$*(@&%#@ dilemma

[-Panther]

Ok, for some ungodly reason, I've been thinking about my latest
purchase, yep the excellent PM passable Winger, and I'm not too
sure I want to do what I planned now.

I've been breaking down some numbers and my initial analysis was off.
If I break training to get this guy ready, I'll lose about 2.3 levels worth of
training on my strikers instead of 1.5 as I didn't count the rest of
this season.

Now I'm thinking I don't want to lose that much so I think I'm going
to try to offload him and stick to the plan that's got me this far.

I'll list him sometime today for $600,000. It might be a
tad high due to his stamina, but I'm only %75 that I don't want him.

In case you didn't see, yea right ;), here's his stats in case any of
you might want him:

<PRE style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: .75">
David Jonsson (14896722)
<B style="color: red">18</B> years, solid form, healthy

A controversial person who is balanced and upright.
Has disastrous experience and poor leadership abilities.

Speciality: Powerful

Nationality: Sverige
Assessed value: $153,000
Wage: $1,104 including 20% Bonus
Owner: Tomahawks
Warnings: 0

Stamina: weak Goaltending: disastrous
<B style="color: red">Playmaking: excellent</B> Passing: poor
<B style="color: red">Winger: passable</B> Defending: poor
Scoring: weak Set Pieces: wretched
</PRE>

I know some of you don't like the 'Powerful' specialty, but it's actually
a good one for a midfielder to have as they gain PM & Def in rain
and only lose scoring and burn stamina faster in sun.

In a way I hope he sells, but I hope he don't. He'd be much better
off with someone who actually trains either winger or PM. If he sells,
I might try to find an older winger that don't need training.

[Havok]

First off - the powerful specialty is fine, i have 3 starters that are powerful and i've never ever had a problem with it. People who knock the "powerful" skill honestly just don't know any better.

Second off - right when you bought that guy and said what you wanted to do with him i thought you were crazy :) His weak stamina is a BITCH! thats at least 3 weeks of stamina training to get to excellent. And since your are forward trainer you shouldn't be training stamina at all. Your offseason training should be set pieces.

Plus training him in winger would hurt your scoring training to much IMO. Don't switch programs, train the hell out of your forwards now, then sell one and buy the Winger you want. Don't buy a winger "project" like this guy.

Im a midfielder trainer, so if i want a formidable defender with passable winger skill im not gonna buy formidable defender with weak winger and stop my PM training just to train him to passable winger. That would hurt my PM trainee's to much. Just ain't worth it. Same goes for you, stoping your Scoring training program for 4-6 weeks just to get this guy to excellent winger is pointless.

Thats my opinion anyway, all to often people wanna switch they're programs every season, or stop they're main training for awhile to train something else. Makes no sense to me and in the long run it will hurt you more then it helps, i promise.

[-Panther]

that's basically the conclusion I came to. I just can't justify losing
that much from my primary training which I why I listed him for $500,000.