[Abe Sargent]

For a final, I download FM Genie Scout, and load it up to take a look at my players and others in the game. Where do they stand and such. Obviously, the dynasty is over and such, so this is a fun experiment.


By current ability, thse are the best ten players in the world, in the database. Obviously, not everyone is in the database, but we have more than 55k. Ready?

1. Joao Luis Rodrigues, 192
2. Neymar, 186
3. Thibaut Courtois, 185
4. Eden Hazard, 185
5. Nigel Weale (Young USA Star with Porto now I mentioned earlier,) 185
6. Federico Urso Russla (Young star striker for Italy and Man Utd) 184
7. DavidDe Gea, 182
8. Andres Rocker, 182
9. Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg, 180
10. 4 players tied at 179 – Lionel Messi, Adnan Januzaj, Lucas Romero and Manuel Neuer.


So there you are! Like I said, Rodrigues was something special, something different. There was some bad holding on to these players. We signed Rocker and Hojbjrg on frees, as did AC Monaco for Courtois, and such.


19 year old Rui Pereira, the future stud had risen to 157/199 – like I said, he looked like a future stud for Portugal.


GK Fabian Ruiz? 163/163 – the 24th best one in the game.

DC Hernani Costa, 173/181. Very strong gu, fully developed for a yer now, 22 years old.
DC Omar Montesi, playing at DL is 176/180
DC Stefan Strandberg, 149/149

MR Schaap – 164/188
ML Komorski – 158/179

DMC David Rosano, 154/186

ST Mariusz Komorski – 157/162

AMC Sebastian Driussi – 177/177


So our starters were 177, 157, 182, 154, 192, 163, 164, 158, 149, 176 and 173. That’s a very strong squad. We weren’t exactly punching above our weight. For example, here is, say, the best 11 current players for Man Utd, (not looking at position)

184
182
179
175
174
169
165
164
164
163
161

So that’s farily close to our own, except we have a few players in the upper 50 and Strandberg at 149. And Strandberg could lliely get pulled for Montesi at DC and then Our young DL brought in.

I was surpised to see that DL Bruno marques is taed highly, when he was not growing well. He’s at 127/170, which is pretty solid stuff. Now, Petersson is 95/176, so there you are too.

ST Hunter Torres, 119/185
ST Jorge Agra is 157/168
ST Junior Barrios, 137/179

GK Henry Casellon 155/159
GK Merab Totadze, 128/174
MR Rolf Martin Worthington, 142/178
AM RC, MLRC Marcio Sousa, 146/160

DC Cyril Mzizi, 143/148

DC Adolphe Teikeu, 121/125

So lots of potential stars on the roster. But especially Rui P.