You are very wrong about flops usually remain flops point of view...

These are seasonal stats of my former striker who was poor in his first season as 3 and 4 star player...
In next season he had no ratings lower than 7... In 3rd season he scored 20 goals in 23 games, having even better average rating than season before... He had poor 4th season getting no rating 8 or 9... Then in 5th season he again started playing well as 1 and 2 star player...

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