@THFC1972 i wouldnt bother with him if im honest id only consider him based on MB potential. If i was buying my top four keepers would be Ederson, Alisson, Donnarumma and Dragowski

@ChazFI123 why anyone would now buy neymar, trent or even bruno is beyond me now. You could instead buy the top 6 PB scoring keepers knowing they are the only player within their team competing for that dividend and are almost always nailed on to play 90 minutes. They have limited competition and dint have the GWG to shake up placings. They have penalty saves I suppose but the odds arent in their favour there and aside from this it will be same keepers regularly winning their PB category. If it wasnt for the poor liquidity we would have much bigger drops on premiums and i reckon some keepers would be on their way to £4+

@Dr-Jan-Itor said in The Announcement: Marks Out Of Ten Please?(Poll):

@Zaka_7 said in The Announcement: Marks Out Of Ten Please?(Poll):

Not sure I fully understand the negativity. We’ve been offered an extra 30% on our returns which is good. I also for some reason feel FI have left something in the tank for the further announcements in August and the implementation of sell orders. They could well have a further surprise. I think short term pessimism will be punished and long term optimism will be rewarded and I personally feel better about the product long term than I did a few hours ago! Exciting future! I think people are just greedy. Some of the 100% rises I saw touted were dreams and lets be honest never going to happen. Would just mean the next increase would have to be more again. You can never please anyway. I think this structure suits the long term plans of the index. They’re getting to the platform they want to be one step at a time over playing all their cards at once. Just my thoughts anyway.

But it isn't a simple as looking at it as they have given us 30% so yay. Since the 1st of November (when the last div change was implemented) the top 400-500 players have risen on average by just over 30%. So I am now expected to pay on average slightly over 30% for a 30% increase? Am I really in a better position than November? Sure there is TOTM. But as usual my overall impression is FI is playing catch up with the market. We all want dividends to drive the market, but given today, I think we have enough 12 months of sentiment been the driving force behind player prices

Exactly. Dividends are meant to drive the market for the next 12 months but in reality the market is driving the need for dividends to be increased from the previous 12 months.

But in this case its not even as much as a 30% increase because its not across the board, some payouts havent even changed. I feel like we e been given the bare minimum and they will use COVID as the excuse for this but in reality FI is far better off after COVID19 than it was before it due to the ME

@Dan-The-Man said in The Announcement: Marks Out Of Ten Please?(Poll):

@MickTurbo said in The Announcement: Marks Out Of Ten Please?(Poll):

@Dan-The-Man that's the fella. Where are u on the announcement?

It gave me a lot of what I wanted to see. I've been specifically asking for TOTM/TOTY for a long time so I'm over the moon to see that, as it rewards football and that's the direction I want FI to go in. Here's how I see it.

• TOTM = Major Win

• 20th of the Month Market Driver = Massive Win

• Champions League Boost = Big Win

• More types of payouts = Big Win

• Goal Keepers = Big Win

• Deadline Change = Win

• Silver/Gold Increase = Win

• Commission Extension = Win

• Dividend Payout Time = Win (hopefully fewer disgruntled traders)

• IPD Forever = Win

• Tournament Tease = Win

• No General Bronze Boost = Disappointment

• No General IPD Boost = Disappointment

Goal Keepers are now super interesting.... 2p clean sheet bonus + team of the month chance + PB... that's a game changer, so even though there wasn't a big boost to IPD... they increased the effectiveness of the existing IPD bonus.

I'm interested in hearing more from @Black-Wolf on why he's disappointed though because it seems like some people really aren't happy with it.

The changes are smoke and mirrors to distract from what they havent done. Its a 30% increase although the money in the market has doubled in 12 months.

In that time MB was also opened up making it much harder to predict but yet only a 1p increase and only on a treble media day. Realistically treble media should be available every day now.

GK now have their own category this is terrible for the rest of the market as there only one player in any given team competing for this and the are rarely rotated, so why buy a defender or midfielder in a team that plays 442 when you could just but a shed load of a handful of keepers and guarantee divs regularly. Some keepers could now be climbing into the top 25 with premium players going the other way

Like many have stated before and it has been a major issue for yourself dan, FI have removed their own exposure in the market so are now sitting on a bigger pile of cash than every. However this could be a sign that they plan to reintroduce themselves into the market via IS

They have also reduce what they consider the projected yield from 20% to 15% but claim they have boosted our portfolio values but they havent its quite the opposite really. As i said on another thread TOTM looks great at first but in reality when you break it down we have been given a 30% increase at max in some not all areas and the equivalent of one extra gold day and one extra silver day per month via way of TOTM.

Theres a lot im not happy with after this after trying to stay positive but im starting to rant and i wont get my points across clearly. Ill try to come back in a couple of days with a more detailed response about everything that they have got so very wrong

Correct me if im wrong but in the past did they not say the aimed to project a 20% annual yield

@ukph said in Who going to the disco at 5pm this evening?:

I'm hearing TOTM is only for that month you buy?!?!

Surely not? If so it just keeps getting worse

@CJ0101 problem is the top of the market was already preloaded for a big dividend increase which hasnt happened so TOTM at best will only aid to stem the flow

@Sol said in Who going to the disco at 5pm this evening?:

With today’s great ‘announcement’ I’ve now decided what to do. Sol is leaving the disco...with my money. Bravo FI, you really messed this one up big time. Next spike, I’m off.

I might come with you. Grab your jacket youve pulled 😂😂

@Notanyoldnewuser said in The Announcement: Marks Out Of Ten Please?(Poll):

@Black-Wolf largely my thoughts, it is a good added bit of fun to the platform, but not much else, and I think FI have used it to mask over the lack of rise for tradititional pb divs- it looks like a lot, but not when only paid once a month. An increase is an increase though, so I'm not massively annoyed.

Thats exactly as i first saw it. Its just a distraction from the truth

Im not happy. Its basically a 30% increase with one extra days payout a month. If you want to be arsy about it its actually a payout that amounts to one extra gold and one extra silver day a month.

Does anyone really think thats good enough after the FOOTIE has doubled in 12 months and they have opened up MB to all players.

This dividend structure is to be in place for the next 12 months and it isnt even going to satisfy traders for the next 12 days.

I hope they get their act together and rectify this shite