Holliday game

A pleasing start of the season. Winning 3 of the 4 league matches. And my new striker finding the net easily at the moment.

First of was Millwall at home. We went behinde after 3 minutes, but soon new signing Daniel Schröer opened his account for the club. A second goal came from a long trow before the break. 2nd halve was eventfull but goalless giving us the important first win of the season.

Next we embarrassed ourselfs against D2 club Torquay. We where the better side and we allowed only 3 shot at our goal. But that was enough for them to walk away with a 3-1 win.

Against Chesterfield a wierd goal by Daniel Schröer, of his head and shoulde spinning around the keeper, was enough for the away win.

Against current league leader Cardiff we went ahead after 1 minute from a long trow. But in an evenly matched fixture they scored froma cheap penalty and a brilliant individual effort to get all the points.

The team bounced back with a good match against Sheffield Wednesday. Daniel Schröer scoring a hattrick and Chuks Aneke making it four without reply.

At the moment we are among the best teams. But with a long way to go lets hope we can keep ourselfs in the play-off spots.

A month with mixed emotions and a theme. Get an early goal and see if you can hang on to the lead.

Against Middlesbrough: Daniel Schröer gave us the early lead and we managed to hang on to it.

Against Charlton: Stéphane Madeira gave us the lead, but we conceded on both sides of the break.

Against QPR: Early goals by Chiró N'Toko and Daniel Schröer got us 2-0 up bt we fell behinde 2-3 when the latest saved a point for us

Against Birningham: Again Daniel Schröer before the half hour, but lost to two 2nd halve goals.

Against Bolton: This time Diogo Rosado on the 8th minute, but 3 nd halve goals gave it away.

Against Nottingham Forest: Daniel Schröer at the first minute, and on the halve time wistle we added a second to secure the win.

Against Burnley we decided to go the other way around and let them have the early goal. We took three 2nd halve goals (two by Chuks Aneke) to clinch the game.

All in all not a bad month which kept us in touch with the leaders. For his preformance Daniel Schröer won the Young Player of the Month titel

As i have returned from my holliday, i have decided to close the game. Atleast till my next holliday. I want to thank all thosae who have read and comented on my progress. I now will put up the across Europe challange and see if i can do!

Good luck with the European challenge. Looking forward to it!

Back on my vaction adress, I have reopened this game. Its the save game on my laptop, and I will be playing this for the next 2½ weeks before I return home and reopen my journey man career. Good thing those blogs, I just read through my own blog to see what I have been doing and it made it easier to puck up where I left it 2 months ago.





Against Crystal Palace we took an early lead with Daniel Schröer scoring in the 5th minute. A red card for Palace before the break made it easier on us. But it took till the 92nd minute before we could close the book on the game. Daniel Schröer adding a second on the day.

Next up was fellow promotion contenders Derby County. Daniel Schröer gave us a good lead with two goals in the first halve. Derby came back into the game with just under 30 minutes to play, but David Lynch closed the door. A second Derby goal couldn't chance it anymore.

West Ham United are also in contention for the promotions, so a win here will gave a blow to a second rival. Diogo Rosado gave us an early lead again, and we added a second after the break. But two quick goals around the hour mark brought West Ham back on equal turns. But with full time approaching Diogo Rosado netted the winner, leaving the fan purring, and putting us on top of the table.

Against AFC Wimbledon I decided to rest most of my first team players as the fixture list tired them. My reserves proved me right by playing marvelous and winning the easily 3-1, after being helped by a red card for Wimbledon.

Last match of the month was against Bristol City. After scoring twice early in the match, Bristol did have most of the ball, but our defence was to tight for them and the best oppertunities where ours, but we failed to make it even better.

So a perfect month to restart the game, leaving us on top of the table altho Hull does have a game in hand.

First game of the month against Fulham was one to forget asap. We fell behinde early due to an own goal by Chiró N'Toko, heading in from an undangerous position. And before the break they added two more. We got a concolation goal at the end but it was just a plain bad matcht from our side.

Next up where league leaders Hull, and with us in second place this was a big match. Shane Duffy headed home the first and Daniel Schröer added a second quickly after, giving us a comanding position at the break. Hull got a player sent off immidiatly after the break basicly ending there fight back before it had begun.

Against Tranmare we came out firing, scoring two early goals. But they came back in the game after the break and even equalized with 15 minutes to play. But the team kept going and got the reward just before the end Richard Taundry scoring a great team goal.

Struggling Sunderland had just fired there manager before traveling to us. It probably had numbed the team and we steamrolled them. making it 6-0 at the end with a Daniel Schröer hattrick. It even could have been worse for the visitors as we had plenty oppertunities to make it even more.

Last match against Leeds could have gone either way. We conceded a goal from a corner and where chasing them after that. The preasure made them into scoring an own goal with 10 minutes to play. But the game could have gone either way with both teams hitting the woodwork three times.

The good preformance of Shane Duffy and Daniel Schröer brought them Player of the Month and Young Player of the Month.

Not of the best of month for us. We started of with a good win over Peterborough, score two goals before the first halve hour and netting a third after the break.

Blackburn wasn't better then us, but more efficient. Conceding both before and after the break before getting on the scoresheet ourself gave them enough confidence to see the game through. Altho we almost made the equalizer on the whistle.

Bounced back with two good wins against Millwall and Chesterfield. In both matches scoring twice which provd enough to bring home the points.

Against Cardiff it turned out to a bore draw, both team not having enough venom to get into the area's. A 0-0 was the fair result. We where closest of getting a goal hitting the woodwork but it would have been to much.

Now into the two days of maddness. I don't know what went into the head at the FA but planning two matches in two days in a row is just abnormal. Haven't to field only reserves and youth players Sheffield Wednesday was just a bit to strong. With the first team players on the pitch again we managed to scrape off a win against Middlesborough with Daniel Schröer scoring the winner.

Last match of the month was against promotions rivals QPR. We went behinde early, but Chuks Aneke score the equalizer quickly with a nice long distance shot. Both teams tried to make things happen but the legs where to tired.

Derby County is having a storming 2 months surpassing us in the league. But we are still fighting amoung the best. The board insisted that I would chance my season expectations, so now I have to finish top-half. Not that it would be a problem.

The new year started off with a win against Charlton. Shane Duffy heading home from a corner to claim us the victory in a poor match.



With 300 games under the belt, we again had to settle for a poor victory. Like previous match, only this time Chiró N'Toko netted after a corner.

FA-cup against Middlesborough we where litterly kick out. After taking the lead the managed to injure 4 players and against 10 men score twice to claim victory. I realy felt robbed as before the kicked our players out we where clearly the better squad.

Nottingham had looked closely at how middlesborough beat us and before the 30 minute mark I again had two injuries. But that was no reason to conceed two soft goals as we did. A late rally to get back into the game was started to late.



Dispite not knowing what level we are playing next year I decided to sign two players already on free transfer as I feel thay are hot prospects.

Only three matches this month. We started of with a good win over Burnley 1-4, Diogo Rosado scoring two good goals in the first halve. Olny thing I could hold against my team is conceding a goal.

The next match I don't know how I lost it. I'll just post the stats.


The team still upset about the previous loss, just didn't have the right attitude the match against Crystal Palace. We lost 0-2 and where hopeless.

We are on real bad spell at the moment. losing 4 out of the last 5 games. We realy need to get back to our best because things are thighting in the league. We somehow still hold the second place but the predators are getting real close now.

A very important month this was, with games against a number of direct rivals for the promotion spots. Playing aginst Derby (1st); West Ham (7th) and Fulham (5th).

The month started of against Derby County, if we wanted to mount a serious title challance this is a must win game. It turned out to be a real battle with no less then 9 yellow cards. Derby took the lead when a deflected shot fell good for them. There was no room for any good football due to the number of fouls, and it was also no surprice that our goal came from a spotkick. Daniel Schröer converting it. But a draw didn't see us moving in on Derby so the title challange is off.

Our bad run continued against Wimbledon. Eventho we created 4 times as much shot on goal and 6 times as much shot on target we still fell behinde on the hour. A late push and a lucky goal saved us a point. But we are now on a 4 game run without a win.

West Ham are also contending for play-off/promotion spots, so we have an other big game at hand. We took an first halve lead by heading home from a corner. But our football isn't as confident as it use to be, the passing and movement is just not there at the moment. And when your on a bad run you also have bad luck. West Ham came on level terms scoring a total fluke goal. And thus our run with out wins was extended to 5. Luckily the teams around us aren't stringing good results either so we still remain in contention for the 2nd place spot. But we also still could drop out of the play-off spot.

Bristol City at home is now a must win game. Fist of all because they are at the low end of the league and second because we need to break of the run without victories. We played poorly troughout the match but Daniel Schröer managed to net the winner just under the 70th minute. So unhappy with the play but we got the win we needed so badly.

Last match of the month against Fulham, they are direct opposition for the 2nd place spot, so we need to get some sort of result. Fulham took the lead, but Stéphane Madeira equalized quickly after heading home a corner. After that we where on top for a long period, until Stéphane Madeira decided to make a horror tackle and justly got send off. While struggling to hold on the the point an late counter brought us the undeserved winner when Colin Gordon tapped home the loose ball after a stopped shot.

So at the end of the month we now hold the promotion spot again, but we still need to be carefull not to let it slip away again.

With everthing close together we needed to get some run of results going to keep the promotion spot. We started of on the wrong foot. Tranmare holding us to a bore 0-0 draw. And altho we where the better team we got more yellow cards then scoring oppertunities.

Next up where fellow promotion contenders Hull. A kind of do or die game, where a draw would be sufficient for us not to let them surpass us. On the other hand a draw will give the other team room to get close again. We started of good when Chiró N'Toko tabbed home from a trow in. But we couldn't cope with the preasure and on the final whistle Hull managed to equalize.

Agaist leeds we washed away the bitter taste fast scoring twice within 10 minutes. In a game with lots of cards mostly for them, it couldn't end with 22 players on the pitch. And it didn't they got a player dismissed at the hour mark, leaving us no trouble to collect three points.

Next up where three games, of which two at home, against bottem teams. We needed seven points be sure of the promotion. But Sunderland made sure that wasn't going to be as easy as it sounded. They withheld heavy preasure and scored twice on the counter. So the race for promotion was reopened again.

With now two home game to go and a better goaldifference I still had high hopes I could pull it of. Blackburn could hold us of for 30 minutes but then we score three before the break. And to make sure Alassane Plea scored his hattrick goal just after the break.

With score being good around the other fields, we just needed to win the last. And probably a draw would do aswell. But I rather be save then sorry. Chuks Aneke had to come on early as subtitude and proved me wrng not to play him in the first eleven by heading home with his first touch of the game. We missed a lot of chances to secure the game early, and got a scre just before the end when the hitted the post on a long shot, but we held on to win the game and promotion.



I want to put some special attention towards Chiró N'Toko wo has been with us for the whole run from the Blue Square Bet South till promotion to the Premier League as a starting player.



Well I have no clue what I have to do in the Premier League. To have any kind of chance I would need a whole new defencive line, two wingers and a geat midfielder. I don't think I will get the budgets to get all these. But we will give it a shot and see how far we can go in the top flight. I will not invest big as I think we are most likely to drop out fast. I just want to use the cash to build the club. Bigger stadium, better training and youth training.

With promotion in the pocket I will be looking forward to next season. But first the final news about last season. Daniel Schröer claimed the young player of the year award, while I claimed manager of the year award.





Promotion gave insane financial benifits. But I won't be spending to much as I want to use most of the towards increasing the clubs stadium, training facilities and youth facilities. And as I feel the team won't be good enough to stay up next season I only will get players who can help the team in years to come. I don't think we can stay up because the wages I can probably spent won't be sufficient to get in the real top class players.







Up to now I brought in 7 new players including the two I already annouced earlier. I am still looking to bring in an extra midfield player but I am not willing to go deep for it.

We had a very decent pre-season. Espacialy winning a friendly cup, over Düsseldorf and Fiorentina.

I completed one more signing for € 975k a youth midfielder.



My fixture start of with a hard match at home versus ManU and away against Tottenham. After that there are seven mathces in which I need to gather the points. After those I know if its helpless or that we have some kind of fighting chance.

nice work on getting promotion buddy. good luck in the premiership! Tough opening couple of fixtures but there are some teams you should get a win at after that. KUTGW

The Premier League was always going to be tough mate! Hang on in there!

Loscules: Thanks mate, I am aiming at the 7 matches after Tottenham to see if we have any chance. But I am not to optimistic.






First two matches I couldn't provide any shocks. ManU out played me and 0-3 wasn't a bad result for us if you look at the match.

Against Tottenham it was a bit different. First halve we where atleast eauql to them. And after we fell behinde on the 50th minute, we had a couple of oppertunities to get level again. In the end the ran away easy winners at 3-0. But I am a bit disappointed not to be on the scoresheet there.

The Capital One match aganst Bournemouth gave us the oppertunity te regain some confidence into the next important fixtures. I fielded most of my reserves, to keep my squad as fit as possible. It almost back-fired as we fell behinde early. But we got the win at the end and it should have been more comfortable as we squandered my chances. Next in the Capital One Cup will be Swansea away. A bit tougher then I hoped, but it could also been worse.

t-mase: I not having high hopes, I am happy just cashing in and bringing the team a step further in general.






A very decent month. We started against league number 5 Aston Villa. With the morale a bit up from our win over Bournemouth, we started the match good. We had a couple of decent tries at goal, but the goaly just didn't want to let one pass. On the other side we remained tight at the back. So we got our first well deserved point on the board.

Next up was bottom of the league Southampton. A big match where result was in the books. But ight of the kick-off we fell behinde. From a free kick Henry Yusuf opened our top flight scoring account. Both team couldn't produce anything going forward so the draw was already reached after 18 minutes.

The two points lifted us just above the relegation zone. Next up was our duo against Swansea. First up the league tie, Daniel Schröer put us up after 3 minutes and added a second before the halve hour played. But Swansea came back from a corner. Harry Maguire scored an unlucky own goal after an hour to undo the work by Daniel Schröer. But he wouldn't let this one go, scoring two more to secure our first Premier League win.

Next up the Capitol One Cup tie. With my reserves on the pitch we started of great. David Mashego scoring after 20 minutes.But two late goals from Swansea knocked us out in the end. I feel it was a harsh result as we dominated most of the match.

But no time for mourning, because the next big match was on. Watford are fellow relegation rivals, and a good result here would lift us clear of the relegation zone for now. But we didn't have enough sharpness infront of goal to merit a result. And when they went ahead after an hour a result was off the table.

We are now sitting just outside the bottem three. Our good play did bring Daniel Schröer the Young Player of the Month. And I also filled the final squad spot up signing Michu on free transfer.

Only two matches this month. The first against Stoke. They went ahead after 20 minutes, but we kept fighting and got the equalizer before the break. On the 80th minute Daniel Schröer sent the fan into raptures, scoring his second goal on the day. But in the end the real hero was Martin Männel when he saved a penalty in the 91st minute to keep the three points at home.

Fellow strugglers Norwich where next. In an even match Norwich took the lead after 55 minutes. But today Ewan Vincent was our hero, curling home a free kick just before the end of the match.

The seven important matches brought us nine points, giving us a cousion for the next matches against Man City and Arsenal.

The month begun with two tough matches. First was against Manchester City. And altho we went into the game with best intentions we where 3-0 down within 15 minutes. We didn't improve from there and they ran away with a 6-0 win.

Next up Arsenal. Unexpected we where evenly matched throughout the game. Just one moment of brilliance decided the match. So we went off with our head high but no points 0-1.

Reading should be our rebounce match, but when they scored after 6 minutes a result didn't seem likely during the first halve. Michu scored a lucky equalizer, so we did go home with something.

Michu also opened the score early against Hull, showing us the way to an easy victory. It ust took till overtime to make totaly sure.

Newcastle gave us what I consider three bonus points. They had a total off-day, and we took full advantage scoring three with-out reply.

The Wolves game was a big one they where in the relegation zone and an other win would lift us pretty save at this point in the season. But they made sure we didn't get any moral scoring twice within 5 minutes and making it 0-3 before we replied. If Mehdi Abeid brought back any hope they shattered it again immidiatly scoring a 4th before the break. We did manage to back within two again, but that was it from our part. The cleaned up just before full time 2-5.



My reputation as a manager is growing apperantly considering the number of job offers I recieved this month.

Great win over Chelsea buddy! Another couple of wins and you should be safe from relegation. KUTGW

Halve way through the season and we are still scraping in enough points to keep us clear from relegation.















I recieved more job offers from Ajax; Norwich and Watford. Altho the offer by my favorite club Ajax was very tempting I want to bring Salisbury to great hights and going to stick with them.

Loscules: I feeling more and more confident we can manage to stay up. Which would be a great achivement..






A hard month for me. We have 7 players away to the African Nations Cup. But we managed to maintain our league position. Only down side is we went out of the FA-Cup against Leeds, a team we should have been able to beat.















I signed a couple of new players. Which we brought to me by my scouting team. Unfortunatly I can used them at this time as they are all playing in the African Nations Cup. Andy Ncaca I payed € 1.2 Mil for and I payed € 400k for Malefetsane Makateng. Maxwell Ndlambe will join this summer on free transfer.

In a month where we needed to get points considering the opposition, we got a nice 7 out of 12. This will leave us 10 points above the dropzone with 10 to play. I am pretty sure we are going to do the impossible and stay up this year.











The good preformances of the team this month brought Daniel Schröer a Young Player of the month award. And as we are relitively save this season it was time to nag at the board again. Earlier I already asked for a better training ground and youth facilities, now it was time for stadium expension.

4 points out of 9 this month, thats one more then I tought possible. But a very good win over ManC makes it an other pleasing month. And I keep my league possition steady at 9th.









Altho this season hasn't run towards the end yet, I am already eyeballing towrds next season and looking towards my next season squad. During the winter transfer window I already brought in a Dfender Central and a Defender Left. I have signed a Winger/Striker Right, Now I have signed a Winger/Striker Left (Olivier Makiadi) for a record fee of € 7.25 Mil. I still need to sign a Defender right and a Midfielder Central (BWM or BTB) and if the budget has some room left an Defensive Midfielder.

April could have been better but also worse. The good thing is that we are sure of an other season in the Premier League. So I think its time for:













Eventho the results could have been better Daniel Schröer pick up an other Young Player of the month award. My team for next year has an other addition. I signed Albert-Michael Emenike as Right Back for € 2.8 Mil. Now Its just a Midfielder, and for the Defensive Midfield position I will promote my youngster Hervé Ducasse whom I bought this season as he devoleped greatly last couple of month.

Great idea to start with Salisbury. I currently live in Ringwood so just down the road.

Good to see you're so successful too.

Alilane: The choose for Salisbury was a random one. But I hope you don't live to close otherwise your house will have to go as we expend and expend the stadium .






I think we where realy nulucky only to get 2 points from the last 3 games. But everything was decided and we will be up in the Premier League an other season, so I am not realy worried.









As the first team grows so does the club as a whole. Both the reserve team and the U18 team won there leagues. With out relative low cost we are skyrocketing in the finacial department making an insane profit of € 53 Mil. this season. Further did I turn down job offers from West Brom and Ipswich.

Not much has happened after the last match of the season. I managed to sign the Midfielder I wanted, Eduardo Luís, for a new record of € 11.75 Mil. Further did I renew all the contracts of players I want to keep at the club, so I got all my main players secure for the next two seasons. Also did the board upgraded my contract.

With my team already done before the pre season I had an quiet time doing my friendlies. I brought in 11 youth players for a total of 2.25 Mil. which will hopefully pay back in the future.

The friendlies went near perfect, with all wind. Only less good victory was the 1-0 over Braintree. That should and could have been better.

With my squad set I am aiming for a place in the top halve of the league. But am happy with anything above the dropzone.





My work at the club has been fully recognized and I am now a club legend. While Chiró N'Toko has become an icon.

After a good start of the season, we are sitting nicely at middle of the table. And we are throught to the 3th round of the Capitiol One Cup for an away match against Charlton.