Season 33 Week 9 processing...

Argentina

Independente 27 +39 Champions
Argentinos 24 +16
Boca 21 +14
River Plate 18 +9

A narrow defeat at Argentinos hampers Boca's title aspirations but another good week for the reigning Champions sees them stay top with daylight...

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Heung-Min scored a hatrick on 3,33 and 42 minutes.

Cheers Paul

Brazil

Botafogo 24 +23
Santos 24 +20 Champions
Fluminense 19 +13
Corinthians 19 +9
Vasco 19 +8

Good wins for the top two maintain the status quo...

Premiership

Plymouth 23 +17
Charlton 21 +10
Man City 18 +4 Champions
Watford 16 +6

All change at the top this week as the leaders Charlton failed to overcome one of their bogey teams away at Watford and ever improving Plymouth just continue to improve, will Haaland speed the improvement or will he slow the improvement, tough choices to change a winning team, whilst the Champions lost for the first time this season at Highbury and are looking a bit leg weary these days and could maybe do with an injection of new talent...

France

Etienne 25 +19
Nantes 24 +26 Champions
Lille 20 +18
Paris 18 +3

Six goals for the Champions away at Metz keeps them in contention as Lyon failed to halt the improvements at Saint Etienne who remained top despite riding their luck and winning by a penalty...

Germany

Schalke 20 +11 Champions
Wolfsburg 20 +9
Leverkusen 17 +16
Cologne 15 +6

Champions Schalke demolished Stuttgart, although I do seem to say that every season, to move to the top of the table, whilst last week's leaders Leverkusen took a tumble at home when they lost out to Wolfsburg in what was a close game, with Wolfsburg leap frogging them up into second place on goal difference behind the leaders. Berlin's crash continues as they were routed at Bayern...

Scotland

Motherwell 22 +9
Rangers 21 +10
Inverness 19 +9
Hibs 18 +4

Champions Aberdeen and Leaders Motherwell played out a thrilling seven goal bonanza in front of 80,000 fans as Well's Brazilian veterans turned on the style, albeit in a narrow victory for the Dons who remain just outside the top four. Good wins for Rangers and Hibs boosts their title hopes...

Spain

Real 27 +36
Barcelona 27 +35
Valencia 21 +6
Atletico 18 +20 Champions

Seems were already at a two horse race again in Spain where the big two continue to dominate, although nine goals for Atletico would suggest they have hit top form...

Transfers now...

Patrick Schick joins Celtic from Sparta Prague for a whopping £125milliions.
Wilfried Zaha joins ManUnited for £125millions from Liverpool. 

According to the new Man United manager the spending hasnt finished yet as he chases three more players.

Jan Kuchta joins Sparta for £85millions from Liberec.
Jindrich Stanek also joins Celtic from Sparta for £65millions.

Tbilisi spend big when they purchase Mikautadze and Mamardashvili from Valencia for £58millions each.

Scarpa leaves PSV for Zagreb in a deal worth £45millions
Danilo Pereira was due to join an English club when Nantes swept in with a £40millions offer.
Rennais sell Saidou Sow to Etienne for £35millions.
Newcastle sign Joao Carvalho from Benfica for £25millions.

Young star Leny Yoro was the subject of quite a few bids this week with Etienne eventually winning his signature with a huge £10millions signing on fee.

Hannover and Berlin were involved in a big deal as Henrichs joined Hannover in excchange for Stanisic and Brandt from Hannover.

A couple of deals didnt go through which involved Parent clubs trying to sell players to their feeder club for cash, these deals have to be a zero amounts.

Plenty more deals all detailed in your turns this week...

I've also extended the rules on feeder clubs to sister clubs as well. This happened a few turns back near the beginning of the season and I forgot to highlight it here amongst the current chaos that is my private life, sorry bout the oversight, consider it mentioned now though. Full post on the other thread.

These rules dont govern transfers between feeder and sister clubs just parent clubs.
Basically you cant strip your feeder\sister club's finances to make your parent club richer.

Thanks

Paul Hemmings wrote:

I've also extended the rules on feeder clubs to sister clubs as well. This happened a few turns back near the beginning of the season and I forgot to highlight it here amongst the current chaos that is my private life, sorry bout the oversight, consider it mentioned now though. Full post on the other thread.

These rules dont govern transfers between feeder and sister clubs just parent clubs.
Basically you cant strip your feeder\sister club's finances to make your parent club richer.

I didn't realise this, this turn but good to know for future!

Thanks for a great week Paul as ever!

Lot of big deals going on this week by the looks of it.  

Sounds like things won't stop there either with both Manchester clubs on the lookout for fresh talent.  Will be interesting to see who they both go after...

Also, one particular manager spending big this week who I hope is trying to replace a big name who might be leaving his club soon or just spending money he may get in advance.  Perhaps he was dodging my messages until he got his new players in....

Powers back on for awhile so coaching now...

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Powers back on for awhile so coaching now...

Thanks for persevering Paul - you would think the power company might do this overnight instead of disrupting people's days   

Hopefully stays on long enough to get the turns all out!

Finances now...

Powers off again at 1800 for two hours.

Email turns all sentout.

Any issues please let me know and I will sort them as soon as I can...

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Powers off again at 1800 for two hours.

Email turns all sentout.

Any issues please let me know and I will sort them as soon as I can...

Thanks Paul!

Phil@Watford wrote:

On a side note, with regards to the new friendlies. 

Does the TU still increase at the old Rate? 

1064 GABRIEL MAGALHAES              FAS PEB PEB PEB PEB PEB     good    low    superb 

Gabriel played 3 friendlies, but TU is still LOW. Previously 9 friendlies would of got this to Great?

Noticed too that the income for friendlies is for 3 'old' friendlies rather than the same monetary benefit for the 9 we used to play.  

Weren't the TU and finance benefits to be the same?

Love the match reports on the friendlies though, better system for sure, hopefully just teething issues on the benefits?

Tom@Charlton wrote:

Phil@Watford wrote:

On a side note, with regards to the new friendlies. 

Does the TU still increase at the old Rate? 

1064 GABRIEL MAGALHAES              FAS PEB PEB PEB PEB PEB     good    low    superb 

Gabriel played 3 friendlies, but TU is still LOW. Previously 9 friendlies would of got this to Great?

Noticed too that the income for friendlies is for 3 'old' friendlies rather than the same monetary benefit for the 9 we used to play.  

Weren't the TU and finance benefits to be the same?

Love the match reports on the friendlies though, better system for sure, hopefully just teething issues on the benefits?

Didn’t realise the income was down a bit - maybe a teething issue then! Like you enjoyed the full match report, that’s for sure!

What are people experience of fans gained when running an advertising campaign? i spent £1m this turn and it generated 100 fans, hardly seems worth it when my advertising manager generates 400 every turn.

Missing Friendlies - wow I should have expected this but didnt - there were so many friendlies played the system ran out of room to store the reports. 

Backroom Staff I will investigate once i've fixed the friendlies.

Team Understanding - I forgot to triple the effect - now fixed.

I found all the missing friendly reports so I'll send them out later today.

Looking at the NS now...

gary@chelsea wrote:

What are people experience of fans gained when running an advertising campaign? i spent £1m this turn and it generated 100 fans, hardly seems worth it when my advertising manager generates 400 every turn.

I did the same and got 100 fans… though on finances my fans increased by a few thousand?

Some of the older\lower star rated Non-playing staff have been removed from the database to make room for new playing staff. This is in the original design but has never happened before because the database has never been this full before.

Those player details have gone and there is no room on the database to bring them back and I still havent found/designed a way to increase the size of the database that doesnt involve me rewriting large portions of the code that handles NS staff.

So I need to go through all the missing\deleted staff and replace them with NS players who are currently unemployed. This will take me awhile and wont be a quick fix but I'll start on it this afternoon. I will delete forum posts as I go so I know how far Ive got.