2012/2013 season - reinforcing the back

The 2012/2013 was another great season, I was finally seeing my team progress a great deal with my signings and improved team chemistry. The past two seasons showed the team was moving in the right direction. At that point I felt I had a solid team but my defense only had 30+ players, which is fine but in time that wasn't going to keep me in the top of the charts. I decided then to purchase a new center back, I saw Martin Skrtel on transfer list and wasted no time, bought him for 20M, he was just what I needed. To offset the balance sheets a bit I sold Pavlyuchenko for 6.9M, which was good for me since he was only playing a few games a season anyway, he was OK but not as good as Crouch in the air and not good enough on his own. I also bought a new young CDM M. Isla from Chile. He and Sandro were comparable defending midfielders and got pitch time quite a few times. This season I also had Alexandre Pato as the top scorer of the team again, I wish I could check back how many goals he ended up with, oh
well. It really was a great season, despite a few upsets in our cup games.

2012/2013 season (40/14/8 - gf116/ga34)
EPL - 3th
FA Cup - Round 5 replay
League Cup - Quarter final
Euro League - Finals
2 MotM awards
1 MotY award