Realistic Premier League II

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Wow, Kagawa is really overrated considering he's never played in one of the major leagues.

Although well done Bull.

Marky, loads of people had Kagawa to score, thought you were unlucky not to get a point out of it though You set up well.

the budesliga is a major league and so is the champs league but cheers anyway!

But Kagawa is unknown in the Premier League. "Realistically" he wouldn't hit the ground running.

Bull, I congratulated you, now sod off. I don't recall Kagawa doing anything in the Champions League.

TheBrahmaBull wrote:the budesliga is a major league and so is the champs league but cheers anyway!

Just out of interest how many times have you seen Kagawa play?

and watching videos on Youtube of his 'skillz' or 'goals' don't count :P

He might hit the ground running. I just picked scores anyway.

He equalised vs L'Arse

Yeah those players like Cisse that come from the Bundesliga do nothing.

Added some new media questions

Personally i think we should end it here and go with things as they are

i have seen him play in some Budesliga games and v Arsenal.(but im a wolfsburg fan so watch there games)

One Budesliga game being Dortmund v Bayern where Kagawa destroyed Munich.

Alright Graeme, that's it, game over

Hero wrote:Yeah those players like Cisse that come from the Bundesliga do nothing.

Name two more.

Jelavic, Luiz had good half seasons after arriving in jan recently

Marky wrote:

Hero wrote:Yeah those players like Cisse that come from the Bundesliga do nothing.

Name two more.

Gylfi Sigurdsson
Michael Ballack
Per Mertesacker

Fernando wrote:

Marky wrote:

Hero wrote:Yeah those players like Cisse that come from the Bundesliga do nothing.

Name two more.

Gylfi Sigurdsson
Michael Ballack
Per Mertesacker

I'm talking "hitting the ground running". Sigurdsson, was an ex Premier League/Championship player anyway and returned. Ballack didn't adapt straight away, and Mertesacker hasn't yet

I don't get though how you can be the judge that the player won't hit the ground running, yes he might take a while to get used to the Premier League but the Bundesliga is probably the best suited to a player to then adapt to it.
Who'd have thought 2 years ago that a guy from the Mexican league would come in and score for fun like Hernandez did. If we're basing it purely on what will happen in real life then we might as well just scrap the tactics bit and wait until the real season starts and judge the results on what happens there.

Think this league is looking really good guys:) Could we add more to the Homepage OTW to make it a bit better?

Come on Hero, you're taking it out of context.

Are you really suggesting Kagawa would make his Premier League debut against a physical side like Stoke and score two on his debut, pretty much run the game and even outshine Rooney?

He's a good player but only really world class players can do that.

Kagawa and Rooney would trip over each other...

But it was as a result of your tactics that allowed him to, you had Rooney marked out of it for most parts which in my eyes then gave Kagawa the freedom to exploit and impose himself.

Personally I just thought you didn't really have enough to trouble United and they'd nick one or two.

Didnt specify who scored

Marky, I think it was more about the tactics. You focussed on Rooney and did nothing about Kagawa and Scholes which was the issue

Although Kagawa seems to be highly rated, almost everyone had him to score.

Graeme Swann's Cat wrote:Personally I just thought you didn't really have enough to trouble United and they'd nick one or two.

Didnt specify who scored

That's my point of view too. No issues there.

Boom

why would they Gregers???

i had Kagawa playing at AM and Rooney at CF they wont trip over each other.

Rooney plays best as a number 10, Kagawa plays best as a number 10.

Tevez and Rooney worked together well

Arguably Rooney was more of a number 9 then but has become a number 10 over time

If two strikers though fail to gel do you usually then lose 3-0? Surely that's more when two defenders fail to gel?

Where'd the text go

My reasoning was it was 1-0 with a few minutes to go, Huth then lost his marker at a corner to make it 2-0 before Walters scored a cracker late on to send the Stoke fans into raptures.

The reasoning of the strikers not gelling was the 0 part.

Right guys, Olly is doing me a big favour and sorting next week's results as I'm not here.

So PM results to him this week, I'll be here throughout and will put a reminder somewhere, but just a reminder

I will try and do results on Sunday, obviously circumstances permitting.

Foreign Offers up for Week 2.

Trebs, if you could PM me my offer that'd be great.

Anyone want to beat my foreign offer of £3million for Distin?

I think a couple of the smaller sides could do with Distin, not me personally though.

I have a 1.5m offer for Aurelio, and I'd probably sell to a lower club if they beat it

In two minds as to whether to accept £18.5M for Cisse.

Good offer and could probably improve my squad
, but not sure whether my first XI would be as good without him

Depends on what you think will happen to his form next season I reckon. Will he have second season syndrome like Hernandez at Utd did?

Anyone want to beat the 11m offer for bobblehead /Gervinho

Distin available for £3.5 million to any club in the league, as Trebs said he'd be a good signing for any of the smaller clubs.

Trebs, well he was quality season in season out for Freiburg, and with Newcastle being pretty much set up for him IRL, I can see his form continuing.

Would you guys agree that CM is where I need to
Improve in this?

Krul
Debuchy Coloccini Douglas BAE
Sandro Arteta
Ben Arfa/Walcott Sigurdsson Varela
Cisse

Sandro's alright but not quite up there for me, Arteta's a good player, you should get in a DM alongside him, would have suggested Tiote but you sold him. Maybe improve on Ekotto who's alright but not amazing

If anyone has any ideas for cb's I can get from foreigns please pm me. Looking for backup to Jags/Daws/Cameron

Also where do people think I should improve?

Vorm
Santon, Jags, Daws, Enrique
Diame, Parker
Lennon, Cahill, Downing
Jelavic

Rods, Cameron, Donovan, Naismith, Sinclair in reserve

I'm not a fan of Downing if I'm honest, that's why I got rid

And Diame is a decent player but if you want to push onto the next level you need better.

See I really like diame and downing is fighting with Sinclair for lw. Once the cash injection comes through I've got a few dcms to Target

Does anyone own N'zonzi?

Check foreign confirmation page

Cheers Trebs

Got to find a DM :/ might play Benat in the next game