Linecoigne's FIFA World League - a Chairman game

Znik said:
Not the worst start, but not the best either! I guess it will end up hurting not to be able to replace my central line! + Morata getting injured :P

Btw: Could you remove Tevez's unhappyness because of a lack of continental football? As the qualification for that seems broken :)
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Will do :)
 
Not the best start so far... But definitely far from being the worst either considering that we're a newly promoted team and our squad lacks both the depth and quality of other teams (for the time being, I hope to fix that if we survive).

.P.S.: I'll be covering both the league start and the transfer window in my next post (kinda fitting since my transfers were made in August).
 
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Meet the Team​

Manager

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Andre Villas-Boas is in my opinion one of the brightest young talents in football management today. With previous spells at Chelsea, Tottenham and most recently Zenit, AVB already brings huge experience even at such a young age. His preferred formation of 4-2-3-1 wide allows some of our best player to play in their preferred positions and we have ever confidence he can lead us to titles.

Goalkeepers

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(David De Gea, Victor Valdes, Sergio Romero)

David De Gea needs no introduction. Probably the best goalkeeper in the world (arguably bar Manuel Neuer) he provides huge stability in between the sticks. Victor Valdes has a wealth of experience to serve as backup keeper while Sergio Romero completes the line up.

Full Backs

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(Luke Shaw, Hector Bellerin, Juan Bernat, Fabinho)

A very strong area of the team, filled with youth and flair. Luke Shaw will take the first team slot at left back with new signing Hector Bellerin (Straight swap for Anthony Martial) filling in at right back. As cover, Juan Bernat will fight with Shaw for left back, while new signing Fabinho (£18 mil) will cover for Bellerin.

Centre Backs

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(Sergio Ramos, Alessio Romagnoli, John Stones, Chris Smalling)

The defensive side of our game is certainly looking very strong with Sergio Ramos (£15 mil + Rojo + Januzaj) joining from Real Madrid to marshal the back line. Romagnoli (£18.25 mil) and Stones (£19.5 mil) were both signed by Villas-Boas for very reasonable prices, while Chris Smalling stays for some stability to our squad.

Central Midfield

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(Morgan Schneiderlin, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Toni Kroos, N'Golo Kante, Ander Herrera)

Schneiderlin, Herrera and Schweinsteiger stay with the club to supply some consistency within our squad, but Toni Kroos becomes our record transfer signing (£70 mil) from Real Madrid, while N'Golo Kante joins from Leicester (£35 mil) to provide competition and steel to the midfield.

Attacking Midfield

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(Juan Mata, Memphis Depay, Gareth Bale, Arda Turan, Iker Muniain, Carlos Vela, Hakim Ziyech)

It is in attacking midfield where the flair and depth of talent becomes noticeable. Juan Mata and Memphis Depay retain their places in the squad, and most likely the team, while new arrivals Gareth Bale (£45 mil), Carlos Vela (£28.5 mil) and Arda Turan (£9 mil) will be pushing hard for first team places. Iker Muniain was unhappy at Athletic Bilbao so took the option of signing on for first team competition here (£17.5 mil) while youngster Hakim Ziyech will look to make progress under the guidance of the likes of Mata and Bale.

Strikers

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(Gonzalo Higuain, Romelu Lukaku, Wayne Rooney, Marcus Rashford)

Yet more wonderful depth in the striking department with Gonzalo Higuain joining (£40 mil) to become our new leading man. Romelu Lukaku joins (£26 mil) to give us a different option while Wayne Rooney brings experience and leadership in the dressing room. Young Rashford might also get a runout this year after impressing in the academy.
 
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August & September Review​

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A massive thumbs up for Andre Villas-Boas as his reign at Old Trafford begins as we go unbeaten in the first couple of months. Some of our new additions like Kroos, Bale and Higuain are settling in nicely and our defence is holding up beautifully having not conceded more than a single goal in any one match. In the words of Brendan Rodgers, we obviously have some Character as well as following a couple of disappointing draws, we didn't give up when the Valencia match looked to be going the same way as Kroos stepped up to net the points.

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This leaves us nicely in third place in the table. At the beginning of the year our ambitions were to be the top English side in the league ad finish in the top 6 (to possibly give us a crack at Europe? I dont know, the save is screwed). So far so good.

Key Players​


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John Stones has been magnificent since joining. 6 games played and an average rating of 8.03 shows just what a class act this lad is. Luke Shaw might have pipped him onto the list but he picked up a 6-8 week injury so John gets the nod.

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Toni Kroos has been another inspired signing and is controlling our matches from the defensive midfield position that AVB likes to play. 6 appearances, a goal to his name, a pass completion ratio of over 90% and an average rating of 7.80 shows how well he is fitting in.

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Juan Mata is a little magician sitting in that role behind the striker. 5 appearances so far this season, two goals and an assists with an average rating of 7.64. Impressive stuff from the Spaniard, long may this form continue.
 
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August - September review

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An absolutely terrible start for us this season. We didn't start too well last year either but this is just abysmal. Not one single win in 5 games, 4 losses and 1 draw?! What kind of a record is that! Thank God for the Euro Cup and the World League Cup because this is just ridiculous. Thankfully, 3 players have really stepped up and made sure that the situation doesn't get even worse for us...

Ruben Neves - 4 games, 7.47 average rating

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A great start to the season for our little Portuguese wonderkid and hopefully he'll keep up the good work! He really will have to continue doing that otherwise we might just not get out of the relegation zone... I'm still hoping he'll perform better in the league though as that seems to be his only weakness right now.

Arjen Robben - 7 games, 7.46 average rating

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And to think I almost sold this Dutch baldie! He's been our most consistent player considering the amount of games he's played and now I can just hope for it to continue and hopefully he'll be the one getting us out of this ****** relegation zone. I mean come on we finished 7th last year, surely we deserve better than that!

Thiago Silva - 7 games, 7.41 average rating

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And once again, just like last year, he's pretty much our best player. The stats don't really support that but he's so solid at the back considering how many goals we've been conceding so it's very satisfying to see him do well and become a club legend as every matchday goes by. Honestly though, he can't just be the only one working hard so we need to do better.

Laurent Blanc's future

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Not sure if he'll stay or not as of right now. He's a great manager and in real life I really do like him but right now, it's just not working. If results don't pick up in October and November, I don't think we'll be able to keep him. There are still some very good managers out there and who knows who will be sacked by the end of November. Anyway, I'm still keeping faith in him, he knows a lot about football so he should turn it around right?
My team of the month

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MitchT94 said:
would any of you be up for doing a network game??
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I'd be interested. Problem is a lot of people live in other parts of the world and therefore timezones are difficult. Plus the more people in a game the harder it is to get everybody on at once.
 
SaintMotbot said:
I'd be interested. Problem is a lot of people live in other parts of the world and therefore timezones are difficult. Plus the more people in a game the harder it is to get everybody on at once.
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that is true well maybe if we had 3-4 people it could work would just depend on who would be interested in playing.
 

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Benfica Start FIFA World League 2016/17 Well

Rui Vitoria has once again got his team playing well in the league. Full of Galactico's, Red Devils, Gunners, Bavarians and the might of Barcelona, Benfica are certainly holding their own. Club owner Luis Figo says that he is proud of his team even though they lost 2-0 to Tottenham recently.

Jackson Martinez who is a new signing for Benfica has been playing well and alongside loan signing Kennedy from Chelsea looks to have formed a good striking partnership.

Renato Sanches who was the subject of a few Transfer bids over the summer is also playing well. Angel Correa on loan from Atletico is another player playing well at present.

Benfica will hope to improve on a mid-table finish as they did last year where they spent a lot of time around the top 6 before fading in the final months of the campaign and finishing in 10th place!

So to the surviving Portuguese club in the league... Come On!​
 
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Bayer's first Super League's steps (August-September)

It's been a relatively quite summer on Rhine's eastern bank as the Aspirin team only has made two significant movements during summer's transfer window.
The first player to arrive to Leverkusen was one of Ajax's most promising prospect and a regular on Netherland's youth national teams: Richairo Zivkovic.
Zivkovic is a young yet really talented striker that is also able to perform effectively on both wings, the Aspirin team payed 4,4 millions for him in what seems to be considered one of the greatest bargains of this season's Super League so far.

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Zivkovic is meant to become Leverkusen's main offensive force in a not so far future.

The second player is not joining on a permanent basis but it could serve to restablish a positive and symbiotic relationship between Real Madrid and Bayer Leverkusen once again.
Marco Asensio will be joining Leverkusen on loan until the end of the season in a move where everybody should end up winning something: Bayer coverage for the gap left by Çalhanoglu's absence, Asensio regular game time to keep developing (specially after his decent campaign on Porto, on a personal level at least, last season) and Real Madrid the chance of experiencing another case like Dani Carvajal's, who blossomed into one of Europe's finest right backs thanks to his stay in Leverkusen.

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Asensio will provide even more class, technique and versatility to Leverkusen's extraordinary midfield.

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We started the season visiting the always difficult Signal Iduna Park in a match that could prove vital in order to avoid relegation since we played against one of the other newly promoted teams but we managed to get an extremely important win thanks to Kevin Kampl who scored a brace against his former team.
PSG visited the Bay Arena, I feared that it would end up becoming a one sided match as the Parisiens were one the strongest sides last season but we were able to put up a good fight and got an important point at the end.

Short league hiatus and time for some Cup action, the team advances to the next round but with way more suffering that necessary as we could only win 3-2 against a 6th division Sudanese's squad... but we're still alive and that's what matters at the end.

Back to the league and quick travel to Lisbon where the Eagles tore us apart... or did they? Despite what the final result says the match was incredibly even in both possession and chances, but an OWN GOAL BRACE scored by Leno foiled any chance to grab anything positive from our visit to Da Luz.
Barcelona came to the Bay Arena in the only match where we found ourselves overwhelmed, the blaugranas only needed 15 minutes to ****** the win away... and we should be thankful that they only scored two goals.
We finished September visting San Siro, much to my surprise it was yet another surprisingly even match and in the end we claimed a well deserved draw.

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Kampl's vital brace gives him the honor to be our first MVP.

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We closed the first two months in a pretty tricky situation, as it seems worse than it actually is. The team is barely above relegation zone but much to everyone's surprise it's been able to fight on equal ground with almost all the opposition found so far... With a bit more confidence and experience... we could make a miracle.
 
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