HT - what a prize plonker

[* ORM *]

Bought this person on 23/7 for £36K and sold him on 28/7 for £100K.

I bought him to cover an injury, not to day-trade, listed him for 30K and got pleasantly surprised.

Filip Bielski (26495920)
34 years, poor form, healthy
I speak Polski!


A sympathetic guy who is balanced and honest.
Has poor experience and poor leadership abilities.


Speciality: Technical

Nationality: Polska
Total Skill Index (TSI): 100
Wage: 480 £/week including 20% Bonus
Owner: Double Dutcheese
Warnings: 0
Injuries: Healthy


Stamina: passable Goalkeeping: disastrous
Playmaking: wretched Passing: wretched
Winger: weak Defending: weak
Scoring: excellent Set Pieces: passable

Career Goals: 2
Career Hattricks: 0
League goals this season: 0
Cup goals this season: 0

Ever since then (almost 2 months) the person that bought him from me has had him listed in virtually every position under the sun for an asking price of £132,667.

He's a level 4 out of 11 Dutchman (so he is no newbie) who is obviously really p%&sed off ? Why doesn't he just cut his losses ?

Do you think I should send him a 'helpful' message

 

[sufcintheprem]

How did you get him for 36k??

I must be shopping in the wrong markets....

 

[* ORM *]

Well that was a real bite in the bum - checking HT this morning and finding out only 1 supporter signed up today ! WTF ?

 

[* ORM *]

Quote[/b] (sufcintheprem @ Sep. 22 2005,08:43)]How did you get him for 36k??

I must be shopping in the wrong markets....

1) No one tends to pay up for an old player
2) Always get bargains in unsocial hours somewhere along the line
3) set a budget and stick to it and dont get into a bidding war - for every player you miss there are 20 others available
4) Bought an 18yo solid defender bought for 36K yesterday

 

[Grayson]

Am I a prize plonker for signing this fella for 12k?


Ali Hasan (76309748)
17 years, passable form, healthy
A pleasant guy who is balanced and upright.
Has disastrous experience and poor leadership abilities.

Nationality: Nederland
Total Skill Index (TSI): 490
Wage: 380 £/week
Owner: waarom
Warnings: 0
Injuries: Healthy


Stamina: inadequate Goalkeeping: disastrous
Playmaking: inadequate Passing: wretched
Winger: passable Defending: poor
Scoring: weak Set Pieces: poor

 

[Hong Kong Blue]

Seems a decent enough signing for a PM or wing trainer.

 

[* ORM *]

Quote[/b] (Hong Kong Blue @ Sep. 22 2005,17:30)]Seems a decent enough signing for a PM or wing trainer.

Agreed - As long as you are training PM or wing you'll get a decent enough return on this one within 2-3 seasons.

Patience is the key.

I spent months only able to sign 17/18/19 yo no better than passables with the very occassional solid. Then I moved onto 17/18 yo only solids with the occassional excellent or taking a young passable with high TSI on the probability that a pop was pending. I'm now onto buying excellents and solids with decent TSI and I'm on the verge of a foray into the formidable world for the first time.


The biggest problem I see is people running before they can walk.It has taken me nine months to get to this stage and I probably wasted the first couple of months due to inexperience. The amount of players I thought were centre-backs and wing-backs but turned out to be something I wasn't training.

Worst thing now is that it's only in the last couple of months that I've got a real nose for the worth and true meaning of TSI, particularly if you focus on primary skills only, but the HT world now seems to be entering into a debate on the positive merits of secondary skills.

 

[Birri]

He is fine for playing on the wing muse just make sure he plays either every league game or every friendly

 

[MrB]

Quote[/b] (* ORM * @ Sep. 22 2005,18:01)]The amount of players I thought were centre-backs and wing-backs but turned out to be something I wasn't training.

Duh? Either they had defending and wing or didn't? I don't see how it's physically possible to make that mistake!

 

[* ORM *]

I was young, I was green and didn't check the skills properly.

There are hundreds of players listed in positions other than their true position. Learnt the lesson soon enough !

 

[* ORM *]

Oh and I'm not proud of my stupidity and not shy to admit my mistakes. This is the person that realised only comparitively recently that when the tide goes out at Southend it goes OUT and not over to Kent as I was told when I was a kid and believed for over 30 years.

 

[Grayson]

I thought that up to this moment, so I'm stupid too. Thanks for that

 

[Birri]

Orm,
What did your folks say when you were paddling off the beach as a kid & you said look at the brown fish mum/dad ?
did they not tell you it was the turds floating down from london or did they assume you had shat your self ?
I stopped paddling off southend when I was about 6 when I saw a **** float passed after that it was walton or clacton for me !

 

[* ORM *]

He just won't give up. Listed AGAIN for 130K - why will he not just cut losses and list for about 30K ?

 

[Birri]

I sold this muppet from my YT for £667
Anthony Ely (75653860)
These Belgium Nutters compton in da house (739946)
Series: # 8 in X.519
28/09/2005 The club changed owner as kwartvoornegen took control and renamed it compton in da house
have bid £173 333 giving me £3467 more than I ever expected to get !

 

[blues_r_best]

Bought this player for only £866,667

Johan Börjesson (76941262)
17 years, passable form
A sympathetic guy who is calm and honest.
Has disastrous experience and poor leadership abilities.

Speciality: Technical

Nationality: Sverige
Total Skill Index (TSI): 1 140
Wage: 517 £/week including 20% Bonus
Owner: The Shrimpers
Warnings: (this information is not available while matches are in progress)
Injuries: (Injuries are not shown during matches. )

Stamina: inadequate Goalkeeping: disastrous
Playmaking: solid Passing: inadequate
Winger: weak Defending: inadequate
Scoring: poor Set Pieces: weak

 

[* ORM *]

Wow ! After God knows how many relists at £130K he has finally bitten the bullet and listed the player for 0.

Someone has already bid £667 for him.

Player ID 26495920

Bugger me - someone has just counterbid as I typed this with £1,334 and he doesn't sell for 2 more days.