Season 24 week 14 processing...

MLS

Cosmos 1 Miami 0
Tampa 1 Chicago 1
Dallas 0 Galaxy 3
Kansas 1 New York 2

Galaxy 27 +9
Miami 24 +11
Chicago 22 +9
Dallas 21 -1
Tampa 15 -2
Cosmos 15 -3

okay after the break it will be time for the midweek Quarter-Final cup results from both South America and Europe...

Two massive wins this week.  Vital to pick up three points against an out of form Newcastle side, especially whilst the other two teams near the top are dropping points.  Captain stevie settling the nerves right at the end there.

Huge win in France, especially as I had to play the same eleven in midweek for the Europa game before the league game.  Lyon are littered with superstars but managing to hang onto a lead with Borini sealing it in the end was vital to our chase for the title in France. 

All eyes on the midweek results now I expect, Nantes face a resurgent Valencia side this week in Europe which could prove a step too far but home advantage is always just that, an advantage, so you never know. Not looking forward to reading the match report as they will have Robben up against my full backs!

Confederations Cup Quarter-Final results

Miami 0 Cerezo 2
Harrisburg 2 Kashiwa 0
Cosmos 1 Galaxy 0
New York 1 Tampa 0

European Champions Cup

Man City 7 ( seven ) Arsenal 3
Juventus 0 Watford 2
Inter Milan 2 Fulham 1
Plymouth 0 Barcelona 1

Europa Cup

AC Milan 2 Real Betis 0
Ajax 4 Chelsea 2
Ancona 3 Lille 2
Nantes 2 Valencia 1

Copa Libertadores

Sao Paulo 3 Emelec 0
Santos 1 Vasco 0
River Plate 1 Cristal 0
Boca 2 Flamengo 1

so all that means that after the draw the semi-finals look like this, all on neutral grounds

Osaka vs Harrisburg
New York vs Cosmos

Watford vs Man City
Inter Milan vs Barcelona

Ajax vs Ancona
AC Milan vs Nantes

Santos vs River Plate
Boca vs Sao Paulo

Some big games to look forward to there with Inter versus Barcelona maybe the pick of the bunch.

Okay then I'm going to run the transfers now...

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Europa Cup

AC Milan 2 Real Betis 0
Ajax 4 Chelsea 2
Ancona 3 Lille 2
Nantes 2 Valencia 1

What a week!!
Nantes love affair with the Europa goes on. Can we make it three finals in a row?
Milan May prove a difficult obstacle though....

All that is missing from a dream week is some big transfer news....

Palace win the race to sign Elie Sesay and Tom Hopper.
Hedwiges Maduro moved to Ajax.
Leicester take Gary Medel on loan from Lyon.
Wayne Hennessey moves to strengthen Wolves.
Anderson Luis moves to Man City.
Vito Mannone goes on loan to Sampdoria.

But the big transfer news of the week is Charlton's capture of Daniel Agger from Arsenal in a deal said to worth almost £30millions.

A few questions were raised last week when Man United signed Taison and Douglas Costa when neither have played in England in real-life. But both have been rumoured recently to be joining English clubs, Taison to Chelsea and Douglas to Man United and both players were at managed clubs so they couldn't be trialed but they can still be private deals if they are rumoured to be coming to these shores in recent reports. They cant play in the first team though until they are granted work permits and make their debuts. And both players were on the transfer list.

Interesting feature. Good idea, as you take the gamble that they are gonna move in real life. But it could cost you big time if they don't!

Okay going to run the news, training, morale, wages & finances now.

Well a disappointing week overall, though priority now is to focus on the Premiership. Europe will have to wait till next season...

Will send out the email turns tomorrow ( thursday ) morning.

Sorry I didn't get a turn in been busy with an essay. Assistant seems to do better than me anyway.

At last a win for Chelsea and a big one aswell, should be able to put bit more effort in soon so hopefully we will steadily improve

Well i didnt expect that in Europe especially with toure out suspended! Shame Flamengo didn't get through but seems like they did ok only losing 2-1 away still Boca.

Nice and steady in the leagues too, even with a little scare for Barcelona!

Massive semi final against inter now.

I think the League is beyond Inter now with a 5 point gap so Europe is the focus. Relieved to beat Will and now .... Matt. Certainly gets no easier. Desperate to see the Euro match report.

Boca had a close run in the Libertadores but given that I've been selling off some top players like Benatia to raise cash it's not too bad. Also gave Aubameyang a game instead of Destro which was probably too much of a risk.

Just starting the email turns now.

Thanks for all the feedback it's always great to hear what you the managers are thinking before, during and after games, makes the forum worthwhile for me.

Email turns all sent out now. Printing for me now and a visit to the post office.

OK so my turn didn't get in again. Will and Matt you both had an easy ride this turn as I was still playing the weak domestic cup teams from the turn before.

Will you faced El Shaarawy and Diego Costa instead of Cavani and Higuain and Matt you had a load of youths and reserves in the Boca team. But all's well that gets me to the semi finals.

Well that doesnt make me feel any better lol.

I thought that I'd battled bravely and given u a right run for ur money.... Bugger

Rob@Inter wrote:

Will you faced El Shaarawy and Diego Costa.....

 
Reserves?

 

Well it's nice to have a solid quartet of forwards to call upon. Hope Lazar Markovic plays for Benfica tonight as I want to see how he does. Could be the next alternative.

How the other half live lol