Season 23 Week 10 processing...

Welcome to week 10 of the season.

I'm running the reset atm and then I will be opening the orders.

Early start Paul. That win over Chelsea got you going for the week?

Rob@Inter wrote:

Early start Paul. That win over Chelsea got you going for the week?

Today I have orders from Arsenal, Leicester, Plymouth, Watford, Charlton, Fulham, Inter Milan, Real Madrid and Barcelona.

So none from Birmingham, Newcastle, Chelsae or Schalke yet.

And a quite worrying trend today, several of the envelopes have arrived partially or fully opened. The Arsenal orders arrived opened and then resealed with an official royal mail sticker. Phil has indicated that there is £50 credit but no sign of a cheque so i'm hoping he has sent it by bank transfer as he normally does. I'm going to go and check that now.

Paul I've had an assignment to get in last week so nothing from me sorry.

Thats okay ... Phil has sent a bank transfer, worrying for a moment.

Cheques also arrived safely from Inter, Plymouth, Watford and Fulham, thankyou very much.

Jamie@Schalke04 wrote:

Paul I've had an assignment to get in last week so nothing from me sorry.

no probs Jamie, thanks for letting me know.

Any big news this week Paul?

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Thats okay ... Phil has sent a bank transfer, worrying for a moment.

Cheques also arrived safely from Inter, Plymouth, Watford and Fulham, thankyou very much.

Hi Paul,

Any chance you might send via Private Message (or with my turn) your bank details so can send a bank transfer as apposed to a cheque every week?

Thanks

Ben

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Thats okay ... Phil has sent a bank transfer, worrying for a moment.

Cheques also arrived safely from Inter, Plymouth, Watford and Fulham, thankyou very much.

Thanks for confirming Paul. In future will try bank transfers as they're quicker and easier.

Ben@Plymouth wrote:

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Thats okay ... Phil has sent a bank transfer, worrying for a moment.

Cheques also arrived safely from Inter, Plymouth, Watford and Fulham, thankyou very much.

Hi Paul,

Any chance you might send via Private Message (or with my turn) your bank details so can send a bank transfer as apposed to a cheque every week?

Thanks

Ben

Yes I can supply you with my bank details sent via private message.

Back to the good stuff... a HUGE deal this week between Phil and Iain which if all goes well will involve Fernando Torres moving to Arsenal and Radamel Falcao moving to Real Madrid plus a few sundry items that will have to be confirmed later in the week, but it looks as though the deal should go through okay later in the week.

I'm going to enter the orders now and I'll bring you any extra news as I enter it...

That is the big one!

Rooney and Torres?... That sounds good!

Which Torres have you bought Phil? The 07-10 model or the 11-13?

Arsenal are first up...

The Torres deal is confirmed with Samuel Galindo moving to Real Madrid for £10millions as part of the deal. Torres must be the bargain of the season on a free transfer.

Carl Jenkinson is reviewed and Phil continues his building upgrades.

And no small thing but Wayne Rooney makes his debut this week in at striker to face Man United and he will be partnering Bendtner upfront. Van Der Vaart moves to leftback in place of Givet and Essien returns to the starting eleven as anchorman.

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Ben@Plymouth wrote:

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Thats okay ... Phil has sent a bank transfer, worrying for a moment.

Cheques also arrived safely from Inter, Plymouth, Watford and Fulham, thankyou very much.

Hi Paul,

Any chance you might send via Private Message (or with my turn) your bank details so can send a bank transfer as apposed to a cheque every week?

Thanks

Ben

Yes I can supply you with my bank details sent via private message.

Cheers Paul!

Lille have confirmed the sale of Falcao to Real Madrid in exchange for Wesley Schneider and Thierry Henry will lead the team this week as Falcao is out injured.

VDV to left back?

Someone run at him!!

Turn sent as normal so hopefully should turn up today!

Rich@Birmingham wrote:

Turn sent as normal so hopefully should turn up today!

thanks Rich

Sanchez gets a rare start for Real Madrid in place of Messi and Iain has decided to list Bruno Alves so he could be making his farewell appearance today with both Roma and Napoli very interested in signing the veteran centreback. Moutinho also starts and of course it looks like being Torres's last game as well. So lots going on at Real this week as they try to regain their place at the forefront of spanish and world football.

Nacho Monreal signs a new contract at Barcelona tieing him to club for four years whilst Yaya Toure returns to the first team at anchorman along with Bruno Alves, Jordi Alba and Carlos Puyol, and Xabi makes a welcome return at playmaker.

Slightly sad to see my 2 longest serving players go, believe its 11 years for both, but must move on and with Falcao arriving and hopefully reducing my 1st team squad numbers to around 20 I hope this will start the next chapter of Real Madrid. Changing from my plan to have 22 9999's (2 in both positions) to a more fixed starting 11 and a just a few rotating players, young players like Hazard, Lucas and Nastasic will be the ones fighting for the places rather than your Sneijder, Alves and Torres. Just hope this mid season change doesn't effect results to much. We will see

No debut for the young but talented Zaha this week at Leicester as Steven Fletcher comes in to partner Pavlyuchenko up front and Granero replaces the injured Samir Nasri for the tough trip to White Hart Lane.

It seems like Robbie Keane could be joining Leicester later in the week for a bargain £1millions.

Another big game this week for Real Betis as they visit fourth placed Valencia, who have traditionally been the "third" team in spain and will no doubt be looking to regain that mantle from Betis.