The Azzrentice Final

First topic message reminder :

Hello everyone. We're finally here - the Azzrentice Season One Final. Congratulations to Gregers, Soddy and Marky for getting this far, and thank you to all of you who have competed in the competition so far. It's been fun, yet tough. And there can be only one winner.

TEAMS:

TEAM SODDY	TEAM GREGERS	TEAM MARKY
Soddy	Gregers	Marky
Afro	Trebs	Viva
Olly	Hero	Nando
Zebs	GSC	Fan
Cherries	Tooze	CF

The task:
I want you to present to me a vision. A vision of what football really means to you. And to do that, I'm giving you £125m to spend.

With that £125m, I want you to buy a team of 18 footballers, using their TM values as of 24 January 2012 (prepare now but check the values don't go up when you submit). For this 18-man squad, I want you to provide a starting XI, and a briefing on how you want them to play. Not tactics as such, but I want you to inspire the players with a vision for how you want them to play the game.

Now, to help you, I am going to offer you the chance to purchase a manager. You can have another £25m for this - anything you don't spend can be put towards your squad purchases. The manager will be the person who will carry out your vision, who will put it into practice and get the players playing the way you want them to. Not to say that you're choosing the manager's vision of course, but if your vision is of lumping it to Andy Carroll, don't choose Wenger! Manager prices are as follows:

Pep Guardiola - £25m
Jose Mourinho - £25m
Sir Alex Ferguson - £25m
Roberto Mancini - £20m
Arsene Wenger - £20m
Guus Hiddink - £17.5m
Tito Vilanova - £17.5m
Jupp Heynckes - £16.5m
Andre Villas-Boas - £15m
Jürgen Klopp - £15m
Massimiliano Allegri - £15m
Marcelo Bielsa - £13.5m
David Moyes - £13.5m
Diego Simeone - £12.5m
Brendan Rogers - £12.5m
Antonio Conte - £12.5m
Manuel Pellegrini - £10m
Rafael Benítez - £10m
Michael Laudrup - £8m
Chris Hughton - £5m

I will be judging this task on three aspects:

1. The starting XI, including chemistry between players (ie, they have to complement your vision)
2. The substitutes, so you don't buy any old toot to make your first team look better
3. Your vision, including whether your manager is capable of carrying it off

The team with the best XI, subs and vision will win - the prize is still to be determined. Good luck one and all!

DEADLINE IS 2359 ON THURSDAY 24 JANUARY - FRIDAY 25 JANUARY WILL BE AZZRENTICE LIVE

me

Done deal Nando, I got diddly squat for running Season One so someone else can have a go while I win the prize

Azzy you have to run apprentice next season, anyone else doing it would just be a poor imitation. I'll even pay for from my budget for you to run it next season. How does £3m sound?

I'll do it next time

You won't be getting £3m from me GSC, you'll have to ask the runners if they'll cough up. I once sneaked into the admin section and on the fundings/budget page they had £800m

I'll do it for free, I don't need blood money

I wouldn't want bloody mine either, especially period blood money.

If you want to take over next season GSC get your ideas in now.

Nando or GSC, it's over to you

Collaboration Nando?

Azzy, you can add £2m for running the Apprentice which is the same as he runner up got. Sorry, thought I mentioned that on Friday

Although I'll add that it was season 2 of apprentice not season 1

It was, however, season 1 of the Azzrentice

Cheers Afro. Maybe I'll carry on for a second season

GSC wrote:Collaboration Nando?

Sure why not

Sorry to disappoint you guys, but Viva wants me to do it again and I can't let him down

it's no fun once you've done it before suddenly you have favorites and start favoring people

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bring it back 07.04.2013