THREE KINGS
In a continuation of a previous challenge, My two brothers and I have come up with a new way to settle things. We'll each take control of a players career from the age of 16 and see who can manage that players career best.
Scenario
-We've each created a player with the exact same attributes as Angel Correa, the only changes are that our players are 16yrs old and we bumped up the Potential ability by 20, so these players should be World Player of the Year quality.
-Our players will be judged on who had the better career, hopefully it will be clear but if not, I'm comfortable with the 3 of us coming to a verdict in a civilized manner.
-We can select any Nationality, this is the first big decision. Do we go for a big country that is assured to get to World Cups and win Continental competitions, or do we go with a smaller country to assure lots of caps/goals? Or maybe a middle of the pack nation that we will lift to the World Cup?
After we choose our nationality, we will all be transferred to the same club, 3rd tier Portuguese side Juventude Evora. This was selected pretty randomly, we all attended a game at their stadium a few years back so it was a logical choice to start our careers there.
From there, the challenge begins...
Rules
- We each are allowed to force three transfers for our career, all other transfers must be made by the AI managers. Once we've used our three transfers, its out of our hands. Do you use one early to get your player to a team with better coaches, do you save them for when your player is stuck on the bench? These decisions will decide how our player develops and what achievements our player attain.
- We can only transfer our players when the transfer window is open.
- We cannot transfer our players to teams that are in the Champions League or in the Champions League places of the table (example: top 4 team in England). The only way into these clubs is to wait until they come in for you.
- We cannot force a transfer our players to a team that somebody else's player is already at, but if we transferred there organically then tha's fine
- All players will start with a reputation of 1342 at home and 100 World Reputation so it will take some time before the big clubs are aware of us.
Our Players
Lou went French. "If I'm gonna be World Player of the Year, I don't have to worry about competition for caps, I'm the best player in the World, all I need is a good supporting cast" (paraphrased and slightly censored).
Mike went the other way and chose Danish. He'll get lots of caps, play on the NT as long as he likes, and he'll play with great players like Christian Eriksen. He originally chose Swedish for the same reason, but changed his mind once he realized that Ibrahimovic would be retired by the time he got his callup.
I went with my heart, Portuguese. They are always in need of a striker, they're always in World Cups and Euros, they just need that special talent to get them over the hump.