Season 25 week 23 processing...

Welcome to week 23, plenty of deals going on this week, plenty of you on holiday so plenty of email turns and forum turns to decipher for me this week. No vidiprinter service this week with just the english playoff semi-finals to play on Wednesday. 

Reset completed yesterday, entering the turns today.

Hi P,
I'm guessing 'forum turns' are PMs to you with all the turn details on them? 
Is there a template to use?
Can we provide web links to evidence REVIEWs or NEWs?
Are they only for emergencies?
Andy.

Andy@Schalke wrote:

Hi P,
I'm guessing 'forum turns' are PMs to you with all the turn details on them? 
Is there a template to use?
Can we provide web links to evidence REVIEWs or NEWs?
Are they only for emergencies?
Andy.

Yes only in emergencies, web links are good, there is no template just make it super obvious and clear.

Just finished all the data entry so I'll be running the games tomorrow.

Playoff results

Leicester 3 Wolves 2
West Brom 3 Westham 0

Stoke 4 QPR 1
Reading 3 Oldham 2

Derby 3 Tranmere 2
Portsmouth 3 Barnsley 3 aet pens 3-0

Strong favorites now are Leicester and Stoke, both reality managed.

Transfer news

Important - some feeder club sales to parent club have not gone through this week, because some of you have forgotten that the feeder club chairman will not sell you anybody the feeder club owns for less than their tribunal value. Check your deals and let me know in the next few hours if you want to increase the value of your BUYs to tribvals or you will have to redo the deals next week. I won't mention the players involved cos I'm sure it's just an oversight on the manager's part.

Deals that did go through include

First thing to know is that Ben has decided to move his feeder club from Lyon to Roma. Now normally Roma wouldn't be available as a feeder club because they are one of Italy's sleeping giants, however Italy does have 4 big clubs ( Inter AC Juve & Roma ) and I decided to limit feeder access to a top countries top three clubs, allowing Roma to become a feeder. Ben took ten players with him to Roma and ten of Roma's top players moved to Lyon in exchange. Ten is the most players you can take with you.

Said Berahino moved from Charlton to Roma prior to his move to Plymouth, the fee was £15millions plus the signatures of Dante & Bartra who made the move to Nantes.

also on the move were

Daley Blind £17m plus Darren Fletcher Villa to Birmingham
Villa also sold Joe Gomez to Nantes for £4.5m.
Plymouth signed Benteke from Lyon for £18m and Sanogo for £500,000.

Inter signed Zouma from Nantes in exchange for Dante & Niang and also bought Hummels for £50m from Gremio.

Barcelona decided to sell one of the world's best midfielders as Yaya Toure was sold in a swap deal with Nantes's Thiago Alcantara.

FYI when you scout a club they may ask you to loan them players, that offer only lasts until the end of the next turn, so scouting a club in week 20 and offering them a loan deal in week 22 is an unconfirmed deal, you have to offer the loan deal in week 21. Some loan deals have not gone through this week because of this. The system can only keep offers open for a week before those offers are overwritten at the end of the following week by any new offers.

That seems to be all the private deals entered, including a large gaggle of loan deals that will be detailed on the TP list this week, too many to note here by hand, doing the bids & trials now.

Monaco won the race to sign Debuchy from Watford for £30m and to help pay for it they sold Clerc to Etienne for £6m.

Paul Hemmings wrote:

FYI when you scout a club they may ask you to loan them players, that offer only lasts until the end of the next turn, so scouting a club in week 20 and offering them a loan deal in week 22 is an unconfirmed deal, you have to offer the loan deal in week 21. Some loan deals have not gone through this week because of this. The system can only keep offers open for a week before those offers are overwritten at the end of the following week by any new offers.

Wasn't aware of this, think it might be me that's fallen foul of it!!  Thanks for the info Paul.

There was quite a scramble this week involving five clubs for the signature of french winger Jeff Adeliade, he eventually moved to Paris St Germain in exchange for Lucas Evangelista and £3m.

Seems there might be some last minute haggling between Nantes and Charlton that could take Luis Suarez back to the Premiership in time for the new season, more news as it happens.

Another big deal this time involving Chelsea and Schalke sees Oscar moving to germany in exchange for Radamel Falcao. Falcao will take the place of Osvaldo whilst Mikel will return to the starting 11 in place of Oscar, making Chelsea look a lot more formideable for the new season.

More news on the Luis Suarez deal because the Nantes chairman has agreed to let him leave now that Charlton have agreed to pay his tribval of £45milions and as sweetener Chamberlain has gone on loan to Nantes for the season.

Okay that's it for transfers this week, I'm running the training and the finances now.

So are Charlton trying to buy the Premiership title for next season ? Forty five million this week on Suarez and another forty five million next week for Yaya Toure is big money, fans will be hoping that the boss can fit in all the stars he is accumulating. One witty fan commented on twitter "Maybe some of them will agree to play in defence".

We'll send our roving reporter to try and get the manager's view for you...

Paul Hemmings wrote:

So are Charlton trying to buy the Premiership title for next season ? Forty five million this week on Suarez and another forty five million next week for Yaya Toure is big money, fans will be hoping that the boss can fit in all the stars he is accumulating. One witty fan commented on twitter "Maybe some of them will agree to play in defence".

Strength in depth cost us last year, so hoping to avoid that this year but also being aware of keeping everyone happy.  Gonna be a tough job but following an end of season review with the board, they feel like I'm still the man to take us forward.

Exciting time to be a Charlton fan that's for sure.

Paul Hemmings wrote:

So are Charlton trying to buy the Premiership title for next season ? Forty five million this week on Suarez and another forty five million next week for Yaya Toure is big money, fans will be hoping that the boss can fit in all the stars he is accumulating. One witty fan commented on twitter "Maybe some of them will agree to play in defence".

We'll send our roving reporter to try and get the manager's view for you...

I like to think of defenders as defensive attackers...

It certainly does sound like a interesting time to be at The Valley. Just keep me in mind Tom if you have a flash sale 

Bayern Munich continue to splash the cash in prep for the new season as they spring for the hugely exciting Gabriel Boschilia from Sao Paulo for a fee of £37.5million. He'll go straight into the side following the retirement this week of the awesome Miroslav Klose after the 37 year old decided to call it a day on his career, Gomez and Podolski will be trying to fill his ample shoes as Bayern missed him for sure last season. Young Julian Green will drop to the bench to make room for the even younger Boschilia of which great things are expected.

This deal netted Sao Paulo a £32.5m profit in just 24 weeks not a bad spot for their head scout  

Another Braziliant youngster joining the ranks at Bayern is the highly promising Wallace Fortuna, acquired from Cruzeiro for £13.5millions, bayerns scouting network helping to find more hidden talent deep in the Brazilian rainforests ( okay not that well hidden maybe ).