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Champions League Draft Selection (No Discussions)

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• The idea is to pick a team of 11 players from the Champions League era
• You will be looking to pick the best players you possibly can for your team for all areas: goalkeeper, defenders, midfielders and attackers
• The player is picked based upon their performances at their time for the season you chose him for (i.e. if you pick Andriy Shevchenko for AC Milan, his form at Kiev and Chelsea does NOT come into the equation during the competition).
• You need to select at least one player from the top 5 league in Europe: Premier League (England), La Liga (Spain), Seria A (Italy), Bundesliga (Germany) and Ligue 1 (France).
• For the season that the player is picked, he must have reached at least the quarter final stage of the competition
• Each player, must have played in at least one Champions League final.
• Number 1 gets first pick, Number 2 gets second pick, Number 3 gets third pick and so on....
• When offline, each member will get 2 hours to make their pick, if you miss the window then your pick will be chosen by the Rexdomizer ™.
• If the next picker is online and active in discussion he has only 20 minutes to make his pick
• The game will be frozen each night at 9pm GMT and resume at 9am GMT the following morning. You are still free to make your pick in this period if you want to but are under no obligation to do so.
• The draft order will be drawn at random and will follow the 3rd round reverse snake format. So the same as last time where we flip the order after the second round. This should stop anyone building up an unfair advantage by going first.
• The season of your player must have reached one of the below stages depending on when that season falls...

Prior to 1994-95: Quarter finals
1994-95 to 1998-99: Semi finals
1999-2000 to 2002-03: 2nd group stage
2003-04 to present day: Quarter finals

• AGAIN, You need to draft a starting XI and five outfield substitutes. The 17th round will consist of backup goalkeepers. You have to draft one Goalkeeper in the first 11 rounds.

That’s it for now. The game will hopefully start at 12 noon GMT on Thursday. That should give everyone enough time to figure out the rules and make plans. We may start earlier depending on sign up.

As I’ve said above there will be a definitive result this time! I’ve set up a custom league ready to be simulated, I just have to add your players once selected and fingers crossed we’ll have the results and champion before the Leeds match

Thanks everyone and enjoy the game!

 

[Rex Stone]

Man’s got Pires bombing down the wing like a French Adama Traore.

Will have no choice but to cut inside onto his weaker left where he’ll be battling with hero ball Stevie G oh and also Kaka.

Meanwhile none of them will actually get to do anything while prime CR7 is taking 1537 shots a game.

Anyway none of this matters because Puyol, Schmeichel and Makelele will all fall apart trying to play out from the back against a moderate wind let alone a high press.

Horrible.

Uhh on Schmeichel let's just say he's the best keeper I've seen so far by far ratings wise

 

[A_G]

No one's breaking training for prayers you're pulling stuff out your ass as usual.

There are boxers who became world champions while fasting. Perfectly possible to perform at top level while fasting you'd know if you weren't living it up like some hedonist crackhead getting high and gorging trash food all day.

I eat healthy food mate in excellent shape on exercise bike now. Stop lying like a mullah

 

[pigge]

Uhh on Schmeichel let's just say he's the best keeper I've seen so far by far ratings wise

Have to say how do you even do this lol? If someone has a great Champions league run that season but is not great otherwise, Do you like rate him up with players that are usually that good or what? seem hard

 

[albakos]

How is his team going to perform when they can’t eat food or water all day and have to break training for prayers. Generally, fasting not great for the performance of world class athletes. Another reason Iran’s teams are always crap. They can’t drink water or they will literally be flogged, and spend more time listening to a stinky priest mumble in Arabic they don’t understand than train.

Yeah right, and this team is going to come ahead !??

Balanced just like your tactics you've shared here

 

[pigge]

Playing around a bit with my team. hmmmm, a taste

 

[Rex Stone]

Have to say how do you even do this lol? If someone has a great Champions league run that season but is not great otherwise, Do you like rate him up with players that are usually that good or what? seem hard

Well as @jones figured out it's hard to split between CL and league form unfortunately

This is why we brought in the minimum game criteria aka "The Yaya Toure rule"

 

[A_G]

I wanna see @Oxeki’s lineup tbh

 

[Rex Stone]

I wanna see @Oxeki’s lineup tbh

Gary Cahill in the 6th round was certainly a choice looking at his rating

 

[albakos]

I wanna see @Oxeki’s lineup tbh

 

[bingobob]

Interested in seeing how you use the inverted fullback video

Considering a diamond out of possession

Kane Larsson
Fabregas
Lampard Beckham
Deschamps
Robertson Ramos Stam Lahm

In possession

............................Larsson
Robertson Lampard Kane Fábregas Beckham
......................Deschamps Lahm
..........................Ramos Stam

 

[albakos]

I wanna see @Oxeki’s lineup tbh

Pick and choose

4-2-5 formation with no goalkeeper



or the more standard 3-2-5 formation

 

[UpTheGunnerz]

Playing around a bit with my team. hmmmm, a taste

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Sorry brother but I feel a lack of dawg in that team

 

[pigge]

Considering a diamond out of possession

Kane Larsson
Fabregas
Lampard Beckham
Deschamps
Robertson Ramos Stam Lahm

In possession

............................Larsson
Robertson Lampard Kane Fábregas Beckham
......................Deschamps Lahm
..........................Ramos Stam

I would reccomend kane up top instead of Larsson. Larsson is a bit of a assist-god for a forward

 

[pigge]

Sorry brother but I feel a lack of dawg in that team

What does dawg even mean?

Only people in my team tho

Edit:



Surely trolling

 

[bingobob]

In my head I'm really playing championship manager :/

 

[Clrnc]

Ngl haven't seen a team that's better than mine so far. Maybe jonesbakos comes near but Evra at LB is a weak link :

 

[pigge]

Ngl haven't seen a team that's better than mine so far. Maybe jonesbakos comes near but Evra at LB is a weak link :

From my perspective, my team v your team

Van basten > Stoichkov
Aguero > Romario
Zidane > Di maria
Scholes > modric
Robben < Giggs
Cambiasso < rikjaard
TAA < Cafu
Pique < Maldini
Carvalho < Desailly
Cole > Zambrotta
Oblak > Lehmann

cba with subs, tried to get ur best team not sure how you wanna line up tho.

 

[Clrnc]

From my perspective, my team v your team

Van basten > Stoichkov
Aguero > Romario
Zidane > Di maria
Scholes > modric
Robben < Giggs
Cambiasso < rikjaard
TAA < Cafu
Pique < Maldini
Carvalho < Desailly
Cole > Zambrotta
Oblak > Lehmann

cba with subs, tried to get ur best team not sure how you wanna line up tho.

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Try again with This.

 

[pigge]

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Try again with This.

Too many randoms i don't know in that team tbh, cba to check them up and do it again. Probably similar to last result anyways

 

[2Smokeyy]

Yeah right, and this team is going to come ahead !??

Balanced just like your tactics you've shared here

@albakos casually shifted a certain player out of the team. I see what you done there.

Looks stronger with 10 men on the pitch tbf respect