Subject: Youth Feb. 28 Divine week

Harvey is an offensive midfielder. Train passing and technique and then pace and striker.
Langer is a defender. Train pace and defender and a bit of stamina.

Here my other two this week with not such good talents.
This one was solid will be TL

Angus Dhaliwal, age: 19
value: 75 200 C$, wage: 1 280 C$
club: New West Stampedos, country: Canada
very good form, tragic tactical discipline

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

And a very good on TL soon

Arron Dunfield, age: 20
value: 89 600 C$, wage: 1 400 C$
club: New West Stampedos, country: Canada
very good form, tragic tactical discipline

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

Harvey could be regular middfielder or offensive midfielder

Formidable +3. 5 week talent. On TL.

Saleem Bertrand, age: 20
value: 86 000 C$, wage: 1 400 C$
club: Real Vancouver FC, country: Canada
very good form, tragic tactical discipline


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

R.J. Napoleao very good

R.J. Napoleao, age 18
value: 88 000 C$, wage: 1 400 C$
very good form


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

tled

Formidable

Jarome Hainault, age: 20
value: 122 800 C$, wage: 1 760 C$
club: Hajduk Burnaby, country: Canada
very good form, tragic tactical discipline

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

Will be sold

Rafael Buck, age: 16
value: 46 400 C$, wage: 1 000 C$
club: josavica, country: Canada
very good form, tragic tactical discipline


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

Rafael Buck, age: 16
value: 46 400 C$, wage: 1 000 C$
club: josavica, country: Canada
very good form, tragic tactical discipline


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

Well Goran06, you're in the same div. as me this season, and I just wish I had your problem! I would love to be disappointed about youths like Harvey or Langer!

I started SK in Nov 2005 and I have sold two youths for a total of $230k and kept none! For this, I've spent close to $100k/week so my total costs now exceed $5 M and I have set tomorrow (Feb 29 here) as my deadline to close out my youth school and fire my Y-coach. I figure I can buy a pretty good trainee each season for a million +$.

I don't know where I've gone wrong. I have a magical coach with 6 unearthly skill levels and an Incredible with 3 unearthlys. I move them back and forth depending on what I'm training, so worst I have with youths is Incred. The only reason I've kept going this long with the youth thing is the hope that I would get lucky and produce an Owen Hargreaves who would have to sign for Canada this time!

Btw, this is the best week I've had for months. Three youths graduated this week. They came out VG, Exc., and Formid. They're all up for sale as usual, deadline Sat, but the standard pattern is no bids, and then I shoot them at dawn!

Maybe I've just been real unlucky. Can anyone tell me if there's something I could or should have been doing different? If not, Bonavista becomes a team with no youth school but a bit more disposable income as of this weekend!

Appreciate any advice/any last minute salvage hints I can get!!

I can not give you real advice in your case, but I can tell you what I do. I check not only the skill level but most important the talent (the skills should be too low, say average) and because I keep the talented and young they tend to be OK in a few seasons (not great but OK).

I should mention that the juniors I kept over the years were:

Poor, over 30 weeks
Weak, over 25 weeks
Average, over 20 weeks
Adequate, over 15 weeks
Good, over 10 weeks

Not sure where I got this, prob. the old 'Sokker News'. Re Talent, if no pops in 7 weeks, blow him away.
Maybe I should have kept only Average+ ?.
Btw, I never saw a Solid in all the time I played :\

I agree that talent is the thing. I try to keep talented youth for training myself and if I buy a youth I look for a player who has good talent, vouched for by a reliable source. If you are not training any of your own youth then, I agree, you should end your youth squad. (The one good compelling reason to keep it would be for the benefit of team Canada if you do get that Owen Hargreaves)

Sokkers Canadian youth system provides Englishmen?

:)

And Dutchmen (De Guzman). :)

When I got Harvey and saw he is talented, after like 4 weeks I upgraded my youth coach from I think outstanding I have at that time to brilliant and wached him very closely. As soon as I upgraded he started to pop after 3 weeks and even Langer instead 5 his next pop was after 3.

About the cost of youths you are right it is costly but somehow it makes me proud if I can make a caliber of a player who can play for Canada NT. Harvey might be only the third one from my squad but still. Well sure I am dissapointed, Harvey is the first divine junior in Canada and it is a question if he is ever going to be able to play for Canada but the other thing he is going to be a starter for my squad in league games for sure.

Other thing, you sure can buy a pretty good trainee but how are you gonna be sure he is talented, ok you can request his talent from the team you are about to purchase him but I don't know if this is 100%. Also it takes more time by contacting all those managers and ask about talents. Some may not even know or you won't have an answer on time or the transfer is at the time you wont be online.

You sure know what is best for you, and in your case I would be dissapointed like you are and maybe would do the same thing.

All I know is that youths are random things so you newer know what you gonna get, and that random hits you the worst I guess.

Best of luck.

As NT manager I comb through people's rosters on a semi-regular basis. When I look at your roster, I usually assume you don't have a youth program. :P Hard to comprehend you've had such poor luck with it.

It doesn't take much for it to turn. Nturn pulled that 16 year old last season that was only ~ adequate ... and then sold him for over 2 million. :)

Hopefully your luck changes.