Season 31 Week 2 processing...

Italy

Juventus 6 +7
Napoli 6 +6
Milan 6 +3
Inter 6 +2

Looks like being another exciting Serie A season...

gary@chelsea wrote:

Scored 7 conceded 7 

That's not Chelsea, it Spurs when Ozzie Ardiles was manager.

Scotland

Celtic 6 +4
Motherwell 6 +4
Falkirk 6 +3
Kilmarnock 4 +1

Storming start for wounded ex-Champions Celtic...

Spain

Valencia 6 +7
Atletico 6 +6
Betis 4 +5
Barcelona 4 +3 Champions
Zaragoza 4 +2

After spending the close season reviewing his players instead of making wholesale changes can Valencia repeat their shock title win from a few seasons ago ?...

USA

Chicago 6 +7
Tampa 6 +5
Harrisburg 4 +4
Kansas 4 +3

Storming start to the season by Chicago...

Transfers now...

Firstly a big thank you to everybody who reduced the number of players in their squads to 60 or below, I'm sure that will give a huge improvement to the stability of the system going forward. 

A couple of transfers to report as Atletico continued rebuilding by signing Toni Kroos for £15millions from Stuttgart this allowed Stuttgart to call Nagy from the subs bench to play at anchorman curing their squad effectiveness issue. The other deal saw Dani Ceballos and £25millions depart Barcelona for Real Betis in exchange for Uruguayan playmaker Federico Valverde. other deals are covered in full on the TP special action report.

Very pleased with the performance of the teams overall - Independiente's squad issues will hopefully be resolved this turn which should help with their effectiveness - although what to do with Rodriguez...

Thanks for another excellent week Paul!

Coaching now...

Finances...

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Firstly a big thank you to everybody who reduced the number of players in their squads to 60 or below, I'm sure that will give a huge improvement to the stability of the system going forward. 

Happy to do my bit, all squads should be under 60 now. 

Printing in the morning then I'll send out the email turns...thanks for your company today...

Email turns all sent out, enjoy...

Thanks Paul!

Hi Paul,

Just one problem - I got 2x Turns for Croatia, instead of 1x Croatia and 1x Portugal U21...
also, I thought we could play INT friendlies when we wanted? I tried to  play 1 FR each this turn.

Really not sure whether we CAN play friendlies, so this is probably not a 'problem'...

Ta, Andy.

Andy@Schalke wrote:

Hi Paul,

Just one problem - I got 2x Turns for Croatia, instead of 1x Croatia and 1x Portugal U21...
also, I thought we could play INT friendlies when we wanted? I tried to  play 1 FR each this turn.

Really not sure whether we CAN play friendlies, so this is probably not a 'problem'...

Ta, Andy.

i tried to play 9 each, i just assumed as we got order sheets there were games this week.

Has anyone ever had their CF beaten by both CBs at the same time? Didn't think 2 CB could mark one CF?

Had this a few times across different teams but have never seen it before...

Ben@Plymouth wrote:

Has anyone ever had their CF beaten by both CBs at the same time? Didn't think 2 CB could mark one CF?

Had this a few times across different teams but have never seen it before...

I believe this can happen if you only play one CF or ST, with no TM/S2 to support as the other CB has no one else to mark?

Phil@Watford wrote:

Ben@Plymouth wrote:

Has anyone ever had their CF beaten by both CBs at the same time? Didn't think 2 CB could mark one CF?

Had this a few times across different teams but have never seen it before...

I believe this can happen if you only play one CF or ST, with no TM/S2 to support as the other CB has no one else to mark?

Have had this both times when was playing a TM which is why I found it a bit weird - unless the TM being on SUP isn't getting forward to attack enough?

Andy@Schalke wrote:

Hi Paul,

Just one problem - I got 2x Turns for Croatia, instead of 1x Croatia and 1x Portugal U21...
also, I thought we could play INT friendlies when we wanted? I tried to  play 1 FR each this turn.

Really not sure whether we CAN play friendlies, so this is probably not a 'problem'...

Ta, Andy.

Thanks Paul,

I have the same unfortunately.  No friendlies played, but also got 2 lots of Brazil, rather than one plus the u21s?

Plus I keep getting players suspended when they are just playing friendlies and not even getting booked, let alone getting sent off?

Thanks

2 Mexico’s and no Spain U21for me.


Can anyone enlighten me on the Specialist dealing? Does it completely cure an injury?

Rob@Barcelona wrote:

2 Mexico’s and no Spain U21for me.


Can anyone enlighten me on the Specialist dealing? Does it completely cure an injury?

It doesn't Cure a injury. But can help reduce an injury by spending money to send a player to a specialist. Think maximum it can be reduced by is 5 weeks?

Rob@Barcelona wrote:

2 Mexico’s and no Spain U21for me.


Can anyone enlighten me on the Specialist dealing? Does it completely cure an injury?

All depends on how much you want to pay, i used it last season on Alonso and cured him straight away.

Paul, is there a set amount which determines how much the injury is reduced?

I got two Belgium and no Fra u21 either

These are from my notes...

"Specialist injury recovery:

Up to 5 weeks max, then you get +1 natural healing, +x from medical centre, the x depends on how good the med centre is.

200k – Specialist (-3wks)
500k - Specialist (-4wks)
1m – World Class Specialist (-5wks)"

Not sure whether the amounts are still that much though...

Apologies, I forgot to run the International friendlies this week will try to do better next week, hopefully I wont be so distracted for the next turn.

I'll run them later and update the system accordingly..