Rate my excellent winger buy

[Alf]

Thomas Lönnling (20125002)
18 years, passable form, healthy
A pleasant guy who is balanced and upright.
Has disastrous experience and weak leadership abilities.


Speciality: Head

Nationality: Sverige
Assessed value: 79 000 Euro
Wage: 1 080 Euro/week including 20% Bonus
Owner: Alf Trickers
Warnings: 0


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


He was pulled on November 2nd. Purchased for $217K

I am training playmaking, so this guy would legitimately take a winger trainee spot. Of course he will turn 19 next season and has wretched stamina (I will train 2 weeks of stamina this offseason).

Anymore care to comment.

[vex]

Yeah, that wretched stamina may take a couple of offseasons to work on. Other than that, seems pretty good to me.

[Alf]

Shall I bother relisting him around $300K.

[Katon]

$217,000?

Damn. I found a bargain, it looks like. £79,334 ($119,000) for this:


Lehel Gedó (16532627)
19 years, solid form, healthy A controversial person who is balanced and upright.
Has disastrous experience and poor leadership abilities.


Speciality: Powerful
Nationality: Magyarország
Assessed value: 42_667_ £
Wage: 656_£/week_ including 20% Bonus
Owner: Lancre Wowhawks
Warnings: 0

Stamina: _ poor_ Goaltending: _ disastrous_
Playmaking: _ weak_ Passing: _ wretched_
Winger: _ excellent_ Defending: _ poor_
Scoring: _ poor_ Set Pieces: _ poor_
Career Goals:_ 1_
Career Hattricks:_ 0_
League goals this season:_ 0_
Cup goals this season:_ 0_


Obviously, the PM and defending are worse, but on the other hand his wages aren't being inflated by inad scoring.

[Bee]

The second guy is also 19. When you start factoring in all of that, that would explain the difference. Of course, I wouldn't mind having either guy on my team since I suck. :D

[Alf]

HAM says market value for my guy was $234K, so it was approx normal price.

[FrogMan]

and that second guy has wretched passing (although the first one only has poor), I like my wingers to have a bit more passing...

FM

[cheetum]

i recently bought this guy. he will be my team captain also. he wasnt cheap tho

nge Forsström (164477)
29 years, weak form, healthy
A sympathetic guy who is calm and upright.
Has formidable experience and passable leadership abilities.


Speciality: Quick

Nationality: Sverige
Assessed value: 215 000 US$
Wage: 3 240 US$/week including 20% Bonus
Owner: janneke en mieke
Warnings: 2


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

[RPI-Fan]

How much cheetum?

[vex]

Originally posted by cheetum
i recently bought this guy. he will be my team captain also. he wasnt cheap tho

nge Forsström (164477)
29 years, weak form, healthy
A sympathetic guy who is calm and upright.
Has formidable experience and passable leadership abilities.


Speciality: Quick

Nationality: Sverige
Assessed value: 215 000 US$
Wage: 3 240 US$/week including 20% Bonus
Owner: janneke en mieke
Warnings: 2


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



No kiddin, $940,000 is a bit.

[daedalus]

Alf . . .

1) I'd seriously consider giving him full training in friendlies (ie, winger in league games and inner midfield in friendlies), assuming you can spare a slot for him. You spent a decent chunk of change on what looks like a pretty interesting young player. Giving him full training in playmaking will give you more bang for your bucks (as well as eventual result).

2) Unless you have a really easy serie to play in (ie, a significant number of non-owner teams) OR your starting inner midfield have hideously low stamina (passable or below), I'd seriously reconsider training 2 straight weeks of stamina. It'll wreak major havoc on your form that'll be a bitch to recover. If stamina is a major need, a possibility is to wait 2-3 weeks to recover form then train stamina a second time.

Katon . . .

Part of it is the extra year of age, as Bee mentioned, and part of it is the wretched passing, as Frogger mentioned. Also, header specialist is one of the popular specialties. That said, I still think it's a good buy . . . Gedó will give you a lot of offense for not a lot of spending.

[Katon]

Yeah, I knew his secondaries were shoddy. Still, an excellent winger who's young enough to benefit a little from PM training is fine by me. What's really depressing is that he's tied for second-highest PM among my wingers.

[BishopMVP]

Originally posted by vexroid
No kiddin, $940,000 is a bit.

If you factor in the fact he can become the coach in a few years, it's not outrageous.

[robbgmaier]

Alf,

you could play that guy as an IM toward wing if you wanted to give him full training and take advantage of the winger....

just a thought

[sterlingice]

Originally posted by BishopMVP
If you factor in the fact he can become the coach in a few years, it's not outrageous.

Yeah, I've been looking for future coaches and anyone that's solid or higher with passable leadership goes for $300K or thereabouts.

SI

[BishopMVP]

Originally posted by sterlingice
Yeah, I've been looking for future coaches and anyone that's solid or higher with passable leadership goes for $300K or thereabouts.

SI

That's why I'm extremely glad I bought my 35yo Outstanding experienced Defender for 80k just before this was announced. Gets 3.5/4 stars at CD or WB-Defensive too.:)

[Alf]

Originally posted by daedalus
Alf . . .

1) I'd seriously consider giving him full training in friendlies (ie, winger in league games and inner midfield in friendlies), assuming you can spare a slot for him. You spent a decent chunk of change on what looks like a pretty interesting young player. Giving him full training in playmaking will give you more bang for your bucks (as well as eventual result).

2) Unless you have a really easy serie to play in (ie, a significant number of non-owner teams) OR your starting inner midfield have hideously low stamina (passable or below), I'd seriously reconsider training 2 straight weeks of stamina. It'll wreak major havoc on your form that'll be a bitch to recover. If stamina is a major need, a possibility is to wait 2-3 weeks to recover form then train stamina a second time.


daedalus, I am in French Div III.4. Last year I finished #3 (lost #2 on Goal differential). There will be no bots in my series...

Although all my starters have excellent stamina, my latest trainee (2 of them being youth pulls from my squad) have horrible stamina, so I am doing 2 weeks of stamina training anyway. Last year, I didn't suffer too much in terms of form implication. I will also train stamina during next offseason (so this winger could go from wretched to passable at best).

All my trainees are at least solid at playmaking (or near to pop to solid), so I don't want to "waste" an inner mid training spot for him => I will start a new thread listing my players asking for advice on where to train them.

Edit : Typo

[daedalus]

Okie-dokies. :)

[Alf]

Thanks for your input :D. Always appreciated.

[Alf]

You can see the discussion evolve here in helping me decide my training spots :Alf Midfield Training (http://dynamic2.gamespy.com/~fof/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=16190)