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 I'm seeing a lot of juniors with very low averages, supposedly high forecasts, selling for ridiculous amounts of money. 10-12 mil for a 10-20 avg junior CDF is ridiculous. If I put in training on a CDF for the next 2 seasons, I will just about make a profit. Not calculating the cost of paying my junior coach, physio psycho etc.

I understand high forecast players are in short supply but there needs to be a limit on the amount one can demand for said players especially with low averages. I just don't agree with these sales, I know several went for 100s of millions at the start of the season but those had no teams. It's just crazy...

Look I understand inflation is behind ridiculous prices, still I cannot stand seeing these crazy prices. I refuse to pay the prices, just refuse...

It's a quick way of making a buck and very short sighted of this game to allow such nonsense to continue. I will not pay 10-12 mil for a nothing average junior CDF regardless of high forecast.

My rant is now over, thanks forum, my psychologist wants payment every time he has to listen to me rant away like this

05/07/2012 14:18
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 I dont disagree with you on this one, but here is some advice to deal with your situation if the psycho is on vacation.

1. take in deep breathe
2. Laugh, because you know you would never spend that kind of money unless it was worth it.

Edited by cmccourt 05-07-2012 15:01 		05/07/2012 15:01
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 Agreed. It seems to be that it's a result of people seeing others selling 99prog/99FC players for a lot, so they suddenly think their 92 FC player with a sort of meh progression is worth tens of millions. I've had people tell me players they purchased a week ago for 2 million are worth 15 million, which no they're not, you just bought that guy for 1/10th of that price. I think the problem is that someone like that who thinks an 85 FC player is worth that much will then break the bank for a junior and artificially raise the market prices.

I don't think things are going to change though. As long as experienced players are making good enough money that they can afford to, they're going to spend a decent amount on juniors. The only way to really control it is to limit youth release clauses (based on progression and average), but I don't know if I like controlling the market like that, even if it's pretty lose control, because then the lack of inflated prices there just transfers more inflation to other areas of the game. 		05/07/2012 15:32
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 It really depends. Try to find an 80+fc dfm and i could see why there are high prices. If a player has a 90+fc and high progression, in the long run its worth the investment. With that said, i believe P.T Barnum when he said," there's a sucker born every minute". 05/07/2012 16:31
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cmccourt said:
It really depends. Try to find an 80+fc dfm and i could see why there are high prices. If a player has a 90+fc and high progression, in the long run its worth the investment. With that said, i believe P.T Barnum when he said," there's a sucker born every minute".


Fair point, I was referring to junior GK's in my post (as that's what I deal with), which seem to be fairly readily available for about $3-4 million for a 90 FC. But there are people who swear that they're worth $15 million.

But you're right, in the long term it's still worth it to spend $10+ million on a good FC junior when they're almost guaranteed to be able to pull in 10x that in 2-3 seasons time. It's not going to go down until some sort of factor is introduced where they're not guaranteed high percentage money makers. 		05/07/2012 16:50
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 I think I know exactly the GK you are talking about and its a tricky situation. In these types of things, I am a believer in that eventually the marketplace will level out when it comes to this stuff. after a season or two if a person cant sell a junior they will lower the price and keep lowering until people jump. Im a firm believer in the zero dollar auction because you see exactly what a player is worth to the community and you don't have to worry about over paying or paying what someone else "thinks" a player is worth. 05/07/2012 17:10
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 I agree that things will typically level themselves out, people will eventually need the money and they'll sell for what they can get. However, inflation and suddenly having $50 million can make people do dumb things.

I'm fully on board with the $0 auction when I actually want to just completely get rid of a player, you know the guy is going to sell for a fair market price, plus you can sometimes hook more people into the auction at $0, and they'll help drive the price up. 		05/07/2012 17:43
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 People will pay what they have if they want the player, it's as simple as that. I saw some from 0 auctions finish at 30-40m recently for low average juniors.

There was also a 99 prog player that went for 230m at ave 15. 		05/07/2012 18:39
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