of goals :)
Johnny Karp
6 января, 2012 at 20:25
Well, then I guess I should have published it earlier, my mistake! :) That guide is already there, it says use my tactic and get good players ;)
David
6 января, 2012 at 23:08
Hey Johnnyl,
First of all, thank u for one more brilliant quick guide! I’ve being around for the last Couple of month’s, and this is my first Reply ever. Let me tell u that I’ve read every single post in this site, and I’m still amazed!!!! Now, about the guide (it’s brilliant), I read somewhere, something about this, but the target’s for coach’s atributes (mental ones) where Determination, Adaptability, Lvl of Discipline and Motivation. If u target to have @ least a total of 60 point’s in this you than find good Training skill’s let’s say Fitness on a minimum of 18 and you have a 5 star rated Coach on that category. I tried already, in some top club’s (Sporting Clube de Portugal & Flamengo) and it work’s. Just wanted to take the opportunity to share this with the community in a appreciation for wonderful job that you guy’s do here. I wouln’t survive in FM for more that a couples of hours if it wasn’t for you guy’s, and now I cant survive with out FM :)
Cheers
Johnny Karp
7 января, 2012 at 10:39
Hi David, thanks a lot for the comment. I don’t think that adaptability is that important but I will look into it.
David
7 января, 2012 at 16:00
I again,
Just wanted to let you that I just tried to do exactly what you said and it works perfectly. Luckly I just got promoted with Boavista and went fro 3 to 12 coach’s alowed and all of them are 4 stars rated, what in my opinion it’s great for a LLM. So it seem’s that adaptability is out of my requirement’s. So once again thank you…
Cheers M8
Johnny Karp
7 января, 2012 at 16:27
Good to hear that it’s working. And I agree that 4 stars is excellent for a newly-promoted team.
CsAtlantis
7 января, 2012 at 00:32
Normally I am a greedy one, so I search for the 3 attributes at 15 first with the primary training attribute too (the default is 15 after all :P)
Should be a helpful article, I used to search for man management instead of motivating last year :(, perhaps we could make a coaches list too?
Johnny Karp
7 января, 2012 at 10:39
Jake made such a list last year, I guess I’ll think about it.
Kevin
7 января, 2012 at 12:20
Hi Johnny
What about Physios? Would the same search filter apply or is it not really necessary for that role?
Cheers.
Johnny Karp
7 января, 2012 at 12:55
Physios also need those three mental attributes plus «physiotherapy».
siavosh
7 января, 2012 at 14:41
hi johnny,
Good and usefull tips man, i will wait for your next ”how to ” and also your story.
Good luck
Johnny Karp
7 января, 2012 at 14:43
Thanks buddy, the new episode of the story has just been published a few minutes ago ;)
Sears
7 января, 2012 at 21:01
I always search for staff with high ‘DMD’, it’s so important in the latest versions of FM. I’ve begun to understand recently and now I’m signing the very best of coaches that are available to my team. Jake’s guide last year helped me tremendously ;)
Really looking forward to more of these guides, cheers Johnny!
Johnny Karp
7 января, 2012 at 22:50
Cheers mate, I will try to post these as frequently as possible.
Bhargav
8 января, 2012 at 00:36
Thanks a lot Johnny. Backroom matters are always so mysterious and I am one who constantly rotates coaches in and out of my set-up. Good to see a concrete guide. One question though, I seem to notice that shooting coaches rely on three stats technical, attacking, and mental. Can you verify this?
Johnny Karp
8 января, 2012 at 09:36
As far as I know shooting coaches need technical and attacking.
nielsneutron
9 января, 2012 at 19:36
Thanks for the heads up although I already knew must of it. However Johnny is there any benefit of having more than one coach for each training catagory?
Johnny Karp
9 января, 2012 at 20:15
You need more coaches on a schedule if you have many players, that way the workload will be divided between those coaches.
Mondzz
10 января, 2012 at 15:14
Nice little guide that, always struggled with optimising my coaches to get my players to their full potential.
This will help alot in the future for me cheers mate!
Johnny Karp
10 января, 2012 at 20:28
Cheers, I’m glad that you find it useful.
Chan
13 января, 2012 at 07:00
Hey, im using mancity, some of my players are complaining about their high traning workload. if i reduced their workload im scared that it will affect other players too.what shoud i do?
Johnny Karp
13 января, 2012 at 08:01
Some of my players are complaining about that too, but just a couple of players. So my advice is to ignore the ones who complain if you have just one or two of those or change your training schedules if there are too many players that are complaining.
patrizio
26 января, 2012 at 15:21
Hi, thanks for your suggestions! it would be great if you can also post something about how to «read» the match, meaning what are the best orders to be shouted on the pitch to your players..I have some idea but I’d like to know what do you think about it. Thanks in advance’
Johnny Karp
26 января, 2012 at 18:19
I don’t use shouts that often so I guess I don’t have any important advice on that. But if you do feel free to share ;)
luke
27 января, 2012 at 18:41
quick one. does it matter on the number of staff you have? like how many scouts should i have? i have about 6 which salaries are about £25k together. and about 6 youth coaches.
im new to FM so not sure on everything yet, it’s jsut im loosing £12m a month !!
luke
27 января, 2012 at 19:27
ignore the amount of coaches, didn’t see you’ve wrote it up there. but if you could help with my other problem i’d appreciate it, £12m a month profit loss doesn’t sound good!
Johnny Karp
28 января, 2012 at 12:16
That’s a very big monthly loss. You have to check the finances screen, especially the expenses, and see where you can make some cuts.
Gabriel
4 марта, 2012 at 20:43
Hi- I’m starting a Manchester City save and have tried to appoint Jose Segura from Liverpool as a coach. However, by accident, I chose youth coach and my board intervened saying ‘we already have enough youth coaches’ when i tried to offer him the contract again, it wouldn’t let me, how do i get round that?
Johnny Karp
4 марта, 2012 at 21:28
I guess you have to move forward a few days in the game and then try to offer him a contract as a coach.
Laust
22 апреля, 2012 at 14:59
Wow.. really nice to know. I just got my first 5 star scout, hope it gives better training.
Juraj Zovko
27 апреля, 2012 at 22:26
Im playing with QPR nd they dont allow me to have more than 4 coaches , I tried interact with the board but it didnt work… is there anything that I can do or I have to wait another season?
Mahlon Christensen
25 июня, 2012 at 04:57
Hi All,
Just took over Arsenal in 2022, and I’m noticing a talent evaluation discrepancy. I became aware of it when I was signing players for Arsenal, at first the scouting reports for my old club (Sheff. Wed) came up, when I erased them and got the report from the Arsenal scout(Peter Clark) I was shocked to see that they were sometimes 2 stars lower than the Sheff Wed. evaluations My quandary is who to believe, especially since their judgment is so similar.
Peter Clark(Arsenal)
JA: 20
JP 16
Alan Miller(Sheff. Wed.
JA:19
JP 18
My fear is signing or transfer listing players based on my Arsenal coach’s evaluation when they might actually be better than he thinks. I’d be grateful for any help because this is my second stint with Arsenal, and I don’t want to mess it up this time :)
Thanks and best of luck with your careers.
—Mahlon—
Johnny Karp
25 июня, 2012 at 16:34
A player that is considered at 5 stars for Sheff Wed can’t be a 5-star player for Arsenal, mainly because the demands are a lot greater at a club like Arsenal. So the stars are not fixed general ratings, they depend on the squad that potential transfer would join. Makes sense?
Mahlon Christensen
25 июня, 2012 at 17:40
Yes, it’s as I thought, I just wanted to make sure. Thanks Johnny!
—Mahlon—
Alex
4 июля, 2012 at 23:20
can a coaches attributes effect whether or not a ppm is learned/unlearned or not ( because i got one of my players to place shots even though the coaches all said that it couldn’t be done) so was that just luck, the players determination or was it the coach in some way???
Johnny Karp
5 июля, 2012 at 08:08
I’m not entirely sure how that works but normally a better coach should be able to help a player learn a particular move.
Alex
5 июля, 2012 at 15:09
I have also had ppms take from a full season to just a few days to learn, so if the coach does make a difference to whether or not a ppm is learned and the time it takes then what attributes should i want in a coach who i only want for teaching ppms?
its just the reason i want to know this is because i have got players who have «shoots from distance» and «always get forward», and i will have to sell them even though they are good players purely because they screw up my tactics.
Johnny Karp
6 июля, 2012 at 10:53
A good coach should have high determination, discipline and motivation. Apart from those, I think that the important attributes vary depending on the skill that you want them to teach: defending for defensive skills, technique for technical attributes and so on.