Subject: Bargain or Robbed? You decide

ok... bought a couple of trainees recently and can't decide if they were bargins or day light robberies :P

They looked as follows when i bought them last week:

Jeroen De Meulemeester, age: 18
value: 108 450 £, wage: 1 335 £
club: St Johnstone, country: België
very good form, tragic tactical discipline

unsatisfactory stamina, hopeless keeper
very good pace, adequate defender
excellent technique, very good playmaker
very good passing, hopeless striker

Magical pull with talent of 3.5.
He is the best ever pull in Belgium, according to the NT manager.
He randomly popped to excellent pace after the first week of training.
he will be trained as a winger.
Paid: £4,200,000

Abdelkader De Veynes, age: 21
value: 598 800 £, wage: 5 910 £
club: St Johnstone, country: France
magical form, formidable tactical discipline

solid stamina, weak keeper
incredible pace, divine defender
adequate technique, average playmaker
formidable passing, good striker

he has 5 NT caps
he will be trained as a defensive mid
Paid: £4,641,000
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1. normal price
2. nice bargain

IMO

they are very nice trainees :O

Its really hard to say to be honest, not much to compare against.

I would say that both are around a normal price. To me the second guy is a decent buy in the current market with defender prices as they are, but if you are training as a DM, you could have got a 21 year old mid with a higher sum of skills for that price if they were perhaps a little more rounded.

Jeroen De Meulemeester, age: 18
value: 108 450 £, wage: 1 335 £
club: St Johnstone, country: België
very good form, tragic tactical discipline

unsatisfactory stamina, hopeless keeper
very good pace, adequate defender
excellent technique, very good playmaker
very good passing, hopeless striker

Magical pull with talent of 3.5.
He is the best ever pull in Belgium, according to the NT manager.
He randomly popped to excellent pace after the first week of training.
he will be trained as a winger.
Paid: £4,200,000

that price is amazing :O
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It could have been higher, he's a very high quality youth.
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Robbed for the 18y/o - good investment, but it'll take a while to get the value back as I think you've paid a premium there.

About right for the second one. I've been tracking high level defender prices for a long time for my own trainees - once you've got his pace up to unearthly you'd get up to £10m for him - and the rest once you've done hims passing, pm etc

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Rolandas Miasojedovas, age: 18
value: 304 250 $, wage: 2 875 $
club: Revengers, country: Lietuva
very good form, very good tactical discipline


poor stamina, unsatisfactory keeper
excellent pace, very good defender
excellent technique, excellent playmaker
outstanding passing, unsatisfactory striker


for sale for 21 250 000 $

urkkkkkkkk.
304250$?
is that
150kish?

i can't see how you can say robbed for that 18yo

the best youth pull in Belgium just sum's him up! and from what i have seen from suttie mid training he will be amazing by the age of 20 and will at least be worth 6-8mill by then. Especially the way the TM is going at the moment.

It's a premium price. You could get 2 equally talented and aged but not-quite-so-good youths for the same price. That's my reasoning.

yeah true, but you said yourself not as good

Its just about prestige really and suttie walks the league every season anyway.

having a little trouble walking the league this season though. :S

i agree with Redjim about the premium point.
i've seen players maybe with 4 less skill points sell for 2M quid less.... 7 less skill points sell for 2.5M quid less... but then the way i see it, i want to train the very best, its more interesting, more fun. Those 4 extra levels of skill might take another 10 weeks to train, which would mean that other player would be 10 weeks behind the pace.... he might not get his caps, and ultimately in 4 or 5 seasons time, he might be still 2 or 3 skills off the pace which would make the difference of sitting on a tripple magical or a tripple unearthly lad... i think in the long run i should be able to get the extra money paid back.

that 18 yr old is already seeming worth the price...

popped to excellent passing this week (his first week of passing training)... goes nicely with his random pace pop last week when i trained pm. :)

Daniel Gędziak, age: 20
value: 67 200 £, wage: 825 £
club: East Bexhill F.C, country: Polska
very good form, hopeless tactical discipline


very good stamina, average keeper
poor pace, unsatisfactory defender
hopeless technique, unsatisfactory playmaker
excellent passing, unsatisfactory striker

8k

ok wat are you training

Stamina/keeper in league and keeper in friendlies