retired_badmagic9

Oh? Did you mean the DR? Pape Seydou Diop. My manager has dual English/French nationality.

retired_cakara

I think that generally (or at least I've found in two games thus far going beyond two seasons with three different teams) if your captain leaves then the vice captain 'expects' that he would make the step up. It does make sense...he was the second choice beforehand and now that the first choice has left he should make the step up.

This tends to be one train of thought in RL anyway. Stephen McManus was (somewhat unofficially) Celtic's vice-captain last season, deputising for Neil Lennon on numerous occasions. And for that reason he was the the front runner for the captaincy (and was eventually handed the armband) when Lennon left in pre-season.

Of course in other cases I'd imagine this 'rule' does not prevail. But it does make sense to me that the vice captain would be unhappy...although I can't for the life of me think why Pape Seydou Diop would be complaining. PMSing perhaps?

Dav1d

This is the thing that worries me. Sometimes it seems that these responses/choices have a totally random effect. It's like when a player says he wants to move to a bigger club. You can respnd saying that you want him to stay and then he apologises. Then the SAME player says he wants to move clubs again, usually within a couple of weeks, you say the same thing this time and he has a right moan about it.

Things just seem random sometimes, I've no idea why.

retired_cakara

This is the thing that worries me. Sometimes it seems that these responses/choices have a totally random effect. It's like when a player says he wants to move to a bigger club. You can respnd saying that you want him to stay and then he apologises. Then the SAME player says he wants to move clubs again, usually within a couple of weeks, you say the same thing this time and he has a right moan about it.

Things just seem random sometimes, I've no idea why. </BLOCKQUOTE>

Related to morale of the player and of the team overall perhaps? Although for someone to want to move to a bigger club and yet have superb morale seems unlikely. Perhaps in the case of players wanting to move it takes into account things like morale, team performance, your own stats, your own relationship with the player, etc.

As for the captain thing and why it got two opposite reactions...I'm stumped on that one. Guess I don't know everything. Darn.

retired_roe c

should this be a problem though? even if he has all the right attributes to be a good captain

i'm thinking of P. Neville at Everton right now

retired_cakara

should this be a problem though? even if he has all the right attributes to be a good captain

i'm thinking of P. Neville at Everton right now </BLOCKQUOTE>

I would guess it depends on who else is in your team though. If you've got players who have spent their entire career at your club and you sign someone completely new and make him the captain then I can see why that would be a problem. Teams need time to gel after all, time for new players to settle in with the current squad.

retired_badmagic9

I fully understood the Vice-Captian not being happy. Diop was my issue. He was fourth on the selection list off the news item.

It seems the game thought he would make a good-ish captian solely on the basis of his age and time-of-service. It had my 27-year-old GK with 18 months on-team as number one despite a 10 Inf and 3 TW, and he had no reaction to being passed up.

retired_jfarleymeade1

Just tell them that Paul le Guen doesn't think the Captain is very importain. In France the captain isn't very important so why is he so important in Scotland?

Whoops!

Who knows, you may wind up at PSG.