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France

Nantes 27 +27 Champions
Paris 21 +16
Etienne 20 +20
Auxerre 16 +10

Nantes won their ninth game on the trot to stay clear at the top but little unmanaged Metz gave them a huge fright.

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Watford 1 Man City 1 Harry Kane header on 84 minutes.
Metz 2 Nantes 4 Fashion Sinkala.

Glad finally made the breakthrough and managed to secure a point. Always good to analyse when point's are dropped! Will have to wait for match report.

Germany

Bayern 25 +31
Gladbach 20 +16
Stuttgart 18 +2
Schalke 17 +18 Champions

Bayern destroyed second placed Gladbach to extend their lead at the top of the table and good wins for Stuttgart and Schalke helped to close the gap on second.

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Tactical stats from this season so far
system win% draw% loss%

slo 64-17-17
fas 53-18-28
whv 24-49-25 *
win 48-27-24 **
cat 62-12-25
sam 64-11-23
isf 38-23-38

Curious how did the tactic's do after this week's round of results 

Dutch - Holland and Belgium

Genk 27 +37 Champions
Ajax 24 +24
PSV 18 +22
Feyenoord 18 +12

Anderlecht felt an Ajax backlash today following last week's surprise defeat although they didn't move any closer to the leaders who themselves demolished Alkmaar. Feyenoord lost ground after a narrow defeat at Rotterdam and eight goals for PSV bodes well for the rest of their season.

Italy

Lazio 25 +34 Champions
AC Milan 20 +19
Juventus 19 +9
Inter Milan 18 +10

Another good week for the Champions Lazio as Juve won at home against AC Milan.

Prussian - Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia

Ruzomberok 27 +37
Gornik 22 +18
Sparta Prague 16 +5
Wisla Krakow 13 +9

Wisla fell further behind as the top three all won.

Scotland

Motherwell 21 +15
Celtic 18 +13 Champions
Aberdeen 18 +9
St Johnstone 17 +17
Rangers 17 +14

Motherwell drop points as the chasing pack reeled them in a bit.

Spain

Barcelona 25 +27 Champions
Real Madrid 23 +18
Real Betis 20 +22
Sevilla 15 +11

Disappointment for Betis fans as they missed an excellent chance to beat Real Madrid but the draw sees Barcelona take advantage to open a narrow lead.

MLS

Cosmos 27 +23 Champions
Chicago 22 +21
Harrisburg 21 +17
NewYork 21 +14

Cosmos starting to pull away from the usual suspects it seems.

Phil@Watford wrote:

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Tactical stats from this season so far
system win% draw% loss%

slo 64-17-17
fas 53-18-28
whv 24-49-25 *
win 48-27-24 **
cat 62-12-25
sam 64-11-23
isf 38-23-38

Curious how did the tactic's do after this week's round of results 

slo 63-15-20
fas 61-18-20
whv 55-22-22
win 56-16-26
cat 65-22-12
sam 64-23-11
isf 61-30-08
wbk 65-22-12
tot 36-36-27

Transfers now...

How did Emelec get on?

Bernard Caldeira joins Birmingham from Spurs for £65millions.
Pablo Fornals joins Spurs from Westham for £45millions.
Leicester grab Demarai Gray from Schlake for £25millions.
Westham replace Fornals with Mateo Kovacic from Liverpool and Ahmed Hegazy from Fulham for a combined £23millions.

gary@chelsea wrote:

How did Emelec get on?

Emelec 2 Quito 0 Bolanos ( 8 ) Marlon ( 78 )

Barselona 23 +20
Cuenca 11 +1
Delfin 11 +1
Emelec 10 -3

Coaching now...

A new thing with coaching I introduced last week was one of the improvements I'm making to assistant managers, they will now also help coach the whole squad. So coaching the whole squad now includes your assistant manager, allround coach and allround assistant coach.

Printing this morning and then I'll send out the email turns this afternoon...

Email turns all sent out...

Quote :

Westham replace Fornals with Mateo Kovacic from Liverpool and Ahmed Hegazy from Fulham for a combined £23millions.