The World League II

First topic message reminder :

Rules;
£150m budget with to be spent on anybody based on their value on TM.
Draft system to build the squads.
Squad to be between 20-25 players, no more, no less.
Tactics short, teamsheet, substitutes, 100 words of tactics, few sentences for substitutions.
Everybody votes or lose a goal from their score, just scores and scorers acceptable although feedback is encouraged.
Choose your own real life team name although this will have no bearing on the players you can or can't sign.

Participants;
Azzy - Vancouver Whitecaps
BamBam - Ebbsfleet United
Holymiky - MK Dons
Marky - Crawley Town
Nadeem - Real Madrid
Olly - Accrington Stanley
Trebs - Liaoning Whowin
Viva - Manchester United
Hero - Macclesfield Town
Nando - Chesham United

Structure;

8 fixtures per team, 4 at home, 4 away. Two relegated from the Premier League, two promoted from the Championship.
3rd place in both leagues will playoff for the right to play in the Premier League.
Starting point determined at random.

Premier League
1. Chesham United
2. Liaoning Whowin
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3. Macclesfield Town
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4. Manchester United
5. MK Dons

Championship
1. Accrington Stanley
2. Crawley Town
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3. Ebbsfleet United
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4. Real Madrid
5. Vancouver Whitecaps

http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/detailsuche/spielerdetail/suche

Draft results

Marky:

Holymiky:

BamBam:

Fernando:

Nadeem:

Azzy:

Olly:

Hero:

Trebs:

Viva:

Fernando wrote:You should be happy i gave him 3 more games then i should of by the looks of it Unfortunately Afro you could argue for 5 games or value for money. Everton seems to be more reliant of Lukaku & Deulofeu nowadays which probably isn't a good sign for Barkley at the moment.

#headsgone

Hero wrote:

GSC wrote:Dele Alli most definitely is not thought as a global superstar. Kane probably isnt either.

They're certainly well thought of as seen in the already mentioned '23 under 23':

http://www.squawka.com/news/23-under-23-squawkas-search-for-the-best-players-in-world-football-under-the-age-of-23/593370

6 of the 23 are English.
10 of the 23 play in the Premier League.

Do you have shares in Squawka or something?

Bit naive thinking its a English thing hyping players.

I don't think any of our players are global superstars. In fact when I mentioned John Stones to my colleague in Madrid (season ticket at Real), he wasn't really sure who I was talking about.

But in contrast when I mention "highly rated" Spanish youngsters, I rated virtually all of them higher than him.

The British thing seems to be to gush about young players of any nationality.

Olly wrote:

Fernando wrote:You should be happy i gave him 3 more games then i should of by the looks of it Unfortunately Afro you could argue for 5 games or value for money. Everton seems to be more reliant of Lukaku & Deulofeu nowadays which probably isn't a good sign for Barkley at the moment.

#headsgone

That really shows how little attention you pay. I can't remember Deulofeu's last start. He has been a back up for quite a while now, as Martinez prefers Lennon You are right about Lukaku, but the truth is that him and Barkley are sharing our MOTM awards between them at the moment

Afro wrote:Bit naive thinking its a English thing hyping players.

I don't think any of our players are global superstars. In fact when I mentioned John Stones to my colleague in Madrid (season ticket at Real), he wasn't really sure who I was talking about.

But in contrast when I mention "highly rated" Spanish youngsters, I rated virtually all of them higher than him.

The British thing seems to be to gush about young players of any nationality.

I wouldn't base it on your experiences of one person in Madrid, I'd say we were more the anomaly that the regular fan on the street in our knowledge of other leagues etc, go along to any football match on any given weekend and listen to the conversations about you, most are clueless about teams and players that aren't in their immediate circle. I freely admit on the podcast that my knowledge of the English Championship, League 1&2 is shocking because I have absolutely no interest in it.
We all tend to know of players in other leagues before the masses because of these games forcing us to be looking for the next big thing and make a quick buck and show off our foresight. Average Joe's only care about these players when they're appeared on Sky Sports News or on the back of the Sun as being linked to their club.

Afro wrote:

Olly wrote:

Fernando wrote:You should be happy i gave him 3 more games then i should of by the looks of it Unfortunately Afro you could argue for 5 games or value for money. Everton seems to be more reliant of Lukaku & Deulofeu nowadays which probably isn't a good sign for Barkley at the moment.

#headsgone

That really shows how little attention you pay. I can't remember Deulofeu's last start. He has been a back up for quite a while now, as Martinez prefers Lennon You are right about Lukaku, but the truth is that him and Barkley are sharing our MOTM awards between them at the moment

For Shame Afro, For Shame....

I had a lot of built up football trolling to get out since the last league Didn't think you'd go for it of all people.

#WorldClassTrolling
#CaughtAnIllusiveAfro

You class that as world class trolling?

You've randomly commented about it for the last 2 hours. The fact that it annoyed you enough to do that is good enough

I think annoyed is a bit strong.

I would have said discussing a subject on a forum because it's one I know a bit about

Nando with the classic "losing an argument so pretend I was on a wind up" defence there, a page straight out of the Viva playbook Hank.

Thanks Bob, it'll be interesting to see where he goes from here.

Can we just build our teams and be nice to each other?

Congratulations on the new job Marky, I'm happy to help out where possible.

Morning lads

In Nando's defence he did pm at the start of his windup to say he was going to troll.

Don't worry Miky. I am still friends with Odnan.

Fair enough Hero. I believe that he was. I can't say it raised much of a fire in me. More of an opportunity to fill time during a slow day.

Deulofeu is Everton's MVP. Any true fantasy football manager knows that.

Nando is just getting all the rage out before the Barca annihilation that's coming up

Right so what else do we need to do for the league? I think we are just waiting on Olly in terms of team pages.

All the other stuff seems to be sorted, we need to decide when we start too.

I think we have first matches a week today. Get injuries and lawyers done asap and we're good to go?

Sounds good to me, anyone got any objections, say now.

Morning guys.

Miky what you think of Chip and Yugen clash?

I'm giving to to Chip so far, the boy can't run out of bars and Yungen is making fibs just to get some hype on the tracks. At least he is giving it a go and there is some competition unlike Chip V Bugzy.

Chip released a new track in the last half hour, I'll be giving it a listen on my lunch break.

FIFA Diva wrote:Morning guys.

Miky what you think of Chip and Yugen clash?

I'm giving to to Chip so far, the boy can't run out of bars and Yungen is making fibs just to get some hype on the tracks. At least he is giving it a go and there is some competition unlike Chip V Bugzy.

Chip released a new track in the last half hour, I'll be giving it a listen on my lunch break.

I think Chip was best when he was in Rescue Rangers.

Hero wrote:

FIFA Diva wrote:Morning guys.

Miky what you think of Chip and Yugen clash?

I'm giving to to Chip so far, the boy can't run out of bars and Yungen is making fibs just to get some hype on the tracks. At least he is giving it a go and there is some competition unlike Chip V Bugzy.

Chip released a new track in the last half hour, I'll be giving it a listen on my lunch break.

I think Chip was best when he was in Rescue Rangers.

What or who were the Rescue Rangers?

I think its been strong so far Viva, I can’t see it ending in one person winning though, I think they both will benefit and I think its decent for the scene aswell because there have been so many good tracks so far just from a few days.

I saw a lot of people asking Yungen in the comments if he was sure about this etc and I get that because Chip has had strong battles against other artists but for me I can’t see either of them losing as I said, Yungen is no joke he isn’t going to back down (not that any other artists did) I just feel like they are both extremely strong lyrically and it will probably just eventually end with them talking it out and sorting it between them.

Bad form viva. Here you are talking about chips when miky is on a diet! Disrespectful

They could be on the undercard at Wrestlemania to sort out their differences?

I've done injuries for the Premiership sides playing in week 1

https://www.606v2.com/t62252-injuries#3284742

Can someone do for the Championship, or I can do them and someone do mine?

Before our time Miky.

I agree the clashes have been of good quality and the more hype on this will benefit the scene, Grime has been on a revival recently.

They both are good but I feel with Chips experience and previous clashes I'd tip it in his favour especially with the way he destroyed Bugzy who is irrelevant now.

How can he say Chip weren't on Wretchs or Skeptas albums when he clearly was and he can't even get on Krept and Konans album.

Is Krept and Konan the new version of Kenan & Kel?

They're hip hop artists from London.

Kenan and Kel were one of a kind.

I've done injuries for the Championship, I can but apologize to Bam Bam.

Everybody knows Ken and Kel are a poor man's Drake and Josh.

Mahrez

Rethink needed.

I'm already down to 1 centreback

One thing we should get rid of is PMing tactics, just post them on a page seeing as there's only 100 words anyway, not like anyone can get a real advantage even if they do see the other manager's teamsheet.

I don't agree - think the old system worked well

I won't be posting my tactics in public when Ollys around, he spied on my budget and stole Arnatovic off me.

is anyone doing lawyers. if not i can this week.

FIFA Diva wrote:I won't be posting my tactics in public when Ollys around, he spied on my budget and stole Arnatovic off me.

Kinda wish I'd not done that now just too see how many different ways you spelt his last name throughout the season....

What's the rule on loans?

Fernando wrote:is anyone doing lawyers. if not i can this week.

Go for it mate

No rules allowed Nadeem.

When are injuries for my league going up

They're up, I just didn't do them for your team because you're voting this week!

BamBam wrote:

Fernando wrote:is anyone doing lawyers. if not i can this week.

Go for it mate

How many also am i doing just the championship or all but mine?

All but yours, and I'll do yours if you tell me how you're doing them

No idea how many, 3?

FIFA Diva wrote:No rules allowed Nadeem.

When are injuries for my league going up

No loans allowed I think you mean. Your spelling has been off the past week viva you've misspelt a lot of player names are you OK?

BamBam wrote:All but yours, and I'll do yours if you tell me how you're doing them

I believe it's done via their value on the German TM No idea how many tho

2 per team seems fair for Lawyers.

May be worth opening up a Released Players thread, players to be released at half their TM value.

Done..

Shall we use the same system for TPs as last time? With a 2 hour window for rebidding at 9am or whatever it was

Getting 2 lawyers have been here since the start if sports gaming history, no need to change it now.

BamBam wrote:Done..

Shall we use the same system for TPs as last time? With a 2 hour window for rebidding at 9am or whatever it was

Either that or the old method of first come first served. 2 TP's per week whatever method.

Also bonuses £1m for tactics and £1.5m to whoever votes?