One of the things that I’ve noticed is that it is super easy to build personal relationships with your player, through asking about signings/coaches, praising recent form, etc. I have not been able to notice this with human to staff interactions – I have been able to loan players from a specific club and it tells me that the relationship with you is strong/friendly opinion of you but judging on how to do that is very unscientific. We also have the option to ask a staff member to stay because of the strong relationship they have with you / the club, but I don’t see how to strengthen that type of relationship because of the lack of options to interact with them. I also think that being able to ask another coach (e.g., a former staff member who is now a coach/in the recruitment team at their new club) for a recommendation / vice versa, old staff members coming back to your club for signings /loans would be a nice touch – and we have seen that really strongly this past transfer window with Southampton’s new head of recruitment going back and signing several Man City youth products given his previous role at that club. I think that would help with getting new players / allowing a former staff member to use this relationship that you may have built with them, for their advantage in the game.
On a similar note, being able to ask free-agent staff members to join a club who has offered you a position would be a good idea. We can see this for moving from one club to another, but you only have the ability to bring the staff at your current club with you to your new club. This would help see which potential staff members would want to join you at a new club.