Subject: Bargain or Robbed? You decide

Just got a mail back from the previous owner of the guy I bought. He says he had 4 week talent in junior school, if its true then I am happy enough.

Well, I have heard it many times before, but have never seen evidence for it. To me it seems to be more like 10% difference or perhaps even a tad more.

i had it with an 18 yr old too, but at lower level (to hopeless->unsat), on todays pop also :)
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Similarly, a player who played in an official match will train better than one who just played in a friendly. If a player played in two different positions during the week, the last match counts. The benefit of playing a player with the same match order twice is small - they will receive near full training by playing 1 match

nice and vague. the first part suggests the difference is worth noting, the second part suggests the difference is negligable.

Springfield fielding their first XI i surely nullified by the fact that they are a bot team? get watching his last few matches! oh and hope his next league game is violent & dirty! ;^)

Previous Skills

Pablo Díaz, age: 20
value: 96,900 £, wage: 1,440 £
average form poor discipline
tragic teamwork good experience

poor stamina, tragic keeper
unsatisfactory pace, average defender
hopeless technique, incredible playmaker
adequate passing, weak striker

Now

Pablo Díaz, age: 21

club: AFC Denton Sharks, country: Perú
value: 95 400 £, wage: 1 575 £
poor form, very good tactical discipline
bookings:
adequate stamina tragic keeper
average pace average defender
hopeless technique incredible playmaker
good passing weak striker

If you remembered I bought him for 57k and everyone said robbed, is it still robbed or have you all changed your minds?

Still robbed i'm afraid Ken.

still robbed. keep at him and you may eventually get an ok price for him. another season and a half of pace then sell him to a tech trainer
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Wont be selling him till he is 24. After my pace training which ends this season, then I will switch to tech, then to passing then playmaker, hopefully by then he would have magical pm and excellent passing, hopefully But anyways even if I do finish my mid training I might not even sell him.

That is good long-term planning. I'd suggest you consider training pace for another season though - but it depends what levels your players will have by then. Get everyone to solid/very good at least, by which time it should be clear who is talented enough to remain in your tech/passing/pm training plans.

good to see you have a long term training plan ken

Suggestion taken onboard :)

I suggest training pace just after tech... because now its just..mmm... hopeless [:

Put a bid on him of £276 before I went to bed as he finished at 0240 int the morning, woke up and got him. He will replace a 21 y/old of similar skills, bargain or robbed? I have no idea of talent btw and is bought for pace training in the reserves.

Zacarias Piñango, age: 17

club: AFC Bramford Lane, country: Venezuela
value: 80 850 £, wage: 1 170 £
average form, tragic tactical discipline

hopeless stamina very good keeper
poor pace tragic defender
unsatisfactory technique hopeless playmaker
good passing tragic striker

Slightly worried by this one though. Again, before I went to bed put a bid of £1001 on him just to see how much he would go for, and I got him for that amount!!! I think he is a bargain, and he will be trained for at least 4 seasons as he is pretty much ideal, what do you lot think?

Florentino Torrens, age: 17

club: sentimiento verdiblanco, country: España
value: 18 900 £, wage: 390 £
very good form, tragic tactical discipline

hopeless stamina tragic keeper
unsatisfactory pace adequate defender
average technique weak playmaker
average passing weak striker

nice buy, if you can get his pace up to v.good/excellent, then sell you'll make a good profit on him.