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

How could you choose viva over me :-(

I'm in sod

sodhat wrote:I will take Afro as my first pick.
No offence to anyone else...

You're dead to me. Xxx

sodhat wrote:Afro was top of my big board. You have the potential, but how will you handle the pros? If youare still there in round two, I will take you. You were legit no.2. In a good way.

I wasn't even your back up choice. We're done forever.

BigFellasAfro wrote:I'm in sod

Jesus christ that's team spirit taken to the next level

I shall help whoever needs it

I love how the banter has started three weeks early

Gregers, your pick!

*all the non finalists stare with menace at Gregers as he comes to the podium to announce his pick*

*drum roll*

I'll take trebs please

Marky takes Viva.

When I get to work I'll update the OP, then Soddy can pick again.

VivaPaulScholes wrote:

sodhat wrote:Afro was top of my big board. You have the potential, but how will you handle the pros? If youare still there in round two, I will take you. You were legit no.2. In a good way.

I wasn't even your back up choice. We're done forever.

Now you have to ask yourself whether I was just appeasing Olly or whether he was really my back up choice. You'll never know the answer.

Right then soddy, OP is updated - it's your pick

I will stick to my word and draft Olly with my second round pick. I do wonder whether he'll help though

I'll take Hero as my second pick

Good pick Sod. I was going to PM you saying that he was the best option IMO

Marky picks Nando. Soddy's pick.

At the risk of him not assisting at all, I select ZZZ.

Gregers

I'll take GSC

Soddy you've saved yourself. I feel another rendition of Here Without You by 3 Doors Down is needed

Is that what that song was?

I wondered, I'd never seen it before. I thought maybe you had written it yourself...

Lets not go to far here Soddy

Marky picks Fan.

Soddy, your last pick. Choices, choices

Choices indeed. CF and Tooze won't take part and Cherries will just want to label everything as Swag

Team 'lotion boys with swag what fancy Neymar twice in the face' FTW

I can't turn cherries down, he's the one I wanted all along.

Haha, good one Soddy

Gregers, you choose between two non-combatants

I'll take Toozetastic

CF, you are the weakest link. Join Marky's team

So, the draft has been done. Let's hope the task suits your new helpers's skills...

Happy to have the two finalists from last year's Apprentice on my team.

You haven't it was Nando v Twist

For all viva's bravado, he has never made final

Ok, two semi finalists (I think)

Yeah, it was viva and sod who both went out in the semis on the twitter task

I could have easily made the final if I wanted to. I'm part of the #Beliebers on Twitter and could have got them to follow me in a second. If you look at my results in helping the finalist you'll see I'm the chosen one. Xxx

I said on the main thread yesterday that we would start next week. Wise, seeing as not everyone appears to he back full-time yet.

If im on Teem Soddy Afro can mail me little bits to do & I can help.

Bring it on Azzy, i'm ready!

Now would be a great time to start the final task.

Not in office due to snow, so "working from home". Latest forecast has it snowing until Wednesday!!

Times up, lets do this!

Haha, I keep forgetting! Give me 15mins

Whats going on?

Okay, the task is up.

When is the deadline?

Nice task. When do we need to submit by?

Antonio Conte - £12.5m

Half the Juventus squad for £100.5m

£1m paid to the ref each week to guarantee £37m = 37 wins.

What's my prize?

With Fan gone & I havent seem much of CF wouldnt it be fair to give Marky another team member?

Zinedine_Ze_Zebra wrote:With Fan gone & I havent seem much of CF wouldnt it be fair to give Marky another team member?

He has Viva, he has a huge advantage on the other two teams.