Skills

Dont know why my players keep dropping in their star ratings.  They ave over 7 in the premier league and some are in their mid 20's but still lose half to a full star over a year

4 hours ago, Thats2 said:

Fair enough. Hopefully we can get to a point where we buy the Maupays and Benrahmas and loan them out, then.

But Kante was thrust directly into the PL, Sancho made his name in the Bundesliga. Gueye was decent for us and clearly PL quality, Richarlison, Mane, Vertonghen, Eriksen - all originally signed for less than 12M, all blooded in the PL. Sigurdsson, Mahrez and Alli played in the lower leagues but hit the ground running in the PL too. I hope our scouts find us that type of player, for those types of deals. 

And we all seem to be think Guilbert’s going straight into the team at RB though he was signed to help us in the Championship.

not sure you're giving us enough credit here on this one...   McGinn, El Ghazi, Hause, & Mings were probably all valued less than 12m at the start of the season.  Problem with Mings is that we didnt fix a price with the loan

Great technically and is different to what we have but is a bit lightweight which is my concern.  El ghazi to start - Jota and Green back ups, need 1 more starting winger for me

22 hours ago, KenjiOgiwara said:

Out of interest what's the point of an assistant manager? Should I just get one that has 20 in player potential, and ignore everything else? Swear I have one with 20 motivating, and he still **** up most team talks I give him. 

i recently just did this.  I prefer to have the ability and potential stars correct then teamtalks and press conferences.   Just so happens he has decent other stats as well tho

Sign Mbappe!!!

too soon?

Just got promoted to the premier league with Stalybridge in 2027.  Initial budget set at 350k a week while Stoke had 1.1m a week in the championship. 

On 22/04/2019 at 00:10, KenjiOgiwara said:

This probably sounds stupid, but after 10-12 seasons I still don't understand how player potential is evaluated. For instance, my most valued players is a Brazilian Igor with £ 35,5 million in value. He has 3 stars in ability and 3 stars in potential, yet he tends to play very very good. I have other players with higher ability and potential ratings, but they don't do as well. 

So who actually determines player potential? Coach? Assistant? 

yeah i find it a bit inconsistent as well...  hate when current ability drops half a star for no reason on a mid 20's player who plays regularly

145 league goals in a season is nuts!

finished 7th in the championship with Stalybridge celtic, my 7th season.  Norwich didnt do me any favours on the last day!

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Love the fact he's comfortable on the ball... not sure Chester makes the starting line up if all our players were fit

Ive got us needing at least 14 points to make playoffs (on goal difference) from the last 8 games using a simple algorithm

wins against blackburn, rotherham, bolton and milwall are a must!

12 hours ago, KenjiOgiwara said:

So much crap on the loan lists. Found one spanish winger I overpaid for. He got injured for 8 months 20 minutes into his first match. I got so mad I restarted the game

get team reports for all premier league teams - then when you get the report go to your scouting meeting and they'll let you know who would join on loan from that team.   Can normally get a few 3.5 start CA players wanting to join

17 hours ago, KenjiOgiwara said:

I keep finding really good players for Eastleigh, but they don't want to join me in the championship

whats your wages budget in the championship?   i just got promoted and the board initially gave me 58k per week

18 hours ago, KenjiOgiwara said:

I've never been relegated before, but I wonder if I will get sacked when I get relegated this season. The ambition was to avoid it, but it was always gonna happen. 

would be very harsh if that was the case given you've taken a non league team to the heights of the premier league!

the team seem to have lost their sense of adventure in a way and i think the amount of goals we've conceded over the past couple months has caused DS to play a bit more cautiously. Unfortunately defence isnt our strength and we still managed to concede 3 without really creating much for 80 minutes.   We look so much better when its all gung ho attack for now

On 09/02/2019 at 08:52, Villan_of_oz said:

As an Aussie I find it very hard to criticise Jedinak at all, he has been an absolute warrior for my country and was a very decent premier league footballer. So I say this with a heavy heart, please DS never ever play him again, if we are that desperate then put a kid in there to see what they can do.

Mile if you happen to read this, I'm sorry

surprised to see the first comment on Mile on page 4.  The long term injuries look like they have taken their toll, time to come back to Oz unfortunately

6 hours ago, Dante_Lockhart said:

@Skills Tried them yet?

not yet. Just got promoted to League 1 and in between seasons right now

9 hours ago, Daniel said:

First game in the premier league. Don't know what i was worrying about

you really dont want to share your tactics do you? lol

16 hours ago, KenjiOgiwara said:

If I get Eastleigh to the Championship, will I get any money? I am so sick and tired of being broke. Absolutely stupid. Four seasons in and still not signed a single player for an actual transfer fee

in my 5th season with Stalybridge in L2 which looks like it will be back to back promotions...  managed to have a couple of decent sales along the way.  Sold my back up keeper for 250k and 2 players when in VNL for 200k each which has kept me afloat.   But that gets chewed up pretty quick - my wages budget is 19k a week which is a pittance compared to other teams in VNL let alone L2.

even got 36k for my Assistant Manager lol

On 18/01/2019 at 23:28, Daniel said:

Wasn't even close hahahaa

 

that is some performance mate!   any chance you could take a snapshot of your tactics, wouldnt mind giving it a go!

currently trying the Dafuge challenge with Stalybridge and have got them promoted from Vanarama North to League 2 in 4 seasons.  Really enjoying the challenge so far

poor Bruce lost 3 - 0 today... lucky we have moved on 

Just now, John said:

At least we're not Leeds! 

yeah lucky us!