rhexis Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 Reaching my 4th season now and I have a squad overloaded with stars as well as talented youngsters. Back in FM2011 I made the same mistake, signing a bunch of talented U19, and having too many stars in first team that I face a major squad registration headache. It's just too difficult to resist signing them when my scouts come back with 3 1/2 stars youngsters. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alw02005 Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 Sort of the same problem. I get rid of all the players over 27 and replace them with youngsters. Plus I manage in Scotland, so no squad registration problems! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koki Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 Why only in the 1st and 2nd season? I'm in the 4th season and have 120 players. There are just too many good regens to sign, when I apply my FM11 criterias. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RBKalle Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 Guilty as charged... Although I've become more and more selective over the years it's still hard not to sign a couple of potentially decent player who'll never turn out half as good as I thought merely because they get lost in the shuffle in my bloated U19 squad... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManUTactician247 Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 Me too, especially when you're playing as a rubbish club, your team is absolutely loaded. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hluraven Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 I do, but don't see it as a problem. You can always sell them on and get a 50% of next sale clause. That way if they turn great you can re-sign them at half price, or let them be sold on and get half of the transfer fee. It's how I make my money. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom L Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 Short answer, yes. Long answer, yes but i'm taking classes to better myself. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drew the Cookie Eater Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 Yep, I do this all the time, I think the average of my squad must be 20/21 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
taylorsmen Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 I've got a bad habit of buying youngsters, got half the Denmark u19's team for Southampton in my onliner, it's just too tempting not to bid for the ones my scout recommends that are 4 star + potential, at least if they don't make it i'll make some profit in the future (hopefully) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
blade79 Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 yes although i am restricted from my club budgets at the moment. good thing is that although my facilities are rubbish (youth anyway) i have managed to upgrade the junior coaching to excellent and i have seen good rewards (sold one player for 500K, considering that i am just above zero on finances that was good). on my latest youth intake i had a DC which should play 1st team this year (backup at least) and couple of other players which i had top division teams sniffing around (i even accepted another 0.5M offer for another kid but he rejected the contract) in FM11 i used to sign ANY player with 4 stars and above on my team. i used to have huge squads but i kept selling players when they reached 21 and not breached 1st team so i had a nice revenue (made my club the 3rd richest in the world) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmf1488 Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 Yes, you end up with like 5 18 year old strikers that you know you wont be able to accommodate. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manager Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 yes,i have like 5 right backs,including one who is 4.5 stars potential (my club is top btw),but i dont mind,i love developing players i have 3 players with 1.5* stars ca and 3.5* pa+ nearing the 20 appearances with about a half as starters,most of them in the league too,i had a 2.5* ca youth start at the CL final against barca even tough my usual starter was fine (tough it was partly because he had some good defensive stats and i needed a good ball-winning mc for the occasion) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aderow Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 I tend to do the same thing but I don't usually get overwhelmed. My favorite part of FM is youth development and I take pride in the amount of players I have developed who are starting for teams in across the top leagues in europe. The sad thing is that whenever they get to the age where they are ready for first team football, I have no choice but to sell them because the members of my current first team are irreplaceable. They are young and extremely talented. Development is fun because I am far better at developing players than the AI ever will be. I guess its kind of my way of keeping my save competitive. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koki Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 178 players and counting... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormenDK Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 I usually have around 30 new players in the first window as Bath in the BSP ... there are sooo many good free agents and youngsters out there (compared to what I start with), that it is hard not to sign a whole boat load at a time Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aderow Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 178 players and counting... You need an intervention mate Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankchickens1 Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 What are the cons to doing this? except that its silly. I am fine for wages because I normally get rid of them all apart from 5/6 on loans every year. I also get frustrated at how often I do this, as I am then able to get loads of money from it. I think a good way for SI to fix this would be for you to get a reputation for exploiting the transfer system, then when you try to sign a good young player he will come back with something like 'I would like to sign for a club as big as yours, but I have heard that young players signing for you never make it into the first team', or 'there are too many players of my age, I don't want to just be one of 100' and so on. That way people like me to find the game easy because we sign all the Major european countries u21 squads cheaply do actually suffer somehow!!! please please do this SI, please!!!! To counter it, if you do sign young players, but a reasonable amount, then young players will be keen to come to you as you have a good repuation for brining them through, and then once you have signed too many and your reserve team has 65 foreign kids, they stop wanted to come Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manager Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 What are the cons to doing this? except that its silly.I am fine for wages because I normally get rid of them all apart from 5/6 on loans every year. I also get frustrated at how often I do this, as I am then able to get loads of money from it. I think a good way for SI to fix this would be for you to get a reputation for exploiting the transfer system, then when you try to sign a good young player he will come back with something like 'I would like to sign for a club as big as yours, but I have heard that young players signing for you never make it into the first team', or 'there are too many players of my age, I don't want to just be one of 100' and so on. That way people like me to find the game easy because we sign all the Major european countries u21 squads cheaply do actually suffer somehow!!! please please do this SI, please!!!! To counter it, if you do sign young players, but a reasonable amount, then young players will be keen to come to you as you have a good repuation for brining them through, and then once you have signed too many and your reserve team has 65 foreign kids, they stop wanted to come there's 1 con,there are so many youths at my team that some of them are being starved of game time in the under 19s,to make it worse i set my under 19 to have the same tactic as the senior team so that they grow up knowing it,and that tactic only has 1 ST... maybe SI should make extra youth teams,U17s,U19s and maybe U21s? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankchickens1 Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 Yeh but i just get rid of them all on loan. Although most of them come back saying the loan was useless...... I love it when you havent been checking on the players out on loan cos you have so many, and then one comes back at the end of the season and hes become amazing whilst away Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manager Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 Yeh but i just get rid of them all on loan. Although most of them come back saying the loan was useless......I love it when you havent been checking on the players out on loan cos you have so many, and then one comes back at the end of the season and hes become amazing whilst away i leave my players on my youth team until they turn 18 then i either promote them,or loan them, there are exceptions of course,i.e the ones with the most potential go directly to the first team,i have a 16 year old playing oftenly in my squad even tough he's made some costy mistakes,i.e every time he's pressured he looks desesperate and ends up playing long balls even tough my passing is set to short but i dont care,specially since he's developing like hell . youth prospects gotta catch them all Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koki Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 You need an intervention mateI was fine in FM11 but this year no club wants to buy the players that are surplus to requirements...How does that comparison list look? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manager Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 I was fine in FM11 but this year no club wants to buy the players that are surplus to requirements...How does that comparison list look? holy sh*t,that is some amazing squad depth. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RicardoW Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 What are the cons to doing this? except that its silly.I am fine for wages because I normally get rid of them all apart from 5/6 on loans every year. I also get frustrated at how often I do this, as I am then able to get loads of money from it. I think a good way for SI to fix this would be for you to get a reputation for exploiting the transfer system, then when you try to sign a good young player he will come back with something like 'I would like to sign for a club as big as yours, but I have heard that young players signing for you never make it into the first team', or 'there are too many players of my age, I don't want to just be one of 100' and so on. That way people like me to find the game easy because we sign all the Major european countries u21 squads cheaply do actually suffer somehow!!! please please do this SI, please!!!! To counter it, if you do sign young players, but a reasonable amount, then young players will be keen to come to you as you have a good repuation for brining them through, and then once you have signed too many and your reserve team has 65 foreign kids, they stop wanted to come You can counter the problem very easily, IF you find it a problem: just restrain yourself and sign only the amount of players that you can handle. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aderow Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 oh my word koki It would take an epidemic to get you into an injury crisis. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seule Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Yes, you end up with like 5 18 year old strikers that you know you wont be able to accommodate. Do what I do, start experimenting with where you can retrain them to, in FM11 my two best fullbacks were originally strikers, nothing like having fullbacks with dribbling of 15+ bringing the ball out of defence Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carbs Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Dennis Bender...he he he!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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