Transfer Window Open 1 - 31 January

Relevant extracts from the rules:

THE OFFICIAL FISO FIVE-A-SIDE (5AS) ASSOCIATION RULES

This competition is based on the fantasy.premierleague.com game. You must already have a team in that game to be able to play.

1) Every club must have exactly five FISO members at kick-off each gameweek.

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Numptification

10a) Captains can at any time numptify (expel) any player in their club, including themselves, for bringing the game into disrepute, talking contractually with another club, being generally useless, not turning up for training, dissing the captain, not posting on FISO, dying, etc. Numptification should be announced by way of a press release.

10b) Captains can be numptified by their club only if all four other players agree. In this case the captain should surrender the league to another player, or the other four players should form a new league, recruit a new player, and elect a new captain.

Recruiting a Replacement Player

11) At any time during the season, any player may be replaced by another player with a lower or equal score. Special rules apply during the Transfer Market windows: see rule 16, below.

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Tapping up

15) Clubs are permitted to poach players from other clubs as long as rules 11 and 16 are not broken.

Transfer Window

16) During the official FIFA transfer windows (currently end-of-season until the 31 August, and the whole of January) a player in the team may be replaced by another, regardless of either player's score.

Dem's de rules.

Players who wish to join a FISO 5AS team should post their fiso username and a link to their team on this thread.

No change in January at Spartak - Tacalabala

Spartak captain Tacalabala insists he is not prepared to buy in the January transfer window, saying: "I am perfectly happy with the strength of our squad in terms of depth, quality and age range. I will not be swayed by endless tweets and blogs urging the club to get busy in the transfer market next month."

With the clash against 5AS leaders Campeoes next up, it was rumoured that the Muscovites were looking to sign a top FPL player. Not so according to Tacalabala: "As far as I am concerned I am marching perfectly in step, true to my beliefs and principles.

"While recruiting some of the world's leading players can lift you into contention for honours, it doesn't necessarily take you all the way, as I hope we will be able to demonstrate before the end of the season as other factors come into play."

New Pandas chairman promises funds in January

As part of the Pandas takeover that was completed earlier in the season, the new foreign owners have promised to utilise their vast fortune throughout the transfer window in order to tempt some of the finest FPL players in the land to join the reigning 5AS champions. This follows a dismal run of form that has seen the Pandas clawing for their lives at the bottom of the table.

Agents have been informed that the Pandas are actively searching for quality players to aid their attempt at retaining the title and urge any would-be Panda to make themselves known.

My Team (Captain is Inactive) so I am available....

I need to change my team.

PM me for Contact.

Reprobates will be active in market

Reprobates captain Wyld today revealed that the team widely tipped to lift this year's Champions League trophy will definitely be recruiting in the coming transfer window due the poor showing of the team so far in the competition.

"It is clear that certain members of the team have lost their direction. We are going to be saying goodbye to several of them in the coming weeks unless they put in a very strong performance over the next two game weeks. We can't continue to carry players who just will not step up to the mark, " said Wyld, who is currently the fourth highest scorer in the Reprobates team.

POLES APART


TOTEM POLES leading scorer CORYPHAEUS has today announce her desire to leave the TOTEM POLES. Sources close to coryphaeus have said that she is disappointed with her fellow team members performance this year and has become tired of leading the team this year without suitable help.This has caused corphaeus performances in recent weeks to suffer, she now hopes a new team can help her regain her form.The TOTEM POLES official spokesman couldnt be reach today just like any other day throughtout the year.
all intrested parties should contact coryphaeus asap

I would like to play for a FISO 5AS team.

Name: Isalla

Team in the profile link.

My agents has been in touch with the Pandas Headquarters for making the deal and terms finalise on papers. Looking forward to it.

VETERAN ON THE MARKET

FPL veteran Roga has put himself on the market after seasons of playing in the amateur leagues in the suburbs of Sydney, Australia. With 6 seasons of FPL experience, he has gone through many transfers, points hits and missed penalties to build some impressive end of season results. In his first season, he finished a respectable 169,402nd overall. He improved in the next two seasons with rankings of 137,184 and 4,463 respectively. Whilst the next season was a slight blip, with a ranking of 16,859, last season proved to be his best finishing in the top 1,000 in 847th place. This season, Roga has again proved to be a solid FPL player, currently in the top 10k rankings.

Further to this, Roga was the winner of both the official FISO FPL Knockout Cup in 2010/11. He also won the following FISO Super Cup.

Asked about why he has finally decided to put his hand up, he commented that "I feel like I need a new challenge. The 5AS tournament is one I haven't participated in and hopefully with my past history, I can find a decent club to play with".

***Talking about myself in third-person was fun***

Good ad Roga.

Fan unrest at no Predators transfer activity

Predators Manager TheTon has recently announced that there will be no transfer activity this window, expressing his delight with the recent form that has seen the team move into 2nd place in the league and closing on the top spot. "I see no need to change what appears to be a winning formula", said TheTon in a recent team meeting.

Some unrest has been expressed by the fans at the continued selection of bristolciteh in the Predators lineup, particularly given substantial press coverage of his numerous visits to the notorious FISO nightspot "The Millionaire's Club". The Peter Stringfellow-esque proprietor of the club, Ironfist, recently described bristolciteh as a 'veritable pillar of the establishment'.

One fans spokesman said "Honestly, bristolciteh is this teams Phil Neville - I can't see why the manager picks him each week when his deficiencies are obvious to anyone with a limited footballing knowledge - even the average Match of the Day pundit could spot this one". TheTon was quick to defend his player, pointing to his own ruinous run of form in the previous season. "Form is temporary, but class is permanent. I'm not sure that bristolciteh has either, but he'll remain in my starting line up for the forseeable future".

bristolciteh was not available for comment, but sources close to the player have described him as "elated" and "not able to believe his luck".

For the record I'd like to borrow this statement to use for my performances as well. I'd write one myself but like some other members of this forum I like to let others do the talking for me as "I'm not that good at putting my thoughts into written words."

DixieDean out for season, Pandas sign Indian superstar on loan

At a press conference this morning, Panda's captain and future 5AS Hall of Famer Colbert faced questions from the media about the future of veteran DixieDean. With the speculation mounting that DixieDean had been dropped to the reserves due to a bust-up at the Pandas Christmas party, Colbert was quick to point out that in fact his illustrious teammate had been playing through the pain for several months but will now be allowed time to recuperate. As a result, he will miss the rest of the season.

Due to a Twitter leak earlier in the day it was to nobody's surprise that Colbert was able to announce the loan signing of Asian wonderkid Abhiskekrocked as DixieDean's replacement. Colbert is quoted as saying, "we are delighted that Abhishekrocked has agreed to join the Pandas on a deal that suits all parties. A six month loan deal allows us to benefit from his youth, enthusiasm and most importantly knowledge of the game, whilst in return he gets the chance to live out his boyhood dream of wearing the famous black and white Pandas jersey". The Kangals will continue to pay Abhishekrocked's wages and he will also be eligible to play against them in all 5AS competitions.

Whilst this is the Panda's second signing of the season following a takeover in the autumn from a seemingly faceless foreign consortium, neither transfer has cost the club any money and fans are beginning to wonder whether their hopes of a sugar daddy were misplaced. Colbert refused to be drawn on questions surrounding the club’s owners, but with the team staring relegation in the face fans will be wondering if they will be able to hold onto their key assets in January.

Thank you for the confirmation from the headquarters of Pandas. The deal was signed the terms and conditions of loan deal was agreed.If the season is good it can be a permanent deal. So training in the home stadium of pandas,feeling like walking in a threter of dreams.

Once again the agent of abhishekrocked thanking to the Pandas for the well signed deal.

Hopefully your previous Captain of the Kangals accepted your resignation with good grace and is busy interviewing dog loving applicants to replace you in time to kick off GW21 without being a man short. At least he won't need to pay you a loyalty bonus

The Kangals captain is Inactive.

Doesn't that mean they'll be unable to replace you if they can't reopen the squad? What does that mean for teams playing them-a bye for the bottom team each time?

I suggested to Romyn and Krispy that the Kangals are given DixieDean's squad, it has been ticking along fairly nicely considering he hasn't been playing much.

Alternatively, there are others who have sent me PMs this week who would like to be in a team so I could pass their names to the organisers?

Well, just PM the Kangals with all the free agents (including DD) and let them get on with it.

Can they add them though if the captain has disappeared?

They can leave the Kangals league and create a Kangalss league or something like that

bulgarche (Kangals captain) is still managing his squad and logged on to FISO just before new year, if I'm reading it right, so it doesn't seem his team is abandoned. Maybe people just need to get hold of him?

edit: does should read doesn't of course

Bulgarche's team doesn't look that inactive to me. The general feel of the team is that it is quite current. He also has Donovan in his team, surely he wouldn't have been available until this year anyway.

In fairness to bulgarche, I don't see how anyone can conclude he's abandoned his team, which he's been actively managing,including the transfer in of Donovan for the current DGW immediately he became available,as tenpinterry pointed out.

He's also the second highest scorer for the Kangals.

There would appear to be some history here,dating back to the start of the season,when bulgarche stayed loyal to abhishekrocked after he was found guilty of plagiarism post1865311.html#p1865311

The plagiarism continues every few GWs, but the loyalty is definitely not reciprocated... seems to go hand in hand.

He may be active in FPL managing the team but he is inactive in FISO forum most of the time. So,does that means without captain permission you cannot get transferred ? But he is inactive. I want to change the team from Kangals Pandas .

Wait for the results to be published after tomorrow's match, then make the switch.

Just make sure you let Bulgarche or the team VC know about it so that they'd work on recruiting a replacement.

As to avoid any possible mess resulted from players moving from a team to another, I'd like to suggest to Krispy and Romyn to publish the results as early as possible on Thursday evening, without publishing the fixtures with it,,, Instead, all teams will be given a 24 hrs registration period until Friday evening to sort out their teams, before the updated fixtures are published.

I have send an information regarding the transfer request i have put to the Kangal Captain (Bulgarche). He is not responding thou.

5AS fans getting bored of Abhishekrocked transfer saga

Recent reports from a cross-section of 5AS fans has reported transfer fatigue from a number of fans after the prolonged transfer sage of Asian superstar Abishekrocked from the Kangals to the Pandas, with the Kangals refusing to release the registration of the player. "I wish this would just hurry up and complete" one disgruntled fan commented. "This is honestly worse than the Ronaldo transfer saga". Although Abishekrocked has been pictured holding a Pandas shirt, recent reports have indicated that he in fact remains a Kangals player.

The transfer has been complicated by seeming lack of availability of Kangals manager, Bulgarche. Calls to the Kangals HQ have gone unanswered, and emails have not been responded to. A spokesman for the club said "Bulgarche was allegedly recently spotted in a bordello in Beirut, a canoe off the coast of Hartlepool and riding Shergar down Tottenham Court Road. Honestly, his actual whereabouts are a complete mystery". Already known as 'The Lord Lucan of Football Management' in some corners of the Kangals ground, the situation is complicated further by the baffling appearance of his team sheets just before the the deadline each week by fax, written on a takeaway napkin or tatooed on the back of an unfortunate fan.

Fans are begging for closure, but this saga looks like it might continue to run for weeks to come.