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Quickly, I have started to learn the benefit of having good players at your club to tutor a growing side. Gary Neville, Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes it can be debated are past their best and not good enough for Manchester United, with exception to Ryan Giggs. But they will long be wanted by Fergie in the squad because they have instilled within them, values, professionalism and ambition in which United is built upon. Using these players as an example to tutor and nurture the next generation of a Fergies team showing the young players where the team wants to go. It is not coincidence that then United players become top flight managers
Putting together a squad in Football Manager you will want certain mental attributes to reflect in all of your players, these will include hidden ones such as professionalism and ambition as well as those you see take an affect on the pitch. Your transfer policy will do good to reflect this. Considering personality of the players want to bring in and how they will reflect on your squad development before bringing him into the side. These players can not only be an influence on the pitch but influence off the pitch, helping developing your young players of the future.
Buying Experience
Players who have long past the ability to play on the field, might be well suited in a role at your club becoming a minder for the young players. Experienced players will have built up the mental attributes that can make a difference between a good player and a great player, attributes you will want to see in your younger players. This can be really useful when playing in the lower leagues and you can use these players when mental attributes are at a premium.
Older players will obviously be cheap and maybe even free if you look in the right places, but such an experienced head can then be used to pass on their information to your young players becoming a useful addition to the squad. I would consider buying Beckham long into his late 30′s just to capture him as an ideal tutor for my team any of my players.
Have you ever bought any players in with no intention of playing them, just to tutor your players, if so who you brought in?
Mental Attributes
When you put your squad together the aim is to build a culture at the squad. Ideally you want ambitious, loyal and professional players at your club that will give their all in training, will have more drive on the pitch and hopefully be less affected by the pressure of the media or the occasion. The squad personality will be a matter of your own choice and how you think a certain personality will benefit your aims.
The culture and personality traits you build in your firstr team, you will want to continue to instil in the players coming through the ranks and successful sides will see real benefits from professional, determined players will pass these important traits for any player into the younger team. The earlier you do this the quicker they can become first team players. Tutoring will help you also build character in a player, helping them learn some of the hidden attributes that will make up their personality that will make them more or less successful at your club. Think Nani could be as good as Ronaldo if they shared the same determination in training.
Player Preferred Moves
These are behaviours of a certain player, they can be good and bad so be careful what players could be teaching your youngsters. You may not want your young player to go in with two feet or argue with the referee. But then again there maybe other good PPM’s that might fit your tactics or then again might not fit into your tactics.
Consider how PPMs will fit into your players and how they will in turn fit into your tactics. You can learn and unlearn PPMs during training but that also take up more time and effort to do, so better not encouraging certain aspects then having to unlearn them.
Matching players up
Picking the right tutor will be based on what you think they can teach your young player. Leaders, determined and professional players can be really good tutors and aspects of their game you will want to see in your young players. Especially determination which could help them work harder in training and quickly become a better player reaching their full potential. You would never consider putting Joey Barton in charge of one of your young players, you will want the right sort of player to teach the rest.
Personality has to be taken into consideration of both players as they both will need to get along in order to get the full effect from tutoring. If the two have massively opposed personalities then it is likely that they won’t like each other and get the most out of the tutoring. Players will gain more, if they like each other, they will tutor for longer and gain better effect mentally as well as more PPMs. Tutoring may also create new personnel favourites for players which can in the long-term help bond a squad closer together.
It has long been a theory that has been going around the community that the option giving to you when tutoring will affect what the player will learning. But the official SI Games word is that the option only affect what you say about the tutor in the media. Therefore consider the players role in the squad and where the player may think they are and pick accordingly for example key players will be ideal role models.
Tutoring can be therefore key in developing players who share behaviours and personalities of experienced successful players. Helping create these in younger player earlier will help you build up the young team much quicker and hopefully keeping a culture that you want to foster at the club.
I also found some interesting reading in the explanation of the different options at LosWonderkids, although I am not sure how tried and tested these ideas are, it will be interested to see if anyone has put them to the test. But some good extra reading for you FM Pundits.
What have your experiences of tutoring been and what other tips would you offer? Please leave your comments below.
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Hi mate, I have never signed a player just because of his experience but it’s something I might consider, an interesting thought.
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@Laxeyman: I think it could be a really good thing to do especially if you are Ajax with your great youth system you could make sure that those players that are coming through are gaining the highly valuable mental skills that can take the club forward. I am considering picking up David Beckham at Liverpool once his contract is up. Although I might have to do some persuading.
Remember that if you sign someone that is completely past it then you may receive some negativity from the fans and also your board if they think the signing is a really poor one. The best way is to keep your existing aging players rather than bringing in players for the sake of it.
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@Q.: Your not wrong Q, although if you sign a big name then it can also have a positive affect. I signed Rivaldo for Spurs. Although not good enough to play many games many players were positive that I signed him. Obviously you wouldn’t sign someone like Matty Holland for Liverpool you will want a player that has played at the same level or higher. I think as I mentioned Becks he would be a positive signing for Liverpool.
Unless Beckham is on Liverpool’s “hate” list due to being an ex manure player that is
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I have had problems trying to sign him before for Liverpool in 2009 and he choose Everton instead, that did hurt deep inside. I will do some player interaction while he is on loan at Milan, butter him up in time for him to sign for Liverpool when his loan finishes.
assuming that Beckham is hated (he may not be!) Interaction with him might improve his relationship with you and possibly the club but it won’t necessarily improve the clubs view of him and you might get some heat from the fans
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Usually I only pair players up, if it says in the youth players’ personal screen that they are similar to a player in my current squad, the youth player gets really excited about the chance.
if I try to pair up players outside of this, more often than not, it usually doesn’t work out
@Commander Meehan: Yeah similar players are more likely to get on. You just hope that they are more similar to Ryan Giggs then Joey Barton.
Another warning about hiring a past-it legend purely to tutor the kids: the tutor must have a higher squad status than the tutee. If the player is too old and slow for the first team, he’ll need to accept back-up status. Many won’t agree; if you give them a higher status and don’t give them first team football, you’ll have dissention on your hands. The ‘back-up’ legend will therefore be able to tutor the hot prospects and kids okay, but not young first team squad talent – e.g. you wouldn’t be able to have Beckham tutor Lucas.
Very true, not something I considered as most of the time I am tutoring players that will be in my reserve team and youth team. Getting them ready for the first team is what I use tutoring for.
But I entirely agree that just in the case of real life there has to be some mutual respect and if the young player thinks he is already better then the tutor because of his squad status he aint going to take much interest in being tutored by him.
I signed Cristiano Doni to Inter in the 2. season to tutor my young strikers.
He is a leader with good mental skills. He was cheap, required low wages, didn’t play a match and the fans didn’t mind. Lakuku and Coutinho liked his tutoring so I’m pleased
Great article, keep ‘em comin’!
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