Monday, March 28, 2011

2015/2016 - pre-season

So a new season is about to start and I am currently looking to buy a few players. My first major purchase is one I've been wanting to do for a while. I bought Neymar from Santos for 26,900,000 and he's getting a 51,500 wage. Not too bad.

I also got a loaned young player named Doumbia, who's a striker.

Manager of the season - 2014/2015

It also turns out I was voted manager of the season last season.

2014/2015 Season (55/5/6 - gf166/ga39)
EPL - 1st
FA Cup - Final
League Cup - Final
Champions League - Semi Finals
1 MotM award
1 MotY award

2014/2015 Season - Another EPL title

So I've reached the end of the 2014/2015 season and we've met our expectations. The spurs won the English Premier League with 31/4/3. We scored 106 goals and had 15 goals against, quite a remarkable result. Here is how the table looks:

Tottenham - 97
Manchester City - 86
Chelsea - 85
Liverpool - 81
Manchester Utd - 81
Arsenal - 60
Fulham - 60
Aston Villa - 57
West Ham - 54
Everton - 53
Blackburn Rovers - 50
Sunderland - 49
Newcastle Utd - 43
Bolton - 40
Birmingham City - 40
Burnley - 36
Wolverhampton - 29
Stoke City - 22
Nottm Forest - 20
Hull City - 17

Aside from that I also won the Community Shield with a win of 2x1 over Chelsea, as well as the FA Cup with a 3x2 win over Manchester United. I also won the League Cup against Chelsea by 2x1. Tottenham also won the Copa Europe over Marseille on a shootout after a 1x1 tie.

The Champions Cup final was between Real Madrid and Barcelona, with a 2x1 victory by Real Madrid. Tottenham lost to Real Madrid on the semi final unfortunately. On the Euro League, Lyon won the final over Arsenal on shootout after a 0x0 game.

Finally, Alexandre Pato won the Golden Boor after scoring 34 goals this season. Defoe came in second place with 28 goals, followed by Tevez (24), A Johnson (18), van Persie (18), Fernando Torres (18) and Rooney with 16 goals.

Pre-season 2 - updates

We just had a fairly successful pre-season. I tried to get as many home games as I could to try to generate some cash as well as give everyone a chance to prove their worth in the team. Perhaps the highlight of our preseason was the victory of our home cup over Nairn County and Bromley.



We also made a few changes to the team, by adding some new coaches. I've been doing some reading on LLM and I believe this is something that was severely lacking in season one, so I hired whatever I could afford just to keep the team better trained.





In terms of players, I only had one new player comming in. I believe he was a real find. He was a Walsall youth dropout that came in for free and I firmly believe will be a significant addition to our squad. In terms of players leaving the team, I felt that we needed to eliminate our extra weight we didn't need so after their end of contract, I let go of Mark Dudley, Jermaine Johnson, Naill Maguire, Ollie Parker and Joe Rogers. I was also able to sell Tom Moss for free to Northwich. Our budget now looks actually quite good, as our salaries are totaling 24,689 p/ month and we're allowed 27,499. Not too bad, I'm hoping to bring that down even more if possible.

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Pre-season meeting



So these are the advices I've been given for the upcoming season.
In terms of season expectations, we've told the board that we believed we can achiever a top half finish this season, and they decided to give us 24k p/ month in wages.

Renew?

I've been renewing contracts and all that, but I'm wondering whether or not renew my coach/assistant manager. He's not really that great but last season it worked quite well for us.

My favorite players this season

Here is a list of my favorite players of this last season.