Kevin Volland
Age: 19
Position: ST/AMLC
Club: Hoffenheim
Nationality: German
Value: £4.8 million
Price tag: £25 million (in patch 13.3)
Kevin Volland profile in 2012 (after starting new game, patch 13.3)
Kevin Volland scouting report from Cagigao of Arsenal
Kevin Volland profile aged 26 in the year 2019
Kevin Volland career history until 2019
This FM 2013 player profile of Kevin Volland shows a brilliant young striker, a true FM 13 wonderkid! At the age of 19 he is already good enough to play for just about any top team in Europe and his development until 2019 is stunning. In my test save he was bought by Tottenham for 28 million and then by Barcelona for a mighty 42 million! His speed and agility are just short of Messi’s in 2019, his mental attributes are excellent while his technique and first touch might give you a clue to why Barca wanted this kid. His only weak side is in the air, but apart from that he is brilliant.
He doesn’t come cheap though, Hoffenheim want no less than 25 million for him at the start of the game and I doubt you can get him for less considering how talented he is. However, that will be 25 million well-spent, so I give him a 10 out of 10.
Best buy rating: 10/10
stenen06
9 марта, 2013 at 12:02
Weird that he hasn`t played in the national team yet, in my save he has 14 apps for Germany at the year of 2015.
Johnny Karp
9 марта, 2013 at 16:31
I know, I was quite surprised to see he had no caps in 2019.
Hlf
12 марта, 2013 at 08:37
Is it because he’s german? No German national team and all that?
Johnny Karp
12 марта, 2013 at 08:42
Yes, it could be.
Alexander Tommos
15 марта, 2013 at 20:54
Seems like after the update the game changed itself again to the fake German national team, so thats why (at least for me) he have no caps.
Johnny Karp
16 марта, 2013 at 09:56
Yes, you have to update the real names fix too after installing the patch. Instructions here: https://www.footballmanagerstory.com/2012/10/download-fm-2013-real-names-fix-real-players-for-germany-included/
Bubba
9 марта, 2013 at 13:37
He looks great! Good find. :D
Bubba
9 марта, 2013 at 13:38
Too bad about the positioning tough.
Johnny Karp
9 марта, 2013 at 16:30
That’s not a big problem I guess, unless you want to play him as a centre back. I would advice against that given his height and heading.
Bubba
9 марта, 2013 at 16:55
Hahahah, but, with that positioning, won’t he be in the wrong place much? Or very much offside?
Johnny Karp
9 марта, 2013 at 17:22
Positioning is important for goalkeepers, defenders and defensive midfielders. I am never checking positioning when deciding whether to sign a striker or not. Moreover, being in the right place in attack has more to do with flair than positioning imo.
Darren Smith
9 марта, 2013 at 17:44
I too have never paid attention to positioning for players further forward than MC, more off the ball movement for me personally.
rayon
31 марта, 2013 at 09:44
being caught offside has to do with off the ball, anticipation, concentration, and decisions. positioning is more along the lines of «reading the game» and is a defensive attribute, not an attacking one.
Miles Smith
9 марта, 2013 at 21:00
Great player to start of with, couple of week points but then he develops into an absolutely class looking player.
Miles Smith
9 марта, 2013 at 21:42
I would also note that he doesn’t really go up in price so if you have 25million spare it might be worth going for someone else and then picking this guy up in the second or third season.
Johnny Karp
9 марта, 2013 at 22:40
His value does go up, at least from what I’ve seen in my test save: 28 mil to Spurs and then 42 to Barca… I’d get him right away to be honest.
Miles Smith
10 марта, 2013 at 17:11
If you can afford a £25 mil player I’m sure you can afford a £28mil player. I personally would wait a season to sign him but I see your argument.
step35
9 марта, 2013 at 21:54
Hi could you take a loke in this players :
because my scouts give them heigh votes except for stockm but in my perspective he seems to have quality
Bertrand Traore — chelsea
chalobah — chelsea
tomas kalas-chelsea
islam feruz-chelsea
ruben laftus-check — chelsea
cole stockton — tranmere
john stones — everton
Johnny Karp
9 марта, 2013 at 22:39
Chalobah is on my list, he seems to develop well. I’ll check out the others as well when I get around to that.
Alexander Tommos
10 марта, 2013 at 14:09
Did he «become» a super talent in the update or was he as good before? cant remember seeing him before.
Johnny Karp
10 марта, 2013 at 15:45
I’m not sure, fact is I didn’t come across him while searching for good players with the previous database.
Alexander Tommos
10 марта, 2013 at 16:01
My thoughts exactly, must be bumped in the update.
Bri
11 марта, 2013 at 20:38
He was good before. I bought him for chelsea and i still had to pay £25 mill
Johnny Karp
12 марта, 2013 at 08:42
Thanks.
Bubba
10 марта, 2013 at 14:58
Look what I found :D Worth a profile maybe?
http://i.imgur.com/ZO0nhEq.png
http://i.imgur.com/FQHK5om.png
Johnny Karp
10 марта, 2013 at 15:46
Definitely looks interesting, I’ll check him out in my game too. Long throws attribute is a bit low though :)
Bubba
10 марта, 2013 at 15:53
Yeah…I guess there won’t be a profile. Dammit, Y U NO THROW LONGER!?!?!
Bubba
10 марта, 2013 at 15:53
Forgot to mention, the screens are from 2017, June.
Johnny Karp
10 марта, 2013 at 15:57
Who said there won’t be a profile? I said I will check him in my game and that’s what I’ll do.
Bubba
10 марта, 2013 at 16:10
It was a joke about the long throws ;)
Johnny Karp
10 марта, 2013 at 16:47
It surely was :)
step25
10 марта, 2013 at 17:31
nice to see that kevein develops this well but one of things that i notice is his finishing is equal to lukaku. And besides that the cpu developed them in mental and physical area more than tenical.
Johnny Karp
10 марта, 2013 at 17:54
Indeed, I guess you could improve his technical side quite a bit if you sign him early.
Ross
11 марта, 2013 at 09:38
for anyone who was wondering, i can confirm he does turn out good in the old patch!
Johnny Karp
11 марта, 2013 at 09:51
Great, thanks for the info!
RonSwanson
15 марта, 2013 at 09:10
On my game with Mainz I managed to unsettle him and at the end of the 2nd season he is transfer listed by request for 14.75mil — so he can be got for cheaper than the 25mil asking price
shame I probably still wont be able to afford him as mainz are skint!
Fred lime
23 марта, 2013 at 17:02
I got him for 13.5m :)
hfoster02
21 апреля, 2013 at 16:21
Joining my BVB team in Jan 2013 for £13m. He requested a transfer in October due to not getting any game time.
Johnny Karp
21 апреля, 2013 at 18:04
Good business for 13 mil.
AzzA GunneR
22 апреля, 2013 at 11:25
i picked him up for 16m by making the transfer date for the start of the second season. it ment i got him signed and no one else could out bid and in my first season he didn’t spend it on the bench. just a tip if your not in a huge rush to fill a hole in your side.
ian
22 апреля, 2013 at 20:34
Do you reckon this slag would make a good advanced forward?
Johnny Karp
23 апреля, 2013 at 09:54
Yes, definitely. He could cover almost any striker role given his quality.
nay
27 мая, 2013 at 20:25
I bought volland on the fm13 handheld version for 17m and he is awesome I have him with cavani and his goals to games ratio is 3/1 and at the age of twenty one Is ridiculous! Definite buy!
Jack Dunn
22 июня, 2013 at 15:36
Hoffenheim were relegated 12/13 season so picked him up for 9 million in the summer for Arsenal! Looking forward too partnering him with Giroud (who scored 37 goals in the first season btw, absolute machine!!)
Johnny Karp
23 июня, 2013 at 14:35
That’s a very good piece of business, I’m sure he’d be worth more than 25 mil in a couple of seasons.
matter
28 июня, 2013 at 11:48
I got Rodrigo and Jovetic already can i use volland as a winger or is he bad at winger?
Johnny Karp
28 июня, 2013 at 11:57
Shouldn’t be bad but it’s not his natural role, you might have to train him for that position.
Sean
14 июля, 2013 at 15:21
Ive got a better future screenshot of him. This lad is something else on my leeds save. city snapped him up and mancini has turned him into a Balon d’or candidate