Manchester City - Fantasy European League™

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THE SQUAD

Goalkeepers
GK Stuart Taylor (ENG)
GK Joe Hart (ENG)

Defenders
RB Gregory Van Der Wiel (HOL)
RLB Philip Lahm (GER)
RLB Pablo Zabaleta (ARG)
LB Ashley Cole (ENG)
LCB Joleon Lescott (ENG)
CB Vincent Kompany (captain) (BEL)
CB Carlos Puyol (ESP)

Midfielders
DM Javier Mascherano (ARG)
DM Nigel de Jong (HOL)
DM Miguel Veloso (POR)
CM Arturo Vidal (CHI)
CM Raul Miereles (POR)
CM Gareth Barry (ENG)
AM Wesley Sneijder (HOL)
WG Juan Manuel Mata (ESP)
WG Jesus Navas (ESP)
WG Adam Johnson (ENG)

Forwards
FW Mario Balotelli (ITA)
ST Gonzalo Higuain (ARG)
ST Diego Forlan (URU)

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INJURIES
Ashley Cole - Week 10
Gonzalo Higuain - Week 10
Raul Miereles - Week 11
Adam Johnson - Week 12

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STARTING LINE UP

-------------------------- J. Hart --------------------------
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Lahm -------- Kompany --------- Puyol ------------ A. Cole
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------------------ Vidal ----- Mascherano -----------------
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--- J. Navas ------------ Sneijder -------------- J. Mata ---
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------------------------- Higuain---------------------------

Subs:
Taylor, Zabaleta, Lescott, De Jong, Milner, Balotelli, Forlan

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TRANSFERS

Transfers In:
Van Persie, Di Maria & Albiol - p/e (Real Madrid)
Navas - £20 mil (Foreigns)
Fabregas, Pedro, Puyol - p/e + £10 mil (Barcelona)
Sneijder, Pazzini, Forlan - p/e (Inter Milan)
Toulalan - £19 mil (Foreigns)
Veloso - £18 mil (Foreigns)
Y Toure, Higuain - p/e (Barcelona)
A Cole, Torres, Mascherano - p/e + £9 mil (Real Madrid)
Vidal, Schweinsteiger, Lahm - p/e (Arsenal)
Higuain, Mata, Miereles - p/e (Real Madrid)
Van Der Wiel - £16 mil (Foreigns)

Transfers Out:
Aguero, Silva & K Toure - p/e (Real Madrid)
Nielson, Savic, Razak - £5 mil (Released)
Dzeko - £14 mil (Released)
Y Toure, Albiol - p/e (Barcelona)
Tevez, Nasri, Pedro - p/e (Inter Milan)
Pazzini - £9 mil (Released)
Kolarov - £14 mil (Foreigns)
Hargreaves, Pizarro - £2.5 mil (Released)
Toulalon, Van Persie - p/e (Barcelona)
Higuain, Di Maria - p/e (Real Madrid)
Y Toure, Fabregas, Richards - p/e (Arsenal)
Torres, Schweinsteiger, Clichy - p/e (Real Madrid)
Milner - £9 mil (Released)

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BUDGET

Starting budget: £20 mil
Transfers In: (£92 mil)
Transfers Out: £53.5 mil
Prediction bonus: £17 mil
Winnings: £1.5 mil

Current Budget: £NIL

Pity that I can't sell the mention players as I don't think the replacements that you may offer will be the same quality.
I may be wrong though

If I were to get Drogba, would you be interested in a deal for Tevez?

Drogba + Sturridge
for
Johnson + Tevez

Actually, seeing as I only have 14 players, I can't sell Butt. Sorry.

20m + Koscienly + Song
For
Kompany + Toure

Enq

pullthestrings wrote:20m + Koscienly + Song
For
Kompany + Toure

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Mate,

Kompany > Koscienly
Toure >> Song

If you can name me a player in the world for £25 mil (£20 mil plus the £5 mil I have) who would make up for those losses I'll deal.

Javi Martinez
Ricardo Montolivo
Nevin Subotic
Mamadou Sahko
Fernando
Claudio Marchisio
Diego Godin
Adil Rami
Ever Banega
Joao Moutinho
Javi Garcia

There's a few to choose between

Or it could get you Hamsik, Hulk, Falcao, Llorente, Negrado, Eriksen, Pereira, Rodriguez, Hernanes, Damiao, Gokhan, Shaqiri etc etc if you want to improve elsewhere.

None of those players make up for the losses though..

Song is in most top ten defensive midfielder lists online so he's a decent trade off for Toure albeit a bit behind. Same goes for Koscienly.
And that's why the 20m comes in which could get you Hulk or Falcao etc who are both WC players without question.

Milner/Barry + De Jong + Nasri + Tevez
=
De Rossi + Rooney + Soldado
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Decent offer mate but Tevez is an issue because nobody knows when he will play even though he is still class and maybe his predos may drop because of it (hope not)

Mata has played behind the striker once or twice so will stick with him for the time being.

Not interested in De Jong/Barry/Milner

sorry pal

Cheers Pull - good advice.

Don't sell Tevez for cheap either.
Just because his head is screwed up doesnt mean he is no better.

One of the best around when on the pitch

Tevez + Nasri
=
Sneijder + Pazzini
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Certainly a tempting one. Tevez ought to be rated regardless of his recent troubles but not sure whether he will be marked down due to those troubles.

I'm going to say maybe atm since I want to check out the other managers and see what other options are available. I'll get back to you on this.

what for adam johnson?

cash+maxi

enq

Lampard & Ramires for Yaya?

adam johnson mate ?

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Kompany and Balotelli
For
Koscienly and Benzema?

Enq

Your injuries are as follows:

Nigel de Jong - Round 2
Jesus Navas - Round 3
Pablo Zabaleta - Round 4
David Pizzaro - Round 5

The mentioned round is the round that the player returns and is available for selection. Remember, an injured player is healed upon transfer.

Valencia, Marcelo, Lampard, Kaka, Ferdinand
for
Navas, Clichy, Nasri, Yaya, Kompany?

Enq.

Thought Navas was only => Valencia if that. I prefer Valencia to Johnson.

Kaka, Marcelo, Ferdinand
for
Yaya, Clichy, Kompany

Yaya + Nasri + Kompany + Clichy
=
Rio + Kaka + Essien + Marcelo

Sorry mate, I have no interest in Nasri.

Have no interest in Barry, sorry. £5 mill isn't enough for me to get in a bog standard back up keeper neither.

Maicon
=
Richards?

No thanks

It's a good offer but I am going to leave it for now until I've had a chance to sort out my injured players.

Building on your previous offer

Tevez + Nasri + Navas
for
Sneijder + Pazinni + Cazorla

Enq only

If I were to add Cesar for Hart, I'd need Di Maria, not Navas. I know Cesar is injured but I can use him for a decent deal at some point so not letting him go cheaply.

Do you mean

Tevez + Nasri + Navas
for
Sneijder + Pazinni + Cazorla

If so, I would deal on that. Let me know.

Yaya Toure + Navas + Tevez
for
De Rossi + Podolski + Soldado

Helps your injured Navas too

De Rossi + Malouda + Merieles + Romeu
for
Yaya + A Johnson

enq

ganso can go if you want an AM

rvp+adam johnson=ganso+x

enq

Gotze & Benzema
for
RVP & Yaya?

ENQ

Yes we did at the weekend I think

I'd be interested in the firework mentalist if you are thinking of offloading him.

No idea lol, who would you be interested in?

I couldn't give you Pedro for that much!

Puyol + Fabregas + Pedro
=
Albiol + Yaya + £10m

Maybe?

Interested in Bosingwa, Evra, De Rossi, Rooney, Mata
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De Rossi is out of limits at the minute otherwise I would be in the same prediciment as you.
Saying that..you got a great deal from Barca

I should have stated that in a less critical way

I meant to say that even though you have De Jong, your other midfielders are mainly attackers - you do might need another proper DM to balance the midfield.

Injuries have been kind to me this month so I'm not looking to offload anyone but depending on next month we might be able to work something out.

Any deal that may be done will need to include money so I can bulk my squad out. After releasing 8 players I only got £10m so I'm a little light on moneys. :/

Not interested in that I'm afraid. Many on here rate Hazard, probably more so than Navas. Sneijder is definitely > Nasri.

Would need more to lose Wes.

Poss

Pedro + Nasri
=
Sneijder + Pazzini

?
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Poss not.

You previously offered Tevez in that deal rather than Pedro. I rate Tevez > Pedro.

Pedro + Nasri + Navas + Tevez
=
Sneijder + Pazzini + Cazorla + Forlan

Maybe

sorry, he is nfs

adam johnson?

maxi+2m=johnson

enq

Sagna, Koscienly and Ox
For
Richards and Kompany?

Could chuck in Sahin as an extra if Ozil/Nasri isn't in the deal. He's worth a good 15m

What if I added Cesar for Hart to even things up a bit?

Macclads wrote:Could chuck in Sahin as an extra if Ozil/Nasri isn't in the deal. He's worth a good 15m

If Ozil/Nasri is included could you sweeten it with a few mil and I'll go for it.

Pedro + Nasri + Navas + Tevez
=
Sneijder + Pazzini + Cazorla + Forlan

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I can't do this. 3 losses and 1 gain.. it's not worth it. I would need you to drop one of Navas/Pedro and Cazorla.. is that doable?
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Did you see my comment about adding Cesar for Hart?

i.e.

Pedro + Nasri + Navas + Tevez + Cesar
=
Sneijder + Pazzini + Cazorla + Forlan + Hart

or maybe

Pedro + Nasri + Tevez
for
Sneijder + Pazzini + Diego Milito

Aye go on then, deal on the following...

Ozil, Ox, Badstuber and Sagna

for

Nasri, Navas, Kompany and Richards

I can just about do

Pedro + Nasri + Tevez
for
Sneijder + Pazzini + Forlan
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Re Navas & Pedro, it depends on how you rate Cazorla vs Navas. Not much in it imo but shall we do the above to get things moving again?

Is there anything we can resurect on Kompany?

wallcott+ gervinho = jesus