Subject: Bargain or Robbed? You decide

Can you seriously buy a player who will be great at 24, for 550 k at 20 ?

He's good for the price and the series monsta is in.

Don't buy them at age 20 then, spend the money on a 16/17 year old instead!?

This dude cost me 380k at age 16:

Ernest Rudowski, age: 22

club: Phils_hotspurs, country: Polska,
value: 618 000 £, wage: 5 280 £,
unearthly form, incredible tactical discipline,
height: 179 cm
bookings:
compare transfer:


NTDB:
solid stamina hopeless keeper
brilliant pace incredible defender
formidable technique outstanding playmaker
magical passing weak striker
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And I disagree. This is OK, right?

Exactly Phil!

Yes, it is.

If we all bought 16 year olds Phil, they wouldn't be 380 k. Are you sure you want to suggest that ? :)..

And besides, some managers don't want to wait 6 seasons to develop a player, and don't need to develop players that good to improve. Fair play to you for getting lucky with this 16 year olds talent, but to suggest that because you bought a player 18 real time months ago for less doesn't necessarily mean that monsta was robbed.

No it doesn't, but he is :)

I bought this player a little while ago for only a little bit more than his buy; £760k.

Johnny Railef, age: 16
club: Armitage Shanks, country: Chile,
value: 30 900 £, wage: 390 £,
incredible form, average tactical discipline,
height: 182 cm
bookings:  
unsatisfactory stamina tragic keeper
poor pace adequate defender
weak technique weak playmaker
adequate passing adequate striker

He will be better than him when's 20, so if he's not a first reamer, why not buy younger? Unless he wants to win the cup (unlikely) what's the point in having an older B side which might win you more friendlies?

I don't think I have ever trained up any 16yos in all of my time in SK.

My favourites have both been, Herbski and Coatsworth.

Profit, plus having an ok reserve in a couple of seasons time.

"He will be better than him when's 20, so if he's not a first teamer, why not buy younger?"

Because not everyone wants to / can wait several seasons to make money.

If we all did the same thing, wouldn't life be dull...

There is obviously something fundamentally wrong with us gibbage :)...

According to statistics though, you are more like to win a prem title if you haven't trained any 16yos.

according to statistics, you are. I am not ;).

You reached a cup final once, surely that's more proof of the value of not training 16yos?

Fair enough. I just feel you could make more money buying a younger player or a better player of the same age for the same money :)

Good luck with him.

There is something fundamentally wrong with your approach to the game, which is the same for most of the old guard. You know the stats are flawed gibbage as you were here from the start and your early titles speak little.

Happy for others not take on opinions, it's why teams like ermejo, wdp, phil, myself etc are catching up and overtaking you. Fine by us :)