Farnborough

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Dandynamite1000

12 years ago

11 years ago

22 Nov 2012 09:14:32

After taking over at Farnborough, I was put through the unpleasant experience of a club takeover mere days later, enforcing a transfer embargo that saw all my deals going collapse, and putting the team under quite a lot of strain before the season began. This resulted in some emergancy loan signings, Racine, a defender from Forest Green, and Reed, a striker from Dagenham and Redbridge, being brought in on season long loans. The takeover was successful however, and the new chairman cleared the clubs debts, and added a £75k cash injection to the club. With this I then went on to secure contracts with two bright young players, Okus,a Nigerian midfielder, and Ben Montgomery, an English right back. This concluded my business in the transfer market, with no offers coming in for some of my players, and no more being sent out.

Arranging many local pre-season friendlies, Guildford, Godalming, Woking, Met Police and Enfield, as well as a couple of big teams, Barnet and the highlight Bournemouth, saw the new 4-1-4-1 formation beginning to take shape, and by the final pre-season friendly, Boro comfortably won 7-0 against a below par Met Police team.