Sell him or keep him?

[NevStar]

I just pulled the following.

Hugh Chisholm (12248733)
19 years, passable form, healthy

A popular guy who is balanced and honest.
Has disastrous experience and wretched leadership abilities.

Nationality: USA
Assessed value: 90 000 US$
Wage: 980 US$/week
Owner: Morrisville Morrisvillians
Warnings: 0


Stamina: weak Goaltending: disastrous
Playmaking: poor Passing: solid
Winger: poor Defending: poor
Scoring: passable Set Pieces: poor


I'm currently training defending, and have made it a policy to sell any pulls that aren't defenders. I figure I could probably easily get $50-$75k for him, maybe more if some newbies get in a bidding war. This probably isn't enough to buy a decent solid scoring (older) forward.

However, this guy is 19, and thus not nearly as trainable (and thus, valuable) as somebody who's 17. He'd be a part-time starter for me, as my current starting forward has solid scoring & weak passing, but has had form problems lately (and is 30 years old).

Any thoughts?

[vex]

I say sell him, get someone who is 24-27 years old and do whatever you want with the rest of the money.


And 75K should be enough as I wasn't able to get 85K for my 28(I know it's a bit old) solid scorer, weak passer last season. He now leads my series with 13 goals.

[TargetPractice6]

I would keep him. He should perform just as well as solid/weak.

[daedalus]

If you keep him, as TP said, he'll be either as good or nearly as good.

If you sell him, it would most likely not be in the 50-75 range. When I was chasing something similar, I kept losing them because it would get to about 90 and I would have to bow out. And I was chasing inadequate/solid. Oh, they were newbies that was chasing these guys. Think about it, if a scorer trainer like Ardent gets his hands on one of these players, he'll be a solid/solid by 20 and an excellent/solid by 21. That's a damn good forward. Probably even enough to give a 4-5-1 some half-way decent central attack. The only thing I would say is, maybe start with a not so high price tag, perhaps something in the 50-range to get the bidding started and have it end in a time where there would be a lot of action.