long term players

what should i do with those players they served me well for 5-6 season but they are not up to the task anymore from what i can do either sell them or late them be in reserve for last 10-15 min and play them friendlies or let one of my sub time by them cost in tokens is an issue though to how long they will last in sub team

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they are close to next but they are not up to task last season they dragged to rank 7 i had to tank as i wont have chance for CL thoughts ideas are all welcomed

I sadly had to sell one of my favourite players. He played 250 games but was not up to the level I was at and starting giving ratings of 4556554. He had to go and fortunately someone bought him. My experience is that sentmentallity has no place in T11. Ged rid if you can.

No place for sentiment in football.

Get them sold if they are no longer up to the job.

As you go up the levels you will see money is a big issue in this game. You won't have the luxury of carrying players who are not up to the job unless you plan to spend real cash or can farm loads.

Sell sell sell

what i do is work out when i plan to sell and leave said player/player`s 1 skill away from next star so if 4 star in new season for level below they are 5 star and 1 skill away from scout, then wait for neg bids to come in, or with one player i sold via transfer list to open a space for new signing he was sold for 209 million and his value was 108 million :) so with my 2 new signings i only spent 5 million ;)

Keep until their performance on the field suffers. Stars mean nothing.

In this game there are those "special ones" worth keeping... I wind up naming my stadia after the ones I keep whole career.
They need to play almost every match and a extra training to keep up Q. On my no money teams I play 'em every match.
Here's one from a team that I occasionally watch videos for T on and also hasn't always promoted:

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And another, he's retiring after this season >sniff< :(

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Mostly players last about five seasons on my teams (excluding BvB where I do a lot of training they stay longer)

How on earth do you manage to keep them so long? I've got a whole roster of fast trainer Nordgens that produce very well for me but several are now 20-21.

My understanding is that they slow down in growth at 21 and I am promoting every season. Can I really grow them a star per season after 21 or will they still play well if not?

I hear people say stars mean nothing but my trophy case seems to disagree (I have 2 cup titles and 2 league titles in 3 seasons as well as 2 CL final losses and a 2nd place league finish).

Stars are only a relative guide of their Quality. As you can see with Jan Fischer, he has been a 1 star for awhile now but it has only slowed his production a little.

Play everyone in 2 matches a day and if they are fast trainers they can keep up for awhile, but I usally throw as many greens at them as I can when they are younger (under 24)

Also some players can train well past that... in their favorite training. I had a twenty six year old that rivalled some mid fast 22 year olds, in Cardio. If you keep a record of their gains for a week you can tell if they have a preferred training.

The final upgrade on training hall gets you 7 greens every 3 days. I use them. I never waste any condition, I log on twice a day for training and (or) friendly. I have my starters at ninety five ish at match start and the reserves at eighty five ish.

In his 8th season for me, He averaged 7.3 last season with 4 man of the match.
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In his 7th season for me, his numbers speak for themselves. Last season, 48 goals, 7.9 average form, 11 man of the match.
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Don't think I'll be replacing these guys any time soon :)

Yeah I tend to sell at 24-27 if their value/wage ratio dips below 25 and their production/form shows a significant decline over 5 games or more. But some players just are too hard to sell, I just sold my keeper I had from s1 he went from 16Q to a decent 31Q but I got a 32Q keeper on a free that trained better/and was worth more. So I just sold him and kinda miss seeing him in my list already but I still have 2 other players from my first season that I want to hold on to awhile longer. The one 23Q ST is the streakiest scorer ever he will go 6-7-6 and not even make the comments then all of a sudden he will score 6 goals in 2 matches. Plus he won some key cup and league games for me early on so I feel like he is a role model for all my new players lol.

They aren't just skill points and numbers to me. I've even dumped players that had poor performances in key games as captains even though I had long term plans for them. If you don't produce with ideal conditions and max bonuses you gotta go.

Cash in. Be ruthless. Football players are to be be used and cast aside.:p

For whatever reason the Nord geniuses decided to dump the gens on day 2 this season. I logged in after reset and there were a load of 6-$7.5M players (for level 4 that is high).

There were even 3 keepers over 6M!!!! I Signed the best few and hopefully they will not be duds.....Not that I really "need" them outside of the keeper. I cannot for the life of me find a keeper that ever gets more than one 8 rating a season and usually there are a lot of 5-6 games. Is this just normal? I have finally found a CM that produces after all this time so I am hoping I do the same with the keeper.....



Anyway. I am seeing that the fast training seems to be tied to stars. At the end of last season my 7* ST was getting about 25 from a max training. Once the season turned over and he is a 6* again he is back up in the 40's. This is happening across the board.

just sold a player that i got for 2 tokens 7 seasons ago as a 5 star but just sold for 6 tokens as a 4 star too me and made a profit :) handy leaving 1 skill away from next star so can sell via neg list :)

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For whatever reason the Nord geniuses decided to dump the gens on day 2 this season. I logged in after reset and there were a load of 6-$7.5M players (for level 4 that is high).

There were even 3 keepers over 6M!!!! I Signed the best few and hopefully they will not be duds.....Not that I really "need" them outside of the keeper. I cannot for the life of me find a keeper that ever gets more than one 8 rating a season and usually there are a lot of 5-6 games. Is this just normal? I have finally found a CM that produces after all this time so I am hoping I do the same with the keeper.....



Anyway. I am seeing that the fast training seems to be tied to stars. At the end of last season my 7* ST was getting about 25 from a max training. Once the season turned over and he is a 6* again he is back up in the 40's. This is happening across the board.

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Perhaps your defence is too good and they don't get many opportunities to do more of the eye-catching stuff ie they're bored. Perhaps when making saves they should be catching they are pushing them out for CK or to defenders/attackers. In short, there is inactivity and there are both good saves and bad saves. Ive had bad GKs that don't concede goals and good GKs that have even had several MoMs and 9s - it was a highly competitive league. ;)

And potential training rate depends on age group, star and its inherent training rate (rule of thumb is to use Market Value relative to Q for this).

Here's a GK with some 8s and 9s

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I've three players in my team that are aged 24, 25 and 26 at the moment. All three are in the last year of their contact with me and are all high 5 star - however they are all back up to younger players who are even higher 5 star, or just moved over to 6 star.

I won't be renewing their contracts at the end of the season. When I either have nothing left to play for (if I am out of the cups, or can't win/lose the league) I will start trying to sell them. Probably start with getting rid of them from around day 25 otherwise - and if they sell will go players short in the last day of the season, or if they don't sell they will be released for free at the start of next season.

The rest of my players in my team are 19/20 or 21 yr old (One is 22 - but in his second year with me). I doubt more than 2/3 will sign another contract with me as I will sell them on or replace them with better players in their third season. I find working in cycles of 3 seasons is best.

It doesn't pay to be loyal to virtual players in this game. I buy and sell pretty much after a player has played 2/3 seasons for me as even the quickest younger players can not develop faster than the new players when you have promoted.