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So I always thought this was a myth of sorts. But I got my first ever Newgen duo with family ties...
Last year's star intake player, who might become the best English full back in ages, Neil Isaac now has a little brother, as my intake just happened and a 15 year old goalie named ''Wes Isaac'' has arrived at the club (from Brondby, despite being English...).
Both are born in Bradford, both are English + Antigua & Barbuda.
Of course Neil Isaac is the big star of the future...
But his little brother, who is half a foot taller than his ''big brother'', seems to have the potential of becoming a mid-table goalkeeper, or my next backup goalie behind Scottish superstud Jack "Rob" Conway.
And here's the proof that they're related.
First I had little interest in developing or simply caring about Wes Isaac, but when I found out that he's the ''little'' brother of the best young English talent, I feel obliged in nurturing him and making him the would-be backup goalie, so that he and his brother can play together at Liverpool
EDIT: Gotta correct myself, Wes Isaac is actually the older brother who for some reason only became part of the youth intake as an 18 year old... Which is interesting to say the least...
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Officially the most ridiculous loss I have ever suffered.
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I wanted to sign geriatric Bale in my first Liverpool season, but I didn't have the money to pay for his sign-on fee... Season afterwards he had retired
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Who's a good starter team for me to jump in with? Someone with plenty of resources and the like?
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So you guys like your players with their funny names and words..
Burnley got one up on you as they signed the King of the Franks
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I'm in the middle of November right now, and I am just... getting annoyed by the league performances.
In the Europa League I have dominated the groups and after 4 games I am clinched at the first spot, Partizan, Gent, OFI are the other teams and they're simply getting dominated by me.
League Cup i'm in the quarter finals after beating Southampton and Villa in the third and fourth round respectively, again not much in terms of challenge, the Villa game was played with a full reserve side and we won 4-1... and Charlton won't be an issue either in the quarters.
But in the league i'm tied 5th with Forest, with Burnley on the fourth place. Whilst I am only 4 points removed from Man Utd the leader (after 11 games). The goals have been few and far between in the league, and Jay Hill with 3 goals is the leading Liverpool player in the league.
It only gets more frustrating when Azzaoui has 6 goals in 4 games in the Europa League, and has only 1 goal in 10 games in the league.
I think when the team finds it's scoring touch we'll be alright, but it's just annoying having to scrape in wins, and losing 1-2, or 0-1 to Burnley and Newcastle.
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He's a Spurs fan.
That still doesn't answer the question really...
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Finished respectably at 13th with Leicester in my first season in the Prem. Spurs seriously under performed and sacked their manager, so I went for the job. Ended up getting it, and although I think I could've done a lot with Leicester team, obviously Spurs was too good to turn down for me.
The squad needed a lot rebuilding, but thought I'd done well to bring a bunch of young players in at the start of the season. The one place we didn't need fixing was up front, as we have three very good strikers, one with bags of potential.
...and 10 or 11 games in I'm doing the worst I've ever done with a team before. Outside of a 3-0 win against Arsenal, I'm just doing so badly, and I wouldn't be surprised if I got sacked soon. I can't win away. I dominate games at home, but don't score, despite the wealth of strikers and two great inside forwards. I'm trying everything, but other than the win at Arsenal, nothing's really working. Things are getting slightly better, but it's just not happening for me at all. We have shots, we create 2 or 3 clear cut chances a game, but my really good strikers just aren't putting enough away, and my attacking mids aren't chipping in goal-wise really.
Did I miss a memo where people regarded Spurs as an unmissable job opportunity?
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Leighton Baines has 11 goals in January and came 3rd in the Balon D'or...
I'm also 8 points clear of Spurs and Chelsea at the top after 21 games.
I'm not sure why things are going so well. I guess it's helped that the big sides have been thoroughly indifferent - for example, Chelsea have lost 6 already and Wayne Rooney is the league's top scorer with 12. But I still never do this well, especially in the first season.
I seemed to have stumbled across a great system - one that has even got Lennon and McGeady playing well. Even losing Seamus Coleman and Lukaku for 8 weeks over the Christmas period hasn't hampered us too much.
I wonder how long it will last.
Knowing my first season at Liverpool, it will last until the very end, then you'll slump so bad that you'll lose out on the CL...
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Episode 3
What do you mean playing from Fiona' s option? I don't remember how episode 2 ended
You had two options.
1: Trust Handsome Jack and let him use Rhys' implants to stop the robots... But well, it's Jack you're giving the wheel to.
2: Trust Fiona and let her throw a grenade to save the Gortys.
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Loader Bot
He'll still be around, at the start of the game they say you get two loader bots to use, so if you let it die in EP1 you'll get his other unit... Load Bot will be a lot more cynical and much less friendly with you though, because well... you kinda betrayed his trust.
Other EP3 spoilers
Played from Fiona's option after EP2
- Jeez, poor Vaughn getting paralyzed. Probably the most hilarious injury i've seen in a game, the way everyone just acts completely aloof about it and simply go on with their lives as he's horribly disfigured and can't speak, basically using him as a coat rack.
- Bye Vazquez, you were really a giant douchenozzle and I won't miss you in so many ways. Chose him as the ''blame'', and he got a shotgun to the chest for it. Really felt that his story was running out, and August would be better off in the story right now as a whole, you know with the whole crazy-ex thing.
- Handsome Jack really really gives me the creeps in so many ways. I've decided on a tentative alliance with the madman, but I simply don't trust him and I fully expect him to stab me in the back completely either episode four or five.
- I really like that they're growing Fiona into a Vault Hunter and all her struggles to accept that she might become a great hunter. I really liked that it's not about being able to shoot massive guns and soak huge damage, but also being able to be smart and quick on your feet.
- I'm not a big fan of them throwing away the bullet angle and having to save every bullet, now that Athena gave Fi a box of bullets to simply spray away at her enemies, kinda ruins the whole choice of having to use a bullet or not.
- Oh goddammit TellTale for twisting with my heart like that. Doing the whole epic ''I'll let go, I wont let you go" dramatic moment, and then Sasha letting go and falling half a yard to the ground. You got me stressing massively, then making me laugh pretty hard at the cop out.
- Also, I am going with the awkward budding romance between Rhys and Sasha, and well... It's pretty god-damn adorable in so many ways, none of that ''sweeping of her feet'' stuff, and just a guy bumbling about like a fool.
- Brick, Mordecai! ... Why are you doing this, I thought you were the good guys!
- Also, oh my god. Gortys is amazing, like an adorable innocent little robot who has no idea about grown-people stuff. The part where he was trying to pull along a dead Vazquez had me in stitches.
- "Nice Hams!" - Loader Bot 2016
- Loader bot giving Rhys a condescending pat on the head...
- "He's going through some issues" - LB on the roof whilst Rhys is talking to himself/Jack on the roof of the Caravan.
- Basically everything that Loader Bot does, really.
Probably a lot more moments, this game is full of great moments all around. Like I said, it's the first TellTale game that can make me laugh just as much as wrench my gut, in the same episode.
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So after Episode 1 of Tales of the Borderlands, I hadn't been back to it due to losing my save file, and not feeling like playing through EP1 just to play Ep2 afterwards.
But with Episode 3 out, I really felt compelled at playing through it all again... And wow, just... the quality of writing went up so much in episode 2 and 3, the stakes became higher, but the humour stayed just as strong. Loader Bot is amazing, and the way the group are finally connecting with each other is nice. There were a few real gutwrenchers in there, whilst also having some legitimately laugh out loud moments a few minutes earlier, or ten minutes after. The pacing is brilliantly done, and it gives such a great emotional load for when the tough moments happen because I personally have connected so much with the entire gang, especially the god-damned robot of the group.
Especially the way Episode 3 really went the distance in building strong relations between characters, and actually develop them in many ways has put this game on the top of my ever-growing TellTale love list.
Sure, the graphics are still crappy, and I had some atrocious framerate hiccups whilst playing on a monster rig that can handle Witcher 3 with ease. But the story is simply top notch in every way, probably in terms of building up chemistry between a cast it's the best game TellTale has released.
Wolf Among Us was brilliant because it was dark, gritty, and suspenseful. Game of Thrones is brilliant because it gives the same GoT kind of drama. Walking Dead turned me into a sobbing mess at the end of season 1... But Tales from the Borderlands has managed to make laugh loudly, warm my heart, and also dread for the characters...
Rhys is an amazing buttmonkey in every episode, and I love him for the bumbling rogue with a heart of gold... I love Fiona growing into her role as ''leader'', Of course there's Sasha and her crazy ex, Vazquez with his doucheness... Loader Bot with his endless one-liners, and the list goes on... And how can I forget about Handsome Jack, there's no idea where that story is going to go and it's extremely suspenseful because it'll be something huge.
The only one that has been left by the wayside is Vaughn, but even then what happens in Episode 3 has made me laugh hugely multiple times.
Also the transition between Ep2 and 3 has given probably the biggest ''your decision matters'' moment of the entire TellTale franchise, because apparently the choice you make at the end of 2 will change a big part of plot in episode 3.
I'm not going to spoil anything, but really... Tales from the Borderlands is amazing, truly amazing. I didn't know if I could like a TellTale game more than I liked Wolf and TWDS1, but they managed to win me over with two episodes left.
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Big-Ass post disclaimer, TL;DR warning up to 11
So, I managed to survive the pre-season pretty nicely, and I am a few days away from facing Man Citeh in the Community Shield match, to decide... things.
I've been very busy in squad building, sold a few guys for big chunks of cash and signed other guys for less. Sterling and Chikh will be tough to replace, but the money they brought in was simply amazing in every right.
Transfers In:
Melvin Mulder < Ajax (6,75M)
Richairo Zivkovic < PSG (11m)
Sascha Horvath < Fulham (4,2M)
Noah Huber < Basel (15M)
Scott Burt < Arsenal (3,1M)
Jay Hill < Southampton (20M)
Enzo Medina < Atletico Paranaense (8M)
And others (2,95M)
Total spent: 71M
Transfers Out:
Steven Caulker > Arsenal (2,1M)
Bilal Ould-Chikh > Monaco (40M)
Raheem Sterling > Monaco (35M)
Aleks Dragovic > Lyon (1,5M)
Lewis Holtby > Kaiserslautern (800K)
And others (600K)
Total Earned: 80M
So in total, I made a ''whopping'' 9 million. But at least with ridiculous sponsor cash, tv revenue, europa league revenue, ticket sales, Merchandise... And more, I am sitting at a tidy 32,6M in the blue. With less wages being handed out, I'll end up making more money in the coming season.
The Squad:
Goalies:
Full Backs:
Neil Isaac (Youth training with First Team)
Center Backs:
Midfielders:
Jurgen Unger (Youth training with First Team)
Nildo (Youth training with First Team)
Strikers:
So basically, quite a few changes... Juanfran and Marcos Rojo retired, Alberto Moreno left on a free and went back to Spain. So in return I signed Scott Burt, Bouwmeester for in center, Mulder for the right, and Schennikov for some backup depth at left... Mix of youth and experience, cheap older guys to help with tutoring and not be moaning at every moment. Petr Hajek I signed on a free after he got dumped by Man Utd, he's not great but he's cheap and decent, maybe he can become something less average in the future. Haysen on the other end had a huge improvement last season, and is looking to become a star defender this season, he's also still training to become natural at MC because he might be useful there too.
In midfield it has become a little bit more cramped. Five main midfielders in Henderson, Huber, Turan, Toman, Horvath who will by vying for playing time. Of course Hendo and Huber are almost a lock for being first team players, the other three less so. Unger and Nildo are youths I called up to train with the first team, they'll get some backup minutes and for the rest play with the U21 and use the First team training to improve quicker...
Strikers the biggest change has happened, Sterling and Ould-Chikh are gone for a combined 75 million, simply too much money to scoff at. I instead have built a new squad, again both youth and experience to hopefully have a deadlier squad up front in the upcoming season.
Azzaoui had an average year in the league last year, but still reached 31 goals through cup and europe play... He's on the burner a little bit, if a big offer comes in i'll sell him and get rid of his 800K contract. Despite that, still first choice striker.
Zivkovic was available for 11 million from PSG, and he's only 28 to boot. Basically a great deal, he's got great skills and he should do perfectly in my tactic.
Iturra was with the team last season, and his first Liverpool season was pretty good with 21 goals in 42 games all around, with Sterling and Chikh gone his playing time will go up quite a bit, so I hope he'll continue improving and become a deadly striker, perhaps making Azzaoui even more of a sell option...
Jay Hill might not look awfully impressive, but he scored 29 goals for Southampton last season, and 24 combined with Everton the two seasons before that. Unassuming, but still a goal machine, part of me feels the 20 million transfer is a mistake, especially with the addition of Zivkovic and Medina, but I hope he'll prove me wrong.
Enzo Medina was my last transfer, only signed a few days before. My scouts found him and told me he was average, I told my scouts to go such a fatty and get the hell out of my sight. Great mentals, great technicals, good physicals, and only 23 years old. And he only cost me 8M, making him the cheapest striker of the team... Got a permit after appealing the first time around, and he looks to be a magnificient player worth more than a 2.5* rating.
Basically I feel I have lost a few great pieces in Sterling and Ould-Chikh, but I have made the impact of their departure as little as possible whilst making some money on the side. Less wages to be paid out too, so I think financially the team has a better future. In terms of expectations I want to get back into the Champions League after missing out last season, I want to make a strong run for the Europa League title, win the cups, and look good doing it...
As always I will close off with the final Ronaldo-watch for a long while...
Like I thought he decided to hang up his boots at the end of the season, finishing his last Real Madrid season off with 19 goals and 10 assists, and an average rating of 7,78, his sixth best personal rating of this save... Of course, he didn't sit still at all, and within a week he got signed by Academia to be their manager, so maybe he'll not just ruin the beautiful game on the pitch, but also next to the pitch...
23 years of Cristiano Ronaldo...
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Transfer Watch 2K25
Sponsored by Jerry Lawler reluctantly sipping Mountain Dew™
Out:
Steven Caulker > Arsenal (2.1M)
Aleks Dragovic > Lyon (1.5M)
Raheem Sterling > Monaco (35M)
Bilal Ould-Chikh > Monaco (40M)
Lewis Holtby > Kaiserlautern (800K)
Total Cashola Made: 79,4M
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Scott Burt < Arsenal (3.1M)
Sascha Horvath < Fulham (4.2M)
Melvin Mulder < Ajax (6.75M+)
Noah Huber < Basel (15M)
Richairo Zivkovic < PSG (11M)
Jay Hill < Southampton (20M)
Total Cashola Wasted: 60,05M
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At least there's one nice thing about this season... Properly trounced my former team and showed Moneybags Al-Fawaz that I was indeed right in that I was the best manager, screw that guy and yay for my first ''major'' trophy!
The CL Semi Final was extremely gutting because we ran through the knockout stages by beating Monaco and Dortmund, and we had also beaten Man Utd 4-0 in the FA Cup Semi Finals before, so I knew we could beat them. We had a shitty 0-2 loss in the first leg, and we were leading 3-0 before the team decided to completely fall apart and give Man Utd the finals spot. I really hope PSG beats the living shit out of United in the final for that.
Needless to say, also very very annoyed by the fact we fucked ourselves out of playing in the Champions League by failing to beat god-damned West Ham and Southampton, those were games we should've won and the team just decided that they didn't feel like it...
As a result, the team is a bit in flux. Raheem Sterling has told me that he wants to leave to a club that does play Champions League, and he's 30... So i'm not going to earn the jackpot with his sale. Also the team is in shit-creek financially, the predecessor has burdened me with a bloated wage bill and a lot of overpaid players who are also aging quite badly.
So going into next season I need to rebuild the team, I have already sold Balotelli back to Italy, so that's one guy off of the wage bill. I also sold Maxym Koval to Sevilla to fully give Jack Conway the main role between the sticks without anyone whinging about it. I am planning on selling quite a few players, especially anyone over 31 who isn't named Jordan Henderson are on the axing list... I will also sell Ould-Chikh, Azzaoui, and Chambers if big money bids come in. I am 41 million in the red, and I need lots of money if I am to field a top 5 squad next season.
Basically, time to start the rebuild...
Oh, and here are some screenshots for you screenshot loving people...
All players who have played...
Martin Haysen (Best Young Player)
Neil Isaac (Best Intake player)
My Terrible Financial situation
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Well the first thing to do is to get rid of the two left backs over 30 immediately and train one of the other ones, preferably with a semi-decent right foot, to play left back.
Job done!
Moreno is very much surplus to requirements, and he's the only one that hasn't been moaning about his little playing time, and he's probably the first one out.
Robertson is 31, but he's pretty much right there at his peak and is the best left back of the side. He's been in top form all year, and unless I get a good bid I don't feel like shopping him out.
Juan Sanchez on the other hand, he's 24 and he's also really really good. He's good enough to keep around, and with my training schemes he's rapidly improving and getting to the point where he's equal to Robertson. He wants first team footie, obviously enough. But if I sell him I both lose a very good player, and I will probably end up losing money after my predecessor spent 11 million on the kid.
Tamas Docs, 17 years old is loaned out to Tromso for the time being, he needs the playing time to get better, and with the logjam time isn't going to happen at Anfield.
Then there's 15 year old Neil Isaac who might become the best left back since Baines. Knowing the left back predicament, I immediately put him on getting natural at right back asap. He's moaning about the extra training, but it'll be better in the long run.
But seriously, i'd have preferred a right back... The only guy I have there is Chambers, and in a pinch Robertson can be put there...
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Got my youth intake at Liverpool... "One of the most gifted players of this generation", Oh boy!
Another god-damned Left back! Bringing my total of good left backs to a whopping 5.
So now I have Andrew Robertson, Alberto Moreno, 24 year old Juan Manuel Sanchez, 17 year old Tamas Docs, AND 15 year old Neil Isaac, everyone but Robertson restricted to the left side too...
Robertson is 31, Moreno is 32... So they're not big issues when Docs/Neil start to become good in a few years, but Juan Manuel Sanchez is 24 and my predecessor spent 11M to sign him from Sociedad, and he's been whinging away multiple times about not having enough playing time (12(5) league games in March), and he's good enough to not simply do away for a loss either.
I also can't cherry pick talent either, since the team is 49 million in the red thanks to my predecessors wish to give Henderson, Sterling, AND Azzaoui 800K a month, among others... And well, those three guys I can't just sell either because they're the guys that are keeping me competitive... Besides, selling Henderson and/or Sterling would end up with me being lynched by a legion of angry scouse.
3rd in the league still, 9 games to go, 8 points removed from first placed Man City, so there's an off-chance I can still win the league... Also in the CL Quarter Finals against Dortmund, and in the FA Cup Semi's against Man Utd.
I need to win as much as possible and rake in a lot of prize money, and perhaps sell on a Azzaoui to get into a decent financial position again. Spending 10M a month simply is too much for my frugal heart to bear.
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Just finished Blackwater.
How the fuck did Stannis not die during Season 2? He is the first on the shore, first man against the wall, first man over the wall, eventually gets dragged away against his will, and the dude isn't even wearing a helmet or a shield. The fact that he managed to remain alive heretofore is frankly baffling, unless he suddenly becomes a huge coward after this battle.
He's the Mannis, that's why?
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Time to continue the story time about a geriatric Cristiano Ronaldo still being a better player than every other player in the game... Kinda.
He's 40 now, at the halfway mark of probably his final season as a football player. Messi has retired already just short of scoring 400 for Barcelona in his career (397).
Ronaldo on the other hand, surely he must be some sort of augmented freak of nature by now, because despite him being 40 he's playing like he's 25 instead.
As you can see, his skills have declined in the past 11 seasons that this game has been going on, he's not as quick or agile as he used to be, and dribbling isn't his best thing either... His mental stats have exploded due to his crazy experience though...
Then we look at his career scoring, and as you can see he is having a better scoring season (percentage) than he has had in the past two seasons. He's decided to go out in a huge way by showing that he's retiring because he feels like it, not because he's no longer able to dominate.
Also, it's the start of February, and there are still 16 games to go in the La Liga... So at that pace he'll probably eclipse 30+ goals once more, as a 40 year old... As a 40 year old he's dominating one of the biggest leagues in the world as if it's mere childs-play.
The day Ronaldo stops playing, i'm sure the league will truly stop existing, because it's just there for him to show off as his personal playground rather than a legit league worthy of reverence. Barcelona has dominated the league since 2019 too, so it's not like he's in it for the silverwork anymore either... He's just doing what he does, scoring goals and making an entire league filled with young stars look like a bunch of amateurs.
I never have liked real life Ronaldo, but the Ronaldo in my save deserves a long round of applause and perhaps the removal of a few manly tears of respect. Ronaldo, you truly won the game, you didn't just win, you probably broke it too...
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I love Horner complaining now his team aren't number 1.
His criticism is founded, but it just sounds like prattle coming from a guy who has been moaning every week for the past 1.5 season about how Renault are terrible suppliers, the FIA are working against him, and the Strategy Group have it out against him.
The penalties at Austria were ridiculous, and it's hurting teams from trying to become better and catching up. Especially knowing that McLaren are in for two more huge penalties at Silverstone because Alonso's (brand new) engine was damaged in the crash, and Jenson's gearbox broke down later on too.
It's also a bit ridiculous that the F1 teams have such a big say in the proceedings, because you'll end up with the succesfull teams trying to retain the status quo, and the not-winning teams trying to change the status quo, and it generally causes the entire system to be hung indefinitely... A team of former racers, former team bosses, safety experts etc. should be formed letting them decide what's being changed in the sport.
There's a big reason why big manufacturers like Audi, Porsche, and Toyota are sticking with WEC rather than trying their hands at F1...
The sport is too expensive to even be a backmarker (look at Manor's financial woes, and the shittonne of money needed to keep them in the sport)...
The ruleset is too restricted to have teams truly challenge each other consistently... The 2008-2013 engine freeze had Red Bull win 4 out of 5 times. The 2014-???? freeze has had Mercedes easily dominate the first season, and is well underway of dominating the next few seasons too...) Now the engines are frozen, teams have little leeway in improving their engines even within the current V6Turbo ruleset, which means that Mercedes has a comfortable lock on being top dogs for a long time.
Finally and probably most importantly the sport has little to no use in modern car manufacturing, there's little to no advancement in applicable technology coming from F1 anymore, whilst WEC has been mostly on the forefront of technology with diesel powered winners, and most recently hybrid-diesels becoming the norm. The art of creating a fast, sturdy, and efficient car have more uses to modern cars than creating a vehicle that goes 330kmh for 1.45 hour.
Generally the idea of an engine freeze is stupid, and whilst it's been there to cut down costs, it has done little in keeping costs down regardless. So basically teams are stuck with a bum car and getting back on pace takes simply too long for a team to manage... And despite RBR being moany bitchy childish cunts about it, it's obvious that Renault will take too long getting the engine up to snuff, so they're better off with a lesser Ferrari engine because the 40-50HP can be made neglible through strategy, skill, and aero.
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The dates are the same. But generally its MUCH more expensive to poach away good talents from teams when they're young. Players will also be less inclined in a transfer at those ages too, so it's not easy to wiggle them free from their teams.
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Good team to play my first game as?
Not neccesarily for you. But Athletic is the best and toughest homegrown challenge.
Only Basque players, no exceptions...
Football Manager 2015
in Coin Op Arcade
Posted · Edited by Jasonmufc