Subject: Bargain or Robbed? You decide

Ponciano Granda , age 18
value: 45 600 £
wage: 615 £
solid [8] form

unsatisfactory [2] stamina tragic [0] keeper
very good [9] pace adequate [6] defender
adequate [6] technique adequate [6] playmaker
adequate [6] passing poor [3] striker

for ~70k

Helder Quintino , age 17
value: 39 450 £
wage: 615 £
adequate [6] form

poor [3] stamina tragic [0] keeper
average [5] pace poor [3] defender
unsatisfactory [2] technique very good [9] playmaker
good [7] passing weak [4] striker

23k only.

Both popped today in pace (they were solid/weak). Forgot to train the first guy though. (facepalm)

... :(

Having lectured everyone on not training english youths...


Nichita Bunghitu, age: 29
club: Norwich City Nil, country: România
value: 611 850 £, wage: 8 925 £
solid form, adequate tactical discipline
height: 175 cm

formidable stamina tragic keeper
brilliant pace divine defender
adequate technique excellent playmaker
average passing very good striker

583 k.

i'd say bargain :D i bought a similar player for 900k 3 or 4 weeks back :/

well at least I can do something right :)

Late opinion but i think normal :)

Well - here's a question for you !

2.5 million for a 19 year old. B or R ?

Joel Keise, age: 19
club: Norwich City Nil, country: Israel
value: 244 350 £, wage: 1 860 £
outstanding form, hopeless tactical discipline
height: 180 cm

poor stamina unsatisfactory keeper
incredible pace incredible defender
adequate technique average playmaker
average passing excellent striker

I suspect that everyone but Phil will say robbed :).

Now to put a midfielder up front for Sundays game...

He would have been a damn nice defender for Israel U21, tbf, a pretty bad robbery.

And now he can be a damn nice midfielder.

Well, looking at Raine, they both need passing. That's fair enough.
But Raine is high in both pm and tech, whereas above needs them.
Raine needs pace and wouldn't disagree with defender, and again, look up.

Personally, it's insanely expensive, but no doubt someone'll come and correct me soon.

After a fair while training passing (see Raine), I will be moving onto mainly tech and pace. I got carried away with the bidding and missed the low playmaker skill. oops. :).

Ah well, maybe I can blackmail the Israeli U21 NT coach into buying him off me for an insane profit, mwa ha ha ha haaaa, etc.

Robbed, buy more rounded but higher total midfield skills.

Something a bit more like this:

Cristian Jianu, age: 19

club: Phils_hotspurs, country: România
value: 187 200 £, wage: 1 470 £
brilliant form, excellent tactical discipline
height: 160 cm
bookings:
NTDB:
unsatisfactory stamina hopeless keeper
very good pace formidable defender
excellent technique formidable playmaker
solid passing poor striker

I've not going to beat about the bush. Robbed by about £1m.

You are unlikely to recoup your money on him.
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His initial bid was about 1.7 million. I should have stopped at about 2 million and let the other bloke have him really. But....

He'll probably be looking like this at aged 23.

Magical pace Magical defender (1 random pop every 2 seasons ?)
Formidable tech Formidable Playmaker
Formidable passing

His previous trainer got a pop to incredible defender in 4 weeks, so that suggests talent ?

Not convinced you will get 1 random pop every two seasons, especially not on pace and on these higher levels.

damnit :). I have to do a bit of pace anyway. I'll just have to train him forever then. Or lose a million and re-sell. Training it is then. For now.

Edit : he popped today to adequate passing. So that's one pop down, 45 or so to go...
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