Post by Dillon (OSA) on Apr 11, 2021 14:39:53 GMT
But when Elite clubs start playing 30+ aged players skill 25 surely someone has to step in and question why? Or is that OK and just let managers run their clubs any way
I used:
L_Shaw 34 eng 2 25 12 7
Filipe_Luis 27 bra 2 25 4 8
N_Devlin 25 wal 2 25 7 6
I_Anya 27 sco 3 9 25 13
K_Strootman 27 hol 3 13 25 6
Diego 28 arg 1 15 25 8
All as rotation players, I specifically looked for players who I could get in for 1m< and had good secondaries as they'd help me supplement the team for fitness. Remember these players all played minutes before signing for Osasuna. I think the transfer list deleted some of the history as there's no records on some.
L_Shaw - 761 minutes
Filipe_Luis - 415 minutes
N_Devlin - 311 minutes
I_Anya - 379 minutes
K_Strootman - 360 minutes
Diego - 1016 minutes (but was promoted and released from Valencia's academy)
Di_Mateo I think was promoted from my youth academy in the last two games.
All of those minutes are far below the average squad player's minutes I'd had. I think even 3 or 4 of them were bought a few days before deadline day with 4 or 5 games to go so can only have played a maximum of 450 minutes for me, which obviously they didn't as their fitness would've been in the 80s. At most some of them played 200-250 minutes - my early season form when I had great retiring players is what killed the season off as beyond that we were fairly competitive.
I've given you multiple answers as to why, I was fairly proud of never being relegated since I joined the game and aimed to stay in the Elite. Bear in mind that the money I had at the end of the season from selling up my OAPs gave me a net profit of about 6m. It was important to not lose out on the cash as a club. If I held on longer into the season I would've lost 30/40/50m value on them but instead from the money I got back I've managed to gain (aged back for last season):
J_Serrano 29 fra 1 28 1 1
F_Rijkaard 26 hol 2 1 28 22
Liziero 25 bra 1 18 27 5
That money carried on to this season too and I got:
R_Gullit 26 hol 2 1 28 16
Gio_Staricco 26 arg 1 3 28 3
I knew I would need cash for scouts and unwanted scouts based on last season, I can't afford to just look at the current one and forget about what comes next.
A few teams like to buy in 30+ year old 30+ rated players every season and play the game that way. That's not how I play the game, I prefer to push the squad and see if we can win and if not we need to go back and regenerate the team and build up stronger. It'll take far longer but it'll set me up for longer success at the top level.