Basingstoke: Pre-season + transfer updates

Welcome back my dear readers!

The last season ended in a promotion to the Blue Square Premier. (The league just below Coca-cola league 2.) Our finances aren’t the best, and taking a look at the expenditure page it shows that we have some major outlets during matchdays, which I can’t figure out. The other major expenditure is wages of course. The biggest reason why we can’t make a better profit is due to the low attendences during matches. Tips for me to make the people come to the games are greatly appreciated, though playing good football is a certainty, but maybe we need some work on the stadium?

Alright, onwards to the transfer activity. I had only 2k to spend on players and a wage budget slightly above what i was paying at the moment. Still there’s room for some rather good free transfers.

Lee Makel

A very experienced player with good mental skills. He’s also the best coach in my staff which was the real reason why he was brought in. Still I’m sure he’ll do a good job when called upon.

Sean Fitzharris

He looks extremely good, right? Well this is one season later. I forgot to take pictures of the bought in players. Fitzharris was a prospect released from Celtic that I managed to lure to Basingstoke and even though he hadn’t developed to this level just yet he was still a very talented young striker.

Patrick Wilson

A perfect partner in defense with Chris Rodd. This tall defender came from DAC FC in Hungary.

Loan player Jake Taylor is a good and smart striker that will do a good job partnering either David Lee or Fitzharris. I’ll not post too many pics because my internet is acting up a bit.

I will however post the results in the pre-season games.

I decided to face a swedish team and went with Hittarp.  A team I’ve faced myself when I was younger and playing for my local team Ödåkra IF. Good results, even the 0-2 loss against Reading wasn’t that bad as we played some good football.