Football Manager 2014: 13 Ludicrous Ratings SI Need To Fix

10. Stefan Kiessling's Composure

The so-called forgotten man of German football, who has recently been linked with the attentions of David Moyes at Manchester United (according to the Daily Star) had a barn-storming season last term, picking up the German top scorer award after netting 25 times for Leverkusen. He is a great player, and will make similar waves this season, despite his advancing years (he's now 29) but the game simply does not reflect some of his key stats. His finishing is typically good, and he's strong, and he will bag your team a reasonable number of goals, but there's something fundamentally flawed in his decision making, if you play him in the position the game suggests is his best, and his composure is laughably low for a striker who scored so many goals last year. Yes, his top end ratings are high, and justified in most cases, but there isn't a spread of statistics as there are in other leagues, meaning he is only a good player if played up top, presumably meaning he would be useless in real terms anywhere else on the pitch in open play, which plainly is not the case. What Are The Chances? The whole German scouting system will hopefully have enjoyed a big revamp, as the spread of statistic ratings was fundamentally flawed. The Germans, more than any other nation, seem more committed to extreme ratings, whether high or low, so even exceptional players like Franck Ribery would have oddly low statistics for areas that weren't key to his game, but which he nevertheless still deserved a good score for. It's a fairly big slice of the game, but the past doesn't suggest that there's much hope for this change, since Schalke have been unjustly over-powered for some time now (more of which very soon.)