Euro Division LXVIII

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The Enrique & J from 5ive League

FC WHU Do You Think You Are - Gregers
Bilbao - Afro
Would you dance, if Ajax you to dance? - Sodhat
Southampton FC - Marky
PSV - CF
Sport Club Corinthians Paulista - Nando                                                                              
Lille - Trebs

Glad t'be bach - Hero

FC Basel - Viva

FC ZwagAtletico - Zinedine_Ze_Zebra

The Nodge - Olly

Fool 'em FC - Azzy

Would appreciate thoughts on my signing, Vlad is a player I rate highly

Nice signing Greggers, he's looking alright for Spurs.

Roy Keane thought he was Peter Pan    too funny. Wonder ifhe will be on ITV tonight and/or make a comment. If that ballsack Chiles calls him Peter Pan or makes some stupid comment & Keane lays him out, I'd love that!

is there a limit on how many players you can release at once, and can someone give me a quick overview of what budgets boosts you can get weekly

oh and sorry, i just realised i sent my results to olly

Tranq if no one does it before I'll stick something on your page on bonuses etc tomorrow.

And Olly forwarded on your votes so all good

Can someone please give me releases prices.

Half of the TM value as it always is.

How many can I release per day?

0.5

Though under the new rules we now round down.

Don't take me out on me LewanDOWSKIED you.

Question for everyone, current top five keepers in the premier league?

Hero wrote:Question for everyone, current top five keepers in the premier league?

Begovic
Guzan
Lloris
Cech
De Gea

For moi atm

Cech, Boruc, Mignolet, Guzan, de Gea

Not in that order but those five

There's actually a lot of pretty good GK's going round atm, struggling to think of a really Poopie one, maybe Marshall a Cardiff

Current as in now form I'd agree with Olly over the year Hart would be in there.

De Gea, Cech, Begovic, Boruc and Lloris.

Guzan
Boruc
Lloris
Foster
Mignolet

Spent Spent 4 hours on TM looking for a couple of targets, didn't manage to find anyone but at least I found Khediras younger brother, could have saved myself 19m an got him instead.

http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/en/rani-khedira/profil/spieler_124410.html

Morning

Hero wrote:Though under the new rules we now round down.

Start this from Season 2. No point now with 1 game to go & we may as well not break the old method for last match.

Keepers
De Gea
Cech
Boruc
Lloris
Guzan

No order, but they have been the ones to standout with good preformances so far for me

Morning

Morning all,

After similar trawling through the players last night, my mind was made up by Callejon's goal and performance for Napoli.

Duvan Zapata looks like he is going to be some player too

Morning all,

I'm happy with our win against Schalke last night.

I've been thinking of some players to buy aswell but the ones i have been thinking of are between £10-25m and I can't afford that at the moment but that's okay, I can wait

Afro wrote:After similar trawling through the players last night, my mind was made up by Callejon's goal and performance for Napoli.
Duvan Zapata looks like he is going to be some player too

I was waiting for someone to buy Callejon. tbh Afro im mixed, hes doing well in Serie A right now but I dont think hes a top buy. Candreva is onle one goal behind him |& no one rated him. Cerci would of been better imo.

Cristián Zapata looked like a beast last night. Milan did have everyone behind the ball though.
Neymar just doesnt fit, I dont know what it is but every time ive watched him for Barca hes failed to impress me. Confed Cup he was good, Barca career so far, meh, not so good.

Callejon has been great for Napoli now he finally has a run of games. Behind Hamsik, he has been their best player. I had a short list of him or Ricky Alvarez, and also weighed up Robinho or Kaka.

Cerci is limited to the right flank, whilst i was looking for someone who could play LW this week, but also provide cover in other areas in the longer term. Cerci doesn't meet my short term need whilst Callejon covers LW, RW and CF.

Candreva is quite decently rated, but no good for me as too expensive and mainly central, or RW

And it was Duvan Zapata for Napoli I was talking about, not Cristian Zapata

Afro wrote:And it was Duvan Zapata for Napoli I was talking about, not Cristian Zapata

I know, you wrote "Duvan Zapata looks like he is going to be some player too". I just though id give credit to another Zapata.

Duvan Zapata looks decent but he'd need to solidify a place for me, 15 minute bursts at the end of games isn't enough to warrant a bid yet.

Zinedine_Ze_Zebra wrote:

Afro wrote:And it was Duvan Zapata for Napoli I was talking about, not Cristian Zapata

I know, you wrote "Duvan Zapata looks like he is going to be some player too". I just though id give credit to another Zapata.

Fair enough

Callejon has been very good, he's had a fine start to his Serie A career. Will only get better too.

Poor man's Vaz Te.

For clarification, this week's fixtures are:

Glad t’be bach v FC Basel
Southampton v Athletic Ballbag
Lille v Would you dance, if Ajax you to dance
The Nodge v FC ZwagAtlético
Fool Em FC v Corinthians
FC WHU Do you think you are v PSV

plus postponed matches
FC Basel v PSV
Ajax v Fool Em


For those playing twice, you will need to submit two sets of tactics and you should use the same set of injuries for both games

sodhat wrote:Poor man's Vaz Te.

Pah.

Callejon's hair makes Vaz Te's look like his only sticks up because he has just got out of bed

Afro wrote:

sodhat wrote:Poor man's Vaz Te.

Pah.

Callejon's hair makes Vaz Te's look like his only sticks up because he has just got out of bed

Vaz Te plays like he is still in bed.

Has there been clarification yet on allocation of funds for placing within the league?

We always mock Doumbia for being ten years older than he actually is.

How on earth this guy reckons he's 21 though:

http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/en/ahmed-musa/profil/spieler_168337.html

He's not getting ID'd at the door of anywhere, is he?

Hero wrote:Has there been clarification yet on allocation of funds for placing within the league?

No. I think we keep putting in proposals and then it doesn't really get discussed.

I'm proposing that it is £500k a place, working backwards, so

1st - £0k
2nd - £500k
3rd - £1m
4th - £1.5m
5th - £2m
6th - £2.5m
7th - £3m
8th - £3.5m
9th - £4m
10th - £4.5m
11th - £5m
12th - £5.5m

That looks fine to me Afro.

Have we decided on the TP increase and if we're going to close TP for a while.

How about you get a TP bid for every accepted EoS lawyer

VivaPaulScholes wrote:Have we decided on the TP increase and if we're going to close TP for a while.

I've put it on my list of things we need to decide, but no further.

Feel free to promote discussion....

I don't like that idea sorry GSC, with the current system a manager has to decide if the lawyer is worth taking with your idea I can sell and buy a replacement without even thinking. 

Take my situation for example I had a lawyer for a CB but I also had an injury to another CB,  I had to carefully choose to sell my CB an bring in a CB or strengthen elsewhere. 

I didn't take much notice but Nick had a good idea closing the TP for a few weeks,  force people into doing deals in the league when TP closes.

Gerrard is not a top player,  Lampard was never elite level,  Gerrard didn't get much joy against Scholes,  Benitez took the rivalry personally, Keane was a naughty man,  Van nistelrooy almost came to blows with Keane,  Beckham lost the hunger and was more interested in becoming a  celebrity,  rooney wanted to leave,  Jordan Henderson will have problems in the future because he runs from the knees,  Carroll lacks mobility,  downing is not brave and were awful signings.,  something about Hargreaves he didn't like,  Anderson and tevez were main reasons why we lost 2009 final.  

Some of the things sir alex talks about,  I'll be getting his book but I'm not happy with some of the stuff he has said.

Im agree with Viva, no extra TP's. If you get a extra TP's per each EoS Lawyer you accept people will just sell & buy a better replacement.
It will make thing tougher having only 2 TP's as then you have to be more organised in who your selling/buying, manager will have to prioritise they areas they want to strengthen. more challenging.
Whereas if you had 4 EoS Lawyers you could just accept all 4 & replace all 4. No thinking who or what position is priority, its just simple & easy.

Im for my TP Bids idea where we close windows. A PM vote system would be best to decide what all managers think.

WHU looking at raising £2million asap

All fringe players potentially available (Including Vaz Te...)

If I was the sheriff I'd make it only one TP a week.

My initial thought was 4 injuries are still having a major impact on which TPs you do as often you are getting cover for injuries as opposed to buying number 1 targets. I had thought that having a TP window would take away the ability to do this some weeks.

However, then I thought that it would then encourage more domestics

Viva wrote:Some of the things sir alex talks about, I'll be getting his book but I'm not happy with some of the stuff he has said.

Ill be getting it. You dont have to be happy with what hes said. Just read & enjoy getting a once in a lifetime perspective from the most successful British manager & one of the best around.
The Keane thing is funny imo. Im not going to slate either, I love both SAF & Keane but I can probably see what SAF say of Keane being true, hes that type of guy.
The Beckham thing I think is quite clear he liked & wanted the celebrity status + posh had it. I wouldnt really question his work rate though, to me hes always seemed professional.
Rooney stuff is just Rooney, nothing we didnt know or to be surprised about.
Same with the selling Ronaldo part, nothing surprising.

Afro wrote:I had thought that having a TP window would take away the ability to do this some weeks.

Exactly. Domestic transfer may increase + it put even more emphasis on having a squad.