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Bozart posted:Good luck to both of us! (Also, I hope we were wrong about USA!) I don't.  On that note, did Canada by any chance qualify for the 2022 World Cup, Habeasdorkus? If I happen to win the contest, my boon is going to involve trying to make sure they qualify for 2026. Canada needs its own golden generation, dammit!
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Dias posted:Second, I told you guys about the USA. I told you. Also I told you about Portugal. If you yankees can pick up two draws or another win, you're qualifying for sure. If you don't lose too bad to Germany and tie with Portugal, I'm still pretty sure you're qualifying.
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Well, do remember Portugal have some key players out and in general are quite frankly not a very good team. I would only really be worried about Ronaldo.
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A Tartan Tory posted:Well, do remember Portugal have some key players out and in general are quite frankly not a very good team. I would only really be worried about Ronaldo.
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JT Jag posted:"Only" having to be worried about Ronaldo is still quite a thing to be worried about though. I mean, DeMarcus Beasley is going to be marking him. Hey now, Beasley if he is still anything like the quality of player he was at Rangers, is perfectly capable of man marking even Ronaldo. He isn't as good as him (obviously) but he is as fast as him and won't be completely blown away.
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Beasley's still quick and still has good work rate, but anyone guarding Ronaldo is going to have a hard time. I still like our chances at a draw, even with Jozy down. Deuce will be better off than he was, and there's no way Bradley is as awful again. The US got lucky to win, but it was going to take some breaks to get out of the group stage no matter what.
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tomanton posted:Hasn't Jozy been goalless for the last million or so minutes anyways? He had a pretty enormous drought sometime this year that may or may not still be going.
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Yeah, he was awful for Sunderland and properly lost his place in the squad for it. That said, his second goal against Nigeria was an excellent effort where he beat his marker and the keeper one on one after an excellent first touch. It's the type of goal all the Jozy supporters point to when we're arguing that he's not always worthless. Jozy's form for the national club has actually not been that bad, he was on fire last summer and it's not like they had many games for him to be terrible in until the run-up to the WC. But there's no defending his Sunderland performance. This team could really use Landon Donovan, though. I suppose you could bump Dempsey up top and play a 4-2-3-1 with Bradley at attacking mid and Beckerman/Jones behind him. I am glad Beckerman is getting on the pitch, he's a very limited player but he provides what this team needs.
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Wolfsburg winning the Bundesliga, please kill me. Also some players are stupid, getting mad when you congratulate them for their first international goal. And heads up, habeasdorkus, all the Ray Parlour posters are just jealous because they didn't get a badass avatar for making a truly great LP. Don't let them drag you down to their level.
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I don't mind the "US Sucks" or "Jozy's a fat fraud" stuff, it's the constant racism and homophobia that bothers me more. Especially coming from the mods. Ah well, some people are gits. The next two updates are more or less in the can, but I'm not sure when I'll get to them. Full day of work today and tomorrow I fly out for a wedding.
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habeasdorkus posted:Yeah, he was awful for Sunderland and properly lost his place in the squad for it. That said, his second goal against Nigeria was an excellent effort where he beat his marker and the keeper one on one after an excellent first touch. It's the type of goal all the Jozy supporters point to when we're arguing that he's not always worthless. Jozy is a piece of poo poo fraud who is a coward in the face of real opposition and I'm genuinely glad he is faking an injury to not play.
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Volume Ten: Two Hats Prologue: Depth charged. June 9, 2022-July 2, 2022 I signed a bunch of youth prospects, right? They should be showing up right around-         Ah, there they are. If and when they break into the first team I'll talk more about them, but we essentially restored our youth system to full capacity in March. Aymen Ayari, a French striker, and Enrique, a Spaniard who came up playing defensive midfield, look like the pick of the litter. Jose Reis, on the other hand, might not have been such a good pickup. He was originally scouted at four star potential, but the rear end Man doesn't think he's close to that big a talent.  World Cup mania kicks off in Qatar! Made possible by over 4,000 dead slaves. Turkey rolls over New Zealand in the first match, capped by a hat trick from star striker Adnan Özpoyraz. He had to come out of the game due to injury, though...  Poor guy. Scored a hat trick, will probably miss the rest of the World Cup. I wonder how England and the US are doing so far.  Goddamnit, England.  Goddamnit, USA.  Taffarel has been on my radar for three years now. He's an excellent attacking right back, and the only reason I haven't signed him is because he's not eligible for a work permit. I don't know who Argentina has at right back on their national team, but I can't believe that this guy hasn't gotten capped yet. Now Marseilles are going to swoop in and take him, and we'll never be able to pry him away at a reasonable price.  La Liga better watch out, another year where Serie A outperforms them in Europe and they'll drop down to third most prestigious league. We'd better watch out, too, Chelsea may have won the Europa League, but England failed to place any team in the semi-finals of the Champions League.  We added the 7th most points to our Euro coefficient, the number used to decide seeding in continental competitions, last year. Unfortunately, we're starting from zero, so we're still extremely far down the list when it comes to seeding. We're going to be at best a third seed when they pull the groups for this year's Champions League, meaning we could end up in a group of death.  Shirra, Todd, O'Hanlon, Dixon, and Argenti all qualify as home grown from our club, while with the addition of Hammatt and Reed we've got plenty of players who came up playing for English FA affiliated clubs. This means we can field a full 25 man roster in continental competitions, and gives us the depth we'll need to absorb injuries and fatigue.   He got a bump in mental stats, but his personality regressed from Model Professional to merely Professional. It's a trade I'm willing to make, but I'll definitely be more cautious when I assign tutors in the future.  Oh yes... quote:August 2nd, 2019  I know, I can't believe they let him go so cheaply. They have an excellent right winger in Anton Leadbitter, but he's getting long in the tooth and Parr still oozes potential. Parr got sick and tired of playing a backup role at Manchester United, so they sold him to us. It's a record transfer on our part, but it's totally worth it. With Parr and Nieddu we've got two players who could play for any team in the world on our right wing. Shahed Parr Right Winger  I've been stalking Parr since I was at Tackleford, he came into the Derby youth system a Championship quality player at 16. His development has had some setbacks due to injury, his only real weakness has been minor nagging health issues that have cost him a month here and there, but even so he's going to be a great compliment to Nieddu on the flank. If he can stay healthy he'll become one of the best players in the world. And he's mine. All mine!  Mateo needs better influence chops, he's only at 13 Leadership, but as one of the best players at the club everyone respects him and he's certainly got the right level of determination for the job.  Worth it.  Our youth prospects continue to pay dividends. Alvaro could have had a role with the first team, but wanted £15k a week for his services on a new contract. I'd rather repair the large dent I put in the club's balance sheet by moving him. We're bringing in over £10m in transfer fees from Mejasic, Alvaro, and Matko, that will only increase as I sell off other unneeded pieces.  Hey, Tom Pym is still kicking about. We get a chunk of this thanks to an old clause in his transfer deal.  We finally beat Ghana! USA! USA! USA! I'm surprised anyone can play in the heat, what temperature does the game think it is?  There is no way it was only 89 degrees Fahrenheit during the Qatar summer. Does FM14 think they really built air conditioned stadiums?  Patrice becomes the third Wrexham player to stride the pitch during a World Cup game, following Bastable and Meteor.  PSG offered me £29m for Nieddu. I turned them down, Nieddu is a great player and worth more than that to us. But Nieddu, being the ambitious little twerp that he is, is very upset with me that I didn't let him go. Now that we have Parr we don't absolutely need Nieddu, and if anyone is willing to pay us £40m for him I can definitely find another top quality right winger to replace him.  I reject his transfer list demand, but do put an offer out to clubs that he's available for £40m.   Ikeda will be the first player we send to Serbia in order to get around work permit requirements. He'll spend three years there, but won't actually be eligible to join us until the winter window. He's got all the potential in the world, hopefully he blossoms in Nis. When signing a player you're shipping to another country for work permit reasons, make absolutely sure you appeal the work permit denial. If you don't, the transfer won't be completed and you'll have to go through the bidding process all over again.   We're so close to megabastard-dom.   So very close. Also, wow, that takeover cost Manchester United £400m in value.  Engerlund forever! It's coming home!  I told you this would happen, USA. You could have hired me, and I could have gotten us past the Group stage, but instead you hired some nobody Spaniard and this outcome was foreordained.  Give me the damned job. I'll fix the mess you've made of things.  I clearly deserve it.  Speaking of deserving on the merits, Bastable earned this. I'm so happy we were able to keep him when the big fish started circling 18 months ago.  That's a surprise. El Juez beats out Meteor for the starting spot on the left wing in the fan's team of the year. He didn't play much there, and it's not like Mujkic had anything approaching a bad season.   I wonder how many of these players would have pushed their way into the real life Wrexham best 11. Does our resident Wrexham resident have an opinion?  How are we back in the Community Shield, which pits the winner of the FA Cup against the Winner of the Premier League? Simple, Manchester City won both competitions last year, so second place in the Premier League gets substituted in when that happens. It'll give us a chance to start the season on the right foot, and I'm going to play the match as more than just a final friendly.  It's time to mount a title challenge. Come heavy or not at all.  We signed him on a free transfer two years ago. That's £39m in pure profit.  Nieddu came to us originally after AC Milan released him for nothing, now two years later they paid nearly £40m to bring him back.  Only three more wins and England hoists a second World Cup in three tries. They'll have to get past Brazil in the quarterfinal, though.  That's the second manager who's been fired in a year after I've expressed interest in the job, and for a second time the favorite for the job isn't me. What is wrong with you, USA?  Then hire me already, prats.  Do you want me to beg for the job? Have you that little respect for me?  Arsenal's fifth place finish and lack of Champions League soccer has led to revolt amongst their players. We're able to take the Nieddu transfer haul and spend a portion of it on their very good right winger. Matty Collett Right Winger  Neither Collett nor Parr are going to be quite as good as Nieddu was, but combined they give us much more depth and both are capable of improving whereas the preening Italian was at the peak of his potential. We spent £32m on Parr and Collett, so the end result is that we took a slight step back in our first team's firepower while doubling our depth on the right side of the field and pocketed £7m in profit. So long as Collett and Parr are good to very good, we won't miss Nieddu at all.  I'm sure you can convince Collett that living in Wrexham is just as awesome as living in London. I have faith in you.  Jeffries has a two year option I plan on exercising, while “keeper of the future” Novotny and Simoes for sale. That leaves just Bram Aarts, who will get a new deal when his agent stops being a knucklehead.  We're up £2m a year in new sponsorships and the improved training kit deal. With our meteoric rise in reputation, that's an area where we'll see continued revenue growth for the next several years.  Creating shortlists is very useful to keep tabs on players you can't get yet, but want to keep an eye on. There's thousands of players out there, so having all the excellent youth prospects on a shortlist allows the game to remind me when, say, one of them is eligible to sign on a pre-contract.  Damgaard won't be joining us until the winter, we signed him as soon as the six month pre-contract window opened. But he'll add another potential star to our now stuffed youth squad.  Well that's an impressive victory. Maybe it really is coming home.  Mexico also advances into the semis, knocking off Euro champions Denmark in the process. It's the furthest a Mexican team has ever made it in the World Cup despite their long history.   That's a lot of zeros. To be honest, I was a little worried AC Milan would have a liquidity crisis and not be able to complete the Nieddu transfer, which would have left us sitting £24m in the red.  Some of our cast-offs are proving difficult to move.  But not all of them. Jansen didn't develop enough to become a first team option despite playing very well in the Eredivise. With one year left on his contract it was time to cut bait.  Glad to see no one went fat Ronaldo on us:    I've tried everything I can think of to schedule midweek friendlies with MLS teams, but none of them will accept.    We're stuck playing NASL teams, the only one of any repute are the New York Cosmos. At least we can get some beach time in Fort Lauderdale. Pre-season camps are primarily for fitness and team cohesion, but getting some playing time on American soil will help build our reputation there and thus help our merchandising and prestige.  Two years ago I would have accepted this. Now I can just shoo it away. Bastable is far too valuable to us, while Cardozo can certainly fill his shoes and Aarts is only a year away from being a stud in his own right it would be lunacy to sell the best striker in the world for anything less than £80m.  Good run, Woj. You played well all World Cup, and Poland should be proud of you. Now enjoy a week's rest while your teammates are sweating in the New England summer. 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Welcome home coach. Also can Parr even make his potential? I thought players stopped growing at 24.
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Just so long as you remember to win everything with us whilst swanning off to teach the yanks how to play properly. Also, good job luring the talent away from the wrong half of North London. I'm counting on you to meet my grandiose election pledges!
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Dreamsicle posted:Welcome home coach. HE will be up to Parr haha tbp.
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Dreamsicle posted:Also can Parr even make his potential? I thought players stopped growing at 24. Yes. Prime age tends to be roughly 25-28 years old. Some players are late bloomers, they don't hit their peak until 30. Some players will decline comparatively early, starting in their late 20s. It varies by player. The big thing about players over 24 is that they seldom improve by leaps and bounds like younger players do, it's more of a slow, steady grind. Parr is already a very, very good player. He just has the potential to become world class in the next few years.
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"American Football Association"? Is USSF a trademarked name or something?
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habeasdorkus posted:
Finally. Your true destiny has finally begun to arise. Now you know what must be done.
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Non Sequitur posted:"American Football Association"? Is USSF a trademarked name or something? No, we just refuse to call it soccer even if you do and the game agrees. 
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Non Sequitur posted:"American Football Association"? Is USSF a trademarked name or something? Probably, but they don't have it coded in for any nations, I believe. All countries are just (adjective) Football Association. English Football Association, French Football Association, Japanese Football Association, etc.
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habeasdorkus posted:Yes. Prime age tends to be roughly 25-28 years old. Some players are late bloomers, they don't hit their peak until 30. Some players will decline comparatively early, starting in their late 20s. It varies by player. The big thing about players over 24 is that they seldom improve by leaps and bounds like younger players do, it's more of a slow, steady grind. Parr is already a very, very good player. He just has the potential to become world class in the next few years. Note: The peak for players also depends on their dominant positions, e.g. Goalkeepers generally peak post 30.
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I'm happy about this because it means we might finally see some sexy USA soccer action, but I still think the comedy option would've been to find a way to replace stinky Pete and lead Meteor and The Bastard to a world cup too. Maybe schedule a friendly against Australia for shits and giggles then retract Bastable and Mujkic from it so he has to play with his scrubs.
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So all it took to finally make the old U.S. of A. realize that they needed you was a Welsh invasion, hu?
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 Artist's depiction of the God-King of Wales arriving in the Americas, in a boat rowed by his youth signings.
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Sky Shadowing posted:Probably, but they don't have it coded in for any nations, I believe. All countries are just (adjective) Football Association. Actually, the English one is just 'The Football Association'. We tend to do this a lot. The Royal Mail, the Royal Navy, the Royal Air Force, actually stating the name of the country is gauche and unnecessary.
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AJ_Impy posted:Actually, the English one is just 'The Football Association'. We tend to do this a lot. The Royal Mail, the Royal Navy, the Royal Air Force, actually stating the name of the country is gauche and unnecessary. I know, I was saying how FM does it, (adj.) Football Association. They don't even have it coded in to determine the name of the nation's governing body (The FA, USSF, etc.).
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