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[Hero]

Shall I sort lawyers?

[Fernando]

Might aswell

[Hero]

All done, please can someone do mine? x

[BamBam]

Malang Sarr

[Afro]

Please can we make sure all offers and negotiations are done on here,
not WhatsApp PM etc.

[Hero]

I'm looking at possibly offloading Kante this week due to his injury.
Ideally I was looking for cash, but I'm willing to listen to offers too of P/EX so feel free to put them on my page.

[Trebs]

I'm after a left winger

[Afro]

Open to offers on all my team, except Bernardeschi and Belotti

[Afro]

How are we doing on predos Nadz?

[Fernando]

Anyone else watching Citeh vs Monaco

tiis scary how fast Monaco go from back to front to the back of the net Bernardo more left footed then Robben seemingly

[Hero]

Mbappe 

[Fernando]

Was a great finish - Terrible defending. Ive found Mobdro PC version Now can watch even more football

[Afro]

Mbappe playing brilliantly. Monaco brilliant albeit a bit lucky not to be down to 10 men and having conceded a penalty

[Hero]

Anyone else watching Citeh vs Monaco

tiis scary how fast Monaco go from back to front to the back of the net Bernardo more left footed then Robben seemingly

Similar to Robben though in why need a 2nd one when that one is just sooooooo good.

[Afro]

Miky's relatively small investment in Falcao is looking much better business than the 10s of millions being spent elsewhere.

Well done Miky for being the one to take the chance.

[Holymiky]

Thanks mate.

You did bring him up to me as well though, can't take all the credit

[Hero]

Just don't have him on penalty duty.

[Fernando]

I jizzed a little over his chip

[Holymiky]

What do you guys think of Ruben Pardo?

[Afro]

Thanks mate.

You did bring him up to me as well though, can't take all the credit

You were there one who took the chance on him though.

[Afro]

What do you guys think of Ruben Pardo?

Solid footballer. A few years ago looked like he could be a star but he has never quite lived up to that breakthrough season.

[Trebs]

He's okay and wouldn't be seen as a weakness. But wouldn't be a vote winner IMO.

I think it was soddy that used to rate him really highly.

[Holymiky]

Well i started a career mode last night on Fifa with Real Sociedad and I'm a fan of Pardo so I recalled him.

How are we on votes? Who we waiting on?

[BamBam]

Thats 48 hours since tactics went up so anyone late now doesn't get the bonus

[Hero]

Not me, Sent mine yesterday morning x

[nadeem2099]

Is the tactics word limit 150 or 200?

[Fernando]

150

[nadeem2099]

What if someone has gone over by about 7 words?

[Afro]

I suspect you are talking about mine having looked at them. On my word count, it was 2 words over, not 7

Either way, the idea is to stop people taking the mick and writing war and peace, not to punish them for being inadvertently a few words over.

[nadeem2099]

What about last week when you were nearly 30 words over against me?

[Holymiky]

Remember that we only count the sub instructions into the tactics.

So sub instructions and the explanation of how you want your team to play etc is the 150 words.

Everything else for example is free so Injuries and formation etc

[nadeem2099]

That's what I did

[Afro]

The 150 has always been a guide. In the past we talked about whether we needed to increase limits and the consensus has been that we don't need to because no one is abusing it and writing massively long tactics.

Personally I think common sense has to be applied as no one is really taking the urine for it actually need to be worried about.

But we can go down the path of making it a more rigid, strict rule if that is what managers want to do?

[Afro]

Remember that we only count the sub instructions into the tactics.

So sub instructions and the explanation of how you want your team to play etc is the 150 words.

Everything else for example is free so Injuries and formation etc

I don't count any headers either as that isn't instruction, its just making it easier for the voters to follow.

[Holymiky]

Didn't Nando get punished last time or was it decided that we let it go?

[nadeem2099]

I'll let it pass this week but if anyone is even one word over whenever I do votes it's gonna be an auto loss from me

[Afro]

*pedantic hat on*

Where does it state what the punishment is then? Doesn't say the punishment is for it to be considered by voters within the results and voting, so it shouldn't be. The punishment could be a fine

If we want to go down this path, then that is fine, but the rule needs to be tightened up, specifying what is in and out of the word count, and the punishment clearly defined.

You can't just decide that you are going to vote people down for it IMO

[Afro]

Miky - lets get our heads together and come up with better wording for the rules page.

I don't see that there is a problem here tbh, but if Nads is going to start giving people losses for being a word over, then we need something more specific in there

[nadeem2099]

Maybe I was a bit OTT with the auto loss threat. Just change the tactics word limit to 200 and the problems sorted.

Results done

[Trebs]

Good game afro but I felt that this was the most pointless set of tactics I wrote.

I did all I could. Can someone do me a favour and give me any lineup and tactics I could have named which would have given me a win? Time and time again it's happened that i felt I've outdone the other manager tactically and got no reward. Its demoralising and makes the tactics feel pointless.

[BamBam]

I've got a bit of a similar feeling this week tbh, even if it was unanimous

[Afro]

Thanks Nadz and thanks Trebs.

Your tactics on my wingbacks was spot on IMO, however I also didn't feel it outdid me. I just think my tactics were much easier to come up with this week because of your decimated defence and I kept it simple.

Tactics that could have countered this is not easy as I would have done the same as you. pack them in defensively and in the CM area, and use pace on the flanks and up front to hit me on the counter.

[Trebs]

If someone had said to me - sorry but you should have played Origi and Wilson and been bolder in attack. Or you should have added Romeu and played a midfield diamond then fine. I can accept that. My thoughts are there have been a number of occasions this season where I've not deserved to lose, nothing personally Afro.

Having said, thanks for your comments Afro and also to Nadz who has messaged me privately.

[Afro]

I think the added difficulty is that there are no draws, you have to pick a winner, and all it takes on a really close game is for 2 managers to lean the same way.

[BamBam]

In my admittedly biased opinion, my midfield would completely dominate against Motta who is being phased out of the PSG side and Behrami who is ultimately a Watford player.

Miky was set up to face a 4-4-2, not a 4-3-3, and if Alonso and Moses are pushing on, that leaves Mane up against Kaboul out wide, which quite frankly is a torching

I can't see any threat from Sarabia and Immobile against my defence, and have tactically countered Robben already to limit his effect on the game - Tierney played against Barcelona and City without embarassing himself so I'm a bit miffed 

Nothing personal Miky, just slightly frustrating

[Hero]

I was Voter 1 in this btw and am happy to discuss my feedback, if I could I would have voted draws in the games but having to decide tipped my decision just slightly towards Afro and Miky.

[Afro]

TM boost for Portugal has happened...

[Afro]

And I made £800k on Telles 45 mins after signing him

Got that purchase in in the nick of time

[Fernando]

Indeed Ruben Neves gone down though.

On the plus side Goncalo has gone from 7.65m to 14.45m

[BamBam]

5m on Lindelof, was hoping for more

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