Subject: »»[JNRS] Juniors - formidable and Above

Wow that was lucky! lol

Chris Rodgers, age: 19

club: Rock Bottom, country: England
value : 86 400 £
wage: 1 170 £
very good [9] form
tragic [0] tactical discipline
height: 188 cm, weight: 94.9 kg, BMI: 26.85


poor [3] stamina tragic [0] keeper
poor [3] pace solid [8] defender
excellent [10] technique average [5] playmaker
unsatisfactory [2] passing excellent [10] striker

Incredible. Think I am going to train.

Really disappointed in him......not sure what to do with him tbh.

Incredible Youth Pull - Talent 3.3 to 3.5

Gareth Bale, age: 18, height: 179 cm
value: 79 050 £, wage: 1 065 £
club: Thamesmead Town FC, country: England
very good form, tragic tactical discipline

weak stamina, unsatisfactory keeper
excellent pace, hopeless defender
unsatisfactory technique, excellent playmaker
weak passing, solid striker

Unlucky with the initial distribution, but he looks like a winger with bonus striking ability to me. He will pop extremely quickly in tech and passing, and with that starting pace he would look very different in only a few weeks.

It's not worth training Tech and Passing to turn him into a winger if instead you can just train Tech and turn him into a striker. The distribution on him is just horrible.

Anfield finally pulled a superstar and he's a Keeper. Honestly I've never seen anyone with such bad luck with the juniors.

For the U21s a striker makes sense, but longer term, I think the PM will be too large to ignore, even with random pops alone. He's talented enough to become an all round monster winger IMO

The 2 levels of PM he has over Striking are basically wiped out by his Passing being weak, It'd take 7 or 8 weeks max to get his Striking to the same level as his PM, but it'd take a lot longer to get his Passing to the same level as his PM. Ultimately you want to go the quickest route to viability, so it's much easier to train just Tech than Tech + Passing.

At least he has high pace. It'll just a while to make him good. Definite striker in my eyes with nice sides.

He's nice but that pace at 19yo won't be fun.

I am going to train him due to his talent and he does have nice pace to start so thats a big advantage. I will train him in technique and make into a striker and see how things go. If PM had been on tech or even the stamina he would have been a monster. As it stands its early season so he has lots of time to improve.

If a better junior comes along he will get binned off. There's a 19yo brilliant coming in 4 weeks so will assess that at the time.

I need a striker trainee though, he fits the bill at least for now. I can't buy anyone at the moment as under a transfer embargo due to my negative bank balance.

Honestly I've never seen anyone with such bad luck with the juniors.

wdp74
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I believe I was unlucky today, I wasn't sure what to expect as he didn't really get great marks in the youth games even as a striker.

Bankruptcy is a killer :p

I'm still tempted to make an offer for him on the provision that we can naturalise him as rightfully Welsh!