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Originally Posted by Gnemi |
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Tony Aaron - Amidst the bluster and rhetoric, I may have misunderstood some of your posts.
Take my skepticism with a grain of salt, not as an alarmist cue that "The Sky Is Falling!"
From your clarifications, it sounds like you're doing what *should* be feasible within the game: Take a smaller club and through successful scouting, within and without the club, make them competitive.
It does not work like that in the real world, at all, and most of us know that, but I think it's important to realize that EA's game can at times give us a glimpse of what things would ideally be like in the "real world". Let's take Everton for example, or even Newcastle. During the last two years, both teams have taken chances on certain players and watched them develop into superstars. It's only a matter of when, not if, they'll lose those players to bigger clubs. Look at all the comments from Ba and Felaini for evidence. Of course, it doesn't help that Newcastle started the year horribly, but I digress.
There is indeed one part of the game I've noted that is not positive this year IMO and it's the willingness of clubs to sell really high potential players. I picked up a few 18-20 year old studs, with potential in the mid-80s, for less than €1m.
All the same, I still prefer, by orders of magnitude, the mechanics of this year compared with last.
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I agree except for 1 minor, yet important note...
The price of nearly everything has decreased this year. AS HAS the amount of money your team generates from transfers (ESPECIALLY on 'Strict' as I am). So, when you're only getting back ~60% of the value of the players you're selling, it would be a HELL of a lot harder to get young talent if they were going for the same prices they were last year. And then you'd NEVER be able to really field a talented young team.
And here's another small fact I hadn't really talked about yet, I was basically broke the 1st 3 or 4 years. I had to sell A LOT of young, talented players (I'm talking AT LEAST like 12 or 13, maybe closer to 20) to get the $70 or so million I needed to buy the 2 soon-to-be superstars (keep in mind that I'd already paid about $30 million + a young talent for the player I then turned around the next year and traded + $10 million for the 6'6 Abraham stud).
None of that money came from league earnings or anything like that, and it was all at ~60% of the selling price of the very same CHEAP young talents. That's actually quite balanced when you look at it from that perspective.