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Aye Kuki's clause makes him a target for me in any game I play in future now. It sounds like Newcastle get a canny transfer budget if you're getting Kuki and Lincoln, I'm always tempted to play as NUFC but the urge to do the old save before game, load game if you lose cheat is too tempting whenever I play as them . I finally lost Coric! Barcelona bid 100m for him so I just accepted, I've had bids lodged for a ton of my players and promptly rejected them and luckily no one is unsettled. I've got Gotze, Evander and a ton of class regens so I'll probably not touch my transfer budget (which is at 346m now), I've managed to hold onto Lozano and Goretzka after the title win but tbh the regens are snapping at Goretzka's heels so I'd have been okay with him going (Real Madrid were bidding, they'd just stuck Kovacic on the transfer list for 18m so he'd have been a good replacement if I wanted anyway).

It's always a bad market since teams are reluctant to sell in this window. I think we're just being priced out everywhere we try, Championship sides asking 15m for players that we'd want to improve on when we go up anyway, then you have Conte refusing to loan out Loftus-Cheek and PL sides going for a lot of the fringe players we would probably be looking at. I think we'll probably get a loan or two late in the window.

The first episode of that new Tom Hardy show Taboo aired over here last night (think it was on BBC one on Saturday night), really enjoyed it tbh. Setting up to be quite interesting as it's not giving much away about the main character.

Aye he's been no problem for me aside from a couple of 2-3 week spells throughout each season, he has struggled to get on the pitch on prior FM's that I bought him mind. On the other hand Leon Bailey who the scouts didn't say was injury prone suffered 3 bad injuries through the season the last one putting him out for 7-8 months. I'm assuming Goretzka staying fit is just blind luck as this is the only game I've had on this version of FM.

Aye, I was just asking if it was an open poll that they'd wrote an article about as per usual in addition to the ridiculousness of a bloke paid to write articles not knowing that 44% isn't a majority.

Fair enough, I hadn't bothered clicking the link I just looked at HF's post. I put about as much research into my post as Ryder does for any of the bollocks he writes.

Was it just an open Chronicle poll like usual? because it's worth noting the mackems regularly have threads about how they're all going to vote in them.

The worst bit is that's why they recalled Nathan Ake back from his successful loan isn't it? Perhaps but they've got a massive quota of highly rated prospects they've been hoarding for years who could surely fill that role, fair enough it's their decision I'm just being bitter as I thought he could do a job for us and think it's a waste of time squandering a supposedly talented young English player.

Very true, once the cries of corruption get too loud it'll be those same people carrying out the investigation as well.

Good thing the last two in the current format are in mint places .

Ah well must have just been fluke for Burnley, he wasn't as good this current season although he still got 11 (they did favour a new signing over him mind so I think he only got 23 appearances). I managed to win the league on the last day of the season with a 2-1 away win over Man Utd, won it on goal difference by 1 goal , PSG absolutely demolished my lot in a CL Semi final. Goretzka and Lozano are now completely unsettled by Real Madrid and Bayern, I've already got plenty regens ready to step in for Goretzka but I like having him and Brannagan as a long term partnership. It's now the 2020 summer which iirc is the brexit one in the game.

As Alex said it was just depressingly obvious the corrupt slugs would make this decision. Does this come into play for the shit show in Russia? or just the even bigger shit show in Qatar, a 48 team winter world cup man, I genuinely hope English football just carries on as that will be complete and utter dirge.

Going to be a rough window. I agree with the mag that it's going to have to be loan deals for PL players as Championship clubs are just asking for stupid money, 15m for Tom Cairney ffs. Can't say I understand Conte's reasoning mind, Loftus-Cheek has played once in the league why wouldn't you send him out for a 6 month loan? seems pretty low risk to me, especially as they have a lad out on loan who is one of the best defenders in the Bundesliga, if Christensen can't get in their side I'm not sure how Loftus-Cheek is going to get in it (they're probably deeper in central midfield than defence as well). Frustrating for Rafa this mind as Conte has been a bit of a nob 'considering' this for a few weeks going by the quotes recently, it's a 6 month loan for a youth player ffs it's not that big of a decision.

That's fucking absurd. It's definitely one of the more frustrating things in the game especially when it's as blatantly obvious and ridiculous like that.

The board are a bit meh on me which is a bit of a surprise seeing as I've won a Champions League, a PL title, FA cup, League cup, and club world championship since I started. I think their expectations have really went sky high since I won the league though. The club world championship is a lot harder than it used to be since the Chinese sides are actually pretty good . I'm usually a massive spender but I always end up with a ridiculously large squad so I'm trying to keep it a bit thinner. Andrew is Mariano ever any good on any of your saves? He's a youth striker from Real Madrid, Burnley got him 2nd season for 1.7m and he scored 23 goals for them in the PL last season, he's has scored against me every time I've played him as well (including a 4 goal performance in a 5-0 drubbing from them). Might be a good buy first season up if he's in anyway consistently like this for Newcastle saves.

Man City refuse to sell Sane to me even though he has played 11 games in 3 years, they keep buying up attacking midfielders like no tomorrow though. I sold Firminho to Man City for 94m as it was a ridiculous bid, I bought Gotze for 40m and Lucas Moura for 18m (transfer listed) with some of the money. I'm in January 2020 now, been chasing a Russian regen CB for a while and saw Man Utd had bid, so I threw in a 27m bid. Mine was rejected and Man Utd's 24m rising to 32m bid was accepted, so I threw in a 34m up front bid and it was fucking rejected. Not sure at all why they'd reject a better bid, it's from Zenit so there should be no reason at all to prefer him to go to Man Utd over my lot. I've always ran into this issue of the comp favoring comp bids but it still pisses me off when you get one this clear. Spurs are still being fucking ridiculous as well, 23 games 1 draw 2 losses so they're 9 points clear of anyone. Oh aye I sold Origi to PSG for 81m and I've been rotating Kuki and Romero up top, Kuki has been doing class. PSG are absurd, they bought Renato Sanches for 83m, Oblak for 35.5m and Danilo for 40.5m in the same window, I looked and they've basically had a net spend of 100m every season. Have 250m transfer budget now but feel the squad is well balanced at the moment as I offloaded Markovic, Wijnaldum and Mane along with Origi and Firminho (I also sold Chirivella for 9m which was a nice bonus) so I might just got this window without spending.

Aye to be fair I doubt it was his call, he'd have been in a lot of pain and since he costs a fucking fortune it's better to just stretcher him off when they're unsure of the extent of the injury rather than have him attempt to walk/hobble or whatever else off. As for the oxygen it's just them trying to make him comfortable in all, he may even be squeamish or something. I'm just glad it's not as bad as it first was feared even though it's in an utterly shite place so will require a canny while to heal properly. The result is crap since it forces a replay, I was saying I'd take a loss as it'd get us out of the cup before the game but of course once we kicked off I was only wanting a win and while I think we controlled large parts of the game it didn't sound like we produced many chances. I know it was only predominately our back ups out there but it shows how much we need creative players as we're really just relying on Shelvey and Ritchie. Think Rafa will be rightly frustrated with what sounded like another lapse in concentration by our defence close to half time, they'd been doing a decent job at staying alert at times they were losing concentration earlier on in the season. I'd like to see Elliott get a start in the replay as Sels really doesn't seem worth persisting with, Darlow is better at a similar age and I've not seen or heard anything from Sels to make me think he has a higher potential than Darlow.

Was going to say that's a fucking terrible spot for a cut as well.

Sels sounds flappy as fuck again.

Lapse in concentration by the players, Rafa will be fucking furious.

The way Trump is acting is just fucking depressing tbh, it was a bit funny at first in a 'this fucking idiot can't keep this up can he?' but now it's just sad that this bloke is actually going to be in charge. I'd often gave him a bit of a benefit of doubt in that I assumed he must have some level of intelligence but I'm at the point where I'm just sick to the back teeth of his moronic tweets and I think the blokes just a total fucking idiot. He wiped off a bunch of Toyota's market cap off the other day when he give them some ultimatum about producing cars in Mexico for the US market, they've said it wont effect production in the US though, even if you agree with him and think all the cars should be produced in the US this sort of shit shouldn't be on fucking Twitter. There has to be a point the secret service or another branch step in and stop him because surely this is going to become a national security issue.

That stand the camera is pointing towards looks completely empty .

It's Sutton v Wimbledon and Barrow v Rochdale on over here.

Thanks lads!