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Football Manager 2010 gives you the options of many different coaching roles from the very specific fitness coaches to the more general coaches who will take any part of training. Each has a role, but how is it best to set out what roles they have?
From what we learned from part one coaching teams should be balanced, ensuring good quality throughout the different aspects in order to get the best results on the field from your side. But their is a few different ways too approach balance, but before your strategy it is important to know what each of the coaches do.
What role do the coaches perform?
Coach
The most general of all the roles, he can train anyone, he will be able to train anything. Best utilised based on his attributes to where he will be best training.
First Team Coach
Just like the general coach this man is to train any particular area of training that his attributes suit. Although he will only work with your first team players as his name suggests. Anyone who isn’t in the under 18′s. You will want him to have attributes similar to a normal coach.
Youth Coach
The guy that is responsible for the development of your under 18 squad, he will not have any contact with any of your first team players, so at anyone time he could be handling up to 20 people. I am sorry for stating the obvious but bare with me for the reasons of this post, but you will want your youth coach to have a high attribute in working with youngsters.
Goalkeeping Coaches
The goalkeeping coaches will be looking to work on, goalkeeping is important but as it was suggested in part one, tactics can be a really important aspect of goalkeeping. Anticipation, decisions and positioning are all important aspects of goalkeeping so you will want to make sure that your goalkeeping coach is able to handle this part of training.
Fitness Coach
The fitness coach will only work on strength and aerobics of your side the physical attributes of training. Although this is a very specialist coach, he is going to have to work hard with almost everyone on in the squad, so that it maybe a good idea to have a couple of coaches within this role that have high fitness coaching attributes.
Coaches or Specialised Coaches?
So now we know what each of the coach roles do, it then begs the question how many of these coaches do you need and what combination? But also if the coach will actually perform all these tasks then why don’t you just have a whole load of coaches and forget about the specialised roles. What is your strategy?
The amount of coaches you have will depend on what you want to train your players. If you are concentrating on the fitness and physical ability of your side then expect to have more coaches that are able to handle fitness training. But having coaches specialised in different areas will help reduce the work loads on your coaching team and hopefully you will find that those coaches that have put themselves in a particular profession will be much better at the role you want them to perform making it much easier for you to identify good coaches.
It is much more important that you have a coach or two covering each area of the training to gain the best benefits from keeping the workload down on coaches, as your coach will be more effective if he had less people to train.
Although I wonder if anyone has experimented on whether having youth coaches or normal coaches has developed young players any quicker? But if you have a good set of coaches who are able to work with youngsters this should do the job.
The biggest advantage of having specialised coaches in your side is that they will demand less wages. The more roles that you can do in your workplace, the more valuable you are going to be and you will probably earn much more then someone with less skills. It is the same for FM coaches, so in an attempt to control your wage bill and make money, it maybe a good idea to bring in coaches to do the roles well and specialised doing their best job for much cheaper.
If you find that fantastic top flight first team or youth coach that you can’t live without, or even a goalkeeping coach that could also be implemented as a fitness coach too. Offering these coaches contracts performing more roles can really entice a good new coach to come to the club. But for the small clubs, a coach that has more strings to his bow will be much better then having a superb fitness coach taking on training in other areas.
Both approaches therefore have their advantages and it is up to you and your circumstances what works best. But I think that there is plenty of room for discussion here and I would like to here what you think is the best approach to coaching roles in your backroom team and if having them on different contracts has much of an affect on your squad development.
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Thing is, if you’re a small club you’re only allowed a few coaches, so you’ve got to go for general. If you’re a big club and can have loads of coaches, the pennies you save in having specialists is hardly worth the bother. I’d be interested to know if specialist coaches bring any extra benefit to training, but as far as I know, no one’s ever demonstrated that it makes ant difference.
You definitely right, I think at certain clubs these sort of savings can make a hell of a difference, especially if you are ruthless in your negotiations. But at smaller clubs you will want to build up your coaching team slowly. Having coaches that can multi task and allow you to have a steady amount of stars in training as you grow build up different areas. It won’t do your players any good if you have 5 star attacking coaches and a 1 star defending.
With the smaller clubs I just go for a balance of stats, you can always find coaches on the cheap who have decent stats and if you cant just have a look at the applicants in the job centre. Theres always a scout to be had.
When you get a few seasons in you can find loads of quality regen staff aswell, and they’ll take peanut wages.
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At Chelsea, I have just retired Michael Ballack and made him a coach.
I have put his training roles as his lower attributes (eg, tactical – 7).
I was wondering if this will improve his weaker attributes as he is only a new and young coach?
With a club like Chelsea you have enough high quality staff to maximise the stars and get the most out of your training facilities, and still have spare capacity to experiment like this. I like to retain club legends as young coaches and see them develop. With your Ballack, there are a few issues here – first he’ll have staff CA/PA, and it’s not uncommon for staff to start with CA close to PA – i.e. they won’t develop their attributes much at all. If he does have capacity to increase his attributes, much depends on his staff Determination (different to player Det) and other mental/personality attributes. Finally, the idea of setting him to his weakest area is certainly intriguing. I’ve never heard of anyone doing that – I hope you report back later with results. I doubt it would work, but a s I say, you can try these things at Chelsea without jeapordising the bigger picture.
Great advice from Phnomphenhandy, I do know that coaches can improve their skills and that determination has alot to do with it, but I don’t know what other factors will make a coach great or not. I have found that all too many players that make coaches don’t turn out to well.
I dont think setting him at his weakest point would work, but as Phnomphenhandy says no harm in trying it out. I hope it works out well for Ballack.
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