Thema: Training

Just want to check im doing this right. Im training pace. My head coach is very good in general but has unearthly in pace. Does it help if his general was higher? I also have 3 assistants at excellant, very good and solid. Is it right to have these?

The general appraisal is irrelevant for the head coach, it is only the individual skills which count.

Sounds good on the coach front - as long as you are getting value for money out of them. If they are lop sided skill wise you may be paying too much money for them, as with them it is only general appraisal which matters.

Thank you

It's true that the general skill is irrelevant when it comes strictly to training the basic attributes but it matters a lot when it comes to how quickly the teamwork attribute increases and how high it can get.

Teamwork and Experience combine to determine the Tactical Discipline attribute which is basically how well a player follows the tactic you designed, important for every player but very important for defenders especially if you want to play a high line.

With a high general skill head coach you can get players performing above their attributes if they stick with the club for a while and have decent experience, at least in my experience.

Of course the real benefit of higher general appraisal is that this means your coaches other skills are high and you will get more pops in other skills.

Just to make double sure.

Lets say I have brilliant coach as Main coach with the following skills...
unearthly of stamina unsatisfactory of keeper
unearthly of pace unearthly of defender
unearthly of technique unearthly of playmaker
unearthly of passing unearthly of striker

And it will be the same for me to have a magical coach with the SAME skills set as my main coach? I sure save more money on the brilliant one...

coaches have sub skills which is why sometimes you see e.g. brilliant / magical for the same skill sets.

with regards to team work / tactical appraisal / experience - this is not something that new teams need to worry about at all really

It depends on how important, or hard to get, results are right away, those attributes can help a lot with on-field performance.

Once you start really trying to win games against good teams, keep supporter mood high, expand the stadium and/or go for promotion, you will need those to be high, but that is probably down the road some.

when you are new your players are not good enough to follow your tactics that well anyway usually. Funds are very tight at the start, and the minimal benifit of team work verses the cost of skills you are not training is not worth it at all.

if there is any money left for wages after your unearthly primary skill then it should go to as high as possible on a secondary skill, then the next secondary, etc. the cheapest option is training strikers where you can get a 3 x unearthly fairly affordably after a couple of seasons. keeper trainers also only need 3 skills but the cost of keeper skill is prohibitive, and only haveing 2 trainees is not advisable early on.

I have three all unearthly coaches and you are right about the subskills as they are all rated as unearthly/pond life.
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So am I correct to assume that for me right now in my situation its more the costs that should matter so a brilliant coach is the better option?

I would say yes, go with the brilliant. That one level is not that important all else being equal.

yep - coaches wages are the biggest team killer in this game. apart from phil of course ;-)