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CUP TACTICS AND VOTES TO MARKY (unless you're in the Spanish group, in which case send your tactics to Afro, please)

Those who voted, and posted tactics can add £2.5m to their budgets.

Those who didn't do both of those things get £1m only.

The Fan Gilhaus 'Whooooo?' League

Deportivo la Chorizo - Gregers Under Brescia FC - Afro Bratwurst Mannschaft - Treble Name Pending - Cherries Bunga Bunga FC - Olly
Total Juan Carrs FC - Hero

Table

VFL Bassender - CF

AHAAAAAAAAAA Alan Partridge FC - Tooze


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the Cherries loves Neymar Championship

Atalanta Falcons - Sodhat

Tactics

FC Murder On Zidane's Floor - Zinedine

Injuries

Deportivo My Sharona - Marky

Lawyers

Spanish Bank FC - GSC

Fixtures

Moleicester City - Fernando

Results

No Respek FC - Azzy

Table

Pass the Deutschie - Viva

Bayern My Erch - Fan

£1m Predos prize, come to papa

morning, so Azzy, ya think Benteke would be worth going for as my No.1 CF?

A little help regarding my Elite League side;

How would you position 4 of these 5 players as the front four of a 4-2-3-1?

Samir Nasri, David Silva, Robin van Persie, Michu, Nicolas Gaitan

I have only received votes from Myself, Hero, Gregers, Sodhat, Afro, Viva, Azzy, Fan and Trebs.

Those who haven't voted, you will receive a -1 goal penalty.

That's Cherries, CF, Nando, Olly, Tooze, GSC and Zebs. That is unless you get them in by this week's "one week only" extended deadline of midday, as I'm unable to do the scores until after 12 today. And I'd rather have more votes.

if I do get Benteke


that looks not bad?

I think it would be pretty good, only thing is you'd need Marin to play more regularly.

I agree with your Nasri - Michu - Silva, but I was concerned moving Silva to LW to accomodate Michu would affect Silva's game, when I could play Silva at AM and Gaitan at LW.

yeah just trying to improve other areas first, GK, LW as well or i could play De Bruyne, I love Benteke think he is an absolute beast of a player

Silva is a quality player and quality attackers can play where needed, Michu should be rated and should be rated higher than Gaitan imo

Gaitan as a sub if it aint working and shift Silva inside

Fan, I'd definitely sign Benteke. He's quality, and getting better by the game. A move to a big club would help him of course

I'd play:

Silva-Michu-Nasri
--------RVP

With Gaitan as a sub on the hour mark.

at 7.9m cant really complain..if Villa improve he has no need to move yet

Everyone can add their weekly £1m bonus.

The £1.5m voting/tactics bonus will be announced a bit later

Marky i will try and get votes in soon.

Looking forward to seeing these last few Cup games...when the results are in please can you post the default ones as well? I'll need to ask those managers who win to nominate their scorers.

Hero - please nominate your two goals from your walkover of Alan Partridge in Week 6. Your team used was:

Iraizoz
----Varane---Martinez---Amorebieta---
Lichtsteiner ---De Marcos---Koke ---Asamoah
Herrera
Aduriz---Rodrigo


Thank you xx

Just got myself a £240 set of Dunlop golf clubs for £120 as my Xmas present from my wife.

(We're not very traditional this year)

I should probably take up golf sometime soon or I'll look an idiot...

Azzy Mahmood wrote:Hero - please nominate your two goals from your walkover of Alan Partridge in Week 6. Your team used was:

Iraizoz
----Varane---Martinez---Amorebieta---
Lichtsteiner ---De Marcos---Koke ---Asamoah
Herrera
Aduriz---Rodrigo


Thank you xx

Hi Azzy, I think I chose Herrera & Aduriz

Cheers Hero.

Scorers updated for the Fan League and Cherries League. Quite interesting at the top, plus look how many goals we're scoring in the Cherries League

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/news/world-football-linesman-dies-attack-youth-footballers-181329171.html

Scary stuff. He was officiating in his own sons match aswell when it happened.

Anyone up for some silence-busting SHEEP? I'll do questions

If you like

Apparently not then GSC

People must be doing their Christmas shopping online, it's way too quiet for a league with the volatile characters we have.

Dortmund vs Man city should be a decent watch tonight.

Only because we all love seeing City getting spanked. I love Dortmund's ethos, and hate City's players and manager, so I am really hoping for a 10-0 drubbing.

City won't even try to win because they won't want to get a Europa League place.

I was in a idea generation meeting, exciting stuff.

Afternoon

Lawyers and injuries done?

Guys, had an office re-arrange which came from the powers that be, cant get on all day now as my screen is in view of my team members, wont be good if they see me messing about for most the day when I encourage them not to take the pee with internet usage. Leave offers on my page, will reply to them around 12pm each day or after work hours. I will email my tactics to Afro each Thursday or Friday before a matchday.

Afro, when results are out if you can email me them that would be much appreciated. Thanks

Also, Viva sort your FIFA UT out. Yes you best me 3 times with normal teams. Normal teams are poop. I played Nadz on Sunday, beat him 3 times with my UT (one was on pens tho so not really a clear win) & Nadz is good, personally after the first time we played I though hes better than me but maybe we are quite equal. Either way they were good, entertaining games against Nadz. #FUTisthewayforward

Hero - quit your job, that sounds horrific

Viva - no word from anyone on those or results (sometime after 12 we were told on those).

Zebs - that's a shame, perhaps you could sneak into the loos every half hour or so? Your team will be too afraid to ask why you keep going in there

I've stopped playing FUT, I have 90k in the bank but nothing to spend it on. The online games you either get pace abused or the other team quits when they go 0-2 down. I've been playing career mode with Albion, I quite like my team:

-----------------Isaksson
-------Kjaer-Alderweireld-Olsson
Debuchy---------------------------Cole
----------Fellaini-Tiote-Eriksen
----------------------Ben Arfa
--------------Lukaku

Lukaku cost me £6m from Chelsea after scoring 52 goals in the first season. I had Demba Ba for six months, he scored 4 goals, and I sold him to Inter for £10m profit. Defence is where I'm upgrading next, but I've noticed that almost all defenders' stats start declining about age 28. Not exactly in keeping with real life!

Zidane hope you can get back on soon.

I didn't have an advantage Zidane, I beat you easily pure domination one shot on target in both games and that was a deflected scruffy shot. You can't beat me, you won't last in my world.

Nadeem scared the Cat, my results (6-0, 5-0, 3-0 etc) came up on his newsfeed on Fifa and he deleted me the wastemann. Everybody is scared to play me, I'm the best I want Ollys ass but he always says his brothers are playing.

VivaPaulScholes wrote:Afternoon

Lawyers and injuries done?

dont think so

The few weeks leading up to Christmas are always slow.

i havent even started my christmas shopping yet!!

Benteke signed

Just bunged up lawyers for Cherries league and am about to do injuries.

Cup results imminent

Alan Partridge 0-1 No Respek
(Beckham)
(Alan Partridge -1 for not voting)
Votes: 2-2, 2-2, 0-0, 0-0, 0-0, 1-2, 0-4, 2-0 = 7-10 = 1-1

A lot of oldies in the No Respek line up who are past their best, like Henry, Beckham, and I don't think their full backs are good enough. The Patridges don't have any balance in midfield though and therefore a draw is a fair result for me
A pretty poor game which neither dominated, not much of note to report
Did Partridge change formation for the sake of it? The central midfield struggled with two players not used to the position, luckily for them No Respek did not have the bite and edge they normally have with Beckham and Giggs starting
A real bore draw for me. No Respek had a real mixed bag of old and young, and it felt a little disjointed. I couldn’t quite put my finger on it, but it felt wrong! Partridge were unable to make that count however as I felt Holt did a decent job up front, but was far to isolated to make it count for anything
Close game with two sides adopting very different approaches. No Respek have the full backs sat in so I can see them soaking pressure and hitting on the break for the win
Partridge sent out a wierd side with their star player not starting and I don't feel that there midfield could cope with No Respeks. Soriano is the major player for me and with Giggs/Beckham rolling back the years they stormed to victory.

Injuries now also done for Cherrys league.

Boo-ya, 1-0 to the old fogies

Bayern My Erch 2-2 Bratwurst Mannschaft
(Klose x2) (Shaqiri, Son)
Votes: 2-2, 1-1, 2-2, 1-1, 1-2, 2-1 = 9-9 = 2-2

A close game between two very even teams. Shaqiri in a free role was a good move by Bratwurst, while Bayern's width caused Bratwurst's full-backs problems. Sadly the two midfields negated each other, so it wasn't a pretty game.
A real quality game. I like the midfield 3 of Bayern and Neustaedter did a great job on Shaqiri and kept him quiet, and Hummels did a fine job on Kiessling. However, Son was a real nuisance and Bayern had no particular game plan for him and he earnt Bratwurst a well deserved draw
Too tough to split, and Trebs has done some good work on picking a style to be effective. Fan is worth a draw still, he has the basis of a good side to build on
A very close game with neither side really able to stomp their foot on the game with the midfield so tight. For me this comes down to the strike forces and Kiesling beats Klose in my mind and he makes the difference in an extremely hard fought Teutonic war of attrition!


Pass the Deutschie 4-0 VFL Fassbender
(Sterling, Routledge, Huntelaar x2)
(VFL Fassbender -1 for not voting)
Votes: 2-0, 1-0, 2-1, 1-0, 5-0, 4-0 = 15-1 = 3-0

Deutschie prepared much better than Fassbender, and that paid off. Routledge and Sterling were the difference makers, as they always seem to be in the cup
I felt Deutschie looked a bit unbalanced with Rose at RB and Routledge at LW, but other than that, they were the better team and better instructed team of the two. Fassender look good on paper, but they need better instruction from their manager to achieve their potential
More or less the same ideals from these two, although perhaps Viva was more detailed about it... Nonetheless, I see the odd goal winning it, and there is a shade more chance that it comes from Viva's team this week. A better LW for CF might have exposed Rose being wrong sided here.
Simply put cf has to do tactics if he's going to pick up wins, and selling Mandzukic for Adebayor was an awful move. Deutschie are brilliantly set up and completely dominate the game especially in the wide areas and in the final third. Their fans go home delighted with the rout that they enjoyed.

Murder on Zidane's Floor 0-2 Under Brescia
(Tevez, Cassano)
(Murder on Zidane's Floor -1 for not voting)
Votes: 4-3, 0-3, 1-0, 1-1, 1-0, 1-2, 1-2 = 9-11 = 1-2

Brescia have a very, very good team, and it was just too good for FC Murder. The partnership of Tevez and Cassano was not handled well by the three CBs, and the pace down the flanks was far too much for Jenkinson and Santon.
A very good game today. Defensively the tactics from Zidane were spot on as they kept the Brescia forwards quiet. Pedro and Hernandez both caused problems and a late goal gave them a very tight victory
Brecia had a lot of joy getting to the flanks which saw them take an early lead, however Zidane came more into it through the middle of the pitch which saw them equalise in the second half, a game they should have went on to win but had a poor afternoon in front of goal
Murder defended well and the 5 man defence worked picking up Tevez who found it difficult finding space and had to drop deeper, I feel Murder found it hard to break the Brescia defence down with Verratti being able to keep possesion. It was late on in the game when Brescia made three subs and Murder took advantage of that and nicked the win
Pretty tricky to work out how the formation would fit for MoZF but in the end I think Afro's boys are stronger in the attacking areas and solid enough at the back to hold against the attacking threats posed

Thank you marky. 4-0

VivaPaulScholes wrote:Thank you marky. 4-0

CF deserves some credit there too Viva

is it home and away otr just neutral for cups?

happy to get Benteke and Unnerstall in

Maincon going to Lawyers for £7.5m unless anyone wants him?

Azzy Mahmood wrote:

VivaPaulScholes wrote:Thank you marky. 4-0

CF deserves some credit there too Viva

yeah he does. I would have won by less if CF didn't get tactics in

Deportivo la Chorizo 2-2 Total Juan Carrs
(Soldado x2) (Muniain, Herrera)
Votes: 2-1, 2-1, 2-1, 1-1, 1-2, 3-2, 1-3 = 12-11 = 2-2

DLC had too much quality for TJC. Custodio did a good job on Herrera, while the movement and creativity of DLC's forward four was much too much for TJC's defence and DMs to handle. Isco may well be the best-deployed player in the league. DLC also put out a very organised and talented defence, which handled TJC's wingers quite easily. TJC have a good team, but DLC have a great team and should go far in this competition
Tight game but Chorizo edge it for me. Their side is very strong and they have the players to dominate in midfield with some very good attacking players who can cause chaos amongst the Carrs defense.
A tight game with two very good teams on display, a late goal by Varela saw the home side secure a late victory
With Juan Carrs coming forward it was on the break where Deportivo hit them, both teams had equal possession Deportivo were able to handle the pressure style from Juan Carrs. As the game went on Juan Carrs put the pressure on and got the goal but didn't have enough to get a second
This was a tough one to call, but TJC just won for me because of their AM three of Munian, Herrera and Susaeta had the beating of Monreal, Azpilicueta and Custardio
Attacking fare, but with an edge to Depor who boast a really talented front four. They will nick one more than TJC who will still get theirs

Cup Week 3:
Spanish Group: Deportivo la Chorizo 2-2 Total Juan Carrs FC, Spanish Bank FC 0-2 Deportivo My Sharona

English Group: Moleicester City 2-0 FC SWAG, AHAAAAAAAAAA Alan Partridge FC 0-1 No Respek FC

German Group: Bayern My Erch 2-2 Bratwurst Mannschaft, Pass the Deutschie 4-0 VFL Fassbender

Italian Group: FC Murder On Zidane's Floor 0-2 Under Brescia FC, Atalanta Falcons A-A Bunga Bunga FC

Will finalise groups later and then we'll do the draw for the Quarter Finals

Marky, isn't there some '+1 goal for 3 wins' rule? In which case La Chorizo would win?

an improvement on this?

No because it has to be +3 wins.
Chorizo got 4 wins, I got 2 so the net is only a +2.

Doesn't matter wither way though for me as I'm still out!

What Hero said.

just need a LW now and a couple of additions to the squad and am pretty much near the team I would like..got a list of 5/6 players I would like