Friday, November 2, 2012

MK Dons - conclusion of our first EPL season

 My fourth season with MKD just ended, and I'm pleased to report we kept our pre season promise to stay in the EPL. We definitely had some struggles during this season and at a few points I thought we may not be able to stay out of relegation zone. Fortunately we had a good last stretch, which got us out of 17th position up to 13th by the end of it all. This is a trememndous achievement for our team, especially since we are financially so behind the other teams. Here are the end result and fixtures for us. Man City as you will see, pretty much dominated the 2014/2015 season, leaving Arsenal well behind them in 2nd place.



The stats are also pretty amazing. ManCity completely obliterated the competition this time around. Not only they performed this way in the EPL, but they also won the Champion's League by defeating Barcelone in the finals 2x0.

Below I have stats for our guys. I have two different sets of stats just to take a closer look later. I like using these numbers deciding roster changes for next season.


Finally, I just wanted to showcase a couple of players that got my attention this season. Starting by one of the regens I've had my eyes on for a while, Alession Mancini from Italy. He just got his first major transfer this season from Roma to LOSC Lille Metropole (France) for 2.3M. He's quite an amazing player having a 7.08 average rating before he left for France, and there he had a 7.0 average, 3 goals in 8 games. Quite a feat for a 19 year old striker. Then I have two of our guys, Kevin Mirallas, one of our new additions this season, also from Roma, who cost us over 8M and is by far the most I've spent on a player so far. He did end the season with 33 games and 10 goals. His average rating was 7.0 and I have a lot of hope this Belgium player will be a big part of our team next season. Lastly, I have Idisseas Vlachodimos, our your goalkeeper. We got him for free during our first season and he has been developping extremely fast since. Last season we didn't play him a whole lot in the first team, but I felt that this season he was at a level I could put him in more times. He ended the season with 12 games and a great average of 6.78. I don't think it will be long before he passes Martin in skill, which is my goal as my scouts tell me Vlachodimos has much higher potential than Martin, who may have already reached his peak.