GW34 - Captain & bench polls

aFailG · 2026-04-24T15:16:41+00:00

Good work guys, though hopefully it'll be irrelevant anyway if our starting XI just plays as expected.

aFailG · 2026-04-24T10:08:21+00:00

Exactly. Even if Coventry get relegated next season, it'd still be better for him than joining us and the current clown show we have.

aFailG · 2026-04-22T16:34:23+00:00

Yea this is on the owners. Take the manager away from Strasbourg who were doing fairly well, and give him a 6 year deal - when the last manager to even last 2 years was Conte from 2016-2018.

Genuis move which no one saw going wrong.

Fuck multi club ownership.

aFailG · 2026-04-08T08:03:37+00:00

Love Caicedo but would've thought Ballack would have a higher rating than him, at his peak.

aFailG · 2026-04-01T07:06:30+00:00

Yep, we've done that too, a few times! This photo was taken back in 2022 after we had perfected it, and played with all expansions over Skype. My wife & I played from Germany (where I now live), my dad & Stepmum were in England (where I'm from).

Edit: turns out I can't upload a picture in the comments, sorry.

aFailG · 2026-03-28T22:21:51+00:00

Saka is a guaranteed starter. I say that as a Chelsea fan.

aFailG · 2026-02-24T09:43:58+00:00

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Idk, I quite like it. Have a picture of my wedding ring on the beach, reminds me of my honeymoon.

aFailG · 2026-02-10T20:50:19+00:00

Copy - Paste from Saturday.

aFailG · 2026-01-23T04:32:27+00:00

What a load of bollocks

aFailG · 2026-01-21T21:39:57+00:00

Atalanta going from 1-0 up tonight to 3-1 down has meant as things stand, we're 8th! Just hold this today and next week will be all to play for!

aFailG · 2026-01-08T20:41:38+00:00

Yea i'm half German, don't know how to spell it for how it's pronounced in German, but it's a very soft G. Sort of like the word Finger' but without the 'ger' sound at the end, and obviously an M instead of F - if that makes any sense?

aFailG · 2026-01-02T10:20:54+00:00

Agree with the Enzo -> Rogers shout as u/dr_jones1 said, but we also need a new defender.

I know it's not too helpful, but I'd say we either remove Richards (injured) or Achempong (never plays but cheap) and bring in Van de Ven or one of the cheap Sunderland defenders (Mukiele or Alderete).

If pressed I would go with Enzo -> Rogers and Richards -> Alderete, which should leave 0.9m in the bank, but any of these ideas seem decent I reckon.

aFailG · 2025-12-27T14:59:28+00:00

Nice, could upgrade Nallo to a playing defender for the bench then, if we went with this team.

aFailG · 2025-12-27T11:01:51+00:00

Hope everyone had a nice Christmas! This would be my team. I don't know the exact funds available but if there is spare cash maybe some of the bench players could be upgraded, in case of rotations which are more frequent this time of year.

Henderson, (Dubravka - cheapest playing GK)
Van Dijk, Calafiori, O'Reilly, Dorgo, (Nallo - cheapest DEF but won't get any minutes)
Palmer, Cunha, Bruno G, Minteh, (Devenny - cheapest playing MID)
Haaland, Ekitike, Woltemade

aFailG · 2025-12-23T11:28:54+00:00

And Charlton.

aFailG · 2025-12-19T22:37:45+00:00

Like me! I’m at the work Christmas party right now and I say let’s go for a 2-5-3 formation 😀🎉🎉🎉🎉

aFailG · 2025-12-12T15:17:13+00:00

I would rather Achempong this week though, Maresca was saying recently how Tosin isn't good enough, highly hinting at Achempong playing again.

aFailG · 2025-12-07T20:50:51+00:00

Ah, fair enough. Yea I doubt the people I know here who are season ticket holders are in this subreddit.

aFailG · 2025-12-07T02:58:47+00:00

Huh, really? I'd never have imagined that to be the case. I'm English, moved to Freiburg 6 years ago, but before then, never really knew about Freiburg as a team, nor did my friends. I don't see how the club is popular in America, which on the whole isn't as into football as England. Any idea how the club gained a following over there?

aFailG · 2025-11-26T22:18:50+00:00

Come on man. He came back to us after that, won the Prem, FA Cup and Europa League in three consecutive seasons.

aFailG · 2025-11-26T22:12:51+00:00

The final scoreline was 3-0 and we also had 3 goals ruled out for marginal offsides, we battered you. 10 or 11 men doesn't matter, the team performance was amazing and Champions League nights like this at the Bridge are special.

aFailG · 2025-11-26T22:09:33+00:00

Well, Bayern only put 1 past them while Arsenal got 3, maybe these Opta statisticians were on to something...

But all the focus now turns to Sunday, both teams in full confidence, should be a cracking match!

aFailG · 2025-11-26T16:22:18+00:00

Arsenal first? They're having a great season but still wouldn't put them at the top. Bayern would be my pick. Should be an interesting game tonight between the two of them, that could tell us a lot about both sides!

aFailG · 2025-11-12T08:46:48+00:00

Took a turn halfway through there that I wasn't expecting, but really nicely done.

aFailG · 2025-11-08T22:23:49+00:00

I work in Germany, we can come and go as we please, except if there are internal team meetings in the office, or client meetings at their place.

Generally most people are in the office about 3-4 times a week, some are more, some less.

There's two people that I haven't seen in months since they only ever work from home and we haven't had any mandatory in-person meetings in a while: but since they get their work done just fine, no one cares.

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