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I think prices are just high across the board, but they do not necessarily increase with age (and better skillsets).

In the end it is really simple. If you can sell your trainees for $1.5 million today you'll have to think if it's worth paying the trainer pro rata (so if you pay 20k a week and have 2 trainees, it'll be like $314k/2=$157k each per season) for more seasons and if you could invest the money from the sale in a more profitable way.

My personal belief is that players under $30k-$40k salary, young and with great skillset/potential are more likely to go for crazy amounts: the buyer gets more benefit from the overextension tax and here is a larger market (which includes lower division teams).

Unfortunately more skills come with extra salary and that prevents the price to go up linearly as the training progresses, so you don't always end up being able to charge more for the extra training. My suggestion is that you check prices for similar players to where he is now and where he would be in a couple of seasons (I'd go by similar TSP and potential since there will probably be no transactions of similar players since your guys are U21 caliber players with high potential).

Ultimately it probably makes more sense to go with your long term plan rather than gambling on charging more on the market. If you plan on training for your U21 again, then I'd say sell them and buy new trainees. If you want them to be the cornerstones of your team then keep training them and sell them if they become too expensive (bear in mind that, as I said, you may lose money on the price tag in this case, but it's the price you pay to compete)

Last edited by Lemonshine at 7/14/2015 11:42:17 AM

I think that the peak is between ages 24 and 25.

Those players are still somewhat trainable, so you can fix smaller flaws, they will stay on top of their game for years and can be sold again when they become older.

well, 26-27yo are 'worth' more but do not necessarily 'cost' more. The problem is: a capped player has a much higher salary, which reduces his appeal and his market. That's the way the game is designed. For example, my main trainee's salary will go up about 50k at the end of the season, which is almost double compared to this season...

The problem is: a capped player has a much higher salary, which reduces his appeal and his market. ...

Just curious, how many managers do you think even know when a player is capped or not? Or can even tell what kind of training he has received?

The only real way to find if a player if capped is if they are in a highest level of 9 GS possible and does not increase in DMI after a week of training.