# Editing coaches and staff > Documentation release: **FMRTE 27** (published release). Search for the staff member and open **Information** to edit their attributes. ## Staff tabs at a glance | Tab | What you'll find | | --- | --- | | **[Information](#edit-an-attribute)** | Personal details and staff attributes. | | **[Contract](#contracts-roles-and-knowledge)** | Existing club and national-team contracts. | | **[Career Plans](#career-plans)** | Career preferences, jobs and the conditions attached to them. | | **[Promises](https://docs.fmrte.com/players/promises.md#promises-a-manager-made)** | Promises a manager made to players. | | **[Swap Staff](https://docs.fmrte.com/staff/swap-staff.md)** | Swaps between eligible club or national-team jobs. | | **[Training Rating](#training-rating)** | Coaching star ratings for different training areas. | | **[Formations/Tendencies](#formationstendencies)** | Preferred formations and staff tendencies. | | **[Relationships](https://docs.fmrte.com/players/relationships.md)** | Relationships with people, teams and nations. | | **[Knowledge](#knowledge)** | Country knowledge entries and their values. | | **[Retire Date](#retire-date)** | An existing scheduled retirement. | | **[Languages](https://docs.fmrte.com/players/languages.md)** | Spoken languages and proficiency. | **Contract** appears when the person has a club or national-team contract. **Retire Date** appears when they have a scheduled retirement. A player-coach opens as a player. Select **Staff** on the player page for their **Information**, **Training Rating**, **Formations/Tendencies** and **Knowledge**. Their contract, career plans, promises, relationships, retirement and languages are on the player tabs, and **Swap Staff** is not offered. For your own manager's options, see [Manager profile](https://docs.fmrte.com/staff-and-managers/your-manager.md). Staff **Languages** and **Relationships** use the same tabs as players. See [Languages](https://docs.fmrte.com/players/languages.md) and [Relationships](https://docs.fmrte.com/players/relationships.md). ## Edit an attribute Staff attributes use **1–20**. Groups include coaching, roles, tactical, non-tactical, mental, personality, scouting and chairman attributes. Personality **Controversy** and chairman **Interference** are coloured in reverse, so a low value shows as good.  ### Worked example: improve Working With Youngsters 1. Find **Coaching Attributes → Working With Youngsters**. 2. Raise it by one point, such as 12 to 13. 3. Select **Save Changes**. 4. Check the same staff member in Football Manager. ## Contracts, roles and knowledge - **Contract:** edit wages and dates when the page is available. Check the wage period first. You can also edit the **Signed** date, and on a club contract the **Joined Club** date. - **Role attributes:** change suitability, they do not assign a job. On a player, they also set [the job they want after playing](#a-players-future-job). - **Knowledge:** edit the chosen country or region's value, then save. - **Training Rating:** view or edit the coaching star ratings. ## Career Plans Open **Career Plans** to view the person's career preferences. Select a row to see its **Options**. 1. Choose the **Condition** attached to the plan. 2. Choose the **Job**. 3. Set **Item Type** and use the search button to choose the related club or other entry. 4. Choose **Scope**. 5. Select **Save Changes**. Use **+** to add a plan or **-** to remove the selected plan. FMRTE can add a plan only when the person already has at least one. [Edit History](https://docs.fmrte.com/tools/edit-history.md) records career plan changes but can't undo them. For a staff job swap, use [Swap Staff](https://docs.fmrte.com/staff/swap-staff.md). ### A player's future job On a player's **Career Plans** tab, the **Long-term** card above the plans holds the job the player wants once they stop playing. Football Manager shows it in the player's plans from age 29, as a sentence such as *Definitely looking to do some coaching with a view to going into management once his playing days are over*.  | Control | What it does | | --- | --- | | **Job** | The job the player wants, such as **Coach**, **Director of Football** or **Coaching, then management**. | | **Outlook** | How keen the player is, from **Definitely** to **Would prefer it**. **Not sure about staying in football**, **Probably not staying in football** and **Definitely not staying in football** name no job, so **Job** is greyed out with them. **No plans for the future** clears the plan. | | **In game** | The sentence Football Manager shows for the job and outlook. A player under 29 also shows **Shown in game from age 29.** | Physio, Data Analyst and Sports Scientist have only two outlooks that name the job, **Seriously thinking about it** and **Considering it**. The game words them as some of the less traditional roles. The Loan Manager and Technical Director sentences are in English only for now. To change the plan: 1. Choose the **Job**. 2. Choose the **Outlook**. 3. Check the **In game** sentence. 4. Select **Save Changes**. #### Role preferences The game works the plan out from the player's 15 staff role preferences. Select **Role preferences** on the card to show them. The role the plan names has a **picked** badge, and **Coaching, then management** marks both **Manager** and **Coach**.  Picking a job and outlook rewrites these values so the game reads back your pick. The job gets the outlook's level, and only the roles that would beat it are lowered. To keep other preferences as they were, edit the values directly instead. Chairperson is greyed out because the game ignores it for the plan. A player with **No future-job preferences yet** has no role preferences in the save. Football Manager creates them at about age 29, and FMRTE can't add them. Changes to the plan and the role preferences can be undone in [Edit History](https://docs.fmrte.com/tools/edit-history.md). Back up your save before you edit them, as with other career plan changes. Staff pages don't show the **Long-term** card. ## Training Rating **Training Rating** shows coaching star ratings for goalkeeping, defending, possession, attacking, fitness and set pieces. Use the separate tactical and technical ratings to compare coaching areas. To change a rating: 1. Select the stars for the training area you want to change. 2. Select **Save Changes**. 3. Reopen **Training Rating** to check the value. The ratings are based on staff attributes. You can review those attributes on [Information](#edit-an-attribute). ## Formations/Tendencies Open **Formations/Tendencies** to change preferred formations and the listed staff tendencies. 1. Choose a formation under **Preferred Formation**, **Second Preferred Formation**, **Defensive Formation** or **Attacking Formation**. 2. Set the matching **Out of Possession** formation if needed. 3. In **Tendencies**, choose the row's **Type** and **Level**. 4. Select **Save Changes**. ## Knowledge Open **Knowledge** to edit country knowledge. Select an existing entry and use its search button if you want to choose another country. Change **Value**, then select **Save Changes**. Use **+** to add an entry or **-** to remove a selected entry. The country-name button opens that nation's page. ## Retire Date Open **Retire Date** to view the staff member's scheduled retirement. Check **Person**, change **Retire Date**, then select **Save Changes**. To clear the scheduled retirement, select **Remove**, then **Save Changes**. The page also shows **Start Date** for the retirement record. ## Right-click a staff row Staff rows, and the **⋮** button in a staff member's header, offer **Add to favourites**, **Copy Name to Clipboard**, **Copy Id to Clipboard**, **Shortlists**, **Presets...**, **Freeze** / **Unfreeze** and **Custom → Export NewGAN RTF**. They work as described for [player rows](https://docs.fmrte.com/players/overview.md#right-click-a-player-row), with the same licence needs. Staff rows also have [Release on a free](#release-a-staff-member), but no **Move to** actions. A human manager has [their own move actions](https://docs.fmrte.com/staff-and-managers/your-manager.md#move-to-another-club-or-national-team). ## Release a staff member **Release on a free** removes the staff member's club contract and national team contract. It needs a licence and does not work for human managers. 1. Right-click the staff member in search results, a club or nation's **Staff** tab or a staff shortlist. On their page, use the **⋮** button in the header instead. 2. Select **Release on a free**. 3. In Football Manager, check that the staff member no longer has a club or national team job. ## Change a name **First Name**, **Last Name** and **Common Name** work the same as [a player's](https://docs.fmrte.com/players/personal-details.md#change-a-players-name), for staff members and human managers. To edit a full name, open the staff member’s personal information and edit **Full Name**, then select **Save Changes**. Check the result in Football Manager. Keep the text within the field’s length limit.