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22".True team"...maybe you are the reason of my defeat !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
well, i got 2 things to say.
1) you'll be able to train belgians ( draftees?). Should help out your economy quite alot
2) Ballaert hasn't been trained for 8 weeks... For a player, who is considered a monster that you only see once every 3 to 5 seasons, comming out of the U21, he has dropped to being a good player (but not anymore the monster that he was in comparison with the players of his age). True team has done alot of damage with his cheating.
True Teams cheating has had a rather large impact on alot of teams... the whole II.3 has felt the influences of his banning. Even the results have been influenced ( popo plays T3's ( aka The True Team) full squad, wins 55+. I am T3's next opponent. I get an empty shell infront of me, and win with 129+ ... that impacts the point difference pretty badly, especially for 2 teams who are fighting for HCA, when you know that it will all come down to point difference...)
the only thing that i regret with T3, is not having reported him earlier. he transferred 3x a sum of 1.5M from one account to another, for players who were probably worth something like 200 to 300k on the TL... but then again, you don't immediately check his transferlist records of each team... you only check em when you find it strange that he can afford to expend such a large ammount of cash...
Season 16 has been a sad season for Belgium, and i've seen (as a non GM!) alot of teams got banned ( i've noticed it, because of the large ammount of Belgian prospects that have been lost because of it, not to mention NT players such as Ballaet and Dorchain, who both had to be taken into the NT in order to be sure that they'd be released to the TL asap).
anyhow, i wish you alot of luck in the PD games, and if you would end up in II, use the time to rebuild ;)
@ LoD:
Merchandise revenue depends on a few things
1) NT/U21 player or not
2) if that players play's or not.
3) how well that NT is doing
that is the international lvl.
'local lvl'
1) if the player is a starter on your team
2) his nationality
3) was he drafted by your team.
4) how well your team is doing (winning streak, TV games, Rival games...)
if you have a bench full of belgian reserves, but no belgian in your starting line up, then you could very well end up having less Merchandise than someone who has 2 belgian starters and 1 belgian reserve.
However, you have to ask yourself the question. Is paying that extra 500k to 1M for a belgian worth it's price, for a foreigner with simular skillset?