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It is a game, not real life. As soon as you hit continue on the first screen there are ALOT more factors to how the league table pans out in game than just our data. Player morale, game mechanics, transfers, managerial changes are all things us as researchers cannot control. As @RandomGuy. has said, it is end of January that is our cut off for the data updates, at that time, the table was pretty tight, I mean as an Aberdeen fan, I was hoping Warnock was going to tighten us and take us into the top 6.

Thank you very much!

Below are some Scottish newspapers which indicate a sell on clause, i'd imagine it's 15% but could be wrong. It's also worth to note that Aberdeen have been adding sell on clauses to all younger players leaving recently. https://www.aberdeenlive.news/sport/football/former-dons-star-lewis-ferguson-7996260 https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-transfer-news/lewis-ferguson-napoli-transfer-target-30350139 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-10996715/Aberdeen-midfielder-Ferguson-join-Bologna-3m-Hibs-star-Josh-Doig-set-Verona.html

Absolutely loving this career, keep up the good work!

Probably best just to give a link to this reply from Dean Gripton explaining the situation. We were locked out on 18th October so no, it neither would have taken us 30 seconds or a minute to fix because us researchers (and even head researchers) can't go in and fix it. This is also why other countries are also reporting as missing "simple database fixes".

Fletcher Boyd and Akindileni are too young. Gavin Levey hasn’t officially been announced, which is why I haven’t pushed it through just yet. The U18s GK Coach seems to change all the time, so thank you for pointing that out.

Can confirm, he is not near the top end of SPL players. I'm confident there's a lot more factors than ability that goes into the value of the player to the club.

Out of interest, what skin and facepack is this?

Of course we do, but what you’ve pointed out in terms of our data being wrong because the goal-scorers in the league are the wrong way round, which can’t be made to be the exact same as real life. Do you think the list of goal-scorers you’ve posted is unrealistic ? Unfortunately we can’t predict the future but the lists you’ve provided, I can’t see anything wrong with the players on there.

You do realise it is a game... we can't hardcode in goals and make it exactly replicate real life... the amazing thing about FM is the weird and wonderful things that happen.

Jenz wasn't a project player, he was a player to come in and play first team football straight away, certainly a loan move viewed as a "try before you buy". He was, after a fantastic season in Switzerland, viewed by a team in a Top 5 league that he was worth a £3.5m transfer. Kobayashi has 5 games at Asian CL level, that's barely having any "Asian CL experience". He has under 100 appearances at J-League 1 level. As for your comment about how he "came from the same club as Kyogo", what does that have to do with anything?

"Truth is we don't have a clue at this point" exactly. Hence why he's came over to us with that CA, it's not an unreasonable CA for what Kobayashi has achieved in his career internationally. He's clearly a project player for Celtic, so he's a decent player but has room for improvement, which is shown by his CA and PA. Celtic terminated his loan as Jenz wasn't happy with first team football playing time. He's not going to sit on the bench and be happy when the point of his loan was first team football from Lorient. He is being left out by Starfelt and CCV.

I mean, having 2 permanent players (from a league that the manager is extremely fond of) coming in will impact a loan player's (who already wasn't playing) first team football. It certainly doesn't mean that one player is better than the other, he doesn't come out in the interview and say "Kobayashi was better than me ability wise, so I left Celtic", he says Kobayashi coming in affected the situation and therefore he wanted to leave.

Kobayashi is a project player for Celtic, he has 0 caps for Japan and played in a lower half team in Japan, he is 22 and is happy to play fringes at the moment and learn to improve, to then develop into the first team. In regards to the Jenz situation, he wasn't happy that he was not getting any first team football anymore, he moved on loan from Lorient to get first team football. Iwata has a CA that is a first team Celtic player, simple as that. Both these players have been rated by another researcher outside of Scotland, we haven't rated them as Iwata has 32 minutes of Premiership football and Kobayashi has 90 minutes of Premiership football. We can't just up their ratings because they've signed for Celtic, unless their CA is extremely unreasonable, which they most certainly aren't.