How to make $$ at winger slot training PM

[Kathmandu]

If you thought I was going to tell YOU, I'm sorry but I was hoping you could tell me :)

I train PM and I've got about $400K that I can spend on a trainee at the winger slot. I'm hoping you PM trainers out there will tell me what you like to do there.

thanks in advance

[damnMikeBrown]

I'm a winger trainer, so take that as an automatic sign of stupidity right there...

I'd urge you to consider buying a passable pm/exc-formid-outs winger to put in that slot. It would most likely help your wing attacks and still be training up an asset that could be sold when his PM moves a few levels.

[PilotMan]

I would suggest buying a formidable PMer and half training him to outstanding and then selling him for the short term cash. It lets you play WTM for your cup, and friendlies and if you get a formidable for a bargian you can make a descent profit, and boost your short term cash. What dmb also applies. Carrying only 9 trainees also lets you be flexible about what formations you can run. It lets you experiment with the 4-4-2, 3-4-3, in addition to the 5 IM formations that you can run.

[rickJ]

I often did some semi-daytraining with that spot, usually with a 19-20yo excellent winger with either inad or passable PM and sell at his first bump. Had a few instances of $400k turning into $800k in one or 2 weeks (before a lot of the downturn).

Right now I have good wingers that I'm using, don't seem to bring in the money nearly as well...

[Maltby]

I recently sold a winger as a PM trainer for around 830k....bought him as a passable winger, passable pm...trained him up a few levels and sold him...this time around I'm buying wingers to replace that batch of wingers that they are at least excellent at winger and a min. of inad/pass at pm. The 18 year olds seem to get the most favorable price in terms of purchasing.

[sterlingice]

Depends on how long you have to train. Daytrading is one option. Always a bit risky in that you have to be a very good judge of TSI values and even then something could go wrong, particularly at the levels you're dealing with. If you're talking long term, it's a whole different ballgame. For the Hippos, I managed to turn two $200K half trainees into about $2M and $1M by the end of their training, 4 years later- not a huge gain but it was something and it certainly wasn't a loss.

I'm going on the assumption that this is one of your trainee and not starter spots as that makes a difference. The key thing to keep in mind is that you'll only be half training this player so you can't have too high of startup costs because your returns won't be all that great. This is why I suggest steering clear of things like form wing/pass pm and the like unless you know you want a form wing/form pm as part of your future plan. You're still paying for someone's initial buying costs if you're buying young players: if you by a 19yo formidable pm, for instance, you're paying more than a 20yo because that owner wants you to help defer some of the costs of his 17yo solid that he paid too much for (and that's even after adjusting for inflation: ie the fact that you can't train a 20 quite as fast as a 19).

Since you're only half training the player, I suggest going with someone low cost that you know you'll get a decent return out of. Try to find a high passable with few secondaries (since they'll cost extra and you're doing inefficient training on the trainee) and just let him pop on up as your team gets better.

SI