Bits and bobs…

After the signings of Menez and Balzaretti, I’ve been quite quiet in the transfer market. I have picked up a few hot prospects as well as a young backup striker. Alongside a young right back of immense potential, I’ve picked up Spanish wonderkid midfielder Ibon Angulo. I’ve been playing Angluo in the ‘holding’ CM role that Johnson usually occupies and he’s done really quite well when in the first team. In the youth teams he’s been outstanding and at just 18, he’s got a long time to progress. I’m going to try and play him as much as possible in the first team as, while he’s playing well, I really think this will aid his development. His AF has already risen to 210k (from 180k) and his stats have already started to improve. My final purchase was that of Russian striker Nikiti Andrejev. No longer a youngster at 23, he’s still got the potential to be very good. He scored a hatrick on his debut and has followed that up with 10 goals and 3 assists in his first 12 games to outline his potential and ability for Beaulieu FC. On very low wages of just 3k, he’s a solid acquisition to add depth to my squad while I wait for my youngster, high potential strikers to progress. I'll post some screenshots up a bit later.


Talking point

The transfer market has been dead for 6 weeks now, but last night it sparked into life with a series of transfers, mostly surrounding Peter Jerrari’s COYS1, and generating no little amount of controversy.

Kaka was sold for half market value at 5.5m – not a surprise given Camel FCs perilous financial state – while Yakovenko was sold for 1.1m at around market value. This seems to be a sign that there is starting to be a little cash in the gameworld, which is encouraging.

However, the ‘controversial’ deals were reserved for Peter Jerari. On the back of winning all the major trophies he entered, Peter has brought in a lot of players recently, including Hamsik, Prudinov, Carlos Eduardo and Cerci, with the vast amount of money he’d saved up. Last night he chose to loan out Cerci and Pato for 21 days, while swapping Cristiano Ronaldo for Arjen Robben and Thiago Silva for Kolo Toure with Los Bentidos, the #2 ranked side in the world.

Because the deals were perceived to be unfair, especially the loaning out of two world class players, he’s been placed under a transfer embargo while the moderators investigate. Without wishing to judge Peter, his motivations and his actions, in my personal view his aim wasn’t to destabilise the gameworld. What I didn’t predict was the severe backlash against Peter by certain people who I won’t name.

I usually try not to get involved, but I was disgusted by certain people berating him publicly and telling him he’d ruined the gameworld and that he should leave. I’m not amazingly friendly with Peter, we chat occasionally and we’ve done one or two deals in the past, but no-one should deserve to be hounded like that, even if they’ve intentionally destabilised the gameworld. People who have cheated in the past have not been treated as harshly and unfairly as Peter was last night. It makes me wonder about their motives – would certain peoples’ reactions have been less severe had the team at the centre of the transfers not been the best team in the world with one of the most high profile managers?


In other news…

I played Alex Leemans’ Eagle Warriors for the third time this preseason in the final of the AEFA Invitational, a preseason tournament for members of the AEFA. I managed a tight 2-1 victory to grab the trophy, with both sides looking very strong. The semi-final between Alex’s side and Bohemians FC was probably the match of the tournament, the former squeezing through on penalties.