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

well that wasnt a bad first haul

Muniain scored!

Yo, morning, where do I send 2nd bids to? Hero and Sod again?

Morning

Just me this time is fine Nick, I sent mine to Sodhat late afternoon yesterday.

lads...2nd bids in so hopefully get the striker I need

------------Baumann------------
Caceres-Rami(c)-Sakho-Monreal
----------Vidal----Tiote----------
Cuenca-------------------Mertens
---------------Forlan--------------
-----------------?-----------------

Ahamada, Varane, Strootman, Lodeiro, Faraoni, Maher, Guidetti

what ya think so far?

sodhat wrote:[Falcao is plenty rated

Not by me. His scoring record in Spain is very misleading. He has scored one goal against a team in the top half of La Liga. He is like a short, dark haired, Colombian Peter Crouch.

Actually, he is a good player, although not as good as he was rated on FL.

Why has no one got Mikaël Silvestre !!!

Fan, I know you would go for Vidal or M'villa, I even posted it yday and said you would favour Vidal so I got m'villa.

Falcao is over rated on these things based on his last season preformance. As Afro said hes doing ok but not great. Soldado is the man

I know I won't be going for Hulk based on his performance the other night

I can't believe I paid over the odds for Adebayor and Song, and no one has gone for them.

I could have got them on the cheap. Are they not rated?

Morning.

I don't really rate Song. I like Ade though but he's too "picky" and has a bad temprament.

Falcao is a great player, and I didn't sign him based on the FFA, I signed him based on him being a natural goalscorer at league and european levels.

I was close to bidding on Mario Balotelli instead of Falcao, the guy's a genius and a world class player in the making, but Falcao scores goals.

I don't rate Song, but I do rate Adebayor. He is the ideal frontman for these games. Big, strong with pace. Must be difficult to play against when he is in the right mood.

Falcao = good, not great. Despite interest elsewhere, he ended up at Atletico, hardly a step up. And he has found it hard going against the decent sides in La Liga.

Despite his performances v City, I rate Hulk > Falcao myself

I can't get shut of Song for love nor money in the other Euro league thing.

How many people have got their new bids in Macc?

nick_fury wrote:Why has no one got Mikaël Silvestre !!!

Fan, I know you would go for Vidal or M'villa, I even posted it yday and said you would favour Vidal so I got m'villa.

Falcao is over rated on these things based on his last season preformance. As Afro said hes doing ok but not great. Soldado is the man

Vidal was always top of my shopping list thats why i bid £30m as Ik new everyone would spend on Strikers AM's

left me £20m for a striker but didnt get Soldado, hopefully get the one I have gone for in the 2nd round

got my 3rd players ready lol

how do we all rate matri?

imo Vidal/Tiote is a very good CM partnership has a bit of everything you need from the two

Cuenca was a snip at £4m

Several people for Tiote so he's clearly rated.
Only I went for Demba Ba though!

Matri is a good striker too, better than Doumbia

And you outbid me for Cuenca Fan

Marky wrote:How many people have got their new bids in Macc?

I'm waiting on...

Marky
Nay Bother
YI Man
Twist
Viva
Nick

If you're on the list above but have sent them, please resend.

Macclads wrote:Several people for Tiote so he's clearly rated.
Only I went for Demba Ba though!

i would say he is yes

BigFellasAfro wrote:Matri is a good striker too, better than Doumbia

And you outbid me for Cuenca Fan

haha nae luck min

I missed out on

L De Jong
Sulejmani
Rhodes
Soldado

Sent my bids (again).

Well Afro has become the first person to bid for one of mine in the second round, thought this time I was going to have a clean sweep the way it was going!

You were the only other manager I was concerned would consider Cuenca.

But I took a chance that you would look elsewhere and only offered his market value.

My bad luck

Adebayor and Song

I dont rate Song, think he a poor mans Darren Fletcher. Ade, humm hit n miss so I dont rate him highly but hes good.

Hero, mine will be in soon, just send to you?
What happens if we fail with bids this round?? No 3rd round to make up squad numbers??

Fan Gilhaus wrote:imo Vidal/Tiote is a very good CM partnership has a bit of everything you need from the two

Cuenca was a snip at £4m

If you keep this up your head won't fit through the door

I actually bought a fullback for a star player and a winger.

BigFellasAfro wrote:You were the only other manager I was concerned would consider Cuenca.

But I took a chance that you would look elsewhere and only offered his market value.

My bad luck

why only me?

Yes there would be a quick third round. As it's looking though I dont think there's many double ups in round 2!

TSC wrote:

Fan Gilhaus wrote:imo Vidal/Tiote is a very good CM partnership has a bit of everything you need from the two

Cuenca was a snip at £4m

If you keep this up your head won't fit through the door

I actually bought a fullback for a star player and a winger.

lol am just saying I think they are good

I didn't think any of the other managers would go for him.

I knew you would go for the less obvious names.

BigFellasAfro wrote:I didn't think any of the other managers would go for him.

I knew you would go for the less obvious names.

yeah sort of did

I like to think outside the box instead of the obvious that people have missed out

mo Vidal/Tiote is a very good CM partnership has a bit of everything you need from the two

Dont worry, Fan ALWAYS overrate's his team. nothing unusual there.

I tried to get a balance as the less obvious are also likely to be less rated if managers don't know them.

back-fired for me though as I lost 11 players!

nick_fury wrote:

mo Vidal/Tiote is a very good CM partnership has a bit of everything you need from the two

Dont worry, Fan ALWAYS overrate's his team. nothing unusual there.

I don't think Fan overrates as such, but the more obscure players, although they may be good, if they are not known by managers they are just not going to rate them. Part and parcel of the game

So Barry and Song would not work well as a tandem?

That's a shame, I thought they would compliment each other well.

TwisT wrote:So Barry and Song would not work well as a tandem?

That's a shame, I thought they would compliment each other well.

I wouldn't say that Twist, but i'd say the general concensus is that Barry > Song

BigFellasAfro wrote:

nick_fury wrote:

mo Vidal/Tiote is a very good CM partnership has a bit of everything you need from the two

Dont worry, Fan ALWAYS overrate's his team. nothing unusual there.

I don't think Fan overrates as such, but the more obscure players, although they may be good, if they are not known by managers they are just not going to rate them. Part and parcel of the game

its the chance you take

but if people dont look outside the EPL and La Liga then I am goosed lol

I know some of you take time to read up or watch players you dont know

What do we bid if a youth players has no value on tm ??

Min value of £500k Nick

i have 2 starters form the unkrainian league!

Marky wrote:

TwisT wrote:So Barry and Song would not work well as a tandem?

That's a shame, I thought they would compliment each other well.

I wouldn't say that Twist, but i'd say the general concensus is that Barry > Song

Hmmmm that is ok. I thought Song as CDM would use his strength to break up attacks, lay it off to Barry in another CDM and he can play it simple and keep the team moving.

Not to worry....live and learn

I personally do rate Song, I bought him immediately in the FL. Though I had to sell him on again once I realised he wasn't getting the votes.

£500k bid on Wes Thomas

Song is supposed to play CDM for Arsenal, but isn't disciplined enough and wanders forward.

He can look good one minute and a liability the next. If he could get consistency into his game, he would be a good player to have.

I like Song but he was a star player then I think he is over valued a bit

if not then good signing