[Brian Swartz]

We'll be seeing him more later I'm sure, but I wanted to throw a quick spotlight on Oleg Urazov (22, CAN). He's presently ranked 24th, and looks like the best of the next generation who isn't getting the press billing of being on the first page just yet. Urazov is also managed by fellow Anilophile pavlicker.

Oleg has the slowest aging curve, so we should not be bothered by the fact that he's still working his way through the crowd. He has a 4.0 or better in all the key stats except for Mentality, which is still credible at 3.3. None are higher than his 4.4 Endurance though, so he's the epitome of excellent but doesn't have that one thing to make everyone look at him as a generational talent.

Technical skills aren't there yet, but they look to be on a solid path to boosting up. Only Faille, with the same manager, is younger and in the Top-32, so pavlicker is in an interesting situation where he could well have two successive #1s from his own collection of players. That's be quite impressive if it pans out, and what's even more impressive is that both players are natural in-world gens, not manager creations.