Subject: [youth] 04 February

Five pulls today. The 16-year-old runt was sacked. Ahmed Hume's stats are posted in Canada Association. Here are the other three.

Good pull, 4.33 talent:
Simran Holden, age: 19

club: Gresley Rovers, country: Canada
value: 63 600 C$, wage: 1 200 C$
very good form, tragic tactical discipline
height: 181 cm

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

This guy might have some talent...in his seven weeks he went from unsatisfactory to good. That said, he'd be a gamble.
Tim Larcheveque, age: 18

club: Gresley Rovers, country: Canada
value: 17 200 C$, wage: 720 C$
very good form, tragic tactical discipline
height: 172 cm

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

This guy had a triple-unpop to end at "weak", but I think he was actually an adequate-to-good pull. No idea what his talent is.
Cecil Poli, age: 17

club: Gresley Rovers, country: Canada
value: 32 800 C$, wage: 880 C$
very good form, tragic tactical discipline
height: 175 cm

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

Corey Darwish, age: 16

club: Metrotown, country: Canada
value: 94 400 C$, wage: 1 440 C$
very good form, tragic tactical discipline
height: 173 cm

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



Youssef Arevaldo, age: 18

club: Metrotown, country: Canada
value: 226 400 C$, wage: 2 880 C$
very good form, tragic tactical discipline
height: 174 cm

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

talent 4.25




Beau Bellavance, age: 18

club: Metrotown, country: Canada
value: 91 200 C$, wage: 1 440 C$
very good form, tragic tactical discipline
height: 185 cm

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

talent 4




Shakir Stevenson, age: 18

club: Metrotown, country: Canada
value: 128 400 C$, wage: 1 800 C$
very good form, tragic tactical discipline
height: 179 cm

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

Friday around noon I will put them all on TL
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This guy had a triple-unpop to end at "weak", but I think he was actually an adequate-to-good pull. No idea what his talent is.

when they leave the school you get to see their final level from what I understand, so your youthcoach had wildly overestimated this ones skill unfortunately, his real level is weak

How much is Shakir Stevenson talent?

I don't have talent for him. He didn't pop up in 3 weeks and after that the changes with the blind coach have come.

Does the coach estimate correctly the skill at the beginning when they arrive in school and to the end before promoting?

I had 3 youth that were solidish. Here is the youngest

Diego Bradbury, age: 17
club: Real Hawkes, country: Canada
value: 50 800 C$, wage: 1 040 C$
very good form, tragic tactical discipline
height: 191 cm


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

I believe that when you first get the youth on SAT you can see his true level untill the SUN form update, others have disputed this but I have yet to see any evidence that it is not true

I am very certain that once they graduate you can see their true level

So I think that talent can still be figured out, others disagree

Thanks.
Do you know when is best to put the players on TL?

When it's "prime time" in Poland :)

IMHO the final junior level is purely semantic anyway, as the only really relevant thing is the player's skill set...and Poli's skills look just fine to me.

At least one of your hypotheses has to be wrong, Deja. Otherwise, Larcheveque's talent (see above) is 1.4!

This was my week of many GK. And what it really proved is that I'm a bonehead junior manager, as this guy was my starter:

Maxime Vanderpool, age: 20

club: Valiant FC, country: Canada
value: 140 000 C$, wage: 1 920 C$
very good form, tragic tactical discipline
height: 161 cm

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

While this guy rode the bench:


Jarome McCarthy, age: 20

club: Valiant FC, country: Canada
value: 286 400 C$, wage: 3 520 C$
very good form, tragic tactical discipline
height: 179 cm

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

Oh well.

but when you got him on the Sat did you note his skill, or did you wait untill the Sunday update?

this would be a good test, because if he came as a weak, then on the first update (the next day when most update thier manager programs or whatever) he dropped to unsat, then came out as a good it would make perfect sense and he would be a 4 talent

The first XML I have with Larcheveque's name is dated 21 December 2009...which is a Monday. Guess the jury is still out.

From here on in I'm definitely going to do my downloads prior to the Sunday update (-:

Emile Zaharijja, age: 18, height: 182 cm
value: 114 000 C$, wage: 1 720 C$
club: Ben`s eleven, country: Canada
very good form, tragic tactical discipline

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

TLed