The World League II

[Trebs]

Anyone selling a centre mid?

[Fernando]

If you consider Mascherano one then yes otherwise no

[Trebs]

Thanks but not wanting mascherano

[Fernando]

Well then unless feel like forking out a lot of cash for one of Xhaka or Gundogan im not good.

Right then shall do the obvious thing....Messi or Ronaldo

[Trebs]

£22m for Gundogan?

[Fernando]

I couldnt do that lowest could go is £28m since so difficult to get a replace in CM with pretty much everyone in league.

[Trebs]

Thiago would be a more than adequate replacement who'd be going to lawyers.

[Fernando]

I don't like Thiago though it's why i sold him in the 1st place

[nadeem2099]

Well then unless feel like forking out a lot of cash for one of Xhaka or Gundogan im not good.

Right then shall do the obvious thing....Messi or Ronaldo

I personally would buy CR7. As an unbiased individual I would buy CR7. If I were a Barca fan I would still pick CR7.

[BamBam]

Higuain > Aguero > Suarez > 90m

Jheez you've had some luck with striker lawyers Nando

[Fernando]

Indeed

[Holymiky]

I'd go with Messi but that's me.

[nadeem2099]

I didn't have you down as a tax fraud fan miky.

[nadeem2099]

Barcelona have signed Digne from PSG. Good luck trying to get ahead of Alba in the starting lineup.

[nadeem2099]

Akinfenwa's Wycombe debut lasted just 34 minutes after getting himself sent off #legend

[Hero]

Longest wait for results ever!

[BamBam]

Sorry guys, been a hectic week and was out of the office yesterday

I'll try and do them at lunch

[Hero]

No worries, life comes first!

[Trebs]

I think this Ronaldo signing signifies that we are coming to the end of the league at the end of this season.

[Fernando]

In other words he hasnt got the tactical nouse in 100 words to stop Don Cristiano

[Trebs]

I knew you would sign Ronaldo or messi and I have a plan, I know exactly what I'm going to do.

[Fernando]

Sweepstake Results

Winner - £1.5m - Afro
Finalist & Semi finals - 1m - Viva,Olly,GSC
Everyone else - 500k

[Holymiky]

Nando you can confirm Nainggolan for £27m if you want.

[Fernando]

Done

[nadeem2099]

I would like to humbly donate my sweepstake winnings to nadeem and his real madrid galactose. He is currently struggling in the Championship and as ASDA always says, "Every little helps" Yours sincerely Afro  

[GSC]

I kinda agree with Trebs. When you reach the point that Messi/Ronaldo are in the league it's coming to the end of it's growth.

[nadeem2099]

I think the lawyer values were too high tbh. Should have been normal £ tm value + 10% increase. That would have made it a bit harder to reach Ronaldo level players.

[GSC]

It's Euro values purely because the runner can just log into the German version of TM and take the value directly.

[GSC]

Really how high you start really sets the length of the league. If you do drafts, you tend to find a mixture of saving cash and buying players about to rise in TM also.

[Hero]

I'd like to see less randomness to lawyers and potential profiteering from them.
The league should see those that plan ahead with spotting players who may get a rise rewarded rather than it just get those lucky with their most valuable players get picked regularly.

[GSC]

Given your transfer policy, you would

[nadeem2099]

I know but all you need is a calculator to find out the +10% fee of what they would be.  For example Luis Suarez's tm value is £76.5m. His lawyers offer would be £84.15m. A nice little profit imo. Wheras his € fee is 90mill which is too much of a profit imo. I say this but I sold Aguero in season 1 to lawyers to help fund my real madrid signings

[Holymiky]

I have a plan for when we start again.

We are going to have to buy our teams below a certain value, I want to have a longevity league and not have to reset after 3 season, I would ideally like more.

[GSC]

I get it's not much work. But someone's still volunteering their time to run it, I'm not going to begrudge that person saving some time given I've done it.

[Holymiky]

I don't mind the time it takes, it is easy to do sure but it does take at least an hour of my time a week just drawing lawyers and injuries after I post them etc etc.

[GSC]

To be honest, not many leagues make it past 3 seasons because interest wanes. It's a nice balance between reaching superstar teams too quickly and not very much happening weekly.

I would have people buy real life teams rather than a draft, part of the issue with a draft is everyone enjoys them but when it's finished, everyone has a team full of players they want and not much trading occurs.

[Fernando]

The 10% thing is easy to do just type in 9 million + 10% in google then just change the number at will

[GSC]

I did on a spreadsheet, just had to update the new/old players each week. I'll see if I can dig it out.

[Hero]

Given your transfer policy, you would

Well yeah, I've taken the time and effort to choose players I think will be getting a price increase and play the markets, surely skill should receive more reward than luck?

[Holymiky]

That's what I mean GSC, like we have previously, buy a team and put work into getting players you want.

[Fernando]

Given your transfer policy, you would

Well yeah, I've taken the time and effort to choose players I think will be getting a price increase and play the markets, surely skill should receive more reward than luck?

Considering the squad i started with what ive ended up with wasn't luck just quality planning as usual.

Maybe could do a championship league bar Newcastle obviously

[BamBam]

Definitely an element of luck to it which would be good to get rid of if

i got a Pogba lawyer early on which pretty much won me the first season, but then spent most of the time hoping for one on Aubameyang when Aguero etc all were still out there!

[Holymiky]

The question is though, if we had lower budgets and had to buy teams for example say someone bought a championship side and had like £10m left over, would people be happy with that? I feel the more money in the league at the start can potentially damage longer term plans and longevity.

[GSC]

And you are rewarded for doing that no, when they do get a price increase?

[Holymiky]

It would be lawyering players, just with lower budgets so people can't just buy £15m players straight away cos one lawyer offer that's £20m etc etc

[BamBam]

If you want to have an actual long term league, then starting with limited foreign transfers and controlling when signings can be made is the way to go

Eg, start with sides all around the 70m mark, with a max of 2 foreigns that can be made at the start of the season

Have a transfer window after week 5, another at the end of the season, maybe with a bit more leeway to sign u21 players

That'll keep it competitive, give more cash for predictions and submitting team sheets on time for transfers, and do away with random lawyers. Stick with 2 nominated lawyers in each window for example, and no others

[Trebs]

I agree with what has been said, the lawyer values are too high.

I came up with the idea of making it the value in Euros as it was around +20% which is what we used to do and for the time saved it was a lot easier.

Personally I'd like to be allocated low PL teams, but I think we're better off waiting till the end of the season. I think it's pretty clear we'll be resetting.

[Fernando]

if going to restart do it now and get on with it.

[BamBam]

Na may as well finish the season

Maybe scrap injuries for the last 2 weeks

[nadeem2099]

Might aswell play 6 atb against Hero this week if the leagues ending.

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