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I signed probably one of the best youths I've seen and will ever see.
A 4 star 133Q RB/DMR and I trained him to surpass my current 5 star RB within 30 minutes.
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Quite pleased to finally get a decent youth from the academy and have a fast training youngster I can keep for many seasons ahead.
Do you have any players from the academy and how have they performed for you?
This is something I do, IF there is a spot for better (18 to 24T) youth I do try to get them.. I am (mostly) willing to train them and usually keep them many seasons. Very rare to get a dud, they all have played pretty well, though some were too slow to keep as long as I would have wished. I just wish they came as slightly better Q.. !
My current RB is a decent player with 7's and 8's and sometimes 9 ratings but at 26 wasn't going to last long. He even managed a few goals which is always good. I just hope my new youth can live upto that and repay the faith in putting in him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cat Harrison
I also bought a nordgeon from market. 18 yr old with penalty ability at 136Q already at 138Q but my scout is first choice so will be partnered or backup. Not a bad investment for 1T :D
I always use my academy, here's one of more successful youth players, sadly retired now.
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Wow he lasted 11 seasons and gave him an ability? Now that's a local hero :D
15 seasons, a true 'one club' legend! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by El Pistolero
That's what I want with my RB, a long career and one day make him captain. I named him Nathaniel Clyne haha
It's far more difficult with defenders as their progress slows down rapidly as they age. 5 or 6 seasons is probably about the most you can expect a top defender to stay competitive.Quote:
Originally Posted by El Pistolero
With a striker (who has Free Kick special ability as well), as long as he scores regularly then he will pick up many 'man of the match' awards.
Good cup runs coupled with playing every league game can mean almost 50 games in a season.
Say he gets motm in 15 of them, that's around 30 extra skill points he wouldn't have got otherwise without training and green packs.
This enables a very good forward (ST, AM) to stay ahead of the ageing process, for at least a few seasons longer than a defender.
This player is a legend for Top Eleven, this type of player are rare, but largely depends on the coach the way they are using in the field and training.Quote:
Originally Posted by gogs67
I was in the middle of posting exactly the same thing when you posted, see my reply above! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Paivinha
Oh I didn't think of that :(Quote:
Originally Posted by gogs67
I'll have to keep training him between games to prolong his career.
So is this kind of player a one off?Quote:
Originally Posted by gogs67
I always get decent performances out of fullbacks so maybe I can make mine into a legend. I'll update on his debut then the next game will be a challenge. CL-QF against a team a season above :D
My first match finished 1-1 against 2nd placed. I edge every stat despite ratings were on his side. Led the match to 75 minutes and he scored in the last 5 minutes. He really threw me off changing to 5-1-2-2 30 minutes before the match.
To make matters worse my RB got a very poor 6.1 rating xD
Yee, academy is something I like a lot, I obtained one of my better ST's, Zumalakarregui, and now last season I bought x2 ST's and well, just I'm saving the cones and as I'm tanking I can not say I proved these in good conditions, bu, next season sure, that they will have minutes. :cool:
He got a 7.2 rating against tougher opposition so progressing ok so far. Won 1-0.
Are you going for 4-3-3 next season then? :D
So far I haven't found use for my youth players, maybe it's because I'm only level 5, but they don't fit into my team ratings wise, I know I could train them, but I don't want to spend tokens to get them, I think that's a really stupid thing as you have already paid for them.
From my experience, academy players are useful (usually have good form). But I think they're geared towards token buyers. And by token buyers, I mean high end ones, which developers of these free to play games, call whales; those that drop say $100+/month on average or something like that, so such players have access to the greens to train em up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sakura
Even so, a strong argument can be made that nordgens are a better investment than academy players. Haven't purchased enough academy players or nordgens in my t11 playing career to truly test the average effectiveness of nordgens vs. academy players, since I've only acquired two 24 academy players and get like 1 to 1.5 nordgens per season on average. One was rather average, the other has scored roughly 450 career goals for me so far.
Yes I prefer to go for the Nordgens, but don't get pulled into bidding wars, my team is fairly young with a few experienced players mixed in, I'm not a high end token buyer per say, but each season so far I have bought the £9.99 deal which gives you 130 Tokens, then I farm for packs as much as possible.Quote:
Originally Posted by pcmacdaniel
I farm green packs daily and apply them to young, fast trainers. I don't buy coins but I do Tapjoy offers to accumulate them and build my squad around 5-6 stars and if I train them right they stay with me a few seasons. I avoid bidding wars. Max I'll go is around 20.
I thought I'd put my academy to good use and got the 25T player and see how he does.
My experience with academy players wasn't so good.
First time I bought a GK, made him (early) 6* player, gave him "one-to-one" sa, first season as my basic GK played very good,
the second season, started with 5-6s so I sold him
Then, I gave another chance in a ST, spend a lot of greens to give F-K sa and make him 6* player, but it was also like throwing my extra sources. He wasn't bad but I could say pretty average (and I was waiting half a season for some descent offer from nego list :( )
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I think I 'll not do it again, unless I'm desperate to find a young player or maybe he already has a useful position and sa.
Till then, I prefer to spend my sources to nordgen.
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Originally Posted by nikolgiorgos
I was hoping they'd be coded to always be reliable against higher placed teams or cup come back victories haha. I'll see how he does with a run of games. Maybe he'll be my rock in defence.
Looks like he took advantage of OP FK ability befor they nerfed it.
