When your well trained star player has reached his peak of his career, usually age around 26-27yo, with his primary skills almost or has reached divine, we will always wonder should we keep him or sell him.
As we all know, if a player age more than 27yo, there will be skill drop and the market price of the transfer fee will go down.
So probably this will become a dilemma as if we keep, we will surely getting less profit or potentially losing money on the player, as not only on transfer fee but also their high wages.
If we sell, do we able to find the same replacement to maintain our squad strength?
Some will feel that the star player represent the current club status, after all the hard work of training throughout many seasons,
the player had gone through all the difficulties, happiness, frustration, enjoyment with the club just like we did as the manager or maybe this is the only way the club to maintain healthy financial status where the club must sell their star players in order to continue growth and perform at the highest level.
The club fans will always question the ambition of the selling club, do we want to win the title or just to train and sell only
So the choice is up to the manager of the club in charge, either to keep or sell their star player, is always for the good sake of the club in the long run

When the new season starts to kick off, every manager of their team will have their own target to achieve beside from their own club fans expectation.
Every manager will hope they can do well in the league as well as in the cup.
Whether is gunning for the league title/promotion, top 4 finish, avoid relegation, winning the cup/progress as far as possible in the cup run, the most important is the whole process that makes its exciting throughout the season that bringing joy and excitement.
If last season is a disappointing 1, then this season will be another challenge to do better.
If last season is a great achievement, then this season will hope to exceed the expectation once again.
So what will be your goals this season?
Good luck and all the best in the upcoming new season

I would like to say farewell to a legend, Richard Yap aka -Strong- formerly GM-Strong formerly Mod-Strong and formerly Strong, the owner of RY FC [teamid=73078].

A dedicated playmaker trainer, National course champion, Cup champion, at least 3 times Liga champion, at least once with all local players, former U20 Coach, also former Taiwan NT coach IIRC.

Hope you have a great real life. I always hope for your re-incarnation in HT.

http://strongleaf.tripod.com/

I think I should’ve wrote this article much earlier.

Nevertheless, better start now than never!

First thing all new manager should know when it comes to match tactics, is to understand that each match in game relies on 3 key areas of statistic - MIDFIELD, ATTACK and DEFENCE.

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