TheLutterworthFox Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 Pre-Season Transfers I won't lie it's been hard to improve what is already an amazingly strong team! I needed a new LB and I wanted a new DM/CM and also a Striker so I could drop CRR to a SS(a). I got all three but for two of them I may have paid a lot! Mickael Raynaud - Left Back - Free from Standard Liege Ettore Palomba - Striker - £55m from Barcelona Riza Oxdemir - Central Midfield - £74m from Chelsea All three are brilliant signings, the Left Back will be back-up, the other two will walk straight into the team. I still have a bit of money left but am now just looking at squad fillers. As for out's I did get rid of a couple of the lads I didn't really see any future for the three. Damian (GK) was my 3rd choice. Gonzales and Di Bello both looked decent but I felt we had enough cover at CM/AM and LW so when the bids came in cashed in 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManUtd1 Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 I don't know about that Palomba lad. His long throws aren't good enough. Wouldn't have paid more than 52M for him, if I'm being honest. #ManagervichOut 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLutterworthFox Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 (edited) Good evening guys, just a quick update. Im back playing tonight but I have to be honest my laptop is really struggling with the number of players/leagues loaded. It's taking 5-10 minutes to just get through a week with no games. Im committed to playing the season out and Im hoping I can blast through it by the end of the week but it may be that I have to holiday through in between games. My laptop has a decent RAM but the CPU isn't the best, the laptop is 5 years old. I've never had this issue before but I've never played a save with more than 50k players loaded. Update: It looks like one of my issues was the "detail level" was too high for my laptop, so I've had to lower it and it seems to be running a bit quicker now Edited April 26, 2020 by TheLutterworthFox 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLutterworthFox Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 Champions League draw news! Is this the first time we've played Rijeka since leaving? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManUtd1 Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 1 hour ago, TheLutterworthFox said: Champions League draw news! Is this the first time we've played Rijeka since leaving? Lovely draw! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandy42 Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 On 26/04/2020 at 00:50, Benjoe said: Just a nice and innocent rabbit eagerly, vigorously, shaking his co--erh... think he's shaken it enough, it's gone blue! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLutterworthFox Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 End of October Update It's been a rather strange opening to the season. In some games we've been bloody amazing, but then in other games (Real and Barca away mainly) we have not played well. Overall though I'm delighted with the start, we have been sensational in so many matches! Only 3 slip-ups and in 2 of those we faced teams of equal standard. We've started well in the Champions League as well, the Inter and Rijeka games were a lot tighter than I hoped for but a win is a win! Star man so far is good old Cray Ray, playing as the AM he has been a goal machine! Also Left Winger Grigoryan has been brilliant with a massive 11 assists in 13 games. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjoe Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 (edited) When you have a striker turned attacking midfielder named Cray Ray and a lad named.. Karen.. dominating you know you're doing things right! Looking really good so far @TheLutterworthFox! Palomba was in my binoculars 2 seasons ag as well but for nowhere near the 55M you got him on, so tremendous transfer there! On 26/04/2020 at 03:06, henri.melo00 said: Yes, it was gutting. He was playing for the B team, which played a lot, as a wing-back. But, when he was in the bench, sometimes, I sent him out as a winger, or when needed. He is very good, was planning on start using him as winger, but the opportunity to get 61 million on Veenvleet changed the plans. I enjoyed very much, until that dreadful week where we lost CL and the Cup. It was a great experience, nonetheless. Definitely understand that transfer changed plans! Same case for me - dreadful end to the season, but otherwise a very enjoyable ride! 11 hours ago, Mandy42 said: think he's shaken it enough, it's gone blue! Look.. Uh.. you haven't heard it from me eh? But, I've heard that's how @ManUtd1 prefers it.. Edited April 27, 2020 by Benjoe 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandy42 Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 3 hours ago, Benjoe said: When you have a striker turned attacking midfielder named Cray Ray and a lad named.. Karen.. dominating you know you're doing things right! Looking really good so far @TheLutterworthFox! Palomba was in my binoculars 2 seasons ag as well but for nowhere near the 55M you got him on, so tremendous transfer there! Definitely understand that transfer changed plans! Same case for me - dreadful end to the season, but otherwise a very enjoyable ride! Look.. Uh.. you haven't heard it from me eh? But, I've heard that's how @ManUtd1 prefers it.. he likes his poultry like other men like their steak... blue Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
henri.melo00 Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 Kick those italian bastards in the CL for me. Hahaha Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLutterworthFox Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 BREAKING NEWS! Cray Ray Romano wins the Ballon D'Or! He also wins FIFA Best Mens Player and FIFA FIFPRO Player of the Year! Super Karen Grigoyan wins French Player of the Year as well! 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLutterworthFox Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 So this just happened! 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandy42 Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 I always feel the yellow injury sign is far too close to the international / on holiday airplane sign. At 1st glance I was like.... Cray Ray scored 2 goals against Real while on a plane?!?!? No wonder he's the Ballon D'or winner! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManUtd1 Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 2 hours ago, TheLutterworthFox said: BREAKING NEWS! Cray Ray Romano wins the Ballon D'Or! He also wins FIFA Best Mens Player and FIFA FIFPRO Player of the Year! The flight to the ceremony was nerve-wracking. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjoe Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 2 hours ago, TheLutterworthFox said: BREAKING NEWS! Cray Ray Romano wins the Ballon D'Or! He also wins FIFA Best Mens Player and FIFA FIFPRO Player of the Year! Super Karen Grigoyan wins French Player of the Year as well! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLutterworthFox Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 End of January Update It's gone pretty well. We got whooped by Atletico and then fell to a surprise defeat to Betis but they were our only 2 league defeats. We also lost to Atletico in some strange Spanish Super Cup where there were semi's and a final! Overall really good, we have been sensational in some of the games, especially CRR! We're also into the 5th Round of the Copa del Rey where we face an away game against Real Madrid. And in the Champions League even though we lost to Inter Milan in the Groups we ended top and will face Benfica in the last 16 My player of the last 3 months clearly is CRR but as I've spoken about him enough let's talk about someone else. Nikola Rudovic has been playing amazingly lately, mainly up front and put in some fantastic performances 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLutterworthFox Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 Champions league update We have smashed our way past Benfica 7-2 on aggregate, nice and easy! It's about to get a lot tougher though... And if we get past that it's PSG or Real Madrid in the Semis! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManUtd1 Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 Rudovic! Fingers crossed for the Spurs tie... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLutterworthFox Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 Time to finish the season! Apologies it's taken me a while, I have been working but also the game is running so slow on my laptop! Think it's time for a new one or move over to Stadia! Anyway first up is the Spurs Champions League tie We did really well to grab a 2-2 draw in the away leg courtesy of a CRR brace The 2nd leg was a strange one, we really didn't play well. It took me subbing CRR in the 78th minute (he was awful) for the game to come alive. 2 very late goals sealed the game! We're into the Semis! Where we'll face PSG!!!! Wish me luck!!!! In other news We are also very close to winning the league, 5 games to go and we're 8 points clear. Next up is the Copa Del Rey final against Atletico. We owe them for the kick-in we got earlier in the season! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLutterworthFox Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 Copa del Rey Final What a game! We dominated from the off but it took until nearly 30 minutes to grab the lead, a Grigoryan corner was headed home by Holger Fiebig. 1-0! The lead was doubled right on half time when Summer signing Palomba, Yilmaz intercepted an Atletico break to play a lovely through ball to Palomba, he took on his man and smashed it past the keeper! 2-0! And that is how it stayed, what a win, redemption for the 3-0 league defeat earlier on in the season and my first trophy! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodesire Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 One more dawn! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLutterworthFox Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 Champions league Semi Final 1st leg Before the game we were already struggling for fitness and injuries. Both RBs out, main LB out. We played well in the game itself having most of the chances but unfortunately we got "Mbappe'd" Gutted! It's going to need a miracle now! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLutterworthFox Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 LA LIGA CHAMPIONS!!!!! A 1-1 draw at home to Bilbao was enough to seal the league title after Sevilla slipped up to Leganes! At one point it really didn't look possible but a good end of season run and a major slip-up from Atletico means we win the league with 2 games to spare Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLutterworthFox Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 Champions League Semi Final 2nd Leg WHAT A GAME! For the neutral amazing, for me and the PSG boss it was a heart pounding match! We came out of blocks and straight the way went on the attack. CRR, recently rested from the last League game was one again the man of the moment as he scored twice in the first 20 minutes to put us into the League, what a start! It got even better as just before half time we made it 3-0 courtesy of Luka Vardic, the half time whistle blew and we had a 4-2 lead! Then came the second half, just hold boys, defend well and don't let it slip. PSG came at us and grabbed a goal back just after the hour mark but we immediately hit back to lead 4-1 in the game and 5-3 in tie. Now is the time for clear head, no pressure, just defend well and don't f*ck up! Guess what we did? Yeah that's right we totally threw it away. A Mbappe goal with 8 minutes to go made the tie 5-4 and then in the last minute Rodrygo scored to level the match. 5-5! UNBELIEVEABLE! The final whistle goes and here's me expecting extra time! NO!!!!!!!!!! WE'RE THROUGH ON AWAY GOALS!!! Absolute scenes! We're into the final by the skin of our teeth and we will face Manchester City! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodesire Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 Oh, Man **** again, how much is Crayon Romano getting paid this time? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLutterworthFox Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 Champions League Final HERE WE GO! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLutterworthFox Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 22 mins in and we get a penalty! Cray Ray st eps up and....... c7d79d90f8811d1476430fa9552044a6.mp4 1-0!!!! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLutterworthFox Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 Half time and it's 1-0!! A game of few chances, Man City came closest with a free kick that was amazingly saved by Endo. Our only real chance was a lovely move which found Girgoryan but his shot went way wide of the far post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLutterworthFox Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 53 minutes in and it's 2-0!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A long throw from the Left, the Man City keeper comes out, totally flaps at it, he palms it towards his own goal and it's knocked in by Vardic!!!! SCENES!! 4577ef9da7eec50eba2a89f4a170f327.mp4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLutterworthFox Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 This is incredible!! There's only one team in this game, numerous chances later it's 3-0!!! A sensational ball from Alemao finds Vardis who smashes it home!!! ITS CLOSE BOYS!! be05d63acddf4c496bda8c63c348654b.mp4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLutterworthFox Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 I HAVE NO WORDS!!! It's 4-0 and it's a Vardic hat-trick! f5a6a62e0e305d8547ad234a437c55f1.mp4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post TheLutterworthFox Posted April 30, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 30, 2020 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE WINNERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't quite believe it! 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLutterworthFox Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 (edited) End of Season Review What an amazing year it's been! From losing in the Club World Cup final to ending with a Domestic Double and winning the Champions League! Here is the squad that has performed so well this season... End of season awards.. Karen Grigoryan just pipped Cray Ray to the club player of the year... But there was no doubt who the main man was, Cray Ray Romano made up for his red card 2 seasons ago in the Champions League to absolutely smash it this season. 43 goals in 49 games. 28 in 31 in the League! Absolutely brilliant! Thanks so much for letting me be involved in this. I shall now pass it on to the next guy, anyone know who it is?! Edited April 30, 2020 by TheLutterworthFox 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodesire Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 Ah, the ultimate redemption! Defeating Man ****. Check Cray Ray scoring. Check Vardic on fire. Check Defence terrified. Check Utterly well done! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLutterworthFox Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 @andycharcan you let me know who is next and I'll send them the file over. Cheers and thanks for letting me be involved! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
noikeee Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 Awesome, great job. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andychar Posted April 30, 2020 Author Share Posted April 30, 2020 50 minutes ago, TheLutterworthFox said: @andycharcan you let me know who is next and I'll send them the file over. Cheers and thanks for letting me be involved! Next up mate is @OldManGravz Then unless we have any newcomers we flip back to the start. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManUtd1 Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 What a result! Well done @TheLutterworthFox!!! Big question for @OldManGravz will be, staying at Valencia or moving on to pastures new?! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLutterworthFox Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 23 minutes ago, andychar said: Next up mate is @OldManGravz Then unless we have any newcomers we flip back to the start. Thanks ill send it over to @OldManGravznow Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandy42 Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 Awesome season, glad you enjoyed it! think @OldManGravz should go take over at Man **** just to make @rodesire’s day complete 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikulec Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldManGravz Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 I will have a look at what jobs available when I get on after some food. Gotta admit, I was looking forward to using these players, but since everything has been won it is probably time to move onto pastures new. I am only going to get on for a few hours tonight so I will have a mooch around the save and may let the community decide if there are a couple of jobs I fancy. Then I can get started on it in earnest over a few beers after work tomorrow Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldManGravz Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 (edited) Just having a quick browse and... wow. What a team you have all built here at Valencia over the past few years. Just to follow on from @TheLutterworthFox's last post, there were a few more awards won and records broken at the end of the season after I had pressed continue. So without further ado I'll give you all a quick breakdown: But onto the important part.... In the immortal words of The Clash, "Should I Stay or Should I Go???" Looking at the jobs page, there wasn't a lot on offer: The 7-0 thrashing of Real Madrid appears to have done a bit more than merely damage their confidence! Two jobs jumped out at me from that list, although one is definitely more suited to this save than another. The first one was Milan. What better was to gain revenge on Inter than topple the current Serie A Champions from their own backyard?! The other was Paris FC. Probably more suited to a single player, long term save than this swap-and-drop community effort, but building a legacy at a "lesser" local team is always a lot of fun. Plus, they have a couple of tasty looking youngsters we could build a squad around. The other option I think is to stay where we are, but I will allow the community to decide.... Edited April 30, 2020 by OldManGravz Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManUtd1 Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 Oooh... Torino would tempt me, personally. Not that my vote matters Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikulec Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 Rebuilding Milan would be nice I think. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLutterworthFox Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 I like the idea of Milan as well Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wynter Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 Toro also tempts me for obvious reasons and Crazy Ray can come home in 4/5 seasons... Paris FC isn't a bad option though @OldManGravz we got 10-12 seasons out of Macarthur to start with so I don't think staying at a club for a long stretch is a big deal also gives us a ton of continuity/fun because it would be a massive project for us. I'll say PFC 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManUtd1 Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 2 hours ago, wynter said: Toro also tempts me for obvious reasons and Crazy Ray can come home in 4/5 seasons... Paris FC isn't a bad option though @OldManGravz we got 10-12 seasons out of Macarthur to start with so I don't think staying at a club for a long stretch is a big deal also gives us a ton of continuity/fun because it would be a massive project for us. I'll say PFC Could be a great shout, dragging down PSG... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andychar Posted May 1, 2020 Author Share Posted May 1, 2020 I’d move away from Europe. Build a team up across the pond. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandy42 Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 PFC i can be part of the build up this time, and someone else can get the glory and hopefully join the exclusive treble club! though I will follow wherever we end up going Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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