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HullYoung talents and wonderkids in Football Manager 2008: Left Defenders (DL)
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Having reviewed potential stars for positions of Goalkeeper (GK), Central Defender (DC) and Central Attacking Midfielder (AMC) I decided to investigate situation about young left backs. As a result I found out that there are not so many young player who can become future stars:
Wonderkid defenders
Marcelo
Certain wonderkid who can play for any club in the world and be very successful. Has brilliant fitness and technical attributes. He is able to beat any opponent on a flank by means of his fast and agile technics. Possesses vey high values of Flair, Anticipation, Off The Ball and First Touch for player of left back role.
The only disadvantage is that Marcelo belongs to Real Madrid and costs $9.75M. So buying him is really hard!
Gareth Bale
Well-known wonderkid from Wales playing for Tottenham (sorry for wrong photo in the profile - this is made by some of numerous FM facepacks installed at my laptop).
He is more balanced than Marcelo, better performs as team worker, better plays at set pieces. High values of Determination, Composure, Concentration tell us that Bale is very determined guy at his seriously young age of 17 years. 17 years and all his current attribute values, surely, allow to train him in a world superstar and legend player in future!!! Moreover, he doesn't have real weaknesses and can be bought easier than Marcelo! Must buy!
Armand Traore
Another 17 years old youngster from Barclay's Premier League - this time from Arsenal. He has also much time to develop in a world star player as Gareth Bale. And I had already possibility to check his abilities to be trained. Here in the training report you can see progress of Armand Traore for the first half of the season. This guy is really cool due to his great pace and ability to shoot from distance with power. He was the main left back in my Arsenal and pushed back Gael Clichy to substitution bench.
Young talents
Other left backs who are potential stars are reviewed using somewhat shorter approach. Just don't want to make this post very long :)
| Name | Club | Age | Price | Strengths | Weaknesses |
| Emiliano Insua | Liverpool | 18 | $4.1M | - Very determined - High speed - High work rate | - Average positioning |
| Fabio | Man United | 16 | $4.9M | - Good pace - Has a lot of time for training | - A lot of low-valued attributes - Weak marking |
| Guilherme | Almeria (SPA) | 19 | $2.6M | - Easy to bought - High pace - Tricky technics - High Work Rate | - Average marking |
| Omar Esparza | Chivas (MEX) | 19 | $2.3M | - Can play as DMC/MC - Strong physics - Fairly determined - Great long shots | - Average positioning |
| Andrew Taylor | Middlesbrough | 20 | $7.25M | - Very determined - Good team worker - Good passing and tackling | |
| Urby Emmanuelson | Ajax (HOL) | 21 | $6M | - Fabulous technics - Good speed - Fairly loyal - Good team worker | - Average tackling |
| Filipe | Deportivo (SPA) | 21 | $6.25M | - Determined - Good pace - All attribute values are rather good | - Average tackling and marking |
| Joe Mattock | Leicester | 17 | $1.3M | - Cheap and prospective - Young, has time to develop - Determined - Athletic | - Poor mental abilities |
Wrong photo gareth bale? lol:p
Yep :) This mistake happened due to many facepacks installed for my FM 2008. And I do not have desire for fixing it because it's not so easy :)
Gonzalo Pineda from Chivas (MEX) is a wonderful left back. I bought him for around £3.2m and he is a consistent performer.
if you bid for marcelo at the start of your game you will get him on 5.5 min release clause, he said he had no interest in joinin so i offered a 2 year contract of 17,500 a week 2500 apperance bonus 1500 goal bonus and a 25% yearly wage increase, he jumped at it, sorted
Thanks, Mark! Very interesting and useful comment!
Inglese from Palermo? sick stats... but havent tried him.
ps, nice site!
For a good right back try Hosain Kaebi from Leicester, quite cheap and a consistent performer
i love gareth bale performance, he gives a wonderful contribution for Tottenham Hotspurs.
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Andres Guardado (Deportivo)
Criscito (Juve)
I Mange Leicester (im in 2014/15)
joe mattock for me has 15caps for england =] he's great!
emiliano insua becomes the best DL in fm2008, bar none :)
hi, im managing walsall atm, any new players i could sign, class players.?
Hi,
maybe some of these players will help you
il tell you what go to real socideads under 18s squad and there is a 14 year old player called kenan kodro
i recommend that you buy him straight away as he gets really expensive
he becomes da best player on the game by far. when he is 19 his finishing is 19/20 and composure18/20
best buy iv ever done!!!
bale is the best and he is better than marcelo and traore.
insua isn't a quality player
real madrid bough sissoko from me for 7 mil and gave me marcelo included in the offer...sorted
You have to look on Eduardo from Bahia. Price only 900.000£
Got him for 1.300.000£
Now he is whort 5.000.000£,and he is one of the best DL and DM in the game for my Barca sqaurd.
i bid 5 million for marcelo and still got him
Try the link http://ekstrabladet.dk/sport/fodbold/udenlandsk_fodbold/international_fodbold/article446679.ece Here you will find top 50 best football players under 19 years. :)
have any of you guys seen the dl eduardo at botafogo. he is young and quality. I needed to replace my aging left back and my scout found him. he was brilliant and after a couple of seasons big clubs wanted him such as barcelona and chelsea.
You missed out Antunes
everyone look at him,he is good young player and smashes freekicks in
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Actually, Bale has become shit nowadays, and there are some I can't buy, because I manage Man Utd!
lorenzo de silvestri from lazio is one of the best....
I know most people think bertrand is shit, but in my chelsea game he is a great backup, and, believe it or not, he's described as wonderkid. I'm not really advising you to buy him if you're a high profile team, but if you play as chelsea, don't sell him!
usually marcelo-r.madrid doesn't want to go to EPL that he said,"he doesn't think a move to england would be a good choice for him" when i try to bid him while playing liverpool..
if yur looking for a amazing defencesive midfield miguel veloso amazing at defending and shooting plus torje is amazing right wing 2
Kyriakos Papadopoulos from Olympiakos is very good and cheap center back