"Feels pressured by the interest in him"

[spzero]

Hey all. Decided to start playing with a team in a lower reputation league for once and work my way up the world ladder. I chose FC Seoul of the K-Leagues.

Life started really well and one of my strikers began tearing up the league with 10 goals in 6 games. I moved quickly and signed him to a more lucrative/longer contract in order to keep him tied down and to possibly ward off any potential interest.

Of course, that didn't happen at all. PSG and a few other European clubs are interested in him now. Instead of making him happy, it has since, possibly by coincidence, made his morale drop like a rock. He's has now been "Very Poor" in morale and has always been "Playing without confidence" in his motivations.

Is there anything I can do to change his morale/motivations? I'd love for this guy to get top form again because my dominance has slowly started to slip when his production went down.

 

[iNickStuff]

Talk to him and try to see if you can improve his salary even more. Be more gentle in team talks.

 

[spzero]

Talk to him and try to see if you can improve his salary even more. Be more gentle in team talks.

I've done nothing but. He's got the second highest salary on the team, I keep telling him that there's no pressure on him in games and almost every game I alternate whether he did good or bad and he takes it well.

He finally got a goal after 6 games without and he's still "very poor". And he's been in winning teams (we've won 6 matches in a row)

 

[Montanaro]

are you replying to transfer speculation?

I NEVER EVER reply to speculation unless I actually want to get rid of that player.

Otherwise all you can do is keep playing him. Try to give him more money later, but you need to realize that certain people get flustered more by media attention that others. He also may be keen on going to play in Europe instead of Asia.

The only hope you have is to win some big Asian tournament to show him you can bring big success on your side of the world.

 

[Chaz Sexington]

I had a similar problem - my start AM/ST Tony always had the media attention on him, even after I stopped playing him because he couldn't handle the media pressure.