Matthew Le God

Same as Spurs, the original intention was to grant naming rights but they failed. Regardless of that, only 2 clubs in British pro football does not make it the common naming convention for clubs. Significantly more new stadiums are not named after the club than those that are. So my thread topic was not an unreasonable request.

Wow, what a pile of nonsense that is! 1) The 'strong youth academy' was based on the ratings in the database for it. The academy still held a good reputation at the time of FM09, although the player quality had dropped off for a few seasons. The academy rating means the club still would produce good players as newgend in thr future, hence why I used that line in the preview. It was not a comment on the current crop. Plus some of the academy products who were still young, but now in the 1st team like Dyer and Lallana were good talents. 2) The players you say I'm 'dismissing as shit' were poor relative to our youth products before and after that period when the club was a mess and heading to administration. 3) The thread followed a template other people were using in that forum and given to us by SI. Which included a youngsters to watch section. None of the ones I listed were given high ratings in the database. The database is my view of the players. They were ones to watch relative to the other players, none were destined for greatness and my dadabase ratings of them reflect that. You continue to not grasp this and recycle the same flawed nonsense! 4) My point on the job was I'm 20+ years into my career in education. An entry level video scout role isn't going to pay my mortgage. The person who got the role is in his early 20s. 5) My responses are 'defensive' as you call it because you continue to take things out of context, twist things plus avoid rebuttals and questions. Plus... 6) Let's say for sake of argument I was wrong in all this. The thread that has been dredged up is 17 years ago! I had only been a researcher for 1 year at that point. I now have significantly more experience judging ability and potential of players since then including in paid freelance roles for professional British clubs. So critiquing me now based on a 17 year old post is not the gotcha moment you think it is!

🙄 You make this too easy! Yet again, you are taking things out of context. At the time of my post that view was not out of place. The intention was for that name to be a placeholder. Spurs wanted a sponsor name but priced themselves out of that happening. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2018/08/30/tottenham-hotspurstruggle-200m-naming-deal-new-stadium/ Try answering this... how many other English professional stadiums follow that naming convention of using the team name?

Ones to watch... relative to the rest of the academy players at the time! None of them had high CAs or PAs, which is the scouting judgement. I note you still haven't acknowledged Oxlade-Chamberlain not being old enough to be on FM09.

You need to try harder! I have no interest in such a role. I work in a completely different industry a long way above entry level. Plus in any case, my volunteer work over the last 18 years for Sports Interactive has seen me get freelance scouting work for professional football clubs and sports data companies in the betting industry.

Yet another @Turkish fail. I've lost count of how many times this has been explained to you but I'll give it another go... at no point have I claimed Jesus doesn't exist. I do not think those that think him existing has met the burden of proof. You don't seem to grasp the difference and keep regurgitating the same nonsense.

Another @Holmes_and_Watson fail 1) I've never claimed to be infallible. Of course I've misjudged platers over the years but I've got significantly more players predicted correctly than not in terms of CA and PA. 2) These threads are 17 years old and those players are not rated highly in the database. I was drumming up interest in people managing Saints on the game and listing academy players rhey had at the time. So @Turkish mentioning Oxlade-Chamberlain is wrong, as he was too young for FM09 to be included. 3) I have no need for an entry level job as a video scout. It wouldn't pay my mortgage.

Another @Paul Chuckle fail. None of those players have high CAs or PAs on FM10.

Another @Turkish fail! Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain was not old enough to be on FM09.

None of those players are rated highly in the FM09 database. Because I did not rate them highly. A fundamental hole in your thinking here!

@Paul Chuckle This 17 year old post is not the win you think it is. I was trying to drum up interest in managing the team on the game! These youngsters, all mentioned in the summary for each position were the youngsters I was talking about when talking ablut great youngsters relative for the league and I mentioned them by name in that preview. Lallana Schneiderlin Dyer McGoldrick Wright Phillips The ones younger than that in the youngstersto watch section, were just picking the best of a bad bunch. Other people starting threads in that forum were also listing academy players. Who else should I have mentioned in the academy section? Our academy players were shit at the time and were not highly rated within the database. Interesting you choose to ignore this key point!

You avoided the question. Try again.

Trying answering a question for once @Paul Chuckle Who else in our academy that season(not the first team) should I have picked in each position?

We've already been through this, and pointed out why you are wrong. Our academy and club was an absolute mess in 2008. I did not rate those players highly. The were the best of a bad bunch. Bizarre you are carrying this on. It is a post from 17 years ago, and if you actually read it in the context I just outlined you'd realise you have no point.

When our academy was an absolute mess and I was picking the best of a bad bunch of academy players in a preview... 17 years ago! Plus in any case, he was not rated highly on the game.

Martin doesn't use anything close to Red Bull tactics. Red Bull teams are not possession focused. They are about what we were under Hasenhüttl.

Yoann Folly signed for £250k in 2003. At the time our record signing was £4m. The fee for Joachim Kayi Sanda is a similar(ish) ratio to our current record signing. The fee for Joachim Kayi Sanda is not out of place for a French youth international captain with a decent amount of first team experience (including 20 games in the French 2nd tier).

Transfer window opens on 1st June 2025

No evidence of them taking any money out of any of the three clubs.

Utter nonsense 1) They have not said anything remotely close to that. 2) Of course they care. They have put large amounts of money into the club. Why would they not care about what happens to that money?

Depends on the terms of how we got him back from Chelsea!

They are in discussions with the council about expanding the stadium.

1) Which players have been 'confirmed' as leaving? 2) Which players are not Championship level?