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Welcome to the European League™ Season 2

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NOTICEBOARD

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Managers

AC Milan - SPARE TEAM
Arsenal - InTheFastLane
Barcelona - kamran
Bayern Munich - Fisherunited
Chelsea - onlytreblewinners
Inter Milan - LukeLovesLuka
Juventus - SirJohnnyEnglish
Liverpool - fernando
Lyon - Tom
Manchester City - SuperPav9
Manchester Utd - Cor Blimey Guvnor
Real Madrid - jimbohammers
Roma - followfollow1972
Tottenham - pullthestrings

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Teams

AC Milan - £50m
Arsenal - £50m
Barcelona - £0m
Bayern Munich - £50m
Chelsea - £10m
Inter Milan - £30m
Juventus - £100m
Liverpool - £80m
Lyon - £100m
Manchester City - £20m
Manchester Utd - £30m
Real Madrid - £0m
Roma - £120m
Tottenham - £90m

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Rules

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League Table

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Statistics

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Transfer Confirmation

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Released Players

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Set Information

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Original Squads

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------------------- Hart -------------------
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Jagielka ------ Jones ----- Terry ------ A.Cole
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------------ Parker ---- Lampard ------------
Downing ---------------------------- A.Young
------------------ Rooney ------------------
------------------ Zamora ------------------

Apparently.

Zamora - WTF

When you sit in row Z...

Zamoras playing well but still...

My team would be:

-----------------------------Hart--------------------------------------

Walker----------Jones------------Terry-----------A.Cole

------------------Parker-----Lampard----------------

Johnson---------------------------------------Young

----------------Rooney------Bent------------------

I wouldn't start Johnson - he's hardly played whereas Downing has looked good and performed well for England too.

Zamora is an odd one - but Capello does like him. Bent hasn't been scoring, Carroll looks off the pace - Wellbeck should start for me, although Defoe is looking sharp, and personally i'd have gone with him.

-------------------------Hart
-----Jones-------Cahill----Terry-------Cole
------------------Parker------Lampard
---Milner-----------------Young-----------Downing
-------------------------Rooney



And I was toying with the idea of leaving but I think I'll stay

Has Jones ever played RB for United?

He'd be amazing there....

I think Capello will go with Parker and Barry again, they played very well together in Bulgaria and I'm sure Capello will be expecting a tough game so I think he'll put Barry in there to try and win the midfield battle.

Yeah I think he played RB against Bolton Luke, which was his best game this season

Yeah, he has played at right back at times, he's a very versatile player. Parker and Barry with Lampard supporting Rooney could work.

Richards is soooooooo under-rated

Jones has played at right back a couple of times and been amazing, he's probably better there than CB

I can stay if you want me

my course has been pushed back until January

How did you manage that?

Good man Fernando. Now its just 2 managers. That means we can either drop a couple of teams or find replacements...

well my course is very specific and only 3 people want to do it

That leaves only 207 leaving? Just drop Lyon?

Let's take stock on monday see where we are.

Interest in general seems to have dropped, so maybe a re-think as to the format may be the way forward.

Have an idea of a realistic league in my head. Not sure how it'd work.

If anyone has any suggestions do let me know.

can i suggest a pl version of this

maybe have someone rule over transfers to stop people being bought cheaply

I think a realistic version would make a nice change from the 'fantasy' which we are all accustomed to....

Yeh, we are all stuck in a rut with the fatasy thing, and ratings seem a bit dodgy at the minute.

My idea is centred around having 5 english players in your side, 8 in total in your matchday squad, with tactics, weather suiting players, home advantage etc being key.

i think 8 would be too many cos theirs not exactly many decent english players

maybe just have to have 4 u21's in the match day squad

I've never really worked out how realistic leagues work.

take a look at nick's league guv

I like them because it puts your knowledge of European football to the test and also it rids this 'under-rated' players business.

I think it could be a good idea actually. But the only problem is in foreigns what is a realistic signing for each club. ive seen realistic leagues before with players playing for clubs they would never join IRL, its hard to monitor.

ill monitor it

say have a cut of at 7pm and then have until next day at 7pm to confirm them by

How does it get rid of the under rated issue then?

well say your arsenal your not exactly going to be able to buy messi,sneijder etc

Not a fan of realistic leagues. Surely like Wolves would lose every game?

I don't make the link between realistic leagues and realistic foreigns. The lesser sides would need to improve...

why not start with reasonably even sides then?

I understand the principle that smaller clubs would only be able to attact certain players etc but, as jimbo says, if you're Norwich City you're going to lose most matches. Just not sure how you improve sides etc.

What I'd recomend is how Nando mentioned is to have a base of clubs that all start with similar level teams, so if you did just the Premier League it'd be all teams barring Utd, City, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool & Spurs.
If it was an European one then no to the likes of Barca, Real, AC & Inter Milan, Bayern, Utd, City, Chelsea, but everyone else is pretty much fair game.
Use transfermarkt to decide the teams as it provides the total price of the team, keep between a min and max (so for example only clubs that have a total value of 100m-150m) and if you wanted to stop clubs suddenly becoming overpowered compared to others then impose a wage cap on clubs.

Hey guys.
I would love a realistic league

Teams like Wolves and Norwich aren't going to expect to win the league though, that's the point. Like the real world, finishing above the relegation places would be a good achievement for them, while for Man United, they are expected to win the league.

Slowly, teams improve. So top four is Champions League and top eight Europa League. Players will move to teams of a similar standard.

The challenge of being a team like Norwich isn't the winning, it's exceeding expectations. Like a top half finish for them would be incredible and I've seen Wigan and Wolves both make Europa in a certain other realistic league because they got some good domestic transfers, and also were strong tactically which has an impact.

Firstly guys, no matter what direction the league goes in I'll be staying either way

Anyway, I've been part of quite a few realistic leagues and ran one on 606 aswell so I quite enjoyed them and would definetly be up for that here. If there were concerns about the teams like Norwich, Wolves and that you could do what I saw on a league a while back, realistic transfers for unrealistic budgets? Maybe put the big teams at 0 Million who know they have the pick of the players in foreigns meaning they will sell up to gain cash, and maybe give the real lower sides 50-60m meaning they can't just go out and buy a new team for big money each, they still have to play about with their money. To add I really like the "home-grown" players rule, and thats definetly something that if we went down the realistic route we should look into.

Think its something we could explore on Monday anyway, for now I'm off to bed

Follow, I think you did a good job in DC's league with Wolves if memory serves?

And maybe the 6+5 rule? 6 players must be English?

Yeah I did, was a good challenge but as with Boycey who done well with Wigan there was some luck for both of us on the way to begin with, managed to get David Villa at Wolves though which I consider a good acheivement took 3/4 seasons though of course

I'd say 6 players is maybe too much as there isn't a lot of players to go around, we could even make it a British players rule rather than English, would mean players like Fletcher, Adam, Ramsey, Bale etc could be included?

I'm a fan of having an amount if English/uk players in. Means thinking about your squad.

If we go down the realistic route that is certainly a rule I'd like to see in place

Yeah i agreee on that.

I agree with that too.

I remember it was you and Boycey who did the best jobs

And I agree too

Not convinced by a realistic league

What about a Championship league?

Are people knowledgable enough, and watch the Championship every week? I watch quite alot and know all the players etc but im sure the ratings would be unsure for a lot of players......

I watch the football league show every week, that's my knowledge

The idea is that the ratings are unknown, so they're aren't these preset set in stone ratings.

Yeh same here, and i go to Reading games now and then, and watch the odd tv game. Yeah but i mean for example alot of people arent going to know whos better out ofr Jamal Campbell Ryce or Sean Scannell

Sean Scannell IMO

Scannell for sure imo

I keep up with championship football and would like that idea...