retired_jonathannew1212

a lot of people quite rightly want everything to be as life like as possible but it doesn't bother me to know that aaritalo could fetch me £20m, or billy sharp might be the best striker ever.
some might say these players are overrated but what i like about fm is that the impossible can happen. aaritalo though i don't know probably isn't as good in real life as it says he is however it enhances the game so much to be able to sign someone for nothing and then sell him for millions.
this means i can buy who i want and get more enjoyment out of the game.

i love it when fm takes a shot and decides that someone who is 17 at the time is the next maradona, then you can sign him for nothing, reap the rewards and then take the money. i.e sergey kisly on fm06.
he was a wonderkid 17 or 18 year old that became world class and you could buy him for almost any club, he scored goals and fetched you money.
now look at him, he is worse now than he was when he was 17.
but that's what i like,
it's great to be able to sign the guys for nothing even if in real life they're pants
artistic license fm, brilliance

retired_heibe mutter

I agree, some of the guys the SI have said will become world class have become quite good players, such as Kim Kallstrom

retired_jonathannew1212

absolutley alexandre pato on last year's game, they got him right before he even played for porto alegre, it's not like he has fulfilled his potential yet

retired_v_meenucancer

it's one thing to give good pa to some of the world's most tipped young players, and another to make billy sharp one of england's best strikers

Dav1d

Agreed. Ronaldo is the best example I can think of for Si spotting players. He was unstoppable on one of the FM's and then Man Utd signed him irl and look at him now. I bet when the players told Fergie to buy him, they were playing FM at the time

retired_pitaqueen

there's loads of players that FM 'scouted' and what do you know they're good in real life!!
Garay come to mind, Liverpool interested.

Lesser known players like Robert Koren in 07, great Championship player, playing for West Brom!
I bet managers secretly use FM to scout players!

retired_nivea

Same as Freddy Eastwood. Great player for Southend but overrated in the game now.

Whilst he is a good player I think the problem lies in how difficult it is to scout players and to essentially have an FM researcher be able to judge players potential as well as a professional scout.

Take Eastwood and Sharp, both were awesome players for League One sides and this summer got moves to bigger clubs.

The researchers from their original clubs obviously think they are the best player they have seen for the club, but when they move they arent head and shoulders above the players at the new clubs, but the researchers havent seen them play so have to take the original researchers word for it.

Sharp and Eastwood are both good players but are overrated at present simply because the researchers rated them against poor opposition.


How I can sell Southend's Peter Clark and Steve Hammell for nearly 2 million in the first couple of weeks shows just how hard it is for researchers

retired_boppa

Agreed. Ronaldo is the best example I can think of for Si spotting players. He was unstoppable on one of the FM's and then Man Utd signed him irl and look at him now. I bet when the players told Fergie to buy him, they were playing FM at the time </BLOCKQUOTE>

Ronaldo was already (very) well-known in Portugal when he was made a star in FM. Believe me you got my word on this, the Portuguese researcher NEVER overestimates players.

retired_jonathannew1212

is it totally impossible that billy sharp might one day play for england? or be a good premiership striker?
fm is a game it's great to know you can sign someone cheap and then watch him become world class,
i started a new game with rayo and piatti, aaritalo and dzsudzsak all want to come. if i sign them one day their value could fetch me up to £40m ensuring that i will be successful in the top division,
if i couldn't sign these players who might have been overrated i would most likely be stuck in the spanish second division b for years.

retired_xenogirl

u can always buy regens, train them and sell them off, which i personally think is better as they are made up players rather than real life players, mcuh rather have current real players to be set at a realistic level. this way you have the task of finding young gems and making them into world class players