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yeah they not cheap or dont grow on trees

i wonder at their effectiveness - my last 2 came back with nothing signable

a season ago i would expect 2 signable at least for a not resigned, defenders, 80+ prg
and also expect to find unsigned 80+ players sometimes too


now i hear its because there are several hardcore managers who do about 2 gb searches every week



17/09/2012 19:39
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i burned 1000+ gb. it's all about luck 17/09/2012 19:55
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having spent over £200 on this game in 1 year i am now capping my spending

how many 80+ do u reckon u got vijji for your 1000 gbs
17/09/2012 20:04
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there have clearly always been managers who run gb searches pretty much 24/7.

your luck is affected by which managers you are searching against, how often you check your search results while they are running & how narrow/greedy your search criteria are.

people share results too, that way you can search more efficiently as you aren't limited to whatever positions you train.
17/09/2012 20:11
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I've done two senior searches (mids over 80 prog) and two junior searches (GK 80+ prog, no R) and I found 1 GK that was automatically hostileable (I did find a 80+ FC defender on that guys team too so that was nice) but the rest were largely on teams that hadn't logged in after the first login or had like 700 experience.

For seniors I found 1 guy who was immediately hostileable, but only because the guy who owned the player had just reset his team that day. I managed to get 4 more players from my searches but that was only because I tracked them and made my move when the teams hit 8000 EXP (which took forever)

I'd imagine that's probably the going rate these days and you're lucky to get 1-2 instant hostiles per search, it's almost not worth it at this point considering there are so many people running searches every day.
17/09/2012 20:20
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u are confiming all my worst fears illex

i enjoyed gb searches espeaclly the free agents u could instantly sign

but i am not prepared to spend an extra 1000 gbs per season


guess youth wise i will stick to hostile day and players from my schools and others schools - next i need to save up for Brazil, German & Italian ones - only a few quid :S
17/09/2012 20:31
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I ran 3 gb searches for free players 80+ got the following.

Cf 17 year, 91 fc
Rf 14 year, 93 fc -sold for 55m
Ldf 17 years, 87 fc.
18/09/2012 06:10
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Please , hahaha
i spent 0 $ on this game , only did GB search 1 a season which i stop doing so for a long time
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18/09/2012 06:29
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@bluegene said:
I ran 3 gb searches for free players 80+ got the following.

Cf 17 year, 91 fc
Rf 14 year, 93 fc -sold for 55m
Ldf 17 years, 87 fc.


are you a jedi? that's pretty much as good as it gets. I haven't had results like that from 80+ unsigned for 3 seasons.
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Im still having trouble deciding whether to do one are not because i heard u need a good coach for that and i dont know what the requirement is 18/09/2012 20:26
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