Staff/Training revamp

[kandersson]

I think Staff/Training dynamics could use a strong revamp, as I feel currently the game is a bit 'demanding' in this area: IRL most clubs (even at highest level) tend to have just a fitness coach, a GK coach and one or two assistant managers/coaches for the first team (that's a group of 4-5 coaches/assistant managers), while FM kind of requires a much larger staff (I'd say about 2 fitness coaches, 2 GK coaches and other 4-5 coaches for the other specific areas) to achieve the best combination of high quality/light workload for each category.

As an example, here's Real Madrid coaching staff: http://www.realmadrid.com/en/football/squad

Also, I think there should be diversification between the role of Physios and Team Doctors, with possibly different attributes and tasks. IRL doctors and physios perform quite different duties for their clubs.

[stevo21]

I tend to disagree because if you look at a coaches discipline it will tell you what his/her particular strength is and on the workload feature you have to have different coaches for various tasks. What good would a great defender moving into coaching attackers achieve? Horses for courses is how i see it

[thomit]

Agree with the OP in that the number of coaches required to have the best possible - or even just ok - training in FM, is ridiculous in comparison to the number of coaches employed by clubs in real life. The calculating of "workload" should be revamped, and several of the different coaching areas should be merged; There's no need for 2 GK categories, or 2 fitness categories, and "ball control" and "shooting" could be merged into 1 "technique" category, defending, attacking and tactical categories could be merged into 1 "tactical" category, etc. Slim down the number of coaches needed and still have top class training and a reasonable workload, and slim down the number of different training areas. And the U21 or reserves team don't need a entirely different set of coaches; a coach designated to act as their manager + maybe an assistant is enough. Should be enough.

[kandersson]

I tend to disagree because if you look at a coaches discipline it will tell you what his/her particular strength is and on the workload feature you have to have different coaches for various tasks. What good would a great defender moving into coaching attackers achieve? Horses for courses is how i see it

I agree it does make some sense to have lots of 'specialist' coaches and it's somewhat fun build up a large backroom staff - I regularly hire 24 first team coaches if allowed! My point is things don't seem to work this way in real life in most clubs.