Competitie van Engeland seizoen 48
Forum: Competitie forum 
Bespreek je competitie, wie zijn de kanshebbers voor de titel? Wie zullen promoveren of degraderen? Hoe zijn de prestaties van jou club?
Season 74 (59)
Sorry for my English, I think now it's correct.
I mean that Vince implemented the academies without considering the economic effects that they would have. Then he left the game.
No worries Charlie, my apologies.
Your English is very good so I'd (wrongly) assumed that you were an English speaker and it was just banter about Vincent's disappearance.
The forum needs more humour. The idea that somehow Vincent had died as a result of having implants was very funny. You should have left that in. :D
Numpty likes to keep abreast of the situation!
I obviously made a big boob, @Lee, but there's no need to milk it!
My team wholeheartedly disapproves of any implants in the game, so I think we should nip this in the bud.
Numpty - however I set my team up it seems to be 50/50 whether I get through...
Hoping for a bit of luck :)
Well, didn't get the luck!
Gave it a go but ran into a MoM performance from their keeper and lost 3-0 with my backup CB giving away a penalty.
Ouch! That must be a bit tough to take after winning the first leg.
Well done on the semis though.
I sort of figured I might need an away goal instead of just sitting back, but I ran into a brick wall of a goalkeeper!
I guess it balances out - I got seriously lucky in the last round!
Decision time for me at the end of this season - I can sell Tibon and all the finances will balance again, or I can keep him for a few more seasons of trophies but wreck the future of the club...
Might be interesting to find out the difference going from a 49 rated goalkeeper to a 21 makes.
I'm not in the top division, so don't have any skin in the game.
£175 million a season isn't going to wreck the club all by itself. It seems that no-one reaches the latter stages of the Champions League without running at a loss.
You seem to be already in debt ... so for me it depends on how big the debt is at the end of the season. Your finances should give you a good estimate of how much bigger the debt would be after one more season.
Can you survive 1 or 2 more seasons without it getting too big? And will your interest wane if it's a long road back afterwards? Only you can say.
Current debt is only $2M :)
To keep Tibon I'll have to sell youth / replace older players at a faster rate than my YA produces them - without him, the numbers balance...
I've been living off my stockpile of youth talent to keep him for the last three seasons - now I am at the point where I have to decide the future. I have a 28 year old keeper who is OK and will eventually be good (but not top class). Might be fun to give him a go next year!
Have seriously considered leaving the club and seeing what life is like in the bottom divisions - let someone else decide the plan!
It's been nice to win some trophies, but it is basically a game of how to setup the finances so you can afford a top class goalkeeper!
If it were me I would want to avoid the downgrades which means being debt free at the end of the season or at least being able to cancel them after the transfer window.
For reference - after winning 4 consecutive Champions Leagues - @Dainix posted this about the size of his debt:
"From 4,8 b to 2,5 b. Its looks good, I will get out of debt."
That was after selling off most of his squad. He also had a few seasons of downgrades so ended up with 10/10. As he says it's recoverable but it can't be much fun playing just to pay off the debt.
Valentain, on the other hand, seems to be running at a massive loss and no doubt will have to quit at some point.
BakerMan takes the cup again and is set for a magnificent double.I
Meanwhile the race for fourth place and a champions league spot looks tight.
