Asunto: Training - waste of time

So...I have been training some players for 6 months. They appear to be worth £0 because they are better but older and literally no market for them....

Not sure it's worth bothering training when a newbie at all....

Should be ok for newbie if they buy on the cheap 18/19 with low pace and ok (solid area) Def for Defender, Pass for Midfielder etc and train pace for 3 to 4 seasons with cheap pace unearthly coach. By 22 yrs old they should be reasonable to sell or at least compete for top 2 spots in Div 3 (with good tactics). Problem is Newbies are not the most patient.

Training will always be difficult as newbies as they can't afford decent assistants.

after 6 months the players i bought are still literally worthless so in effect I've gone nowhere so far which is frustrating. The bottom of the market is so thin because there are so many very old 35yr+ players available...and when you consider each trainee costs £1000 per week wages, and then the cost of coach on top, early doors I do thinks its questionable...I reckon if I'd have not bothered training at all 6 months ago, I'd be much better off financially, which seems wrong.

You have to be really lucky to pick up players that are talented, a really talented 19 yr old is better than an untalented 17 yr old.

I've not done bad from picking up 19yo trainees. There is a lot of players out there for peanuts, the skill is picking out the gems as the quality difference between players at the bottom end can be huge. 16-18yo players generally not worth looking at early doors as attract quite a large premium.

It's also primary skills that add most value. A player trained to divine pace tragic everything else for example will be worth a lot less than same player with divine striker instead of pace.

Unfortunately for a newbie luck plays an even more part was buying or developing a player as they don't have the cash to guarantee quality.

Talking about luck I remember only a few weeks ago I saw a 17yr old go for over £7 million and the parent club was from a low international division had the newbie stadium size of 3100 (probably newish to Sokker). Even most veteran training sides never get anywhere near that kind of land pull. I would never say to a newbie to go down training school route at the beginning but for this guy the Sokker lottery paid out. So jealous.

you never know who is watching your players ;)

some go for millions in England too, im also jealous

I initially bought a load and trained pace to judge their talent, and focused on the most talented, but didn’t get (m)any talent stunners initially.

The post worked slightly as I’ve just sold a couple of my trainees for £20-30k which is big bucks for me…

Not to pile on any pressure, but by the time my team was same age as yours, I'd sold one of my early purchases for £438k :P

Also can depends on what you train. I could have trained keeper from start and easily sold for big money, but my team would not evolve. Game would feel stale and I would probably given up before they nurture enough. Hats off to keeper trainers but just not for me.

When I played sokker originally I trained strikers for probably the first 8 years - rotating the training of their primary skills before switching around a bit more. This time I went down that route again starting with pace to test talent, and quick stamina to give team base level skills but am considering giving GK a blast for a change….

if you want to train more to sell , then def or mid more productive... i do it for the enjoyment and have my strikers.. i may have 10 too many just now... Goalkeeper training is an art and could make £££££ certainly young keepers seem to go for a lot more just now...
We used to have a couple of brilliant GK trainers but dont know what has happened to them :(

I got bored of training goalkeepers as you can only make 8-10 million every 3-4 seasons and strikers were going for 5-7 million so I could never get a better team. Now I am trying something else. Failing miserably though.

Did I hear that training is due to change?

You did ;)

Still yet to happen though. But could make things interesting as and when,.

Yeah agree will be interesting to understand, I’m hoping a bit like F1 new rules give a chance to take advantage..