Dugout Discussion – France vs Germany

That moment when someone in the top 10 in the world joins the league you have been winning since day 1 with just 2 matches left...

looks like 4-3-3 is the way to go ...

worth taking a hit to get those eleven men on the field?

Team for semi's:

Henn / Neuer
Hector / Rami (don't ask me why i changed him from Umiti -.-) / Guerreiro / Fonte / A. Williams
Payet / Özil / Kroos / Draxler / Allen
Muller / Griezmann / Bale

After my 6FT

Lloris
Rami / Gurreiro / Fonte / Koc
Payet / Pogba / Matuidi or Sissoko(?)
Griezmann / Gruuu / Ronaldo

What whould you do?

Anyone considering Nani for the final?

Bacca to West Ham looks on the cards, Gokhan Tore looks like he's coming too. Great time to be a hammer 🙂

Missed the first couple of group stage matches this tourney. Curious, how well was Greasemann rated on here early on in the tourney (or before the tourney)? Was he a highly-owned casuals pick for the most part until he started performing?

So 9 players already for the final.

What to do with all of these transfers.

Would anyone like to buy some?

If we are all being honest...it all boils down... to having;

8 frenchmen
+ CR7, Renato, Rafa.G doesn't it

So 37 points between me and OR1. How do I catch that up in one match?

This UEFA game's a bloody nonsense. Why am I only allowed to recruit a miserly eight Portuguese players into my final team? I don't want any deux point Frenchmen clogging up the place - I just want winners.

Thought I was in with a chance of a top 10 place in the Scout league until I saw that ridiculous restriction.

Pish.

And let today will be the day when holy FPL opens!

Apart from renato there is nobody I want from that portuguese midfield, such a lack of options

so all in on France then?

Mancs... Happy or no with Mourinho at your club?

Will Umtiti start the final over Rami ?

Defending my ML, 18 points ahead. Can you improve on this?:

Lloris
Sagna / Kos / Cedric / Guerriero
R. Sanches / Pogba / Payet
Ronaldo / Greiz (c) / Giroud

My main competitor would need 11 transfers to have a fully playing starting 11 and bench. Just to brag I made transfers for my bench too.

OK. Time for a realistic goal of top 100 as that is only 5 points away.

That has to be doable right?

15mil for Ibe with a buy back / sell-on clause, very tidy bit of business from Klopp.

so is it best to go 8 Portugal and 3 France if chasing?

Griez Nani CR7 seems the best front 3 imo

Goodnight everyone. Don't have nightmares

Currently looking at:

Lloris (Patricio)
Evra Koscielny Sagna Guerreiro (Pepe)
Pogba Payet Renato Sanches (Mario, Gomes) 🙂
Griezmann(c) Ronaldo Giroud

If I'm trying to c**kblock 2nd place, should I put in Pepe for one of my French defense lads?

Bacca definitely will be in my FPL team , hope his price is reasonable

"Paul Pogba has told certain friends & team-mates of his desire to return to Manchester United, according to tomorrow's L'Équipe."

Ibe is the younger version of Mane, 15M is about right.

Good business for both club.

I am in a ML with a big price at stake. Second atm with nine points up to first. Will still win a decent price if I end up second but first will mean to double the amount. I am four points ahead of third which will half my price and so on until fifth. What would you do and which team would you put out? Got 6 portugese (4 defenders ( Patricio, Cedric, Fonte, Guerreiro) , Sanches and Ronaldo) and 4 french ( Lloris, Sagna, Payet, Griezmann). Thoughts appreciated.

Subotic to come at 5.0 price?

What a cracking opening weekend on TV it's gonna be. Those 5 games have everything.

Hull v Leicester; The newly promoted v the reigning champs. (12.30 Sky)
City v Sunderland; Peps revolution v Big Sams solid team. (5.30 BT)
Bournmouth v United; The minnows v Jose's new dream team (Sun 1.30 Sky)
Arsenal v Liverpool; Cracker, pick of the bunch on paper. (Sun 4.00 Sky)
Chelsea v West Ham; London Derby. Conte defence v Bilic attack (Mon 8.00 Sky)

Just a bit more on Neymar and his value, this is the FIFPro 2015 World XI and their current ages in brackets

Neuer (30)
Alves (33), Ramos (30), Thiago Silva (31), Marcelo (28)
Iniesta (32), Modric (30), Pogba (23)
Messi (29), Ronaldo (31), Neymar (24)

With the exception of Neymar, everyone else on that list is at least 5 years older than Neymar and in the attacking six Iniesta is 9 years older than Pogba. He's already been voted as one of the best 11 players in the world by 40,000 other professionals and is the youngest player on that list. Going by an average top player's trajectory, he's probably got another 7 or 8 years as an absolutely world class player and then still three more years of still being one of the best players in whichever league he's in, if not in Europe. For rich teams with Champions League winning ambitions, only the very best players will do and £100m for a projected 8 year period of being world class actually works out at quite an easy £12.5m per year. If you buy Modric at 30, £100m it makes way less sense because you've got way less time to get the value out of him to repay your outlay but for the world's best 23 year old, it's been the going rate since Ronaldo and Bale made their moves.

As for whether or not a club should pay that much money, if you look at the amortised cost, £12.5m + wages is easily affordable for a club who turnover almost half a billion pounds per year. Heck even £100m up front isn't even too much of a stretch for a club making that much money and then you've got Pogba with only wages to pay from then on. Do clubs have too much money to spend? Well there's millions and millions of us who shell out hundreds and hundreds of pounds each year to watch sport on TV and local fans who spend millions and millions on matchday tickets and food and VIP boxes over the course of a season. Its a professional sport, we pay them money to watch their sport, its not as if they rigged LIBOR or ran a ponzi scheme to make their money. If you want good honest local sport, go to your local park on a weekend but this is pro sport and its going to make money as long as its entertaining.

How many points are you guys approx. on? Used to come here quite a bit during the 14/15 season for advice, etc and did really well by my standards (top 70k finish). Now wondering if my score is somewhat acceptable to the rest here. Currently on 307 points. Keeping Muller from start to finish really hurt.