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Remaining budget + 25m for player drafts (max of 10 players allowed to be brought in each to have a max TM value of 10m). Players from English Premier League, Spanish La Liga and German Bundesliga are NOT allowed to be picked.

Then another 25m for the star player draft for a player worth a max of 20m on TM, any player upto this value is allowed

lol least we got one each, would have been right annoyed if i lost both

with him and my star buy am gonna be a huge threat down the flanks imo

Shakhtar's Fernando at DM and Wallace of Inter/Chelsea at RB are my best signings I feel, missed out on Piazon and Dede.

And of course Ronaldinho...

Zouma at £17m was alot to pay but happy to have him, think he is the most eexpensive buy so far lol

I imagine that his price may rise a bit Fan as he is on his way to Chelsea next season. As a Chelsea fan I am excited about him. I see him as the long term replacement for John Terry and I think that is what Jose Mourinho is aiming for.

I'm excited about your team Fan, I didn't think of going for Thorgan Hazard and I wish that I did too.

Hopefully get who am after in 2nd draft think my am trio is as exciting as it can get without the 3 main leagues

Also thinking 3331 may be a formation i consider

Yeah with the players that you have, i think that will be a suitable formation for them.

Possibly

Did you bid for another centre forward? I remember last time that you had no-one up front at first?

Yeah but think am gonna get out bid for the one i want, will have a look when all drafts are done

Was gonna play cassano at am till i rememered about a player i went for

I didn't know you signed Piazon he was in my second draft.

Morning kunchers

Anyone seen that Rowan Cheshire skier girl with her face all smashed up? I still would.

Fan - you appear to be building a team that will be competitive in the old Euro Division (with Lucarelli, Cassano and Gargano) or the next version? I can't help feel there is too much of the next big thing and not enough of the current big thing.

Soddy - have you ever listened to any Foster the People albums?

Not full albums no, but I know their singles and I know a friend of mine with good taste (but sometimes weird taste) loved their first album.

Their new single is a belter though.

I heard their new single and liked it, and I really like Pumped Up Kicks, but have never really explored any more of their stuff.

I'm considering a speculative purchase

I have some targets after drafts

I knew you would, an experienced pretend manager like you!!

I assume everyone has now heard "Everything is awesome"?

Afro wrote:I heard their new single and liked it, and I really like Pumped Up Kicks, but have never really explored any more of their stuff.

I'm considering a speculative purchase

Get Spotify and then never make a speculative purchase again!

sorry for delay will submit SP bid shortly.

CF wrote:sorry for delay will submit SP bid shortly.

And second round of draft picks.

I hope everyone remembered there's a total limit of 10, if you got 6 first time you can only bid on 4 second time, etc.

Afro you mean i have nothing in the middle, either old school or new school

Average age of my squad if I get my 2nd draft players is 21.7

My 2nd draft actually put the average up.

I always get played down for playing youngsters

Fan Gilhaus wrote:Afro you mean i have nothing in the middle, either old school or new school

I always try to get a good balance. It is more difficult in this league as the current school are normally more expensive and outside the TP limits, and it is the old school and new school that are affordable/available.

If you play that formation, most is alright, but I would worry about the back three. To play a back 3, all three have to be mobile. Lucarelli isn't really.

Zouma would be brilliant in it, but I still think he would need a more experienced head in there. And that is the challenge - a mobile and experienced CB, within budget

Fan paid 17m for Zouma what was the second highest bid? I like him a very good physical defender who'll suit the English league but he does lack the technical ability at the moment which I'm sure he'll pick up soon.

I just edited my bids slightly, i hope that is okay? I just added a player to my second round of bids to round off the cost and I also added my Star Player bid to the message too as i didn't realise that was due at the same time.

Fan Gilhaus wrote:I always get played down for playing youngsters

I think you get marked down for JUST playing youngsters.

Players like Berardi are doing well, but need to prove it longer to get the same ratings as a more established name in these games. They need to nprove they are more a Ronaldo than a Nani or a Macheda

star player bid submitted!!!

When do we put the draft players in our squads?

But as I said, getting the balance is difficult because the more established players are out of reach.

That is probably one of the positives of going for a more expensive team in the Team draft

sodhat wrote:

Afro wrote:I heard their new single and liked it, and I really like Pumped Up Kicks, but have never really explored any more of their stuff.

I'm considering a speculative purchase

Get Spotify and then never make a speculative purchase again!

At the moment I don't have a data package on my phone as it is paid for by work and they won't pay for me to stream music, selfish buggers.

Therefore, Spotify doesn't help as I can't use it on the go, I don't think?

Problem with being Ajax is that they themselves have only 1 player over the age of 27, they've always been about youth so to then bring in a load of older heads goes against the Ajax way.

You can Afro i think.

What i do is Synchronise it by making a playlist and making it available offline and it then allows me to listen to them offline which doesn't require a connection. I'm pretty sure you will need a connection to be able to Synchronise them though.

Think having cassani, gargano, cassano etc will help

I was so tempted to go ajax, got some great players don't need a lot done

Afro wrote:

sodhat wrote:

Afro wrote:I heard their new single and liked it, and I really like Pumped Up Kicks, but have never really explored any more of their stuff.

I'm considering a speculative purchase

Get Spotify and then never make a speculative purchase again!

At the moment I don't have a data package on my phone as it is paid for by work and they won't pay for me to stream music, selfish buggers.

Therefore, Spotify doesn't help as I can't use it on the go, I don't think?

You can.

It's £10 a month for premium, and you can download playlists (either albums or more 'traditional' playlists of songs you've cobbled together) and then listen to them anywhere without an internet connection. Like an iPod.

But yeah - just download albums at home when you're on your wifi and it'll save the playlists to your device.

Here's a few questions for everyone:

1. Which player were you gutted to miss out on that you lost on a bid (if you did indeed lose)?
2. Which player were you most happy to get?
3. Which player that someone else got were you most jealous of?
4. Which player that someone else got had you totally forgot about and regret it?
5. Which player purchase had you scratching your head wondering why?
6. Which manager did the best from the first draft?

1) Motta and one from the second round of bids...
2) Ansaldi from the first round, and a relative unknown from the second round
3) Pirlo for £10 million, I didnt go for him because of limited budget. Turns out I probably could have!
4) One from the second round of bids...
5) Jordan Rhodes
6) Fan

I'll answer after the second round goes up as there are ones in my second draft that I will either be really pleased to get or really gutted about missing!

1.) William Carvalho 
2.) Haven't got any yet
3.) Not jealous but I wanted Didier Drogba 
4.) Piazon 
5.) Will Hughes 
6.) Gregers

Gregers, do you know when the results will be released mate? (No rush or anything i'm just wondering)

1. Layvin Kurzawa, though he would slip under the radar......Tranq was on it!
2. Vincent Aboubakar, needless to say why.
3. Jorginho, Tranq cant even spell his name right & he beat me to him. Was going to build my team around him. Lucas Piazon must get a mention too, I wanted him but felt there would be a few bids so didnt bother.
4. Dimitar Berbatov, tekkers!!
5. Will Hughes & Ganso. Ones overpriced for a young second division player & the other is just...well...Ganso. Kurt Zouma, Darijo Srna & Gianluigi Buffon all deserve a mention for the mahoosive fee paid.
6. Viva, he saved £31.3m. Wenger would be proud.

Which player were you gutted to miss out on that you lost on a bid (if you did indeed lose)? I'm not really gutted about the players i missed out on.
2. Which player were you most happy to get? - Dede out of the confirmed draft results so far.
3. Which player that someone else got were you most jealous of? - Hero getting Thorgan Hazard was the one that i am a bit Jealous of because i am a huge fan of the Hazard brothers and i forgot that i could bid for Thorgan.
4. Which player that someone else got had you totally forgot about and regret it? - Thorgan Hazard.
5. Which player purchase had you scratching your head wondering why? None.
6. Which manager did the best from the first draft? - I think Hero did.

Holymiky wrote:Gregers, do you know when the results will be released mate? (No rush or anything i'm just wondering)

This evening, basically done them but their on laptop at home and Im at work...

Think they're all in

1. Flip of a coin on Berardi or Zouma, probably Zouma of the two if I was pushed though as I've got ample players in Berardi's position.
2. Hazard, looks to be a possible Worldie like his brother.
3. Pirlo, he's the perenial Worldie but he wasn't in the Ajax kindergarten mold.
4. Rabiot, I have him in another team and can't think why I overlooked him
5. Ganso, not aware on how's he doing currently so he may be back to his '2nd best behind Neymar' form but his stock needs a big rebranding exercise.
6. Tranq looks to have a good set in early and sneaked under the radar but there's some quality there.

Are people wanting a third draft?

If so deadlines as follows:

2nd drafts in: 18:00 Tuesday 18th Feb
2nd draft results: "Evening" Tuesday 18th Feb
3rd drafts in: 18:00 Thursday 20th Feb
3rd draft results: "Evening" Thursday 18th Feb
Star Players in: 18:00 Friday 21st Feb
Star Players results: "Evening" Friday 21st Feb

Start league Monday 24th Feb

Following on from Hero's question.

Predictions for the 2 leagues then.

Division 1

Gregers
Marky
Gsc
Bian
Nando
Viva

Division 2

ZZZ
Miky
CF
Hero
Fan
TC

Questions:

Who will be challenging for the title in each league?
Who will be fighting relegation from Division 1?
Who will be floating around the mid table positions?

What do we think?

Gregers wrote:

Holymiky wrote:Gregers, do you know when the results will be released mate? (No rush or anything i'm just wondering)

This evening, basically done them but their on laptop at home and Im at work...

Think they're all in

Oh, in that case...

1. Which player were you gutted to miss out on that you lost on a bid (if you did indeed lose)?

Probably Barzagli. With all my younger defenders, he would have been the experienced head I could have used.

2. Which player were you most happy to get?

Probably Jetro Willems at the moment, although there are a couple in my second draft that I would be more happy to get  .... or gutted to lose

3. Which player that someone else got were you most jealous of?

Probably Christante. He is the next Italian superstar and is probably the best young player signed.

4. Which player that someone else got had you totally forgot about and regret it?

Aboubakker. He's banging them in and I think he was probably under a lot of people's radar. Also Kurzawa.

5. Which player purchase had you scratching your head wondering why?

£7m for Will Hughes was puzzling. Plus I don't really understand why so many people paid such inflated prices for young players with a lot to still prove. £17m for Zouma and £12m for Berardi are both mad. Neither are worth anywhere near that yet

6. Which manager did the best from the first draft?

For me, Tranquil Chaos, by some margin too