Quote Originally Posted by July Fourth View Post
It's funny that... Papaleo is a Penalty Taker specialist but most occasions I saw Papaleo go 1v1 against a goalkeeper, Papaleo often scores or makes a pass to another player to score, possibly due to the players quality and maybe a hidden intelligence stat, I'm hoping for a good MR or a DMC but I have to wait until day 8 next season for a youth player and I can't really wait that long... I havent got the best cycle for youth player production im afraid. Last season it was 4,16,28. This season its 12,24 and next season its 8,20 and then it goes back to the 4,16,28 again. Pepp Crawford is a wasted talent at my team but I believe with him being 23 and Zidane 27, he will soon actually surpass Zidane's quality. I'm starting to think that you only need 3 strikers at your club at any given time. I've normally had 4.
I only have 3 strikers at my club, it's enough because I only play with one striker most of the time. The others are 2nd choice strikers or emergency replacements. Sometimes I think Suarez lacks intelligence. He is 1 on 1 with the keeper and decides to pass to a defender who usually misses lol. Happens a lot of the time, he's great when he doesn't do that.

My new signings will be a year older next season at 6*, they will get to 7* through a bit of PT and regular matches. The cycle will continue for a few seasons at least because they'll be fast trainers until they are at least 24 years old. Jonny Lamb is 23 now and one of my fastest trainers... He was a youth player from level 1 and I still have him to this day. If I stick to this regime then I won't have to buy scouts and just invest in buy young players and give them a special ability.

At 5*, my young players gained at least 50-60 SP a day and quickly got their special abilities. It was about a 1:1 ratio for rest packs to SP, maybe a bit better than that so it's definitely more value for tokens than scouts. You also get to pick the SA which I like.