Subject: [Youth] November 15th

Arron Oliveiri , age: 18
value: 108 400 C$, wage: 1 640 C$
club: Black&Oil, country: Canada
very good form, tragic tactical discipline

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


Came as Outstanding, pretty dissapointing :(. TLed for 1$.



Mario Oppong , age: 18

unsatisfactory stamina, tragic keeper
weak pace, hopeless defender
good technique, solid playmaker
poor passing, adequate striker

Came as Very Good (I like him more than Arron though). TLed for 1$.

This guy was "adequete". Kept him hoping he would be 16 - and taadaa! Tho that's about his only feature. :) No idea of his talent - wasn't in the academy long enough.

Randell Boyd, age: 16
value: 37 600 C$, wage: 920 C$
club: Valiant FC, country: Canada
very good form, tragic tactical discipline

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

My best pull to date,
outstanding

Diogo Gjini, age 18
value: 178 400 C$, wage: 2 400 C$
very good form


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

Very nice. :) Does he fit your training program?

I have been traning pace.
Don't have many decent canadian players ,
so I will work with this one.

Sounds good. :)

Boyd sold for over 400k C$ (two average skills - no talent info). I just don't get how some managers become so hot & bothered over 16 year olds.

yeah, 400 holy cr**. how far can you train this guy till he turns 17?

tragic stamina, tragic keeper
average pace, poor defender
good technique, average playmaker
unsatisfactory passing, solid striker

if he has any talent he could get two pops every three weeks, with 12 weeks left he could get 8 pops, not a bad first week 17 year old...

i bought a 16 year old for about 200 000 with 2 average skills, now he is 18 and i could get 1 mil for him easy on tl

I haven't trained any 16 year olds (Wang and Biron were both 17). The risk - reward just doesn't appeal to me. (Risk being lousy talent).

Slavko's Alain Maranda was a good example. Perhaps more surprising then the original price was that a second manager was willing to pay the same price once the first manager realized he had lousy talent.

I trained several 16yo (I think Caron was one) but I think is good only if you know the talent.