Stupid question about retirement age

[Kelpie Grant]

I cant believe people still have old players on their list ,turn 23 at my club and your gone no matter how good you have been. I just dont have the greens to spend getting an "old man" up to the level needed.

[julien12]

I cant believe people still have old players on their list ,turn 23 at my club and your gone no matter how good you have been. I just dont have the greens to spend getting an "old man" up to the level needed.

I go by performance to be honest. One of my now 32yo led the team just two seasons ago in goals (and tied the season before that) without any additional training just for him. I had to switch his position but the switch brought goals. My thinking is that the game has hidden designations for some players and they continue to perform even after their skilllevels and ages would say they should not.

As for the other 32yo while his performance was not as good I noticed that the team seem to play well with him as captain. Again, all I can really measure is that I won several CLs with him as captain. I certainly had better, younger players but the team did not “appear” to play as well as when he was in. So I kept going with a hot thing.

Now neither of them outperforms their teammates (not last season either) and they sit.

Honestly I am not sure the science behind my methods but I do think there are hidden settings. In this season, though I am using the same formation as the last two or three seasons, one of my attacking middies is racking up goals at greater than one per game while the other has completely fallen off. Statistically the one that has dropped off is better than the one on fire. Again, my guess is that some hidden parameter says this is a career year for the one at least. Otherwise I have no way to explain how two players, who have played about the same the last several seasons, all of a sudden have two very different years.

I assume these hidden player or season settings are something like the random game settings where one moment my team is lighting it up and then against the same team we can't hit the broad side of a barn.

Would be interested in other player's thoughts on this...

[khris]

I cant believe people still have old players on their list ,turn 23 at my club and your gone no matter how good you have been. I just dont have the greens to spend getting an "old man" up to the level needed.

"Sentimentalism" rules the world. lol

[KenoticFC]

I cant believe people still have old players on their list ,turn 23 at my club and your gone no matter how good you have been. I just dont have the greens to spend getting an "old man" up to the level needed.

That is one of the main problems of the game there is no emotional attachment to have with your team. They are just mercrnaries that play for 2 or 3 seasons. Keep in mind that our legends hav been in our teams since before training, friendlies and tanking took a hit.

[Kelpie Grant]

That is one of the main problems of the game there is no emotional attachment to have with your team. They are just mercrnaries that play for 2 or 3 seasons. Keep in mind that our legends hav been in our teams since before training, friendlies and tanking took a hit.

I agree with you ,to me this is THE major drawback to this game. I would love to keep guys for long 10 -15 year careers and get really attached to them but economics are telling me I cant afford that level of sentimentality. I have a few players who I have put a lot of time into and have been ,and still are ,superb players for the team but realistically have this and one more season in them before the economics of the game force me to make a decision on them at the end of their fifth season. I may decide to keep 1 of them at first team level just to see what the cost is to keep them at that level. The others will fall back into the reserves team for a season or two but realistically will not play first team ever again ,at least not for me. If nego's was a viable thing I might try to maintain them at a level someone else might want but nego's isnt viable anymore.

Just in case anyone from Nordeus happens to read this , seriously this game would be so much better and retain more managers for longer and maybe they would spend some cash on your game if only you allowed them to keep players viable for longer.

[dave1311]

I cant believe people still have old players on their list ,turn 23 at my club and your gone no matter how good you have been. I just dont have the greens to spend getting an "old man" up to the level needed.

Sometimes those older players just keep on producing and getting MOTM awards most games which helps with percentage towards skills. I do not necessarily pour endless Greens into them, as there is no need.