Anyway whilst I limp through the slideshow of games, I've kind of now settled on a my strongest U17 line up for this season and have a few in the bag for next season.
U19 Level or U18 is fairly decent with Patrick and Sene up front and others making progress. With Villano and Evina and a couple more it's fairly settled on the left, the right has gaps. A few players I'd written off have started to progress. Confusing, I think I'll try and keep it tight, I see a lot of teams go totally for the shotgun approach and sign a 50/60 players.
Potential as I know ain't all that anyway, I've got a 15 Year Old that's got strength 19 so I don't need any learning to know that no one is going to be pushing this guy around. As I recall he's German as well so I'll hang on to that one, hehe.
Good case in point is playing against Midget & Albino United who now after some good fortune (long story) have some amazing young players. One Tetteh (servers down can't check name) is an amazing 16 Year Old. We played them over two legs and think managed to get some sort of result in the first leg.
I have a cultered DM playing at U17 that has a lot of potential and has improved a lot, I've also got a DM Christina, whos' got tackling 15 and is very strong. He can't much kick a ball though so not much good other than for breaking up play. The cultured DM against this class was out of his depth.
In the second leg I changed the DM to Christina result 4-1 to us.
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Just as the servers went down (again) I was starting to talk about a 20 Year Old AMC / FC that at 20 showed a great deal of promise. I even put Wendall on the table as the servers went down, this 20 Year Old is a strong physical type that would suit my fast wingers / ball in to the box style. I don't know what style the other team plays but I've often thought that Wendall is a more of a play to feet type/ tricky customer type.
Another youngster starting to impress is a left wing back 16 Year Old Villano, he was out on loan until recently and he took a while to get back into a rhythm the last few games he's been great.
The NFA Premier League games today were against Vanquishers and Diakite, back from loan and replacing Camara produced a display that won us the game. 1-0 the result, his goal from a coner but his defensive abilites are very reassuring. With 20 points from 10 games I'm starting to relax a little on the relegation front.
Then we faced off against AI controlled Norks who've I've not beaten as I recall. At £2.5k a day at current trasnfer rates I would suggest a figure of around £4million for Diakite. You have to take wages into account. Ohhh yes, we grabbed a messy goal and it could have gone either way until Montero made his 60 minute appearance and at 16 he calmed things down, going to be a superstar Montero.
I was starting to feel confident Shenanigans challenged me to a game and I accpeted. Montero started we kept it tight and won 1-0 away from home. Diakite was amazing and got a 7.5 man of the match award, this, for a defender, not scoring a goal. This was in the UEFA Cup and could see us in with a shout of qualifiying for the next phase.
Cetout, a young 21 Year Old DC, which is not seeing much action and Ogbanna, big strong capable striker went as well today both sub £50,000. Both will do a good job at their new clubs and I didn't make a big pitch of them to sell so feel comfortable with the price, the teams they went to and myself.
If Cetout was 20 I'd have kept him but he has far too many DC's in front of him.
After Camara lost his place as DC I'd thought I'd give him a run at DM he's a free kick / long shot specialist and everything else about him suggests he'd be A1 in this position. I was almost hoping it wouldn't work out but the sod blasted a goal in from 25 Yds to give me a bit of a selection headache.
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