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I found both my CK and FK SA players drop in success rate significantly at some point. My original FK specialist, DR Tupy was a rating, goals, and assists leader for many of the first 7 or so seasons, then his GK success dropped dramatically, rarely successful and only against low Q GKs. His ability to shoot from distance also dropped. Trained my ST for FK specialty, was better for first 2-3 seasons, now poor. My CK specialist, ML Brini, has been the same. Realized he was a standout age 18-19, my team won many games from CK pieces, and he'd score from the field. This season and last, I have games with 7-10 corner attempts and no success, and I watch his ratings drop.

I also wish I could have a lifetime GK, but of the 3 I've used in 12 seasons, I don't see it happening. My GKs start consistent 8 ratings, eventually fall to 6-7-7-8-5 random results... some can be training, the skill balance becomes poor... With set pieces, I've thought it could be a formula based on a few skills combined that are hard to keep up for a single position player. Eg, my DR had great creativity, but now his shooting is so low; my ST has great shooting and strength, but his creativity has fallen, ML great passing, crossing, but shooting and strength drop.. So maybe set piece and SA calculations make it difficult to retain great success without intentional training for skills and positions allowing high TEF (white skill vs grey) for those exact skills.