A group of SI forum users have come to such a conclusion as a result of a quite interesting discussion. It all started from the fact, that if we give our attacking midfielder an arrow going up, it is going to end up being a killer for the opposition, with him scoring a lot of goals. Of course, it does not happen all the time, however if used with appropriate individual and team instructions, our AMC will be going into the penalty box as if it was an open gate and the number of goals scored by him will be twice as large as the ones of our forwards! The main complaint about it is the fact that it is highly unrealistic. If the match engine has trouble dealing with such a formation, then it is not our fault, but the engine's fault, is that not right? In such case taking away all the arrows from the game seems like a ridiculous idea. However, it is not the only complaint that the FM fans have about them.

The second complaint is that they do not really have to connect with the individual instructions that we end up setting for our player. We might tell him to often try run forward and at the same time give him a backward arrow. It gets even more confusing when we start discussing his individual mentality. The majority of opinions from that topic, believed that it is an issue that something has to be done about. It would mean adding new instruction for players, which would proudly replace the arrows. They would say something as: "Cut into the middle" or "Come back to defence" - thanks to them and already existent "Run with the ball", we would be able to accurately describe the behaviour of our man in specific situations. The main advantage of the new solution is the fact that at the moment we can only give instructions for the player in one direction, while the new instructions would allow us to control his movement forward, back and to the sides.

What do you think about that?