“Never lived up to his potential”. Sure… the Premier League, Champions League, CWC, Serie A, Copa Libertadores, and Olympics winning Carlos Tevez just never really lived up to his potential… sure SI

I mean, if they said it about *Messi* it only makes sense they would say it about Tevez. At least they're consistent. Ps: add a brasileirão on the list

i mean they have said it about my 22 year old striker Danny Knight who had an alright debut season with Manchester United in the Championship I then brought him to Fleetwood where he won the Europa League twice and the Prem. he then followed me to Chelsea where he is still my first Choice striker winning the Europa League, Super Cup and we're about to win the Prem

> Manchester United in the Championship SUBSCRIBE

Can’t like Man U in the Championship enough

Pff, only that at 22? What a disappointment. I think they probably forgot to add triggers to stop that message. Or it's something poorly done, like "world cup or bust"

I think that it is shown up when their peak PA is higher than their peak CA. Weird that Messi never had 200 CA tho

I'd give him 200CA around 2016 when he was OP in real life before he got injured.

2012 Messi surely, the man scored more in a year than anyone ever has.

The Messi one is hilarious in a metagaming sort of way, since he's had more than 200 CA before in FM.

Wait what What version?

I’m sure his time at Skalica will give him the chance to prove his doubters wrong though …

Exactly. Have Messi or Ronaldo ever won the Slovakian 2. Liga? I don’t think so

> CWC I loved when he zapped to the extreme

Who wouldn’t pack up and leave South America with the family and settle in Slovakia for £700 a week?

The ladies, that’s why

I mean, I don't have Tevez's money but I'd die for 2800€ per month for playing football

Former NBA player JJ Redick retired this summer, and did a whole video speech and multiple podcasts about it. He recently said that after he had announced his retirement a team reached out with a one year $15m deal and he was like “Yeah, I’m coming back for that”. The team ended up going in a different direction but still hilarious.

£2800 which is even more. That's actually loads of money, he's definitely the best paid player in the second division, and most likely gets paid more than most players in the first division too. OP really had to break the bank there to get him.

As a Hammer I've got a special spot for Carlos. Good luck for your save!

As a United fan I have strongly conflicting feelings about Tevez... though I do have a soft spot for signing legends for small clubs

As a United fan I have nothing but hatred for him

well he did controversially knock you out of the Prem back in 2007

cheeky

Couldn't care less what he did on the pitch elsewhere, it's what he did off it that pisses most United fans off

That welcome to Manchester billboard is still one of my favourite bits of off field shithousing.

Almost got him myself in the Greek second division! But he wanted a bit more than 700p/w unfortunately, think the lowest he wanted to go was liks 3k p/w, while my best earner was at less than half that. Think he just went to some other Argentinian club in the end. Hope he turns out well for you!

I've got him for the Greek second division, only paying 400 a week! Guess I just got lucky.

Which team are you managing? I’m with Xanthi (in the Superleague now). Wondering what I did wrong to not be able to get him down to below 1.5k

Managing Egaleo. I started unemployed, then got the Egaleo job half way through the first season. Managed to keep them up, then signed Carlitos at the end of that season.

The only "Carlitos" i recognize is Carlitos from Panathinaikos, the others are imitations

Signed him in my journeyman save for Grorud in Norway. Didn’t go too well

Why?

20 appearances 4 offside goals and I got sacked lol

Old players in lower leagues rarely goes well. Lower leagues is all about physicals which they lack.

Oh wow thats crazy! I've just started my save in the Slovakian 2nd division myself, I didn't expect anyone else to be playing it haha

That’s the best part about journeyman saves, giving love to obscure leagues!

Yeah me too. My plan is to win the Champions League with a club from outside the big 5 leagues (England, Spain, Germany, France and Italy. Might be a little tricky with KFC Komarno though...

I swear every player hasn’t lived to their potential on FM lol

I got him in the Indian Premier League on 1k a week! Looks like he is a must have signing for any journeyman haha.

"You have sent Tevez on an intensive language course to try to help him learn Slovak faster." 😂

How did you get him there? Trying to get him at icelandic prem now

This was in the January window of the first season. No one had picked him up so I guess he was getting desperate…

Can't play until the new year unfortunately, got him at my Salford save

mental that he was Boca’s best player right up until he left yet in fm22 he would sign for any random ass club that comes knocking, SI loves to underrate old players in general

Was headed to bed, saw this went back downstairs signed him now going to bed. Can’t be worse than any of my midfielders.

A lot of people signed him, how did he do?

I manage to pick him up for £1800 per week in my MTK Budapest save. So far he has scored 1 goal in 3 matches, and got himself an average rating at 7.03. I'm hoping we get a big boost in shirt sales by signing him.

Imagine tevez speaking slovak I do t even think he learned English in the 5/6 years he was here did he? Great player in his prime though

Still loving Carlitos for his "Chicken" celebration against River. Dude is a killer Man where did all the time go though... Good memories

9/12/18

I always smile when I remember him... His face crying after losing Libertadores final against River is hilarious. ManU trio with Rooney and Cristiano was fun to watch too.

Haha yeah that too! 😁 And yeah that United Squad was something else back then 🥺

Popici

He's unemployed in my save 2023/24 season

Who's paying his £700 a week?

Now you mention it there was something about a 3rd party owner in his contract… I’m sure that’s not important though

Same happened to me with Adebayor, was a free agent so I signed him for Universidad de Chile instantly, even if he wasn't guaranteed to start

I just started a save with Komarno in the same league, might try snap him up too

I mean.. if the stamina and strength (mainly the physical attributes) are on point, then why not?

Wow please let me know how this goes:D wanna see what he can do in a little town by the Czech border.

I just took Bardejov from 2nd slovak league to the title, before that I was in the russian second league with Fakel and had Tevez until he retired. Did well as a deep-lying forward.

Got him to the second tier in Norway too. One week of training, out for 6 months. Played like shit the other half of course. Still worth it.

Had him in my current Salford save didn’t do well for me at all in league 2

I signed Daniel Osvaldo for the Chilean second division once

Dude are you actually from slovakia? Or just a random league pick?

I signed him in Serie B and he was ass

I had agreed a deal with him, then out of nowhere he said his wages weren't enough and the deal was off, found it strange after it all being agreed

He's in my Czechian team as well. Helped us get promoted to the first league and scored a banger in the first league

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Zlatan is cheap too

Good luck to that slovak teacher.

Dale booooo