Some help for sweepers

[Yves004]

This is how a sweeper performs:

Form 59–58–60–60–68

The last game was when he played as a sweeper. This is a player who's 85% global rating. So he'll earn a lot of money soon, but if I don't play with 5 defenders he'll only perform as well as a player with global rating of 77%. You can see I should sell the sweeper if I have to pay his wages. So having sweepers is useless. They just don't perform well enough in relation to their wages.

My proposal:

- Make it possible to play with a sweeper when you only use 3 or 4 defenders. The impact should be obvious: he's giving cover to all defenders, but when the other team plays with 3 attackers, one attacker will have more space if you play 2 defenders and a sweeper. In real life teams are also playing a sweeper when playing 4-4-2 or even 3-5-2 if the other team has only two strikers.

- If the first proposal can't be implemented, why not give sweepers less high wages. If they perform 8% less good, there wages should drop a lot.


If you can't make any changes to the situation of the sweeper, you might just as well cut sweepers from te game.

[Paul_G]

I've come to the same conclusion. They're the most useless position in the game, since people hardly ever use 5 defenders. I would sell my sweepers in 2 seconds if they were any good, and I have no intention of renewing their contracts.

I'd just lower the penalty if a CB plays in the sweeper role and vice versa, like to 1% or something. The positions are more alike than most.

[Randall Rovers]

Just sell the sweeper. Simple.

[Paul_G]

Just sell the sweeper. Simple.

Who would pay a decent price for one? They can't possibly command the same prices as a player with identical skill levels at another position.

[Randall Rovers]

Then sell them for cheap. Advertise them in the Dutch Forum.