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BTW, is Dinamo Minsk listed as his favorite club?

His favourite club is actually Partizan, has a funny way of showing his love for the club

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Poor lad, O.G, missed pen then a red card. In a cup final too. At least he was involved in the game though

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Would that not affect when they would retire or not?

I think your idea is good and would be interesting for sure. Try AMC's instead of Strikers?

Don't see how it would affect retirement. Start the players at 17yr old. Future transfer set for 20 years time and would only be 37yrs. Plenty of players carry on at that age.

Not every team plays with an AM though. One possibility is to let the person signing up choose the players position (with the exception of strikers) as may get a variety then. Was thinking a CA of 150 and PA of 195. I think the abilities need to be set very high to try and drag a club up from the lowest division to the top. Still thinking of using Scotland at the moment, unless anyone knows another division without relegation where they think the sign up could work.

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That's exactly the sort of thing I was steering towards and I will do that as the next sign-up Is there any possible way to stop a player from transfering away from their club?

If you set a future transfer the player will remain at the club until then. So you could set all the players to have a future transfer for 20-25yrs in the future to enable the players to see out the careers at the clubs.

Have been thinking about a sign up which involves generating a world class player who is placed at a lower league club. The aim is to see how far one brilliant player can take a club. I was thinking Scotland would be the best league to run it in as there is no relegation and a really good player could probably get a 3rd division club quite far. Also a few cup competitions to make it interesting. The problem though is that using Scotland would only enable 10 people to sign up. Can't decide what kind of PA/CA to make the players or what kind of position the players should be. Most of the sign ups tend to involve strikers so thought a different position would be better. Not sure a different position would be as influencial to enable a clubs progress though. Any thoughts?

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Wouldn't this cause a problem in Spain (and any other country where reserve teams are in the main league structure)? Because for example Castilla would become higher in the pyramid than Real Madrid, that would make things a bit weird?

Might do it based solely on England and see how it turns out though, possibly once with just England loaded and once with the rest of Europe loaded as well to see what difference it makes.

I moved all the B teams from active leagues and replaced them with similar rep teams from inactive lower leagues. I made all the data changes and ran a quick test but I think it needs to be run with full detail for better results. The reputations didn't appear to change too much on my test. Clubs in the top flight spent most of their new wealth on improving the stadium or building new ones. When they made signings it was a case of paying vastly inflated sums for poor players. Also, a lot of quality players retired early as clubs placed in lower divisions didn't offer new contracts due to wage demands. They wouldn't sign or weren't offered contracts by the lower rep teams in higher leagues and they just faded away.

I don't really have the time to run all the leagues and cups on full detail to see if it throws up better results. I still have the edited database and if anyone wishes to give it a go they are more than welcome to use it. Here's the link for the Inverted Database

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Lot of challenges and sign ups in here but dont see much of the experiment side of things. Thought of one that could be quite interesting:

What if you changed the top 10 European leagues so the top flight are moved to lowest division, 2nd division moved to 2nd lowest, etc. For clarity if you took the English set up, Premier league and Championship would be split into BSS and BSN. League 1 clubs would be moved to BSP and league 2 stays as it is. Repeat this for top 10 co-effecient leagues as shown at start of the game and see how the European game progresses. Will the once minnows show enough ambition to sign better players and attempt European glory? Will the bigger teams all go into administration and never get back to top flight? How long before normality is resumed and the "top 4" are ruling Premier league again.

Can think of loads of things that could be monitered in that kind of experiment (how transfers are affected, will clubs adhere to their reputation or their current league and financial standings, how the national game progresses, etc) and would probably take all kind of turns depending on how far it progresses. The reason I was thinking top 10 countries (England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Russian, Ukraine, Turkey and Portugal) is they are traditionally the leagues where the money is. If everyone is relegated it wouldn't be a case of one league buying up all the best players and dominating.

Any ideas, what do you think?