How to find good players for top teams

I need to find a 1 or 2 strikers due to my current strikers are to old but everyone i find my scouts say that they aren't good enough for the team. So i wondered how to find strikers that are good enough

Have you edited any of your players?

Cos if you have, and edited them a bit much, then, until they retire, they will prob be better than what is out there.

If you're managing a top team how hard can it be? Do a search with a position filter, and the most expensive strikers in the game will likely be awesome and good enough for your team...

Have you edited any of your players?

No i haven't edited any of my players

Go to the Spanish, Italian, French and English first divisions, and look through teams players. They may have some developing stars you may want to nab on the cheap or they may have some influential players who would be brilliant for your squad. This will find you good players.

Are your scouts actually any good? That could be why they dont rate any of the players your finding? Also, maybe your current strikers are a lot better than the players you are looking for?

Are any of these factors true?

I find it hard to believe you have got as far as you have in your game without being able to find good players.

I find it hard to believe you have got as far as you have in your game without being able to find good players.

I have found good players in the past but i can't find good ones now plus i havn't played this save for about 3 weeks now so i have forgot things

3 weeks, you need to get a brain trainer!

3 weeks, you need to get a brain trainer!

I'll think about it

I'll think about it

dont think too long you might forget

regen day!

Get your chequebook out. There's always something out there, but you'll pay for it!

Not always though. The best player I've ever worked with on FM cost me £300K. World footballer of the year, 40 goals a season for five conseutive years and the rest for £300K. I was turning down offers of £40M two years later.

Have a look round the international scene and see if there are any good young up and comign players available....or do a search for a striker based in attributes you want...or go to another league and see who has been banging in the goals this season....couple of ways there should help you identify a striker!

Hey Luton, can you post screenies of your current strikers?

I have found good players in the past but i can't find good ones now plus i havn't played this save for about 3 weeks now so i have forgot things

How did you find good players in the past ? For the second part of your line get back into your save and come back to us later, we ll take it from there if you still have an issue

dont think too long you might forget

What was i thinking about

I sent my scouts to every country in the world and they came back with less than 5 top players!! And my scouts are the best. Is it because I dont have a large db loadeD?

Hey Luton, can you post screenies of your current strikers?

Chris Reeves

Ekrem Ozdemir

Rory Farren

Andy Daly

Emilo Tomas

its easy to say look at those with highest value and look at teams from other big clubs but i like to look for a bargain or a young lad who has got a big future. not the best of examples but i signed a regen from banfield for 8m at the age of 18. hes described as a wonderkid and has been awesome for me so far.

i have the same problem with my scouts as the op. i have won the champions league 2 years running with ajax. i will scout players and i get a lot of players described as 'useful' or 2 star rating. im at the stage now where a 2 1/2 star player will be good enough for me, 3 stars will simply be a top signing for me. even vela got 2 stars on my scout reports and hes hammering teams in italy. i can only assume that my team is that good that very few players on the game will be good enough for me to sign.

the thing is though if you do want to find the young talent or right price players you do need to go hunting. i spend hours a season doing it but the effort put into it is really what makes me successful.

A quick way to find good players I use is right click on 1 of my own strikers and from the ppop up menu go to scouting and click on create search filter from.

Im in a similar spot, i have a very stong wolves side and find it tough to get players better than i have already, if you get anything 2.5 - 3 stars then they would be worth a shot as they should be (depending on your scouts accuracy) as good as what you have, any higher and they should be better than what you have.

also if you are using the search list, untick 'filter reaslistic players' as alot of the players will be taken out even if you could sign them!

Chris Reeves

Ekrem Ozdemir

Rory Farren

Andy Daly

Emilo Tomas

Chris Reeves still looks very decent.

Not sure about Ekrem and Rory though. Maybe they will need replacing in the next season - though Andy Daly doesn't seem good enough.

I think loaning Emilio is a fine idea, maybe you can get someone else in.

In the meantime, looks for players with good potential and slowly start to phase them in.

Use the Player Search "filter" for players in International Under 21 squads.

@ Luton Town: It is kind of late. It is quite hard to believe you waited til your 1st team strikers are reaching 32 to start panicking. You should be starting to hunt when they are around 28 so they can tutor for like 2 more years and ease into the 1st team. Anyway, I realized all of them are really slow. Your old men have pretty good technical and mental attributes. That 16 year old is too darn slow to be a forward I think, if you scouts rate him highly, just loan him out for a few years and sell him off. And the 17 yo loanee needs better mental attributes. I like players with high determination.

I play the LLM way so I don't use player searches but.. i have way too many good strikers. I don't know who will turn out awesome. I just.. try my luck. So long my scouts rate them to be a leading footballer. And their mentality is pretty good like.. Determined, or.. Fairly Ambitious or what with no negative traits. I am quite fine and I will buy them to try to see if it works out.

Ambition and determination is important because it determines how much a young player will develop. Together with workrate. So long they arent injury prone or gets nervous from big matches you are pretty much fine. Play them in U18 or reserves and loan them out later and test them in your 1st team for cup matches, before you know it. tada~ wonderkid.

By the way, Brazil generates a ton of awesome players. I get my scouts to scout all the big footballing nations for ages 17 and under. And constantly scout their U18 games. Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, Mexico, Italy, Brazil, Argentina, Denmark, England, yea... Those few countries produce pretty good regen for me. Brazil has such overwhelming quality that I feel like buying every newgen of theirs.

In my 12 seasons or so, I found a few wonderkids. A MC from Spain, MC from Brazil, ST from England, DMC from Denmark, and LB from Tunisia.

My squad happens to be very young as I can like have half of them without assigning squad numbers are they are below the minimum age.

What was i thinking about

lol I like it

Chris Reeves

Ekrem Ozdemir

Rory Farren

Andy Daly

Emilo Tomas

Some good strikers there. I particularly like Rory Farren. Not 2 big a fan of Daly though. What kind of striker are you looking for? With the players you have got I would look for a quick & pacey striker.