FM07 NLSC Story : Draft Discussion Thread

[Ty-Land]

I'm done for this round. Can't wait for the next round, been doing my research and think I've found some interesting picks.

And Drex, there was no good Australians that came to mind, so I thought Chileans would be good substitutes.

[Dean]

Speaking of the past, i believe i swore to kill you Drex?


GK:
Igor Akinfeev
Dida

Defenders:
Roberto Carlos
Gonzalo
Fabricio Coloccini
Naldo
Anthony Vanden Borre
Cafu
Carlos Diogo
Marco Materazzi
Ivan Helguera

Midfielders:
Marchena
Bastian Schweinsteiger
Antonio Lopez
Luis Figo
Maxi Rodriguez
Vicente
Francisco Javier Yeste
Emerson
Ruben Baraja
Renato Augusto
Luka Modric
Simon Vukcevic
Juninho

Strikers:
Nihat
Lukas Podolski
Fernando Llorente

[Drex]

Dada plays GK?

My team:

GK:
Francisco Guillermo Ochoa
Víctor Valdés
Sebastián Viera

Defenders:
Vincent Kompany
Albiol
Marcelo
Rafinha
Rafael Márquez
Felipe
Cristian Zaccardo
Arturo Vidal
Giorgio Chiellini
Walter Samuel

Midfielders:
Sergio Agüero
Wesley Sneijder
Omar Esparza
Matías Fernandez
Mancini
Torsten Frings
Mark González
Sebastian Kehl
Daniel Carvalho

Strikers:
Luca Toni
Gonzalo Higuaín
Javier Saviola
Gianpaolo Pazzini
Nikola Zigic

And the young guys (hopefully they'll stay here):
Giovanni Dos Santos
Geovanni
Cristián Abarca
Carlos Zambrano
Sebastián Zúñiga

[Ty-Land]

Getting nearer to the end, I will put my team list up tomorrow just so I can be cool like you guys

Think I have determined who my manager/assistant manger combe will be. Bit of youth, with focus on both ends (well at least theoretically).

[Mark.]

Well looks like my team is complete then, lets hope the manager does as he is told

[J@3]

Since the player rounds are finally done, Nick can select his team now... 27 players and 5 youth players. He can post the line-up here whenever, but also in the draft thread once we're done picking managers.

[J@3]

Hey Ty, Mark picked Rijkaard as his assistant.

After Drex and Nick, we are finished

[Drex]

Can I pick my managers even if Ty hasn't edited his post?

AssMan: Frank Rijkaard of Barcelona

Naughty Rijkaard.

[J@3]

Yeah you can, hopefully you'll take no one Ty wants but I guess he should've seen Mark's post first (he did edit it, but I made sure he did it before no one else had picked for fairness purposes).

[Drex]

So the draft is done, where's Nick now?

[J@3]

It's 5am so I'd imagine sleeping

[Drex]

Then what are you doing here?

[J@3]

it's a long story

I have to go to a meeting tomorrow that I REALLY want to avoid, so I know if I wake up early I'll think of a billion reasons not to go and eventually avoid it alltogether. If I stay up really late however, then sleep in and wake up like an hour before the meeting, it won't give me enough time to think of any excuses and I'll just go because I can't be fucked trying to get out of it within an hour

[Mark.]

Haha I would easily just go to bed really late so that I sleep right through the meeting, then make up some bullshit excuse why I wasnt there.

Hey Jae if it makes it easier I can change my Assisstant manager back to who I had previously.

[Ty-Land]

Okay, I changed my manager. Sorry I didn't pick up on that earlier. Obviously wasn't paying a lot of attention.

[Nick]

I'll post my team soon.

[Nick]

So here's my team:

Goal Keepers:
Gregory Coupet
Maarten Stekelenburg
Vincent Degre

Defenders:
Cris
Juan Pablo Sorin
Manuel Pasqual
Marco Andreolli
Massimo Oddo
Matias Lequi
Roberto Ayala


Midfielders:
Anatoliy Tymoschuk
David Beckham
Fernando Belluschi
Gudjohnsen
Guti
Hatem Ben Arfa
Ibon Gutierrez
Leandro Lima
Mauro Camoranesi
Nigel de Jong
Pavel Nedved
Raul Garcia
Riccardo Montolivo
Yoann Gourcuff

Strikers:
Ariel Ortega
Hugo Almeida
Roy Makaay

I don't know what Mourinho will decide for the starting XI. It's a pretty deep team so it's sort of hard to tell, i suppose it would look something like this...

Coupet
Oddo, Cris, Ayala, Sorin
Camoranesi, Beckham, Guti, Nedved
Ortega, Makaay

Bench: anatoliy tymoschuk, Gudjohnsen, and everybody else.

Basically everybody on the team could go in the starting XI except for Degre and probably Andreolli so whatever.

What's going to be interesting and exciting to see is what Mourinho can do with the team before next season. Our best players are aging and the team won't be as good "as is" after a year or 2, however some of our players such as Beckham and Nedved are considered legends, and hopefully they can play well and boost the team's reputation above the rest. That's the plan. To win games now and give the "Barncore Beavers" a respectable name, and an enticing and desirable location.

So yeh, It will be interesting to see what happens with that.

Edit: Also, here is the rest...

17's:
Giovanni Gardella
Alexander Zahavi
Aurelien Teaudors
Mitja Novinic
Matteo Darmian

Manager:
Jose Mourinho

Assistant manager:
Giorgio Ciaschini

[J@3]

About to start the official NLSC FM game lol.

[J@3]

The main thread is locked until I put the point system up. After that, it will become the discussion thread and this gets locked.

Point system is up, thread's unlocked. Feel free to discuss stuff.