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UEFA has limited amortisation to 5 years (and I've heard rumours of Premier League looking at doing the same), so in terms of FFP, it won't change much from the current 4 or 5 year deals

In addition to this (since we're talking about how transfers work in the modern day), if we get a loan for a senior player (or someone breaking into the senior squad) can we then extend their contract like you see what Atletico did with Felix before his loan to Chelsea, Brentford did with Raya before his loan to Arsenal, Chelsea did with Hall before his apparent loan to Palace (but now it's changed to a permanent to Newcastle), etc...

If I want a player to be recognised as homegrown at club, do they need to be at the club for the whole 3 years, or can I still loan them out and register them as part of squads? I know, for example, Saliba and Martinelli are recognised as a player that are homegrown at club for Arsenal despite having numerous loans abroad.

Can someone analyse this injury for me please? Is this normal?

Title should be self-explanatory, but is there a fundamental difference playing with a high line vs a standard line with defenders stepping up?

So you're criticising the realism in a game that is meant to be realistic? I don't mean for this to sound dickish, and I'm gonna be perfectly blunt here (you have been warned), but wouldn't that be your own fault for choosing to manage a team who doesn't prioritise youth? It's like a manager rocking up to 20th placed team in the Premier League, expecting the owner to give them 500m to spend, but then realising that the club was just promoted and didn't have any money to spend. Or to use another example, it's like rocking up to Brentford, expecting to build a title winning squad through the youth academy, but then realising Brentford don't even have a youth academy.

Well, Boehly would need to hope that Mike Minihan's predication of a war with China in 2025 is false then.

Considering you've decided to continue the talk about Mark Goldbridge, I feel the need to reply considering what I said in my earlier post. I would tend to agree with you if this was 5 years ago, but (and I think to Goldbridge's credit), he has become a lot more balanced and nuanced when he talks about football these days. He certainly isn't a "toxic clown", as you put it, and I've seen quite a few of his recent videos. I don't necessarily agree with everything he says, but he certainly raises good points in a space that requires nuanced discussions.

I see. Don't really pay attention to UEFA and what they get up to these days.

Assuming they can close it. The 'loophole' (if you want to describe it that way) is relevant to UK working laws, so unless UEFA has the power to override UK laws, then I find it hard to see how UEFA can achieve this. Within UEFA rules, it already states that contracts can be no longer than 5 years, unless relevant country laws says otherwise. As far as I'm aware, UK laws don't impose a max number of years for a contract, so therefore, Chelsea can offer as long of a contract as they want.

Mark Goldbridge makes a good point that once you're talking about morals in football (which we essentially are in the scenario of a club signing MG on), then you've lost the argument. **IF** MG is cleared to play football again, and a club in the relegation zone needs a goalscorer, for instance, who cares about morals and reputation when the club's status as a Premier League club and financial gain is on the line?

Apologies. More the former, where you're one of the big boys in a league, or you're a club like Southampton or Dortmund who find young talent and then sell on for profit.

Similar to the topic here, which attributes do you look at for players between 15-19 to determine if they're worth scouting or not. And before someone inevitably mentions it, I don't mean the hidden attributes from scout reports, I mean the known attributes that then determines if a player is worth scouting or not for the hidden attributes.

Thanks! The only player instructions I have is that the BBM moves into channels, both LW and RW stay wider, and the RW goes further forward. Since both Martinelli and Saka want to come inside, as well as Zinchenko/Tierney and White/Tomi are playing inverted, the team is naturally quite narrow. The starting positions for my wingers are set to be wider to help with stretching the opposition defence. This helps create space for my wingers to dribble into, or for Odegaard or Xhaka/ESR to exploit by moving into channels. Something else that I've noticed with the wingers with the Stay Wider instructions (and I'm not sure if it is directly caused by the instruction or not) is that in certain counter attacking scenarios where the opposition has pushed really high but loses possession that creates a 2v1 or 2v2 counterattacking situation (typically Jesus and one winger), Jesus would be able to drag a defender out to the wings which leaves one defender by themselves occupying the central area, and then my winger on the opposite flank still stretched wide and in acres of space. If Jesus can switch the ball in this scenario, this leaves either Martinelli or Saka in a 1v1 with the opposition keepr with no chance of any defenders to catch up. And no opposition instructions.

Continuation of my post from: Transfer window finished, with no notable outgoings. Nelson and Elneny will be joining Lyon and Celtic at the end of their contracts respectively. For the incomings, 4 players came in, with 3 loans and the 1 permanent signing loaned straight back out to Blackburn. Ashley Phillips was recommended by my scouts, and when you consider the Homegrown at Nation status, and potential to be Homegrown at club, could become a bargain for only 10m (the potential 3m are club and nation appearance clauses). Now, to the other players who will play a part in the rest of the season. Like I said, since I'm taking a more statistical route of signing players, all 4 players loaned in fitted into what I wanted to see from a statistical POV. First up is Arne Maier, my Partey backup. As the base of a midfield 3, there were two main roles I wanted from this player: 1) ability to make progressive passes from deep to advance play and dictate the tempo of the game, and 2) ability to shield the defence when we have lost possession, enough so that my defenders aren't being exposed too much. Elneny was doing the shielding of the defence very well, but as a team that wants to dominate possession and have my midfielders on the ball, Elneny wasn't adventurous enough on the ball, and wasn't safe enough on the ball (losing possession 9.41 per 90 compared to Partey's 7.65 per 90). Hence, why Arne Maier was loaned in. Despite playing for 18th placed Augesburg in the Bundesliga who only averages 47% possession on average (ranked 13th), Maier was making 4.38 progressive passes and 5.55 tackles + interceptions per 90. For comparison, the Premier League average for progressive passes per 90 is 3.89. With it being the end of January, and Maier making a couple of appearances in teh FA cup, I feel like Maier fits very well into the team, considering the small sample size. In Partey, I have my starting DM, Elneny being more of a destroyer, and Maier being more of a distributor. Rebic was the next player loaned in. For this position, I wanted a wide forward that would get me goals, so focusing on stats such as non-penalty xG as well as shots on target and conversion rate, Rebic ticked a lot of the boxes I wanted. The other player that I considered loaning in was Hlozek, and looking through the stats, Hlozek was a player who dribbled with the ball more than Rebic (3.97 dribbles/90 vs 1.64 dribbles/90), whereas Rebic was a player more accustomed with the ball into their feet (1.94 open play key passes vs 0.86 open play key passes). Considering Reiss Nelson was going to be on the opposite wing, and he preferes to dribble (3.5/90) instead of pass (1.85/90), I went with Rebic who offers a little bit more variety. Finally is Brian Brobbery. He was brought in from Ajax on loan as someone who was converting a high percentage of their chances, and was able to overperform on their xG when needed. In other words, I wanted another option who was clinical when given the chance to score. And finally, an update on the season post Jan: (Apologies for the lack of stats for the last two players, forgot to take screenshots lol, and their stats at their parent clubs disappeard when they signed on).