Speaker 1: Football Manager is a complicated game as it is and training is one of the most complicated aspects within the game in my opinion and a lot of other FM players as well. A lot of us tend to avoid it, delegate training out to other people and whilst you are completely fine to do that, today I'm going to show you five simple things that you can do to your training even if you do delegate it out to your assistants and whatnot that will give you a massive boost in your player's development. As the tips go on we'll get a little bit more advanced and the fifth tip is something that when we spoke about it on the channel the last time that we did it blew a lot of people's minds. Now we made a video like this in FM23, you guys got a lot of joy from it, of course we have updated some of the tips in this video, we've got a few different ones, a few that we'll mention as well that were in that video too. Hopefully you do find it useful, if you do smash the like button, subscribe if you haven't already and with that being said let's get started. Now I must say personally I am someone that usually does do my training by the assistant, letting the assistant do it. If you want to know how to do that by the way go to staff responsibilities training and then delegate it out to your assistant manager. They'll take control of it but even when your assistant manager is doing your training these tips will still apply because you can go hands-on, you'll see a little bit later you can say okay I just want to do the training for this player or for these few players on this occasion and you will get some big boost out of it in terms of your player development. As much as your assistant manager will do a good job, you can do a better job of course by making the training yourself. Now the first thing that fits into this category is mentoring. We'll start off, it's a pretty basic aspect of the game. If you don't know about it, you can find it in the training section, go to mentoring and even if you do delegate your staff to do your training for you, there's a good chance they won't do anything with mentoring. As you can see here our mentoring is empty and we're two years into this save with West Ham which, by the way, is part of a rebuild that I did on my channel which you can find linked in the description. If you do want to check that out, I'd really appreciate any support over there. If you go on over, hit the like button, hit the subscribe button, let me know you came from FM Scout, I'd appreciate that. But as you can see, two years in, the assistant has left the mentoring blank so let's set up some mentoring. The first thing you could do, and we will do a full video about mentoring in a few weeks or so where we really break everything down, but to keep it simple, if you ask the assistant to assign, this is at least in most cases better than doing nothing. It means an older player in your team will have a few players under their wing they're going to try and influence with some of their attributes and traits. So, for example, Tomasz Suchek here is trying to rub his influence off on Archie Gray and Sugawara, Will Prowse doing the same for Nonto and Mubwama and then Bowen is doing the same for Asparilla. Now, you don't necessarily have to have one old player for two young players, you can have two old players and one young player. Of course, do it completely how you like but mentoring isn't always beneficial straight away and that's because one of the things mentoring does is adjust the player's personality based on their mentor. For example, Will Prowse here has 17 Determination and Determination is one of the attributes that can be increased through mentoring so Mubwama here with a Determination of 12 and Nonto who has a Determination of 14 are going to benefit from Will Prowse because he has a Determination of 17. However, let's say Tomasz Suchek here had a Determination of 9, of course he doesn't, it's 16 but let's imagine it was 9 and then Archie Gray had a Determination of 13. He wouldn't really be getting any benefits from his mentor there in the Determination department but mentoring will affect hidden attributes, it will also affect player traits as well so it's always a good thing to set up. I would suggest doing it yourself, it doesn't take long to do if you just make a group called Group 1, make another group called Group 2 and then take two of your best players personalities. So, if we go and click in this personality button, we've got 29 year old Ward Prowse and Suchek so actually the assistant hadn't done too bad of a job here so we can put Suchek in one, Ward Prowse in the other, if I can click the right button anyway, there we go, and then you can start adding some young players that you want to develop so we can sort by age. Let's take these three young players for example here, you can see some will get more impact than others will, we've got a significant impact from Ward Prowse on two of them and no impact on the other guy so we may as well remove him and over time this is going to help your players develop. Very easy to do but if you don't do it and you miss it, you might go a couple of years into your save without realizing your players aren't even being mentored. Training tip number two is something that I fell into the trap of for years in Football Manager when delegating my training. It's something that might take five minutes to do for all of the players in your first team but will really help them and that is about training a certain role, not just a position. I always talk about it here on the channel so there's a good chance you might know this. If you don't know though, what I am on about is if we go to Archie Gray here and we go to his training, you'll see he's being trained as a deep line playmaker on the support duty so the assistant has given him an additional focus, he's in charge of individual training and he's focused him in on a role which is great. Really though, it should be the role that he's playing. In this system I think we have a box-to-box midfielder so I would probably be developing him in that area and by the way as a side note, this is the screen that you'll get when your assistant is doing your training but you just want to take control of a certain few players. Maybe there's a few young players you really want to develop, always a good idea to take control of their development yourself. So, anyway, Archie Gray, as we mentioned, we've got him training a certain role here and you'll see a bunch of attributes are highlighted. Those are the attributes that are being trained by his role and also his additional focus. Now we will talk a little bit more about individual training a little bit later on, that is part of the fifth tip I'm going to give, the final one that I think will blow a lot of you away. But yes, as you can see, lots of attributes are highlighted here. However, if you don't select a specific role, if we just had him set to midfielder centre, which is what your players will be on automatically, you can see he's getting a lot less focus in certain areas of his game. Now that being said, he will still develop with this position set but having him focusing in on a specific role is not only going to tailor him to play with your tactical style and be the right role for your team but also it's going to develop him in the right areas and get the increased growth in the areas that you'd want to see from a young player. So tip number two is make sure you go on to your players and select a role for them in their individual training, not just a position. So whether it's central midfielder on the attack, mezzala, box to box, by doing this you really focus in on what you want from your players in your system. Okay, tip number three, the last two are going to be about the actual training schedule itself. So if you are more hands-on when it comes to your training, that's going to be really beneficial to you. This one though can still apply for those of you that do delegate your training and it's on the training screen. If you go to coaches, this is how you're going to analyse what level your training is at. A lot of people don't know this exists, there might be some older FM players who know about this but I feel like it's got progressively more hidden as the years have gone on. You'll know based on this bar chart here on the staff screen how good your staff is in general compared to the rest of the league but if we go to training and then to that coaches section as mentioned and then you go to edit coach assignments, you get this big screen that looks very confusing at first. You don't really need to look into too much detail to realise what's going on but if you just have a look at the bottom row here, you can see lead coach rating. That tells you the best coach in a certain area, so in this case goalkeeping shot stopping. He's obviously very good, he's a superb rating for our team. In terms of goalkeeping handling, the best person coaching in that area is me as the manager which seems strange. We've got three stars there which is good and you can use this to analyse, okay we don't need to hire a new goalkeeping coach who works only on shot stopping but we can see if we keep going along, there is one of our coaching setup that isn't as good as the others. We've only got fairly good set piece coaching. Our best coach for a set piece is two and a half stars here and that is our out and out set piece coach. So that's a very quick way to analyse your staff to realise where you might be weak and you can see this guy is pretty terrible so we might need to go out there now and get a better set piece coach. So it's a very easy way to analyse your staff even if you're not doing the training yourself. But for tip four and as mentioned, we're going into things that relate to the actual training schedule so this is more going to apply for you guys that do your own training. If you are enjoying the video to this point though, please don't forget to smash that like button for us, it really will help us. But let's go to it. Training and then to the training calendar, training schedule, whatever you want to call it. This is showing us our pre-season plan. We are in pre-season at the minute and what we're talking about for tip four are a couple of sessions you can put on for your team that can really give you a massive benefit. There's a few of these I want to cover, some of my favourite sessions you might want to add to your calendar and this one is really going to help you on the pitch. If you go to dynamics and look at your team cohesion, that's going to affect a lot of what your team does. It affects how they position themselves in matches, their mental state, their vision, reactions, all of it is affected by team cohesion. In this case, ours is pretty good here but if it's low, you're going to struggle with those things on the pitch. As good as your tactic might be, your players might just not be playing it to the best level because they don't have good team cohesion yet. Often you'll get poor team cohesion when you sign a lot of new players to your team but you can quickly get this from a terrible state to a very good state in a very short space of time from a few different training sessions if we go to our calendar. If we go to this day here where we're doing possession training, obviously that might be a good training to have on but just for the sake of it, let's replace this one with a few things that can really improve your team cohesion. The first one is an extracurricular one. You'll see team bonding here which we've already used in a different section so let me go to where that is, there you go, so we can just take a look at it. You can see that's going to increase your team cohesion massively as well as players' happiness, their attributes and it's going to help reduce fatigue even if it does worsen their conditioning a little bit. But often in pre-season, if you've got a few new players in, throwing in a team bonding session every week or so will help get your team cohesion up massively in a very short space of time which is going to help you by the time the season rolls about and community outreach as well will do a similar thing but it's not as effective. As you can see, instead of it being increased team cohesion, it's only slightly increased so I think if you want to increase that cohesion quickly, you want to go for team bonding. Another session that can be really beneficial to your team that's very easy to do and this can only be put into place after a game has taken place but if we go to this rest session after the match against Atalanta and then we go to the match preparation tab, you will see match review which has no negative effect. It's not going to affect the fatigue or conditioning of our players so we don't have to worry about working them into the ground but we call them in for a quick extra session after a game which is going to help their team cohesion massively as well as their tactical familiarity. So if you're trying to run a new tactic mid-season, if you're in a slump and you decide to switch your tactic up, this can be a quick way to get your tactical familiarity up and get your team playing to your tactic at the best level as soon as possible. And just to cover that as a quick side note, when you have a tactic you will see your players are familiar with it to a certain level by looking at this familiarity tab. In this case, we're very familiar with the tactic that we have currently but if you do move to a new tactic and you don't have that familiarity, there are certain training sessions like the one that we just mentioned, they will get your tactical familiarity up at a much quicker rate than if you didn't have those sessions and you were just playing matches slowly with that tactic. So you might start winning with a tactic a few games earlier if you throw in a few of those match reviews along the way. And finally, tip number five, the thing that a lot of people don't know exists in FM. Again, we mentioned this last year on a video I think and so many people were blew away by it. I know I was when I found out about it about a year or so ago. It all came from a great guy called Leo Damas. He did a video on FM Scout about training and that's where I learned it and since then it's always stuck in my head and that is that you know if you have a player and you are trying to develop something in their individual training, whether that's their role or their additional focus, you assume they're almost doing that on top of the training that they're doing already for the club but that isn't actually how it works. If we go back to the training tab and then we go to calendar, you'll see if we have a look at a lot of the sessions that we're doing, there's no mention of individual roles. If we have a look at this defending training, we're working on goalkeeper, tactical familiarity, attributes, happiness and team cohesion. The defenders are getting most of the priority working on their tactical familiarity, their attributes and whatnot and then the other players are getting their attributes increased but there is nothing here that says individual roles and I hate to break it to you but if you're not doing training sessions that say individual role on them, they're not getting any improvement in their individual training. To show you an example of when this does work, if we were to switch this attacking training here to match prep and then match practice, you will see if you have a look in the attributes section, it says individual roles are being worked on and this is for everyone in the team, 100% priority. Now the injury risk would be increased by doing this because they're basically playing a full match in training but it can really help not only with team cohesion and happiness like mentioned earlier but playing that game will actually allow them to focus in on the individual roles they are training. If they haven't got individual roles listed as part of a training, they're not actually getting any benefit to that individual role which you might think they would be anyway. At least that's certainly how I and many other football manager players assumed it worked. You need to have individual roles listed. Now you will see there are some sessions where individual roles are sprinkled in but not for everyone. For example, this outfield team one, the goalkeepers are able to focus in on their individual roles but that isn't appearing for our outfield players and there's only 40% priority on the goalkeepers anyway so they're not really going to develop massively from it. That's why I think it's great to have match practice in every now and then. Not too many a week, you don't want to destroy your player's conditioning but if you have maybe two match practices, maybe even just one in a week, you're going to see much better development particularly in those individual roles you were expecting to already be training from your team. Hopefully that all made sense. If it didn't, feel free to ask any questions in the comments, I'll do my best to help. I'm by no means a training expert by any stretch, there's plenty of people out there who are but I do know a fair bit about it so hopefully I will be able to help you guys out. If you apply those five tips, particularly the last couple, they're really going to help your training and the other three, if you're not someone that looks after your training, do those and you'll see much better benefits even if you're letting your assistant do it for you. Feel free to check out my channel, linked in the description down below. I've spoke a lot now so I'm going to take some water, take a breath. Thank you for watching and I'll see you next time, goodbye.