Club fit and training
Your players are more than just a bunch of skills. They have personalities and preferences that will affect their behaviour on and off the field. There are numerous hidden things working in the background that will be hinted throughout the game.
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Club fit. One of the most important parts is player's club fit. The way his personality matches or clashes with the rest of the team.
It is a relative measure compared to others in the team. Some will fit better, others worse, but overall all teams have an average of 50% club fit across their players. Club fit affects player's match performance and training efforts. It stays mostly consistent for each players but there is a small chance it can change in case of a long injury or in between seasons.
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Potential. Players have hidden potential. It is not shown anywhere in the game but it is hinted at through skill level and performance. Potential defines how good a player can become within your club. Playing in bigger and better clubs means better training facilities and coaches and every player will grow more than in a small, 3rd division club.
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Mentoring. Leaders of any age and respected players of 33 years or more provide +5% mentoring boost to each training category (total of +15%). For leaders this grows to +10% if they are 33 years or older (total of +30% boost across all 3 training types).
Training
Your players will develop as they play matches or train with B team.
There are three ways to train your players, each with certain limitations, most importantly the skill level that it can develop to.
Skill level is individual for each player and depends on his potential - better potential, higher skill level he can achieve with each training.
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Playing a game today.
Players that played a game today will get a boost to their selected training type if their skills are below 3-4 stars (depending on potential). It is also limited in increasing each individual skill only up to 16. This training is intensive and fast, great to pull your undeveloped players to be capable first team starters.
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B team training.
Players in your B team don't need to play a game to get training. But they are welcome to play as this training stacks with 1-day training.
It will train your player in skills that you've chosen with his training type but only to a limit of approximately 1.5-2.5 stars. There is also a skill increase limit and it won't train skills beyond 12. Finally, due to high intensity of this training the players will lose match sharpness much faster than they normally would. This training is intended to prepare your youngsters and undeveloped players for first team football.
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Played a game within last 3 days.
Players that are not in your B team and that played at least one game within the last 3 days will get this training.
It is a slow but reliable training that can, with basic rotation, cover your whole team.
It doesn't have any limitations in terms of stars or skill levels and it stacks with 1-day training (but not with B team training).
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Losing skills.
Players also lose skills daily. The skill drop is random but the chance is increased for older and injured players.
For the most part players will be net positive with training but some simply won't find their way no matter what you do, don't take it personally.
Types of training
There are 11 types of training you can set for each of your players.
Each focuses on 3 skills (one physical, one techincal, and one tactical) but trains a whole range of additional skills as well, but to a lesser degree.
Those trainings that are a good fit for a player will be highlighted out on the selection menu.
You can choose other trainings without a penalty but the skills that it covers might not be optimal for player's position.
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Headers (attacking): strength, anticipation, finishing.
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One on ones (attacking): speed, off the ball, finishing.
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Long shots (attacking): set pieces, off the ball, accuracy.
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Short passing (attacking): work rate, passing, ball control.
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Long passing (attacking): strength, passing, technique.
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Build up: work rate, vision, ball control.
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Long passing (defending): speed, anticipation, accuracy.
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Short passing (defending): set pieces, positioning, technique.
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Long shots (defending): work rate, positioning, tackling.
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One on ones (defending): speed, marking, tackling.
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Headers (defending): strength, marking, ball control.
Goalkeepers get their own set of trainings to choose from:
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Long shots (goalkeeping): set pieces, positioning, handling.
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One on ones (goalkeeping): speed, anticipation, handling.
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One on ones (goalkeeping): strength, marking, handling.