Bidding Wars - Yeah

[Masked]

After a nearly a season of training, Peter Gallant finally popped to passable on Thursday. Since I now have younger trainees who have decent, although not quite as good, secondaries, I decided to sell him off.

Friday morning, I listed him with an opening bid of 50K, an amount I thought a bit ambitious for this late in the season.

As of this morning, 6 teams have already bid on him, several multiple times, and have driven his price up to $120,001. The bidding does not end until tomorrow, but I would be quite suprised to see him raised again.

I doubt training him for another 10-12 weeks and selling him as a 20 yo solid would have netted me anymore money. Nice to finally have a significant bidding war work for me.

Wonders if I am severely underestimating his market value...

Here are his stats:

Peter Gallant (10818945)
19 years, passable form, healthy

A pleasant guy who is balanced and honest.
Has wretched experience and weak leadership abilities.

Speciality: Powerful

Nationality: Schweiz
Assessed value: 58 000 US$

Stamina: solid Goaltending: disastrous
Playmaking: passable Passing: inadequate
Winger: wretched Defending: inadequate
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: wretched

[damnMikeBrown]

My guess is he is one of the few who meet people's requirements for minimum secondary skills when they search. Nice to get a raise though.

I was in a similar circumstance. I sold my 17yr old passable scorer youth pull. Set him at 5k, and he went all the way up to $8k! Oh, wait, nevermind. That was rather pathetic, wasn't it.

[Doug5984]

I agree with damnMikeBrown- when some people search for a midfielder they probably put the secondaries at atleast inadequate and that probably helped generate a lot of interest in him.

Also- I saw you had put in a few bids for my passable keeper who ended earlier today...You and another FOFCer had placed a bid (i can't remeber exactly who it was right now). It would have been nice to send him to another FOFC team but oh well.

[NAIWF]

It was me, I was going to switch him with the guy I have now, but once the price went over $70,000, I didn't think I'd be able to make a profit by selling the guy I have now.

[Masked]

Originally posted by Doug5984
Also- I saw you had put in a few bids for my passable keeper who ended earlier today...You and another FOFCer had placed a bid (i can't remeber exactly who it was right now). It would have been nice to send him to another FOFC team but oh well.

My starting keeper went down for 5 weeks in the last league match so I've been on the lookout for a replacement. I figured I wouldn't get your guy since I couldn't be online when the bidding ended. Either I would get him for a good price or help drive up the price for you.