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Southend United real life transfers (Winter 2020)

Done deals

Imminent

1. Matteo Politano (26/90): Inter => Roma Napoli

Rumours

Spoiler: Spoiler

 

[The Taurean]

Hereford January Transfers:

Player Name​	Age​	Rating​	Old Club​	New Club​
Erling Håland​	19​	87​	RB Salzburg​	Borussia Dortmund​
Jean-Clair Todibo​	20​	82​	Barcelona​	Schalke (Loan from Barcelona)​
Colin Gallagher​	19​	77​	Charlton (Loan from Chelsea)​	Swansea (Loan from Chelsea)​
Andriy Lunin​	20​	83​	Real Valladolid (Loan from Real Madrid)​	Real Oviedo (Loan from Real Madrid)​
Gianluca Gaetano​	19​	75​	Napoli​	U.S. Cremonese (Loan from Napoli)​
Yan Couto	17​	70​	Coritiba​	Barcelona​
Nicolás Domínguez	21​	86​	Vélez Sársfield​	Bologna​

Yay, just what I need another youngster joining Barcelona to never play for them

Sell him. Do it.

 

[Damien]

My squad for next season is looking like this at the moment (position designation according to the colour codes on SM, so even though I mostly play Alaba and Kimmich as defenders, they're classed as midfielders):

Goalkeepers

Player	Position	Age	Rating
David De Gea	GK​	29​	93​

Defenders

Player	Position	Age	Rating
Sergio Ramos	D(RC)​	33​	95​
Jerome Boateng	D(RC)​	31​	91​
John Stones	D(RC),DM(C)​	25​	91​
Jose Gaya	D,DM,M(L)​	24​	91​
Andreas Christensen	D(RC),DM(C)​	23​	90​
Nico Elvedi	D(RLC),DM(RL)​	23​	90​

Midfielders

Player	Position	Age	Rating
Toni Kroos	DM,M,AM(C)​	30​	95​
Joshua Kimmich	D,DM,M(RC)​	24​	94​
Christian Eriksen	M(C),AM(RLC)​	27​	94​
David Alaba	D,DM,M(LC)​	27​	93​
Paul Pogba	DM,M,AM(C)​	26​	93​
Dele Alli	M(C),AM(RLC)​	23​	92​
Mateo Kovacic	DM,M,AM(C)​	25​	91​
Leon Goretzka	M(C),AM(RLC)​	24​	91​
Julian Brandt	M(C),AM(RLC)​	23​	91​
Denis Zakaria	D,DM,M(C)​	23​	90​

Forwards

Player	Position	Age	Rating
Antoine Griezmann	AM,F(RLC)​	28​	95​
Kylian Mbappe	AM(RL),F(RLC)​	21​	94​
Raheem Sterling	AM,F(RLC)​	25​	94​
Jadon Sancho	AM(RLC),F(RL)​	19​	91​
Christian Pulisic	AM(RLC),F(RL)​	21​	90​

 

[infamous7]

Varane for Sancho

 

[Damien]

Varane for Sancho

I'm good, thanks.

 

[RedSky]

Hereford January Transfers:

Player Name​	Age​	Rating​	Old Club​	New Club​
Erling Håland​	19​	87​	RB Salzburg​	Borussia Dortmund​
Jean-Clair Todibo​	20​	82​	Barcelona​	Schalke (Loan from Barcelona)​
Colin Gallagher​	19​	77​	Charlton (Loan from Chelsea)​	Swansea (Loan from Chelsea)​
Andriy Lunin​	20​	83​	Real Valladolid (Loan from Real Madrid)​	Real Oviedo (Loan from Real Madrid)​
Gianluca Gaetano​	19​	75​	Napoli​	U.S. Cremonese (Loan from Napoli)​
Yan Couto​	17​	70​	Coritiba​	Barcelona​
Nicolás Domínguez	21​	86​	Vélez Sársfield​	Bologna​
Enzo Loiodice	19​	80​	Dijon FCO​	Wolves (Loan from Dijon FCO)

Enzo joins Wolves on loan with option to buy. Good transfer that one as Dijon FCO stopped playing him as the Manager is a dummy.

 

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Southend Utd EPL players

Name​	Current Age/Rating​	Prediction​	Actual Change (Age/New Rating)​
Moise Kean	19/87	no change	no change (19/87)
Lys Mousset	23/83	+2	+2 (23/85)
Lucas Torreira	23/90	no change	no change (23/90)
Wilfred Ndidi	23/90	+1	+1 (23/91)
Joe Gomez	22/89	+1	+1 (22/90)
Andy Robertson	25/92	+1	+1 (25/93)

Exactly as predicted

 

[Gythio]

VVD 96 Gone up 7 since purchase

 

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Southend Worst Transfer-Outs XI

GK: Becker Alisson [Everton]: From 87 to 95

RB: Thilo Kherer [Arsenal]: From 75 to 89
CB: Issa Diop [AFC Bournemouth]: From 80 to 89
CB: Caglar Soyuncu [Arsenal]: From 78 to 90
LB: Oleksandr Zinchenko [Liverpool]: From 80 to 89

RM: Carlos Soler [Aston Villa]: From 78 to 90
CM: Fabian Ruiz [Wolves]: From 83 to 91
CM: Rodri [Cardiff]: From 77 to 91
LM: Nadiem Amiri [Hereford]: From 83 to 89

ST: Jamie Vardy [Cardiff]: From 90 to 92
ST: Dani Olmo [Plymouth]: From 77 to 88

 

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Race to 90 (II)

Name (Team): Player Name - Updated Rating (Start Rating)

1. It's a farce! (Norwich City): Achraf Hakimi - 90 (77)
2. infamous7 (Fulham): Jonathan Ikone - 88 (77)
3. Damien (Man Utd): Vinicius Junior - 87 (70)
4. green_smiley (Southend Utd): Moise Kean - 87 (76)
5. harshad (Bristol City): Justin Kluivert - 87 (78)
6. Gythio (Aston Villa): Tom Davies - 86 (76)
7. christy07 (Chelsea): Branimir Kalaica - 78 (76)
8. langster (Derby): Abdou Diakhate - 75 (75)

Congratulations to @It's a farce! for winning Race to 90 (II)

 

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Race to 90 (III)

Name (Team): Player Name - Updated Rating (Start Rating)

1. 2mufc0 (Sunderland): Benoit Badiashile - 83 (73)
2. The Taurean (Nottingham Forest): Myron Boadu - 83 (76)
3. green_smiley (Southend Utd): Mohammed Ihattaren - 82 (70)
4. Litterbug (Blackburn): Victor Mollejo - 82 (70)
5. gaz1185 (Man City): Lucien Agoume - 78 (73)
6. Big-Red (Spurs): Michael Obafemi - 78 (73)
7. Wino1 (Wolverhampton Wanderers): Jack Clarke - 77 (77)
8. christy87 (Chelsea): Luan Candido - 76 (70)
9. Damien (Man Utd): Eddy Salcedo - 76 (73)
10. RedSky (Hereford): Gianluca Gaetano - 75 (75)
11. harshad (Bristol City): Angel Gomes - 75 (75)
12. dutza 90 (Middlesbrough): Ki-Jana Hoever - 73 (73)
13. infamous7 (Fulham): Tiago Dantas - 73 (73)
14. Springfield WildCats (MK Dons): Matt O'Riley - 70 (70)
15. BenitoSTARR (Cardiff): Erkan Eyibil - 70 (70)

 

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Open for Race to 90 (IV), if anyone is interested

 

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Race to 90 winners

Season	Player	Manager	Club
I	Gabriel Jesus	The Stain	Everton
II	Achraf Hakimi	It's a farce!	Norwich City

 

[christy87]

Open for Race to 90 (IV), if anyone is interested

Nope they are a jinx for me, vadala, kalicia and now candido who just went to red bull Brazil

 

[spontaneus1]

Elliot not rising? Didn't expect anything massive but 67 is a joke for a player who has actually got game time for Liverpool this season. Did they forget he exists?

 

[harshad]

Open for Race to 90 (IV), if anyone is interested

remind me whats the criteria

 

[Damien]

Elliot not rising? Didn't expect anything massive but 67 is a joke for a player who has actually got game time for Liverpool this season. Did they forget he exists?

Liverpool will be done over two days. He'll rise tomorrow.

 

[Damien]

remind me whats the criteria

Open for new entries

Race to 90 (III)

Criteria

• Player age: 18 or below
• Player rating: 78 or below
• Once your pick is made, you cannot change it
• Managers and players must remain with their original club to stay eligible for the race
• Due date: 10 Apr 2019 (Wed), 9am BST

Jeremie Frimpong just missed out by turning 19 in December. I think it is probably too soon for a fourth one at the moment (though I would say that as I've only got three players eligible and one is in Rt90(III)).

 

[Damien]

Still kicking myself over not picking Dest for v3. I would have won it easily unless Dest stalled like VJ has.

 

[Damien]

3:0 win away to Division 5 high-flyers Leyton Orient. Next Shield round I'm away to United-lite Mansfield Town.

De Gea (93)

Retsos (87) Stones (91)↓ Christensen (90) Gaya (91)
Kovacic (91) Goretzka (91)
Sancho (91)↓ -- Brandt (91) -- Dele (92)↓
Vinicius Jr (87)​

Subs: Boateng (91)↑, Maresic (83), Disasi (82), Baku (83), Pogba (93)↑, Alzate (82), Griezmann (95)↑
Did not travel: Ramos (95), Kroos (95), Kimmich (94), Eriksen (94), Mbappe (94), Sterling (94), Alaba (93)

Key:
= Goal
= Assist
= MOTM
↓ = Subbed off
↑ = Subbed on

Next three games:
MD20: Fulham (H)
MD21: Ipswich Town (A)
MD22: Liverpool (H)

 

[CrackersJr]

Went hard for both cup and shield, out in both with my strongest available line ups losing to two rotated line ups... feck sake

 

[CrackersJr]

Open for Race to 90 (IV), if anyone is interested

If this goes ahead ill throw Doku down as my pick...

 

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If this goes ahead ill throw Doku down as my pick...

Based on response so far, it won't happen soon

Maybe when any player from Rt90 (III) reaches 87-88

 

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Southend United real life transfers (Winter 2020)

Done deals

1. Matteo Politano (26/90): Inter => Napoli

Imminent

1. Bosko Sutalo (20/80): NK Osijek => Atalanta

Rumours

Spoiler: Spoiler

 

[spontaneus1]

Based on response so far, it won't happen soon

Maybe when any player from Rt90 (III) reaches 87-88

Elliot is my pick.

 

[Damien]

Manchester United Premier League players

Player​	Age​	Rating​	Club​	Prediction​	New Rating​
David de Gea​	29​	95​	Manchester United​	-2 (93)​	-2 (93)​
Raheem Sterling​	25​	94​	Manchester City​	No Change​	No Change​
Christian Eriksen​	27​	94​	Tottenham Hotspur​	-1 (93)​	No Change​
Paul Pogba​	26​	93​	Manchester United​	No Change​	No Change​
Dele Alli​	23​	92​	Tottenham Hotspur​	No Change​	No Change​
Mateo Kovacic​	25​	91​	Chelsea​	No Change​	No Change​
John Stones​	25​	91​	Manchester City​	No Change​	No Change​
Andreas Christensen​	23​	90​	Chelsea​	-1 (89)​	No Change​
Christian Pulisic​	21​	89​	Chelsea​	No Change​	+1 (90)​
Kieran Tierney​	22​	87​	Arsenal​	No Change​	No Change​
Yan Valery​	20​	82​	Southampton​	No Change​	+1 (83)​
Steven Alzate​	21​	78​	Brighton & Hove Albion​	+2 (80)​	+4 (82)​

• Worse than predicted
• Predicted
• Better than predicted

Spoiler: United Premier League player minutes

UPMR = United Player Minutes Ranking (out of 44)
CR = Club Ranking in their respective league

Disclaimer: Minutes only take the league into account. A few play in other competitions which might also be taken into account when SM do their ratings.

 

[BenitoSTARR]

Based on response so far, it won't happen soon

Maybe when any player from Rt90 (III) reaches 87-88

Fábio Silva for me!

 

[The Stain]

Just start a new one but don't do U18 or whatever it was last time. Do under 80 rateds.

 

[Damien]

Just start a new one but don't do U18 or whatever it was last time. Do under 80 rateds.

Spoken like someone who has a 19-year-old player about to rise rapidly

But yeah, U80 rated will probably get more participants.

 

[The Stain]

Spoken like someone who has a 19-year-old player about to rise rapidly

But yeah, U80 rated will probably get more participants.

I wish. Maybe after Maguire deal, who knows?

 

[The Stain]

I mean.. I do have Dest.. Is that what you meant, you cheeky bastard?

Edit: Nah, he's ineligible hehe.

 

[Damien]

oh dear



Kimmich's reaction

 

[Damien]

I mean.. I do have Dest.. Is that what you meant, you cheeky bastard?

Edit: Nah, he's ineligible hehe.

Nah, wasn't even thinking about him. Would be ineligible anyway as he'll be returning home eventually before he hits 90 unless you want to keep him a bit longer.

 

[The Taurean]

Based on response so far, it won't happen soon

Maybe when any player from Rt90 (III) reaches 87-88

Adeyemi or Kouassi from me.

 

[The Stain]

Milan have made a bid for Matias Viña. Feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeck. Literally any other team come in for him, please. Theo Hernandez has been the best LB in Serie A ffs, he'd never play.

Leyton Orient January transfers so far:

Emanuel Vignato - Chievo -> Bologna (loaned back until summer)
Lennart Czyborra - Heracles -> Atalanta
Radoslaw Majecki - Legia -> Monaco (loaned back until summer)
Halil Dervisoglu - Sparta Rotterdam -> Brentford
Gonzalo Villar - Elche -> Roma (imminent)

Lots of rumors as well.

 

[2mufc0]

Southend Worst Transfer-Outs XI

GK: Becker Alisson [Everton]: From 87 to 95

RB: Thilo Kherer [Arsenal]: From 75 to 89
CB: Issa Diop [AFC Bournemouth]: From 80 to 89
CB: Caglar Soyuncu [Arsenal]: From 78 to 90
LB: Oleksandr Zinchenko [Liverpool]: From 80 to 89

RM: Carlos Soler [Aston Villa]: From 78 to 90
CM: Fabian Ruiz [Wolves]: From 83 to 91
CM: Rodri [Cardiff]: From 77 to 91
LM: Nadiem Amiri [Hereford]: From 83 to 89

ST: Jamie Vardy [Cardiff]: From 90 to 92
ST: Dani Olmo [Plymouth]: From 77 to 88

Damn homie.

 

[Damien]

Manchester United Worst Transfer-Outs XI

GK: Ederson Moraes [Arsenal]: From 88 to 93

RB: Joao Cancelo [Everton]: From 80 to 91
CB: ??????
CB: Joel Matip [Hereford]: From 90 to 91
LB: Alex Sandro [Newcastle United]: From 89 to 92

CM: Georginio Wijnaldum [Chelsea]: From 88 to 93
CM: Bernardo Silva [Everton]: From 91 to 93
CM: Philippe Coutinho [Everton]: From 88 to 94

RW: Memphis Depay [Aston Villa]: From 90 to 91
ST: Alexander Lacazette [Bournemouth]: From 91 to 92
LW: Heung-Min Son [Southampton]: From 90 to 93

Note: I'm not bothered about any of these, really. With Ederson, especially, I knew he was easily going to be 93+ player and that he was going to City, which pissed me off that Wolves were the only team interested.

 

[2mufc0]

Manchester United Worst Transfer-Outs XI

GK: Ederson Moraes [Arsenal]: From 88 to 93

RB: Joao Cancelo [Everton]: From 80 to 91
CB: ??????
CB: Joel Matip [Hereford]: From 90 to 91
LB: Alex Sandro [Newcastle United]: From 89 to 92

CM: Georginio Wijnaldum [Chelsea]: From 88 to 93
CM: Bernardo Silva [Everton]: From 91 to 93
CM: Philippe Coutinho [Everton]: From 88 to 94

RW: Memphis Depay [Aston Villa]: From 90 to 91
ST: Alexander Lacazette [Bournemouth]: From 91 to 92
LW: Heung-Min Son [Southampton]: From 90 to 93

Note: I'm not bothered about any of these, really. With Ederson, especially, I knew he was easily going to be 93+ player and that he was going to City, which pissed me off that Wolves were the only team interested.

Were most of those trades to get a better player?

 

[Damien]

Were most of those trades to get a better player?

I don't think so. In pretty much all cases I was fine in the positions and the players had various obstacles at the time restricting their game time. Bernardo Silva I swapped for a CB as I needed one, but other than him and Sandro (I'd rather not speak about the fullness of that one), I think the rest were offloaded for cash.