After reading an excellent article on HattrickNews.org about the inflated prices of 17 year olds I decided I just had to reply!
One reason that Spinis highlighted in particular was this:
In the past managers that bought these super-youths often argued their case with comments such as “I’ll get the money back when he’s multi-skilled and still young” or “I’ll get the money back with interest when he’s high in one skill and still trainable in another!”For sure some managers do genuinely believe this, but as Spinsis says these players can be trained for several seasons and end up worth less than the initial cost as a 17yo youth pull! Maybe not the best situation when you have the intention of training for profit!
Other than those (unwise?) managers who are trying to train for profit I would guess that most 'super youths' are bought to either (a) train for their U20/NT or (b) train in multiple skills for one club for many seasons.
We are now firmly in the Multi Skills era of Hattrick so both are viable and realistic options and in both cases when bidding for the player the manager will be more willing to bid that little bit higher than if he were planning training for profit.
So there you have it: I blame the multi skill revolution!
(Well, at least partly!)
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