European League Season 2 - Set 1 - Manchester City

Welcome to the City of Manchester Stadium, home of Manchester City Football Club

Starting Budget: £20m
Money spent: £82m
Money received from player sales: £48m
Money received from player releases: £18m
Current budget: £4m


GOALKEEPERS
Christian Abbiati
David De Gea

DEFENCE
Branislav Ivanovic
Vincent Kompany (captain)
Pablo Zabaleta
Cristian Chivu
Laurent Koscielny
Ricardo Carvalho
Aleksander Anyukov
Davide Santon

MIDFIELD
Seydou Keita
Maxi Rodriguez
Miguel Veloso
Nigel de Jong
Diego Ribas
Rafael van der Vaart
Wesley Sneijder
Mikel Arteta
Luis Nani

FORWARDS
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Pedro Rodriguez
Andy Carroll
Mario Balotelli
Edinson Cavani
Alessandro Del Piero


Original XI

-------------------------- Hart -------------------------
Zabaleta ------- Kompany ------- Toure ---------- Clichy
--------------------------------------------------------
----------------Y.Toure ---------- De Jong -------------
--- Nasri -------------------------------------- Silva ---
------------------------ Aguero ------------------------
------------------------- Tevez ------------------------

Substitutes
Taylor
Richards
Lescott
Barry
Johnson
Balotelli
Dzeko


NEW XI

------------------------- De Gea -----------------------
--------------------------------------------------------
Ivanovic ------- Carvalho ------- Kompany -------- Chivu
--------------------------------------------------------
------------------------- De Jong ----------------------
--------------- vd Vaart ---------- Sneijder ------------
L.Nani ------------------------------------------- Pedro
----------------------- Ibrahimovic ---------------------

Substitutes
Abbiati
Anyukov
Santon
Veloso
Diego Ribas
Maxi Rodriguez
Cavani

TRANFERS IN

Gerrard + Maxi R + Suarez + Carroll + £35m - Liverpool (1)
£13m - Juve (2)
Ibra + Robinho + Abbiati - AC Milan (3)
Kaka + Pedro R + Alex + Meireles + Keita - Chelsea (4)
Sneijder + Chivu - Inter (5)
Sagna + Diego Ribas + Koscielny + Arteta - Arsenal (6)
Ivanovic + Maxi + Cech - Chelsea (7)
Carvalho + Del Piero - Juve (8)
De Gea + Veloso + Nani - Man Utd (9)

Foreigns:
- VdV £22m
- Marchena £10m
- Anyukov £6m
- Given £10m
- Cavani £8m
- Podolski £12m
- Santon £6m

TRANSFERS OUT

Y.Toure + Milner + Nasri + Dzeko - Liverpool (1)
Lescott + Kolorov - Juve (2)
Tevez + Suarez + Hart + £8m - AC Milan (3)
Gerrard + D.Silva + K.Toure + Barry + Maxi R - Chelsea (4)
Aguero + Clichy - Inter (5)
Richards + Kaka + Alex - Arsenal (6)
Sagna + Adam Johnson + Given - Chelsea (7)
Marchena + Podolski - Juve (8)
Cech + Meireles + Robinho - Man Utd (9)

Releases:
Stuart Taylor £2m
Costel Pantilimon £1m
Gunnar Nielsen £1m
Wayne Bridge £3m
Stefan Savić £3m
Greg Cunningham £1m
Nedum Onuoha £2m
Owen Hargreaves £3m
Abdul Razak £1m
Alex Nimely £1m

Not ke4en on either....

Ivanovic + Drogba + Alex + Malouda + Merieles
for
Richards + Aguero + Toure + Silva

Crackhead...

Nasri + Aguero + Yaya + Milner
=
Gerrard + Suarez + Carrol + Lucas + £30m

Not really, no.
What about if Aguero was changed to Tevez?

Nasri + Tevez + Yaya + Milner
=
Gerrard + Suarez + Carrol + Lucas + £30m

Anything I could add? I'd really quite like those 4 players

A very good offer, but I'd probably prefer to have my two, what about something like:

Silva + Yaya + De Jong + Kompany + Richards
=
Di Maria + Lass + Khedira + Albiol + Arbeloa

Gives you 3 gains for 2 losses

Enquiry for now though.

Also, if you played

------ De Jong --- Barry
Suarez --- Gerrard --- Silva
------------- Aguero

You'd only really be losing out majorly at DM, and £30m (and Lucas/Barry who you could use to p/ex) would more than cover that

Would you still consider

Yaya + Milner + Nasri + Dzeko
for
Gerrard + Maxi + Suarez + Carroll + £25m?

I'd much prefer this my offer...

Could up it to £35m if that would make a difference?

Yaya + Milner + Nasri + Dzeko
for
Gerrard + Maxi + Suarez + Carroll + £35m?

I'm happy
Deal
I'll confirm

With Yaya gone what about this:

Di Maria + Albiol
=
Silva?

See where you are coming from but still prefer my players. May be back with an offer for Silva

Good offer but not for me right now. Will probably have an offer at some point but want to see if Jimbo accepts my bid first, after that will probably be using Fabregas to try an sign Robben/Silva etc....

Hmm. Not sure. I'll have a think.

Muller + Ribery
=
Suarez + Silva

Simply:

Ivanovic + Drogba
for
Richards + Aguero

Improve massively at RB, and get Drogba. No brainer?

Richards + Silva + Aguero + Barry + A.Johnson

for

Maxwell + Pedro + Ozil + Keita/Alcantara + Affellay

doesn't improve the areas im interestes in so no deal.

Lol unlikely bud.

Prefer my players, sorry. I really really don't like Clichy

Tevez Kolo
for
RvP Tommy
------------------
As much as like Tevez, Vermaelen is far better than Kolo so cant deal mate

Can't afford to lose the very few top players I have mate

I know I am but i do have a plan. I think my midfield atm is amazing but i need a winger, plan to use Alonso to bring one in. I feel Villa > Tevez for sure so wouldnt do that, and not overly intereted in De Jong.

Silva is an interest to me.

Malouda + Sanchez + Alonso + Anelka + Fontas

for

Silva + Maxi + De Jong? + Tevez + Lescott


Silva > Malouda
Maxi < Sanchez
De Jong << Alonso
Tevez > Anelka
Lescott > Fontas

Enquiry.

I rate RVP = Tevez personally.
However, can't really sell Vermalen for anything less as I need to build my defence around him

I've offered Ivanovic + Ozil to Utd in a deal that imp[roves me more than your does, so will wait to see what Jombo has to say.

Would you do....

Pedro + Ramires
for
Silva + Maxi?

Would you take 13m for lescott + kolarov

Yes I'd be tempted.

Gerrard + De Jong + Suarez
for
Khedira + Muller + Schwein

Sorry but I don't want Gerrard, he hasn't done a lot for ages and I'm not sure he'll be the same player when he (eventually) returns from injury. I love my CM at the moment, I don't want to break it up unless I get something spectacular.

What about:
Di Miria + Muller
=
Suarez + Silva

Argentina front three, play 4-2-1-3

I can't really see a deal without including Silva, feel free to make an offer if you can see something.

Kolo Toure + Barry / Adam Johnson
for
Carvalho ?

------------------------

No ty i don't particularly rate kolo toure much

Clichy + Kolo Toure
for
Coentrao + Juan

-----

Rate both Juan and Coentrao higher, and surprised you don't too! Unless you do and you were trying to pull a fast one?

Suarez + Tevez + £20m
for
Robinho + Ibra + MvB

No thanks, don't fancy my already bad midfield for cash.

No real top class midfielder is there though

Chuck in £8m and you got a deal

Robhino mate

Deal

What do you want for Ibrahimovic?

I don't know, it's difficult, me and 207 were close to reaching a deal before you stepped in.

Ibrahimovic + ?
=
Benzema + Muller

is what is in my head, but I can't work it out.

I know for a fact me and 207 would have ended up dealing, I would have added the goalkeepers he asked for.

Speaking of which

Ibrahimovic + Abbiatti
=
Benzema + Neuer

ENQ, I need to check which goalies I can get from foreigns.

Seems I missed the boat on a couple of offers...

No, I'm not saying you've broken the rules or anything like that

What I am saying though is that I would have added Neuer/Abbiatti to my first offer which he said he would have dealt at. I didn't want to but I would have in the end.

Kaka + Pedro
for
Gerrard + Silva?

Enq.

Rate both mine higher mate

I think so...

Sorry, I was alluding to Mata > Pedro, but not a lot in it. Personally prefer Juan, and wouldn't do the deal for him.

Kaka + Pedro
for
Gerrard + Silva

Is all I am really interested in, and it's a gamble.

I'd do that deal with Alex/Toure.

...not Ivanovic/Richards.

If you included Maxi/Keita.

I don't want Kaka, sorry.