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Fixed.

It's time.

Kieran Tierney is waiting...

OK campers rise and shine!

OK campers rise and shine!

Feature threads being unpinned and plenty of staff on...

That fly got any info on when the beta drops?

Page 23 can only mean one thing

We need as much time as possible to beat the record next year.

Pep Segura - Assistant and fitness coach Anthony Colbert - Fitness Coach Stevie Woods - GK Silvano Louro - GK Miguel D'Agostino - Defending (Tact) Paul McGuiness - Defending (Tech) Nuno Gomes - Attacking (Tech) Luiz Carlos- Possession (Tact) Dennis Bergkamp - Possession (Tech) Good coaches that will accept B team or youth team contracts - Bryan Klug, Toni Jimenez, Philippe Troussier, Ivan Morretto, Marcos Rogerio, Quintiliano Francisco Lemos Filho, Martin Skrtel.

Got one at Kilmarnock, back end and immediately gave them a balance of 35m with a budget of 3.5m for players. In the second season and they're fighting for promotion back to the Premiership after being relegated in 22/23.

Kvaratskhelia and Rodrygo are probably the two 'cheaper' elite players. Asensio if he's not signed a new contract. Pedro Goncalves at Sporting looks good too, Zaccagni if you want an Italian. Schjelderup or Joao Pedro if you want someone to develop.

It was you who brought up the 'lower half J-League team' to back up why you think he is a project? And let's be real if Starfelt didn't get injured Jenz wouldn't have been playing first team football right away, in the same if Starfelt was to get injured now Kobayashi would find himself playing 'right away'. You're right in that he was a try before you buy but my argument would be, we did try, we concluded he wasn't good enough (as did Lorient btw) and have brought in a player we think is better. Bottom line is Kobayashi has more first team football behind him than Jenz despite being younger and outside of a dozen or so starts for Lorient at a no better level than Kobayashi. Fact is, in FM, Kobayashi is closer to Robbie Deas (Scot Championship) than he is to Jenz (CA and PA wise) and there is nothing to back that up other than those 18 Ligue 1 appearances where Lorient decided he wasn't good enough and to get rid after one season.

You keep saying Kobayashi is a project player but if that's the case so was Jenz, which is why I'm arguing they should be similar in terms of CA. Yuki came from the same club as Kyogo, he has Asian CL experience and 125 career appearances at J-League or above level at 22, Jenz at 23 had a grand total of 5 EFL cup appearances, 33 appearances in Switzerland and 18 appearances in France before joining us.

I'm not arguing Kobayashi is better than Jenz, truth is we don't have a clue at this point. But if they weren't at least similar in terms of ability there is no way we terminate his loan. In FM Kobayashi is closer to Robbie Deas of Inverness than he is to Jenz, that's quite the difference.

Jenz admitted Yuki's signing had an impact on his decision to leave, suggesting Kobayashi had overtook him in the pecking order. Which to me suggests they should have similar CA, they don't.

I simply used his his career stats in FM and you're taking that as some sort of win, congrats. Bizarre man.

Well those numbers are something else that needs fixing in FM...

Fact of the matter is Ange isn't signing players such as Jeggo or Halkett as first team players. Which is what Ange intends Kobayashi and Iwata to be. We're not terminating the loans off Jenz and Abildgaard if Yuki and Tomoki aren't improvements, it's as simple as that.

He played 9 games in Belgium.

Well we can't go on attributes since most of them aren't filled in. Surely how other J-League players have performed in Scotland would give you a solid base to work from. Pretty much everything coming out of Lennoxtown is that they've got another Hatate/Maeda type bargain regardless of how much he has played so far. I notice your ignoring the Kobayashi comments, do those examples with him at least highlights how underrated he is in game?