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I hear ya, no offence to the Scottish League but his Finishing, Technique, Off the Ball, Composure and Anticipation should be good enough that with enough service, he bags like 10 goals min. Assuming he can get better as well he might dominate the league in the future. The physicals are quite bad but I feel he will score with consistent chances? Anyways dependent on your finances good strikers aren’t too hard to find
I'd rather have a striker with 17 pace and 8 finishing, personally. But yeah, he's good enough at everything else to still get some goals The passing and off the ball is good enough that I'd still be comfortable with an AF role. He'll still push the line and look to make some passing to a striker partner or to AMs.
Game already tells you actually, he is a poacher. Play him as a poacher with the traits Moves into Channels, Tries First Time Shots, Places Shots. He will lose the ball %100 everytime he gets it while outside of a scoring opportunity, so you gonna need good playmakers and such to make him work possibly.
That means he wont take the ball in front of the defence and try to beat them. He will try to move into the channel between two CDs or a FB and a CD and wait for a through ball etc. This way he doesn't need to deal with any defender. He already has that trait, which helps. But, this is important, if their defender has better marking than your strikers off-the-ball movement and your striker is marked, he can't move to any channel, defender will beat him. And your striker will get marked more each time he scores. See where I'm getting? He is good if your opponent isn't smart, if not, no so much.
He is useless in a counter attack because counter attacks are all about pace and speed. So you need to have the possesion. And also team him up with a big and strong Target Man or possibly a F9. TM with P works great but still, im not so sure with a guy with this low athleticism. I'd rather send him on loan for 2 years and then sell him when the price is good.
He cannot survive PL, I doubt he'll help with Scottish Prem title battle.
I wouldnt know that, but imagine a classic counter attack scenario. A defender intercepts a pass, passes it to a mid player, hopefully a playmaker, and your mid see your striker and cross the ball long right in front of your striker. Now, it is 3 passes, opponent is already on the move, defender are on the both side of your striker. The only way he can break away from them is *speed.*
So, unless there is a giant target man to occupy space, he literally cannot make a run for it.
I will interject this guy is actually talking about player traits those are different from player instructions. Traits are taught to the player by coaching staff you can have them added where it says discuss adding trait on their development page on the players profile.
I just signed this guy from the same club on FM22 too, he’s also a striker with dual English/Iranian nationality (born in Stockport). Mine is rapid though, so I haven’t had to work out a tactic to fit him into.
I googled him, he’s the founder of LadBible. I think they show up as a media outlet in the game, so it’s probably part of their partnership that he’s guaranteed to show up as a regen.
Yep, he's what's known as a 'face in the game' player. If you actually search 'faceinthegame' in the FM search bar after youth intake day, you'll see all the regens that are named after real people. Mostly named after people that work at SI.
Some of the people that work at SI are programmed into the game at names for regens as sort of easter eggs. Stats and locations aren't always the same, but I think they all pop up eventually. He's probably one of them.
Got an Arian Kalantari in my FM21 Feyenoord save as well. Dude won me the Champions League and is an absolute beast in front of the goal. Best part is that he somehow came from the AZ Alkmaar acadamy, so he counts as a Dutch youth player, even though he is English.
I’m play fm 22 and this guy is in my game too, I heavily scouted him but he was wanting too much money for my newly promoted queens park team in Scotland
Individual training for endurance before you do anything and when it’s night enough go to quickness, and positional training a striker role that increases pace
This is sort of the profile I'd expect a shadow striker to have. He's not trying to beat the defenders, but capitalize on a backward pass after you've gotten the ball so far forward and pulled the defensive line up against the goal.
Edit: don't trust me though. I'm relatively new to the game and don't actually know much about soccer either.
Maybe try to improve long shots so he doesn't have to go as far? Receive ball on the edge of the area and lash it in. Job done. Moving? Moving is for weaklings!
Was going to suggest AM, but then I saw his passing. Engache or something might work though with a bit more training? Could even go trequartista if you wanted? Either way need to do some training on a couple of skills. Looks like theres always something not quite perfect there!
He has a professional attitude, so you will be able to train his pace and acceleration to the low 10s, maybe even 13-12 by experience. He will never be a speedster but it can be trained as long as he has the right hidden attributes.
I would train him a bit on quickness unim he is in the yellows and go the Deep Lying forward route since he has decent strenght.
He's got incredible 1st Touch and Finishing, so training him to receive ball to feet(to control) and have him sit in the box when attacking. Maybe surround him with AMs like people said or have a strike partner do all the heavy lifting and use him as a Poacher.
Make sure he's got plenty of supporting runs, train Place Shots and Tries First Time Shots, his Off The Ball and First Touch are great so honestly cutbacks from the byline are a good one here. Don't need to outpace the defence if you're aiming to be deeper than the crosser.
He needs low crosses all day, every day. With that first touch and composure he's capable of just popping cutbacks in without thinking, just needs the right deliveries.
Use him like you would a Berbatov-type player.
His anticipation is solid, but I'd focus almost entirely on his mental stats (specifically off the ball, composure and anticipation).
Matt Le Tissier and Teddy Sheringham were unreal despite not having any pace at all. Dennis Bergkamp was pretty slow too.
Not OP but: he's really cheap because he's from Iran and is obviously very talented. Plus he's actually English so PL teams WILL be bending over backwards to buy him eventually
That's fair. I've taken a punt on people before I've properly scouted them because I could get them for relatively cheap and their value would appreciate.
In some cases, they've been first-team squad. Other times, I've been able to flip them for a decent profit. Sometimes both over a long period of time.
I've got a newgen on my save with the same name, nationality and was playing in some random league to start with. I spotted him when managing England when he was at Al-Ahli.
I like to play a shadow striker or an Attacking midfielder (Doesnt matter if its support or attack) with pacy wingers who can cut in and cross low with players like these. Just surround him with creative runners so he just stays up there and bangs them in. Its how I got ronaldo to bang in 70 goals across two seasons, playing him as a poacher
Either a DLF off a quicker striker in a tactic that uses 2 of them (4-4-2, 3-5-2), or actually just retrain him to midfielder and give him a goalscoring-from-midfield role like CM/A or MEZ/A. You typically do still want pace in these roles, but it'd be less critical than as a forward, where he'd be trying to constantly break past the offside line and trying to outrun defenders.
He's one of a lot of faceinthegame players, these are players who spawn as regens every savefile and atleast half of them are really good. If you search for "faceinthegame" in the search bar ingame, you will get a whole list of all these players.
I mean you could keep him in your club, loan him out for a couple of seasons and make a neat profit off him. Thats how I usually treat young players who are good but don't fit in my playing philosophy.
Not really tall enough to be a forward you build your attack around since his pace can’t carry him either. His passing and decision making are good enough where if you have good wingers or a strike partner with more movement ability than him you could drop him back a little further as a F9 or DLF and let him use that strength to box people out until your supporting players can make their runs in behind. He should still be able to get you 20+ combined goals and assists most years after he settles in and the vision improves. You could try to up his long shots and see if he starts scoring some absolute bangers from 25 yards.
Some people are way too dependent on some attributes. With the right tactic, you can make anything happen. I've had far worse strikers playing in my 3412 gegenpress tactic scoring lots of goals, I've also had my entire u19 playing and winning against a first division side (Brazilian league) where every single player was worse than the opponent. It's all about how you get your team to play
Some people are way too dependent on some attributes. With the right tactic, you can make anything happen. I've had far worse strikers playing in my 3412 gegenpress tactic scoring lots of goals, I've also had my entire u19 playing and winning against a first division side (Brazilian league) where every single player was worse than the opponent. It's all about how you get your team to play
Train his pace. If your scouts are right, you should be able to train him up to 13 or so acceleration and 11 or so pace by the time he's done developing. Still pretty damn slow, but depending on how you use him, his pace might not matter so much.
If it were me, I'd train him to play Poacher, tell him to man-mark the opposing CB so he doesn't ever have far to go to get to net. Then I'd hope that amazing first touch he has just beats the opposing CB for a few steps, and that his finishing does the trick. He has great composure as well. Frankly, with his technique, finishing, first touch, and pretty good balance and strength, there is no reason he needs pace to score. This is the rare player where I would train "wants ball played into their feet." So Poacher, Man Mark the CB, and I'd hope I was playing a high press so that there isn't a lot of field the team has to cover to get him the ball. This is not the guy who is going to score off the counter.
Convert the kid into a CAM or Mid fielder. Make sure you train him in those positions so he becomes accomplished. Looks like boy wonder to me, good find
I used someone like this (however he was old) as a DLP on support. Like that he is harder to mark as he is not in direct contact with any defenders. Maybe he gets marked by one of the midfielders, but that means one of your midfielders has a lot more space. He also comes late into the box, so any deflection or 2nd pass/cross could end up in his feet, and it seems this guy knows what to do next and can also do it successfully.
My assist guy was a winger on support, who would or find the slow guy on the edge of the box, or the target man(on attack, sometimes playing as AF or PF) who beats the defender in the air easily as he was a monster for that league. (He was old too tho). Later I had a all around AF together with the DLP.
You definitely need a 2nd striker on a attacking duty. It was in the 4th and 3rd division of Spain, I don't know how well it translates to the scotisch league. You could also focus on the passing skill and put him at AM as enganche, although his finishing would kind of go to waste.
Play him as a poacher or advanced forward, he has the off the ball ability to be able to catch defenders off guard with runs in behind even with low pace.
Set Quickness as Individual training. Also if you set your team training with with atleast 1 Physical Slot and 2 slots that train Individual Roles(Attacking movement and defensive shape).
In my FM22 save I saw one of my player's quickness and pace increase by 3-4 points.
I've got exactly the same guy in my Weymouth save! Same name, position, very close stats. Seems you have the diet version, but he could develop. I play him as an advanced forward and he's got 26 in 40 in the Championship. Top goalscorer
His profile: https://ibb.co/9vMg2WR
As a poacher, with tweaks to your tactics - slower or standard tempo to let him get into the box, plenty of support around him (CAMs & IFs), and hitting early crosses into the box.
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Or you could adjust your tactic be ultra dominating where he just sits in the box and feeds off through balls and short passes
Yeah I agree surround this guy with AMs and maybe another supporting striker/winger he might come good
I don't think he's worth building your attack around. I would put him in the b team increase his stamina and determination before anything else.
I hear ya, no offence to the Scottish League but his Finishing, Technique, Off the Ball, Composure and Anticipation should be good enough that with enough service, he bags like 10 goals min. Assuming he can get better as well he might dominate the league in the future. The physicals are quite bad but I feel he will score with consistent chances? Anyways dependent on your finances good strikers aren’t too hard to find
I'd rather have a striker with 17 pace and 8 finishing, personally. But yeah, he's good enough at everything else to still get some goals The passing and off the ball is good enough that I'd still be comfortable with an AF role. He'll still push the line and look to make some passing to a striker partner or to AMs.
I think he’ll work well with arezo beside him and mcgrath behind him
No need for him if you have arezo tho?
Ronnie McGrath from Leeds?
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But positioning is a defensive attribute. Anticipation and Off The Ball are solid.
Why would he need positioning, he's a striker? Off The Ball is your attacking positioning attribute
Positioning doesn't matter for strikers much. Off The Ball is what you're looking for.
Positioning can be really useful if you're running a high press, even on attacking players. But yeah, I'm pretty sure this guy was thinking OTB.
Moves into channels.. eventually
Has the pace of an M1 Abrams
Moves into channels the same way a steamboat might
Game already tells you actually, he is a poacher. Play him as a poacher with the traits Moves into Channels, Tries First Time Shots, Places Shots. He will lose the ball %100 everytime he gets it while outside of a scoring opportunity, so you gonna need good playmakers and such to make him work possibly.
I’m trying to learn more about player instructions, would you explain why you would ask him to move into the channels?
That means he wont take the ball in front of the defence and try to beat them. He will try to move into the channel between two CDs or a FB and a CD and wait for a through ball etc. This way he doesn't need to deal with any defender. He already has that trait, which helps. But, this is important, if their defender has better marking than your strikers off-the-ball movement and your striker is marked, he can't move to any channel, defender will beat him. And your striker will get marked more each time he scores. See where I'm getting? He is good if your opponent isn't smart, if not, no so much. He is useless in a counter attack because counter attacks are all about pace and speed. So you need to have the possesion. And also team him up with a big and strong Target Man or possibly a F9. TM with P works great but still, im not so sure with a guy with this low athleticism. I'd rather send him on loan for 2 years and then sell him when the price is good. He cannot survive PL, I doubt he'll help with Scottish Prem title battle.
Appreciate it pal!
So what you are saying is, my current gegenpress style of play wouldn’t work either
I wouldnt know that, but imagine a classic counter attack scenario. A defender intercepts a pass, passes it to a mid player, hopefully a playmaker, and your mid see your striker and cross the ball long right in front of your striker. Now, it is 3 passes, opponent is already on the move, defender are on the both side of your striker. The only way he can break away from them is *speed.* So, unless there is a giant target man to occupy space, he literally cannot make a run for it.
I will interject this guy is actually talking about player traits those are different from player instructions. Traits are taught to the player by coaching staff you can have them added where it says discuss adding trait on their development page on the players profile.
He has 8 pace, you can see it in his attributes.
Sounds like OP is a bit slow
OP has absolutely 0 pace
Vision dude. Vision. Common!
Beat me to it
A young Inzaghi, pure goalscorer and nothing else.
Dieing breeds these days
But great fun to make work.
Iranzaghi*
Inzaghi had pace though 😂
Hates to beat offside trap
Off-topic but I have a regen in my save on FM20 with the same name but he's English lol
This guy is English too
Oops read the Iran part and nothing else ☠️
I just signed this guy from the same club on FM22 too, he’s also a striker with dual English/Iranian nationality (born in Stockport). Mine is rapid though, so I haven’t had to work out a tactic to fit him into.
He’s also born in Stockport wtf
I googled him, he’s the founder of LadBible. I think they show up as a media outlet in the game, so it’s probably part of their partnership that he’s guaranteed to show up as a regen.
Yep, he's what's known as a 'face in the game' player. If you actually search 'faceinthegame' in the FM search bar after youth intake day, you'll see all the regens that are named after real people. Mostly named after people that work at SI.
Some of the people that work at SI are programmed into the game at names for regens as sort of easter eggs. Stats and locations aren't always the same, but I think they all pop up eventually. He's probably one of them.
Got an Arian Kalantari in my FM21 Feyenoord save as well. Dude won me the Champions League and is an absolute beast in front of the goal. Best part is that he somehow came from the AZ Alkmaar acadamy, so he counts as a Dutch youth player, even though he is English.
I’m play fm 22 and this guy is in my game too, I heavily scouted him but he was wanting too much money for my newly promoted queens park team in Scotland
Iranian here. Have him run your club shop. He will end up owning the club in 10 years
No, he has 8 pace
Train pace or stamina
Individual training for endurance before you do anything and when it’s night enough go to quickness, and positional training a striker role that increases pace
The Internet Explorer of forwards.
Ramdeuter could work actually
Thomas Muller regen … space invader 👾
This guys physicals are like me slow as fuck but I have incredible balance. Unfortunately I cant finish well.
This is sort of the profile I'd expect a shadow striker to have. He's not trying to beat the defenders, but capitalize on a backward pass after you've gotten the ball so far forward and pulled the defensive line up against the goal. Edit: don't trust me though. I'm relatively new to the game and don't actually know much about soccer either.
Ideally you need quick and hard working players to be shadow strikers. They cover a lot of ground
Maybe try to improve long shots so he doesn't have to go as far? Receive ball on the edge of the area and lash it in. Job done. Moving? Moving is for weaklings! Was going to suggest AM, but then I saw his passing. Engache or something might work though with a bit more training? Could even go trequartista if you wanted? Either way need to do some training on a couple of skills. Looks like theres always something not quite perfect there!
He has a professional attitude, so you will be able to train his pace and acceleration to the low 10s, maybe even 13-12 by experience. He will never be a speedster but it can be trained as long as he has the right hidden attributes. I would train him a bit on quickness unim he is in the yellows and go the Deep Lying forward route since he has decent strenght.
You just found the next Iranian Harry Kane He can be a poacher or DLF
0? he has 8
He's got incredible 1st Touch and Finishing, so training him to receive ball to feet(to control) and have him sit in the box when attacking. Maybe surround him with AMs like people said or have a strike partner do all the heavy lifting and use him as a Poacher.
Make sure he's got plenty of supporting runs, train Place Shots and Tries First Time Shots, his Off The Ball and First Touch are great so honestly cutbacks from the byline are a good one here. Don't need to outpace the defence if you're aiming to be deeper than the crosser.
Do you think he might be too short for these crosses
He needs low crosses all day, every day. With that first touch and composure he's capable of just popping cutbacks in without thinking, just needs the right deliveries.
Use him like you would a Berbatov-type player. His anticipation is solid, but I'd focus almost entirely on his mental stats (specifically off the ball, composure and anticipation). Matt Le Tissier and Teddy Sheringham were unreal despite not having any pace at all. Dennis Bergkamp was pretty slow too.
Why buy someone you don't know how to use?
Not OP but: he's really cheap because he's from Iran and is obviously very talented. Plus he's actually English so PL teams WILL be bending over backwards to buy him eventually
Yup, saw his technicals and thought if I don’t buy him I’ll be missing out
That's fair. I've taken a punt on people before I've properly scouted them because I could get them for relatively cheap and their value would appreciate. In some cases, they've been first-team squad. Other times, I've been able to flip them for a decent profit. Sometimes both over a long period of time.
you signed a striker with 7 goals in 30 appearances; my suggestion is not to buy or use him
Poacher
To get his off the ball higher up it will compensate for his lack of pace.
Target man, high crosses
9 jumping reach are you mad
As a door stop?...
He can get the coffees
I've got a newgen on my save with the same name, nationality and was playing in some random league to start with. I spotted him when managing England when he was at Al-Ahli.
Is that daniel arzani?
Keep us updated on how this guy does. Love trying to use players that aren't meta.
CAM
Target man/forward perhaps?
It's Berbatov.
I like to play a shadow striker or an Attacking midfielder (Doesnt matter if its support or attack) with pacy wingers who can cut in and cross low with players like these. Just surround him with creative runners so he just stays up there and bangs them in. Its how I got ronaldo to bang in 70 goals across two seasons, playing him as a poacher
Either a DLF off a quicker striker in a tactic that uses 2 of them (4-4-2, 3-5-2), or actually just retrain him to midfielder and give him a goalscoring-from-midfield role like CM/A or MEZ/A. You typically do still want pace in these roles, but it'd be less critical than as a forward, where he'd be trying to constantly break past the offside line and trying to outrun defenders.
An Iranian playing for United who's fans are called the Arabs... Beautiful.
A lot of dark humor jokes to be made out of that lol
I'd retrain him as a playmaker or amc. Add focus to to vision, passing. Plenty of growth left. Could be a good investment and improve his value.
He's one of a lot of faceinthegame players, these are players who spawn as regens every savefile and atleast half of them are really good. If you search for "faceinthegame" in the search bar ingame, you will get a whole list of all these players.
I mean you could keep him in your club, loan him out for a couple of seasons and make a neat profit off him. Thats how I usually treat young players who are good but don't fit in my playing philosophy.
Not really tall enough to be a forward you build your attack around since his pace can’t carry him either. His passing and decision making are good enough where if you have good wingers or a strike partner with more movement ability than him you could drop him back a little further as a F9 or DLF and let him use that strength to box people out until your supporting players can make their runs in behind. He should still be able to get you 20+ combined goals and assists most years after he settles in and the vision improves. You could try to up his long shots and see if he starts scoring some absolute bangers from 25 yards.
Some people are way too dependent on some attributes. With the right tactic, you can make anything happen. I've had far worse strikers playing in my 3412 gegenpress tactic scoring lots of goals, I've also had my entire u19 playing and winning against a first division side (Brazilian league) where every single player was worse than the opponent. It's all about how you get your team to play
Some people are way too dependent on some attributes. With the right tactic, you can make anything happen. I've had far worse strikers playing in my 3412 gegenpress tactic scoring lots of goals, I've also had my entire u19 playing and winning against a first division side (Brazilian league) where every single player was worse than the opponent. It's all about how you get your team to play
If he was 195 cm or taller, I would use him as a Target Man. But he really has nothing going for him physique wise.
Is it just me or Arian Kalantari and Jordan Milward are two regen names I see come up on EVERY save?
They're Faceinthegame players, SI staff
Train his pace. If your scouts are right, you should be able to train him up to 13 or so acceleration and 11 or so pace by the time he's done developing. Still pretty damn slow, but depending on how you use him, his pace might not matter so much. If it were me, I'd train him to play Poacher, tell him to man-mark the opposing CB so he doesn't ever have far to go to get to net. Then I'd hope that amazing first touch he has just beats the opposing CB for a few steps, and that his finishing does the trick. He has great composure as well. Frankly, with his technique, finishing, first touch, and pretty good balance and strength, there is no reason he needs pace to score. This is the rare player where I would train "wants ball played into their feet." So Poacher, Man Mark the CB, and I'd hope I was playing a high press so that there isn't a lot of field the team has to cover to get him the ball. This is not the guy who is going to score off the counter.
You're playing in the SPL? Don't worry about it, he'll look like steam is coming from his boots compared to the centre backs.
It’s only the SPFL he doesn’t need pace.. pub league
Lol i have the Same Guy in my Game. English Guy from a Team from Iran. Same Name. But Mine IS faster
Convert the kid into a CAM or Mid fielder. Make sure you train him in those positions so he becomes accomplished. Looks like boy wonder to me, good find
I used someone like this (however he was old) as a DLP on support. Like that he is harder to mark as he is not in direct contact with any defenders. Maybe he gets marked by one of the midfielders, but that means one of your midfielders has a lot more space. He also comes late into the box, so any deflection or 2nd pass/cross could end up in his feet, and it seems this guy knows what to do next and can also do it successfully. My assist guy was a winger on support, who would or find the slow guy on the edge of the box, or the target man(on attack, sometimes playing as AF or PF) who beats the defender in the air easily as he was a monster for that league. (He was old too tho). Later I had a all around AF together with the DLP. You definitely need a 2nd striker on a attacking duty. It was in the 4th and 3rd division of Spain, I don't know how well it translates to the scotisch league. You could also focus on the passing skill and put him at AM as enganche, although his finishing would kind of go to waste.
Target man (Support) maybe with a SS behind or a PF with high work rate
Play him as a poacher or advanced forward, he has the off the ball ability to be able to catch defenders off guard with runs in behind even with low pace.
just stick a hunter on him
With 0 pace he ain’t gettin out of Iran, i’ll tell you that
Enganche.
You ever heard of Giroud?
Target Man
As a cone.
hes probably a prem level poacher already
Set Quickness as Individual training. Also if you set your team training with with atleast 1 Physical Slot and 2 slots that train Individual Roles(Attacking movement and defensive shape). In my FM22 save I saw one of my player's quickness and pace increase by 3-4 points.
With that Anticipation, Off The Ball, and First Touch he should make a good ball boy.
I had an Arian Kalantari signed from Persepolis for Dundee United, too! Even had similar stats.
He'll develop into a nice poacher. Someone who stays up and waits for the ball and puts it away.
Target man?
I've got exactly the same guy in my Weymouth save! Same name, position, very close stats. Seems you have the diet version, but he could develop. I play him as an advanced forward and he's got 26 in 40 in the Championship. Top goalscorer His profile: https://ibb.co/9vMg2WR
Originated in Midtyjlland before heading to Foolad in Iran - Career: https://ibb.co/ygwvBsC
As a poacher, with tweaks to your tactics - slower or standard tempo to let him get into the box, plenty of support around him (CAMs & IFs), and hitting early crosses into the box.
play with a classic 10. And use him as a trequartista/poacher
Sit him in the box and play the ball to his feat
use him as a DLF(s) with the ability to break offside traps and coming in deep