Up the Us
Up the Us Promoted to the football league in 1950, Colchester United have spent all but two seasons in the bottom two divisions, bouncing between the third and fourth tiers on a regular basis. Howe...
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@CO88LER5 wrote:Ruiz is expected to slot immediately into the first team starting lineup.
Well, why shouldn't he? 75 OVR, I think, compared to the 61-62 average in the rest of the squad.
Him and Labrovic are both far too good for League Two football, so you're building a squad for a rapid rise.
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That's going to be it for such transfers, and I expect them to move on at the end of the season, after which the squad will have the appropriate OVRs.
The money I get for them will help develop the side in due course, but even then it will mainly be in terms of improving the scouting network, not making outgrageous transfer purchases, which would simply not be something that a club like Colchester United could do.
All my scouting otherwise is aimed at the 'right' levels in terms of OVR, etc.
The history of Leagues 1 and 2 in the UK is that the predominant transfer activity is free players; usually signed for 1 or two seasons, because the clubs cannot make the financial commitment for long-term contracts, in case the signing doesn't work out. So in that respect, these two fit that mould. Obviously, they are higher OVR than you would expect at this level, but these two (and some others I didn't take from the freebies list) always seem to be left "on the shelf" after the windows have closed in all the careers I have done so far in EAFC24 and I therefore thought the story of 'desperate to find any club' story would fit.
These were just opportunist at this point, bearing in mind the state of the club and the objectives I was set, and definitely done only because of the potential to get a decent fee next summer.
That's part of the problem with this game; sometimes the objectives simply don't match the club we are managing; I wish they did.
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