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While you're all banging on about Benteke we've signed Bowen, Benrahma, Piatek and Vida. 

Oh and Messi too but I guess you all think he's past his best 

7 hours ago, gwi1890 said:

Yes and you need to look at the cdms work rate aswel I got Rodri sitting in front of my back 4 he has high Defensive work rate and medium attacking so he sits even deeper and breaks things up  

Good advice guys thank you!

21 minutes ago, Wainy316 said:

What is it that causes airlines to lose so much money?  Tickets aren't exactly cheap and there's a constant stream of flyers?

I think a big hindrance for Thomas cook is that a large percentage of their bookings were made through their own shops. High street travel agents seem to be a dying breed. 

Also increased competition and not developing anything unique in their brand. 

That along with many other things I’m sure!

8 hours ago, KHV said:

I'm due out with Thomas Cook tomorrow at 6am 

Not looking promising mate  got a few friends working for them, one meant to be flying out of brum tomorrow morning, he's not too hopeful he will be needed for work in the morning. 

On 21/09/2019 at 19:41, wilko154 said:

I've played some more today, slowly getting to grips with it. Online is a write off though, would be much easier to tackle if the tackle button worked.

I've found the key is that no one else can defend either so just run at them.

This is my new tactic  

Run and pushing the right analog stick to knock the ball past them, nobody has a clue 

On 13/09/2019 at 00:30, Dom_Wren said:

Nice 1. Rum tour a must? Anything else you’d recommend? 

I must admit I've not done a rum tour here. But one in Barbados and one in Grenada. Prepare to be just given lots of rum if those two are anything to go by!

I was once there on a sailing boat as crew, so most of the time was spent on maintenance with the boat. ended up being in the marina bar most nights which was fun from what I remember!

Another time we were in Marigot bay, beautiful bay, but just spent most time by the pool in the hotel. Cant say much else for the things to do as its either been a very boaty type of trip or a chill the f out at the pool bar getting drunk all day kind of vibe! I am staying at a Royalton hotel in a few weeks though so ill let you know how that is!

On 10/09/2019 at 15:10, Hitzlsperger_12 said:

I've been doing it since start of the year, only invested £70 but got a profit of £98.00 atm. Mainly Grealish and Mings.

I feel like if you buy a player here and there isn't to going to work for you. You've got to have at least 30 plus shares in a player to generate good profit.

I'd have to agree, I started off with £200 in it and was seeing no rewards really apart from the odd pound here and there. I've put a lot more in now and the rewards aren't too bad. Better than it sitting in a savings account however I'm starting to doubt its longevity. All it takes is some lack of confidence in the platform and the big hitters (£100k+ invested) to bail out for it to fall apart really. Not putting anymore in until it seems stable. 

Other than that, I much prefer it to conventional betting and find this much more interesting and fun.

Was the most exciting player from preseason IMO. Has carried that on into the league. Very impressed

Signing of the summer. Gets better and better every game. 

I would've taken a point before the game kicked off. They have some brilliant attacking players in the likes of Anderson, haller and lanzini. Even 11v11 it never felt like our defence was under pressure. We all love Mings but every game I just think Engels gets better and better. By far our best signing of the summer thus far.

Feels strange to say but I feel Grealish needs to be a bit more selfish and run at players more instead of looking to pass. Obviously on a case by case basis but there were times tonight where I felt a defender was rushing at him and he chose to pass where one of his touches could've drawn a foul. Maybe thats clouded by his poor passing tonight. 

Jota for me is not a winger and needs to play more central but I can't see that happening. Can the real Wesley please stand up. No, literally.

Strangest thing tonight which I'm hoping someone has the answer for, why did Declan Rice applaud the Holte end for a good 30 seconds? Im not confusing him for snoddy as his came over later. Is Rice a Villa fan or something? Or just trying to get fans on his side to keep his England caps up? Weird

I'll take the draw, G'night

Not this hotel but been to St Lucia a few times. My favourite of the Caribbean islands! 

On 03/09/2019 at 10:12, Villan_of_oz said:

I know I could probably look, but is there anything stopping me going this in Australia. Ie is this limited to the UK?

I hear the ads a lot when I listen to British radio but never looked into it.

Unfortunately so! Only in a couple of countries at the moment!

9 hours ago, tomav84 said:

so i invested £700 towards the end of 2018. a lot was on jack (£100 odd) plus other prospects including tammy and mcginn plus some others from around europe. de ligt was one, daniel james, joao felix, and cannot remember the others. basically, i doubled my money. a lot of that was on jack (his stock soared after the blues game) plus our 10 game run helped with tammy and mcginn. de ligt doubled too with all his transfer rumours. i cashed it all in at the end of the season and paid for my season ticket with the profits.

now the downside...I DO NOT TRUST IT!! it's like a stock market. but like all stock markets, they can crash. if the UK market crashes, the government will work to get it to recover. if footy index crashes, who's going to bail it out? all you need is a rumour to cause a mass sell off and everyone will lose everything. but this is just the cynic in me...there's money to be made, and quite easily too. just google 'good young european player prospects' who play for shite teams and have had a few rumours of transfer moves, and buy them. you'll make money.

Yeah this is all very true. I’ve put in a fair bit and reaping the rewards. Like you say there’s an element of risk, however I feel there’s plenty of growth in the platform. I’m enjoying it tbh. Much prefer it to standard betting, saves me getting annoyed at why my 6572944828/1 accumulator hasn’t come in every Saturday 

Been on this for a while and just found the thread, anyone else on it recently?

Watching some of the highlights, Coleman should be off for that ‘free kick’

Nobody else I’ve spoke to seems to agree but that was reckless and dangerous. I can’t be the only one to think that? This is all in line with Oliver’s shocking refereeing performance 

Engels reads the game so well, he could read the bible in 30 seconds

Someone not plug the commentators mics in?

His interview seems to suggest some sort of continuity from the back end of last season

Watch a lot of la Liga. Highly doubt we’re signing Ben Yedder. But if we do It’ll top the lot 

1 minute ago, Zatman said:

This thread is priceless, a few unproven wingers are better than Ashley Young was or us

Young was banging abut 10/15 assists a season plus a good few goals

I agree, however I also agree that benrahma is a player with bags of potential!

Is he currently injured? Didn’t play on Saturday so....... if he’s not injured.......

Even if Maupay was our backup, and we eventually miss out on our number one target, that’s part of the gamble you take when risking it on a bigger name striker. I’m sure the club have a 3rd back up striker in mind anyway, probably even a 4th or 5th and I’d imagine they’re still going to be of high calibre. Except welbeck maybe  

Very switched on guy. I recently met the CEO of the company I work for at a Q&A, the company has grown massively over the last few years but he was very grounded and realistic. These seem to be the guys who are more successful for sure.

4 minutes ago, Villarocker said:

I was talking with my brother's stepson yesterday. His mother is Italian so he subscribes to watch all the Serie A games and he reckons that Bellotti is a great player. 

If you look at all the top strikers across the best leagues of Europe, he seems the player most likely to fit the profile we're currently working on. 

Does anyone know of him being linked elsewhere?

Pretty sure he was linked to West Ham beginning of the transfer window. But probably just journalist/agent stuff

I haven’t done a crossword in years, I thought we’d made an audacious signing of a 57 year old Raul Mereiles at first