Asunto: End of season clearout - choose your players!

A recent discussion has got me thinking about my strategy.
While I'm happy with it in terms of the senior national team, I do think I need to find a balance for helping the u21's as well, and this means letting go of some of the players before they reach maximum pace.

In general, I've been trying to sell players as I get new players to replace them from my youth school, but I realised that I don't need to have a full 22 man squad at all times. It would just mean that some players will get to play twice while I replenish my squad. It's not the most efficient training method, but it would mean that those lucky players get a bit of extra training in the meantime.

That being the case, I'm considering a mass sale in a week of two, when the season ends and those sponsorship bonuses kick in. I have 23 players currently and am willing to cut it down to 11, though 14 would probably be prudent to cover injuries.

If you are interested in buying any of my lot, get your finances in order and let me know. :)
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What players do you want to sell? Looking at your squad you might have to sell more than 10 players..
You know I'm interested in 3 of your players, I should have money for them around week 3 next season :-)
May be you can try to buy players from other managers who need pace training (e.g. may be Cole), instead of training just 11-14 players, the extra trainings are nice but it really is not that much of a difference and it certainly is not more efficient than train 22 players..
I hope you'll fill your squad with some nice talents from your youth academy soon ;-)

I've never been one to go looking for players, and I'm not going to start now.
If a player happens to come up for sale that I'm interested, I'll consider it.

I'll train most new players from my academy as they arrive, so I won't be at less than 22 players for long. The poorer ones will then get replaced as I've done before.

I am not changing my plan to train players to high pace. This is simply a modification of that strategy to allow for the u21 squad to benefit as well.

Which players do I want to sell? If someone is interested in any particular player, I'll consider it.
There are only a handful that I won't sell, though I would prefer to keep most of the 17 year olds for another season.

I will be probably selling 2 of my youngsters soon and I would like to buy some 17 year old instead. Would you be willing to sell Arthur Letsholonyane? I would still also like to buy Methula and Matsau at the beginning of next season..

Sure, no problem.

I would like Phillip Mxaka, I'm selling a defender in the first week of the new season, so i'm hoping that you could keep him and sell him in the secound week?


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Sure, no problem. Just let me know when you're ready.

I'm going to start listing my players for sale soon, probably Thursday for those that need stamina training. Others might go sooner.

I'll hold back the ones that have specific interest, like Mxaka and Matsau.
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you can put Phillip Mxaka today.

You can list Letsholonyane tomorrow also, so he gets stamina at you club, because I'm not traning it. Morning or evening.

I have a decent amount of money on my bank account atm, so if you guys can't buy them for a certain reason, I'd be glad to do so.

Sure you can back me up :-) Especially for Matsau in about 2 weeks.

I can't sell now the player that I wanted to sell because one of my first team player got an injury 2 days ago in NT, 30 days, so I need to use in defence the player that this week i was planning to sell.

But i have money, so i can buy the defender posted above, if you train stamina, you could put it tomorow because i will train speed Wednesday in Romanian Cup match, and i don't know at what hour it will be to put him today( i think that the match will start at 12 o'clock sokker time) so i can't use him in that match because time passed, and +1 on stamina is welcome than nothing :P

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Ok, that's fine. I'll put Mxaka and Letsholonyane up for sale tomorrow sometime.

Actually, I'll list most tomorrow so that they will be able to play for me on Wednesday and get their stamina training.

They don't have to play in order to get stamina training.. ;)

Oh, that's not what I meant.

I've already set my team for Wednesday's cup match and most of the players I'm planning to sell are in the team.
Saves me having to change my plans. :)
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