Month: April 2017

  • Welcome to…..Big Barbs Diary Hi everybody. I’m Victor Big Barbs Ibarbo & I play centre forward for a cute little Brazilian club known as Sao Paula, no, Sao Paulo that’s the one.  And yes, it is your lucky day cos….…

  • Following last seasons heroics, and missing out on the play offs on the last day, Levante have made a slow start to the new season. The club have registered 3 draws and 3 defeats in the league, and defeats to…

  • 50% of D5 sides are still in or have landed back in D5 after 5 seasons.  Who will do better than the 50% who remain this season. The current standings are a tale of 4 teams. West Ham and Espanyol…

  • The Dynamo of the league or a flat battery waiting to be charged.    Monaco are statistically the best team in the league by some way, but they are plagued by constant underperformance.  A somewhat better start this year could…

  • A recent comment from Mr Malcolm’s (excellent) review of Division 2 teams regarding squad depth made me think about my squad and so I decided to share my thinking on squad depth and coverage that I have developed over the…

  • A couple of mighty team languish in the depths of division 3, will they emerge to haunt of of the top 100 or vanish without a trace. Why are PSV not top of the league, well regular underperformance is the…

  • Hi All Whats happening with soccer manager (wish it was named Football Manger) I cant get on my  phone or laptop its just timing out, its been slow all week but today I cannot get on. Heath PSV

  • Will the big 3 return to the big time? will it be a German top 3 ? Atletico are the obvious favourites, with Southampton , Schalke and Leverkusen close behind. O.K second division, so second point to note.  Some managers…

  • Who is top of the pile and who can over perform. Have Barcelona sacrificed depth for youth? First of all, nothing here is opinion. I don’t believe or predict that AC Milan will finish last. This is just raw stats…