Season 25 Week 18 processing...

Brasileiro

Flamengo 51 +59
Santos 49 +40

I'm still chasing Matt's fine Flamengo side and I have a slim chance cos he has three away games of the last four and the last game of the season for him is at Gremio, so you never know, although he hardly ever concedes a goal, not easy here in Brazil where everybody is very attack minded.

Eircom

Bohemians 41 +18
Shamrock 36 +13
Cherry 32 +7

Looks like another title for Bohemians with whom Martin Higham did such a good job of building up, his infrastructure is still there and serves the club very well, and they remain unbeaten.

Bundesliga

Schalke 50 +46
Berlin 40 +13
Bayern 36 +11

Third place for a side like Bayern is not good enough according to the board of directors and it looks like manager Matt Moore will be looking for a new challenge next season. Rumours persist he might be taking over at Chelsea though.

Eredivisie

Ajax 44 +23
Feyenoord 38 +16
PSV 37 +16

Will Buckley's time in charge at Feyenoord is still helping them as they continue to chase favorites Ajax.

Ekstraklasa

Gornik 42 +23
Wisla 39 +14
Polonia 36 +14

Wisla missed a huge chance this week to catch the leaders and may well rue this day.
Next season this league will expand to a full twelve teams.

okay I'm going to run the transfers now...

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Serie A

Inter 52 +51
Milan 38 +14
Ancona 37 +26
Napoli 35 +17
Juventus 32 +8

So Inter are confirmed as Italian Champions again in the face of stiff opposition so well done to Rob.

Really delighted with that. 14 points clear with 4 games to go. Think I got a total of 55 points last season and would love to beat that this season and to add the Coppa Italia would be a great year. And then focus on Europe again next season. Huge thanks to Dave Silva and Fabio Coentrao who I believe are both leaving the club this week. Both have been amazing and the fans love them but the team comes first and the arrival of Alaba and the returning Danilo and Firmino will make us stronger than ever next season.

Only one defeat in the last six games for Chelsea so a good time to take over there.

Paul Hemmings wrote:

okay I'm going to run the transfers now...

Really hoping for better news here....

Paul Hemmings wrote:

League One

Villa 38 +12
Forest 33 +6
Stoke 30 +7

8 points is a nice buffer over 3rd placed Stoke and a couple more good results should see Villa grace The Championship next season. It's a long process getting to the Prem and the building continues. 

Nice to see Forest up there too ...... helps to escape from reality!!!

Some deals are still pending but some have gone through...

David Silva to Nantes from Inter
Kaka to Santos from Nantes
Alberto Moreno to Charlton from Nantes
Nacer Chadli to Inter from Villa
Fabio Coentrao has joined Ancona from Inter.

Borini has moved to Cagliari.
Kolo Toure has moved to Nantes.

still doing the transfers, lots of interruptions today 

As can be seen on this footage, just before Stevie left, he was caught celebrating the most recent signing with Nantes players Sakho and Emre Can

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCxBh25xlpQ

Jackson Martinez decides to join Nantes.

Epic, the man has some moves ... 

Okay that's the processing finished for the week. Will start the printing and send out the email turns tomorrow morning. Thanks for your company and an entertaining day, it was fun.

Great week. I'm delighted. Now to spend some money in preparation for next season. Anyone got a world class striker for sale? I have cash and a load of swap options.

Well still in the hunt but going to be tough to catch City now... Lyon doing well but a few players behind where I need them to be...

Email turns all sent out now.

We had a few issues this week with someof the transfers, some young players retired erroneously but i think I have found them all, and some deals didn't go through becasue the system erroneously thought the club doing the buying was too far in debt but again i think I have found and corrected them all, always best to check though just in case.

additional Confirmed transfers include

Babel & Wolfswinkel & Fer to Wolves, Viana & Bendtner & Juarez to PSV.
Jed Wallace to Wolves Dawson to Leicester.

Apologies for seemingly picking on Wolves this week.

Another late deal

Seb Larsson leaves Blackburn for Portsmouth whilst Gaston Ramirez goes the opposite way.

Thanks Paul for another good week. Now to ponder how I play City and Charlton in the same week...

Ben@Plymouth wrote:

Thanks Paul for another good week. Now to ponder how I play City and Charlton in the same week...

Thanks Ben, should be an exciting week for all of us, I always look forward to the FA Cup semi-finals and am looking forward to it again this season with four strong teams. Tough choices ahead for you it would seem.

http://talksport.com/football/manchester-united-agree-fee-brazilian-star-roberto-firmino-talksport-understands

Who said Firmino might go to a bigger club? Tom?

Yeah but of a no brainier really, far too good for Hoffenheim.
But like Coutinho will be too good for Liverpool next year, if not already.

Upsets me even more its United. 

Ps how Much do you want rob?

Tom@Charlton wrote:

Yeah but of a no brainier really, far too good for Hoffenheim.
But like Coutinho will be too good for Liverpool next year, if not already.

Upsets me even more its United. 

Ps how Much do you want rob?

Odegaard and cash ........ if you're asking.