Obligatory 'Rate My Buy'

[Vince]

Ok, because I've been frustrated with High Passable Derek Woodson's form troubles all year (even though he's coming 'round now) and possessing a good 300k chunk of money, I decided to buy a Solid keeper. Searching around, I found this guy and bought him for $193,000. What do you think?

Nuno Saldanha (16177983)
22 years, passable form, healthy
A pleasant guy who is balanced and honest.
Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities.

Nationality: Portugal
Assessed value: 403 000 US$
Wage: 3 624 US$/week including 20% Bonus
Owner: Isla Vista Vandals
Warnings: 0


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

[Masked]

Great buy. You got a mid solid, for the price low solids typically go for. I often see such players go for 225-275K.

I got my solid keeper (22yo, $394K value) for $204K, and I was pleased (American too).

[Vince]

Nice. My question is now whether or not I should train Keeper for a week or two before selling my backup. My backup is Derrick Woodson...21 yo passable with a $214,000 value at Weak form. According to the goalie price levels from a while ago, Weak formed keepers pop at about $235,000. Would the extra sales money for a Solid keeper be worth a week or two of training him up?

[terpkristin]

Just my opinion having sold a keeper this week...
Right now the keeper market is pretty well flooded, and there are a *lot* of passables out there with a RANGE of prices. Solids are more consistently in the 200-300k range, but since he'll be a low solid there are no guarantees. Then again, there was a keeper from the US in the US I noticed today that was solid and the owner was trying to get 1.75 million for him. Considering I got 547k for my excellent keeper....

I'm not sure how well you'd do selling a solid. I'm looking to buy a solid and am expecting to pay about 200k, so if you were to sell your passable, you probably could re-coup your cost of the new keeper, but there is really no guarantee...

~terpk

[RPI-Fan]

I think you oughta' train for one week, and if he doesn't pop, list for a slightly high price. If he does pop, list for a normal solid price.

And if he doesn't sell when on the list, hold on to him for a few weeks as a backup (til the end of the season), then train again, and sell him early next season.

[Celeval]

Originally posted by Masked
Great buy. You got a mid solid, for the price low solids typically go for. I often see such players go for 225-275K.

How can you tell where they are in their training cycle to know low v. medium v. high, etc?

Kevin

[Nyarlahotep]

By their value.

[Franklinnoble]

What are excellent keepers going for now? Just wondering...

[Nyarlahotep]

About 500k+ depending on the usual stuff.

[Franklinnoble]

This is my current trainee... my hope is that he pops once more before the end of the season, so I can sell him and finance the team improvements I'll need if I'm heading up to Div. IV:



Boris Harris (14892724)
18 years, passable form, healthy
I speak US English!

A nasty fellow who is calm and honest.
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities.

Nationality: USA
Assessed value: 592 000 US$
Wage: 1 740 US$/week
Owner: Calvary Crusaders
Warnings: 0


Stamina: wretched Goaltending: excellent
Playmaking: disastrous Passing: disastrous
Winger: disastrous Defending: disastrous
Scoring: disastrous Set Pieces: poor

[terpkristin]

For what it's worth...
I sold this guy about 2 weeks ago for 547k (he was at excellent keeper then):
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José Aviles (13063145)
22 years, passable form, healthy
A pleasant guy who is balanced and upright.
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities.

Nationality: USA
Assessed value: 519 000 US$
Wage: 3 072 US$/week including 20% Bonus
Owner: Steegothek
Warnings: 0
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I've been trying to get rid of my other excellent GK, this is his 4th time on the transfer market or so, he's finally getting bid on. He's at 521k right now, here are his stats:
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Vladimiro Portillo (15476875)
20 years, solid form, healthy
A popular guy who is balanced and honest.
Has disastrous experience and wretched leadership abilities.

Nationality: USA
Assessed value: 545 000 US$
Wage: 2 820 US$/week
Owner: Real Terps FC
Warnings: 0


Stamina: wretched Goaltending: excellent
Playmaking: disastrous Passing: disastrous
Winger: disastrous Defending: disastrous
Scoring: wretched Set Pieces: wretched
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Hopefully that will help get an idea of market rates....

~tk

[Nyarlahotep]

Originally posted by Franklinnoble
This is my current trainee... my hope is that he pops once more before the end of the season, so I can sell him and finance the team improvements I'll need if I'm heading up to Div. IV:

A young formidable should net you an easy million.

[sterlingice]

I gotta side with the people who say you got a good deal. You paid a pretty low price for a solid and got a middle solid- they pop at $300ish and $500ish in passable form, if I remember correctly (Timber's at $525K right now but he's been in solid form).

SI

[Havok]

good deal, i bought 1 just like him last season for 197k. I just shake my head when i see people buy Solid keepers for 250k+.

The market gets flooded with Solid keepers every week after youth pulls. Its not to hard to find one for under 200k.

[Havok]

~Dola~

I take that back, the only solid keeper i'd buy for over 250k is Tim Kimber. The greatest solid keeper ever :)