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This Week's Fixtures

Week 6
Brisbane Roar  v Perth Morning Glory
Melbourne Victory  v Newcastle Jets
Melbourne City  v Western Sydney Wanderers
Sydney FC  v Central Coast Mariners
Adelaide United  v Wellington Phoenix

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This Week's Key Deadlines

- 2 new Lawyers drawn on Tuesday
- Injuries drawn Wednesday
- 2 releases per week max
- Tactics due Friday

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Links

https://www.twitch.tv/hero606v2

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VM9eIonYMyXCXpQOBjAJylh3wihazcw8RKtLLHiD8HI/htmlview#gid=1996389080

Team	_________	Manager
Adelaide United	_________	Hero
Brisbane Roar	_________	Miky
Central Coast Mariners	_________	Olly
Melbourne City	_________	Twist
Melbourne Victory	_________	Afro
Newcastle Jets	_________	Nadz
Perth Glory	_________	Marky
Sid Knee CF	_________	Nando
Wellington Phoenix	_________	Bam
WS Wanderers	_________	Tino

Match	_________	Transfer	_________	Other
Fixtures/Results	_________	Lawyers	_________	Rules
Table	_________	Foreigns	_________	Youth Rules
Injuries	_________	Releases	_________	Press Conferences
Tactics	_________	Confirmation	_________
	_________	Loans	_________

Im currently

------------------Handanovic
Valencia -- Soktratis -- Miranda -- Alaba
------------Modric --- Martinez
----Lozano -------Fekir -------Perisic
----------------Aduriz

Mainly Lozano,Fekir & Aduriz to upgrade

The 4-2-4 worked so well for me last week, that like any two bit manager who stumbles across a winning formula, I'm not changing the shape despite the opposition being completely different

About to stream Nando v Twist x

Nando v Twist
http://www.twitch.tv/hero606v2/v/254470277?sr=a&t=0s

Afro v Hero
http://www.twitch.tv/hero606v2/v/254481504?sr=a&t=0s

Tactics in. Picked Svilar over Ulreich for bants.

Afro, let me know once you've watched our game so we can discuss it.

I wouldn't like to be the guy facing Tino this week now he's signed Mo Salah

Wait...

I've no depth to my squad at all though and Inaki is injured so my 4-2-4 plans have taken a hit

Hero wrote:Afro, let me know once you've watched our game so we can discuss it.

Yeah watched it this morning first thing. I'm in despair!!!

Least it wasn't another 0-0

Marky wrote:Least it wasn't another 0-0

That was my first thought tbh. I genuinely think I would have been even more upset if it had been 0-0.

I have one more thought on what I can do differently. Failing that I'll be out of ideas

Afro wrote:

Hero wrote:Afro, let me know once you've watched our game so we can discuss it.

Yeah watched it this morning first thing. I'm in despair!!!

You were unlucky, hit the bar, fair few decent efforts, think it could have easily been a few goals more for both of us and Carrasco should have buried it at the end. Was at least a decent game and there was a lot more intent there from your side.
That Werner goal though

Hero wrote:

Afro wrote:

Hero wrote:Afro, let me know once you've watched our game so we can discuss it.

Yeah watched it this morning first thing. I'm in despair!!!

You were unlucky, hit the bar, fair few decent efforts, think it could have easily been a few goals more for both of us and Carrasco should have buried it at the end. Was at least a decent game and there was a lot more intent there from your side.
That Werner goal though

Good goal, although my guys were clearly ignoring the "Pressure" instruction as they just backed off. Felt the game was even overall, but you took a chance and yet again I didn't.

Roll on next week versus Olly!

Has Miky got his tactics in yet? I want to see how my custom tactics go down! If its not tonight I won't be able to watch till Sunday so I'm being even more of a keen bean than usual

Miky, Olly and Tino's are the tactics I'm awaiting upon

I'll get some in in a bit.

Considering Nando destroyed my midfield i have to rethink it.

Question for the masses...

Manager A has made their 2 signings for the week.
Manager B makes an offer involving a pot of cash to Manager A.
Manager A instead asks Manager B if he could instead use that cash to buy a player from foreigns to include in offer. Manager B has the foreigns available to do this.

Would this be frowned upon?

I'd view it the same as Tino buying two youth players off Twist 4 mins after Twist signed them last season - think we all disapproved

Hero wrote:Question for the masses...

Manager A has made their 2 signings for the week.
Manager B makes an offer involving a pot of cash to Manager A.
Manager A instead asks Manager B if he could instead use that cash to buy a player from foreigns to include in offer. Manager B has the foreigns available to do this.

Would this be frowned upon?

Yes. It is circumventing the 2 player limit in TPs. Had it in the past and the transfers were reversed

Okay no probs.

Tell Nads to come up with a better offer

BamBam wrote:Tell Nads to come up with a better offer

The offer ain't bad in fairness. Is it Fridays or Tuesday foreigns reset nowadays?

Tuesday

I can't wait to see how much you fleece him for based on the last offer you rejected

If he buys a player who I want, plays him this week and then transfers him is that then allowed being that I've already played this week?

Don't see why not, no different to any other domestic deal I guess.

He could have bought the player without any of us knowing you wanted him as part of the deal and sold him to you next week and we would have been none the wiser

Just don't want to do it and then someone then take issue with it.

\\\me and Trebs weren't allowed to do it even though i suggested similar

Also in other news Fekir & one of Javi Martinez/Benatia can go

I think anyone buying a player from the TPs on the knowledge that they are doing so to sell on to another team is getting around the TP limit. Why don't you just wait until Tuesday?

Afro wrote:I think anyone buying a player from the TPs on the knowledge that they are doing so to sell on to another team is getting around the TP limit. Why don't you just wait until Tuesday?

Also true. I imagine Hero wants to bring in 3 players from TPs next week with the fortune he's going to get from Nads

Fine to wait till then!

Cash wise the player I want is worth the amount Nadz was offering to me so I suggested instead he bought the player.
So to confirm is there any issue with Nadz buying the player now, playing him this week and then transferring him to me on Tuesday.
Or would people prefer him to just give me the cash and I make the purchase on Tuesday.

And on a separate note which someone's pointed out to me...
I put forward the rule that any team's bench can only have a maximum of 1 keeper on it. It's not happened yet but a loophole could be exploited where a manager can fill his bench with 4 keepers or more and that then makes the CPU chose the remaining outfield subs to come on as it never seems to pick keepers.

Oh Nadz has gone ahead and bought the player now anyways....

I hope he keeps him

Marky wrote:I hope he keeps him

TBF he made the suggestion of Nainggolan in the 1st place.

I'm gonna see how well Nainggolan does in this week's match first. If he plays good then I'm in with a dilemma

I happily lose one of next week's foreigns if people wish being that Nadz went ahead and got Nainggolan now rather than do the cash and I then purchased on Tuesday.

I dont think he should be traded next week either as I've already received a PM expressing a dislike if it were to happen.

Top of the league and no one wants to try and do domestic deals with me.

Hope you are all good lads and keeping well

I couldn't have been more upfront over it and I'm happy to renage on one of my foreigns next week to put it through. Others have in the past been underhand in doing similar and there's actually no rule ever been put in place to stop it despite it happening previously.

I think the risk is it being seen as getting around the TP limit. The second risk is that someone else may have been planning to buy him Tuesday (not me btw as he was on my list but I don’t have the cash) and you have effectively taken him of the market and reserved him.

Spirit of the game should be that no one should use their TPs to the benefit of someone else.

I deliberately tested the water quite hard with Nadz earlier and it is quite clear he is keeping hold of Nainggolan in order to trade him and get Asensio of you.

Fair enough, I think you are genuinely not trying to find loopholes and If you give up 1 of your 2 TPS then this counters the first problem. Bur not the second. I think this probably happened because Nadz jumped the gun, and you would have just waited until Tuesday after discussing it on here.

But I also don’t think there can be a deal where you get Nainggolan this week when others have had deals reversed for doing the same thing

What I've suggested to Miky is that Nadz can either keep Nainggolan for a month and not trade him or the transfer is cancelled and we go back to the original deal of cash involved.
Being that once the market opened on Tuesday at midnight no-one else would have had 40m in their bank unless they went mental on releases I could them acquire him before anyone got lawyers.

Regarding the Nainggolan transfer...

I'm going to set a rule here to keep things clear.

Nadz you have the option to revert the Nainggolan deal if you are planning to trade him within the league over the next month (28 days from the 26th April). This will mean the same for any player going forward. If you and Hero still want to do the deal and then Hero buys Nainggolan on Tuesday as planned then that is fine but anything other than that is not being allowed.

I think that is fair all round.

Incidentally I could release just Aouar and have the cash for Nainggolan...

Being as I'm being upfront though I'd trust you not to then try to steal a march on me with information that I was going to get the player at that time and you'd previously not have thought to do such a thing.

Damn you playing the moral card

No I wouldn’t. You already know I hate releasing and writing off 25% of a players value.

My interest in Asensio is genuine though, so please
Negotiate. I could use my cash to help get you up to what you need for Nainggolan

Holymiky wrote:Regarding the Nainggolan transfer...

I'm going to set a rule here to keep things clear.

Nadz you have the option to revert the Nainggolan deal if you are planning to trade him within the league over the next month (28 days from the 26th April). This will mean the same for any player going forward. If you and Hero still want to do the deal and then Hero buys Nainggolan on Tuesday as planned then that is fine but anything other than that is not being allowed.

A month is too long imo. I was close to trading Higuain to Afro after about 10 days but it definitely wasn't the intention when I signed him

2 weeks seems fairer to me

All this for Nads wet dream of a knock off real Madrid ffs

Here's your game Bam btw x

http://www.twitch.tv/hero606v2/v/254857073?sr=a&t=0s