Now you know which are the essential attributes for each player, you already have a cracking shortlist of under 18 top youngsters, you also have a good training schedule to download, all you need is a good set of coaches to help your players develop into top notch professionals. Today I am going to tell you which are the attributes that you should look for when signing a new coach for your team. Here we go!
The best approach is to have specialized coaches for each training category, that way you would be able to get the most out of their abilities. For instance if you have a good attacking coach don’t waste his talent by putting him on the defending training category and so on. Here are the coach attributes that are essential for each training category:
Strength — Fitness, Determination, Level of Discipline, Motivating
Aerobic — Fitness, Determination, Level of Discipline, Motivating
GK — Shot Stopping — Goalkeeping, Determination, Level of Discipline, Motivating
GK — Handling — Goalkeeping, Determination, Level of Discipline, Motivating
Tactics — Tactical, Determination, Level of Discipline, Motivating
Ball Control — Mental, Technical, Determination, Level of Discipline, Motivating
Defending — Defending, Tactical, Determination, Level of Discipline, Motivating
Attacking — Attacking, Tactical, Determination, Level of Discipline, Motivating
Shooting — Attacking, Technical, Determination, Level of Discipline, Motivating
You will be able to see how effective your coaches are by the number of stars that are shown for each of the training categories like in the screen shot below.
The stars are calculated through a rather complicated formula, I wouldn’t advise you to calculate those yourselves. Fortunately there is a great little tool that can help you with that: the FM Coach Calculator. You will just have to enter the attributes and the program will tell you how many stars that coach would get for each training category.
The program can be downloaded by clicking on the image below, it will redirect you to The Dugout forums where it was initially posted.
There you go, I hope this will help you to manage your team better and drive your club to glory. By the way, I have just re-opened the forum with a new design and better functionality, I hope we’ll be starting some nice discussions in there about FM 2011 and football in general.
Sears
11 декабря, 2010 at 21:31
Thanks Johnny, this will be very helpful as I don’t spend an awful lot of time searching for new coaches.
Johnny Karp
11 декабря, 2010 at 21:35
Coaches are important Sears, I always pay special attention to that area and to the scouts as well.
Kevin
12 декабря, 2010 at 10:07
Hi Johhny
I can say honestly this is very useful as I asked about coaching attributes earlier in the year. Now if only I had the money to sign any :)
Johnny Karp
12 декабря, 2010 at 10:27
You won’t be able to get the perfect coaches in the lower leagues but at least you will know what to look for when signing one.
Ana Garcia
12 декабря, 2010 at 12:16
I always try to get the best coaches I can! Its like the first thing I do when I get to a club the formula is quite tricky but I understand it which is a surprise!
Does that program find them for you or simply work out the amount of star’s?
Johnny Karp
12 декабря, 2010 at 12:24
The program just calculates the stars, you have to insert the attributes and it does the rest of the work. You will still have to look for the coaches yourself :)
Ana Garcia
12 декабря, 2010 at 12:29
Ha!
Ok, thought it was too good to be true! :)
I think I will just stick to my calculator!
Jack
12 декабря, 2010 at 19:53
This group of posts you have been working on are really helpful :) Keep up the good work!
Johnny Karp
12 декабря, 2010 at 20:09
Thanks Jack, I’m doing my best to provide helpful stuff ;)
Mariano
19 декабря, 2010 at 03:09
Nice post, and since i haven´t been visiting your site for a while, neither playing FM, i have to say it´s getting beter and better!
Lots of great information to learn.
I will start a game managing my argentinian team San Lorenzo to see if i can get the FM bug again!
Johnny Karp
19 декабря, 2010 at 10:30
Hi Mariano, nice to see you again! :) I’m sure you’ll have an exciting career with San Lorenzo and the FM bug will crawl back under your skin :)
Cj
23 декабря, 2010 at 22:07
That’s definetly is going to help me
Thank you very much!
Mariano
30 января, 2011 at 05:29
Hi Johnny,
Thanks for one more useful post!
But what about the youngsters coach?
Which attributes are important when looking for one beseides coaching youngsters?
Do they coach with players?, The U17 only?
Cheers
Johnny Karp
30 января, 2011 at 08:15
Youth coaches can work only with the youth team. About the attributes, I think that they need the exact same ones as the first team coaches plus a decent number next to «working with youngsters».