@Antierror you're spot on, but just went to look at my portfolio and I had a pop up saying I need to verify my age and my players had all gone! Logged out and back in again and they have reappeared but its scary how quickly those guys at FI work! Lesson learnt, I shall not jest or mess with the FI gods again.

You hear on the radio that Thomas Cook shares have plummeted 20% and you think, who does he play for?

@Danny-c spent a couple of years in the Arsenal academy, having joined from Ajax. Scored a fair few goals for the youth team and he went with the first team in pre season in 2017. Fairly quick and can play out wide too. Apparently Arsenal wanted to extend his contract which still had a year to run but he wanted first team football so they sold him to PSV. Starting to look like another one that got away, although it's clearly still early days.

@Coleyscrooge that is an important point. I very rarely sell when a player is dropping in price, unless there is a valid reason for the drop that is going to mean a fairly long term decrease in value. That is why the sell queue works for me, as I tend to wait for the price to reach my target before listing, so by the nature of that strategy, people are buying when I choose to sell (how many are buying will depend upon how well I have judged the peak!) Obviously it also takes longer to shift a big holding, but at least you know you are at the front of the queue when they start to go.

Can't say I've ever used IS but would if I needed to get funds out of a player quickly. However, I begrudge the principle of selling for less than something is worth; it's my profit and I want it all! Selling to market time varies massively. Most of mine have gone within a few hours and virtually all within a day. Only long delay I had was with Christian Kouame who took over a week to go and strongly tested my patience! On a digression, can't see how IS is good for FI either; their 2% commission is on a lower figure and they fund the buy back, so they're actually 98% down. Surely 2% on a higher figure with no cost to them is better.

Had been keeping an eye on him for a little while. Was in UEFA.com's 50 to watch and was in the Golden Boy nominations list too. Bought yesterday as his price was down slightly so got really lucky with the timing of the announcement as was up 16% within hours. If only it was always that easy!

@MickTurbo same. Still, I don't like to admit I'm wrong very often and he is "only" 29, so maybe he's just a late developer 😂

@MrWh1te sounds similar to my time on the index. I think it's good to have a mix of players. I hold 6 of the top 10 and have held another and they have provided almost all of my dividends, which I have reinvested, plus most have provided decent cap growth too. I know dividends don't seem to interest some, but I enjoy trading, so want fun as well as profit and the dividends give me something to play with, without having to constantly chuck in more cash!

@MickTurbo yes hope so. I know they want to get more of the top 5 league players on, but some of these barely seem worth listing. Worryingly though, I can see myself buying a few Fran Merida's for old times sake; I thought he was going to be half decent about 10 years ago and can't believe he's still only 29!

Haven't seen the name Roberto Saldado for a while. Can't see those futures flying off the shelf this week.