Help me keep USA U-20 Roger Robles in the U.S.

[paksenarrion]

Curse the timing of that Portuguese team. If Robles had been put up last week when I was swimming in money I would have taken one for the U.S. in a heartbeat. Now it is going to be ungodly difficult.

I have a young group of scoring trainees and am in no threat of relegation and train a Cyprus U-20, and soon to be Bolivian U-20. In short, unless a team like Tombstone Titans steps up I am one of the best destinations for Roger Robles's continued training.

I have put up the following players for sale to raise money for Robles:

Massimo Nicolini (8774042) [Add this player to your bookmarks]
31 years, solid form, healthy
A popular guy who is calm and upright.
Has passable experience and weak leadership abilities.


Speciality: Head

Nationality: Italia
Total Skill Index (TSI): 10 360
Wage: 7 752 US$/week including 20% Bonus
Owner: Caribbean Harp and Shamrock FC
Warnings: 0
Injuries: Healthy


Stamina: excellent Goaltending: disastrous
Playmaking: magnificent Passing: wretched
Winger: wretched Defending: inadequate
Scoring: inadequate Set Pieces: weak

6/4 at 15:33 for $2,130,000.
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Ryan Williams (4300393) [Add this player to your bookmarks]
29 years, weak form, healthy
A nasty fellow who is fiery and upright.
Has inadequate experience and inadequate leadership abilities.

Nationality: England
Total Skill Index (TSI): 20 060
Wage: 15 672 US$/week including 20% Bonus
Owner: Caribbean Harp and Shamrock FC
Warnings: 0
Injuries: Healthy


Stamina: excellent Goaltending: disastrous
Playmaking: world class Passing: weak
Winger: inadequate Defending: weak
Scoring: passable Set Pieces: inadequate

6/4 at 14:48 for $2,950,000
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Hardi Hütt (26954872) [Add this player to your bookmarks]
22 years, solid form, healthy
A controversial person who is temperamental and upright.
Has poor experience and poor leadership abilities.

Nationality: Eesti
Total Skill Index (TSI): 14 270
Wage: 7 680 US$/week including 20% Bonus
Owner: Caribbean Harp and Shamrock FC
Warnings: 0
Injuries: Healthy


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

6/4 at 14:54 for $2,300,000
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Jonas Mansaray (10713141) [Add this player to your bookmarks]
31 years, inadequate form, healthy
A controversial person who is balanced and dishonest.
Has solid experience and weak leadership abilities.

Nationality: Canada
Total Skill Index (TSI): 3 970
Wage: 1 584 US$/week including 20% Bonus
Owner: Caribbean Harp and Shamrock FC
Warnings: 1
Injuries: Healthy


Stamina: excellent Goaltending: wretched
Playmaking: weak Passing: solid
Winger: wretched Defending: formidable
Scoring: passable Set Pieces: passable

6/4 at 15:36 for $1,000,000
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Some of those are players I just bought so I listed them right at the exact return number. I posted here, because I don't want to be banned for a transfer add on the USA conference.

[terpkristin]

Would help you out, but you don't have any US players for sale.

/tk

[Havok]

Roger Robles is a stud... i hope you get him.

[ibnsgirl]

ok, I only keep up with reading FOFC stuff, and I guess that I missed something...

what is up with this Portuguese team? are they trying to sabotage U-20 teams?

[Poli]

One week prior and I could have given him a good home where strikers roam.

[paksenarrion]

One week prior and I could have given him a good home where strikers roam.

One week ago I would have bid $4.5 Million on the spot, this week I have to rely on the generosity of teams to make early bids on my IMs and defenders.

My vision for Robles is to turn him into an uber-multi-skilled player. My other forward trainees are already on this training program, Robles would just be an amazing compliment to what I'm already doing. He could be the best multi-skilled forward in the world in fact. I think at mythical scoring/titanic passing he'll be among the best forwards in the world and his wage would still be a very affordable $90,000 a week. At magical/extra-terrestrial he would still have a competitive wage, yet be among the most talented forwards in the world. This is the direction national teams are headed in the future anyways, the US has an opportunity to be ahead of the rest of the world with the training of this player, so this opportunity should not pass. If the new owner simply trains him to divine/solid(or worse stops training him before that) then Robles just becomes another world hopping mercenary and the U.S. loses big time on a player that could give our national team a competitive edge on other teams in the world.

[FrogMan]

Would help you out, but you don't have any US players for sale.

/tk
keep saving your money, I'll have a US winger for you soon enough ;)

FM

[MikeVick7]

Why is is that when I try to do a search on ol' Rog's name it doesn't bring up the guy that you all are talking about??

[Poli]

One week ago I would have bid $4.5 Million on the spot, this week I have to rely on the generosity of teams to make early bids on my IMs and defenders.

My vision for Robles is to turn him into an uber-multi-skilled player. My other forward trainees are already on this training program, Robles would just be an amazing compliment to what I'm already doing. He could be the best multi-skilled forward in the world in fact. I think at mythical scoring/titanic passing he'll be among the best forwards in the world and his wage would still be a very affordable $90,000 a week. At magical/extra-terrestrial he would still have a competitive wage, yet be among the most talented forwards in the world. This is the direction national teams are headed in the future anyways, the US has an opportunity to be ahead of the rest of the world with the training of this player, so this opportunity should not pass. If the new owner simply trains him to divine/solid(or worse stops training him before that) then Robles just becomes another world hopping mercenary and the U.S. loses big time on a player that could give our national team a competitive edge on other teams in the world.
That's an excellent idea. Our best forward at the moment is divine/excellent. Having someone on the map with ET or titanic passing at that level scoring would be outstanding.

Unfortunately, not many people think along those lines, because they view passing and other "secondary" training as a waste of time.

[MikeVick7]

Ahhh...it's Rodger. Found em.

[Alf]

Are you training passing ?

If yes, I'd like to know how you plan it as I might switch to passing training next season. I am still debating this with defense training.

[paksenarrion]

Are you training passing ?

If yes, I'd like to know how you plan it as I might switch to passing training next season. I am still debating this with defense training.

I train both scoring and passing. Last season my mix was 11/5. The thing holding me back from a more even split at the moment is my midfielders aren't ideal candidates for passing training.

[jddurango]

Paks,

do you train the first 11 weeks at scoring and next 5 at passing or do you mix it up?

PH

[paksenarrion]

Paks,

do you train the first 11 weeks at scoring and next 5 at passing or do you mix it up?

PH

I mix it so that I have the option to make unexpected tactical changes in league games. I can pull a 4-4-2 CA out of thin air on passing training weeks and then play the 6th forward in a midfield position in a friendly. I have the best midfield in my series this season, so that isn't as much of an issue as it was last season when my midfield stunk.

[Alf]

FYI, the Portuguese team is also buying a French Nat teamer, just to let him rot in hell. I advise your NT coach contact the GMs. The Portuguese team has just sold all its players (I think we talk about the same Portuguese 1st Div team)

[paksenarrion]

Well, I'm out of the Robles sweepstakes. I can't raise the money. The current high bidder is FC Pain Cave, a U.S. division V team, let's hope an American team stays the high bidder.

[JAG]

I knew FC Pain Cave sounded familiar...they're the ones who currently have the best youth pull I ever had (17 yr, passable scoring, solid passing...at the end of the season of course).

And looks like they won the bidding too.