Hi everyone!
Welcome back to my Coroxo story and this update will deal with all the going-ons at my club during the pre season including all the new transfers I have so lets begin.
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Things didnt start to well as the local council blocked plans for a new stadium! Am not sure where the chairman was getting the money from…. Hopefully a secret stash he has hidden away!
However we were forced into a stadium expansion to comply with the league rules at the cost of £6.5 million pounds, now we are in debt! Also we must play are away games in a different stadium for up to 10 months whilst the work is carried out, so not an ideal start to life in our new league.
Ha! Clubs will be afraid of our spending power! Some good news in the fact that we managed to restructure the massive debt with the chairman taking out a personal loan of £10 million. We have to pay him back at a cost of £70k per month for a good while! But at least now we have +£3 million in the bank! :)
My first task was to sign a new assistant manager, as my former opted to leave the club not wanting a new contract so I found this former player who most Liverpool fans should remember!
Yes its John Aldridge! I have a piece of pretty useless information about him that I found out tonight! The last time that Real Sociedad beat Barcelona was in 1991 and this player scored twice! So yeah a really interesting thing I think! He also has knowledge of Spain so was a good choice to be my number two.
Next up transfers out :
So I had to sell a whole host of players, due to the finacial state the club was in, if I had know the chairman would have wiped the debt I would have loved to have kept at least Alberto. I sold Voavy who was on too much money and also Delcourt as I couldnt really afford to have players who needed time to develop. I raised a fair bit though in almost half a million.
I made 10 signings, which seems quite extreme but I needed to replace alot of players who had left so here they are one by one :
Mossa
So he is a full back and will replace the departed Didac, fairly ok player I guess but i struggled to find any decent fullbacks so he was the best I could get!
Markel
Was really suprised to see that Markel had been released my Sociedad so snapped him up on a free, central midfield player who brings good work rate to the side.
Inigo Perez
Another surpise, Atletico this time had released Perez, so again I acted quickly to bring him too the club. He is another central midfield player and again a good player who will be a starter for me this season.
Leornado Gonzalez
Needed a good full back for the left hand side so bought this experienced Costa Rican on a free to fill that void. Brings a bit of quality and he can tackle!
Angel
So another midfielder! Angel is another complete player who again doesnt have too many weaknesses he can also play at right back and at centre back so bring so good flexability to the club.
Kevin Berigaud
So I broke my transfer budget by paying a club record £50k! On this french striker! I guess he will be the perfect partner for the evergreen Carlos in the upcoming season! Good finisher hopefully he can score the goals for my team this season!
Jurgen Samuel
Yes I like midfielder players! So bought another to act as cover but again am really pleased with the signing, good stats no real weakness and another free transfer!
Martin Diaz
So I bought this defender who was at Barcelona Atletic and again he was a free transfer, he will be my starter alongside Bernado I think he is a pretty good defender who should do well for me this season.
My final signings were youth prospects one was a portugese midfielder called Josue and I bought a young Switz defender called Frederic Veselli again both were freebies.
So thats that! Pre-season went well so am fairly confident of survival this season, am really pleased with my squad and am hoping things can go well! So thanks for reading and dont forget to register at the forums!
Frank
13 декабря, 2010 at 08:06
Hi Ana,
Some decent signings there. I think you should survive this season. It must be annoying having a new stadium as you went into so muvh debt which limited your transfer and wage budget. Good luck :)
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Ana Garcia
13 декабря, 2010 at 17:28
Thanks Frank,
Yeah not having a home stadium is annoying but we had to bow to league rules! Thankfully my chairman stepped in to save the day!
Will do when I get a chance. :)
Frank
13 декабря, 2010 at 17:36
Thanks :) :)
Kevin
13 декабря, 2010 at 09:12
Hi Ana
So I see I am in good company when it comes to having to offload players. You’ve made some terrific signings and as for John Aldridge that is a name from the past. Decent player in his time so I hope the pair of you do great this season !!
Ana Garcia
13 декабря, 2010 at 17:30
Yeah need to balance the books! ;)
I thought I remembered him from some where! he has good knowledge and decent stats so hopefully he can help the team a bit!
Johnny Karp
13 декабря, 2010 at 09:27
Great signings Ana, you now have an extremely solid midfield and also some good quality at the back. The French striker should also do pretty well considering his abilities, I hope we’ll be in for a successful season. Good luck!
By the way, what are the promotion rules in this division? Play-offs again? :P
Ana Garcia
13 декабря, 2010 at 17:34
I think I have too many midfielders! Just cant help myself! :)
Yeah he looks pretty good and he had a good pre season scoring a few goals and looking like the type of player we need for the season, top two go up automatically the other one from the result of the stupid playoffs!
Hate them! LoL!
dami
13 декабря, 2010 at 09:32
Good signings there though some of them didn’t show. Hope your team can survive this season.
btw- which forum are you talking about.
dami
13 декабря, 2010 at 09:46
never mind about the forum.I found it.
Ana Garcia
13 декабря, 2010 at 17:36
Thanks Dami,
Dont worry I missed them aswell!
Glad you found it though! :)
Lye
13 декабря, 2010 at 10:36
Hi Ana,
You have assembled a strong midfield and you will be controlling the midfield from now. Hope to see another promotion for your team. Good luck.
Ana Garcia
13 декабря, 2010 at 17:37
Thanks Lye,
Promotion will be tough but am hoping for a good season.
Darren Smith
13 декабря, 2010 at 10:46
Hey Ana, well done on a great pre-season and I thought you handled a few tough situations well. The stadium for one and then selling some overpaid stars just to find out you maybe didn’t need to. Loving the new assistant as well!! Goodluck Ana, the team looks good and I can’t wait to see what happens.
Ana Garcia
13 декабря, 2010 at 17:41
Thanks Darren,
Yeah I wished I had kept Alberto but then again the last thing I need is more midfield players! I like my assistant too!
Team does look good and am really pleased with how its looking, just hoping I score enough goals….
Laxeyman
13 декабря, 2010 at 16:42
Good signings Ana, your midfield looks very strong, with lots of quality! I reckon that you can survive comfortably this season, good luck!
Ana Garcia
13 декабря, 2010 at 17:42
Thanks Laxeyman,
Hopefully we can survive comfortably! I never know what to expect after winning promotion but I guess the first 10 games will shape that.
Fingers crossed for a good season! :)
hils
13 декабря, 2010 at 19:33
Hi Ana,some good signings there!!!!!!!!!!! Hopefully you will survive comfortably!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Good luck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ana Garcia
15 декабря, 2010 at 18:49
Thanks Hils! :D
Sears
14 декабря, 2010 at 18:20
Great signings Ana, hopefully you can avoid relegation. I’m sure you can!
Ana Garcia
15 декабря, 2010 at 18:50
Thanks Sears,
Will try my best! :)
warren
16 декабря, 2010 at 08:54
Hi Ana
Sorry for the delay in posting a comment but I have been busy over the last couple of days and not got round to doing this.
Bit of a odd decision for a chairman to make of extending the stadium and putting the club into quite a large debt for such a small club but I guess that it will bring in more gate money in the future. I like the look of the signings you have made especially Perez and Markel.
Good luck for the season ahead
Ana Garcia
16 декабря, 2010 at 19:34
Thanks Warren,
Its ok! Yeah he even tried to build a new stadium and the debt of that would have been sky high I guess he is just ambitious!
Sayam Khan
16 декабря, 2010 at 13:53
Yikes, these are some quality signings there Ana! Brilliant!
Annd yeah i agree with warren, bit of an odd decision with the chairman sending the club into debt for an extension. Maybe he was under too much pressure?
Ana Garcia
16 декабря, 2010 at 19:37
Thanks Sayam!
I guess it helps when you know the league your in! ;)
Well I never asked for an expansion so the pressure wasnt from me, maybe its something he had planned? I guess the game does not factor in certain key aspects of stadium expansion, but then again we needed to expand to abide by the league rules.
Either way he took the debt on himself, so it could be worse! :)