Watch out United, we're coming for you...

Oh hello again Celtic! The Scottish champions are now back for another one of my young stars. After failing to get Kellett the last two summers, now this January they've come in for Kendrick, initially aiming at £300k I made them up it to one million in the end, but rejected it to! He is another good player we have here.

January 2017



Admittedly, not a brilliant month, but one that I'm happy enough with. It was a tough month anyway. We only just lost out in the FA Cup Third Round away at Middlesbrough, losing two one. We picked up seven points from twelve in the league, just two wins with two clean sheets coming against Dag & Red as well as FC Halifax.



We are back on top of the tree, but for how long is the big question! We still have sixteen league games to play this season but now we are out of all the cups, its solely league action for us to focus on. I'm hoping we can really push and pick up enough points to make sure we finish in the playoff spots.

March 2017



Well, that doesn't look pretty, just one win from four in the penultimate month of the season. March got off on an okay note, drawing nil nil with second place Accrington, we did finish with ten men to! We then slipped up against Rochdale and blew the lead against Northampton who we should of beat! Luckily held on against Altrincham to claim the points!



Six games to go, six massive games! We aren't too far away from securing promotion to the Football League now and even going up as Champions! However it is a little too early to speak yet. Not a single team has even secured a playoff spot for the end of the season yet, with us holding a six point lead at the top and a couple games in hand, I'm getting more confident now!



Our final month, the final six games of the league season! All or nothing now! We face eleventh place Dartford at the start of the month at home, followed by struggling twenty first place Forest Green also at home. A trip to mid table Lincoln then awaits followed by another two home games against tenth place Alfreton and nineteenth place Ebbsfleet. We will end the season away at sixth place Gateshead!

Youth intake, couple of decent players in the youth selection! Hopefully we can keep them and grow them at the club!

April 2017



The final month, we led the table but we weren't home and dry just yet, well nowhere near, with us facing just six more games in the league not a single team had secured a playoff spot for the end of the season. We played out our six games with three wins, funny enough all being two nil victories whilst losing the other three, strange again, conceding three in each game! But was that up and down form enough to secure the league title or a playoff spot?



Yes! Skrill Premier Champions! FC United are heading to the Football League!! I am delighted, after just our second season comes to an end in the Skrill Premier we have not only gone up but we've won the league title on our way. Its been a cracking four seasons for us and now we can begin preparing for life in the football league. Its a huge jump for the club in stature and in competition, next season will be all on survival!



I've now been in charge of FC United of Manchester for four seasons, coming up to four years in charge! Its been a superb start to this career but I know it still is only the start, we have a long way to go yet. We've won one hundred and thirty two (56%) of our two hundred and thirty three games in total, we played fifty two games this season, a quieter season for us. In total we've drawn forty seven games and lost fifty four. Along the way we've scored four hundred and forty eight goals, conceding two hundred and eighty eight. We've ha four cup wins, three league wins and three promotions in four season.

Our right back, Charlie Raglan was named among the Skrill Premier team of the year, the only player from FC United to be named, delighted to have at least one player announced.



Very deserved I'd say! Whilst we performed very poorly in the cups in the league we were phenomenal! We ended up walking our way to the league title and have finally set ourselves into the Football League.



Finally, for a fourth straight season, I've guided FC United to a record high finish. #ForeverBreakingRecords

Expectations And Club News...



First off, the clubs expectations for the season ahead and well, they are as you'd expect. The media are tipping us to go down, the board want us to avoid relegation. Which ever budget I chose from the three, the wage budget wouldn't of changed so it made sense to go for the lowest possible expectation and just hope we can do that.



Next, another piece of fantastic news for the club, finally we've turned professional! It was always going to be a lengthy process till we got here but its now done and dusted! Lets start really moving forward now!



With that news, I went to the board and made a couple more request, and thankfully they were granted which is going to help the club in the long run once again. Choosing not to spend my money on players but upgrade seems to be the way forward. We are now in search of a new parent club, new feeder club and are set to see our youth facilities be upgraded again. Our scouting range and youth recruitment has also been improved as well as my transfer percentage.



As you'd expect, this has hit our finances a little but delighted to say we are still in the black and I hope we can stay there! We are on just a sixty thousand pound bank balance now, the last thing I want is to see the board take out a loan as I hate having to repay them. The club are in good shape, we have a huge transfer budget which could convert into wages as we are spending all but three hundred and sixty four pounds of it.