[[FM20] Africa Extended. Bringing FM20 to Africa. v4 RELEASED]

18 hours ago, UnitedJoshdom said:

Hello Designman, as an assitant researcher I can clarify for you who holds the position of researcher for Morocco atm.

The head researcher for Africa is a guy called Blue Lou. He's on these forums if you want to contact him about anything. He's a busy guy however, as he alone is responsible for over 35 countries.

There is a person who is set to the Moroccan league specifically but he has been inactive since February. There is also someone else who is registered to just Raja Casablanca who hasn't been active since January. If you have enough interest, and valid sources, I would recommend contacting Blue Lou and asking to become an assistant researcher yourself. It's not as difficult as you'd think.

p.s. doubt any of this breaches NDA but I'll leave names out of this.

Thanks, 

No wonder why Raja have more accurate data, I will contact him. 

Thanks,

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Again, it is damned hard to find good info on the contract values of all the players, so it is not something I touch. If you have a good resource even for a few of the teams here I would happy to have it. It is something that could be improved. For new players I have added I let the game set their wage, which could lead to some weird numbers I guess. 

True, it won't help that clubs themselves try very hard to keep this as opaque as possible. 

The only 100% source you can find is TAS/Cas rulings on african clubs

http://jurisprudence.tas-cas.org/Shared Documents/4673.pdf#search=wydad

Here it ays, wydad's former coach was earning 35k€ a month after taxes. This is the sort of salaries a top player can get

Top clubs run on a budget of 7/10m€ depending on years: https://m.le360.ma/sport/football/dou-viennent-les-millions-du-raja-de-casablanca-70387

https://web.archive.org/web/20191126193209/http://rajaclubathletic.ma/raja/ar/storage/2019/10/Rapport-financier-Raja-Club-Athletic-Doc-3.pdf

You can see that wages budget is at 3m€, for Wydad, it is probably at 4 or 4.5m€. Clubs other than wydad and Raja will have a much lower budget 

Regarding the value of players, this seems rather accurate :

https://www.transfermarkt.fr/wydad-athletic-club-casablanca/kader/verein/6603

 

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The way I am setting CA/PA is to use the minimum and maximum of the players already in the squad, and giving numbers that fit in between there. Which is not ideal, but again it is at least better than leaving it blank. For Wydad a lot of the players are going to be already in the database, which means they already have their CA/PA set by SI. I do not touch these values at all (the researchers should know more than I about this). 

I don't think that SI has african researchers at all. In the previous version, the ratings were much more accurate, now they just seem to be set randomly. Only the positions are accurate 

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Hi @sporadicsmiles,

First, good luck with your mental health. I've been in a similar situation and know how hard it is.

Regardiing the file, playing in Morocco is  a bit hard.

- Player abilities seem random. Example: Nahiri, wydad casablanca's left back, best  goalscorer for the club has a 7 finishing. Overall, player abilities are too low. top players barely have any stat over 10. I think  the level should be closer to an average ligue 2 team, with each topteam having at least 3 ligue 1 level players.

-Financial capabilities are underestimated. Wydad's highest paid player earns in the DB is on 120K€ a year which should be closer to 300/400k€. Raja has a youth team player at 500k€ a year while their star is on 35k€ a year.  which is not realistic at all. 

-Overall, Wydad's players should be at the same level as other top clubs in Egypt and Tunisia as the club arrived at the semis of the champions league every year in the last 4 years.