Ever Sold your whole team and started over??

[Jets80]

I was just wondering if any one has ever sold there whole team and started completely over using the transfer wire?

My situation is that I am in a division(5) where 1st place is already locked up. If I stay where I am ill win 2nd or 3rd with out any trouble and the 4th through 8th place teams are down right bad!

I have spent half the season and allot of money building a 2nd place team through some bad transfer moves. All my guys have solid skills at the position they play but no secondary skills..not to mention they are late 20's early 30's in age. This team might be good enough to be a second place Div 5 team, but my future looks like crap.

I am thinking about putting the whole team on the transfer market and price them all to move. My team is worth 1.5 million so I dont know what that amounts to on the transfer market. And with that money I am going to buy a whole new team spending allot of time, patience and be very selective about who I buy and take in account age and secondary skills.

Any one every try this before? Just looking for some input before I pull the trigger on blowing up my whole team.


And your interested, here is the team that might be up for sale.


Joseph Horton
240 000 US$, 18 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities

Stamina: wretched Keeper: passable
Playmaking: disastrous Passing: disastrous
Winger: disastrous Defending: disastrous
Scoring: disastrous Set Pieces: poor


Ricart Álvarez
221 000 US$, 21 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and poor leadership abilities

Stamina: passable Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: inadequate Passing: poor
Winger: solid Defending: solid
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: poor


Adolphe Magnen 1
182 000 US$, 24 years, passable form
Has wretched experience and weak leadership abilities [Powerful]

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


José Jiménez
174 000 US$, 21 years, passable form
Has wretched experience and inadequate leadership abilities [Head]


Stamina: poor Keeper: wretched
Playmaking: inadequate Passing: inadequate
Winger: weak Defending: solid
Scoring: passable Set Pieces: wretched

Waldemar Szeliga 1
93 000 US$, 30 years, passable form
Has passable experience and poor leadership abilities [Powerful]


Stamina: excellent Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: solid Passing: weak
Winger: wretched Defending: poor
Scoring: solid Set Pieces: inadequate

Håkan Persson
74 000 US$, 19 years, excellent form
Has wretched experience and weak leadership abilities


Stamina: passable Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: poor Passing: passable
Winger: wretched Defending: wretched
Scoring: passable Set Pieces: weak

Stanton Moore
68 000 US$, 31 years, solid form
Has inadequate experience and inadequate leadership abilities


Stamina: excellent Keeper: wretched
Playmaking: weak Passing: poor
Winger: solid Defending: inadequate
Scoring: inadequate Set Pieces: weak

Anders Svensson
56 000 US$, 20 years, weak form
Has wretched experience and inadequate leadership abilities


Stamina: excellent Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: solid Passing: poor
Winger: weak Defending: wretched
Scoring: wretched Set Pieces: wretched

Cyril Wing
49 000 US$, 18 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and inadequate leadership abilities


Stamina: solid Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: inadequate Passing: weak
Winger: weak Defending: poor
Scoring: inadequate Set Pieces: poor

Xia Ten-huei
46 000 US$, 18 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and passable leadership abilities [Technical]


Stamina: solid Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: passable Passing: wretched
Winger: inadequate Defending: inadequate
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: passable

Mattias Fogellund
44 000 US$, 31 years, inadequate form
Has passable experience and passable leadership abilities [Head]


Stamina: excellent Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: solid Passing: inadequate
Winger: weak Defending: wretched
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: passable

Börje Tillerberg
37 000 US$, 19 years, solid form
Has disastrous experience and wretched leadership abilities


Stamina: excellent Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: inadequate Passing: poor
Winger: passable Defending: poor
Scoring: wretched Set Pieces: wretched

Bryan Tidwell
32 000 US$, 30 years, inadequate form
Has inadequate experience and disastrous leadership abilities [Quick]


Stamina: weak Keeper: wretched
Playmaking: inadequate Passing: inadequate
Winger: poor Defending: poor
Scoring: passable Set Pieces: passable

Carl Bray
26 000 US$, 19 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and poor leadership abilities


Stamina: poor Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: poor Passing: weak
Winger: inadequate Defending: inadequate
Scoring: weak Set Pieces: wretched

Gunnar Orenlind
26 000 US$, 17 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and wretched leadership abilities [Powerful]


Stamina: solid Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: inadequate Passing: wretched
Winger: inadequate Defending: poor
Scoring: wretched Set Pieces: passable

Trenton Cardwell
19 000 US$, 34 years, solid form
Has passable experience and weak leadership abilities


Stamina: solid Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: inadequate Passing: poor
Winger: poor Defending: passable
Scoring: passable Set Pieces: disastrous

Jon Magnusson
13 000 US$, 35 years, excellent form
Has inadequate experience and wretched leadership abilities


Stamina: excellent Keeper: wretched
Playmaking: solid Passing: weak
Winger: wretched Defending: weak
Scoring: disastrous Set Pieces: inadequate

Thomas Wilkins
10 000 US$, 19 years, passable form
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities

Stamina: wretched Keeper: poor
Playmaking: disastrous Passing: disastrous
Winger: disastrous Defending: disastrous
Scoring: wretched Set Pieces: disastrous

Peter Fogelerberg
6 000 US$, 37 years, passable form
Has excellent experience and poor leadership abilities


Stamina: excellent Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: weak Passing: inadequate
Winger: poor Defending: passable
Scoring: wretched Set Pieces: disastrous

Daniel Pimentel
3 000 US$, 17 years, inadequate form
Has disastrous experience and poor leadership abilities


Stamina: poor Keeper: disastrous
Playmaking: wretched Passing: poor
Winger: wretched Defending: disastrous
Scoring: inadequate Set Pieces: wretched

[Jets80]

One more thing. If I do take this on, would it be wise to train general at 100% before I list the guys, that way their form is up and they look better on the transfer market??

[NAIWF]

Blowing up the team to rebuild through the transfer wire sounds like a bad idea. If I were in your shoes I'd blow up the team and try to start from scratch. I don't know how that works, but doing it the way you said I'd think you'd end up screwing up your TS and supporter happiness in the short run. You wouldn't be able to get much for the 30-somethings, but you have some players who could bring in some decent $$$ if you decide to go through with it.

[lytic]

I dunno why you'd sell your whole team... why not just sell one area of your team, and buy youth in that area? Then train that youthful area? So you may take a skill hit to begin with, but it will pay off in the long run.

There has been teams to do that, but I just don't see why you would.

[TargetPractice6]

Jet80, I'm going to have to diagnose you with BobHempitis. I've seen this happen alot,b ut have never done it myself. However, from what I have seen, it is almost impossible to get a team that is as good as the one you sold. It just doesn't work out very well.

[FrogMan]

I'm with lytic on this. Why sell off your whole team? You are getting some pretty good game ratings (just checked, 55 for last week, 58 two weeks before that), why would you want to blow that? Need a new challenge? If you think you got a team that's only good enough for 2nd place, well you can blow it up and get ready to build a team good enough for 4th place, always on the brink of relegation matches...

I have not looked at your team (too many players to analyze gives me a headache :) ) but I would guess that trying to start from scratch by selling all of your players would only give you a worst team, not a better one. That is without even thinking that the price of players has already started to drop on the markets with the beginning of the second half of the season...

Good luck anyway!

FM

[vex]

Don't you dare do this. If you want some instant money, decide what you are going to train and sell the 17-18 year olds at the positions you aren't going to train. Then, buy 24-27 year old players for cheaper.

For instance, unless your are training Keeper, put that passable 18 yo Keeper on the transfer wire.

[Fonzie]

Ditto what all the others said. I'm by no means a Hattrick expert, but it seems to me like you've got more than enough good players to build a solid team around.

However, I'd definitely recommend that you sell Håkan Persson. The fact that you had bought him from me, and the fact that I could use some mother club money, has nothing to do with this recommendation.

Nothing at all. :)

[sterlingice]

I really wanted to do this at first: basically, the empty cupboard experiment. Unfortunately, by the time I knew enough, I had too good of a team to do it. I think you're in the same boat: sure, it sounds like a good idea, but you'll have wasted the time and effort you spent getting your team there.

SI

[illinifan999]

Didnt Qwikshot "retire" his first team, and just start over? He's doing pretty well, now that he has a newbie team, but is a halfway experienced player. That's a better idea that selling your whole team IMO.

[Qwikshot]

Originally posted by illinifan999
Didnt Qwikshot "retire" his first team, and just start over? He's doing pretty well, now that he has a newbie team, but is a halfway experienced player. That's a better idea that selling your whole team IMO.

Your team is stacked compared to the defunct Qwakers...selling off your players and buying new players just seems very difficult to do...I got lucky with my new team...