Subject: »[NT] Update

Preliminaries stats after round 5 - Half time:

Leading scorers:

4 Luis Giacomi DIABŁY OSWIECIM Polska
4 Scottie Wang Valiant FC
3 Adrian Manohar Hajduk Burnaby
3 Jarome Moreau Apocalypse
2 Adriano Cochran AC Gladiator Brno Czech Rep.
2 Kirk Fortner Fianna FC
2 Sean Amado Valiant FC
1 Wyn Lavrynenko FC Universitatea Cluj

Most assists:

3 Adrian Manohar Hajduk Burnaby
2 Nenad Klukovski Deutsch Blitz
2 Felix Iginla Black&Oil
1 Adam Ortega Santiago Black&Oil
1 T.J.Omar Peace River F.C.
1 Scottie Wang Valiant FC
1 Luis Giacomi DIABŁY OSWIECIM Polska

CAPS

GK
Joe Parker 3
Guy Clemens 2

DEF
Issa Bradshaw 4
Carl Abbas Musa 3
Domingo Lamo 3
Cory Villanueva 3
Abu Wagenaar 2
Sebastian Fichaud 2
Eduardo Vezina 1
Kareem Laforest 1
Bucky Laforest 1
Karl Dehere 1
Charles-Antoine Holden 1
Ismail Mayard 1
Francois McGhee 1

MID
T.J.Omar 4
Felix Iginla 4
Nenad Klukowski 2
Adam Ortega Santiago 2
Luc O’Hara 1
Georges Gusberti 1
Dwayne Renda 1
Vincent Diplacido 1
Saleem Canizalez 1
Derek Barrera 1
Ruben Caron 1

ATT
Luis Giacomi 3
Adrian Manohar 3
Jarome Moreau 2
Sean Amado 2
Kirk Fortner 2
Scottie Wang 2
Shimon MacIlvora 1
Adriano Cochran 1
Wyn Lavrynenko 1

INJURY
Graham Garvey 10 days
Adrian Manohar 15 days
Luc O'Hara 18 days

Yellow card
Vincent Diplacido 2
Luc O'Hara 2
Adam Ortega Santiago 2
Cory Villanueva 2
Carl Abbas Musa 1
Orlando Acaves 1
Issa Bradshaw 1
Timothe Choquet 1
Karl Dehere 1
Sebastian Fichaud 1
Graham Garvey 1
Georges Gusberti 1
Mansor Hitschfeld 1
Felix Iginla 1
Kareem Laforest 1
Domingo lamo 1
Francois McGhee 1
Jarome Moreau 1
Abu Wagenaar

Red card
Luis Giacomi

Interesting. :) You've definitely taken the team a different direction (which is what we all wanted with a new manager).

Valiant is very pleased that Scottie Wang is tied as the top scorer - especially considering he's had just 2 relief outings, and has only played ~70 minutes.

One of the biggest surprises for me is that Olaf Lavrynenko is yet to play this season. At the end of last season I thought he was quite possibly our best all-round midfielder. Then again, my view point may be skewed by those nightmares I have about him wearing Rover blue. :P

Re: Olaf; he's certainly been useful for me and could easily play every position on my team. I suppose at the National level that could be the problem, no freakish ability to leverage... just a whole bunch of excellent to formidable skills?

Both Laforest (Bucky) & Abbas Musa have popped in pace.

Thank you

Our divine striker is up for sale

Up for sale for: 1 000 000 C$
highest bid: 0 C$ []
End of bidding: 05.05.2007 19:59

Wyn Lavrynenko, 2005648age: 20
value: 993 200 C$, wage: 10 240 C$
club: FC Universitatea Cluj, country: Canada
formidable form, good tactical discipline


weak stamina, tragic keeper
solid pace, average defender
adequate technique, hopeless playmaker
poor passing, divine striker
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Hopefully he lands with a tech trainer. :)

Will be curious to see if the same team that bought his mates Amin and Lajeunesse shows up for Wyn.

Hope so too, he need tech training badly. Until excellent tech and pace I don't think I am gonna use him in any games, he is useless despite divine striker.

He'd be an ok sub for 15-20 minutes (depending on the level of competition). His stamina is so poor that after that, what pace and tech he does have dwindle to nothing.

Any guesses on the price? I'm thinking 2.5-3 million C$, but my estimates are usually low.

Edit: Amin and Lajeneuse both went 2 million, with much poorer secondaries. So I'm revising my guess up to 3.5-4 million.
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I am kinda sure he is going over 3 million.

Lorne - You have some potentials like: Daniel Stevenson and Jarome Garnett and I would love to see if they gained any skills lately. SK mail me plz.

OK tactics and players are set for this weekend friendly game vs Belarus. It's U-21 game with 4 older players since Belarus manager don't want to risk some younger players couse they play in his first team and we also have some holes to fill up with older ones.

Starters:

Charles Antoine Holden, 21 years
Ruben Caron, 21
Pierre Charles Chouinard, 20
Adriano Cochran, 21
Karl Dehere, 21
Vincent Diplacido, 27
Kareem Laforest, 26
Jarome Moreau, 26
Dwayne Renda, 21
Satinder Touchette, 19
Abu Wagenaar, 26

Bench:
Derek Barrera, 21
Joey Biron, 19
Rudi Luciani, 21
Boris Madden, 20
Malcolm Malhotra, 21

Barrera will enter in second half with Biron and Malhotra most likely.

am kinda sure he is going over 3 million.

Agreed. A season and a half of tech training should get him to outstanding-incredible. As a 22 year old in week 1 - he might be worth 7-8 million then. If a tech trainer could get him for 4 million, he'd likely be looking at doubling his money in 1.5 seasons. So 4 million might still be low.

Agreed. A season and a half of tech training should get him to outstanding-incredible. As a 22 year old in week 1 - he might be worth 7-8 million then. If a tech trainer could get him for 4 million, he'd likely be looking at doubling his money in 1.5 seasons. So 4 million might still be low.
One day to go and he is at: highest bid: 2 683 200 C$

DO you need him for the NT. I can train him in technique. (and I have the money)

Slavko may be able to answer whether he's "needed" or not.

He is a great prospect. And after the Choquet disaster, it is kinda of nice to keep those domestic.

Depending on his price, he's also a decent business proposition. A couple seasons of tech, then unload him to a pace trainer for big bucks.

The downside is that his secondaries really aren't that good ATM (bad for U21, let alone the main squad). Most NT managers (IMO) would prefer an incred/incred/incred to a divine/excellent/excellent. So I wouldn't expect him to get that many caps until he was 23-24 (obviously depends on the NT manager's preferences).