The 606v2 Euro Division

First topic message reminder :

I'm looking to put together a new league over the next couple of weeks and am just this out to garner levels of interest as there are already a couple of leagues out there so I don't want to swamp the section.

Where this will be different to the existing leagues is that the sides involved are entirely made up.
You don't inherit a pre-made European side.

Instead you make your own.
You would initially start with £150m with which to buy a MINIMUM of 15 players and a MAXIMUM of 23 players.
The prices for these players are determined entirely through the transfermarkt website.

http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/en/

But here's where it gets interesting...the prices that are used on transfermarkt are the minimum you can bid, because other people in the league may also want the same person, so do you risk bidding the flat fee or do you bid more (increased bids have to be a minimum £500k more), the other point of note at this stage is that the maximum value player you can bid on is £15m (though you can choose to bid more than the £15m to get the player)

You then get an ADDITIONAL £50m with which to purchase upto 2 STAR players (min 1), though the maximum you can spend on 1 player is £35m.
This will then result in you having a team of a minimum of 16 players and maximum of 25 players.
You then have to name the team, give it a location where they play their home games and send this via PM to myself and Sodhat before the cut off point (to be decided).
Results of who got which player will then be announced and for those that lost out on players due to being outbid, a second chance is available to acquire players before the league starts, and third etc if needed.

Number of leagues is dependent upon how many players participate.

Foreign transfers.
As the only deciding factor for selling a player is cash then there shouldn't be wrangles over if a TP is accepted or not, if you have the cash you can buy!
TPs though will only go through once a week on a Sunday night for the week ahead.
Max transfer value for bringing in a player from foreign transfers is £15m in Season 1.
You can only make 2 foreign transfers per week.

Domestic transfers
Players can move only twice between domestic clubs per season, once they have moved twice you will have to wait until the following season to sell to another domestic club.
They can though be released or sold to an outside club.

For anyone that joins the league after it begins then the following rule applies for the first two weeks:
Transfers between 2 domestic clubs must be within 20% of each other in total monetary value. So for example if Team A wish to buy a player from Team B worth £10m then they must offer between £8-£12m in player/cash value.
Note that once 2 weeks have passed then the manager is allowed to but and sell as they please but this rule is in place to combat the usual bombardment of silly offers that litter the new managers page.

Injuries
Injuries shall be announced once per week on a Sunday night, they shall consist of 2 players, one based from the team picked for the previous weeks game and one from the entire squad.

Tactics

Each week you shall play 1 game, either league or cup (no more than one game per week though), tactics for this game shall consist of a team sheet, injuries for your team, if your team is home or away and a maximum of 15 bullet point lines worth of team instructions.
As well as the tactical instructions you are allowed 2 extra lines of a team talk to motivate your players, show your worth not just for tactics but how you build players up for the game!

Cash

Each week you receive 2m for a win, 1m for a draw, zilch for a loss.
You also receive an extra £1m per week for ensuring your tactics are handed in on time and you've voted on the results.
Each week there shall be a £1m cash bonus to the team voted best tactics.

Hopefully this is enough to entice to sign up! If you have any further questions then please do not hesitate to ask and I look forward to seeing your team sheets!

Confirmed participants

1. Macclads
2. Fernando
3. The BrahmaBull
4. CherriesFan
5. Ollyrules
6. YI Man
7. TSC
8. Twist
9. Marky
10. Nay Bother
11. In the Fast Lane
12. Nick Fury
13. BigFellasAfro
14. ncfc_Tooze
15. Fan Gilhaus
16. VivaPaulScholes

go ahead hero shall be interested to see the many people ive missed out on

BigFellasAfro wrote:We went to the same school of great managers Hero.

Obviously Hero was a few years ahead of me in a class with SAF and Bill Shankly.

I must have been in the same class as Wenger as I've failed to buy anyone and am left with next to nobody!

cherriesfan wrote:i got all of mine

Is that a good thing though. Does that mean that you got players that noone else rates?

Or does it just mean he is willing to pay more money than anyone else...?

Like I said previously...I am in the same boat....Great manager or a team of nobody's?????

We will soon find out

Both look fairly decent to me.

Nay's team at present looks class.

sodhat wrote:Or does it just mean he is willing to pay more money than anyone else...?

There isn't enough slack in the £150m budget to bid too much over value, unless you have a really small squad.

And in that case, your injuries will suddenly expose nice big cracks in your team for tactics to exploit

Remember injury wise that there will be 2 per week, one exclusively from the 1st team you picked for the previous game and one from the entire squad.

I want to sign Own Goal. Got 3 in the cup against Brighton and scored 10 last season for Man Utd.

Macclads wrote:Remember injury wise that there will be 2 per week, one exclusively from the 1st team you picked for the previous game and one from the entire squad.

Only picked two GK's. Can't be that unlucky surely.......Your No1 and your sub gets injured one week

Finding players was a lot harder than I thought. I suppose you either go for balance or you pack your midfield and strikers with big names.

I went for balance.

BigFellasAfro wrote:

sodhat wrote:Or does it just mean he is willing to pay more money than anyone else...?

There isn't enough slack in the £150m budget to bid too much over value, unless you have a really small squad.

And in that case, your injuries will suddenly expose nice big cracks in your team for tactics to exploit

Bear in mind that Cherries is the biggest tactical innovator since Herbert Chapman, and you'll realise it doesn't matter who is available...

I'm not really surprised with the players I didn't get, I'm actually more surprised with who I have so far!!

(I'll give you a clue, one of them looks sleazy!!)

You've got a very decent looking team as well mate as it currently stands.

So of the players i have missed out on,

can i re apportion that funds in anyway i see fit,

I.e i missed out on 3 players so far, but i now bid for 6 players if i want

Thanks Still upset about you-know-who though.

Yes that's fine but wait until all team sheets are in and have been revealed.

TSC wrote:Thanks Still upset about you-know-who though.

Voldemort? You'll get over it!

TSC wrote:Thanks Still upset about you-know-who though.

Someone outbid you on Danny Cadamarteri?!

missed two so now plan b which I dont have lol

Marky wrote:

TSC wrote:Thanks Still upset about you-know-who though.

Someone outbid you on Danny Cadamarteri?!

Danny Cadamateri!! I saw him when he played for DUFC once. He was terrible

TSC wrote:

Marky wrote:

TSC wrote:Thanks Still upset about you-know-who though.

Someone outbid you on Danny Cadamarteri?!

Danny Cadamateri!! I saw him when he played for DUFC once. He was terrible

Was down hill from the moment he scored that goal for us against Liverpool

I just want to find out and then bid on more players, this is the best part of the league I reckon

General question (hopefully not to reveal too much)
What position did you go for for your main star player?

Mine was a GK

Never mind TSC, you could always go for the other Everton boy wonder

You know who i mean

Thats right franny "fox in the box" Jeffers

lol That's true Afro. I think he scored on his debut for DUFC against Hearts but probably only got 2 or 3 more goals all season. He got injured I think.

I missed out on Yaya Banana

Y I Man wrote:General question (hopefully not to reveal too much)
What position did you go for for your main star player?

Mine was a GK

My two star players, one goalkeeper one striker. Based on them not being mentioned in Macc's PM, i'm leading the race to sign them.

I went for CF and CM

Marky wrote:I just want to find out and then bid on more players, this is the best part of the league I reckon

So when we all get our teams, we reset and start again with the rule that you can't get the same players

I went for a defender and a utility man YI.

Nay, he's in the A-League now. Motherwell must have been the final straw for him.

Two strikers for my star players.

1 definately not got, the other is still on

Midfielder and striker for me

i went for a couple strikers but ill definately be re picking lol

Can i have my list of missed people now

Franny Jeffers was another who was great for us initially.

He got in a dispute with Walter Smith about his contract and went downhill rapidly. I don't like to think what Smith did to him.

Question.......

When Sunday comes, do the people we have won the bids for automatically become ours?

By that I mean, if someone hasn't got the player they wanted and makes a bid for the player you originally had the highest bid for...is it still fair game?

I think you automatically get any that you were highest bidder for in the first round.

Second round will only feature players who haven't already gone.

That is how I understand it

TwisT wrote:Question.......

When Sunday comes, do the people we have won the bids for automatically become ours?

By that I mean, if someone hasn't got the player they wanted and makes a bid for the player you originally had the highest bid for...is it still fair game?

Once all team sheets are in then I will reveal who got what publically.
The players listed then for each team are part of the team and CANNOT be bid for next time round.
You can of course though try and get them through a domestic transfer once all teams are complete.

if there the only one's ive missed out on so far im delighted

Are people liking this system btw? I know it's a little different to what has gone before so takes a little getting used to.

Loving it

Rule Number 1 of Football: Do NOT mess with Sir Walter.

I'm enjoying it Hero. Well I was until "Voldemort" was taken away from me... Still waiting on 3 more teamsheets?

indeed im delighted

right new bids in, Maclads can you see if anyone has outbid me this time?

i thought we have to wait until 2nd round to re bid?

I think you had to wait Fan

We do.

Fan you can't rebid. If you have missed out on those players, they are gone forever (unless you can sign them in a domestic deal when the league starts properly)

yes Ik now am not allowed to re-bid, but have put in for new players? should I have waited then?

If so , sorry

Yeah Fan, I think you have to wait until sometime after Thursday to re-bid. Double check with "The Boss"

See y'all later.

no point bidding again until know who is gone fan

Yep, no new bids until the results of the 1st draft is made public sorry.

Pull, Olly and Nick I'm waiting on at the moment for their teams and if anyone else wishes to join up