The World League

First topic message reminder :

Rules;
£150m budget with to be spent on anybody based on their value on TM.
Draft system to build the squads.
Squad to be between 20-25 players, no more, no less.
Tactics short, teamsheet, substitutes, 100 words of tactics, few sentences for substitutions.
Everybody votes or lose a goal from their score, just scores and scorers acceptable although feedback is encouraged.
Choose your own real life team name although this will have no bearing on the players you can or can't sign.

Participants;
Azzy - Vancouver Whitecaps
BamBam - Ebbsfleet United
Holymiky - MK Dons
Marky - Crawley Town
Nadeem - Real Madrid
Olly - Accrington Stanley
Trebs - Liaoning Whowin
Viva - Manchester United
Hero - Macclesfield Town
Nando - Chesham United

Structure;

8 fixtures per team, 4 at home, 4 away. Two relegated from the Premier League, two promoted from the Championship.
3rd place in both leagues will playoff for the right to play in the Premier League.
Starting point determined at random.

Premier League
1. Chesham United
2. Liaoning Whowin
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3. Macclesfield Town
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4. Manchester United
5. MK Dons

Championship
1. Accrington Stanley
2. Crawley Town
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3. Ebbsfleet United
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4. Real Madrid
5. Vancouver Whitecaps

http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/detailsuche/spielerdetail/suche

Draft results

Marky:

Holymiky:

BamBam:

Fernando:

Nadeem:

Azzy:

Olly:

Hero:

Trebs:

Viva:

BamBam wrote:5.5m for Sagna Marky

I went £6.2m in case you tried to be sneaky and go £6.1m

Hero wrote:So which players that everyone got did they go BIG on?
My two were Sanches who's currently 600k on TM yet I bid £5m on as he's linked heavily with Utd, Real and Bayern in a big money deal & Sane who I went £4.1m extra on because he's the best young player in the Bundesliga this year.

Most I went was £19.3m for the £15m rated Mahrez.

Getting Cazorla in at base price was very good as well I think.

I only got Butland of the ones I bid more on

How keen are people on the players? I have a lot of rebids to do and don't know the best thing to do


Tied
Wes Morgan £2m (with Marky)
Robert Huth £4.5m (with Nadeem)
Christian Fuchs £3.5m (with Marky)
Mathieu Valbuena £4.5m (with BamBam)
Kelechi Iheanacho £4m (with Hero)

Rebid - Bacary Sagna:

Marky £6.2m
BamBam £5.5m

Winner = Marky.

Id push the boat out for Mogan, Huth and Iheanacho.

Favours of the month like Iheanacho who are also young are always winners in this league

I'd not bother with Kele

I went big on Aduriz due to him being quite cheap on TM but having a great season, I felt that in case of people thinking the same thing as me I put extra cash in for him.

Any spare money I had at the end, I threw into my bid for Thiago Alacantra.

Extremely Happy with Hector Herrera for £13m too! What do all of you guys think of my buys so far, only have to rebid for a striker now, potential lineup…

--------------------Zoet-----------------------
-----Vrsaljko—Matip—Naldo—Ansaldi
-------------Verratti—Herrera--------------
-------------------Thiago----------------------
Narsingh---------Aduriz-------------Nolito

Thoughts?

Lacks Danny Simpson

It's a bit foreign Miky...

Isn't Naldo 50 now?

It's ok I can put Puncheon on the wing

My team so far:


------------------Johnstone--------------
Lichtsteiner---Pepe-----Silva----????????
--------Toure-----Moutinho----Andre------
----??????-----------------------????----
-------------------Cavani----------------

The number of ? may or may not be a clue of who I'm going for.

Olly wrote:Isn't Naldo 50 now?

He's 33 and still playing consistently for Wolfsburg.

I almost had John Terry signed up until Viva nabbed him, might be a blessing in disguise yet.

My rebids are in.

Nice buy in Moutinho Trebs, forgot about him

FFS, Trebs and I both bid £2.1m for Wes Morgan

Re-rebid

I've sent a new bid for Wes Morgan to BamBam

Yeah haven't got anything from Trebs

Sorry - I sent it to Marky.

Marky, can I send you round two bids as I'm busy for the rest of the day (and likely the weekend)?

Rebids are done now so yes.

Wes Morgan re bid

Marky - 2.6m
Trebs - 2.2m

I've updated the draft in the original post, but basically;

Bacary Sagna £5.5m (Marky, BamBam) - Marky won with £6.2m to £5.5m

Wes Morgan £2m (Marky, Trebs) - Tied at £2.1m - Marky won with £2.6m to £2.2m

Christian Fuchs £3.5m (Marky, Trebs) - Marky won with £6.2m to £5.6m

Joel Campbell £6m (BamBam, Fernando) - BamBam won with £6.1m to £6m

Mathieu Valbuena £4.5m (BamBam, Trebs) - Trebs won with £4.6m to £4.5m

Robert Huth £4.5m (Nadeem, Trebs) - Nadeem won with £5.2m to £4.6m

Kelechi Iheanacho £4m (Hero, Trebs) - Hero won with £4.3m to £4.2m

The fix is in

I was going for a team of this (4-4-2 diamond)

Butland

Trippier
Fonte
Van Dijk
Cresswell

Romeu
Kante
Alli
Barkley

Ighalo
Afobe

At the moment it is

Butland

Trippier
Shawcross
Van Dijk
Cresswell

Romeu
Drinkwater
Barkley
Bojan

Austin
Afobe

Need some midfielders badly

Going to send my second round bids to you too Marky

Round 2 draft and number of players they can bid on, and budget;

Marky (6) £33m
Holymiky (1) £7.5m
BamBam (12) £58.6m
Fernando (3) £16.75m
Nadeem (3) £24.02m
Azzy (3) £12.4m
Olly (7) £46.87m
Hero (2) £12.8m
Trebs (12) £53.5m
Viva (9) £82.3m

Schmeichel
Sagna - Jagielka - Morgan - Fuchs
M.Suarez - Cazorla
??? - Mahrez - ???
Lewandowski

My current team is...

---------------Donnarumma--------------
?-------------Sule----Tah--------Willems
-------------Sanches----Weigl-----------
Sane-------------Dybala----------Barbosa
-----------------Martial------------------

More hipster than a bearded guy drinking grass juice and eating Quinoa whilst reading the Guardian on his iPhone.

Pretty sure Weigi isn't a real person

Olly wrote:Pretty sure Weigi isn't a real person

http://www.goal.com/en-us/news/69/transfer-zone/2016/01/15/19370592/the-rise-of-julian-weigl-the-borussia-dortmund-star-linked

http://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/julian-weigl-borussia-dortmunds-latest-boy-wonder-whos-sweeping-midfield

Think Dele Ali but better.

Done a "players in the league" thread to refer to.

Off out now, anyone can send their squad to me but I wont open any PM's* until I send my 2nd round picks to BamBam.

*Apart from Nando's who sent his during the re-bids and I accidentally opened it, as a result I wont be going for any of the players he went for.

Hero wrote:My current team is...

---------------Donnarumma--------------
?-------------Sule----Tah--------Willems
-------------Sanches----Weigl-----------
Sane-------------Dybala----------Barbosa
-----------------Martial------------------

More hipster than a bearded guy drinking grass juice and eating Quinoa whilst reading the Guardian on his iPhone.

I think Martial wide left, Dybala upfront and a better AM is the way to go for you.

I'm not keen on Martial on the wing, I may though put them both upfront though I do also love the thought of a Correa & Dybala partnership.

My team

------------------------???-----------
Ginter - ---Fonte ------------ ???? -------- ????
--------------------Carrick--------
-----------Pogba ------------????---------------
Lingard/Campbell ------------------Lavezzi
--------------------Ighalo-------------------

Nice BamBam.

Hero wrote:

Olly wrote:Pretty sure Weigi isn't a real person

http://www.goal.com/en-us/news/69/transfer-zone/2016/01/15/19370592/the-rise-of-julian-weigl-the-borussia-dortmund-star-linked

http://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/julian-weigl-borussia-dortmunds-latest-boy-wonder-whos-sweeping-midfield

Think Dele Ali but better.

Eh nah

Weigl is quality, thought he'd go under the radar!

BamBam wrote:Weigl is quality, thought he'd go under the radar!

He is boss. Was hoping for a Weigl/Neves partnership but Nando nabbed Neves (not easy to say after a few pints). Hoping now that Sanches gets the big money move to Utd or Real.

The git got Niguez too, he's right up there

Nobody else rate Mario Suarez and Santi Cazorla as a midfield partnership then?

(Admittedly no-one else tried to sign them )

Cazorla  
Mario Suarez less keen on.

Cazorla is a diving knut, I hate him. Cracking footballer with the ball at his feet, conniving con artist when in danger of losing it. I've never seen Mario Suarez play I don't think, quite how I don't know. Maybe I have and he did a Carrick, so far under the radar his middle name is 'periscope'.

By the way Azzy how do you rate my team?

Sent my bids to BamBam, added mine and the three PM's I've received to the spreadsheet.

Still to send sometime this weekend ideally:
Holymiky, Nadeem, Olly, Hero, Trebs, Viva

I'm currently weighing up do I go big on the RB or the CM replacements. There's one in each I'm keen on but I'd have to then get a reduced player in the other area.

I'm considering mine now, will be in shortly most likely.