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Holland

Twente 24 +29 Champions
Rotterdam 21 +9
Ajax 18 +16
Feyenoord 18 +8
PSV 16 +11

Top five all run so nothing changed much with the Champions Twente still out in front.

Italy

ACMilan 21 +13 Champions
Juventus 18 +12
Napoli 15 +5
Lazio 13 +3
InterMilan 13 +0

A lucky week for the Champions ACMilan as they beat Roma against the run of play to stay just ahead of the chasing pack.

Portugal

Porto 24 +20
Benfica 19 +20 Champions
Boavista 19 +9
Braga 18 +15

Braga coming up like a steam train and remain unbeaten but a hatrick for Joao Teixeira helps to keep Porto out in front by a massive five points.

Scotland

Motherwell 22 +10
Inverness 19 +12
Rangers 18 +9
Hibs 15 +1

Champions Celtic still suffering with poor early season form after an indifferent pre-season are still nowhere to be seen although they are doing better than my own St Johnstone who have won just once so far this seasson after gaining promotion last season. Motherwell stay top inspired again by Diego Tardelli who continues to deliver despite his advancing years.

Spain

Real Madrid 24 +33
Barcelona 24 +31
Valencia 18 +2
Atletico 15 +11 Champions

Top four all won to maintain the status quo but Real and Barca continue to rack up the goals.

USA

Chicago 20 +12 Champions
NewYork 18 +6
Dallas 15 +3
Kansas 15 +3
Washington 12 +3
Cosmos 11 -1

The Fire scrapped home against Nashville this week in a close tight game to stay top but more bad news for the Cosmos as Christian Pulisic is rumoured to have handed in a transfer request...

Paul Hemmings wrote:

USA

Chicago 20 +12 Champions
NewYork 18 +6
Dallas 15 +3
Kansas 15 +3
Washington 12 +3
Cosmos 11 -1

The Fire scrapped home against Nashville this week in a close tight game to stay top but more bad news for the Cosmos as Christian Pulisic is rumoured to have handed in a transfer request...

Will be very interesting to see what Cosmos value him at? If they agree to his sale, there will be a lot of suitors I’m sure…

Transfers now...

The big news of the week is Plymouth's capture of Erling Haaland from Real Madrid in what is probably the biggest deal ever done in Championship Football over the years. Moving in the other direction are no less than six players. Alexander Isak, Frenkie De Jong and Lisandro Martinez from Atletico. Marc Cucurella from Twente. Karl Hein and Donny Van De Beek from Plymouth. Probably near to £500millions worth of talent will be joining Real Madrid this week where Real's rivals will be hoping the disruption will knock Real out of their stride, we shall see...

Elsewhere...

Watford sign Arsenal's Gabriel Magalhaes for £45millions plus Harry Maguire.
Bayern sign fullback Noussair Mazraoui from Ajax for £20millions.
QPR sign Andy Townsend and Daniel Sturridge from Wolfsburg in exchange for Mykhaylo Mudryk.

Paul Hemmings wrote:

The big news of the week is Plymouth's capture of Erling Haaland from Real Madrid in what is probably the biggest deal ever done in Championship Football over the years. Moving in the other direction are no less than six players. Alexander Isak, Frenkie De Jong and Lisandro Martinez from Atletico. Marc Cucurella from Twente. Karl Hein and Donny Van De Beek from Plymouth. Probably near to £500millions worth of talent will be joining Real Madrid this week where Real's rivals will be hoping the disruption will knock Real out of their stride, we shall see...

Elsewhere...

Watford sign Arsenal's Gabriel Magalhaes for £45millions plus Harry Maguire.
Bayern sign fullback Noussair Mazraoui from Ajax for £20millions.
QPR sign Andy Townsend and Daniel Sturridge from Wolfsburg in exchange for Mykhaylo Mudryk.

Absolutely delighted to have secured one of football's biggest talents and bring him to the South Coast.

With now 3 CFs at Plymouth - plus Gabriel Jesus who seems to have enjoyed his shift to CF in the CL this week - am listening to offers for Lukaku and Nunez - one of which will depart Plymouth to make way for the new arrival!

Coaching now...

Ben@Plymouth wrote:

Paul Hemmings wrote:

The big news of the week is Plymouth's capture of Erling Haaland from Real Madrid in what is probably the biggest deal ever done in Championship Football over the years. Moving in the other direction are no less than six players. Alexander Isak, Frenkie De Jong and Lisandro Martinez from Atletico. Marc Cucurella from Twente. Karl Hein and Donny Van De Beek from Plymouth. Probably near to £500millions worth of talent will be joining Real Madrid this week where Real's rivals will be hoping the disruption will knock Real out of their stride, we shall see...

Elsewhere...

Watford sign Arsenal's Gabriel Magalhaes for £45millions plus Harry Maguire.
Bayern sign fullback Noussair Mazraoui from Ajax for £20millions.
QPR sign Andy Townsend and Daniel Sturridge from Wolfsburg in exchange for Mykhaylo Mudryk.

Absolutely delighted to have secured one of football's biggest talents and bring him to the South Coast.

With now 3 CFs at Plymouth - plus Gabriel Jesus who seems to have enjoyed his shift to CF in the CL this week - am listening to offers for Lukaku and Nunez - one of which will depart Plymouth to make way for the new arrival!

Well done Ben. Jealous!

Andy@Schalke wrote:

Ben@Plymouth wrote:

Paul Hemmings wrote:

The big news of the week is Plymouth's capture of Erling Haaland from Real Madrid in what is probably the biggest deal ever done in Championship Football over the years. Moving in the other direction are no less than six players. Alexander Isak, Frenkie De Jong and Lisandro Martinez from Atletico. Marc Cucurella from Twente. Karl Hein and Donny Van De Beek from Plymouth. Probably near to £500millions worth of talent will be joining Real Madrid this week where Real's rivals will be hoping the disruption will knock Real out of their stride, we shall see...

Elsewhere...

Watford sign Arsenal's Gabriel Magalhaes for £45millions plus Harry Maguire.
Bayern sign fullback Noussair Mazraoui from Ajax for £20millions.
QPR sign Andy Townsend and Daniel Sturridge from Wolfsburg in exchange for Mykhaylo Mudryk.

Absolutely delighted to have secured one of football's biggest talents and bring him to the South Coast.

With now 3 CFs at Plymouth - plus Gabriel Jesus who seems to have enjoyed his shift to CF in the CL this week - am listening to offers for Lukaku and Nunez - one of which will depart Plymouth to make way for the new arrival!

Well done Ben. Jealous!

Thanks Andy - was up against some serious competition that’s for sure!

Finances now then printing and email turns tomorrow...

Ben@Plymouth wrote:

Paul Hemmings wrote:

The big news of the week is Plymouth's capture of Erling Haaland from Real Madrid in what is probably the biggest deal ever done in Championship Football over the years. Moving in the other direction are no less than six players. Alexander Isak, Frenkie De Jong and Lisandro Martinez from Atletico. Marc Cucurella from Twente. Karl Hein and Donny Van De Beek from Plymouth. Probably near to £500millions worth of talent will be joining Real Madrid this week where Real's rivals will be hoping the disruption will knock Real out of their stride, we shall see...

Elsewhere...

Watford sign Arsenal's Gabriel Magalhaes for £45millions plus Harry Maguire.
Bayern sign fullback Noussair Mazraoui from Ajax for £20millions.
QPR sign Andy Townsend and Daniel Sturridge from Wolfsburg in exchange for Mykhaylo Mudryk.

Absolutely delighted to have secured one of football's biggest talents and bring him to the South Coast.

With now 3 CFs at Plymouth - plus Gabriel Jesus who seems to have enjoyed his shift to CF in the CL this week - am listening to offers for Lukaku and Nunez - one of which will depart Plymouth to make way for the new arrival!

if Nunez does not end up at Charlton directly or via one of their feeder clubs i'll eat my hat , i just wish i could compete with an offer but CB's are my priority as i think its time Zouma and Lindelof move on as i feel that is weakest are of my squad.

Paul Hemmings wrote:

USA

Chicago 20 +12 Champions
NewYork 18 +6
Dallas 15 +3
Kansas 15 +3
Washington 12 +3
Cosmos 11 -1

The Fire scrapped home against Nashville this week in a close tight game to stay top but more bad news for the Cosmos as Christian Pulisic is rumoured to have handed in a transfer request...

if he does not end up at Chelsea for £25 million the games gone mad 

At the risk of opening up a whole can of worms, I do feel sorry for Gaz and Andy in these types of scenarios. Managers like myself, Ben, Phil, Rob etc have a pool of about 200 players to barter with whereas they have only a fraction of that just because they can’t afford/don’t want to manage more clubs. 

We’ve just had a discussion about making the game a more level playing field in terms of cost when talking about friendlies? 

Thoughts?

Gaz, don’t you manage 4 teams?

Rob@Barcelona wrote:

Gaz, don’t you manage 4 teams?

Through shell companies - doesn’t ‘manage’ them directly…

Rob@Barcelona wrote:

Gaz, don’t you manage 4 teams?

I have 3 teams , Braga have a thin squad with £22 million in the bank  and Bate have about £4 million and half the squad need new contracts with £450,000 sign on fees so they are financially buggered.

Tom@Charlton wrote:

At the risk of opening up a whole can of worms, I do feel sorry for Gaz and Andy in these types of scenarios. Managers like myself, Ben, Phil, Rob etc have a pool of about 200 players to barter with whereas they have only a fraction of that just because they can’t afford/don’t want to manage more clubs. 

We’ve just had a discussion about making the game a more level playing field in terms of cost when talking about friendlies? 

Thoughts?

I often think this but you have earned the right through hard work to gather these squads, 

For example i put in a bid for 60 million for Fofana then upped it to 75 million but he ended up going to Nantes in exchange for Saint Maximan which is fine , i have some cash at Chelsea but i am not in position to offer players without disrupting and already inconsistent team.

i can basically only offer cash at the moment which is also of no use to most of you.

it is what it is.

I always want more cash. Who can I sell you???

Rob@Barcelona wrote:

I always want more cash. Who can I sell you???

so do i so  i can buy building as well , club headquarters £150m 

Tom@Charlton wrote:

At the risk of opening up a whole can of worms, I do feel sorry for Gaz and Andy in these types of scenarios. Managers like myself, Ben, Phil, Rob etc have a pool of about 200 players to barter with whereas they have only a fraction of that just because they can’t afford/don’t want to manage more clubs. 

We’ve just had a discussion about making the game a more level playing field in terms of cost when talking about friendlies? 

Thoughts?

Never really thought of being at a disadvantage just having 1 club.
In fact, I like the 'intensity' of it. You either have a good week or a bad week I suppose.
No 'well that team lost but these 2 teams won so not so bad'.
There's definitely less of a 'pool' of players and I have to be careful about players coming in and going out, but again, that gives my decisions more weight.
Can't be much of a disadvantage - current CL champ!

gary@chelsea wrote:

Rob@Barcelona wrote:

I always want more cash. Who can I sell you???

so do i so  i can buy building as well , club headquarters £150m 

300m for indestruct - with 50 equip, you don't want that reducing each season...

Andy@Schalke wrote:

gary@chelsea wrote:

Rob@Barcelona wrote:

I always want more cash. Who can I sell you???

so do i so  i can buy building as well , club headquarters £150m 

300m for indestruct - with 50 equip, you don't want that reducing each season...

i got a building list a while back .....safe to say i will never be building some of those lol