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Few nice rises today.

Aaron Martin is now 87, in less than a year he has gone from 78 to 87 which isn't bad for a defender. Although he will probably start moaning about game time now.

Hoping for a +4 for Odriozola, if he gets it that means he's gone from 76 to 86 in 7 months. Which again I'm happy with :)

Plenty of full back prospects at Wolves. Don't know how everyone else struggles :D

Full back options are:

Clyne
Vida
Gerhardt
Weiser
Conti
Biraghi
Aaron Martin
Odriozola
Rodrigues
Mittlestadt
Amavi
Gorosabel.

Plenty for now. Plenty for the future.

Also have the right to buy on another in the summer ;)

Make me offers if you need any :D
Nice. These are my only FB capable players:

LB:
Alaba (93)
Monreal (90) - only plays CB for Arsenal these days
Gaya (89)
Dalbert (88) - bid accepted
Shaw (88) - Missing Person's poster out for him
Tierney (86)
Sarr (83) - never a LB and Favre is a cock
Zesiger (78) (will lose it when Switzerland is reviewed)

RB:
Ramos (95) - never plays RB anymore
Boateng (94) - never plays RB anymore
Kimmich (91)
Stones (90) - never plays RB anymore
Zouma (88) - never plays RB anymore
Chambers (87) - plays RB but shouldn't

Both:
Roberto (91) - might lose ability to play LB but won't lose ability to play RB
Mercado (89)
Elvedi (87) - only seen him play RB
Jedvaj (86) - Missing Person's poster out for him
 

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Good choice. Have enough cover for DM position so did not pick him
When it comes to me, nearly every player I have either gets a position change or a major injury.

Here are my players capable of playing DM:
Kroos (95) - all good but mainly plays AM for me
Alaba (93) - only plays there for country and he's my first choice LB (a position which also presents a myriad of problems - see earlier post)
Pogba (93) - all good
Eriksen (92) - could lose it at some point
Isco (92) - all good but mainly plays AM for me
Goretzka (91) - I think should be okay
Roberto (91) - should be okay
Alli (91) - could lose it at some point
Bernardo (91) - could lose it at some point
Matip (90) - not played there for years, will lose it at some point
Zouma (88) - never plays there
Elvedi (87) - never plays there
Chambers (87) - not played there for years, will lose it at some point

Zakaria (87) - all good... so far

Rigo (73)
 

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Nice. These are my only FB capable players:

LB:
Alaba (93)
Monreal (90) - only plays CB for Arsenal these days
Gaya (89)
Dalbert (88) - bid accepted
Shaw (88) - Missing Person's poster out for him
Tierney (86)
Sarr (83) - never a LB and Favre is a cock
Zesiger (78) (will lose it when Switzerland is reviewed)

RB:
Ramos (95) - never plays RB anymore
Boateng (94) - never plays RB anymore
Kimmich (91)
Stones (90) - never plays RB anymore
Zouma (88) - never plays RB anymore
Chambers (87) - plays RB but shouldn't

Both:
Roberto (91) - might lose ability to play LB but won't lose ability to play RB
Mercado (89)
Elvedi (87) - only seen him play RB
Jedvaj (86) - Missing Person's poster out for him
So SM don't remove positions even though they no longer play there anymore?
 

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I win my first game of the season 4:0 against a Division 1 side. Shame it is in the Cup. Brandt now out for 3 weeks with injury... ffs.

De Gea (94)

Roberto (91) Mercado (89) Matip (90)⚽ Monreal (90)
Bernardo (91)Goretzka (91)⚽➕⭐
Brandt (90) Dele
(91)➕Sterling (91)⚽➕
Martial (90)⚽➕
Subs: Alaba (93), Boateng (94), Isco (92), Eriksen (92), Pogba (93), Bale (95), Mina (87)
Did not travel: Ramos (95), Kroos (95), Griezmann (95), Kimmich (91)

Key:
⚽ = Goal
➕ = Assist
⭐ = MOTM
= Subbed off
= Subbed on


And now I face Darlington in the second round of the cup ffs.
 

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I win my first game of the season 4:0 against a Division 1 side. Shame it is in the Cup. Brandt now out for 3 weeks with injury... ffs.

De Gea (94)

Roberto (91) Mercado (89) Matip (90)⚽ Monreal (90)
Bernardo (91)Goretzka (91)⚽➕⭐
Brandt (90) Dele
(91)➕Sterling (91)⚽➕
Martial (90)⚽➕
Subs: Alaba (93), Boateng (94), Isco (92), Eriksen (92), Pogba (93), Bale (95), Mina (87)
Did not travel: Ramos (95), Kroos (95), Griezmann (95), Kimmich (91)

Key:
⚽ = Goal
➕ = Assist
⭐ = MOTM
= Subbed off
= Subbed on


And now I face Darlington in the second round of the cup ffs.
:lol: Ouch.
 

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I win my first game of the season 4:0 against a Division 1 side. Shame it is in the Cup. Brandt now out for 3 weeks with injury... ffs.

De Gea (94)

Roberto (91) Mercado (89) Matip (90)⚽ Monreal (90)
Bernardo (91)Goretzka (91)⚽➕⭐
Brandt (90) Dele
(91)➕Sterling (91)⚽➕
Martial (90)⚽➕
Subs: Alaba (93), Boateng (94), Isco (92), Eriksen (92), Pogba (93), Bale (95), Mina (87)
Did not travel: Ramos (95), Kroos (95), Griezmann (95), Kimmich (91)

Key:
⚽ = Goal
➕ = Assist
⭐ = MOTM
= Subbed off
= Subbed on


And now I face Darlington in the second round of the cup ffs.
Also another 2 interesting matches

City vs. Everton
Forest vs. Plymouth
 

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Season 15/16
Season 16/17

Week 1-10
Week 11
Week 12
Week 13
Week 14

¦

8.47 - Nacho Fernandez (27/90) ¦ 90mins

8.14 - Wilfred Ndidi (20/88) ¦ 90mins

7.90 - Kai Havertz (18/86) ¦ 90mins

7.82 - Simone Zaza (26/90) ¦ 90mins

7.16 - Moise Kean (17/80) ¦ 64mins
7.15 - Joe Gomez (20/86) ¦ 90mins

7.10 - Abdulkadir Omur (18/75) ¦ 90mins
7.04 - Pablo Maffeo (20/83) ¦ 90mins
7.02 - Lucas Torreira (21/88) ¦ 90mins
6.89 - Gianluigi Donnarumma (18/89) ¦ 90mins
6.85 - Matthijs de Ligt (18/82) ¦ 90mins
6.58 - Jose Callejon (30/91) ¦ 90mins

6.52 - Vincent Kompany (31/91) ¦ 46mins
6.50 - Piotr Zielinski (23/90) ¦ 74mins
6.41 - Andrew Robertson (23/87) ¦ 90mins
6.36 - Diego Perotti (29/90) ¦ 18mins
6.34 - Rodrigo Bentancur (20/87) ¦ 5mins
6.22 - [Irrelevant point] (26/91) ¦ 55mins

6.19 - Victor Moses (26/90) ¦ 35mins
6.02 - Lucas Tousart (20/87) ¦ 90mins

n/a - Cesar Montes (20/84) ¦ 44mins
n/a - Lorenco Simic (21/80) ¦ 90mins
n/a - Nikola Moro (19/80) ¦ 90mins

n/a - Borna Sosa (19/78) ¦ 90mins
n/a - Han Kwang Song (19/78) ¦ 16mins
n/a - Jose Gomes (18/77) ¦ 81mins
n/a - Dario Maresic (17/76) ¦ 90mins
n/a - Filip Stuparevic (16/70) ¦ 34mins

Didn't Play:
Bench

Emerson Palmieri (23/88)
Juan Foyth (19/80)
Dan-Axel Zagadou (18/80)
Vincent Thill (17/77)

U21
Sadiq Umar (20/78)
Alessandro Bastoni (18/77)
Eddie Nketiah (18/76)
Alan Souza (17/75)
Alec Georgen (19/73)
Gonzalo Maroni (18/73)
Dujon Sterling (17/73)
Lenny Pintor (17/70)
Nicolas Kuhn (17/70)

Not in the squad
Adam Lallana (29/91)
Gian-Luca Itter (18/77)

Injured
Carlos Bacca (31/91)
Ousmane Dembele (20/90)
Yeray Alvarez (22/87)
Dayot Upamecano (19/87)
Claud Adjapong (19/82)
Hannes Wolf (18/80)

No Match
Tomas Conechny (19/77)
Pontus Dahlberg (18/77)
Lyle Foster (17/73)
Marcelo Allende (18/70)
Renat Dadashov (18/70)

Summary:

Players: 49
Played Ratio: 57%
Average Mins: 71mins
Average Rating: 6.93
Goals: 4
Assists: 2
Yellows: 5
Reds: 0
 
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Few nice risers this week:

Alfonso Pedraza 82 -> 83
Mario Hermoso 78 -> 82
Mikel Vesga 83 -> 86 (Selling ASAP)
Aaron Martin 85 -> 87
Gabriel Appelt Pires 85 -> 87
Alvaro Odriozola 82 -> 87 :D +11 since May 25th
Igor Zubeldia 76 -> 82
Kevin Rodrigues 76 -> 83
 

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  • Boateng sent off in first 20 minutes of game - getting a 3 match ban
  • Kimmich injured
  • Bale OG at start of second half
  • Lost 3:0 to Arsenal
Sounds about right.

De Gea (94)

Kimmich (91) Ramos (95) Boateng (94) Alaba (93)
Pogba (93)Goretzka (91)
Isco
(92)Kroos (95) Bale (95)
Griezmann (95)

Subs: Monreal (90), Roberto (91), Eriksen (92), Dele (91), Sterling (91), Bernardo (91), Martial (90)
Injured: Brandt (90)
Did not travel: Matip (90), Mercado (89)


Key:
⚽ = Goal
➕ = Assist
⭐ = MOTM
= Subbed off
= Subbed on


Congrats in advance @It's a farce!
 

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It's actually quite crazy how you have lost games on trot with the squad rating.
Last season I won the first 12(?) league games on the trot. Now I'm heading to a situation where I'm losing the first 12 at least. Think I'll end up having to mess around with formation now because for some stupid reason what I'm doing isn't working in the league anymore. I refuse to accept the seasons of success was purely down to Messi and his loss has suddenly turned me into the worst team ever. I've got a good squad of players.
 

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Last season I won the first 12(?) league games on the trot. Now I'm heading to a situation where I'm losing the first 12 at least. Think I'll end up having to mess around with formation now because for some stupid reason what I'm doing isn't working in the league anymore. I refuse to accept the seasons of success was purely down to Messi and his loss has suddenly turned me into the worst team ever. I've got a good squad of players.
More than good. Maybe there is something of correction for drop in squad average rating. Still hard to explain it.
On the bright side, you can make the greatest comeback to win the title. :)
 

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Last season I won the first 12(?) league games on the trot. Now I'm heading to a situation where I'm losing the first 12 at least. Think I'll end up having to mess around with formation now because for some stupid reason what I'm doing isn't working in the league anymore. I refuse to accept the seasons of success was purely down to Messi and his loss has suddenly turned me into the worst team ever. I've got a good squad of players.
You wont lose them all, your pretty much guaranteed at least a draw against me
 

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More than good. Maybe there is something of correction for drop in squad average rating. Still hard to explain it.
On the bright side, you can make the greatest comeback to win the title. :)
Thing is my squad average rating barely changed. Even though I lost Messi (99), Aurier (91) and Benassi (89) I gained Kroos (95), Alaba (93) and Kimmich (91) so my team went from:

De Gea (94)

Aurier (91) Ramos (95) Boateng (94) Roberto (91)
Pogba (93) Isco (92)
Eriksen (92) Griezmann (95) Bale (95)
Messi (99)​

Average: 93.7​

to

De Gea (94)

Roberto (91) Ramos (95) Boateng (94) Alaba (93)
Pogba (93) Isco (92)
Eriksen (92) Kroos (95) Bale (95)
Griezmann (95)​

Average: 93.5​
 

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Dyabala sent off after 16 mins, still managed to hold onto a draw against my former team. Daaaacent
 

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West Ham transfers all gone through. Still a few transfers for Birmingham left to go through (no bid made). Obviously we know the circumstances with van Bergen but if the other bids can go in soon, that'd be great.
  1. Leeds United - Pellegrini (1.3x FV)
  2. Middlesbrough - Burnic (1.3x FV)
  3. Derby County - van Bergen (1.5x FV)
  4. Darlington 1883 - Skhiri (2x FV)
  5. Manchester United - Rigo (2x FV)
 

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Last season I won the first 12(?) league games on the trot. Now I'm heading to a situation where I'm losing the first 12 at least. Think I'll end up having to mess around with formation now because for some stupid reason what I'm doing isn't working in the league anymore. I refuse to accept the seasons of success was purely down to Messi and his loss has suddenly turned me into the worst team ever. I've got a good squad of players.
Yeah, it's very odd. Think you have to do something. Change to a 4-3-3?
 

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Thing is my squad average rating barely changed. Even though I lost Messi (99), Aurier (91) and Benassi (89) I gained Kroos (95), Alaba (93) and Kimmich (91) so my team went from:

De Gea (94)

Aurier (91) Ramos (95) Boateng (94) Roberto (91)
Pogba (93) Isco (92)
Eriksen (92) Griezmann (95) Bale (95)
Messi (99)​

Average: 93.7​

to

De Gea (94)

Roberto (91) Ramos (95) Boateng (94) Alaba (93)
Pogba (93) Isco (92)
Eriksen (92) Kroos (95) Bale (95)
Griezmann (95)​

Average: 93.5​
Perhaps move player position around. Switch Isco and Kroos. I am rigid about this stuff.:lol: