Season 26 Week 1 processing...

Welcome to the new season, season number 26.

The reset is underway and I'm opening envelopes.

Hi Paul....forgot to post my turn! I'm bloody useless these days. 

Will email it first thing in the hope you can process it but understand if that's unfair to those who can get there s*it together. 

Just started the data entry.

Mark@Newcastle wrote:

Hi Paul....forgot to post my turn! I'm bloody useless these days. 

Will email it first thing in the hope you can process it but understand if that's unfair to those who can get there s*it together. 

No probs, if everything else runs smoothly I should get time to print it off and process it okay, cant promise though as my email account plays up sometimes and I have to wait for access.

Okay a bit of confusion on the International selection sheet I sent out. 

You can manage one team in each competition, there are 4 competitions, World Cup, World Youth Cup, Copa America & the International League, making a total of 4 teams maximum. I'll sort it out best I can thanks.

Thanks for the enthusiasm for this season's competitions, should be interesting.

edit: Quite a few people have only picked one team from each competition, so far I have 8 managers who want England and 5 that want Wales all on first and only priority, so I will choose the manager from those applicants and send out the form again next week just in case those that miss out would like a different team, obviously its free but you are under no obligation if time is tight. Thanks.

Lots of bids for Lacazette.

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Lots of bids for Lacazette.

Bugger.

Rob@Inter wrote:

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Lots of bids for Lacazette.

Bugger.

Echo these thoughts...

9m was too good to ignore to be honest.

im hoping £20m sign-on fee will get him...........

Matt@Barcelona wrote:

im hoping £20m sign-on fee will get him...........

Yeah that should probably do it.....lol

That's me out anyway.

Both Kolarov and Zabaleta making debuts for Charlton at Man City this week, should be a good game this one, looking forward to it.

Need them to settle quickly. Very quickly.

Matt@Barcelona wrote:

im hoping £20m sign-on fee will get him...........

there's a very funny smell in here sometimes

Is priority still based on sign-on fee and wages Paul?  Is there a way of doing it so the player will actually take into account who he will be up against in any potential new squad?  For example, if he will end up against more attitude 1 players than positions available then he might look elsewhere?

Not on about Lacazette, as he is attitude 2, but just in general.

Young Ollie Wilson put in his first order sheet this week and it is one of the neatest and easiest to read Order sheets I have ever received, so thank you Ollie and well done, and to be honest he is showing some of you other guys up.

Tom@Charlton wrote:

Is priority still based on sign-on fee and wages Paul?  Is there a way of doing it so the player will actually take into account who he will be up against in any potential new squad?  For example, if he will end up against more attitude 1 players than positions available then he might look elsewhere?

Not on about Lacazette, as he is attitude 2, but just in general.

Yes its still comparative wage ( wage + ( signonfee/10 )) but that sounds even more confusing than the system we have atm, its doable though.

Tom@Charlton wrote:

Matt@Barcelona wrote:

im hoping £20m sign-on fee will get him...........

Yeah that should probably do it.....lol

That's me out anyway.

Sorry Tom just pulling your leg!  Saw him on the list but i cant remember going for him, think its all about youth teams for me at the moment.

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Young Ollie Wilson put in his first order sheet this week and it is one of the neatest and easiest to read Order sheets I have ever received, so thank you Ollie and well done, and to be honest he is showing some of you other guys up.

A lot of deliberation and thought has gone into this turn!! We are talking about a boy who considered not going to England v Switzerland just to spend more time thinking. In the end he went but got up at 6 am the next day to complete his turn. He's also been going through scout reports on my old turns working out a transfer strategy. And thank you Matt, Tom and Jamie for helping him out. We're going to Ireland v Canada in the rugby World Cup this weekend but he's more excited about getting his turn back and being able to make transfers again.

That offer of a loan is still available if he needs it.....

No idea what he's got agreed apart from a loan from Matt and he's also secured another CB/RB.

Just started running the reserve games, if all goes well tonight then kickoff for the league games will be at the normal time of 1000 hours Wednesday morning.

Thanks Paul.
Excellent news. Let's see if my team can perform any better than the last time out, been brooding on a 4-0 hammering all summer. Incidentally away to City.

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Young Ollie Wilson put in his first order sheet this week and it is one of the neatest and easiest to read Order sheets I have ever received, so thank you Ollie and well done, and to be honest he is showing some of you other guys up.

Thank you Paul.