Know every player. Pick the right ones.
Your squad screen is where the season is won or lost. Every senior player is there with his rating, his four skills, age, value, wage and fitness. Sort it, filter it, train the ones worth keeping and move on the ones who are not.
Squad
- Four skills per player: stopping, tackling, passing, shooting
- Cards or list view, sort by anything
- Training with cones, player by player
- Sell, loan out or release from one sheet
- Fitness and stamina you have to manage
- Injuries, bans and appeals
The whole squad on one screen
Squad size, average rating, average age, total value and the weekly wage bill sit at the top. Below, every player as a card or as a list, grouped by position. Search by name, filter by GK, DEF, MID or FWD, and sort by rating, age, value, fitness or stamina.
- Injured and suspended players are flagged before you pick them
- Each card shows the four skills with a bar for the points banked towards the next level
- Players out on loan sit in their own list with a Recall button
Every player in full
Open any player for his rating, skills, value, wage, fitness and this season's numbers, plus tabs for his matches, career stats, development and history. His rating comes from his skills, weighted by the position he plays, so a striker is judged on his shooting and a keeper on his stopping.
- Development shows how each skill moved, match by match
- Players gain and lose with age: kids improve, over 31s start to fade
- Give him an AI portrait if you want a face to the name
Training that you control
Training is done player by player. Pick a player, pick the skill to work on and how many cones to spend, and the points go straight onto that skill. You get free cones every day, and a better training ground gives you more.
- Each player trains once a day
- Up to 10 cones a session
- Coaches you hire make training count for more
Sell, loan or let him go
Every player has an actions sheet. List him for sale at your own asking price, loan him out free or on a 50/50 wage split with an optional fee, or release him from his contract. Players aged 18 or under can be sent down to the youth squad.
- AI clubs bid on your listed players, you accept or reject
- Ask a borrower to promise a number of starts
- Releasing a player costs nothing and his wage stops
Questions and answers
- What skills do players have?
- Four: shot stopping for keepers, tackling, passing and shooting. A player's rating is worked out from those skills and his position.
- Is there a squad size limit?
- There is no hard cap on the senior squad. Wages are the real limit, because they come out of your balance every gameday.
- Do players get better?
- Yes. They bank ability points from matches and training, and young players improve every season. From 31 their skills start to drop.
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