@Noirx4 - Congrats on the 👶 🍼 enjoy the sleepless nights, maybe a bit of player FI research as you do the night shift..

Agree a little take on the index, think down to all planning for SS, plus players values getting hit when they exit Cups, transfer window shutting and we seem to have had a lack of treble match / media days (too many singles).

Roll on end of March and of course the mighty Hornets 🐝 Quarter final versus Palace (Zaha will dive, get a penalty, score and probably get sent off for diving and then retaliation...) hopefully in between Watford sneak a couple of goals..

I refuse to answer, otherwise I will be banished from the forum. Good question though... Noir is keen on the Iranian lad.

Agatello - first podcast I have listened to from FI and enjoyed the format, insights and relaxed feel of the gig.
You missed tipping up Chalobah but other than that excellent.
Next up - Talk sport? You could be guesting on the Alan Brazil Breakfast show.

Top player, won European awards when at Leicester. £60 million is not a bench warmer price...
IMO will play lots, PB will be great with the possession at Man City.
Sane on the left, Mahrez on the right, security of Walker behind him. What’s not to like?
Will probably break his leg first game of the season....

Agatello - great to see you getting a voice.

Be good to consider when Adam Cole and the management team plan to return monies to seed investors and how that will impact FI traders. Presumably will be either an IPO or a big Gambling company (Betfair) will make a bid that cannot be refused for the concept and 200,000+ account holders.

Good to muse on what the outcome for FI traders could be...

Loyalty bonuses? / immediate promotional activity / expansion to grow the business and therefore value of players? Etc

&

What is the next evolution / marketing idea to drive the growth of the platform game? Maybe get a couple of ideas from somewhere and raise in the podcast:-
e.g.
a) Head to Head PB / MB team selections for FA cup route to £50,000 FI traders award
b) Regular podcasts / channel bit like Fantasy Football for for FI

Etc... If you can please get Chalobah into the Podcast as well🤣

Think, I am getting to grips with F1 with this post helping my thinking. Best trade yet, bought into Salah (100) @ 4.29 and sold market sell @ 6.34 yesterday.
Great player and good PB, but think maybe topping out (as a few of you on this post may be thinking)and due for a fall... so closed out the profit.. (makes up for Brewster/PEA).
Reinvested elsewhere..
Will probably push on through the £7 mark - but realising you just need to be happy on a deal by deal basis - and I am here..

@LukeMalla

Wooden spoon competition for the round in play between us...

All - well played all and great compo, been fun.

Nope - pants idea

Kasper Schmeichal is your man, cheap as chips, WC bound and Leicester in form l, but still a busy man and more to the point class...

Richarlison - will continue to progress at Everton, will leave to go to a big club (see Barcelona showing interest today) and will score goals.

Brazil international - fast, good in the air, tricky as you like, strong and now settled in the perm league - just needs composure now and that will come and will rises.

I have a small holding and will add ..

Ismail Sarr - big move coming and will be a perm league star

@Happy-Hornet
144 in the red, 5 in the green overnight - Really hard to pick a winner over the past 48 hours.

Market has 5 players in the green & 141 in the red overnight, does this mean that net spend is down and the 5th birthday incentive is all being saved for period 2?
Thinking time to spend on PB/MB kings and the odd promising youngster.

Please could you buy the following three youngsters to help me out...

Sarr - will rise but a long term hold approach may be needed to make your money

Zaha (sort of young) - will he go? ditto view as for Sarr

Djenepo - will he break into the scene this year?

Still can’t believe the mighty hornets 🐝 were relegated..

@GDS

1. Have market makers active (properly active) to stabilise market as depth grows.

2. In the event that FI have made significant seller commission over the past week, FI to make good will gesture and recycle this unexpected windfall as a one-off dividend to holders of players (who have been negatively impacted by market offers).

3. FI have fully de-risked their IS liabilities overnight (no longer underpinning IS) and this exercise has been passed onto by their client base who have seen @ 20% portfolio reduction.
   FI Consideration of how they can retain investor funds, the risk is that the falls continue with money exiting the platform.
   Innovative approach needed, maybe even go as far for significant investors to provide preferred share option of FI

4. Confidence is required for new clients (QPR and Notts Forest fans), spreads need to be tighter - different calculation for bid/offer prices and have FI provide market support in the short term

5. all above is dependent on FI having a rainy day fund. If they have one, now is the time to deploy it..

@Noirx4

I am good for now, but good too see you are back - data helps and would be really interesting viewing over the past week. Probably need bid and sell prices now..

@Meridismo04
Ismail Sarr - top quality, will go and will be good.

Saka - 89pence
Joao Felix - 58pence
Martial - 6pence

Please could someone explain to me the vast difference between the bid and sell price?
I am expecting something to do with market trading volumes (supply and demand) but still don’t get the vast difference in the spreads & it then becomes a self fulfilling prophecy as no one will buy a player with a massive spread as they cannot get out..
Anyone?

Forum back which is nice - new format and wanting to track access new topics and remove the old ones - use to be able to mark as read, can’t see you can now.
Anyone know how?

@JonnyMcFunny

Don’t think you have missed the boat on a player that has risen in price as they can rise & rise - You think they can’t go higher but they can and often do.
If you scout a decent new player in or bound for the premier league trust your instinct and lob on..

@Smilayo

Comes to Watford with big reputation, saw him in a FA cup match and glimpses of class. Too soon to say if a supstar but any kid that makes an international move so young must be well rated & Watford do dig up some good young ones Richarlison & Sarr..