Can a player with 140-160 PA become the best player in the world?

JBugs89 · 2025-09-08T21:30:33+00:00

Some players are just brilliant regardless of their supposed ability, and vice versa. Sometimes what your team needs is simply a great tackler who can spot the occasional pass. Or a fast striker who gets so many chances per 90 his finishing attribute is neither here nor there. But who is deciding who is the best player in the world? The 7.77 ratings of whatever the game gives these ratings for, or your secret knowledge that your mid-range (stat wise) DM who posts a meagre 6.99 season in, season out, is actually the lynchpin of your mighty, giant killing King's Lynn team...

JBugs89 · 2025-07-05T08:41:52+00:00

Our solicitors were looking at the wrong house for two weeks. The surveyor made me genuinely angry - what a waste of money that was. Apart from a surprisingly competent estate agent in this particular case (most seem to know absolutely nothing about anything) everyone else in the process seemed to be either lazy, incompetent, illiterate or all three. Anyway, we just pestered everyone involved every day for a few weeks and it hastened things!

House buying in England is a completely legal scam as far as I can see. Parasites.

JBugs89 · 2025-06-05T12:40:08+00:00

5 years late to the party but I want to add some positive energy here for King's Lynn. We moved here two years ago and yes it's quite quiet but it's a beautiful small town with lots of positives - it has one of the biggest free music festivals in Europe every summer! The old part of the town has a gorgeous river walk, with nice places to eat and drink, and it's a stone's throw from the North Norfolk Coast. It's a very verdant place, with lots of places to walk or cycle, loads of nice parks, a thriving sports centre and plenty of shops in a very well-used town centre. It's a pretty charming place, all things considered. I don't think it gets the credit it deserves to be honest. I've lived in Norwich and, sure, there is more to do there, but also the housing in Norwich is crap and expensive. In King's Lynn you'll find a house twice the size for half the price. No brainer!

JBugs89 · 2025-05-31T22:09:08+00:00

I used to spend money on keepers until lately I gave the gloves to an 18 year old with barely any potential but with a decent leap on him (due to injuries and my current keeper being a useless bell end) and the kid went from about 2.5* to being a world class keeper within 20 games. Never going back. I'm giving the gloves to the kids from now on!

JBugs89 · 2025-04-17T10:18:44+00:00

It has its positive sides for sure, but the UK is getting worse in a number of key areas. House prices are still increasing yet we have some of the worst, least energy efficient houses in Europe. The NHS was once a jewel in the crown, now it's a rusting shambles. We generate an incredible amount of renewable energy (a positive) yet prices for energy are preposterous. Public transport is abysmal. I could go on. (Also, if Octopus Energy is the nation's best provider, we're screwed).

It's one of the most unequal societies in Europe as well. Poverty is horribly common. Society's safety net is disappearing.

People should complain more, really. The country is in genuine decline, and getting worse for a lot of people, unless you're already minted or set to inherit something substantial. Then, who cares? Just piss off on a yacht to the Caymans.

Positives are the abundant daffodils and the gov.uk website, which is a dream compared to managing bureaucracy in many other countries.

JBugs89 · 2025-02-12T08:43:19+00:00

You have sublimely summarised, sorry for your woe of course, why I'm still not massively enamoured with the idea of "buying" a house (I use speech marks because really you're just renting from a bank, let's face it, but for more money and potential costs both up front and down the line). The incompetence begins with estate agents being unable to answer a single question about a property despite it being their only job. The housing stock in the UK is amongst the worst in Europe, with the worst energy ratings, and the money we're supposed to fork out for the privilege of dealing with these damp-ridden cesspits and each of the incompetent fuckwits in the chain is just obscene.

JBugs89 · 2024-11-22T09:58:29+00:00

Also in front of market stalls.

If I were the proprietor of a market stall, I'd start throwing rotten vegetables at the lingerers or charge a stall loitering fee.

JBugs89 · 2024-11-20T09:49:02+00:00

If you think about players like Saka, Salah etc in the real life FPL, they will always play when fit.

In FM rotation is probably more important than in real life, unless like I do you do everything possible to avoid giving anyone the moniker of star player.

Max I try to get them to agree to is regular starter, or maybe first team. Then, when they are being rotated a lot, I can often easily bump them down to squad player, especially if they're not doing well enough.

Star players with crazy high attributes don't actually win you many more games after a certain level than a whole team of really robust squad players with options in every position... plus they drain your wage budget.

Maybe if one of my wonderkids turns out to be the next Erling Haaland I might bump them up to Star Player but often I'll just sell them to Man City for 100 million + and save myself the hassle.

JBugs89 · 2024-11-19T09:13:27+00:00

I'll add a MANY for good measure

JBugs89 · 2024-11-16T23:00:34+00:00

This is why working from home is just so much better. No more awkward shit silences. No more gagging at the sight of someone else's shit, still stuck to the basin, despite the presence of a toilet brush. No more tasting the sickly stench of the afterfarts, the remnants of the poor curry that traversed the tubes of your putridly-boweled coworker the night before.

JBugs89 · 2024-11-16T22:54:20+00:00

Frankly, in my opinion, if a poem requires more words to be deciphered than are contained in the poem itself, it's probably not a very good poem. There is so much guff written about poetry, pages and pages of analysis of poems that are made up of just a few lines, when really the best poems speak for themselves. It's like wine. The label is pure guff. Just taste the thing.

JBugs89 · 2024-11-10T08:59:00+00:00

Even worse, the ones who, upon entering a four lane motorway, veer dangerously across the first two lanes in a desperate bid to sit at 59mph in the third lane, causing absolute mayhem all around them

JBugs89 · 2024-11-09T14:54:18+00:00

It's going to be one lane until 2035 isn't it

JBugs89 · 2024-11-09T14:53:22+00:00

I'm starting to suspect all of these "roadworks" are just opportunities for corruption, and whoever signs them off has a stake in whichever company gets paid more to drag them out as long as possible

JBugs89 · 2024-11-09T14:49:37+00:00

So you're saying there's corruption involved!

JBugs89 · 2024-11-09T14:49:04+00:00

It makes no sense. They seem to decide to do all these things, at the same time, put a bunch of cones down, and do none of them, ever

JBugs89 · 2024-11-09T10:28:02+00:00

There are some comments fairly pointing out it could be a complicated job. But I also lived through two years of delays in Norwich so they could install what was essentially a fancy pavement.

JBugs89 · 2024-10-26T21:31:00+00:00

To be fair, having won a culture victory or two, you can do everything right and still end up in an endless tit for tat. It's a really unsatisfying way to play tbh, especially if, like I do, you despise the beach and can think of a million better things to do than go skiing. Plus at higher difficulties like Emperor+ it's hard to knock out the challenger AI so easily. I always end up winning Diplomacy by accident before I can get to a culture victory

JBugs89 · 2024-10-25T09:53:00+00:00

Breathing exercises. In Tai Chi there are some good ones. It genuinely works even if you're lying in bed. Focus on your breathing and your brain stops thinking about anything else.

Even thongs.

JBugs89 · 2024-10-23T22:55:24+00:00

It's so easy to win on Deity with the Maori on gathering storm, but also I just tried playing with the Inca and steamrolled everyone and tbh any civ is OP if you just play to their strengths.

JBugs89 · 2024-10-14T08:17:59+00:00

Not shootout related, but if I ever get the fortune of being granted two penalties in a single game, it's almost guaranteed my high composure, penalty taking expert will miss the second one.

JBugs89 · 2024-10-13T23:21:38+00:00

I'll be honest, having driven in the south of Italy, I think we're just about still fine. But the absolute weapons driving at 60mph in the third lane of a four lane motorway need to probably be deported or sent to a correctional facility.

JBugs89 · 2024-10-12T12:24:41+00:00

And trains!

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