++ [ originally posted by Fliakis ] ++
anyone knows 18-20 yr old brasilian cheap playmaker? man its gonna be hard without diego. my back up for his is total crap.
Search for Brazilians with decent stats on the following:
Creativity
Pace
Acceleration
Dribbling
Passing
There should be plenty. After that the best stats to look for are:
Decisions
Team work
Anticipation
Determination or Work Rate
Anything like Long Shots or Finishing or Heading is a bonus and will help massively, but it will cost you.
Look for a player called Weide, he's sometimes good, young and useful back-up. Another one off the top of my head is Ezio. If you have Div3 selected, look for Americano FC (RJ) and check out Edu, he was very talented for me and helped me eventually win the Div1.
You should especially look through the worse Div1 clubs, and any Div2 club. Teams like Palmeiras, Mineiro etc might have some useful players to offload.
Don't expect to find someone better than Diego in Brazil because even if they do exist, they'll be hard to find.
I'll load my game up later and try to see if there's anyone particularly decent in Brazil who isn't a one-off.
It looks like you messed up badly, but at least it will make it a challenge to win the league as Santos rather than the breeze it normally is.