Just like a normal, real-life football scout, we watch and rate them.” “So, you make calculated or miscalculated guesses based on your sightings and games you’ve watched. Will they get injured? Will they get bored from playing? Will they fail? “Determining player potential is very hard, especially at that age, because you don’t know what will happen. “How they play, how they move, how they interact with their team-mates and other players, and how they act inside and outside the pitch. “We rate every player individually based on how we see them on the pitch,” says Lind. But how do researchers at FM determine how good, bad or otherwise a player will turn out to be? “Half a year ahead of schedule, he was in the first team in January 2021.”īased on the early evidence, Football Manager’s prediction of Schjelderup thriving at the highest level will bear fruit. “We thought he’d need 12 months to adapt before we put him in the first team,” says Pedersen of Schjelderup’s time at Nordsjaelland. Since moving to Benfica - who take on Club Bruges in the second leg of their last-16 Champions League tie tonight - in January, he has made no first-team appearances, but his track record suggests it won’t be long. A few years ago, Schjelderup had trials with Liverpool, Bayern Munich and Juventus but in 2020, he chose to move to Denmark instead.įor Flemming Pedersen, technical director at Nordsjaelland and the Right to Dream academy, recruiting Schjelderup was a “no-brainer” when they signed him from Bodo/Glimt as a 16-year-old. That availability also applied to the real world, where he was firmly on the radar of some of Europe’s biggest clubs long before the virtual Schjelderup made his name in FM23. The fact that Schjelderup played for a team in the Danish league helped too, as it meant plenty of clubs could sign him for a relatively low fee without much issue. (Before we continue, if you’re wondering who you should sign now that Schjelderup is no longer a go-to bargain, according to Lind, these players have high potential in FM23: Mario Dorgeles, Oscar Schwartau, Filip Bundgaard, and Hugo Larsson.) Schjelderup has nearly all the ideal attributes for a winger that plays on the inside.” Starting with the game, David Lind, Football Manager’s researcher for Nordsjaelland, explains what made Schjelderup so popular: “The majority of the FM userbase prefer to sign players with more ‘green attributes’ - as in 16 (out of 20) and above. But what made him so popular in the game? And how good a player is he in real life?
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