Changing Training

I would say consider PM, play your current starters and then get a bunch of young trainees. Don't know when you want to start training, but you can get 17 yo passables and solids cheaper towards the end of the season.

 

If you're going to PM, I would recommend doing three things:

1) Sell that 5mil keeper. I know it will be tough, but you need that money if you want to hit the ground running in PM training. You can buy a high expereince replacement keeper for 1mil (formid?) that will be good enough.

2) For at least 3-4 of your IM trainees, but 18yo excellents or 18-19yo formids. You want your midfield to be decent from the start, and this will go a long way towards this goal. You can use the remaining two IM spots for 17yo passables/solids if you like, but these players will be useless in your first team.

3) You'll have 4 winger spots. Try to get two excellent/formid wingers with inad or passable PM. These will be your starters. What you do with those other two spots is your perrogative, but I'm starting to use them as pure training spots for excellent IMs that I think are close to popping. This way you have these guys available if you want to play your wingers towards middle.

Hope this helps!

 

I'm telling you, ship his ass out. And you could only buy 2 brilliant IMs with the money from his sale.

Or do you want to torture yourself with more results like this past Sundays? Train PM, and your average Hatstats will actually go up because the most important part of your team will get better every week.

 

hard to argue against PM training....but let me try.

You have this titanic goalkeeper and already a couple decent midfielders. You dont need to improve the D at all with that keeper boosting ratings. Why not go the other direction and train scoring?...You already have 3 decent strikers, take them all up one level each and sell for some decent cash.

in the meantime add 3 17yos and begin their improvement. When you sell your top 3 strikers, put the money in midfield and 3 more 17yo strikers and run the training cycle...

 

This guy is no doubt great, but the value he is/would be to your team while on it is nothing compared to what u could do with even 3.5M to buy trainees w/ (considering you will spend no more than 1.5 on a replacement).

Midfield is the way to go. Buy, like was suggested some young excellents/solids... with the kind of cash you have, I'd make sure all of your trainees have atleast inad. passing as well.

W/ 3.5 to invest into PM training you will see results within one season. Teams that you used to struggle against will be pic stomps for your trainees/bench in that time period. Also, if you get lucky in yp's you might pull a decent trainee or two so that you might only have to buy 4 or 5 trainees right away.

 

I agree with phillips10 that scoring is another good option, but I guess my main point is that a titanic keeper is simply overkill for DV. A formid keeper is great for DV and the profits would give you a head start in any training (scoring or PM) you choose. You would get to skip the passable/solid levels where you don't get much value per week trained.

I like the scoring idea, but I would lean towards PM because you can't score if you don't get the chances. Plus, you'd be able to sell all your existing midfielders to additionially fund your renaissance.

 

Personally, I would probably keep Peter and train to at least Solid then sell him. His Sol/Pass and Div/SP will bring a nice sell price, IMHO.

I wouldn't worry too much about Stamina on Forwards unless you plan on doing a lot of Pressing and you would want a little Defense on them if you do.

Remember, Passing will only add to Central attack on Forwards, but a Forward's Scoring is the 2nd greatest contributor to your Flank attacks according to the rules. At least Weak and preferrably Inadequate or better Passing would be my suggestion.

 

Zeek, I'd sell the 30yos now...and train the 24yo to his next pop and sell. Fill up the rest with 17yo scorers.....inad passing is good for resale.

maybe get a few passable/inads then some dirt cheap inad/inads. If you dont have the cash for 5 trainees with passing, you could go weak passing on some and sometime down the line mix in a little passing training.

Head specialty is also good in one of the trainees. But dont worry about stamina or anything else.

 

First, I'd recommend switching sooner if you intend on keeping him, because past titanic I believe the wages start to go up quickly.

I certainly haven't followed the conventional wisdom offered here about selling my primary trainee, but I was also better prepared for a training switch -- I set myself up to have a backup at brilliant for sale, so I was able to walk into a switch to winger training with a couple million in the bank. If you can pull it off, you should consider it -- even a titanic keeper would easily be good enough for IV (my guy lands in the top 20 or even the top 10 in good form) and probably beyond that, so you wouldn't need to worry about spending money at that position for some time to come.

 

I would either train Winger or Striker. - not sure what you have for wingers so I'd say go Striker.

500K in the bank will get you on the right path. Unload those 2 old guys and keep the 24 year old. A tad too old but he'll get good cash with a bump and hopefully hold the fort until your trainees pop up.

KEEP THE KEEPER - I think that's an awesome cornerstone to build around. And with the firepower from the striker training you can use the transfer $ to focus on the MF and dominate.

 

Now that you are not training goalkeeping you will only need one gk trainer so: 9:1 ratio will be fine.

I would train your forwards until your best 2 reach outstanding then sell the rest and concentrate on acquiring midfield trainees. You need a great midfield to win at this game. You have a great goalie now you need the mid to win games.

If you decide you like training scoring then buy 3 good midfielders before wingers and defenders when you start selling off your forward trainees.

 

good job, you jumped right in there on scoring training....1-9 with assistants is fine. I'd move the 24 yo at the first pop...in regards to the last post I would not stop at outstanding, train to brilliant and sell a couple and buy better midfielders...then buy a better round of trainees.

but thats a while down the road, for now experiment with different ways of playing the 3-4-3..

 

Scoring is what u want to pick, that trains forwards... i believe shooting is for all players but defenders... or it might be all but forwards.. either way, pick scoring...

 

yeah big difference, train scoring. I may experiment with "shooting" in the offseason for the first time as it trains all outfield players who play that week, but at 50% the rate (or less) that "scoring" does.

they key thing for you going forward will be to figure out how to get close enough in the midfield ratings to let your defense and growing attack win games.

 

Both will get training, if the player that got hurt has bruised but training under his name, then he will get training. His replacement will also get training for appearing in the game as well.

 

Play neither, play another player that you want training, when this happens to me I play a winger as an IM.