*****New Football Thread*****

Mark Maguire

@Martin hey MartIn - back after a hiatus - 100 hour weeks in a job in France .. now back at my desk and on it full time - hello to those I've crossed paths with before and those who I havent .. Im Mark, currently full time trading , working on a football project which may stop me doing so from March but hope to prove to myself that I dont need that by succeeding full time on this between now and then

Mark Maguire

@Ryan typical that I wait months to post on here for something I can argue with you about

Re Pep I think cheque book manager is too simplistic - my measure of a manager has always been how do they improve players - City spent a fortune but prior to the likes of Grealish at 100m they tended to buy players for 50 to 60 where other teams (United in particular) were paying double for worse..

My natural position is to hate City .. Shiteh as we Stockport fans call them but if you look at how he's improved players over the years .. and the work ethic he's established then you can only admire it .. De Bryne, Foden, Stones, Mahrez, Silva x 2 , etc etc look at their development under Pep .. in the same way as you can immediately say Slot is decent when you look at the difference in Gravenberg..

I think the problem at City now are down to the fact that Pep and his Mate (director of football)probably planned to leave this season and let the age of the squad drift - and brought in short term fixes like Haaland ... incredible record but when your backs against the wall how much does he work for the team ? Pep was close to taking England - changed his mind and now has to buy into the whole re build thing - but to be fair he's changed football in England and deserves some credit?

Greg Mitchell

@Ryan Jurgen hardly spent a pittance did he?

Ross Collins

@Liam-Mcnee thanks for the heads up Liam, il take a look.

Craig Greenway

Morning guys. I'm on central coast v yokohama FHG.

Liam Mcnee

@Ross-Collins https://www.football-data.co.uk/data.php

I used this site for a lot of my strategies. They have the data going years back including the odds. Hope that helps mate.

Arran Shackell

@Craig-Greenway good pick

Craig Greenway

Chelmsford v Boreham wood FHG Ais my next trade.

Craig Greenway

Next im on Villa u21 v Norwich u21 FHG. Again odds start low so will back as odds improve.

Craig Greenway

Next trade im monitoring is Fenebahce v Gaziantep SHG. Odds currently low so will wait a little as usual.

Craig Greenway

@GREGORIOS-KARASHIALIS yeah managed to get 1.67 odds in the end. Was really confident off goal.

GREGORIOS KARASHIALIS

@Craig-Greenway is it coming? you still pressing? i will join you on this one, come on!

Craig Greenway

Evening guys. Poor evening yesterday. Got a few trades I'm liking the look off this evening.
1st is Al Wasl v Al Rayyan which is at HT at min. SHG is what I'm backing and slowly putting stake in as odds improve as always.

Richard Latimer

That said, I wonder if they'll end up doing something special in Jan this time.

Richard Latimer

@Ryan I agree to an extent for but the injury crisis really isn't that bad in Manchester is it. Playing wthout Rodri has made them look not just ordinary but weak.

Amazing player but it's not like they don't have immense depth.

Akiva Anderson

Just back from Disneyland Paris were my daughter was performing two shows.

Let's make some money for Christmas / New Year!

Ross Collins

HI All, 6 months into my trading journey and looking for a bit of advice on automating the result population when testing my strategies as using google at present. Has anyone got any advise or good websites that offer excel downloads of results and match stats that i can rig up to my model? Not strong on coding at present hence the reliance on excel.

Ryan

@Richard-Latimer He's 100% a genius with a chequebook, like he can get the Ferrari roaring and driving fast always and handling all the corners but I am not sure without that he can do a job like say Jurgen did.

Richard Latimer

@Ryan I like the fact that suddenly everyone isn't so sure if Pep is the greatest coach ever to walk the earth.....and perhaps he's just always had 'really really' good players when other teams didn't so much.

Messi,
Xavi,
Busquets

Then he won the Farmers Bundesliga with Bayern.

Then he got given a blank cheque at shitty. Good coach but I've always said he's a cheque book manager.

Can you imagine him taking on a project and having to work with what he was given?!

Ryan

@Richard-Latimer It seems like that way, always amazes me when people talk about the blow up of great teams but if you look back through history so many great teams explode in spectacular fashion.