Hi everyone, long time no see! I’m back from my one week holiday in Portugal and i’m glad to say my passion for Football Manager is also back! I guess a holiday was needed indeed! ;-)

Anyway, i’m sure you probably have forgotten some bits of my story so let me remind you:

Last season we came 2nd and didn’t retain our PL title due to Arsenal firing under Sam Allardyce and taking the league by storm! We also lost the FA Cup final and the Champions League final. I guess it wasn’t our year. :-( After spending 40m in the summer, 33m on a RB and a LW, our best signing was Fabio Fiorentino who was our top goalscorer. We signed him 5m. Last time I left you in the league we were:

Top of the league with a 5 point distance but a game played more than teams in 2nd, 3rd, 4th. It was tight!

Champions League: 1st knockout round against Marseille

FA Cup: 3rd round tie vs Man City

Carling Cup: Semi Final tie vs Man City

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January & February

Premier League Results

 A good start to this period, however you could call it frustation also. Drawin against the worst team in the league (villa) and bottom half teams Bolton and West Ham really dented our title challenge. Add to this Arsenal are looking unstoppable again. Excellent victory vs Man City, and hopefully we can do it in the other three games we face them also.

Man City 0-3 Bury

League Table

So dissapointing really, to end up 2 points behind Arsenal. We should really be 6 points ahead at least…

Carling Cup

So, we are through to the Carling cup final and we will play Everton. After losing the first leg, we really needed an excellent performance in the 2nd leg:

Just look at all the statistics!

FA Cup

Another great performance vs Man City but then complacency was shown against Swindon.

And lastly, our first leg tie vs Marseille. Not great hmm. Leading 2-0 and then losing 3-2. DISGUSTING!

Squad Ratings

As usual, here are the squad ratings:

Fabio Fiorentino is our best player, the former AC Milan striker was signed for 5m and is our best player this season, scoring 28 goals! Then comes one of our favourite personell at the club, Ze Carlos. The CB is deadly from set pieces and is one of the best CB’s around. He was also signed for 5m a few seasons ago.

I’ve already started to make plans for next season on outgoings:

Antonio Quimbamba will be sold and a new RW will be signed. He has never impressed, it’s a shame as he has sooo much ability. Maybe the PL isn’t the correct league for him? :-(

One of Sergio Araujo or Stefan Meyer will be sold, we have too many strikers at the club and both will bring a good fee if sold.

Anyway thanks for reading, sorry it’s been a long time. Thanks for your patience.