How much for this guy?

[kingfc22]

20 years, solid form, healthy A nasty fellow who is tranquil and upright.
Has wretched experience and disastrous leadership abilities.


Speciality: Technical

<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td nowrap="nowrap">Total Skill Index (TSI): </td> <td>7 750</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Wage: </td> <td> 1 992 US$/week including 20% Bonus </td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <td>Stamina: </td><td>excellent </td> <td> Goalkeeping: </td><td>disastrous </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Playmaking: </td><td>formidable </td> <td> Passing: </td><td>inadequate </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Winger: </td><td>excellent </td> <td> Defending: </td><td>weak </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Scoring: </td><td>weak </td> <td> Set Pieces: </td><td>excellent </td></tr></tbody> </table>

I still have not decided whether to upgrade my keeper spot or my midfield, but I saw this player and he would allow me to use a lot of different formations and I was wondering what you would pay for him.

[Alf]

I sold a brilliant PM + excellent winger for 1.9M to give you a rough evalutation.

[JAG]

The guy you listed would probably be more of a wing attack boost than midfield boost, since you'd otherwise be wasting his excellent winger by playing him as an IM. If you really want a midfield upgrade, I would go for more of a pure IM with as much PM as you can afford and possibly some passing / defense (and one with weak+ experience if possible).

[Tellistto]

Priorities...That guy is just candy, and not nearly high enough in the wing or PM department to make it a worthwhile investment for more than a season or two, unless you planned to train his winger up higher. As a trainee for a winger trainer, he looks pretty nice, but...

Just remember...priorities.

Tell

[Tellistto]

Alright, I took at look at your team...

You train scoring, yes? You need midfield badly judging from your last two matches. Your not getting anywhere near anough chances to use your offense, and midfield is itself a form of defense because it can limit chances that your giving up.

On a side note, why in the world did you play 343 with 2 im's in your cup match? It truly boggles my mind when people do that.

Tell

[sterlingice]

I play a 3-4-3 and currently, I'm running people over with posession with a really high PM'ing wing toward middle and that's what it sounds like you need. For my team, I'm heading towards snagging a winger but winger trainers are, how do you call it, INSANE, with their prices. Probably explains why, at the level I'm looking at, that only 1 of about 20 wingers have bids on them. Just because it cost you $7M in training time to make him doesn't mean it's worth that for the buyers.

SI

[kingfc22]

SI was reading my mind. I was playing with HAM a lot last night and my team looked best with a very good WTM. Right now I really only have a middle and one wing attack while the other wing is just bleh. A good WTM would not only improve my midfield, but also would allow me to attack on both wings.

[sterlingice]

Wingers don't help your attack much unless you really pay big bucks for someone with both wing and playmaking skill. My WTM may give me a level or two (old level) of attack on that side, but he's mainly to boost my midfield (super PM'er). The problem, however, is that I only have 1 good attack (up the middle). Tactically, I'm easy to defend so that's what I've been trying to change.

So I've been looking for someone who is bril+ pm/wc+ wing but winger trainees, again, are insane. So I'll just stick with what I have for now and start toying with the striker toward wing since a couple of my trainees have decent wing ability.

I'll have to make a tough call when I get up to Div III or at least start retooling in a season or two. But because winger trainers want too damn much for their guys, I'll probably have to go with a naked winger to boost attack and upgrade my middies slightly.

As Hobbes about his $7M winger purchase- it's just not worth it for me unless they're scary good.

SI