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15 hours ago, sexbelowsound said:

Managing Ajax on this game is so frustrating. Every pre season I have spend most of it rejecting transfer offers, dealing with pissy players who think they should be allowed to leave and agents who want a new contract for their client every single time an offer is turned down.

It's tiresome.

I refuse to deal with agents whenever possible and then tell the player that you will accept a bid for them if it matches your valuation which the player is happy with. I then stick thier valuation at a crazy high amount and it usually scares the other team away, you do risk them bidding a low amount that the player will decide is high enough but it works for me more often than not.

Set your LOD as high as possible as well as it helps stop them whinging over trivial matters.

(Slightly old news) Apparently we watched Leeds play Wolves just before Christmas and were scouting Sam Byram and Benik Afobe. I wouldn't be surprised if this is the type of player we go for. Young players doing well in the Championship at clubs unlikely to get promoted this year who could take a step up. Hopefully hit the ground running and keep us up but who could also help us come back up.

1 hour ago, dont_do_it_doug. said:

Horrendous dive early on aside, he's playing well today. I like him.

He's playing right wing though so hard to make a proper judgement.

He could become a very good attacking rightback but still solid defensively.

1 hour ago, KJT123 said:

Contract ends next summer as well. Could get him on the cheap maybe?

Doubt he will go for less than £5m as Leeds have high hopes for him.

15 minutes ago, dont_do_it_doug. said:

I'm not sure I agree entirely. The amount of goals conceded late on under Lambert was completely unacceptable. 

Sherwood did nowhere near enough to correct this, because he's a charlatan, but the problem began under Lambert's reign. Coincidentally, that's when Gabby's form really started to drop off the face of B6. 

We had this issue under MON. 

John Terry was commenting on it when they spanked us.

Just now, Rds1983 said:

I doubt that even Villa would put a relegation release clause in a contract for less then we paid for them.

8 minutes ago, Dr_Pangloss said:

Wow, this is far too logical to be in this thread mate, well done. 

What I don't quite understand is this notion that we are 'improving' and that this will bode well for 'next season'. Firstly, to be improving in what is almost certainly a relegation season is very much scant consolation in my opinion. Secondly, there's a very, very high chance that any half way decent performer will be off if/when we do go down. I'd wager quite a lot of money that the likes of Ayew, Veretout, Gil, Traore, Richards, Amavi (OK depends on how long the guy will be out) and even Gana will stick around. Most of these players probably have relegation release clauses in place, so we won't even recoup what we spent on them. 

Point being, we will not be in good shape if/when we go down, it will be a total disaster and whatever 'improvements' made under Garde this season, will not carry over for next season, because a lot of this team will not be here anyway and we will be back to square one.

I doing by that even Villa would put a relegation release clause in a contract for less then we paid for them.

Klopp was scouting Benteke when he was at Liverpool and he is getting game time, not 90 mins every game but a decent amount compared to the other Liverpool forwards. I would love for him to come back but it is not going to happen. Liverpool would not release him and I doubt he would come back so soon even if they did, it would admit leaving was a mistake.

I'm hoping we go for Loris Karius of Mainz, we were linked med to him a few months ago. Very highly rated young keeper and seen as the second best gk in Germany after Neuer.

1 hour ago, KHV said:

50% wage cuts for players and staff that have joined since the summer, wow! No wonder they want to get shot of Gabby.

I wonder how many will want to stay on with a 50% pay cut?? I'd imagine not many at all

You would think they would also be trying a bit harder not to get relegated in the first place.

I think Garde is doing th best he can with the players currently available and we would all agree that this could be better. Once January has gone and we have hopefully improved in a few positions it will be a lot fairer to judge him on match day selections. He has also had a horrible opening run of fixtures and I doubt any manager would have picked up a huge amount of points. January will be key.

1 minute ago, sexbelowsound said:

Haven't tried it yet.

Its TOGGA point scoring but you pick a new team each week and only one formation, 4-4-2.

It probably sits in the middle of the involvement table. Less time consuming that the full TOGGA game but more time consuming than the Premier League version.

I could be tempted to give it a go, I'm getting a tad bored by the PL one. Let me know if you set up a league.

2 hours ago, sexbelowsound said:

Anybody else tried play TOGGA's perfect XI game as well?

Looks like how I wish the Premier League one was in that each week you pick a brand new team.

Anyone interested in playing this alongside the current one? It's much quicker. Each week just pick your best 4-4-2. 

Scoring seems the same as well.

How does it compare to the Premier League version?

Going forward he is not great but we have a hole on our left side defensively that he will shore up and we will hopefully have a more solid base to attack from. What is great is that I suspect we will have limited resources available to improve the squad in January and bringing him back leaves this free to improve the squad elsewhere.

If Crystal Palace sells it will be a good thing. There used to be a takeover of a top flight club multiple times a season, but there has not been one for a few years now. There has been a lot of uncertainty put into takeovers due to the new financial restrictions and the increased TV revenue but as soon as one club sells there should be a domino effect and several more go (us, Newcastle, Everton  etc) as there will be a new blueprint for how they should be structured.

Cissokho back is great news. Helps sure up the defence, and means we don't have to spend money or a loan spot on the left back position that could be better utilised in other areas of the pitch.

Chelsea players might become more valuable now that Jose has gone. They have to start performing some time.

Just had a player score and then been forced off the pitch with injury before kick off. Guess he got over excited in the celebration.

Drafting before the season begins should be good. Doing it before the transfer window ends will also increase waivers and trades.

Missing the draft might of been a blessing in disguise then.

11 hours ago, sexbelowsound said:

Agents on this game piss me off.

Bid comes in, bid is rejected, Agent wants new deal for player.

**** OFF!

You declare interest in a player, they respond saying love to join and then the agent refuses to talk to you as you are on thier dislike list.

8 hours ago, sexbelowsound said:

Auto-Subs i'd like because I'm tired of picking up wins against people who aren't actively checking their lineups.

However i'd prefer no subs if it was in a league where everyone was actively participating because you actually need to think tactically about your team, formation and selection to maximise your points which I enjoy.

As I've mentioned before I have a league going as well and expect to have between 3 and 5 active players come next season. I'm guessing you have about 8 active atm so a merger could work out well.

Auto-subs would make the game easier but they do give a window to update things after line ups are announced. I lost my match up this week as I left De Bruyne in but I should have checked.

I've had an absolutely awful day in my league. Left Deulefeu on my bench and he has scored more than any of my active players and only has 11.

Bloody Gomis waits for me to drop him and then starts scoring again.