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Cross from deep for personal instruction or hit early crosses for team instruction helps also asking your wingback to take more risks and/or more direct passing increases the rate at which they do it Depending on your setup if successful crosses are important then its best to create space either by: making a late/overlapping run from the flanks use a winger to drag the opposition fullback inside using overloads

There is this https://rocksendfm.com/2021/05/31/the-italian-roles-the-trequartista/ where there is a test for the trequartista in am and st positions which should give you and idea for what you could expect and you could ask the FM22 AMC thread for more ideas about the trequartista.

I understand where you're coming from but if a player is good then you should consider him and play him in a role where it is the most simple in which case that said player "only has one job". Decisions by itself won't ruin the player and this goes for any other player which you judge simply by a number of attributes. This is why combinations are important and in a very simple tactic even a bad player can play very well. For example when playing in the lower leagues physical stats are very valuable and you could stumble upon a player which has high Accel. + Pace and poor composure, first touch, finishing and he still goes on to be the top goal scorer in the league. Granted he is how say "dumb" but as a manager when you come across such players you need to play to his advantages in turn he is valuable for the team

Yes including spielverlagerung: there is an English version https://spielverlagerung.com/ and a German version https://spielverlagerung.de/ . German version has a lot more analysis.