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Scotland

Aberdeen 33 +16
Celtic 30 +23 Champions
Motherwell 29 +19
Rangers 29 +18

Another draw for Motherwell means they slipped further back into the chasing pack as Aberdeen stay top...

Spain

Barcelona 40 +32 Champions
Real Madrid 33 +33
Real Betis 29 +26
Sevilla 25 +20

A narrow win for the leaders on the road maintained their stranglehold on the title race and neither Real Madrid nor Sevilla seemed to miss their managers presence at their matches this week...

USA

Chicago 37 +48
Cosmos 37 +28 Champions
Harrisburg 32 +23
NewYork 28 +13

What a game at Chicago this week where the new league leaders demolished the Champions Cosmos with six unanswered goals allowing them to go to the top of the table on goal difference...

Prussia - Top teams from Slovakia, Poland and Czech Republic.

Ruzomberok 42 +63 
Gornik 37 +27
Wisla 23 +10
Slovan Bratislava 21 +10

Another six goal haul for the leaders keeps them unbeaten and unbowed at the top of the table as they stride purposely to what will become a rare trophy...

Amazon - Top teams from Uruguay, Peru and Chile

Nacional 38 +25
Defensor 26 +20
Danubio 26 +18
Penarol 25 +11

Again we see a close race for second place but wit the leaders out in front by some large margin with Nacional yet to concede a goal at home...

Transfers now...

The biggest deal this week sees Tielemans join Manchester City from Tottenham in a straight swap for Leroy Sane who moves to the London club with Spurs boss claiming this week that "Sane could be just what we need to get clear of the drop zone". Also leaving Man City was Mesut Ozil who agreed to join Cologne in the Bundesliga for £58millions.

Coaching now...

A Chelsea win 

Email turns all sent out.

Hi Paul, my balance hasn't been updated, should be showing £13.25 in credit.

Rich@RealMadrid wrote:

Hi Paul, my balance hasn't been updated, should be showing £13.25 in credit.

thanks for the heads up I'll check it out later.

Yep my mistake totally forget to credit the payment that arrived last week after I'd already posted out the turns and done the reset for game 2, should be okay now, thanks Rich.

Hi Paul, just pinged £10 over, would you be able to send a full turn for Emelec as I’m guessing I didn’t receive one as credit was low and I’m guessing the 3 friendlies I arranged for Chelsea didn’t happen for same reason

gary@chelsea wrote:

Hi Paul, just pinged £10 over, would you be able to send a full turn for Emelec as I’m guessing I didn’t receive one as credit was low and I’m guessing the 3 friendlies I arranged for Chelsea didn’t happen for same reason

thanks Gary, new turn sent.

Corrected turns sent out to International managers which should now show semi-final opponents scout reports correctly.

Paul - love the changes to the order sheets.

Just managed to catch up with this weeks results, a great week for me.  To get through all three quarter finals, against very good opposition was a great achievement.  Plymouth, Barca and Sao Paulo are three of the toughest opponents I could've asked for and I think home advantage may have been the key in these ties.

League games all good results too, Nantes picking up another impressive win which I am delighted about but also nice to see Fluminense getting back amongst the goals after a spell of disruption for the forwards.  Charlton got a good point away to a decent Arsenal side, which we may not have deserved, so pleased to pick that one.   Could prove to be a vital point in the race for second place.  Plymouth seem to be on the charge and are picking up some very good wins whilst Villa always remain in the race.  

Next week is massive for all my teams, three very important games.  Fluminense need an unlikely win away to the runaway leaders Botafogo.  Stopping the evergreen frontline of Hulk and Sturridge will be near on impossible so the title challenge in Brazil will most likely be over next week.

Nantes face second place PSG, where a win would cement the lead and may prove too much for the others to overcome but there is still a long way to go.  A loss and the title race is wide open once again!

In the Premier league it is 2nd v 3rd, a home tie against Plymouth which will prove vital in the race for the runners up place in the league.  Hopefully we can get a positive result and keep our noses a decent distance away from the chasing pack.

Thanks for another great week Paul.

Rob@Barcelona wrote:

Paul - love the changes to the order sheets.

Echo this, was a nice surprise when I opened the envelope!

Transfer wise, delighted to pick up three of my long standing targets.