Asunto: Youth players

I fully acknowledge that I am speaking from ignorance. I find it hard to remember pre-Hirons/Croxall days, and even their early days when I was training Croxall up from tragic.

You a number of valid points, and I had also forgotten that tech limits a players speed with the ball.

Still if you use the width of the pitch and your striker is scoring most of his goals with his head, then tech is mostly irrelevant at the critical moments. If you set your tactic right you should be able to get your speedy, sniper to both shoot from range and also pounce on rebounds and be in for crosses as well. Like I said, I'm suprised I don't see/hear of people doing it more (maybe they do and it just doesn't work?)

Still if you use the width of the pitch and your striker is scoring most of his goals with his head, then tech is mostly irrelevant at the critical moments.

True but so is pace :p. You just need to sit the strikers in the goalbox with high striking to receive crosses from midfielders ;).

One of the great things about the game is that there is no single requirement for players. A striker can have a number of skills, you just need to modify the tactic to suit the situation.

Arguably you need the right amount of pace... if you're too much faster than the winger, you'll run to offside -> stop -> run again. Too slow and the cross will come in before the striker is in a decent scoring position.

My first ever magical, and a rubbish time of the season for him to come out:

Joshua Rayner, age: 19
club: Chelsea.F.C, country: Australia
value: 284 800 AU$, wage: 3 400 AU$
very good form, tragic tactical discipline

adequate stamina good keeper
very good pace average defender
average technique average playmaker
excellent passing good striker

Magical + 78%
talent = 3.8 weeks

If anyone wants him let me know asap.

wow, could only be worse if he was 20, bad luck mate

decent midfielder. Pity about the age, but with a few seasons in pace/tech/pm he might come out ok. Doubt he'll make the U21 or Senior side though, starting at 20 is too big a disadvantage.

Probably should be trained up as a defender, to train 2 skills rather than 4. That's really the only way I could see him making the NT.

Not too bad of a player.

Brilliant +0 Talent 4

Craig Terminello, age: 19

club: Cumlionibus, country: Australia
value: 184 000 AU$, wage: 2 480 AU$
very good form, tragic tactical discipline

adequate stamina hopeless keeper
average pace weak defender
average technique excellent playmaker
very good passing unsatisfactory striker

has anyone noticed the amount of awesome youth pulls coming out in the last week....Sokker, your a hard, hard game....

Talent 4, vg 3+

Josh Haddrill, age 18
value: 103 600 AU$
wage: 1 600 AU$
very good form

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


Talent unknown, Good 2+ only in school for two weeks

Nelson Libbesson, age 18
value: 28 400 AU$
wage: 840 AU$
very good form

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


Talent 6.5 Exc 0+

Dean Ciantar, age 19
value: 125 200 AU$
wage: 1 840 AU$
very good form

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


All players will be sold

good +2, talent 8

Campbell McKay, age: 19

club: Devil`s Angels United
Matches
Players
Transfers
History
, country: Australia
value: 34 000 AU$, wage: 880 AU$
very good form, tragic tactical discipline

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

sold/sacked


adequate +1, talent 5.25

Stacy Medhurst, age: 20

club: Devil`s Angels United
Matches
Players
Transfers
History
, country: Australia
value: 37 200 AU$, wage: 920 AU$
very good form, tragic tactical discipline

NTDB:
hopeless stamina tragic keeper
tragic pace good defender
tragic technique average playmaker
hopeless passing unsatisfactory striker

sold/sacked


average +1, talent 4.33

Ross Miller, age: 17

club: Devil`s Angels United
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History
, country: Australia
value: 19 200 AU$, wage: 760 AU$
very good form, tragic tactical discipline

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

sold/sacked
(editado)

Josh Mottram, Age: 18
Value: 33 000 $,   Salary: 675 $
Team: Da Minkees,   Country: Australia
Form: very good (9)
Stamina: poor (3),   Keeper: tragic (0)
Pace: good (7),   Defender: unsatisfactory (2)
Technique: poor (3),   Playmaker: adequate (6)
Passing: poor (3),   Striker: tragic (0)

solid, 1 pop in 8 weeks...
on sale

Excellent - Talent 5.83 (from memory)

Chris Harland, age 19
value: 107 200 AU$
wage: 1 600 AU$
very good form

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

Pulled as very good: 5wk talent (--/----/----/----/----/)

Alex Richter, age: 20
value: 111 600 AU$, wage: 1 720 AU$

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

On sale now.
.
(editado)

Jamie Woodbridge, age: 18

club: The Comets, country: Australia
value: 69 200 AU$, wage: 1 200 AU$
very good form, tragic tactical discipline

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

Pulled as excellent +0 (4.33 weeks/pop in YS)

Decisions to be made.

Does some managers have def-talented players
I wanna train an Australian NT-def

Let me know in sk-mail

Grtz

I've got 3 or 4 of them... but I'm a def trainer so ill keep them for the time being ;)