@ScouseSte

To be fair it is exactly like performance enhancing drugs. City inflated their turnover figures so that in a particular year they could spend x amount more then they would normally have been able to without falling foul of FFP. Hence they should not have been able to spend the money they spent to buy the players they got in those years ie KDB and Sterling, Fernandino to name a few. If they hadn't done it they might still have had stephen ireland or whoever playing for then in CAM instead of KDB. No way they would have won the tittle without those players i.e. they jacked up their team not with drugs but with money which amounts to the same thing.

So yeah they defo should be striped of their titles, an example needs to be made so that teams dont do it in the future.

No need to activate all you need do is buy some players and you will get points for them next match day.

But remember to stagger your buys over a few days (up to 20) to try and max out both of the perks 1 and 2.

you will need to opt in to get marketing emails tho, so that they can send you updates of how many point you have got.

@Ericali said in Freeing Up Funds:

@G27 I don't think Olmo got the move people were expecting.

He was as linked with Manchester United, the PL & Barcelona & ended up at RB.

At £2.50+ a share I think he's expensive & I certainly wouldn't buy in at today's price.

Lots of competition at RB too - if he doesn't hit the ground running & start scoring he could be dropped.

To be fair that is one side of the argument

But just for balance on the transfer to RB might be just the ticket, similar to Halaand, Sancho etc German football so often acts as a stepping stone to the Prem. As for the Bacra links, Barca already know enough about him being ex barca youth, all they could be waiting for is for him to show up in a decent league and it could be back on. As too could any move to the Prem. There is competition at RB, no doubt but no more then say had his move to Utd or Barca gone through, as it is now he would be under a lot less pressure to perform week in week out which is helpful for such a young player, but i do agree with ericalis sentiment, it is definitely sink or swim time and only time will tell on that.

I guess it will depend on how long an investment you are making, all i am saying is that it may not be wise to get rid now if in 18 to 24 months if he kicks on ti make 2.50 looks like a snip and for me there is plenty of scope both on the field and off the field for that to happen, not least FI's expansion into Germany where Olmo would easily represent one of the hottest youth prospects in the league, especially if you consider people like Havertz and Werner could well leave it soon.

anyway those were my thoughts as a long term holder

@ChazFI123 I reckon at least 80p ish of it was from january onwards all media divs, not actually won pb at all yet since i have held him (july 2019), but he did come close on a couple of occasions.

@NallyCat

Pogba been missing most of this season, who knows if he would have taken down some PB and extra media his divs could have been over the £3 mark.

I think also neymar and Mbappe have had a few weeks if not months out injured too, from memory.

Surely tho if you are going back 18 months then you have to take in to account that KDB was like massively injured for like a whole season pretty much, which would put a hole in anyone's dividend earnings.

i don't think it would cause an issue as its nett shares but per individual player.

So if i sell some player from my portfolio that i already had which were historic and cant be used in the promotion and then use the money to by some other player, then the shares that i buy in that other player will be eligible to earn SMDP. If i then go and sell some shares in the player i just bought at some later point in the promotion the number of shares i sell will come off my running total for that player and i will have less shares eligible for the next match day when it comes around. Similarly the original player i sold will start with a nett negative balance so to speak (because i made the original transaction after the promo started) so if i wanted to earn SMDP on this player later on i would have to buy the number of shares that i originally sold back and then however many extra that i wanted i.e. i need to offset my original sale before i can start earning SMDP.

So this seems like a good opportunity to clear out all the under performers that you have cause you wont want them later on because they are not performing and then use the money on different players that are in an effort to get as many points as possible.

This is my understanding of how it works anyway, So the moral of the story is don't sell players now that you think you might want later on this month.

so in martyn's example above as i understand it, the shares he has bought in tah,parejo et al are all fine to win SMDP when ever they play next, but if he wants to earn SMDP points for silva and bonnicci he would have to buy at least 500 and 300 shares respectively before any SMDP are given out so if he bought 510 and 310 then they would only count 10 of them as being eligible to multiply their respective PB scores.

12376 for me. bought 14 lewandowski's PB score of 134 x 14 = 1876 + 10500 for perks 1 and 2. I think that is right anyway.

Yeah i don't know about that, yes i agree that having more shares in a player is better so yes the cheaper the player seems to offer more value, but then you remember that your cheap sub £1 player is sub £1 for a reason, maybe they don't play every game, maybe they dont have Europe, maybe they are in bad form, maybe they are just plain shite. If you say there is are 5 possible games that your cheap player could play over the next month, but in reality if they only play 1 or 2 of them then thats gonna put a massive whole in you plan to accumulate Super match day points even if you have a load of shares in them. on the flip side if you go get kimmiech for example, you know he will play 5 out of 5, he will have europe, you can take advantage of the 1.25 multiplyer etc and you know that his PB scores are bound to be decent even if he don't win PB.

plus if you go buy a load of 30p wonders and they don't happen to be the lucky one that smashes it, good luck trying to sell them on at the end of the month.

Truth is that FI as far as i know have not ever done anything like this before, so really until this has run its course we wont know which way is the way to go, be interesting if people kept records of how they did and then shared next month then we will see which types of traders (low end/high end) did the better. I have a feeling that this is a trial run for possibly a permanent feature, people always ask for tiered PB which FI have said is never gonna happen, me thinks that this is as close as you are ever gonna get to it and this is the tester to see if it works.

@MickTurbo
Hi Mick, yeah that info was on the official FI podcast they did with Opta a few weeks ago, at the time they said they only had plans to change the position of one player imminently, but that was juan cuadrado, and they were talking about moving him to be a defender. Looking at it seems they either have not got round to it yet or have changed their minds about it.