Great & Cheap Backroom Staff

When I first started playing FM many years ago, I never looked at my back room staff. I was more concerned about the first team and squeezing as many new players into the team on the wage budget available. I would maybe hire a physio with a high stat for physiotherapy and a few scouts with high JCA & JPA and then just renew everyone else's contracts as and when they were running out. The last few years however I have changed tact and now I hire and fire my entire backroom team before the transfer market is open and then I look at which players are available on the transfer market. I mean why bother signing all these wonderkids if we don't have the team to develop their skills and help them reach that potential.

I hope this post can do two things:
1. Convert anyone who ignores their backroom staff
2. Help people find the best staff possible

Here is a list of some great backroom staff that are unattached at the beginning of the game and do not ask for much wages and the difference they have made to my training.

I find the best staff are mainly from Brazil and also some from Italy so you will need both of these countries enabled in order to find majority of my staff.

I started at Hoffenheim in Germany as a bit of a challenge. Here is my starting staff and the coaching ratings they all provided.

Staff List


First Team Coaching Ratings


U19 Coaching Ratings


As you can see not a single category above 3.5 stars and these guys were costing me a total of £64,000 a week.

Couple days later my team looks like this

Staff List


First Team Coaching Ratings


U19 Coaching Ratings


Only a handful below 4 stars now, 8 extra staff and even better is these guys were all unattached so no compensation fees and their wage bill is now £40,000! Adding almost £25,000 to the wage budget for players or saving the club £1.3m a year. Ignore Ruud Van Nistelrooij in there, I have an unhealthy obsession.

Coaches
Below is a list of their names and how cheaply I managed to get them sign 5 year contracts. A general rule of thumb is you want your coaches to have a high rating for the following:

Discipline
Motivating
Determination
Tactical
The Category you are looking for ie Goalkeepers or Defending

There are topics with the exact formula FM uses to calculate how good a coach is and even excel sheets to calculate it for you. You will find these on the forums somewhere

First Team

Assistant Manager - Sorry this is my wife, its sad but I add her in game
Goalkeeping Coach Shot Stopping - Salvino Damiao - £325 - £8.6k compensation (the only coach with compo but his cheap wages I felt justified it)
Goalkeeping Coach Handling - Oscar Rodriquez - £1400
Fitness Coach Strength - Gian Nicola Bisciotti - £2200
Fitness Coach Aerobic - Flavio Trevisan - £1700
Tactics - Dudu Fontes - £1200
Ball Control - My Wife - Please post any great ball control coaches you find below
Defending - Paulo Cesar Batista Dos Santos - £750
Attacking - Ivan Couto - £3500
Shooting - Marco Landucci - £4000










U19 Coaches

Head of Youth Development - Bernard Peters I scored here this guy is amazing and starts at Hoffenheim
Use the same Fitness and Goalkeeping coaches as your first team.
Tactics - Bernard Peters
Ball Control - Antonio Raione - £2900
Defending - Fabrizio Ferron - £2200
Attacking - Fernando Galvao - £1200
Shooting - Ruud - Please post any good shooting coaches you find below






Physiotherapists

You're going to want physios with a high Physiotherapy rating obviously but Determination, Discipline and Motivating are also factors here.

There are numerous Physios you could sign but I signed these guys again all unattached:

Head Physio - Odir De Souza - £3100
Physio - Jose Vitelio - £1600
Physio - Octacillio De Matta Lopez Junior - £700
Physio - Karolin Kieffer - was here already and kept here as she was female, not actually much use!
U19 Physio - Giorgio Puricelli - £700







Scouts

You are sending your scouts all over the world for months on end to find you new players, this means that the following attributes are essential:

Judging Players Current Ability
Judging Players Potential Ability
Determination
Adaptability

Personally I never sign a scout with JPA or JCA less than 15 but if you do sign any with slightly lower stats you can always use them to get a rough idea of how good a player is and then re-scout them manually with a better rated scout.

Chief Scout - Hans Martin Kleitsch - Again started at Hoffenheim
Scout - David Hamilton - £1500 - Need England Loaded
Scout - Paul Montgomery - £400 - Need England Loaded
Scout - Mauro Innocenti - £2200
Scout - Lica Crivelli - £1400
Scout - Ramon Maddoni - £875
Scout - Ayres Morais De Albuquerque - £750
Scout - Newton Motta - £2700











These as I said before are all unattached at the beginning of the game and will join a mediocre team. I hope this has helped some people to improve their staffing and I hope we can grow this list so all categories have 5 stars, please post any other great staff you know of below (also any attractive females).

Nice post

Thanks.

Good post there I always tend to sign Dos Santos on every game I start with.

You can get Ricardo Moniz as coach. He got 4.5 stars on shooting.

I was considering doing a post like this myself! I will add to this post if that's ok mate.
I was gunna show the free ones though...

I'll be needing some of that Lannister gold of yours before you can Imp! haha of course you can, i was thinking of putting together a list of 5 and 4.5 star coaches for each discipline.

You cant spell PIMP without IMP.